THE PENNSYLVANIA SEP|OCT21 GAZETTE

Rethinking History (and History Class) Alumni Entrepreneurs in Education NFL Coach of the Year Kevin Stefanski C’04 Gutmann Nominated as US Ambassador to Germany

THE PENNSYLVANIA Features GAZETTE SEP|OCT21 (Re)Introduction Opening Doors to US History From early education to college How two Penn professors prep, three entrepreneurial alumni revamped the entry-level history 38 are forging new paths to support 30 class for an age of instant online learning and enrichment. information access and endless quarrels By Holly Leber Simmons, over the meaning of America’s past. Alyson Krueger, and Nicole Perry By Trey Popp The Cleveland Comeback Inspired by his Penn football mentors and his father—a former 44 Quakers’ basketball player— Kevin Stefanski C’04 rocketed through the NFL to become one of the league’s youngest head coaches. Now, after leading the Cleveland Browns to their first playoff win in 26 years, the reigning NFL Coach of the Year hopes to turn the long-tortured franchise into a perennial contender. Plus: The Glory and the Grind for alumni playing in the NFL. By Dave Zeitlin

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“how the past is being recon- looking forward to this year’s structed or used.” with a rare sense of anticipa- Fresh Starts Besides hearing from the tion, thanks to Kevin Stefan- two professors, Trey also talk- ski C’04, who led the Browns ed with some students in the to their fi rst postseason win class, who attested to its eye- in a quarter century and was consider it a great piece of redundant by the prolifera- opening impact. One called named NFL Coach of the luck that Trey Popp, the tion of AP history courses in the experience of realizing Year in 2020. Associate edi- Gazette’s senior editor, high schools, as well as in- how much information and tor Dave Zeitlin C’03 profi les and Walter Licht, the Wal- creasingly problematic as how many perspectives could him in “The Cleveland ter H. Annenberg Profes- more thematic scholarly ap- be discovered from studying Comeback” (which, it turns sorI of History Emeritus, hap- proaches and contested per- a single artifact “mind-blow- out, owes a fair amount to pened to run into each other spectives made it harder to ing.” Another approvingly Penn’s famed “spirit coach,” in West Philadelphia back in sustain an overarching his- compared the class’s method- Coach Lake). He also checks the spring. Their encounter torical narrative with a be- ology to being given a set of in on some Penn alumni who led to this issue’s cover fea- ginning, middle, and end. tools and having to build a have managed, against the ture, “(Re)Introduction to US house. “Most of the time they odds, to carve out playing History,” which is a kind of teach you how to build a careers in the NFL in an ac- story we don’t do often house and you have to recon- companying story, “The Glo- enough, even though what it Students struct it on a test.” ry and the Grind.” describes is central to what Aly Murray C’16 talked with As the University returns to can make going to college in the class assistant editor Nicole Perry full in-person operations for such a memorable and trans- about the joy that comes with the fall semester, some major formative experience—a attested to its that spark of insight among administrative changes are in deep dive into what happens eye-opening the high schoolers working the works. In July, Penn Presi- in a particular course. with her company, UPchieve, dent Amy Gutmann was nom- In this case, the course was impact. which provides free tutoring inated to be the US ambassa- History 011: “Deciphering and college counseling for dor to the Federal Republic of America,” an entry level class low-income students: “One of Germany, and so may be leav- in the department that was Drawing on a range of pri- the best moments in a tutor- ing College Hall sometime developed and is co-taught mary sources—from newspa- ing session is when some- before her planned departure by Licht and Kathleen per clippings to product ads to thing clicks for the student next summer, depending on Brown, the David Boies Pro- a fi nely made handsaw from you’re helping. It’s literally when the Senate confi rms fessor of History. Shortly be- Philadelphia’s industrial hey- the message that is just a long her. There’s also a new chair fore he and Trey met, Licht day and music videos from string of O’s and a long string of the board of trustees, Scott had led his fi nal class in the MTV’s—the class calls on stu- of H’s.” Murray—who started L. Bok C’81 W’81 L’84; while course—and at Penn—before dents to interpret whatever UPchieve after an education- former chair David L. Cohen retiring, and he told Trey they’re looking at without pre- al journey that took her from L’81 Hon’21 has been nomi- that teaching it had been conceptions and then see how community college to Penn nated to be ambassador to “the most rewarding” experi- their views change once the and a job with J.P. Morgan, Canada. Read more in Gazet- ence of his long career. week’s prompt is put in con- and who hopes to make its teer, where you can also see a The class is designed to be text via lectures and readings. services available to some 8 striking view of Penn’s New the antithesis of the intro- With any and every historical million low-income students College House as it awaited ductory survey lecture course fact instantly available on the by 2030—is one of three its fi rst residents, who moved that fl ourished a few decades internet, the goal of an intro- alumni entrepreneurs in edu- in in August. ago—the article includes ductory course becomes less cation who are profi led in shoutouts to two notable about imparting information “Opening Doors.” practitioners of the genre at and more about teaching stu- As well as a new school Penn, Alexander Riasanovsky dents “how to think histori- year, fall also marks the start and Richard Beeman—but cally,” as Brown put it, and to of a new football season. that was rendered mostly be able to ask questions about NFL fans in Cleveland are

Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 3 FROM COLLEGE HALL Embracing Today with an Eye on Tomorrow A parable of Penn in these times.

By Amy Gutmann

I write, our Penn community second-year students and their families, many ways groundbreakers, and not just busily prepares for a historic particular recognition as well as unique because of their unusual beginnings. new beginning. Move-in and events are therefore very much in order. Our second-year students are the fi rst orientation have become trea- We celebrate their arrival with a slew of Class to fully engage in Penn’s two-year sured rites of passage at Penn. fun-fi lled activities, and all are conduct- College House system, which is made AsOur campus pulses with excited stu- ed in keeping with updated health possible this semester with the long- dents, siblings, and parents. They push guidelines. These include a picnic and anticipated opening of New College big blue carts of belongings toward a class photo, walking tours and School- House at Walnut and 40th Streets. This College House destination that will be- specifi c events, a uniquely tailored sec- 450-bed, 13-fl oor tower fl anked by two come a new Penn home for each student. ond-year orientation, and perhaps most fi ve-fl oor wings embodies and indeed Our dedicated move-in staff come pre- beloved of all, a postponed-but-not- epitomizes the College House ideal that pared to the hilt and eager to help in forgotten gala event at the Philadelphia has defi ned a Penn education for more every way possible. It is a huge welcom- Museum of Art. than two decades now. ing eff ort, combining a little bit of ca- cophony with a whole lot of anticipation and exhilaration for the campus living This is the essence of a forward-facing, and learning experience of a lifetime. August marks our fi rst-ever double wel- future-oriented university—recognizing come. We joyfully greet the Classes of both 2024 and 2025 as for the fi rst time they a profound commitment to meeting the begin their academic year on campus. The Class of 2025, remarkable by every needs of the moment while always measure, faced unprecedented COVID- caused challenges in concluding their time looking ahead. in high school and applying to college. We all take special pride in their accomplish- With an uplifted heart, I look forward Everything we know about what ments, empathy with their resilience in to this swirl of welcoming activity com- makes the College House experience the face of adversity, and unalloyed delight mencing a new academic year. I know both a profound learning environment in being able to watch them grow and our students, families, faculty, and staff and an unparalleled opportunity to form thrive at Penn in the years ahead. share my eagerness to resume in-person lifelong friendships has been incorpo- The Class of 2024 are already Penn campus living and learning. We con- rated into the design of this magnifi cent exemplars in so many ways. They had to tinue working tirelessly toward our goal new residence. Home to second years, forego the particular joys of arriving on even as we keep abreast of the latest sci- juniors, and seniors, this House will pro- campus as summer gives way to the fall ence and public health precautions in vide the keystone benefi ts that defi ne semester. In September of last year, for the ongoing pandemic. If this pandemic the Penn College House experience—fac- the fi rst time ever, Penn could not safely has taught us anything, it is that abrupt ulty leadership and neighbors in the welcome its newest class of students to changes can and do occur. So while Penn House, and a dedicated staff of profes- our physical campus. We chose to ensure currently plans a full return in the fall, sionals to assist with our students’ their health and safety—and that of our we must and we will remain vigilant, needs, along with a House staff of stu- entire community—through virtual ma- resourceful, and nimble. dent Resident Advisors to provide social triculation instead. For these adaptable The Classes of 2024 and 2025 are in so and educational programming.

4 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 New College House was designed from Far more than a building, the Pavilion from across the country and around the the ground up to include state-of-the-art represents a new way of delivering care, world to join us on this journey. They in-House amenities such as communal health, and wellness in the ever-advanc- then become prized members of our study areas, common living and social ing, rapidly evolving context of 21st cen- amazing Penn alumni family. spaces, seminar and music practice tury medicine. It is both a refl ection of This sense of untold opportunities rooms, and other features that encourage Penn Medicine’s global leadership today, ahead imbues our students with pal- a robust and inclusive community. It fea- and a statement of where we are going pable excitement to meet the future with tures a coff ee bar, a meditation room, a to be 100 years from now. Perhaps not the Penn education they receive. In sci- fi tness space, six club rooms with kitch- surprisingly, proof of concept for such a ence, medicine, clinical care, and social ens, and a tinker space. In the Quaker bold venture arrived long before our work, in education and engineering, the Kitchen, which is a unique demonstration planned opening and building dedica- humanities, social sciences, architecture and teaching kitchen, students will be able tion this fall. Last year, as the fi rst waves and the arts, in business, communica- to participate in hands-on discovery of of COVID morbidity challenged medical tion, and law, they will become the dis- diff erent cooking techniques while learn- systems across the country and around coverers of tomorrow. ing how to prepare a range of healthy and the world, construction crews worked This will always remain in my mind, a scrumptious recipes. Most importantly, around the clock at the new hospital to parable of Penn in these times: a Univer- by joining together to enjoy the food they complete 120 patient rooms fully 15 sity that—with confi dence and focus and prepare, they discover new friends and months ahead of the building’s planned verve—confronts the challenges of today shared interests in the process. opening. Sixty rooms in the emergency always, always, with a keen eye on the In developing these plans, foremost in department and 60 inpatient rooms de- needs of tomorrow. This is Penn. Truly, a our minds was the idea that we were de- signed for extended care were brought place and community like no other. signing and building not just for this new online to serve as overfl ow spaces for Class or this new generation and the low acuity patients to free up beds at Penn of today, but for our university to HUP for patients with COVID-19 in the IT’S NOT TOO LATE come: the Penn of the future, and for gen- earliest days of the pandemic. TO BECOME erations of students who will tread these The success of that eff ort was just one A DOCTOR halls decades and even a century hence. outward manifestation of a far deeper • Intensive, full-time preparation for medical This is the essence of a forward-facing, commitment to the fi ght against COV- school in one year • Early acceptance programs at select medical future-oriented university—recognizing ID-19. For decades prior, Penn medical schools—more than any other postbac program a profound commitment to meeting the researchers Drew Weissman and Katalin • Supportive, individual academic and needs of the moment while always look- Karikó had been investigating synthetic premedical advising VISIT US AT WWW.BRYNMAWR.EDU/POSTBAC ing ahead. messenger RNA as a new and complete- A 10-minute walk away, at the other ly diff erent way to prompt specifi c anti- [email protected] end of our campus, this same outlook bodies to fi ght against a targeted dis- 610-526-7350 has guided the design and construction ease. Quietly in their laboratories, with- BRYN MAWR COLLEGE of the single biggest building project in out fanfare, they created the break- Penn’s history, the soon-to-open Pavilion through technologies that underly two at the Hospital of the University of Penn- of the most eff ective vaccines being sylvania. On the site of the former Penn employed to battle the pandemic: the Alumni in Business Tower located directly behind the Penn Moderna and the Pfi zer-BioNTech shots. Advertise your business or Museum, the Pavilion, Penn’s new 17-sto- This perfectly captures what we do so ry, 1.5 million square foot inpatient hos- very intently and well at Penn. Identify profession with us and reach pital, has been designed to deliver the an opportunity today. Imagine how it 270,000 fellow alumni most advanced care today while ensur- could bring a brighter tomorrow. Then ■ Must be a Penn graduate ing innovation in healthcare well into apply intelligence, imagination, grit, ■ All ads prepaid the future. Rooms are equipped to fl ex time, and determination to do all that is between intensive and basic care unit humanly possible to make that far-off See the current ALUMNI IN setups, and the Pavilion features an in- dream a reality. 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Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 5 LETTERS We Welcome Women in sports and Letters Please email us at [email protected]. Letters should refer to material published in the STEM, guaranteed income magazine and may be edited for clarity, civility, continued, and more. and length.

Inspiring Lois insisted we practice and play in the Thank you to Dave Zeitlin for his fine Palestra rather than Weightman Hall, and article, “Century Club” [Jul|Aug 2021]. even got the Palestra equipment manager Perhaps you will be interested in a related to hand out practice uniforms. She in- anecdote from the early Title IX era of the sisted our team travel outside the local 1970s. I was having my ankles taped in the area as we progressed. In the 1979-80 sea- Hollenback Athletic Center in the spring son we played at Stanford, where Andy of 1974 or 1975, when a tall, fit oarswoman Geiger was the AD after leaving Penn, and walked into the sanctum sanctorum, the at the University of San Francisco. After I all-male training room. “I need treatment,” graduated, the team was lucky enough to was her direct statement as I recall it. go to the Great Alaska shootout. After my Trainer Don Frey shooed a magazine- time, Lois oversaw the improvement to reading baseball player off a table and our locker room in the Palestra and in- invited her to “hop up here. Let’s see what vited previous players to send in a tile to you’ve got.” Meanwhile the other trainer, commemorate their time at Penn. Mr. Matthews, scurried around the room My favorite Lois memory is this: It was tossing towels to less than fully clad men. customary when I was at Penn that the The next day shorts were required in the captains of the men’s teams got a Captains training room, and the place became coed. “The hardships Jacket. It was a blue blazer with the split Her courage was remarkable. P embroidered on the pocket with a gold Also, let me observe that some of us were real, and embroidered bar running vertically along playing sports in the first half of the 1970s the split P. Lois insisted I have one of those knew exactly who Julie Staver was and the Penn women blazers, and she called the tailors that were in awe of her. She played field hock- made the jackets for the men. I was, and ey and lacrosse with a stunning domi- overcame them.” still am, inordinately proud of that jacket. nance. She was, in my opinion, the best It is still in my closet all these years later. athlete at Penn, male or female, during ketball was more of an extracurricular I congratulate the women and the that era. Her humility was inspiring. activity that could easily fall by the way- coaches who came after us. I just looked The hardships were real, and the Penn side. We did not compare favorably to the at the support staff for the women’s team. women overcame them. teams in the Ivies or to the other Philly It is amazing how much the program has Archibald Montgomery IV C’75, Asheville, NC teams. My first year we started four fresh- grown. I am happy for the progress to- men and one senior. Lois helped to turn day’s young women enjoy. They are the Upward Trajectory the program around, so by the time I was lucky recipients of the efforts of coaches “Century Club” got me thinking about a senior we finished in third place in the like Lois Ashley who helped build the my coach Lois Ashley. I had the pleasure Ivy League Tournament, which was our foundation. I am forever grateful. to graduate from the University in 1981. season finale and biggest goal. Mary Monahan Glynn SAMP’81, Villanova, PA I had the great privilege to play basket- Lois was a fierce advocate for her play- ball all four years I was at Penn. Lois Ash- ers. She championed the cause of the Just Go Out and Do It ley deserves recognition for taking wom- young women athletes. She simply I am a 1962 graduate of the School of en’s basketball on an upward trajectory. thought that women should have the Arts and Sciences with a doctorate in When I started at Penn it seemed there same support and treatment as their chemistry. I do not remember any com- were many enthusiastic players, but bas- male counterparts. ments regarding female PhD candidates,

6 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 though we were in the minority. We did subtle ways long before that boy made What a Shame our work and taught our classes (as grad- his remark to her. I hope she has seen I thoroughly enjoyed “Enforcer on the uate assistants) and made it through. Our the film Hidden Figures. Those women Ice” [“Profiles,” Jul|Aug 2021] and the laud- male colleagues were friendly, and we all had more than being female to deal with able achievements of Paul Stewart C’76 helped each other. but proved that if you have the ability being the only Penn grad to play in the I entered high school in 1950 in a very and the talent to pursue something, oth- NHL and the only American to both play small town in New York State. Through- ers will recognize your abilities. and referee in professional hockey. What a out high school I never had any teacher There is one addendum to the above. shame that our Ivy League university—in make comments about the girls taking Originally, I wanted to be an archaeologist. which many other institutions field Divi- the math and science courses. This was something I wanted from a sion I teams in men’s ice hockey—can’t I went to college to major in physics. The young age. When I was a senior in high navigate the return of this sport to promi- first year went well, but on the first day of school, I wrote to the Museum of Natural nence! If Penn had a Division I hockey pro- the second-year course for physics majors, History in New York City inquiring as to gram, I guarantee it would be a top five the professor’s first words were, “I don’t the job possibilities for a woman in that spectator sport and instill some real inter- believe in girls in physics.” It was downhill field. Much to my surprise, I received an est into the student body for Penn Athletics. from there. I completed the year—squeaked answer. I was advised that unless I had Jeff rey H. Schneider C’88, Fort Lauderdale, FL through is more accurate—with the help independent means (which I most decid- of an understanding lab partner, a boy, edly did not), the best position I could Great Reading! and changed my major to chemistry. I hope for was an assistant curator in a mu- The May|Jun 2021 issue contained some never had another problem. seum. That ended my digging career. One very timely and interesting articles. Dave The writer of “Math League Dropout” does have to be practical at some point. Zeitlin’s “Fighting Poverty with Cash” was [“Notes from the Undergrad,” Jul|Aug My advice to anyone today, but espe- especially interesting because the guaran- 2021] seems to have had misgivings of cially women, is if you want to do some- teed income issue is one that requires her abilities. That was never me. My thing, no one can tell you that women careful study to determine if it can be ef- mother wanted me to apply to one of the or girls can’t do something just because fective governmental policy. While the Seven Sisters for college and I declined. they are female. Just go out and do it. qualitative/quantitative study design de- Who wanted to be in a class full of girls Sandra M. Kotin Gr’62, Monticello, NY scribed is on the right track, I have some when I could be with mostly boys? concerns about the qualitative side. Self- Due to family commitments, I had to To Avoid Ethical Dilemmas, Consider reporting can be problematic, and a gift reconsider my long-term goals to go into Self-Employment card reward could influence responders. research after getting my PhD from I found your article about G. Richard Overall, the article was excellent, and I Penn. I taught in a division of SUNY for Shell’s book, The Conscience Code, to be anticipate further reports from research- 18 years and then went to law school, on very inspiring [“Gazetteer,” Jul|Aug 2021]. ers Stacia West and Amy Castro Baker. a whim and a suggestion from a col- In addition to the suggestions made in this “The Vaccine Trenches” by Matthew league. When I graduated in 1986, there article pertaining to dealing with ethical De George highlighted the persistence were many law firms that would not hire dilemmas at work, I would like to add one required by Penn’s researchers and how a woman. I am now a patent attorney. other suggestion: consider the possibility their tenacity contributed to the success- Convincing male inventors that I really of self-employment. I was self-employed ful development of the COVID vaccines. do understand their devices has been prior to the pandemic and, had I consid- JoAnn Greco’s “Webside Manner” put challenging. However, once the patents ered this option much earlier in my career, the spotlight on a major change in have issued, I have been given many com- I believe the rewards of my career would healthcare, which many of us experi- pliments, the best of which are second have been greatly enhanced. enced during the current epidemic. projects from the same inventors. You can’t be placed into ethical dilem- Great reading! I have always enjoyed the competition mas by bosses if you are self-employed Michael P. Sawczuk GrEd’90, Nanticoke, PA of school and the challenges that went and, obviously, you have greater auton- with it. Being in class with mostly boys omy as well. The one caveat is that self- Target the Unvaccinated Audience was fun for me, not a problem—though employment is more difficult in many I read about the amazing work of Dr. my mother did tell me once, “Don’t let ways than “secure” jobs, so one needs to Susan Weiss [“The Mother of Coronavi- the boys know you are smart.” The writ- exercise this option with eyes wide open, ruses,” Nov|Dec 2020] and of Drs. Katalin er of “Math League Dropout” must have and with a great deal of advice. Kariko and Drew Weissman [“The Vaccine been discouraged in other and more Harry Toder G’71, St. Louis Trenches,” May|Jun 2021] studying the

Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 7 LETTERS

coronavirus and mRNA. What I fail to make some progressive change. in the United States, we are going to have understand is why Penn is not screaming Michael Silverstein C ’01, Los Angeles to consider new ideas such as presented it from the rafters. Call CNN, PBS, spe- by Dave Zeitlin’s article in the May|Jun cifically Fox, targeting the unvaccinated People Want Justice, Not Charity 2021 issue of the Gazette. audience. Get on the news so people who In his letter regarding the article “Fight- Arnold G. Shurkin W’60, Passaic, NJ think the vaccines were developed too ing Poverty with Cash,” Michael Pschorr quickly can be reassured that researchers lambastes the concept of guaranteed in- Unions Are an Answer to Poverty have been working on them for decades. come, and then as a man of privilege rants Indeed, I support UBI and the $15 Susan Smith Grant GNu’81, Pensacola, FL on about “throwing other people’s mon- minimum wage and all the other poverty ey” to those among us who are poor. mitigation proposals. But first consider Generation Gap Mr. Pschorr apparently does not real- this: $15 minus deductions for a full-time I never wanted to be one of those peo- ize that what such programs are intend- job yields $600 a week. We were taught ple who writes a Letter to the Editor of ed to do is to fi nally provide in the in basic economics that rent ought to cost the Pennsylvania Gazette about previ- United States the social, economic, and a quarter of one’s monthly income. As- ous Letters to the Editor of the Pennsyl- educational benefi ts that are guaran- sume a two-parent family with an infant vania Gazette, but here we are … teed in all of the Western democracies and a toddler so one parent has to stay The Jul|Aug 2021 “Letters” section fea- and Japan—maternity and paternity home. Does anyone know where one can tured eight letters discussing “Fighting leave, sickness and disability benefi ts, find even a one-bedroom apartment for Poverty with Cash,” taking up more than mandatory and provided pensions, $600 or even $800 a month? two full pages. With one exception they child benefi ts until age 18, a living min- One of the best answers has always been ranged from critical to hostile toward Amy imum wage, childcare benefi ts for work- and continues to be union organization. Castro Baker’s work on providing no- ing mothers, and much, much more. The ability of workers to organize togeth- strings-attached income to people facing Mr. Pschorr needs to realize that peo- er and demand better wages and working poverty, and were sent in by authors from ple do not want charity—they want jus- conditions, including health insurance the Classes of 1961, 1969, 1960, 1952, 1948, tice. And justice requires compassion. and on-site childcare, represents the best 1976, and 1968 (two letters from this year). Perhaps he will dismiss my thoughts as way of exhibiting “self-reliance, determi- Fellow Quakers, I have two words for those of a bleeding-heart liberal. nation to forge ahead, critical thinking, you: OK, Boomer. S. Reid Warren III SW’61, Spring City, PA and recognition that life is a challenge.” As a communications major, I don’t Eliot Kenin C’61, Martinez, CA have very sophisticated or nuanced Some Help From the Government thoughts on topics such as a universal Is Not a Bad Idea Vaccination Has Been Off ered Equally basic income, negative income tax, or With a Wharton School degree and law I question the author’s thesis in “Shot of guaranteed allotment. In general, I think school education, I have had a successful Confidence” [“Expert Opinion,” May|Jun that giving money to people who need it career in law and real estate, including 2021] that the reluctance of African Amer- is a good thing. However, I do believe that investments in properties where immi- icans to get vaccinated against COVID is the generations who graduated between grants and working-class people live. due to their historical mistreatment by the 1948 and 1976 had their chance to ad- They are good people and work very US healthcare system. That can hardly be dress income inequality already, and hard for insufficient pay. If Mr. Pschorr the reason when vaccination has been of- clearly have failed miserably at that task. got to know a brown or Black person, he fered to all Americans equally, regardless Maybe let people who are still paying into might climb off his high horse and real- of their race. Rather, the answer should be Social Security take a stab at improving ize that the deck is stacked against these sought in the mindset of others who refuse the lives of the young and poor? people and some help from the govern- vaccination, such as many Americans who Us spring chickens who graduated col- ment is not a bad idea, even if the richest have conservative political and social lege in the 1990s and 2000s have had people in the United States were re- views. It seems to me that in considering enough of you olds pooh-poohing cre- quired to pay some income taxes. I do. this problem, the author has allowed his ative social ideas and kiboshing them The minimum wage in my state is $11 professional background in “healthcare before they have a chance to potentially an hour. No one working for that amount disparities” to overcome his critical facul- work. Maybe it’s time for you all to sit can support a family without having two ties, as in the saying, “To a hammer, every- back, enjoy your student-debt-free, gov- or more jobs, as most of my tenants do thing looks like a nail.” ernment-funded retirement and allow in order to survive. If we are going to Robert D. Kaplan L’61, Sarasota, FL a new generation of thinkers to try to solve the persistent problem of poverty

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afraid of where that would lead. If she encouraged my dress-up games, would I become a shallow woman concerned only with clothes and make-up? She ended up treating all my fantasy play with a worried half-smile. Whenever I paraded around in her old nightgowns, with sweaters buttoned around my head to imitate long hair, she’d smile but clearly did not connect with it. Mom signed me up for modern dance lessons because she loved it. But it was too butch for me, with the cut-off black leggings and bare feet—especially when I noticed the girls in pink in the ballet class before mine. I pleaded with her to let me take ballet instead. I don’t know why she had steered me away from it; maybe she knew I wouldn’t fi t in. And I didn’t. My tights were the wrong color. My curly brown hair didn’t twist per- fectly into a shiny bun. I wasn’t skinny and even at 11, I was not fl at-chested. I only lasted about a year in ballet. Then I left dance behind me, feeling like there was no place for me there. But in my 40s I felt like I needed some- thing new, something that was not re- lated to my professional life. My taste in music was changing, but more than that, Dancing With I wanted an escape from my hectic fam- ily life and career as a writer and speaker. I happened to catch a video performance My Mom of Shakira, the Colombian singer, and her wildly successful single “Hips Don’t Lie.” Feminist, librarian, book lover, belly dancer. This was not my kind of music, but I was enthralled. There was Shakira, adorned By Susan Senator in sparkles while veils billowed around her, her body curving into shapes so quickly I could not catch it all. She was was born a girly-girl, but my mom she worked. Mom didn’t care. She want- belly dancing—something I’d never seen didn’t know it. She was and is a true ed to work, and because she did, I want- other than in old James Bond movies. feminist. She went to library school ed to work when I grew up. She wasn’t Something inside of me broke wide and worked when I was a kid in the a playing sort of mom; she left me to the open and I realized that I wanted to 1960s and ’70s, back when the other dolls and dress-up on my own. But she dance like that, too. I wanted the ruffl y Imoms were bringing in home-baked was always recommending books for me gauzy skirts. I wanted to inhabit the mu- goods on their kids’ birthdays or run- to read. She was all about the life of the sic: powerful yet languid, sweet and ning the local Brownie troop. Some of mind: quality over mediocrity, reading heavy as caramel, light as birdsong. I them looked down on Mom and whis- over watching TV. wanted to move like that—soft and yet pered, because once in a while she’d be I think Mom was always torn between utterly controlled, at the same time. But late picking me up and it was because supporting what I wanted and being right away the voice in my head said,

10 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Illustration by Laura Liedo “No. At your age? Go to a gym, do yoga, Then came the day last summer when But what I love best is being with you, get a dog, walk with friends. Do Zum- I timidly asked her if she’d like more watching your sweet face.” ba. Or modern dance…” dance lessons, just the two of us, and she For Chanukah I knew immediately But the girly-girl in me rose up like said “yes!” right away. I guided her what I would get for her: a belly dance Cinderella’s fairy godmother and re- through hip drops and snake arms and costume. I bought her balloonish harem torted, “Do what you really want to do.” began to get a sense of what she could pants with a bold peacock pattern, and I signed up for a local adult-education and could not do, due to knee and leg a tank top embossed with sequins read- belly dance class, and everything clicked troubles. We would set up a space in the ing “Bellydancer.” I chose it to make her immediately in a way I’d never experi- kitchen of her summer house and dance, laugh, of course, but also with that trem- enced. I was completely at home in that her eyes trained on my moves and my ulous little-girl hope that she’d actually class—because it didn’t matter if you face. I had a trembly cautious feeling of love her costume and want to wear it. started at 43 or 16, if you were fl eshy or joy: she liked it! I didn’t want it to stop. She called me when the packages ar- skinny. Belly dance was about being ex- Neither did Mom, it turned out. Now rived and said, “This is what you get actly who you were while fi guring out we do semi-regular Zoom dancing. A your 81-year-old mother for Chanukah?” how to move in ways few people could. half-hour of class and a half-hour of But the very next time we danced, she It was—unbeknownst to most people— chatting. I asked her how she feels when was wearing the whole thing. This wiry, as disciplined and diffi cult a dance as she belly dances: “Don’t edit yourself, smiling woman with those deep-set ballet but without the rigidity of mind Mom, just tell me,” I said, and we black eyes that see everything. Basically, and body. laughed because we both know how ce- playing dress up with me. But so much During a holiday visit home, I told rebral she is. But I realized how hard I more. This was my mother. And now, my Mom about belly dance. As always, my was gripping the phone, hungering for favorite dance partner. choices baffl ed her, but she was happy a good answer. She said, “Lots of diff er- to see me so happy. She was especially ent feelings—I wish my legs didn’t hurt, Susan Senator C’84 G’85 is an educator, pleased about how I was teaching belly I wish I were younger. I love the music. journalist, and author living in Boston. dance to anyone who would try it. I had a “Baby Bellies” class in an afterschool program, which was basically six-year- olds running around with my veils, but we did manage to put on recitals for their ecstatic parents. I also gave a work- shop at our local senior center. Mom would smile when she heard about my classes and was clearly proud of my teaching. And so one day I took a risk and off ered to teach a group of her friends. I thought she’d refuse politely (“Oh, no, that’s not for them, heh heh”), but to my delight she took me up on it. Her friends all stood before me, in their 70s and 80s, each in a diff erent colored outfi t from my extensive collec- tion. They giggled at the strange moves, the emphasis on isolating body parts like the chest. The obvious celebration www.alumni.upenn.edu/momentum2021 of women’s bodies as they really are was new, embarrassing, but also joyful to them. And Mom was my best student! At 80, because of her Pilates and her modern dance training, her body under- stood what to do. At the end of class, her face was shiny with sweat and pride.

Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 11 VIEWS Elsewhere My First Salmon An upsurge of bright silver. By Nick Lyons

early seven decades ago I simulta- neously fell in love with literature and a tall girl with frizzy hair. I had N never been in love with girls or books before and lived most of my days in dumb terror. The poetry of Donne, after the insurance I had studied for my undergraduate degree, was as alien to me as Swahili. The poetry and girl, swarming in my head, led me to stumble about the campus of Bard College, where I had registered as a freshman, in a daze, muttering like a madman. Naturally I had taken my rod and reel and a small bag of fi shing tackle, and all that terrible fall and winter I kept eyeing the stream that formed the southern edge of the school property in a happy series of runs, riffl es, sharp bends, and deep plunge pools. By opening day of trout season on April 1st, I could stand the tension no longer. I dug half a dozen worms behind one of the men’s dorms, readied my gear, and slipped away into a cold, drizzly, predawn morning. Mist rose from the stream at the sweeping bend I had spotted behind the math pro- fessor’s house. I waded into the lower end of the turn, in the shallows, and shuffl ed closer where I thought the trout would be lying. My sneakers held back none of the icy water. On my fi rst cast, a little upstream, I felt a slight tug, a slow tightening of the line, and there was an explosion: in an up- surge of bright silver, rising like Excali- bur from the dark water, a great fi sh rose high, then higher, then bent double and shook, suspended in the cold air, then

12 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Illustration by Sam Kalda leapt twice again, burnished silver, a fi sh That explained my salmon, and in the larger than any I had ever caught or next few weeks I caught a splendid oua- even seen. I may have peed in my pants naniche under one of the falls, a fat lake- but I couldn’t tell for I had followed the sized brookie, and a brown trout of un- great fi sh into water higher than my usual girth. waist. It had to be a salmon—but from The girl with the frizzy hair, a painter, a small creek in the Hudson Valley? gave me a watercolor from memory of My line was thick. The hook was placed the salmon, and we soon married, had deep. The enormous silver fi sh had little four children, and spent 58 years to- chance. In a few minutes it rolled twice, gether, madly in love. leapt once more half-heartedly, and then I have since caught many remarkable skittered onto the shallow bar and turned fi sh on fl ies in far-fl ung famous waters. slightly to one side. I high-stepped toward But none has remained as vividly etched it and then threw my whole body on the in my brain as that fi sh caught in a time poor creature, trapping it against my chest of fi rst loves: that poor Atlantic salmon in the frigid shallows and grasping it with in the small Hudson Valley creek with a both hands. Its head and shoulder were fatal lust for a worm. all that fi t into my shoulder bag. Still dripping wet, I promptly took the Nick Lyons W’53 is the author, most recently, fi sh to meet my friend with the frizzy of Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life hair. Half asleep she smiled and mum- [“Writing Lives,” May|Jun 2021]. This essay bled something like, “That’s a nice little will appear in My Catch of a Lifetime, ed. Pe- fi sh, Nicki,” and then turned back to the ter Kaminsky (Artisan, 2023). pillow. Then I took it to show the novel- ist who I knew to be a serious brother of the angle and he reported that, yes, it was defi nitely a salmon. That night the wife of the chair of the English department baked the fish whole. When it came out of the oven it was placed upon a salver large and bright enough to please a king. Her hus- band, a poet, recited Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” with its haunting end- ing in which she lets the fi sh go. I loved the poem but had done nothing of the kind, and half an hour later the group of us had reduced the lovely fi sh to a backbone and a head. Our talk ranged between that strange thing called “lit- erature” and my prize fi sh and I felt a happy sense that the two could be joined, especially when the frizzy-haired girl pressed my arm warmly when I snuck in a few words that sounded half- intelligent. As the pleasant evening un- folded the novelist remembered hearing that the owner of the great estate, who had left his mansion and lands to the college, had stocked the stream with great specimens of exotic fi sh. Authentic Loden Coats & Austrian Boiled Wool Jackets

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Franklin camped out most days in my husband’s home CPA offi ce and kept him company while he navigated the never-ending tax season. Franklin learned to ignore the shrill speaker- phone and the pings from constant emails. He sidled up to my husband throughout the day for extra scratches and pats, but for the most part was con- tent to snooze until it was time to go for a walk, eat, or, best of all, play ball. He monitored the comings and goings of the UPS truck and Instacart deliveries from the window and seemed pleased that no one was leaving the house very much. My husband was equally delight- ed to have an offi ce assistant and I often caught him taking a break by giving Franklin extra belly rubs. Millie was my constant companion. She followed me wherever I went in the house—which is pretty normal for her. My behavior was a little less normal: I found myself talking to her all the time. She knew how I planned to spend the day and what we were going to have for dinner. We did a lot of ball retrieving in the backyard. For the most part, I tried to uphold the dogs’ regular routine of daily walks to the park and around the neighborhood. It did as much for me as Dog Days it did for them. I was able to see my dog The pandemic upended the lives of some pets. park friends, from a safe distance, grate- ful that Franklin and Millie continued The return of “normality” could be even more to provide me with those connections. stressful. But help may be a click away. One thing was diff erent: for an entire year, I don’t think that we ever left the By Kathryn Levy Feldman dogs alone in the house. I thought the dogs had weathered the pandemic pretty well. Apart from put- bout eight months into the pan- handler, as therapy dog teams by the ting on a few pounds from lounging demic, I received a plea from my Alliance of Therapy Dogs [“Power of the about and chowing down on extra high school class’s secretary for ma- Pup,” Jul|Aug 2020]. Before the pan- snacks, they seemed none the worse for A terial she could use in the class demic, I had only been on the giving end wear. So when I got a call that therapy notes section of our alumni newsletter. of this service. My dogs and I worked visits were starting up again—outdoors, What, she wanted to know, had people with children with learning diff erences with very small numbers of children—I learned from the pandemic thus far? as well as at the Children’s Hospital of signed up with Franklin, who has the I did not have to think twice. “My dogs Philadelphia. But when our offi cial ther- most natural affi nity for kids. truly are therapy dogs,” I wrote back. My apy work shut down, my husband and I Our session with fi ve children and golden retrievers, Millie and Franklin, became the default benefi ciaries of their three dogs began with a brief introduc- are certifi ed, together with me as their therapeutic skills. tion in a classroom before a planned

14 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Illustration by Jenny Kroik walk. Everything was going beautifully. is again a lovable creature who basks in “I think the human-animal bond is Franklin fl awlessly laid down on com- the attention of adoring fans. One stu- very strong,” Siracusa says. “So I do ex- mand and was focused on me (and the dent even asked him to sign her year- pect most people to be able to work on treat bag) when out of the corner of his book—which he did, of course, with a the problem—but there will be a per- eye he spied another therapy dog in the big pawprint. centage that will not have any other corner of the room. All of a sudden, my Although my story has a happy end- choice but to surrender the pet back to certifi ed therapy dog was barking and ing, not all pets are fi guring out post- the shelter.” One thing is certain, he says. lunging at that dog. I quickly removed pandemic life. According to Carlo Sir- “If we take the time to make a gradual Franklin from the room and retreated acusa, associate professor of clinical adjustment, then it’s going to be much to a far corner of the property. Out of animal behavior and welfare and direc- easier on our pets.” range, he morphed back into my perfect tor of Penn Vet’s small animal behavior For people who are struggling with pet and the kids were able to walk him service, pets have faced a twofold chal- behavior changes in their pets, Penn Vet without incident—as long as we kept our lenge. First, they had to adapt to our has a new telehealth behavior platform, distance from the other dogs. pandemic schedules, which were often Penn Vet Behavior App, that can be ac- Shocked and somewhat mortifi ed by very diff erent from their previous rou- cessed through your veterinarian. De- Franklin’s outburst, I called a trainer. It tines. And now, having made that adjust- veloped by Intellivets in conjunction turns out that I was hardly the only pet ment, they are faced with another set of with Connect for Education and Penn owner noticing a dog’s bumpy transi- adjustments as the pandemic’s grip loos- Vet’s Center for the Interaction of Ani- tion back to pre-pandemic life. Dr. ens. These changes have intensifi ed pets’ mals and Society, the app creates a KimMi Whitehead V’10, a criticalist at feelings of powerlessness to control their three-way conversation between the pet the Veterinary Specialty Center of Dela- environments. “They have to take what- owner, the referring vet, and a behav- ware and CEO of Intellivets, a veteri- ever we decide,” Siracusa explains. “If ioral specialist. The consultation encom- nary telehealth company, suggested that we want to take a walk when we want to passes a questionnaire, the pet’s medical despite my good intentions, my dogs take a walk, then they will follow. The record (which often can provide insight had spent the last year picking up on a exception, of course, is dogs that have into behavioral issues), and the ability lot of “nonverbal cues” that I hadn’t access to backyards where they can go to upload videos of troubling behavior. thought about. When I did start to think and spend some time away from us.” By examining the dog’s body language about it, some of the problems became The rules governing the next phase of in addition to other information, the quite clear. I had spent months wearing life are unpredictable. “It is not neces- behavioral team can off er suggestions a mask and moving to the other side of sarily going back to what it used to be,” for the owner. The app also houses a re- the street whenever another person or Siracusa notes. However quickly or source library curated by Penn Vet for dog approached. No wonder Franklin slowly particular dogs are able to adapt, the benefi t of both owners and veteri- had grown wary of strangers and other “there is going to be some level of chal- narians, which is accessible to all us- dogs. And that wasn’t the only thing. lenge that our dogs are going to experi- ers—even if they don’t use the consulta- Remember the early pandemic days ence.” When those challenges fall on new tion function. when everyone was wiping down gro- owners of “pandemic puppies,” the con- Since the pandemic began, Siracusa ceries? Well, I was wiping down my sequences can be heavy. says this service has seen an increase in dogs with alcohol towelettes every time “Behavior problems are a leading requests for consultations. “Is this com- they encountered another dog or per- cause of surrendering animals to a shel- ing change going to be another major son. And while it would take a lot for ter,” says Siracusa, noting that separa- one?” he asks. “I think it depends on Franklin to be afraid of kids, he clearly tion anxiety is a classic trigger for dogs how gradual the change is going to be was picking up on my anxiety each time acting out. Dogs whose underlying be- for the caregivers, the owners. we had contact with someone outside havior problems were eased by constant “Our pets are doing their best to under- of our house. companionship during the pandemic stand what is happening in our lives,” he In Franklin’s case, I had also gotten are liable to relapse if their owners adds. “Their behavior is not related to lazy at making him work for a reward. abruptly leave and spend eight hours a being very spiteful or misbehaving. They A training session reminded me to go day at the offi ce. are trying to recalculate their route.” back to basics and make Franklin earn Will newly busy families have the his treats. I’m happy to report that bandwidth to deal with that challenge, Kathryn Levy Feldman LPS’09 last wrote for Franklin has completed four more ther- or are animal shelters about to be over- the Gazette about therapy dogs in the Penn apy sessions with no more incidents. He whelmed by surrendered dogs? Hospital system.

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Turning the Lights Back On After almost 18 months of campus being completely or partially closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students will receive a fully in-person learning experience at Penn this fall (with vaccine requirements and, per new guidance as of August 5, a mask-wearing requirement while indoors in public or shared spaces). And when students returned to University City, they likely saw some new things—including this building with a fi tting name. New College House, located at 40th and Walnut Streets, welcomed its fi rst-ever residents in August. The 450-bed, 13-fl oor tower features suites with single bedrooms and possesses a lot of similarities to Lauder College House near 34th and Chestnut—which, you guessed it, was previously named New College House [“Gazetteer,” Sep|Oct 2019].

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multiple times, most recently through June 30, 2022, but now her remaining time in College Hall will depend on when Senate hearings on the nomination are scheduled and her appointment is confi rmed. “I cannot overstate what a meaningful and extraordinary honor it is to be nominated by the President for this impor- tant position of service to our country,” Gutmann said in a statement to the University community on July 2 when the nomination was an- nounced, confi rming a report fi rst published a few days ear- lier in Der Spiegel. “As the daughter of a German Jewish refugee, as a fi rst-generation college graduate, and as a uni- versity leader devoted to ad- vancing constitutional democ- racy, I am grateful beyond what any words can adequate- ly express to President Biden for the faith he has placed in me to help represent Ameri- ca’s values and interests to Ambassadorships ahead for one of our closest and most important European allies.” Amy Gutmann and David Cohen Gutmann expressed confi - dence that the search for her The White House has tapped Penn’s president successor and the transition to new leadership would go and former trustees chair for senior diplomatic posts. smoothly. “We have a most dedicated and talented lead- ership team and Board of early July it was an- Before defeating Donald Penn degrees, and Biden had Trustees that are altogether nounced that Penn Trump W’68 in the 2020 been a regular visitor to cam- unsurpassed in higher edu- President Amy Gut- presidential election, Biden pus over his years in the US cation,” she said, “so there is mann had been nom- served as the Benjamin Senate and as vice president, every reason to be confi dent inated to serve as the Franklin Presidential Prac- including serving as Com- that the operations of our InUS ambassador to Germany tice Professor and led the mencement speaker in 2013. University will proceed apace by President Joe Biden Penn Biden Center for Diplo- Cohen recently concluded a without any interruptions.” Hon’13, and a few weeks later macy and Global Engage- 12-year term as chair of the Virtually every aspect of the news came that David L. ment. Family members in- University’s board of trustees. those operations has been Cohen L’81 Hon’21 was the cluding his late son, Beau Gutmann has been Penn’s shaped by Gutmann’s conse- administration’s pick for US Biden C’91, and daughter, president since July 1, 2004. quential presidency, the lon- ambassador to Canada. Ashley Biden SPP’10, hold Her contract was extended gest in Penn’s history. At her

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inauguration in fall 2004, she from the athletic facilities laid out the Penn Compact, and green space of Penn Park Scott L. Bok Begins setting out the University’s key to the newly opened New principles “to increase access, College House at 40th Street as New Trustee Chair to integrate knowledge, and to (along with Lauder College engage locally and globally.” House, which opened in College, Wharton, and Law School Tweaked and modifi ed in ex- 2016, the fi rst new student alumnus succeeded David L. Cohen as pression along the way, those residences to be built on principles continue to guide campus since the 1970s), and Penn’s top volunteer leader. the University’s eff orts, with to the Pennovation Center an emphasis on the overarch- startup incubator, the health ing goals of inclusion, innova- system’s Pavilion for patient oward the end of a June superb president for Penn, and tion, and impact. care, and numerous academ- interview on his being we have total confi dence that Gutmann has led two highly ic buildings and renovation elected chair of the Uni- she will remain fully focused successful fundraising cam- projects. (Look for a full ret- versity’s board of trustees, on advancing Penn’s agenda paigns, the $4.3 billion Mak- rospective of Gutmann’s ten- Scott L. Bok C’81 W’81 until the conclusion of her ing History [“Big Finish, Fresh ure in a future issue.) T L’84 touched time at the University.” Start,” Mar|Apr 2013] and the In her July 2 statement, briefl y on the He noted that transition recently concluded Power of Gutmann noted that hear- issue of presi- planning had already begun Penn (for which totals have ings on the nomination dential suc- on the assumption that Gut- not been announced but are had not yet been sched- cession. “Ob- mann—who assumed the likely to exceed the initial goal uled (still the case as the viously, Amy presidency on July 1, 2004— of $4.1 billion). The University Gazette goes to press) and will be transi- would be leaving offi ce after accomplished this despite the promised to “continue to av- tioning out at 18 years in College Hall and worst fi nancial crisis since the idly work as Penn President” some point. It will be promised more details to come. Great Depression happening until she served out her term very sad to see her go,” he said, “As Amy has said many times in the course of the fi rst cam- next June or was confi rmed. but added that it is “always herself, we have an exception- paign, and a deadly pandemic “I remain absolutely ener- exciting to see what new en- al leadership team at Penn, sweeping the world during gized and engaged in leading ergy and skills somebody new so we are confi dent that the the second one. Penn with an unrivaled lead- might bring.” transition will go smoothly.” Starting in 2009, Gutmann ership team and community At the time, that point was As chair, Bok succeeded the established Penn’s all-grant of faculty, students, staff , and expected to be mid-2022, at also-long-serving David L. fi nancial aid program, the alumni,” she said. “The Penn the expiration of Penn Cohen L’81 Hon’21, who had largest in higher education, community has shown its President Amy Gutmann’s held the post since 2009. At and has expanded support true mettle more than ever current contract. But it ap- the June meeting where and programs for fi rst-gener- this year, and to great eff ect proached closer—by exactly Bok’s election was formal- ation, low-income college for our city and Common- how much was still uncer- ized, the trustees also ap- students during her tenure. wealth, country and world.” tain as the Gazette went to proved a resolution of appre- The Penn Integrates Knowl- Looking ahead to “our joy- press—with the announce- ciation for Cohen, the recipi- edge (PIK) Professorships, ful return to on-campus op- ment in July that President ent of an honorary degree at which involve appointments erations” in the fall, Gutmann Joe Biden Hon’13 had nomi- this year’s Commencement to departments in multiple emphasized that she remains nated her to be the next US [“Gazetteer,” Jul|Aug 2021]. schools at Penn, and other dedicated to furthering the ambassador to Germany “David has fostered progress endowed professorship pro- University’s mission of “re- (see previous story). on critical initiatives as var- grams have strengthened the search, teaching, patient care, “No one is more deserving of ied as educational access, University’s ability to attract and civic service” and making this recognition,” Bok said in a state-of-the-art facilities, and retain the best teachers Penn “a more impactful, in- statement on July 2—one day world-changing discovery and scholars to the faculty. novative, and inclusive insti- after the formal start of his and innovation, and schol- And the University’s physi- tution—and that certainly term as chair—calling her se- arly diversity,” the resolution cal plant has been trans- does not change with my lection a “brilliant choice” on stated. “In his tenure, the formed under her leadership, nomination.” —JP Biden’s part. “Amy has been a University has developed and

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grown exceptional life- ferent ways, and I’ve enjoyed tions from COVID-19 this past changing eff orts such as all- every minute of it,” he said. “We want to year [“Obituaries,” May|Jun grant undergraduate fi nan- The fi rst person in his fam- have a more 2021], “just a wonderful hu- cial aid, fi rst-generation pro- ily to go to college, Bok man being” who “thought I grams, and a two-year resi- picked Penn sight unseen diverse and had the potential to maybe dential experience in tandem from the Barron’s guide be- play some roles at Penn, and with expanded interdisci- cause it sounded like a great interesting he helped introduce me to plinary academic opportu- school and one that would various people as well.” nity. Even the distancing lead to a good job, he said. student body Much of their involvement challenges of an extended “So, I applied, I got in, trav- from all over has been focused on the pandemic did not hinder the eled with my parents from School of Arts and Sciences, University’s progress in path- Michigan and moved into the the country including establishing the Bok breaking education, life-sav- Lower Quad—and on that Family Foundation Professor- ing research, healing, and fi rst day met people who are and the world, ship in the Humanities at SAS service, nor the spectacular still among my closest and the Bok Endowed Visiting success of its just-ending friends today.” of all different Writers Series Fund at the Kel- Power of Penn campaign.” In addition to fulfi lling the ly Writers House. “The under- Bok echoed the plaudits for coursework for undergradu- types of graduate liberal arts education his predecessor, praising his ate majors in political sci- people with is just so central to any univer- legal and governance exper- ence and economics, Bok was sity and certainly to the suc- tise, long involvement in the active on the Daily Pennsyl- all different cess of Penn,” Bok said. Philadelphia community, and vanian—he even considered Outside the University, Bok deep knowledge of local, pursuing journalism for a interests.” chaired the board of the edu- state, and federal politics. “He time—and served as the stu- cational support group Prep was a terrifi c chair for this dent liaison to the board of for Prep in New York (until period and a terrifi c support- trustees. The position was recently stepping away to er and advisor to Amy, and largely ceremonial (“You’re and acquisitions and securi- take on his current role at hopefully I’ll be able to fi ll his not there for the really im- ties law for two years and Penn). The organization shoes—to some degree, any- portant inside discussions”), then joined Morgan Stanley, “fi nds high potential young way,” Bok said of Cohen. but it off ered a “glimpse into where he worked from 1986 people of color about 10 years Bok joined the board of how the University is gov- to 1997, before joining the old across the New York City trustees in 2005 and most erned, and I did fi nd it fasci- independent investment public school system, gives recently served as vice chair. nating,” he said. bank Greenhill & Company them kind of an intensive ex- He has been a member of the Bok also met his wife— where he is currently chair- tra educational program, and investment board since 2016, Roxanne Conisha Bok C’81, man and CEO. then it places them in the top and has served on the execu- author of Horsekeeping: One For fi ve of his years at schools throughout the tive, audit and compliance, Woman’s Tale of Barn and Morgan Stanley, the Boks Northeast,” including private academic policy, compensa- Country Life and currently a lived in London, during schools in New York, and tion, development, and nom- member of the Veterinary which time they, “didn’t get boarding schools like inating committees. Other School’s board of advisors— back to the US that often, let Lawrenceville, Andover, and service has included mem- when she moved in across the alone Philadelphia,” he said. Exeter. “And the kids go there, bership on boards for the hall from him in High Rise The couple reconnected with and they thrive.” School of Arts and Sciences North (now Rodin College the University as alumni fi rst He said that Penn is among and the Lauder Institute of House) as a transfer student. through their shared interest the top handful of schools Management and Interna- They married soon after grad- in writing, meeting Paul Kelly accepting graduates of the tional Studies, as well as on uation, “which was quite ear- C’62 WG’64 and becoming program, recalling that a few the steering committees for ly, quite young back then.” involved with Kelly Writers years ago the cover of its an- the Making History and Pow- The couple has two children, House as it was getting start- nual report showed “Amy er of Penn campaigns. “I’ve Elliot W’17 and Jane C’22. ed in the mid-1990s. Bok Gutmann standing next to been involved at Penn for a After graduating from Penn called Kelly, a fellow trustee the Ben Franklin statue sur- very long time in a lot of dif- Law, Bok practiced mergers who died due to complica- rounded by all the people

20 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Housing

then on campus who were world, of all diff erent types Prep alumni” and noting a of people with all diff erent broader connection between interests.” Building endow- the goals of Prep for Prep and ment will be a continuing the University’s goals “in terms focus as well, “because we of diversity and inclusion.” want to be able to fund more Increasing resources for research, more faculty, more fi nancial aid is one of the student aid,” he added. main strands of the “One of the challenges of a University’s Power of Penn university with Penn’s quali- fundraising campaign, which ties is that you have a lot of concluded on June 30. “We’ll local responsibilities. You’ve fi nd out the fi nal numbers got to fi t into the local com- soon, but they’re going to be munity and be a good com- extraordinary,” Bok said, add- munity member, but you also ing that the results will be are trying to impact the whole especially impressive for be- world,” Bok said. “Penn’s got ing achieved “even with the alumni that stretch across the pandemic intervening and globe, it’s got alumni running all the problems of going out all kinds of organizations of to connect with alumni and diff erent types and playing solicit donations.” There was big roles in all aspects of soci- some initial concern that the ety, so Penn has a big role HIP Check disruptions to people’s lives across the world, which is in could cause them to pull many ways equally important The Housing Initiative at Penn back from participation, “but to that local role. tackles issues of affordability and Penn alumni did not do that.” “So, we’ll try to balance all Overall, in terms of the pan- those things and just con- accessibility before, during, and demic, Bok said the “Univer- tinue to inch forward in after the pandemic. sity did a fabulous job,” react- terms of the quality of the ing with necessary speed and University, but frankly it’s decisiveness to close campus been an extraordinary 17 OVID-19 has added mil- tension for the majority of and move instruction online. years under Amy Gutmann’s lions to the roster of the country that will last un- Now, as the campus returns leadership. I’m sure there are people struggling to til October 3. to mostly normal operations ways we can improve from keep up with housing “The pandemic highlighted this fall, Penn is well posi- here, and we’re absolutely costs, but the struggle that many of us have no safety tioned to continue to advance going to be committed to do- Citself is nothing new, says net when it comes to hous- its mission, he said. “I’m sure ing that,” he said. Vincent J. Reina, associate ing—but that’s been the case there will be challenges that “I think what makes Penn professor of city and regional all along,” says Reina, who is we can’t foresee today, but at great is the breadth and planning at the Stuart also faculty director of the least as we sit here now, I depth of people who are Weitzman School of Design. Housing Initiative at Penn think most of the issues have committed to its success,” According to the US Census (HIP). “We just needed to ac- been identifi ed and it’s a mat- from his fellow trustees to Bureau, as of this summer knowledge these supply and ter of just doing the best we the University’s senior ad- about 8 percent of homeown- demand issues and to realize can on those.” ministrators and staff to the ers and around 16 percent of that government can use tools That includes making “tens of thousands” of alum- renters were behind on their to alleviate them.” One of HIP’s Penn “more accessible than ni involved as volunteers, payments, and the fate of the primary missions, he adds, is ever,” he said. “We want to Bok added. “I am grateful to Centers for Disease Control’s to help local jurisdictions get a have a more diverse and in- be part of that team and very nationwide eviction morato- handle on housing barriers teresting student body from excited at what the future rium remains in doubt even and develop strategies to ad- all over the country and the holds for Penn.” —JP after a recent two-month ex- dress them eff ectively.

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Reina worked at the US duced housing plans and one-fi fth the number of en- funding, he adds. Nearly Department of Housing and studies with local practitio- try-level homes built annu- 200,000 households applied Urban Development and as a ners for the Commonwealth ally during the late 1970s and for 20,000 spots when Los senior program offi cer at the of Pennsylvania, and the cit- early 1980s, according to Angeles reopened its waiting Local Initiatives Support ies of Cincinnati and Cleve- mortgage loan company list for vouchers for the fi rst Corporation (LISC), where he land (with the participation Freddie Mac. time in more than a decade. underwrote fi nancing for of Akira Drake Rodriguez, Creative takes on increas- HIP recently partnered aff ordable housing develop- assistant professor of City ing aff ordability and acces- with six jurisdictions—At- ments across the country, and Regional Planning). sibility include erecting lanta, Baltimore, Los Ange- before coming to Penn in HIP has also developed a “tiny” houses (as small as 300 les, Oakland, Philadelphia, 2016. Not long after that, he concurrent research special- square feet), legalizing acces- and the State of California— and one of his then-graduate ty in examining government sory dwelling units (from to evaluate their varied ap- students, Claudia Aiken responses to the pandemic backyard shacks to mother- proaches to COVID-related GCP’18, partnered with LISC when it comes to rent relief in-law suites); encouraging rent relief. “We’ll be asking to prepare Housing for Eq- programs and other housing co-living communities with questions like: What restric- uity, the City of Philadel- assistance. The CDC has cit- shared kitchens and baths; tions do they come with, how phia’s fi rst ever housing plan. ed HIP’s reports in previous enacting zoning that restricts are they designed, who’s us- “Through detailed neigh- extensions of the eviction single-family home construc- ing them, how are dollars borhood planning eff orts and moratorium. While the agen- tion in favor of more multi- getting out the doors, what a robust eff ort to develop a cy approached this from a family units; and converting are the administrative bur- historic preservation plan, COVID-related public health hotels to housing for the dens, how do they relate to the city had set the founda- standpoint—reasoning that homeless, as has been done political control, how do they tion for a lot of meaningful allowing people to stay in on a temporary basis during address broader issues of work,” Reina says—which their homes would facilitate the pandemic. racial equality?” was “a great start, but if you isolation should they become “There’s no one single solu- With a new administration want to meaningfully ad- sick, as well as keep them out tion,” Reina says. “Housing is in Washington and a renewed dress housing in any city, you of “congregate settings” like so entangled with a broader interest in housing, Reina need to make links between homeless shelters—the pub- set of societal problems—seg- feels optimistic. “I’m excited all of those components.” lic health dangers of housing regation, discrimination, barri- to see the lack of federal com- Housing plans dig into sup- inequities go beyond the ers to credit—that it’s become a mitment toward housing re- ply shortages, repairing or pandemic. When people persistent national crisis.” versed,” he says. “For too long, upgrading existing housing, struggle to pay their housing Geography matters, too. we’ve politicized housing and and issues of fairness, aff ord- bills, that money also comes “Two cities can have an af- stopped abruptly in the face ability, and access. “The idea out of other expenses like fordability problem, but the of criticism. The reality is that is to identify opportunities healthcare and food. drivers can be very diff er- these are complex issues and for improvement and fi gure If keeping up on the rent (or ent,” Reina points out. “San so we have to keep looking at out how the government can mortgage) payment is one Francisco, for example, is a them from new angles.” play a role and if the private half of the problem, the other high-cost market with a dis- And by doing that, he sector can help,” he explains. half is the increased diffi culty tinct undersupply of aff ord- hopes HIP can use the assets The work for Philadelphia of locating aff ordable hous- able housing. In Philadel- of the academy to realize generated interest from of- ing, a struggle that has grown phia, though, there’s plenty practical solutions. “With the fi cials in other cities, who increasingly familiar to mid- of aging housing stock—but rent relief work, we’ve been approached Reina for help dle-class Americans. Over the not enough incentives for placed at the center of a na- writing their own housing past fi ve decades, new hous- investing in them.” tional conversation that I plans. Realizing “we had a ing construction has gradu- Even when government wasn’t expecting,” Reina thing,” he says, he and Aiken ally shifted toward larger and lends a hand—with tax in- says. “It’s showed me that set up the HIP program and more expensive homes. Last centives or Housing Choice there’s real opportunity in she was hired to run it. Syd- year only about 7 percent Vouchers, federal rental sub- partnering with municipali- ney Goldstein GCP’18 soon (65,000) of new homes com- sidies more commonly ties and developing new and joined them as research di- pleted could be considered known as Section 8—the innovative programs.” rector. The group has pro- entry-level, which is less than need greatly exceeds the —JoAnn Greco

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life and entering a profes- sional fi eld. “It’s to teach them self-effi cacy and a sense of belonging to the Penn com- munity,” Lewis says. The idea is one of “mutual transformation,” adds Cory Bowman, associate director of Penn’s Netter Center for Community Relations, which facilitates the program. All the participants “can expect to be changed by the experi- ence,” he says. Karen Hamilton Gr’79, a former Perelman assistant dean of student aff airs and director of minority aff airs, developed the program in 1998 in response to a chal- lenge set forth by the Asso- ciation of American Medical Colleges to increase the ma- triculation of underrepre- sented minorities in medical A Pipeline to a Medical Career school. Initially, the program recruited students from Perelman School and Netter Center give Philly high schools scattered around the city, but it soon switched to schoolers exposure to medicine and mentorship. four of Penn’s more immedi- ate neighbors: Sayre, West aren Xu fi rst learned four years at Penn, and now healthcare, is a win-win situa- Philadelphia, Mastery-Shoe- about the Perelman serves as a coordinator, where tion for everyone involved, maker, and Robeson high School of Medicine’s Ed- she designs and implements points out Sharon Lewis, the schools. With that new focus, ucational Pipeline Pro- lesson plans for the high program director and associ- the program became less gram before she had schoolers. “I love seeing these ate professor of neurology. about trying to fi nd minority evenK committed to the Uni- kids get excited about topics “Our students bring their students who would become versity. “It was during Penn they haven’t been exposed to amazing enthusiasm to the doctors and more concerned Preview,” the 24-year-old MD/ before and that might wind high school students,” she with getting them to fi nish PhD candidate recalls, “and up being their career,” Xu says. “They pour their hearts high school through expo- we visited a high school with says. “To be able to reach into it, and they get so much sure to the healthcare indus- the program’s director to them in high school seems back. Since most of them will try, one of the area’s top em- watch some of the work that like a very pivotal moment.” eventually end up in academ- ployment sectors. Encourag- the students were doing. I The Educational Pipeline ic medical careers, this is a ing students to act as ambas- was really excited by what I Program, which pairs pre- really important way for them sadors who spread the word saw, and one of the fi rst med and pre-vet undergrads to hone their teaching skills to their families and neigh- things I did when I actually and Perelman and Penn Vet and work on communicating bors on wellness issues rel- began med classes was to sign students with local Philadel- complicated concepts to lay evant to the Black and brown up as a volunteer for the pro- phia high school students to populations.” As for the high community emerged as an- gram.” Xu has returned sev- introduce them to career school students, the goal is to other facet. In the neurologi- eral times during her fi rst tracks in medicine and give them a taste of college cal curriculum, for example,

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GAZETTEER Largest Comet Ever Discovered students learn about hyper- to navigate that next step in tension and diabetes melli- my own career path. Multi- tus, which are disproportion- tiered mentorship is what ately high in their communi- Pipeline is all about,” he adds. ties, and discuss the steps “It’s often those individuals that can be taken to reduce that are just ahead of you in stroke risk. the educational journey that In addition to that 10th- can provide the most relevant grade neurology course, stu- and practical advice.” dents explore gastroenterol- In fact, Sam started a simi- ogy in 9th grade, cardiology lar Pipeline eff ort in 2010 in 11th grade, and veterinary while attending Emory Uni- medicine in 12th grade. In versity School of Medicine A giant comet potentially larger than the island of Hawaii has the fall, Penn’s undergrad and, more recently, Mia en- been spotted by Penn astronomers. The Bernardinelli-Bernstein students visit the local high couraged her younger broth- comet (C/2014 UN271) is named after its discoverers, Pedro schools; in the spring, the er Ron Belldegrun C’08, who Bernardinelli G’21 Gr’21 and Gary Bernstein, the Reese W. Flow- high schoolers come to Penn cofounded the infant nutri- er Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, who found it after to tour labs and interact with tion start-up ByHeart with sifting through archival images from the Dark Energy Survey the medical and vet school her a few years ago, to con- (DES) this past June. The pair had identifi ed more than 800 nov- students and residents. Dur- sider funding Pipeline. Now, el icy objects with orbits larger than Neptune’s; but one, desig- ing the summer, a public thanks to the support of he health session, covering top- and his wife, Karrie, a new nated C/2014 UN271 (in reference to the date the picture was ics like epidemiology and life sciences and manage- taken, October 2014) was “by far the most interesting one we food insecurity, is also avail- ment track for 11th –12th found,” Bernardinelli told the New York Times. At the time the able. Altogether, about 100 grade students is set to be image was captured, the object showed no features associated high school students partici- added this year in collabora- with comets, but its dimensions were notable. Within days after it pate each year. tion with the Vagelos Pro- was announced, astronomers from two other observatories re- That number will likely gram in Life Sciences & Man- corded new images that showed a fuzzy border, known as a co- grow as the program contin- agement. As Pipeline ma- ma—a telltale sign of a comet. ues to evolve and young tures and its high school, un- The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is currently not the largest alumni build their own medi- dergraduate, and graduate object beyond Neptune, but as it moves closer towards the cal careers. Take Samuel A. students fi nd their way in the sun’s glare, more of its ice will vaporize, enlarging its coma Funt C’05, a physician at Me- world, the program plans to and making it the largest comet ever observed in recorded morial Sloan Kettering Can- start formalizing its self-eval- history. Bernardinelli conservatively estimates that its nucleus is cer Center, and his wife Mia uation and success measures between 62 and 125 miles long. Belldegrun Funt C’05, who in with the aim of national rep- It was also discovered at a greater distance than any 2019 established the Mia and lication and adaptation. previous incoming comet. First seen by DES in 2014, it was 29 Sam Funt Educational Pipe- For now, the Penn students astronomical units (au) from the sun, and as of June 2021 it had line Program Fund, the fi rst- who participate in Pipeline moved closer to 20 au. It will reach its perihelion (nearest point ever gift made to the initia- can clearly understand the tive. While studying neurosci- value of their participation on to the sun) in 2031 at 11 au, when it grazes Saturn’s orbit. ence as an undergrad, Sam a one-to-one basis. Despite the comet’s great size, it won’t get close enough to says he was drawn to partici- “Sure, I’ve made contacts Earth to be visible to the naked eye. It’s also unlikely that any pate in Pipeline because he and improved my pedagogi- spacecraft will be able to get a closeup look, given its distance “had already benefi ted from cal skills,” Xu says. “But I’m and the amount of fuel required for such a mission. inspiring mentors during my really doing this for the stu- Still, astronomers are excited about the chance to observe education and wanted to dents. Having the opportu- this comet in detail over the coming years. Bernardinelli said serve in that role for others. I nity to help them visualize in Penn Today that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a telescope [also] felt that the exposure to their future is the best aspect under construction in Chile, “will continuously measure Comet Penn medical students would of the program for me.” Bernardinelli-Bernstein all the way to its perihelion in 2031 and be invaluable in helping me —JoAnn Greco probably fi nd many, many others like it.”

24 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Rendering courtesy NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva Sports Prince Emili, seen here attacking the Columbia offense, decided to fi nish his college football career at Penn even when the pandemic altered many of his teammates’ plans. Back on his Throne The only remaining member of his Penn football class, Prince Emili is ready for a long-delayed swan song.

hen the Ivy League canceled fall sports in July 2020, student- athletes throughout the conference had a Wdecision to make. Some decided to transfer to another school. Others chose to remain on their graduation path rather than trying to extend their athletic career. For Prince Emili, a standout defensive lineman for the Penn football team, the choice was easy. He’d do what was necessary to make sure he’d fi nish his college football ca- reer exactly where he started it. “I really like the staff and I didn’t really want to switch anything up,” Emili says. “I decided to stick it out and fi nish everything up here.” Emili, who fi rst got to Penn in 2016, was eligible to return for a fi fth year in 2020 when the pandemic delayed his plans. He considered gradu- ating last December and then trying to make it in the NFL, have drawn interest from the fi eld. Even head coach much either. “There’s not a but instead took a two-se- NCAA programs that did Ray Priore has a hard time lot of experience,” Priore mester leave of absence from have a football season last gauging the 2021 Quakers, says. “But everyone’s in the Penn, going to his home in year. “I didn’t really want to who open their season same boat in our league.” New City, New York to work muddy the picture,” he says. against Bucknell on Septem- Although Emili is the only out in his garage or nearby “I just wanted to lock in on ber 18. Their fi rst home con- remaining member of the fi elds, “trying to stay ready my own plan.” test is slated for October 1 class that came to Penn in and stay sane,” he says. Emili, who only has one versus Dartmouth—more 2016—“It’s lonely,” he “My goal is to go to the next half-credit class left to fi nish than 22 months since their laughs—there’s a handful of level and I’ve seen people do his degree in healthcare last game at Franklin Field. fi fth-year returners who fi rst that from the Ivy League,” management, is now one of Because the 2020 season was arrived in 2017, led by line- notes Emili, adding that he the few veteran leaders on a wiped out, no current fresh- backer Brian O’Neill and didn’t feel the need to put his Quakers’ football team that men and sophomores have running back Isaiah Mal- name into the transfer portal, looks a lot diff erent from ever taken a real snap and come, who Emili believes is where he undoubtedly would the last time he stepped on most juniors haven’t played primed for a big season. But

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other members of that class ment from the players who opted to move on from Penn. were able to get into pads Quakers in Tokyo Ryan Glover, who was poised and tackle for the fi rst time Across several sports and countries, to be Penn’s starting quarter- in roughly 500 days. “The back had there been a season kids had fun at practice,” these Penn alums and students last fall [“Sports,” Sep|Oct Priore says. “Not a lot of peo- 2020], decided to graduate ple have fun at practice.” carried the Olympic torch. early and transfer, leaving Emili, who missed out on Penn without a QB that’s ever those spring practices while taken a varsity snap. “Teams on his leave of absence, is that have quarterbacks com- planning to have fun playing ing back would obviously have college football at Franklin a little leg up,” the coach says. Field one last season. He’ll Finding a new player to run also be striving for the pro- the off ense might seem like a gram’s fi rst Ivy champion- quaint problem for Priore, ship since 2016—his fresh- who notes that this past fall man campaign, which he was the “fi rst time in 50 missed with injury—while years” he didn’t do anything building his own resume for with football. But he still had NFL scouts and helping out a lot to do, from recruiting a his younger teammates. whole class without being It’s a diff erent kind of role able to see them in person— for Emili, who didn’t start “We were one big infomer- playing football until he was cial,” he says—to managing a a sophomore in high school few COVID infections on the because his parents—Nige- resh out of college, Sam Games, pushed back a year roster early in the spring se- rian immigrants—were Mattis W’16 set his because of the COVID-19 pan- mester when the vast major- afraid of the sport’s violent sights on the 2016 Sum- demic, Mattis led the largest ity of players returned to collisions. His parents have mer Olympics in Rio de collection of current and for- campus. (“No one got any- since mostly come around on Janeiro, Brazil. mer Quakers at an Olympics thing serious,” he says.) The Emili’s football dreams and F“It will be tough,” he told in more than 30 years. highlight of last semester, were supportive of his plans the Gazette after winning the The discus thrower was undoubtedly, was the 12 days to take a leave of absence 2015 NCAA championship in joined on Team USA by Re- of spring ball, which culmi- before he graduates from the discus throw. “It will defi - gina Salmons C’18, who nated with an intrasquad Penn this December. (If the nitely take a ton of work and rowed on the women’s eight spring game that was broad- NFL doesn’t work out, he maybe a little bit of luck. … boat which came in fourth cast live on YouTube. “That might go to medical school But I think with a plan and place, just off the medal was diff erent and interest- and follow his mom, a nurse, enough hard work and dedi- stand. “Had I gone to any ing,” Priore says. “But I think and his dad, an internist, cation, I can get there.” other school, I don’t know if I we learned a lot about our- into medicine.) He didn’t get there then— would have made it,” selves.” The graduating se- “I’m just kind of embracing and neither did anyone else Salmons told the Daily Penn- niors who opted not to re- my role, trying to lead peo- from Penn, ending a streak of sylvanian after she was turn for the 2021 season were ple, trying to show people the 25 straight Olympics in named to the team. Another honored before the game by way,” says Emili, a fi rst team which the University had former Penn rower, Dara “running through the tunnel All-Ivy player in 2019. “I feel been represented [“Penn in Alizadeh C’15, represented one last time,” Priore says. strong. I feel fast. I still know the Olympics,” Jul|Aug 2012]. Bermuda in the men’s single Aside from learning more the plays, so that’s good. But that didn’t stop his sculls and was the fl agbearer about his team heading into “I still really like the guys Olympic fl ame from burning. for the tiny island at the the 2021 season, the Penn that I know. It’ll be interest- And fi ve years later, it was a Opening Ceremonies. coach sensed a stronger- ing to see how it all comes much diff erent story. Other Penn Olympians in- than-usual feeling of enjoy- together on the fi eld.” —DZ At this summer’s Tokyo cluded Shaul Gordon C’16, a

26 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Photo courtesy Penn Athletics Sam Mattis (previous page) represented the USA Track & Field team at the Olympics while Keanan Dols swam for Team Jamaica.

that lacked an automatic everyone, and I’m glad I qualifying time, Jamaica was could manage a season’s best allotted one men’s spot to the when it mattered.” Olympics. Dols earned his Mattis made headlines af- place in April by lowering his ter passing up a lucrative national record in the men’s off er from JPMorgan Chase 200-meter individual medley to spend the last few years to 2:02.15. (He also holds the training in Fleetwood, Penn- Jamaican record in the men’s sylvania, while working odd 200-meter backstroke.) jobs and relying on online Dols turned in a strong gambling to make ends meet. swim in the men’s 200 fl y in “You only get a chance like Tokyo, coming within 0.22 this once,” Mattis told the seconds of his best time at Philadelphia Inquirer before 2:02.25 to fi nish 34th. He leaving for Tokyo. “There was was more than two seconds just no way I was going to fencer representing Canada “It’s been a dream come slower than his IM record in work for a bank instead of who fell in the Round of 32 of true,” Dols told the Gazette fi nishing 43rd in 2:04.29. trying to make the Olympics. the men’s individual sabre from the Tokyo Aquatics He also got to walk in Ja- That seemed crazy to me.” competition; Connie Hsu Centre, after competing in maica’s colors at the Opening The fi rst Penn alum to com- C’14, a tennis player repre- the men’s 200-meter butter- Ceremonies, which though pete for the US Olympic senting Chinese Taipei who fl y. Dols made history as the pared down because of CO- track and fi eld team since lost to the eventual gold fi rst Penn swimmer to com- VID, was still “an incredible Fred Samara W’73 in the 1976 medalists in the opening pete in the Olympics since experience,” he said. “I tried decathlon, Mattis also made round of the women’s dou- 1972, when American Ellie to soak it all in and just enjoy headlines by raising his fi st bles bracket; and Jasmine Daniel CW’74 won bronze in the moment.” in the air with the camera on Chen C’11, also representing the women’s 200 butterfl y. The upside of the fi ve-year him before the discus fi nal, Chinese Taipei, in individual The last Penn aquatics wait for Tokyo is the con- telling the Washington Post, equestrian jumping. Olympian was diver—and densed cycle before the 2024 “I’m hoping that sparks a Current students who trav- current Penn diving coach— Olympics in Paris, which Dols conversation” about issues of eled to Tokyo were freshman Rob Cragg C’75 in 1976. can bridge with two years of social justice on which he has Katina Proestakis, a fencer Dols, who moved from Ja- college eligibility remaining. been vocal. Mattis, who is representing Chile who lost maica to Sarasota, Florida, “It’s just been awesome to get Black, later explained on Ins- her opening match in the when he was three, prepped to experience all this,” he said. tagram that he marked his women’s foil tournament; for the Olympics by joining “Being a part of Team Jamai- arm with an X inside a circle, sophomore Blake Broszus, the elite postgrad training ca is incredible.” with the X representing “the who fenced for the Canadian group at the University of Mattis, too, looks like he intersection of the injustices men’s foil team; and Keanan Florida that includes Ameri- wants to return to the Olym- all oppressed people face.” Dols, who swam for Jamaica. can star Caeleb Dressel, who pics, writing on his Insta- “The stated values of the Dols swam two seasons at won fi ve gold medals in To- gram page that it’s time to Olympics are to place sport Penn from 2017 to 2019, quali- kyo, and 12-time Olympic “set our sights on Paris.” In at the service of humankind fying for the Ivy League medalist Ryan Lochte. “I got Tokyo, he was the only Amer- and build a better world Championships in three my ass kicked every day by ican to advance to the discus through sport,” he wrote. events both years, before tak- Caeleb and Ryan and all of fi nal, fi nishing eighth overall “That is exactly what we are ing a gap year in 2019–20 to them,” Dols said. “They’ve after two season-best throws. trying to do.” position himself for the Olym- had such an impact on me the “Sheesh. 8th place at the —Matthew De George and pics. The pandemic compli- last two years, and it’s been a Olympics,” he wrote on Insta- Dave Zeitlin C’03 cated his plans and led to an pleasure. ... It’s a super fun gram. “Obviously wish I extended leave of absence— training environment.” could have thrown farther, For more on Mattis’ Olympic but made his trip this sum- The training proved vital to but it’s been a crazy year—for journey and future plans, visit our mer to Tokyo even sweeter. get him to Tokyo. As a nation track, for training, and for website at thepenngazette.com.

Photo courtesy Penn Athletics Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 27

(Re)Introduction to US History How two Penn professors revamped the entry-level history class for an age of instant information access and endless quarrels over the meaning of America’s past. By Trey Popp

magine yourself into a mid-semester Sunday afternoon. You’re easing into a quiet hour in the Quad. Or as quiet as a Quad hour gets, anyway, as water whines through show- er pipes and music fl oats across the lawn. It’s the fi rst warm day of March. Some classmates are out tossing a Frisbee. IOr maybe it’s the kind of spring that dumps eight inches of snow onto Philadelphia 10 days before the equinox, and your hallmates are frolicking in it before it melts. This is your rev- erie. You’re in charge. But you have work to do. The weekly prompt for History 011 has come out, and it’s time to respond. What is this artifact? And what’s the trick this week? Usually the task seems a little more diffi cult: without resorting to Google, but secure in the knowledge that no grade will penalize an errant reply, write three sentences describing the origin and historical signifi - cance of the item at hand. Yet this one is already stuff ed with clues: a dated proclamation by one General Fremont, pertain- ing to an obvious confl ict in a specifi c state. So your job is at once simpler and harder: Why does this document matter? Say so in three or four sentences. Seriously: Write down three sentences. Read the prompt again if need be. The rest of this article will be waiting for you. Don’t fret if Fremont’s fi rst name escapes you. What might a historian glean from this news clipping? What signifi cance would it have had to a Missouri farmer who read it in the summer of 1861—or to an enslaved stevedore on a Mississippi River ferry, or to a Washington insider, or to the president himself? Three sentences: Go!

30 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS GASH Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 31 May, I happened across Walter old. With a rich baritone voice whose a traditional gateway for history majors— Licht, the Walter H. Annenberg cadence quickened into a “thunderous whose number was also sliding. Professor of History, walking a roar” at climactic moments—as recalled An intellectual challenge also confront- few blocks west of campus after by Lee Gordon C’68, who named his ed the traditional American history sur- having delivered the fi nal lecture firstborn son Alex in tribute—Ria- vey course. Contemporary historical Inof his 44-year teaching career at Penn. sanovsky mesmerized generations of scholarship had introduced “so many His retirement was news to me. I asked history, pre-med, Wharton, and engi- contested perspectives that challenged how it felt to address his last class. Dif- neering students with his magisterial the overarching narrative” long present- ferent than he’d always imagined, he re- survey of Russia and the Soviet Union. ed by conventional textbooks, as Brown plied. “After I fi nished and took my last Riasanovsky was one of “a bunch of puts it, that “it became harder to sustain question,” he said, “I clicked a button and hams,” Licht recalled with fond admira- a course with a linear beginning, middle, the window on my computer closed.” tion, “who did it extremely well.” An- and end.” Works like Wendy Warren’s 2017 In a year unclouded by COVID-19, other was Richard Beeman, the John New England Bound: Slavery and Colo- there might have been an hour of well- Welsh Centennial Professor of History nization in Early America, for instance, wishing and bittersweet camaraderie Emeritus, whose 43 years on the faculty have complicated the traditional treat- outside the lecture hall. included stints as department chair and ment of plantation slavery as an essen- I was curious about the subject of his dean of the College. His introductory tially Southern phenomenon, by reveal- fi nal lecture. Licht specializes in the his- survey of American history may have ing the infl uential economic role played tory of labor and industrial capitalism. featured the most extensive wardrobe by New England shipping fi rms and fi - But as fi tting as it might have been to in the annals of undergraduate educa- nancial houses in directing its develop- end with one fi nal trip to his scholarly tion. His death in 2016 [“Obituaries,” ment. And that is just one example wheelhouse, he told me he’d lectured Nov|Dec 2016] triggered an outpouring among legions. Several decades’ worth of about the evolution of American conser- of memories about the costumes he scholarship excavating the experiences vatism from George Wallace to Ronald donned to transform lectures into full- of overlooked groups, and interrogating Reagan to Donald Trump W’68. His fl edged theatrical performances. When familiar stories through unconventional swan song, in other words, had come in Beeman covered Davy Crockett, his col- lenses, have enriched the American story an entry-level introduction to US his- league Bruce Kuklick C’63 G’65 Gr’68 with a wealth of complexities. tory course. But the last thing Licht recalled to the Daily Pennsylvanian, “he The educational landscape was chang- needed from me was neighborly com- would dress in buckskin and suck on a ing, as well. “In an age where any stu- miseration, for sparks of intellectual corn cob pipe and have his trusty great dent who graduates from Penn will be electricity seemed to shower the side- big brown dog sit down beside him.” able to Google a question of historical walk as he buzzed on about this class. This heyday carried into the early 1990s fact any time they want,” asks Brown, He and Kathleen Brown, the David Boies but was fl agging by the turn of the mil- “wouldn’t the primary task be to teach Professor of History, had completely lennium. Riasanovsky retired in 1999, them how to think historically … rather reimagined this course from top to bot- Beeman stepped down in 2011, and no- than absorbing information? tom, along with the educational goals body could fi ll their shoes with quite the “Information itself is kind of passé at they had for it. The result, he told me, same panache. Other dynamics were also this point as a way to spend your time in had been the most rewarding teaching eroding the classic survey course—par- a college classroom,” she says, “when the experience of his entire career. ticularly in the realm of US history. The more diffi cult thing to teach—and the proliferation of Advanced Placement US more valuable skill to take with you after When Licht joined Penn’s faculty in History classes in American high schools you graduate—might be asking the right 1977, the history department vibrated made a collegiate-level survey seem re- kind of questions about how the past is with charismatic professors whose fl air dundant to many incoming Penn stu- being reconstructed or used.” at the podium had ushered in a golden dents. Popularity shifted to more nar- Assessing the state of civic discourse in era of the introductory survey course. rowly defi ned courses, like Drew Faust the early 2010s, Brown found herself in- Few, if any, were more beloved than the G’71 Gr’75’s class in Southern history creasingly frustrated by “how history got late Alexander Riasanovsky [“Obituar- [“Alumni Profi les,” May|Jun 2007] and used and abused politically to make po- ies,” Jan|Feb 2017], a Russian émigré Tom Sugrue’s class on the 1960s [“The litical points, by all kinds of people—not whose family had been driven from their Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue,” May|Jun just by people whose politics I disagreed home in Chinese Manchuria by the Jap- 2009]. Interest leaked away from the clas- with, but even the ones I did agree with. anese invasion when he was nine years sic introduction to US history, imperiling And it seemed to me that anyone who had

32 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Cover of a 1914 Disston brochure. Companies “A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful like Henry Disston’s saw works were one aspect Riots in Philadelphia”: Burning of St. Michael’s of the economic dynamism that made Philadelphia Church by anti-Catholic nativists, on Wednesday a magnet for immigrants and a “workshop of afternoon, May 8, 1848. the world.” only just absorbed a narrative,” she con- cluded, “wasn’t going to be suffi ciently skilled to ask the right questions about how the past was being used.” Sensing an opportunity to do something diff erent, Brown and Licht came together and brainstormed ways to create a new kind of entry-level course. It would have minimal resemblance to the AP US his- tory curriculum so many undergraduates already had under their belts. There would be no textbooks—ideally, no books at all. Primary sources would rule: news clip- pings, political cartoons, a handcrafted saw from Philadelphia’s manufacturing heyday, a small-appliance advertisement from the 1950s, Billy Joel’s “Allentown” music video. They hoped to foster the kinds of epiphanies that gripped seniors working on history honors theses. “You see them catch fi re,” Brown says, “Because they’re doing research, working with pri- mary sources,” and learning in a deep way that big overarching narratives—whether they’re organized around the Founding Fathers of 1776 or the importation of slaves to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619—can dis- tort as much as they reveal. They called it History 011: “Decipher- ing America,” and debuted it for 45 stu- dents in 2012.

anJessica Gladney C’18 found her way to History 011 as a junior look- ing to fi ll a curricular requirement. She’d taken AP US History in high unfamiliar a little more familiar.” Gladney diff erently. Not only are the issues them- school but experienced it as a mas- felt like she’d been tossed into the deep selves complicated, but the people around Vsive chronology of events to memorize, end of the pool. It was “mind-blowing,” those issues are complicated.” along with their textbook treatment, in she says, to discover how much informa- Licht, for example, liked to bring in a hopes of passing the year-end exam. It tion lived in a single artifact—especially steel handsaw from the Philadelphia saw convinced her to focus on engineering. when you examined it from multiple per- works of Henry Disston, an immigrant She spent her fi rst couple years at Penn spectives. Brown specializes in the his- who crossed the Atlantic in 1833 steeped in the School of Engineering and Ap- tory of gender and race in early America. in the hardware manufacturing tradi- plied Science’s interdisciplinary Digital Licht’s bread and butter are labor mar- tions of his native Sheffi eld, England. Media Design program, but then shifted kets and economic history. “The contrast Made of high-tensile specialty steel that her major to English. Mary Frances between their areas of study was one of held its sharpness and never warped, Berry’s “History of American Law” was the most important parts of taking that Disston’s handcrafted saw exemplifi es the only history class she’d taken before as an introductory course,” Gladney says. many dynamics that shaped 19th-centu- enrolling in “Deciphering America.” “It reminded me that there are diff erent ry Philadelphia: technology transfer from Licht had a mantra for the course: “We people in diff erent positions,” she contin- the Old World to the New; immigration will make the familiar unfamiliar, and the ues, “that would have seen these issues as a driver of economic growth; special-

Images courtesy Disstonian Institute and the Historical Society of Philadelphia Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 33 History Mystery I Who might have said this? ized industrial manufacturing as a deter- give you the tools and you have to build Why? When? minant of urban development; and even a house. Most of the time, they teach you “I think that we have suffi cient stock the long arc from built-to-last tools to how to build a house and you have to in America now for us to shut the door, business models oriented around reconstruct it on a test.” planned obsolescence. “I tell the students Americanize what we have, and save of meeting carpenters who work with the resources of America for the natural erhaps no passage of American his- prized Disston saws that have been increase of our population. . . I believe tory has provoked more historio- passed down through four to fi ve genera- that our particular ideas, social, moral, graphical contention—or more tions,” Licht says. Later in the course he religious, and political, have demonstrat- self-righteous contemporary pun- examines the forces that ultimately un- ed, by virtue of the progress we have ditry—than the Civil War. The argu- raveled firms like Disston’s—namely made and the character of people that Pments start with where to begin. mass-market Sears saws “produced at we are, that we have the highest ideals “When are you going start the story of one-tenth the cost, totally mechanically, of any member of the human family or the Civil War?” Licht asked at the outset with galvanized steel guaranteed to warp any nation. We have demonstrated the of a lecture this past March (distilled into and lose it sharpness,” but which satisfi ed fact that the human family, certainly a slightly abridged form here). “Do you consumer preferences that were shifting the predominant breed in America, can start it in 1619, with the arrival of the fi rst toward cheap, disposable products. govern themselves by a direct govern- Africans in North America? Do you start Yet stories like that of Henry Disston— ment of the people. If this Government it with the writing of the Constitution— who was part a giant wave of immigra- which does not include the word slavery, shall fail, it shall fail by virtue of the tion that helped Philadelphia earn its but ensconces slavery, particularly with terrible law of inherited tendency. Those moniker as “workshop of the world”— the ‘three-fifths’ resolution allowing who come from the nations which from gain additional layers of complexity Southern states to dominate the halls of time immemorial have been under the when Brown picks up the thread in a Congress? Would you start it with the lecture touching on the anti-Catholic dictation of a master fall more easily by British textile revolution, which changed Kensington Riots of 1844, the rise of na- the law of inheritance and the inertia and entrenched slavery at a point in the tivism, and the use of arson as a form of of habit into a condition of political servi- 19th century when it might have seemed “ethnic cleansing” targeting Black and tude than the descendants of those who like it was withering away, with ‘King Cot- immigrant communities. cleared the forests, conquered the sav- ton’ and that raw material that would be “Learning about how arson was used age, stood at arms and won their liberty fed into the machinery of metro indus- as a political tool to remove certain busi- from their mother country, England.” trialism? Do you start it with expansion: nesses and attack certain ethnic groups,” the Louisiana purchase, and other pur- Gladney says, “really changed the idea chases and seizures of land that begged that any confl ict in US history is a binary though the pedagogical emphasis fell the question of what is going to happen confl ict.” That dynamic, after all, was squarely on critical thinking, the class’s in these territories when they become nested in other complexities, like the heavy emphasis on primary sources and states—will slavery be allowed?” early 19th-century temperance move- artifacts “leaves students with a certain And within Civil War historiography, no ment—which was at once a middle-class residue that they’re going to remember fi gure inspires more argument than Abra- outgrowth of religious revivals empha- for a long period of time.” ham Lincoln, who wrote and spoke so sizing moral perfectionism, a political “We started out with fresh eyes and much that “you can cherry-pick” your way cudgel against German and Irish voting submitted before we saw any presenta- to any verdict you like. Was he a moral blocs, and a women’s movement grap- tions or slides,” says Tulio Tagliaferri, paragon who boldly sided with the “better pling with truly prodigious alcohol con- who took History 011 as a freshman dur- angels of our nature,” as he phrased it in sumption among American males. ing the pandemic, when lectures shifted his fi rst presidential inaugural address, to The course took its rhythm from to an online platform. “Sometimes I felt deliver the United States from its original paired journal entries: three or four sen- like I was a news reporter describing an sin of human bondage? Or was he at best tences in blind response to a prompt on image that we had to look at … And at a reluctant abolitionist, an opportunistic Sunday, and then a second stab at the end of week, we could compare it to shapeshifter whose comfort with slavery same prompt after the week’s lectures what we had learned, and say, ‘Oh, I was is right there in the very same speech, and readings. Anders Bright, a doctoral completely wrong!’ wherein he endorsed a Constitutional student who led discussion sections as “It’s a sort of learning I’d never expe- amendment to guarantee the legality of a teaching assistant, felt that even rienced in school,” he continues. “They slavery in any state that wished to keep it?

34 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued by executive order on Sep. 22, 1862, to go into effect on Jan. 1, 1863.

Image courtesy Library of Congress Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 35 “Boy, is there a spectrum of opinion from rebels in Missouri. But the August good. At the end of the day, Lincoln did about Lincoln,” Licht concluded after a 31 decree proved ill-starred. Fearing it what is mostly regarded as the morally tour through some of it. “See where you would tip Missouri and other border correct thing to do—even though it come out on this,” he told the students, states toward secession, Lincoln revoked wasn’t necessarily for the reasons that “when you do the readings.” it on September 11 and relieved Fremont are painted today.” In the meantime, he asked them to of his command soon thereafter. Yet al- consider a counterfactual: What if Lin- though Fremont’s emancipation procla- coln had not won the 1860 election? mation came more than a year before “A war to disarm a dictator has become an What if, instead, victory had gone to the capitalized version American high open-ended occupation of a foreign country. John Fremont—who had been the Re- schoolers learn about, it was neither This is not America. This is not who we are.” publican Party’s very fi rst presidential unique nor even the fi rst. He was not the —Sen. Barack Obama, October 2, candidate in 1856? Or what if Fremont only general chafi ng under Lincoln’s nar- 2007, speech about the US war in Iraq had challenged Lincoln for the nomina- row focus on restoring Southern states tion in 1864, as was the hope of some to the Union, even if that meant restor- “I stand with the people gathered across the abolitionists dismayed with what they ing their slavery regimes in the bargain. country tonight defending our values & our saw as Lincoln’s excessively fl exible mod- General Benjamin Butler had pursued a Constitution. This is not who we are.” eration on the issue of slavery’s future. similar course in Virginia, where his re- —Defeated presidential candidate In a classic instance of “making the fusal to return fugitive slaves to their Hillary Clinton, responding to an execu- familiar unfamiliar,” Licht deployed a owners became standard procedure. In tive order by President Donald Trump series of facts that had fi rst sent Gladney the spring of 1862, General David Hunt- temporarily banning the entry of travel- (who served as a teaching assistant in er pulled a Fremont by means of a simi- ers from seven Muslim-majority coun- 2021) reeling from her high-school his- lar proclamation covering South Caro- tries and suspending refugee admissions. tory class’s simplifi ed view of the confl ict lina, Georgia, and Florida. as two sides facing one another across Lincoln revoked that one, too. But “This is not America,” a woman said to a Mason and Dixon’s iconic line. When these developments had a cumulative small group, her voice shaking. She was Southern states considered secession eff ect on the president. “He is being crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. after the Confederate Constitutional pushed and pushed,” Licht said, “to have They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re Convention in the spring of 1861, Vir- a more militant prosecution of the war, shooting the patriots.” ginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkan- and also to take up the issue of freeing —Participant in the January 6, 2021, sas, and Missouri rejected it—and Ken- the slaves. The biggest people who are march against the US Capitol, as reported tucky, Maryland, and Delaware declined pushing him are his own generals … and by Andrew McCormick in The Nation. to formally consider it at all. The attack he is also being pushed in Congress.” on Fort Sumter by South Carolina seces- Figures like Harriet Tubman and Fred- One way to gauge the success of History sionists spurred many of those states to erick Douglass, of course, were pushing 011: “Deciphering America” is by the tra- join the Confederacy; but Maryland, against still other levers. ditional measure: butts in the seats. From Kentucky, and Missouri remained in the Wherever a student comes down on their initial enrollment of about 45 stu- Union as slave states. While some New Lincoln, in other words, the 16th presi- dents in 2012, Brown and Licht grew it to Jerseyans continued to hold enslaved dent had at least one thing in common over 140 in 2019—the last in-person it- people in bondage, the western portion with every occupant of the White House eration before COVID-19 scrambled the of Tennessee was suffi ciently at odds before and since: no action he took oc- basis for meaningful comparison. The with eastern secessionists that Andrew curred in a vacuum, for the life of a course will outlive Licht’s transition to Johnson continued to represent Tennes- democratic republic is infl uenced by a emeritus status; its format is tailor-made seans in the US Senate until 1862, when large cast of actors. to accommodate another professor, who Lincoln appointed him military gover- “The biggest moral to the story is that might deploy a diff erent set of prompts nor of his home state. And the complex- heroes of the past are much more com- and perspectives. (To judge from student ities only blossom from there. plex than basic American history writes feedback, a certain perspectival tension So where, in all of this, does John Fre- them to be,” refl ects Tagliaferri. “Lin- in this team-taught class would be an mont’s 1861 proclamation fi t? One might coln is renowned as one the greatest important quality to preserve.) start by identifying it as an emancipa- presidents, if not the greatest president, Another way to judge the class is by tion proclamation: a unilateral order by in US history. … In the end, I fell on the holding it up to the professors’ intellec- the general to free slaves confi scated side that there’s no bad reason to do tual goals. Has it bolstered students’

36 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 History Mystery II abilities to cast a critical eye on how the Who might have said this? point in time contains the seeds of ev- past is mobilized to advance contempo- Why? When? erything that came thereafter. “Some- rary agendas? Has its thematic approach, “This Court’s cases and the Nation’s thing we try to tell the kids is that noth- keyed to the complications of “emblem- traditions make clear that marriage is a ing gets solidifi ed in any one moment,” atic moments” rather than the dubious keystone of our social order. … This idea says Licht, venting frustration about the coherence of a single overarching narra- has been reiterated even as the institu- current craze for locating America’s tive, helped them draw their own lessons tion has evolved in substantial ways original DNA—a dodgy metaphor under from the past in a way that helps them over time, superseding rules related any circumstances—in the year 1619, or make better sense of the present? to parental consent, gender, and race 1776 to the exclusion of 1619, or 1836 By the time Gladney took the class in (where Texas Republicans recently pro- once thought by many to be essential. the spring of 2017, after Donald Trump’s posed starting their state’s clock on “pa- … Marriage remains a building block electoral college victory had sent half of triotic education”), and so on. “Even in of our national community. … For that the American news commentariat into our dealing with the coming of racial- reason, just as a couple vows to support paroxysms of incomprehension, she was ized slavery, it’s something that is ce- frustrated by her own inability to make each other, so does society pledge to mented and then recemented” by a long sense of her country. support the couple, offering symbolic succession of statutes and legal deci- “This class allowed me to make con- recognition and material benefi ts to sions, Licht elaborates. “And it’s not one nections from the past to the present,” protect and nourish the union. Indeed, generation that are the ‘sinners.’” she says. “Thinking critically, rather than while the States are in general free History 011 “helped change some of merely factually, changed the way I un- to vary the benefi ts they confer on all the questions I was asking,” says Glad- derstand history.” It also reduced her married couples, they have throughout ney. “Instead of saying, ‘How could this susceptibility to a species of rhetoric our history made marriage the basis for happen?’ one could start looking at dy- whose kudzu spread through the gar- an expanding list of governmental rights, namics like the rise of the New Right dens of American civic discourse had benefi ts, and responsibilities. These as- and the New Left” in response to widely compounded her frustration. pects of marital status include: taxation; varying dissatisfactions with the bipar- “Whenever something terrible happens, inheritance and property rights; rules of tisan liberal consensus of the mid-20th it’s, ‘Oh, this not America. This is not our intestate succession; spousal privilege century, “and the way that parties were country,’” she says. “But once you learn in the law of evidence; hospital access; either emboldened or undermined based about history, you realize that it is! And on the demographics of their constituen- medical decisionmaking authority; if we want to change anything, we can’t cies.” Gladney caught the history bug adoption rights; the rights and benefi ts just think about changing the surface of that entry-level classes aim to spread. “It of survivors; birth and death certifi cates; things now—we have to get to the core of helped me move from shocked and sur- professional ethics rules; campaign these issues and think about the ways prised to energized and ready.” She is these systems were built, and when they fi nance restrictions; workers’ compensa- now a doctoral student at Penn, where were built, and who was building them.” tion benefi ts; health insurance; and child she applies her digital-media chops to Barack Obama’s 2007 intimation that custody, support, and visitation rules. the website of the Penn & Slavery Project deposing distant leaders or occupying … The States have contributed to the [“Gazetteer,” Nov|Dec 2018]. foreign lands somehow lay outside the fundamental character of the marriage Tulio Tagliaferri, who is majoring in po- American experience cannot survive any right by placing that institution at the litical science, credits the class with foster- honest engagement with the history of center of so many facets of the legal ing a slightly diff erent sort of intellectual 20th-century US foreign policy—as the and social order. growth. Its emphasis on critical inquiry then-senator surely knew. To Hillary from multiple angles made him “more Clinton’s suggestion that immigration humble” about what he still has left to restrictions were likewise beyond the edented,” says Brown. “But the culture of learn—not just about a past that’s more historical pale, a History 011 student political violence runs very deep in this complex than he had appreciated, but might retort, “What about the Immigra- country. It’s about as consistent a theme as about the moment he is living through and tion Act of 1924?” you can fi nd. And I don’t think it serves the future he may one day help to shape. As for the invasion of the US Capitol, set- anybody’s purpose to whitewash that.” “We as people in the present should be ting aside the question of who should right- If there’s an overarching goal to this cautious,” he says. After all, future his- fully have been shooting whom, “I can obvi- class, it’s to instill a healthy skepticism torians will scrutinize us too. ously see ways in which that was unprec- about the very notion that any single

Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 37 Opening Doors From early education to college prep, three entrepreneurial alumni are forging new paths to support online learning and enrichment.

For Chris Bennett W’07 it was Reinventing Childcare Bennett didn’t envision turning his the lure of starting a tech com- The CEO and cofounder of Wonderschool own home into a childcare center, but pany targeting an underserved wants to “ensure every child gets access to the knowledge he was gaining, combined high-quality early childhood education.” with the concurrent desires to build a niche. For Lyndsey Wheeler tech company and meet the needs of C’14 it was the need for a quick very working parent knows the chal- people around him, planted the seeds for pivot when COVID-19 upend- lenge of fi nding childcare, but that Wonderschool, which he cofounded in wasn’t on Chris Bennett W’07’s 2016 and has been serving as CEO. ed her in-person-dependent mind when he moved to San Fran- Wonderschool supports micro-school- business—combined with fond cisco three years after graduating ing and family childcare directors from Efrom Wharton. soup to nuts—helping them through the memories of summer camps. Initially, he was mostly interested in launch and licensing process, choosing a The road was a little straighter launching a tech company, “because I name, creating a business plan, off ering for Aly Murray C’16, who found that with tech companies you resources for curriculum development, wanted to extend the kinds of could really build things that benefi t a recruiting families, and more. (“Micro- tutoring services she’d been of- lot of people,” he says. “And fi ve years in, schooling” is defi ned on Wonderschool’s I started hearing from a lot of my friends website as “the reinvention of the one- fering since high school to a that they were having a hard time fi nd- room schoolhouse, where class size is wider audience of low-income ing childcare.” smaller (anywhere from 4–15 students) students. But all three have The wheels started turning, back to his and there are mixed age groupings.”) own childhood. Growing up in Miami, “If you run a childcare program in your found their way to creating Bennett attended an in-home childcare home, and you focus on keeping it full, companies that use the inter- program after school. “I remembered that you keep your tuition rates above your net to improve educational op- the woman who ran it did really well fi - costs, and make sure that you collect all nancially,” he says. “So I thought, why of your payments on time, you could ac- tions for young people. don’t we create more of these programs?” tually build a really good small business,”

38 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY RICH LILLASH Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 39 he says. For $150 per month, Wonder- Lacking professional experience in education to other families, particularly school provides childcare entrepreneurs early childhood education, Bennett in underserved communities. with a digital business-support platform hired someone with nearly two decades “[My parents] always wanted to make that helps them launch their businesses, of experience in the fi eld to be the head sure I did really well, they wanted to manage billing and enrollment, collect of early care and education. Wonder- make sure I didn’t do things to put my- payments, and interact with families. school doesn’t focus on educational cur- self behind,” he says. “They were always Wonderschool has a family-facing side ricula—that’s up to each individual mindful of the racism that exists in the as well: information resources including owner—but it does off er curriculum sup- country and making sure I wasn’t a search engine to fi nd the care environ- port, so it was important to see things harmed by it, and I was prepared for it.” ments with the desired qualities. There through the providers’ eyes. Bennett says that socioeconomic and is no set curriculum or philosophy—each Working with a handful of early child- demographic metrics show that Won- care center is individualized. For fami- hood teachers, the company created and derschool is serving a wide spectrum of lies that require extra guidance, Won- beta-tested childcare programs in two families. “Every type of person uses Won- derschool partners with Cleo, an app rented houses in Berkeley and Los An- derschool. We have venture capitalists; designed for working parents, which can geles, each one serving 12 families. we have people who are in the lowest be off ered as an employee benefi t. “It was really scary and exhilarating,” median income in their communities. Indeed, the road to finding good he says. “I didn’t know how to create an Everyone needs access to childcare. It’s childcare is riddled with potholes. “Par- early childhood education program. I like, who eats food? ents are sort of clueless on how to solve didn’t know how to market a program. “It’s very much part of the mission of the this problem,” Bennett says. “They need I just had to learn along the way. We company, to ensure all children get access help with it.” And even with knowledge, learned everything we could about to high quality, early childhood education, there are a lack of programs. “There’s starting an operating childcare pro- that helps them realize their potential. just not enough,” Bennett says. “Parents gram, and realized it was something we That’s all children, Black children, white don’t fi nd high quality childcare near could start to scale. And it was really children, Latin children, everyone, in all them.” And fi nally there’s the cost. “A rewarding to see how happy parents communities, and so we want to really be lot of parents don’t have enough money were with it. It was a really great addi- mindful of what’s happening in certain for it. They can’t aff ord high-quality tion to the community.” communities, for certain types of children, childcare. And so that’s where I think The mission of Wonderschool, which and solve for that with our platform.” our governments really need to step in has schools on its platform in cities —Holly Leber Simmons and provide support.” throughout the country, “is to ensure ev- Costs range widely by region and local- ery child gets access to high-quality early ity, but full-time daycare for an infant childhood education that helps them Super Screen Time averages around $10,000 annually in the meet their needs,” Bennett says. A young entrepreneur believes a virtual sum- US. According to a 2019 report from the Although Wonderschool doesn’t pro- mer camp can thrive all year long—even in a Center for American Progress, the aver- mote any particular approach, one gen- post-pandemic world. age family spends roughly 10 percent of eral advantage of a microschool is the its income on childcare—signifi cantly low student-teacher ratio, which pres- April 2020, Lyndsey Wheeler C’14 higher than the 7 percent aff ordability ents the opportunity to practice mastery desperately needed a side hustle. benchmark set by the US Department of learning, a concept that allows students Here/Now, her company that or- Health and Human Services. the opportunity to pursue a subject un- ganized in-person mixers for Bennett, who does not have children, til they fully grasp it. singles, was reeling from the found himself motivated to respond to “Another big benefi t of microschools,” Inpandemic. Short on money, she consid- the need for childcare access when he says Bennett, “is that as a parent, you ered tutoring children but realized it met Laura Jana, a pediatrician and ear- actually have more choice, because couldn’t satisfy her creative itch. Then it ly childhood development expert. “She you’re able to pick a curriculum or a dawned on her: Why not run a virtual explained to me that a lot of the social- teacher that you believe in.” summer camp? emotional skills that I use as a CEO I The son of Honduran immigrants, Ben- “Every parent I knew was in a pit of learned in preschool—that 90 percent of nett saw his parents work hard to give despair trying to homeschool kids,” she the brain develops before age fi ve,” he him a quality education, from preschool says. “What is more fun than summer says. “Connecting all of those dots led to Penn, and he wanted to be able to off er camp? It’s a place where everyone’s wor- me to start this company.” the same sort of access to excellent early ries go away.”

40 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 “What is more fun than summer which has raised money from outside in- tional Inventors Hall of Fame—she vestors, currently has four full-time staff gained fond memories of creating new camp? It’s a place members and 20 contractors, along with types of board games and taking apart an evolving entourage of actors and other old household items and reassembling where everyone’s experts across a range of disciplines, to run them as new inventions. (Some activities classes on movement, music, arts and she remembers have made their way into worries go away.” crafts, STEM, mindfulness, and more. Supernow’s curriculum.)

And so she launched Supernow, a vir- tual platform that provides live, interac- tive classes for kids. Initially, with the pandemic in full swing in 2020, it oper- ated like a summer camp with children signing up for two-week sessions. Every day had a diff erent theme (on “rock star day,” kids made mics out of tinfoil and competed in air guitar contests), and ac- tors took them on educational adventures they could do from home. “I originally thought we would hire teachers, but we needed people who could be really silly and engaging,” Wheeler says. “All of these out-of-work actors signed up.” Liff ey the Earthy Emerald Crusader, for example, got kids outside, in their yards and on the sidewalk, to learn about sustainability. Queen Dee, the drag queen, helped kids learn how to express themselves authentically through art and theater projects. The participants not only got to watch these fun characters but engage with them. “It’s like watching Sesame Street and be- ing able to chat with Elmo,” says Rachel Breitenwischer, Wheeler’s business part- ner. “Or being able to talk to Mister Rog- ers and tell him you feel sad today.” Kids form bonds with the characters, observes Jasara Norton, whose six-year- old son started taking classes in summer 2020. “He really loves Captain Tamara “We want to be Peloton meets PBS,” After her time at Penn, where she stud- because it’s all about going on an imagina- Wheeler says. “We want to make it possi- ied international relations and journal- tive adventure that includes miming and ble for the most people around the world ism, she worked at Fahrenheit 212, a discovering what he can convey through to get the best content ever for their kids.” global innovation consultancy where she facial expressions and body movement.” Wheeler’s passion for summer camp got a taste for designing consumer expe- With many kids returning to in-person comes from her own busy childhood in riences. For Saks Fifth Avenue, she con- school and camp in 2021, Supernow shift- Alexandria, Virginia. “I participated in cocted a loyalty program. For Richard ed to a subscription model; parents pay tons of camps, afterschool activities, and Branson’s adult-only cruise line Virgin $18 a month to access unlimited live class- classes,” she says. At one of them—Camp Voyages, she envisioned programming es throughout the week. The company, Invention, a program run by the Na- for the ships. In her free time, she visited

Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 41 raves, immersive theater productions, world and interacting with them live. to understand something,” she explains. and festivals like Burning Man to see We are writing that into our curriculum, “I really want any student, regardless of what kind of adventures truly made an helping our students understand each their starting point, to be able to get sup- impact on people. other’s diff erences and similarities.” port on their journey at UPchieve.” She then spent two years at Rent the Wheeler said that’s the beauty of a vir- Raised by a single mother who emi- Runway, a designer clothes rental com- tual format. “Peloton taught us that you grated from Cuba, Murray was the fi rst pany where she met Breitenwischer. The can be in the middle of nowhere North in her family to attend college. Math duo spent so much time sitting in a con- Dakota, but still take a class from the came easy to her but applying to colleges ference room dreaming up new compa- best cycling instructor by using these did not. “There are a lot of things about nies, they decided to quit and go for it. new platforms,” she says. “That’s the vi- my journey, where I look back and think, They launched Here/Now in the spring sion here.” ‘Wow, these things were so much harder of 2019 at a 24-person event at a shoe —Alyson Krueger than they should have been,’” she recalls store in New York City. “We tried to about growing up in a fi rst-generation make it feel like a speakeasy,” says American, low-income household. Wheeler. “Everyone took a service eleva- Tutoring Them to the Top In the 10th grade, maxing out her pub- tor up, and they didn’t really know what UPchieve empowers low-income high school lic school’s Advanced Placement courses, they were walking into. Inside everyone students to reach their educational goals with she thought school was “a waste of time,” was ready to mingle and have fun.” They free 24/7 online tutoring and college coaching. and that she should “just drop out, get made rules to keep everyone present, my GED, and go straight to college.” She including no cell phones and no work ne of the best moments in a went to her guidance counselor, who talk—“a crutch that people hide behind.” tutoring session is when some- told her, “’Well, you probably shouldn’t Before the pandemic, Here/Now was thing clicks for the student do that, but we do have a dual enroll- running weekly events and about to you’re helping,” says Aly Mur- ment program with the local commu- start a subscription service where cus- ray C’16, cofounder and execu- nity college.’” For Murray’s last two years tomers paid a set price for unlimited or “Otive director of UPchieve, a free online of high school, she enrolled full time at discounted events. After the pandemic tutoring and college counseling non- a community college and received her shut down in-person mingling, they ex- profi t for low-income high school stu- associate’s degree at age 18. But, as she perimented with virtual dating. It was dents. “It’s literally the message that is puts it, she “missed out on the regular, fun, but the business model was unten- just a long string of O’s and a long string limited guidance counseling that a stu- able; not enough people would pay to of H’s.” dent normally would have received if meet strangers on Zoom. Oooohhhh!: This feeling of relief, to they were still in a high school environ- Supernow solved a pressing problem for fi nally understand something you were ment,” and that’s when her college ap- parents, says Norton. “My then fi ve-year- struggling to understand, is “a great mo- plication process became complicated. old son was home all the time, and I knew ment for a learner, and then by extension, She applied to “a ton of random he needed a social outlet,” she says. a great moment for the tutor,” she says. schools nearby” and got into a lot of “We heard from many parents that they Murray, who started tutoring math them—but realized their fi nancial aid were worried about what lessons their and science in high school as a way to off erings were nil. Even the state school kids were missing by being out of a social earn money, founded UPchieve in 2016 would be too expensive. She made environment,” Wheeler says. “We doubled while she was working at J. P. Morgan. spreadsheets to track her research, and down on that in our sessions. For exam- She saw it as a way to help level the play- somewhere along the way discovered the ple, we are teaching kids about volcanoes, ing fi eld for low-income students like existence of “no-loan schools,” which but it’s being taught by a mad scientist her, so they can get into college and determine how much a student’s family who calls on the kids and listens to them eventually achieve upward mobility can pay and then off er the remaining and has them talk to each other.” (hence the name, UPchieve). balance as a grant and work–study job. Because of its virtual format, Super- “If you don’t get middle school math, (Penn’s no-loan policy went into eff ect now has attracted an international cli- and you never get a tutor, then you’re in 2009.) entele. “We have people in Venezuela, going to go into every subsequent math “So my new goal became making my- India, Budapest, London, Australia, and class feeling stupid and falling further self competitive enough to transfer to Morocco,” Breitenwischer says. “Parents and further behind, growing to hate one of those schools,” she says, explain- seem to like it because their kids are math and hate school because you never ing that she enrolled a third year at com- meeting other kids from all over the got that little bit of help that you needed munity college to load up on science,

42 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 “There are about 8 million low- income high school students in the US today. By 2030, our goal is to scale free tutoring to all of them.”

technology, engineering, and math courses that would help her stand out in applications. “There’s a lot of interesting stats about how students who begin at the bottom quintile of the income scale, once they get into a selective university like Penn, they have a huge chance [of fi nancial success]—something like 60 percent of students from that bottom quintile will end up in the top quintile after attending a school like Penn,” says Murray. They enabled and volunteers are the ones who “There are about 8 million low-income just have to get through that fi rst door. do the tutoring, it costs us about $10 to high school students in the US today,” To that end, UPchieve’s mission is “to give one student access for an entire year says Murray. “By 2030, our goal is to democratize access to academic support of unlimited academic support.” scale free tutoring to all of them.” so that all students have an equal op- That support includes “judgement- Murray points to a student named Es- portunity to fi nish high school, attend free” responses from math and science meralda as an emblem of the program’s college, and achieve upward mobility.” tutors 24/7 (more subjects will be rolled mission. She started using UPchieve Murray quit her job at J. P. Morgan in out later) and help with the college ap- during the pandemic and “very quickly 2018 to work on UPchieve full time. It plication process, from the exploration racked up almost 100 sessions.” Esmer- now has nine full-time staff members, a phase to essay writing. Students can ac- alda reported she had struggled her en- pool of more than 7,000 volunteer tutors cess UPchieve from any internet-enabled tire life with math, but “this version of and college coaches, and $1 million in device, and a mobile app was added one learning was really empowering for her,” funding from individual donors and cor- month into the COVID-19 pandemic says Murray, and she felt she had learned porate partners. The organization has when demand from students skyrock- more with UPchieve than she had “in also won a number of early-stage busi- eted. “When schools started closing, it pretty much her entire life.” ness competitions, which come with was so obvious that students needed “Some students who we’ve inter- cash prizes. Recently it received its fi rst UPchieve and they needed it now,” Mur- viewed, especially over the last year, grant, from the Bill and Melinda Gates ray says. have talked about how hard school has Foundation. “That was a big milestone,” To date, UPchieve has helped more been during COVID and then also just says Murray, who has been featured on than 2,700 students in all 50 states, and how much UPchieve has made it possi- the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in Educa- about 75 percent are Black or Hispanic. ble for them to keep learning,” she ex- tion (2021) and honored as a Rodden- Students who attend Title I high schools, plains. “For a lot of students, it’s the fi rst berry Fellow (2021). which serve predominantly low-income time they feel like they’ve been able to “The cost per student is actually pret- families, are eligible to use the platform understand math and science.”—NP ty low,” she says. “Because we’re tech- for free, and others can apply.

Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 43 The Cleveland Comeback

Inspired by his Penn football mentors and his father— a former Quakers’ basketball player—Kevin Stefanski rocketed through the NFL to become one of the league’s youngest head coaches. Now, aft er leading the Cleveland Browns to their fi rst playoff win in 26 years, the reigning NFL Coach of the Year hopes to turn the long-tortured franchise into a perennial contender. By Dave Zeitlin

ack and forth across the basement It was the biggest moment of his life longtime Penn football “spirit coach” and he paced, never once plopping in sports, and Kevin Stefanski C’04 was gameday coordinator who died in 2010— down on the couch, his eyes plant- all alone, quarantined from the world smiled and nodded along, helping the ed on a 60-inch high-def television because of a positive COVID-19 test that fi rst-year Browns head coach through for three hours and 23 minutes. His came earlier that week, forbidden by the what he’d later call an “extremely surreal, Bphone was shut off . He didn’t yell at the league from contacting anyone on the out-of-body” experience. TV but he did talk to himself. His players team—his team—during the game. “The Coach Lake bobblehead was with were more than 100 miles away. So were Well, he was almost all alone. You could me, and I know Coach Lake was with me,” his fellow coaches. Even his wife and say there was another coach down there Stefanski says. “He’s really, truly, someone three kids couldn’t be on the same level in the basement with him—six inches of I think about all of the time. He’s such a of their house as him, as the Cleveland red plaid and tiny championship rings, big part, I hope, of who I am. He’s always Browns—the tortured franchise whose the word “WIN” pasted onto a ceramic with me—bobblehead or otherwise.” fortunes he had been tasked with chang- forehead. And as the Browns stunned the As Stefanski, the reigning NFL Coach ing—took on their nemesis, the Pitts- Steelers, 48–37, for their fi rst playoff win of the Year, gains acclaim from football burgh Steelers, in a marquee NFL playoff in 26 years, the Coach Lake bobblehead— pundits and full-blown adoration from game this past January. created by Penn Athletics to honor the fans in Cleveland who celebrated the

44 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Photo courtesy Cleveland Browns Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 45 Stefanski, second from right, learned a lot about positivity and morale boosting from Coach Lake (seen here showing off his Ivy League championship rings). playoff triumph over Pittsburgh like it was the Super Bowl, his ties to Penn re- main strong. He texts often with Penn football head coach Ray Priore, his posi- tion coach when Stefanski patrolled the defensive backfi eld for the Quakers in the early 2000s. He remains good friends with many of his ex-teammates. Among his most prized keepsakes are a Penn football helmet and his fi rst business card as Penn’s “assistant director of football operations”—a job created for him after he graduated by former head coach Al Bagnoli, another one of his mentors. But nothing has helped him as much as the lessons imparted by Dan “Lake” Staf- fi eri, best known for his bright clothing, quirky catch phrases, and endless positiv- ity [“The Mascot in an Old Man’s Suit,” Jul|Aug 2010]. Once a regular assistant coach, Lake had morphed into more of a cheerleader by the time Stefanski arrived on campus in 2000: an almost 80-year- old former Marine hollering his esprit de corps chants in the middle of team hud- dles after practice. “DO BETTER THAN YOUR,” he’d yell three times, and the Penn players would respond “BEST” each time without missing a beat. “As I look back, I can refl ect how important he is to the morale of a football team,” Stefanski says. “I think for a lot of us as young kids, it was hard because he was just an old guy in plaid pants and bowties saying these crazy things and you kind of got lost in the fun of it. But then you realize later how impactful it was in the moment— and then how impactful it’s been over the course of your lifetime.” Known around the league as a humble, rale boosting that Lake brought to Frank- So Priore wasn’t too surprised when, after even-tempered coach with a high football lin Field until his battered body could no the Browns were demolished by the Balti- IQ, Stefanski hasn’t brought Lake’s longer handle it—well, that stayed with more Ravens in Stefanski’s fi rst game in unique fl air (or plaid clothes and bowtie) Stefanski as he shot up through the NFL charge last September, the Cleveland coach to Cleveland’s FirstEnergy Stadium. And ranks and especially now as he com- texted him the motto of resilience that Lake Lake’s catchphrases likely wouldn’t work mands a locker room every day. “One of made popular at Penn. That same motto is as well on millionaire professional ath- my main jobs is messaging,” the Browns scrawled on a piece of paper behind Stefan- letes (though Stefanski’s own kids know head coach says. “What you say, your ski’s desk in Cleveland—a handwritten note to respond “Oh, very well” when their dad words, matter. While I may not use those that Lake left in Stefanski’s locker almost asks “How youuu doin’?”—another one of slogans, I do think oftentimes about our 20 years ago when a crushing injury could Lake’s trademark back-and-forths). But team and our mindset and what we want have derailed his football journey: the spirit, the zeal, the resilience, the mo- to be thinking going into every week.” Setbacks pave the way for comebacks.

46 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Photo courtesy Kevin Stefanski When he wasn’t dealing with injuries, Stefanski was one of the anchors of Penn’s defense in the early 2000s.

Stefanski W’76 remembers the “Any time he NBA All-Star point guard, he hung up his play when his son tore his an- basketball sneakers to focus on football. terior cruciate ligament in his played a sport, The Stefanskis spent a lot of time at right knee. It was in Penn’s sea- both the Palestra, where Ed played under son opener against Lafayette every coach was Chuck Daly from 1973–76 and was later Edin 2001, and “Kevin just ran out of a color commentator for Big 5 games, bounds” before pulling up lame, recalls very complimentary, and Franklin Field. They’d climb to the Ed, a former Penn men’s basketball upper deck of the football stadium and player and longtime NBA executive. “No- basically saying that sit on the opposing team’s side (“because body touched him.” the sun was on that side,” Ed says) and On the face of it, the timing couldn’t Kevin was like a the boys would play with toys on the have been worse for Stefanski, who was concrete between the aisles. hoping to build off a strong freshman coach on the field.” The allure of Franklin Field certainly campaign in 2000 in which he was played a role in Kevin’s decision to come named the Quakers’ Defensive Rookie of to Penn. It also helped keep him there. the Year. But in another way, it turned out After a strong junior campaign in 2002 to be almost fortuitous, as the safety used in which he was named All-Ivy honor- that lost season to develop a lasting bond able mention as the Quakers swept with Coach Lake, driving him around through the league, Stefanski hurt his Locust Walk in a golf cart on Fridays so same knee in 2003, tearing his meniscus Lake could yell through a bullhorn and and missing most of the season. But he encourage students to come to games the returned to play a fi fth year in 2004 next day. (Stefanski continued to be while plotting out his plans to remain in Lake’s driver even when he was healthy football after graduating. “I wanted him and suiting up, and his brother David to get out of Penn because he was costing Stefanski C’10 would later assume the me a fortune,” quips Ed. “But listen, he role too.) And since he wasn’t able to followed his dreams.” practice, he began to more closely exam- Ed should know. He spent more than ine how the rest of the team’s coaches 20 years in the mortgage banking busi- operated throughout the week, learning ness after graduating from Wharton, a diff erent side of the game. “That prob- before switching gears to work in the ably was my fi rst experience of what front offi ce of various NBA teams, begin- coaching felt like,” Stefanski says. ning in 1999 with the New Jersey Nets Even before that, Priore had noticed 3 and Cover 4,” Stefanski says. “It was [“Alumni Profi les,” Jan|Feb 2008]. He’s how adept Stefanski, a high school quar- eye-opening for me. And I ate it up. I currently a senior executive with the terback at St. Joe’s Prep, seemed to be at loved it—absolutely loved it. … And it Detroit Pistons following stints with the understanding complex schemes. “There certainly started me on a path of loving Memphis Grizzlies, Toronto Raptors, and are a lot of gifted, talented players out the Xs and Os side of the game.” his hometown Philadelphia 76ers. there,” Priore says. “But they play the In truth, the path had been laid before Kevin’s path through professional sports game slow because they can’t process it. he got to Penn. Growing up with three has been diff erent. Unlike his dad, a job He played it fast.” As a freshman, Stefan- brothers, it was “all sports, all the time in in the business world didn’t stick; he ski would sometimes wave off a play from our house,” Ed says. “And you could tell worked in commercial real estate “for a Priore, then the defensive coordinator he was sharp from the very beginning. hot minute” before realizing that wasn’t and defensive backs coach, as if to say, Any time he played a sport, every coach for him. Through a connection with James “yeah, I got it,” because he “already knew was very complimentary, basically saying Urban, a longtime NFL assistant coach what the call was,” the Penn head coach that Kevin was like a coach on the fi eld.” who used to serve as Penn’s director of recalls. “He just had that football mind.” Initially, it seemed like he might follow football operations, he landed an intern- “I think about the 18-year-old version in his father’s footsteps and play basket- ship with the Philadelphia Eagles during of me sitting in a position meeting for the ball. “He thought he was Jason Kidd the team’s training camp in 2005. That’s fi rst time in August, and Ray up on the growing up,” Ed says. But when he fi g- when he caught the bug. “It was crystal chalkboard describing Cover 2 and Cover ured out he wasn’t as good as the former clear to me that I wasn’t going back to

Photo courtesy Penn Athletics Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 47 commercial real estate—or the real world A fan base scarred by (He showed his own personality with for that matter,” he says. Later that year playful jabs at tight end Stephen Carlson, he accepted a freshly created position to Modell’s betrayal and a Princeton alum. “I think sometimes he work on the Quakers’ staff , sitting side by must think I’m crazy because I’m taking side with his former coaches and “loving decades of losing just shots at him at every turn.”) The result every minute of it.” The following year he was an 11–5 regular-season record as Ste- was off to the Minnesota Vikings, where might have found an fanski accomplished what the team’s he remained for 14 seasons before moving previous nine head coaches could not in to Cleveland. unlikely savior in a not- leading the Browns to the playoff s. Cleve- “At no point in my life prior to getting land’s subsequent postseason win over into the NFL was I thinking I was going yet-40-year-old former the Steelers was its fi rst since the fran- to be an NFL coach, let alone a head chise’s rebirth in 1999 (former owner Art coach,” Stefanski says. “I was playing, Ivy League safety. Modell had controversially relocated the and then all of a sudden, I couldn’t play team, founded in 1945, to Baltimore in anymore, so now what? I do think long 1995), making Stefanski a runaway choice and hard about those times at Penn and search, and was hired as Cleveland’s as the NFL AP Coach of the Year. how they shaped me.” head coach on January 12, 2020, at the Now, with a young and exciting nucle- age of 37—which made him one of the us led by Mayfi eld, the Browns seem to lthough Kevin has looked to his fa- youngest head coaches in the NFL. be a legitimate Super Bowl contender ther’s career as inspiration, Ed has Stefanski’s introductory press confer- for the 2021 season. And a fan base been equally inspired by how his ence in Cleveland was “a very proud day scarred by Modell’s betrayal and decades son has navigated the professional for the entire family,” says Ed, who at- of losing just might have found an un- sports world with such a level tended it along with Kevin’s mother, his likely savior in a not-yet-40-year-old head—theA same trait he fi rst noticed three brothers, and his wife and their former Ivy League safety. “We’re focused some 30 years ago. “He doesn’t get too three children. The room laughed when on trying to do something special for high and he doesn’t get too low,” Ed says. Stefanski promised his kids a dog and a these fans,” Stefanski says. “And I tell you “And that’s a good trait when you have to trip to Disney World because of the dif- what, it’s a unique fan base.” manage a lot of personnel.” It’s also what fi cult move from Minnesota, and also Stefanski got a small taste of Cleve- helped Kevin remain on the Minnesota when he had each media member tell land’s passion for the Browns—which Vikings staff under three diff erent head him if they preferred the East Side or his father, a lifelong Eagles fan, insists coaches, which Ed notes from fi rsthand West Side of Cleveland before asking a is unmatched even by Philadelphians— experience is “very diffi cult in our busi- question. But there was also an air of but with COVID-19 limiting attendance ness” since incoming coaches or general cynicism about whether Stefanski could in 2020 (among other pandemic mea- managers typically “want their own peo- actually be the one to change the for- sures that made his fi rst season as head ple.” Not only that, but he also took les- tunes of a franchise that had cycled coach extra challenging, his own diag- sons from all of the coaches he served through seven head coaches in the last nosis included) he’s eager to see a full under while moving up the ladder: from decade and hadn’t made the playoff s stadium this fall and winter. That in- assistant to the head coach, to assistant since 2002. “With all due respect,” one cludes the section in the bleachers quarterbacks coach, to tight ends coach, reporter said, “we’ve heard many other known as the “Dawg Pound,” where fans to running backs coach, to quarterbacks coaches say the same thing, undeterred, wear outlandish costumes and yell for coach, to off ensive coordinator. coming in here very, very confi dent. hours straight, embodying the city’s re- Despite having been a college defen- What makes you diff erent?” silience and blue-collar identity—some- sive back, Stefanski proved to be a gifted All Stefanski could do was respond with thing Stefanski’s idol, Coach Lake, once off ensive play-caller, and as the Vikings typical coachspeak. “We’re not looking knew something about. had some success he became a hot com- backward,” he said at the time. “We’re “That Dawg Pound mentality has been modity around the NFL. In 2019 he was moving forward.” But he delivered on his passed down by many generations,” Ste- a fi nalist for the Browns head coaching promise by unlocking star young quar- fanski says. “For me, I see it around position but lost out to Freddie Kitchens. terback Baker Mayfi eld’s potential and town, I hear it around town. And now When Kitchens was fi red after just one making it clear to the team’s dynamic I’m looking forward to having a full ex- season, Stefanski had a leg up at the be- supporting cast that “personality is wel- perience and seeing what that feels like ginning of another Browns coaching come [but] your production is required.” … what that sounds like.”

48 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Brandon Copeland, left, and Greg Van Roten have both been playing professional football for the last decade, often bouncing from team to team.

The Glory ‘I feel like I’m just as big as (especially when he worked these guys and just as talent- out for the Vikings, who ed,’” he recalls. But it’s rare “went with a younger guy, and the Grind to make the jump from the even though I was 23.”) Ivy League to the NFL, and The next year, he decided to The former Penn football stars playing Van Roten wasn’t selected in play in the Canadian Football in the NFL have “have fed off each other.” the 2012 NFL Draft. A home- League (CFL), signing with made website and highlight the Toronto Argonauts. It tape caught the attention of was a culture shock. The pay reg Van Roten W’12 and ton graduates and former the Jets and San Diego Char- wasn’t great, and neither Brandon Copeland W’13 Penn football teammates, but gers, who invited him to were the facilities. And he have circled the date. they’ve also charted similar their rookie minicamps. He had to quickly learn the dif- October 10. The New paths in the NFL, going from had to miss an accounting fi - ferent rules and nuances of York Jets versus the undrafted free agents to reli- nal and his Wharton gradua- the CFL game. “When I fi rst GAtlanta Falcons. London, able veterans. And London, tion to attend both, but he got up there,” he says, “I was England. where games are occasional- didn’t make either team. His like, ‘Man, what am I doing? If all goes to plan, it will ly held as part of the NFL In- persistence paid off , howev- I’m in Canada. I don’t know mark the fi rst time in their ternational Series, would be er, when the Green Bay anybody. It’s a diff erent NFL careers that Van Roten, a fi tting place for them to Packers signed him ahead of game.’ I was very homesick.” an off ensive lineman for the meet, since their football the 2012 season. “Being un- But he stuck it out for two Jets, will face off against Co- journeys have taken them all drafted is diffi cult,” he says. years and played well enough peland, a Falcons linebacker. over the map. “I think Cope “We’re not an afterthought that he received good off ers to “Every time I’m about to and I have fed off each other,” but it feels pretty close to remain in the CFL in 2017. play Greg, I end up having an Van Roten says. “And we’re that sometimes.” While pondering what to do injury,” says Copeland, who lucky we have each other.” Van Roten played in 10 next, he got a valuable piece of signed with Atlanta in Van Roten began to think games for the Packers be- advice from a coach, who March. “God willing, this the NFL was a possibility a tween 2012 and 2013 but was asked him, “Was your dream year is the year. I’ll make decade ago after winning released in February of 2014. to play in the CFL your entire sure I tread lightly before back-to-back Ivy League He was signed by the Seahawks life?” Van Roten also followed that game in London.” championships in 2009 and but cut before the 2014 sea- closely as Copeland was mak- If the two line up opposite 2010 and earning fi rst-team son, leaving him without a ing a living in the NFL, moving each other, it might feel like All-Ivy honors in 2010 and team and the realization that from the Tennessee Titans to they’re looking into a mirror. 2011. Looking through the his pro football career could the Detroit Lions [“The Opti- Not only are they both Whar- 2012 draft class, “I was like, be over after just two years mistic Realist,” Nov|Dec 2016].

Photos courtesy Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 49 Justin Watson shows off the Lombardi Trophy with his parents Terri and Doug after winning the Super Bowl with Tampa Bay in February.

“I was like, ‘I can get back be- ber, causing him to miss the cause he’s still doing it,’” Van second half of the 2020 sea- Roten says. son. (Between stints with the So at 27, he returned to the Lions and Patriots, he played US and got a workout with for the New York Jets for two the Buff alo Bills (who signed years, just missing out on be- someone else at his position ing teammates with Van Ro- instead) and then the Caroli- ten, who signed with the Jets na Panthers. Recognizing the season after Copeland that if the Panthers didn’t left.) Copeland called it an sign him “it probably wasn’t “honor” to play for a recent going to happen” at all, the dynasty like the Patriots but former Ivy League and CFL had to move on this past off - lineman surprised a lot of season, inking a one-year people by making Carolina’s contract with the Falcons— opening day roster. “Who is his sixth professional team, Greg Van Roten and how in just like Van Roten. the heck did he make the “Greg set the blueprint for Panthers?” blared a headline me,” says Copeland, who in in the September 4, 2017, edi- Atlanta will be reunited tion of the Charlotte Observ- with another former Penn er. “My mom says I’m tena- football captain, Brian Grif- met on their fi rst day at Bay Buccaneers. “J-Wat, cious—a dog that latches on fi n W’91, the Falcons’ direc- Penn) and their two-year-old hoisting a trophy, that’s and doesn’t let go,” Van Ro- tor of coaching operations. son Bryson nicely once he re- what we’re all doing it for,” ten explained in that same “I’m a veteran now so I feel a tires from football. But the Copeland says. One of the Observer article. “I like to little bit more comfortable 30-year-old linebacker is not most accomplished wide re- prove people wrong, and with my place on the roster. yet ready for that day to ceivers in Ivy League histo- that’s pretty much been my But I’m still the guy that was come. “Ultimately we under- ry, Watson was the second M.O. my entire football ca- cut and told he wasn’t good stand this is a moment and former Penn football player reer.” He continued to sur- enough and who’s been hurt an NFL career doesn’t last to win the title, after Jim prise people by ascending to multiple times. So I under- forever,” he says. “So we’ve Finn W’99 did it with the the starting left guard posi- stand how none of this stuff got to make moves and move New York Giants in 2008. tion, starting every game in is promised.” The idea that around and do what we need Though Watson didn’t make 2018 and the fi rst 11 of 2019 an NFL team can cut you at to do.” Van Roten, who at 31 Tampa Bay’s gameday roster before a turf toe injury side- any time was the foundation now fi nds himself as one of for the Super Bowl (and, lined him. of the money-management the oldest and most experi- more recently, had knee sur- After a strange free agency advice he gives to team- enced players on the Jets, gery in July, putting his period at the beginning of mates—which he developed agrees. “I love the game,” he 2021 season prospects in the pandemic, Van Roten into a fi nancial literacy says. “And I think that’s why doubt), he “did help his signed a three-year contract course he taught at Penn you put up with how physi- team get to that point,” says with the Jets—the Long Is- [“Professor Cope,” Jul|Aug cally and mentally demand- Penn football coach Ray land native’s favorite team 2019] and an online “Life ing it is as you get older and Priore. “And to be on that growing up—but again spent 101” course open to anybody start a family and have kids.” stage three years out of col- some time on the injured re- (life101.io). The ultimate goal, of lege is pretty awesome.” serve list last season. Transforming into “Profes- course, is winning a Super “It’s pretty wild,” adds Van Injuries have also made Co- sor Cope” has been one of Bowl—something Justin Roten. “It’s cool for a Penn guy peland’s NFL journey more several off -the-fi eld entrepre- Watson W’18, the third to get drafted and win the Su- challenging. He tore his pec- neurial endeavors for Cope- Wharton alum playing in per Bowl and play with some- toral muscle with the Lions land, which he hopes will set the NFL last season, accom- one like Tom Brady. If one of in 2017 and with the New up him and his wife Taylor plished in February with us makes it, we all make it. England Patriots last Octo- Copeland W’13 (whom he Tom Brady and the Tampa That’s what it feels like.” —DZ

50 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Photo courtesy Justin Watson’s Instagram ARTS P.52 P.54 P.55 P.56 Muslim Manuscripts Briefly Noted Improv 101 Happy Snaps

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Photo courtesy Penn Museum Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 51 Talismanic charm written large format to be ARTS Manuscripts folded; mostly comprised of several repeated verses from the Qurʾān. A few words in Soninke also appear in Arabic letters. 18th century.

In a Zoom presentation celebrating Textual Treasures the completion of the three-year digiti- zation and cataloging eff ort, Fraas ex- A three-year digitization and cataloging project made plained that the manuscript was created nearly 700 Islamic manuscripts freely available (or at least owned) by an enslaved Mus- lim in Haiti (or possibly Jamaica), and to scholars—and everyone else. since 1785 had been part of the collec- tion of the Library Company of Philadel- phia. Its inclusion among the 684 bound he talismanic charm dating from project. Nor was it “the most brilliantly volumes, single leaves, and scrolls dat- the mid-1700s—a single large leaf, illustrated or textually signifi cant” arti- ing from 1000 to 1900—including illu- designed to be folded, containing fact in the collection, said Mitch Fraas, minated manuscripts; copies of the “repeated verses of the Qur’an in director of special collections and re- Qur’an and Hadith; works on mathemat- Arabic as well as bits of the West search services at the Penn Libraries. ics and the sciences, history and phi- TAfrican Soninke language rendered into But it “really defi nes the power and losophy, law and religion; and written Arabic script”—was not the oldest item promise of projects like this one [to] tell in many diff erent languages—exempli- in the Manuscripts of the Muslim World us something about the past.” fi ed the wide net cast in the eff ort, a col-

52 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Image courtesy OPenn: The Library Company of Philadelphia Page from the Deccani portrait album beginning Miniature, octagonal Qurʼān, nearly complete, with the Mughal emperors, proceeding to the likely used as an amulet. The leaves were probably Deccani kings, then closing with the Safavid numbered when the copy was out of order; then it shahs. Possibly produced during the reign of Abul was rebound in the correct order, causing the Hasan Qutb Shah (r. 1672-1687). foliation to be out of sequence. 1800.

Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges also made their collections available at the start, and the Library Company, Phila- delphia Museum of Art, American Phil- osophical Society, and Temple Univer- sity joined in along the way. The New York connection came about because Penn and Columbia, contemplating similar proposals, decided to join forces rather than compete for $500,000 in grant funding from the Council on Li- brary and Information Resources’ Digi- tizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. Thanks to the project, some 216,000 pages totaling more than 10 terabytes worth of data are now accessible online for scholarly research, use in classes, and to the general public through the Uni- versity’s OPENN portal, as well as the Internet Archive and individual par- ticipants’ websites. In Philadelphia, most of the digitization work was done by the Penn Libraries’ staff of camera technicians—who were among the hand- ful of employees with permission to work on site during the pandemic. But the grant also provided funding to develop detailed catalog information on the collections, which had been sorely laboration among 10 Philadelphia insti- Among the Philadelphia participants, lacking. “We had some typed notes done tutions and Columbia University. “The Penn (including the Kislak Center for by students over the years, or visiting goal was not just to digitize the most Special Collections, Rare Books, and professors who had come to see an item, beautiful or the most well-known man- Manuscripts; the Katz Center for Ad- but nothing was searchable online,” said uscripts,” Fraas explained, “but to reveal vanced Judaic Studies; and the Penn Fraas about Penn’s materials. “The only the entirety of our manuscript collec- Museum) and the Free Library of Phila- way you would know we had a lot of tions related to the Islamic world, writ delphia were the main players, account- these manuscripts would have been by large, to a global audience.” ing for most of the materials scanned. asking someone and them happening to

Images courtesy OPenn: Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department; Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections. Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 53 ARTS Briefl y Noted remember.” (One of his PowerPoint Qur’an that had been divided up into 30 MORTALITY by Richard slides showed a sample notation: Beige sections and by “total surprise” turned Saul Wurman Ar’58 Shoe Box, Manuscript C.) up in Penn’s holdings. GAr’59 and Nigel Holmes “A big part of this was the ability to Even items that were adequately docu- (Richard Saul Wurman, hire someone, for the entire duration of mented in the various collections, Fraas 2019, $20). Presented the project, as a full-time expert Arabic remarked, were not exactly accessible graphically, this book and Persian cataloger.” before now. For example, among Islamic contains statistics on Cataloger Kelly Tuttle made about 500 art scholars, “It was relatively well known death, life, longevity, causes of death, and entries personally, and enlisted graduate that the Free Library had an amazing col- related topics, such as “Which states have the students and other volunteers to fl esh out lection”—but few had seen it. “This has most doctors in the US?” and “How many hos- pital beds are there in the US?” A conversation information. Volunteers also assisted really transformed that, because instead between Wurman and medical doctor Islon with cataloging works in languages Tuttle of just being able to say, ‘Oh yes, they have Woolf runs along the bottom of the pages didn’t know, which turned out to be “a an amazing collection, which I think throughout the book. substantial number, because we were be- there’s a list of published somewhere,’ we SAY WHAT YOUR ing really universal in our scope,” Fraas can actually go and look at, like, an amaz- LONGING HEART said. “We had Coptic and Syriac and Aves- ing Mughal album that I would never be DESIRES: Women, tan and Tamashek, which is a Berber able to see except maybe in an old art jour- Prayer, and Poetry in language. She was able to connect to a nal with one black and white photograph.” Iran by Niloofar M. Haeri network of basically international volun- Though the project is offi cially over, “I C’81 Gr’91 (Stanford teer scholars, who were like, ‘Oh wow, think we feel pretty strongly that if other University Press, 2021, you have a Berber manuscript? Sure, Islamicate manuscripts turn up in Phila- $25.00.) Haeri, a profes- send me images. I’ll tell you about it.’” delphia we’re interested in adding them,” sor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, presents an ethnog- In her presentation, Tuttle also empha- said Fraas. They’ve had a few inquiries raphy of a group of educated, middle-class sized the project’s broad reach and and plan on “continuing that outreach to Iranian women as they debate religion and touched on her experience running its other institutions who might have one engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Twitter account. “I’m fairly bad at guessing manuscript or two manuscripts.” Hafez, and Saadi in their daily lives. what would be interesting to folks other Over the next two years, the Free Li- THIS MAGNIFICENT than knowing that, um, animals seem to brary will be doing extensive public out- DAPPLED SEA by David be popular, as are interesting outfi ts, as reach to Philadelphia’s large Muslim Biro C’86 (Lake Union are illuminations, especially if they’re community. The initial plan had been Publishing, 2020, fancy, and tweets about Qur’an manu- for coordinated exhibitions of manu- $14.95.) In a small Ital- scripts,” she said. Unusual sizes—though scripts from the collection at the Free ian village, a young boy hard to communicate via digital image— Library and Penn, but “COVID has sort needs a bone marrow also get attention. The single most liked of messed with our timelines,” he added. transplant. An unlikely match comes up in a tweet, she said, was for “a miniature amu- “The Free Library is defi nitely doing Brooklyn rabbi. Terrible secrets from World War let Qur’an at Haverford College.” theirs. Whether we can do ours at the II are uncovered, challenging the characters’ For his part, Fraas said he is drawn to exact same time is sort of up in the air.” identities, but ultimately this novel celebrates “both the older scientifi c illustrated While the primary users of the collec- the ties that bind us together. masterpieces as well as the mundane tion are likely to be scholars pursuing LOVING IN TRUTH: New but really historically important stuff .” their own research, Fraas highlighted its and Selected Poems by In the former category, he pointed to a value for classroom teaching. “The audi- Jay Rogoff C’75 (Louisi- “fabulously illustrated” medieval astro- ence for these now is no longer just sort ana State University nomical manuscript from southern of hardcore scholars who know exactly Press, 2020, $25.95.) Spain during the Islamic period, as well what they are doing. We’ve really opened Drawing on 40 years of as a “Persian one that has great charts it up to undergrad classes, beginner grad work, this volume pres- of the color spectrum.” Among the his- classes,” he said. “And even in an Intro ents over 100 poems from earlier collections torically signifi cant items were a “fatwa to Islam class at Penn, having the digi- alongside 47 new poems that contemplate written in the 19th century from what’s tized images encourages physical use, immigrant ancestors, foreign adventures, now Algeria relating to the French oc- because our faculty might say, ‘I had no baseball, ballet, love, and mortality. cupation.” Another discovery was a frag- idea you had this amuletic scroll. Can Visit thepenngazette.com for more Briefl y Noted. ment of a “semi-famous” copy of the you bring it out?’” —JP

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In a further twist, the students might Not Just for Laughs be asked to speak only in gibberish dur- ing the faux interview. It gets lots of A President’s Engagement Prize project blends giggles, but there’s an embedded lesson: “They’re no longer using words to show quick-thinking repartee and a social mission. that they’re confi dent, but instead have to rely on tone of voice and body lan- guage,” Menon says. Through data gathered in pre- and post-program surveys, Menon and Chen report that more than 80 percent of stu- dents emerged from their program feel- ing more attuned to their own and oth- ers’ emotions, more confi dent participat- ing in class, and more comfortable in- teracting with their peers. They also found that 23 percent of students who had screened positive for social anxiety disorder no longer met the criteria after completing the Unscripted Project. “The biggest thing has been seeing these students develop self-confi dence,” Chen says. “Some have said, if I can do [that improv game], then I can raise my hand in class.” And Unscripted wouldn’t exist without Penn. It’s where Menon and Chen met, on the fi rst day of Wharton’s freshman orientation. It’s where they soaked up eera Menon W’20’s friends al- laughter to persuasive speaking tech- the business expertise to turn the Un- ways marveled at her ability to niques. Over the course of nine weeks, scripted Project from a well-intentioned shine in employment interviews learning takes the form of classic improv dream into a serious nonprofi t organiza- and, as Philip Chen W’20 puts it, games, with teaching artists at the helm. tion. It’s also where they landed a “get every job she ever wanted.” In Menon and Chen’s hands, those play- $100,000 prize (plus a $50,000 living M“We always would say, Meera, how do you ful games become tools to help students stipend) to launch their program [“Gaz- do it?” Chen recalls. “And she’d say, I impro- feel more confi dent, more creative, and etteer,” Jul|Aug 2020]. vise. That’s when the lightbulb clicked.” more at home in social situations and “I don’t think what we’re doing would Now Menon and Chen are cofounders even job interviews. have been possible at this scale without of the Unscripted Project, a nonprofi t that “One improv game can teach a million the President’s Engagement Prize,” Me- brings the same skills Menon used to land diff erent things,” Chen says. One exer- non says. Their win also marked the fi rst jobs and ace impromptu class presenta- cise, for instance, calls on one student time that an arts-based project bagged tions into Philly public school classrooms. to play-act the role of an interviewer the prestigious award. “Improv is such a powerful medium to while another portrays a job candidate. The duo tapped into Penn’s faculty and develop those people skills—so-called The rest of the class calls out sugges- alumni communities for help, too. Mar- soft skills,” Menon says. tions for a silly job they might be dis- cia Ferguson, a senior lecturer in theatre “We did a lot of academic research,” cussing—like chicken nugget scientist arts, became their faculty advisor and adds Chen, “and everything we read tied or plant whisperer. “Both the interview- now serves as a board member. Greg to life skills in the classroom had to do er and interviewee are practicing real- Maughan C’05 G’05, the founder and with a form of improvisation.” world skills,” Menon says, “but the executive director of Philly Improv The- Each Unscripted lesson centers on a stakes are really low, because I’m inter- ater, became a close mentor and helped particular life skill, from humor and viewing for chicken nugget scientist.” craft the program’s pilot curriculum.

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Further support came from all around the University: faculty in Wharton, the Graduate School of Education, the School of Social Policy and Practice, and Penn Law assisted Menon and Chen on their quest. And with further guidance from improv pros in Chicago’s Second City and the Magnet Theater in New York, the Un- scripted Project was ready to roll. But just as Menon and Chen were launching pilot programs inside Philly’s Science Leadership Academy in Febru- ary 2020, the COVID-19 crisis forced everything to a halt. They haven’t been able to off er Unscripted in-person since. In a real-time demonstration of the agility that improv requires, they adapt- ed to a fully virtual 2020–21 school year. “Teachers were telling us about the sense of loneliness students felt with virtual learning,” Menon says. “So we revamped our program to have a strong focus on creating community in the classroom.” Through a Through laptop screens, the Unscripted Project reached 359 students in middle and high schools last year. This fall, they’ll Rose-Tinted Lens be in 16 classrooms across the Philadel- phia area. The plan is to hover around that With SeeingHappy, Mandy Seligman aims to number each spring and fall for the next blend photography and positive psychology. couple years while pursing grants and other funding to help them expand. And at the same time their program is andy Seligman G’86 wanted to on a bridge anticipating fi reworks, Selig- aff ecting students’ everyday lives, Menon get out of the house. But not too man zoomed in on happy moments. and Chen are fi nding themselves changed far. During the COVID-19 pan- SeeingHappy started out as a Face- by the experience of running it. They plan demic, the photographer fo- book page before morphing into a stand- to eventually detach from day-to-day op- cused on slowing down and pay- alone website that welcomes contribu- erations as the program continues to Ming attention to details whose closeness tions from all comers. grow, but “this really caused us to exam- to home made them easy to overlook. It’s a decidedly democratic collection. ine what matters to us and what we’re Finding satisfaction and gratitude in “My mom is 87 and almost blind,” Selig- looking for in our jobs,” Menon says. quotidian moments is the theme of her man says, allowing that crisp focus is “This year we gained so many skills new project, SeeingHappy (seeinghap- not the strong suit of her mother’s con- that we never would have gotten if we’d py.org), an open forum that fi lters pho- tributions. “But they’re the things that gone straight into the jobs that are typ- tography through the lens of positive bring her joy.” ical for Wharton graduates,” notes Chen. psychology. “To be able to go out and see things in “We might be young,” he adds, “but we “Positive psychology has a number of a diff erent way,” Seligman adds, “and can create meaningful, tangible, measur- exercises shown to increase well-being,” notice what’s really beautiful—whether able impact on the communities we serve. she says. “I discovered that if I generally it’s a child, or a connection between We hope we can inspire our friends and the followed that path I was much happier. I somebody, or some kindness I see—just people around us to think seriously about took photos of moments that touched me.” anything that feels good … that to me is service and the roles we can all play in cre- Whether it was her daughter Jenny play- just a little piece of hope that the world ating a better world.” —Molly Petrilla C’06 ing the fl ute (above) or strangers lined up is not as bad as I think it is.”—TP

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On Top of the World How an “ordinary” retired lawyer became the oldest American to climb Mount Everest.

Photograph courtesy Art Muir Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 57 ALUMNI Art Muir C’68 WG’72 “I wasn’t going he neared the top of the mountain—the Yellow tine experience” devoid of there to die. That the world’s highest Band, the Balcony, the South athletic adventures, and he mountain, Art Muir Summit, the Hillary Step— was a self-admitted “desk was not my plan. I C’68 WG’72 could Muir had “this really emo- jockey for 35 years” at the was planning to not escape thoughts tional response.” Upon law fi rm McGuireWoods. aboutAs death. More than 300 reaching the summit at And the “regular vacations” come back.” people have died attempting 29,031 feet, the relieved he took with his wife Leslie to summit Mount Everest, climber sat down for about Fisher Muir GEd’72 and their and as Muir made his ascent seven minutes and snapped three children were not the found other remote locales to this past May, he saw two a couple of photos with the thrill-seeking kind. So he was climb and ski, from Alaska to bodies still hanging from two Sherpas who helped surprised when his pal Jim Chile to Japan. “It’s just so ropes in the high-altitude, guide him on his journey. Daverman WG’73, whom he funny, when you look back, low-temperature area known “But,” he says, “that was only fi rst met at Wharton, called how life takes you down un- as the “death zone.” half of the job.” Only later, af- him up about eight years ago expected pathways—if you’re “That was a real wakeup ter making most of the steep and invited him to climb vol- willing to put yourself out call,” says Muir, noting that descent down the mountain canoes in Ecuador. “I re- there,” Muir says. Still, while bodies often remain on the and getting showered with member saying to my wife, his wife and kids were sup- mountain for a long time be- adulation from his team- ‘Why would I want to do portive of his escapades, cause they’re diffi cult and mates on the trek, did his re- that? It’s just so bizarre,’” he some of his friends weren’t so costly to retrieve, serving as markable achievement fi nal- recalls. “And she was at the sure, especially as he made an ominous warning for ly come into focus: Art Muir, sink and turned around, plans to spend roughly two climbers. “I’m thinking, What a 75-year-old retired corpo- looked at me, and said, ‘Be- months in Nepal during the was happening in his body? rate fi nance attorney from cause he’s your friend.’ So pandemic to climb Everest Do you suddenly just col- the suburbs of Chicago, had then, all of a sudden, I’m in this year. “I got a lot of push- lapse? Do you stop breathing? just become the oldest Amer- Quito, climbing these volca- back from them, basically Did he feel fi ne and all of a ican to scale Mount Everest. noes.” Nearing 70 and retire- saying, ‘You’re insane, that’s sudden, his heart just burst? I “I’m a pretty ordinary per- ment at the time, Muir was really stupid,’” he says. “But had no idea.” At 75 years old, son,” says Muir, who’s been unsure how he’d fare—or they didn’t understand I Muir was particularly mind- humbled by the attention he’s even if the guide company wasn’t going there to die. ful of altitude sickness, ex- since received, from a Today would allow an “old geezer” That was not my plan. I was haustion, avalanches, crevass- show interview to Instagram like him to attempt it with- planning to come back.” es, and all the other dangers plaudits from Penn President out having to prove what Muir had actually been to associated with such a peril- Amy Gutmann. “I mean, I kind of shape he was in fi rst. Everest before. He took a trip ous pursuit. He carefully worked hard to get ready for But he quickly found out he there in 1990, which he says monitored how he felt as he this. But I think you’re going had a knack for it, learning “fi red up my imagination,” climbed higher and higher, to see a lot more of this. mountaineering tricks, get- and then returned in 2019 to surpassing 25,000 feet in ele- You’ve got to understand: ting used to all the gear, and try to summit the mountain. vation for the fi rst time in his there’s 70 million Baby enjoying meeting new people But he didn’t make it beyond life. Was he in control? Could Boomers in this country, and and taking in the scenery. “It Camp 2, falling twice, once he handle this? Was his oxy- people are doing a lot more just spiraled after that,” he into a narrow crevasse (he gen mask working? Each stuff than they used to do.” says. “Some might say it spi- managed to pull himself step, every motion, had to be Muir is an unlikely person raled out of control.” back up) and another time precise. “My whole mantra to wear a climbing crown. After climbing those Ecua- off a ladder, hurting his an- was no mistakes, no mis- Growing up in Colorado, he dorian volcanoes—Cayambe kle and ending his expedi- takes,” he says. “I said that felt the allure of the moun- and Cotopaxi—Muir climbed tion prematurely. “You don’t hundreds of thousands of tains and remembers enjoy- to the top of Russia’s Mount want to make mistakes on times. Only a lawyer can do ing a book, given to him by Elbrus, the highest peak in these big mountains,” he something like that.” his father, about French Europe, and then skied off it. says. “Bad things happen.” When the sun rose and he climber Maurice Herzog’s ex- He scaled all 8,000 meters of Because COVID-19 wiped began to recognize certain ploits in the Himalayas. But China’s Shishapangma (the out Everest’s 2020 April–May landmarks near the top of at Penn he had a “pretty rou- background of his Zoom). He climbing season, “I had two

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years to think about it,” Muir Burke, who previously held says, “and not make the same the American record, having mistakes again.” He spent his climbed Everest multiple quarantine working out a lot times, including in 2014, at during the day—“as much as 72. “He’s more legitimate,” you can at my age,” he says— Muir says. “I’m more or less a and going to bed envisioning pretender to the throne.” He the same ridge that tripped also fi gures someone might him up. By the time he ar- come along and break his re- rived in Nepal in late March, cord—if they want to spend a he was feeling far more expe- lot of time and money like he rienced, and his confi dence did, or don’t gravitate to an grew as he practiced tech- even more technically chal- nique with teammates he met lenging mountain. and bonded with through ex- “I think of myself as an or- pedition leader Garrett Madi- dinary guy who’s been able to son’s mountaineering compa- do these extraordinary ny. And he leaned on those things,” he says. climbing companions, as well While he was up on Everest, as Madison and the local Muir did have the fl eeting Sherpas, to get further than thought that this might be the he did in 2019: from base end of his mountaineering ca- camp to Camp 2 to Camp 3— reer. Maybe he’d settle into a which he says was pitched on more typical retirement and the side of a precipitous spend more time with his six slope, during a cyclone of grandchildren (one of whom wind and snow. “It was not was born while he was on his fun,” he says. “I don’t want to most recent expedition; anoth- Threading Lightly go back there.” But he kept er is named Everest). But then pushing, to Camp 4 (where he started to think of all the Step into the shoes of the Allbirds “you can hardly talk because things he’d still like to do, places the sound of wind slapping to visit, people to meet. Skiing cofounder set on eliminating his tents is so loud”) and through off France’s Mont Blanc “would company’s carbon footprint. the fi nal homestretch, much be such a cool thing,” he says. of which he made in the dead So would climbing Mount of night. “Because of weather Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. And hat do you get when a In 2019, for instance, All- and delays, we were up there hiking, biking, and kayaking retired soccer star with birds—the popular footwear for 10 nights above Camp 2,” across Costa Rica. “The ques- a new fashion idea and apparel brand Zwillinger Muir says. “That’s a long time. tion now is how long can I meets a business co-launched in 2016—em- But weather and COVID were reasonably expect to do this,” school grad with a barked on a quest to fi gure out really challenging for a lot of he says. “I’m trying to do Wbackground in renewable en- exactly how much carbon it the expeditions, and although some of this while I still can. ergy? “We’ve never believed emitted and announced a goal a lot of people got to the top, “My takeaway from all of we’re a shoe company, nor are of carbon neutrality (includ- many more did not because this is that people my age can we a wool company,” says Joey ing off sets). Last year, it began of those two things. So we still do amazing things, if you Zwillinger WG’10, cofounder labeling each product with were very lucky.” put in the work. If you have of Allbirds and the aforemen- information about the sources Muir tried to downplay his the right doctors, the right tioned energy expert. “And we of its fi bers, and the way the accomplishment of being the coaches, the right teammates, are defi nitely not a wool shoe company’s material inputs and oldest American to scale the the right guides, the right company.” Instead, he asserts, fi nished products are trans- mountain—and third oldest support, your body will re- “our real objective is centered ported through the course of overall. He reached out to Bill spond. It’s like a miracle.” —DZ on climate change.” the shoes’ lifecycle. (Tradi-

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tional sneakers are manufac- the $95 Wool Runner the birds designs, there’s also a lot left her native South Africa tured from carbon-emitting “world’s most comfortable going on behind (or under- during apartheid and met chemical polymers and can shoe” in 2016. neath) the scenes. “One of the their dad at San Francisco take decades to decompose.) Two years later, the com- most ubiquitous components State University, where he Zwillinger met his cofound- pany had sold its one mil- in sneakers is the chemical was a professor who, Zwill- er Tim Brown—a former New lionth pair, mostly online. In EVA [ethylene-vinyl acetate] inger notes, played a role in Zealand soccer player of some 2019, it introduced 10 new and we developed a way to helping establish what be- renown—through his wife, colors for its Merino Runners make the same polymer using came the nation’s fi rst Black Elizabeth Leonard Zwillinger and Tree Breezers, a line of Brazilian sugarcane,” Zwill- Studies department. “So, we L’10, who had roomed with ballet fl ats made from euca- inger says. “We’ve outsourced listened to those lessons Brown’s wife at Dartmouth lyptus fi bers. These days, the that technology for two rea- carefully,” Zwillinger adds. University. “Tim had this company employs upwards of sons. One is pragmatic—if lots “Those conversations really great idea about creating a 400 people and operates two more people use it, the price got me behind environmen- new kind of sneaker and he’d dozen stores worldwide. It comes down. The second is tal causes early on. I was in- had some success with a recently added another $100 altruistic—not only is sugar- terested in making a diff er- Kickstarter campaign,” Zwill- million to its venture capital cane an incredibly renewable ence via entrepreneurship, inger recalls. “But he was pot and achieved a valuation resource, it also sucks carbon though, rather than policy.” going through a challenging in the neighborhood of $1.7 out of the atmosphere.” Zwillinger has extended time as far as the nuts and billion in anticipation of an Materials are where the his personal commitment to bolts of starting a business.” upcoming initial public off er- lion’s share of the footwear the climate crisis and other Zwillinger thought that with ing. Meanwhile, new prod- industry’s carbon footprint causes by creating a venture his consulting savvy and en- ucts, including underwear lies, Zwillinger points out. capital fund, Good Friends, vironmental credentials—he and leisurewear made from “We have great ideas, but we with three Wharton class- had worked for management tree fi bers, continue to roll off don’t have a building full of mates—Dave Gilboa WG’10 and investment fi rms before the production line. scientists. So if there are and Neil Blumenthal WG’10, settling in for a long stint at While the pandemic pre- companies out there already cofounders of eyewear maker Solazyme, a biofuels start- sented a major challenge, it doing great stuff and we can Warby Parker [“Alumni Pro- up—he might be able to help. didn’t knock Allbirds off help commercialize their fi les,” Jul|Aug 2012], and Jef- After a few months of infor- course. “During COVID, we technologies, that’s our sweet frey Raider WG’10 of Harry’s, mal conversations, Brown were tested in so many diff er- spot.” As an example, he points the men’s grooming retailer. fl ew from London to visit ent ways,” Zwillinger says. “We out that in pursuit of plant- The fund has made more than Zwillinger in Marin County, lost money—which we hadn’t based alternatives with the 60 investments to companies California. “We walked and done before—because we had performance attributes of like Daring Foods, which sells walked through the hills for a huge retail staff that we cow leather, Allbirds recently plant-based “chicken,” and three days and coalesced a wanted to keep onboard and invested $2 million in a com- Grayce, a start-up (cofounded partnership that would be keep paying while most of our pany called Natural Fiber by another classmate, Julia bigger than the individual stores were shut.” In March Welding. It also partnered with Cohen WG’10) aimed at help- pieces,” Zwillinger says. 2020, through a long-standing Adidas to produce a not-yet- ing family caregivers navi- Along with that realization, partnership with the nonprofi t released running shoe with a gate the healthcare system. the two came to another un- Soles for Souls, Allbirds do- carbon footprint of less than No wonder Zwillinger derstanding. “We knew that nated 500,000 pairs of gently 3kg (compared to an indus- jokes that Penn “was pretty our wives would kill us if we worn shoes to essential work- try standard of 12.5–13.6kg). good to me. I got a wife and ruined their friendship.” ers in just fi ve days. Later that For Zwillinger, confronting through her found a busi- Within a year, Allbirds—a spring, timed perfectly to the climate change and wanting ness partner,” he says. “I got name Brown derived from closure of gyms, it went ahead to make a diff erence in the great friends who support early explorers who viewed with a planned launch of its world comes from his family, me in my business endeav- New Zealand as a place of new running shoe, the Tree where “social and societal ors and invest with me. And “all birds” and not many Dasher, which proved to be its progress were deeply inter- I learned that I can focus on mammals—had released its best-selling debut to date. woven.” His sister is an attor- having some kind of impact fi rst line of sneakers. Time Aside from the sustainable ney who now works as a water that I can feel proud of.” magazine quickly pronounced materials that users see in All- rights advocate. Their mother —JoAnn Greco

60 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Kevin Warren W’85

ing hard work to accepting tion of the Big Ten basketball Big Man people from diverse back- tournament on March 12 was grounds to focusing on ath- one of the fi rst American lete well-being. sports dominoes to fall, and at the Big Ten Warren has needed that the cancellation of the spring fortitude to navigate a season followed soon after. The fi rst Black commissioner of a unique fi rst year-and-a-half During the tumultuous major college conference has had to on the job. He took offi ce in summer of 2020, Warren was January 2020, mere weeks equal parts commissioner navigate turbulence at the helm. before COVID-19 ground the and conciliator, impaneling world to a halt. The cancella- groups to help meet student- athletes’ changing needs. his old offi ce at That included creating a Big Minnesota Vikings Ten Mental Health and headquarters, Kevin Wellness Cabinet in May and Warren W’85 hung the Big Ten Conference Anti- reminders of people Hate and Anti-Racism whoIn cleared the path for Coalition in June after the him. In more than a decade death of George Floyd. (That with the NFL franchise, event hit particularly close to including the last four years home for Warren, who lived as its chief operating offi cer, in the Twin Cities for 15 years Warren decorated the walls and operates the Warren with photos of trailblazers in Family Foundation there.) In sports and American life: the fall, he launched a voter Martin Luther King Jr., registration initiative for Big Jackie Robinson, and the Ten student-athletes. 1966 Texas Western men’s The Big Ten was also thrust basketball team—the fi rst into the election-year spot- with an all-Black starting light when it became the fi rst lineup to win a national title. major conference to cancel Upon his move to Chicago its fall season on August 11. to take over as commissioner Though Warren based the of the Big Ten, becoming the ference, to represent the con- decision on an “overwhelm- fi rst Black man to run a ference with class and grace “I need to do ing” vote of league presidents Power Five conference, he and style, to work hard and everything I and chancellors, it drew the added a set of portraits of the continually build bridges ire of many football fans, fi ve men, dating to 1922, who between various communi- possibly can parents, and politicians, had previously run college ties and provide opportuni- eventually leading to a call athletics’ most prestigious ties for individuals who have to continually between Warren and league. They provide a con- been marginalized.” elevate the President Donald Trump stant reminder of both the Warren’s ascent to the helm W’68, who exhorted the Big history Warren is the steward of the Big Ten joins two conference, to Ten to change course. of and the history his pres- threads of his professional Ultimately, Warren took in ence in that offi ce is making. life. He comes from a family represent the new sources of information, “I recognize that these are of pioneers, particularly in the established a Return to fi ve white men and I’m a business of sports. And he is conference with Competition Task Force, and Black man here,” Warren guided by values he fi rst class and grace the Big Ten returned to the says. “And so I need to do learned as a student-athlete gridiron in late October—later everything I possibly can to for two seasons at Penn in the and style.” than most leagues but with continually elevate the con- early 1980s—from emphasiz- still enough time for Ohio

Photo courtesy Big Ten Sep | Oct 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 61 Kevin Warren eyes the basketball in a game against Princeton during the 1981–82 season.

State to qualify for the four- team College Football Playoff . That ability to adapt is a trait Fran McCaff ery W’82, Warren’s friend and former teammate, has recognized in him since college. Warren was a reserve guard as a freshman on Penn’s 1981–82 Ivy League men’s basketball championship team, but he saw his playing time dry up under new head coach Craig Littlepage W’73 the following season. He transferred to Arizona State—where the coach who originally recruit- ed him to Penn, Bob Weinhauer, had gone—and then to Grand Canyon University, where he became a 1,000-point scorer and an studied law. When Warren with him on occasion to seek Black football player recruited NAIA All-American. But was fl oated for the commis- advice, and he’s incredibly to Stanford in the 1960s. Warren still has fond memo- sioner’s job, McCaff ery had no bright and insightful and Kevin’s children, Peri (volley- ries of Penn, which he says doubt his former teammate wise. He guided me with great ball at Occidental) and Powers “exposed him to a new was the right man. The way wisdom during the pandemic (football at Mississippi State world” when he arrived on Warren has navigated the last and I’m incredibly grateful.” and now Michigan State), are campus as a 17-year-old from year by fi nding consensus Warren long ago proved his NCAA athletes. Tempe, Arizona. among radically opposed managerial prowess. After He was raised in a “melting “I was forced to grow up stakeholders has only rein- practicing sports law, he won pot” family with Native very quickly,” he says. “But I forced that belief. a Super Bowl ring as a vice American and Mexican had not only incredible team- “He’s somebody that I just president for the St. Louis grandparents. His father, a mates but incredible friends, thought had the special quali- Rams. He was hired by the soldier who liberated con- some of whom I’ve stayed in ties that would inevitably Detroit Lions as a vice presi- centration camps in World touch with. … And that set make him incredibly success- dent, then moved to the War II, emphasized generosi- the cornerstone for my aca- ful,” McCaff ery says. “So when Vikings in 2005. He helped ty, duty, and faith, envision- demic and athletic career.” he carved his path into the the team build a new stadi- ing college sports as a vehicle McCaff ery, the senior point NFL, I wasn’t surprised at all. um and host a Super Bowl, for success. Warren’s mission guard and leader on the 1981– And when the Big Ten hired and he won a slew of awards is to replicate for Big Ten stu- 82 squad, is now the head him, I wasn’t surprised at all. for his emphasis on diversity dent-athletes the opportuni- coach at the University of I was thrilled for our league, and community. ties he’s had. Iowa [“Alumni Profi les,” for all of our members.” Warren comes from a family “It’s been a pleasure to Jan|Feb 2011], one of four Big Warren has also grown of trailblazers. Kevin’s father, serve them and work side by Ten men’s basketball teams to close to Littlepage—who Morrison Warren Sr., played side with them and to make fi nish in the top eight of the served 16 years as the athletic football at Arizona State in the sure I listen to what’s impor- fi nal Associated Press poll of director at the University of 1940s and briefl y in the NFL tant to them,” Warren says. the 2020–21 season. He recon- Virginia until 2017—even before becoming chairman of “We seek to build an environ- nected with Warren in the though he didn’t play much the 1982 Fiesta Bowl, the fi rst ment here at the Big Ten to late 1980s at Notre Dame, for him in college. “He has Black man to hold such a posi- make sure we do everything where McCaff ery was an always off ered words of wis- tion. Warren’s older brother, to empower them.” assistant coach and Warren dom,” Warren says. “I spoke Morrison Jr., was the fi rst —Matthew De George

62 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Photo courtesy Penn Athletics ALUMNI Notes We Want to Hear from You “I’ve fulfi lled a lifelong EMAIL [email protected] Please include your school and year, along with your address and a daytime telephone number. We include email addresses only dream and written when requested or obviously implied. Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gazette offices are closed until further notice a children’s book.” and we cannot retrieve daily postal mail. Email is preferred. —Elyse Sitner Barroway W’90 ALUMNI NOTE DEADLINES 7/15 for the Sep|Oct issue; 9/15 for Nov|Dec; 11/15 for Jan|Feb; 1/15 for Mar|Apr; 3/15 for 1951 May|Jun; and 5/15 for Jul|Aug. Burton J. Greenwald W’51 writes, “After special sons shared with me was a love of ani- dog, Butterfl y. It was written while I was part graduation I attended Navy Offi cer Candidate mals and children. Since the baby birth boom of a poetry circle sponsored by the Senior School (OCS) in Newport, Rhode Island, and in 1975 had plummeted, it seemed natural to Friendship Center of Sarasota, Florida. It is ti- served for three years in the Navy at sea with manufacture pet food. The times called for tled ‘No Greater Love’: It was loss that brought the Atlantic and Mediterranean fl eets. For natural food and I chose to extend that concept us together / A void I thought could never be more than 60 years, I have been active in the to pet food. I called my product Mother’s Nat- fi lled / But you sat with your head cocked and mutual fund industry as CEO of two major ural Pet Food. The concept immediately ex- looked at me / Your huge brown eyes deep pools management companies and as founder and ploded. Within a few years the boys were mak- of compassion and understanding / My beauti- CEO of a management consulting company ing two tons of pet food weekly. I opened my ful Butterfl y – whose name symbolizes change, with a distinguished roster of domestic and fi rst store October 8, 1976, and in short order hope and love / Delivered that message to me international clients. I was a longtime member we were selling the pet food along the East by placing your paw on my hand. / A nudge of the board of governors of the Investment Coast. My story was written in the July 2, 1985, from your cold pink nose forced me to see that Company Institute, where I served as chairman issue of Family Circle magazine. After 18 years beauty and hope abound / Your dignifi ed de- of the Industry’s Public Information Commit- of constant work, I sold the business to three meanor and puppy playfulness brought a smile tee. I currently serve as an independent direc- investment attorneys who, after a year, walked I thought I had lost. / I thank you, my guardian tor of a cluster of Franklin Templeton Funds, away. Their planning was to get these products angel, for all the love that you give / And for where I plan to step down at year end 2021. I in all stores in America. At that time, premium leading me back to the sunlight that I thought lost my loving wife of 60 years four years ago pet food was only sold in pet shops or by vet- had forever dimmed.” and I miss her every day. Fortunately, our three erinarians. Both sons are gainfully employed. children, seven grandchildren, and one great- I am now living in a retirement community, grandchild provide great support and a source Lions Gate, in Voorhees, New Jersey.” 1958 of ongoing love and comfort. I would enjoy Rev. Glenn J. Fisher C’58 writes, “I have hearing from classmates and friends. Feel free been elected a director of the Norfolk and to email me at [email protected].” 1954 Western Railroad Historical Society in Roa- Lois Pulver-Krop SW’54 writes, “I’m noke, Virginia. As the author of 16 articles in Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! excited to be celebrating my 90th birthday, the society’s news magazine, The Arrow, I was as well as my 67th wedding anniversary to a the keynote speaker at their last convention 1952 Penn Stater. I recently published my fi rst in 2019. I also write for four other railfan Jeanette Brener Axelrod Ed’52 writes, “I book, Family Hour, Family Power: The Road magazines and am the author of the book Life am 90 years of age, the mother of eight chil- to Family Unity. I am still working and enjoy- Is Like a Mountain Railroad: A Model of the dren (two daughters and six sons), and to my ing every moment.” Spiritual Journey. Having served 41 years in knowledge the fi rst manufacturer of natural the ordained ministry of the United Method- cat and dog food. As a result of two of my sons ist Church in eastern Pennsylvania, I’ve been being slow learners, and the fact that we lived 1956 retired for 21 years. I live with my wife of 61 in a wealthy Main Line community that had Irene Sofi an Herman CW ‘56 writes, “The years, Sunny, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania. I’m no special education programs, I embarked on Canine Companions Facebook Page featured a a third generation Quaker, with my daughter, a course of work. The only interests that my poem that I wrote about my hearing service Linda, being a fourth.”

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1960 didn’t race during that break. Meanwhile, ers: Taking Action Around the World. Story- E. Gerald Riesenbach W’60, senior turned 80, so I raced in a new age category. tellers is a compilation of inspiring stories counsel at Cozen O’Connor, has been recog- My time was an embarrassment, but I was from my website (thewomenseye.com) of nized by the Legal Intelligencer with a 2020 fortunate enough to win fi rst place in the 80- documentarians, photographers, journalists, Professional Excellence Award in the Lifetime plus age group by three and a half minutes. and broadcasters who are changing the world Achievement category. There were four men in that category. Later, with their stories and photographs. We spot- I celebrated July Fourth in the four-mile Lib- light women driven by their passion to make erty Run. Alas, I came in second in the 80-plus a diff erence. You can find more information 1961 age group, but at least I was pleased with my @womenstorytellersbook.com. The book is Dr. Eli Goodman C’69 writes, “On June 1, I fi nish time. As always, I wore a Penn shirt. available on Amazon, bookshop.org, Barnes received an offi cial US Design Patent (US Penn distance runners keep it up longer. I and Noble, and at local bookstores.” D921,104 S) for my previously trademarked started running 50 years ago.” punctuation mark, the rhetoricon—an entity Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! that I fi rst conceived approximately two years ago after reading a Reader’s Digest article that 1964 1967 described 11 obscure, essentially never-used, but Lawrence Brody W’64 has joined the law Howard Freedlander C ’67 writes, “I am legitimate punctuation marks, such as the inter- fi rm Harrison & Held as senior counsel with happy to report that the Class of 1967 man- robang, acclamation point, and snark mark. My a focus on estate planning. He works out of aged the COVID-imposed isolation by engag- rhetoricon is suitable to mark the end of a sen- the fi rm’s St. Louis offi ce. ing in monthly Zoom calls beginning in tence, phrase, statement, or comment that is Dr. Edward Rossomando D’64, professor August 2020. Beyond some substantive con- both rhetorical and sarcastic, with or without a emeritus at the University of Connecticut versation, we asked two classmates, Arthur sense of double entendre. An example would School of Dentistry, writes, “The Center for Sculley W’67 and Ron Bornstein W’67 be: What could be better than to be at once both Research and Education in Technology L’70, who live in London, to discuss Brexit; rhetorical and sarcastic An image can be seen (CRET), an educational nonprofi t corporation Hon. Midge Rendell CW’69 talked about on my website, eligoodmanmd.com.” of which I am president, was founded in 2004 her decade-old eff orts to teach civics in our Curtis Pontz W’61 has published The to introduce innovative equipment and prod- schools; and we listened to a recent presen- Stranglehold: How to Break the Palestinians’ ucts into dental education. Through a rigorous tation by Charlie Dagit C’65 Ar’67 GAr’68 Unyielding Grip on the Middle East Peace Pro- selection process, CRET identifi es a dental (husband of Alice Murdoch Dagit CW’67) cess (Dorrance Publishing). He writes, “The school for the award of an Innovation Center. about the renowned architect and Penn pro- book examines the impactful topic of whether Each award provides the school with more fessor Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71. The the establishment of the modern State of Is- than $1 million in in-kind contributions of new Zoom platform has been a unifying force rael was justifi able and just, my reasoning be- emerging equipment and products. To date, during the pandemic, providing classmates ing that if the Palestinians can be convinced of CRET has awarded four dental schools Innova- (about 30 a call) a place to connect and re- the justifi ability and justness of Israel’s cre- tion Centers. CRET is pleased to announce the connect. The conversations have been lively ation, they will abandon their long-standing recipient of the 2021 Innovation Center is Lin- and animated. Classmates have been eager rejection of Israel’s legitimacy and right to ex- coln Memorial University dental school in to talk about the personal impact of COVID, ist. I argue that eliminating the real obstacle Knoxville, Tennessee. More information about their families, their Penn experiences nearly to a resolution of the confl ict, i.e., the unwill- CRET can be found at cretdental.org.” 55 years ago, and their plans for the future. ingness of the Palestinians to accept Israel’s Communicating as part of a photo gallery is presence in the Middle East, will open the door endemic to the Zoom culture. It’s been a nec- to a pathway to an enduring peace agreement. 1965 essary facet of our personal, professional, The book is available at DorranceBookstore. Charlie Dagit C’65 Ar’67 GAr’68 see and nonprofi t lives.” com, Amazon.com, and Barnes&Noble.com.” Howard Freedlander C ’67. Stanton Peele C’67 writes, “I’ve written a memoir that discusses my time at Penn, titled Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! A Scientifi c Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest 1966 to Change How We See Addiction.” From the 1962 Pamela Burke CW ‘66 has authored and book’s description, “Stanton Peele has cre- Steve Stovall W’62 ASC’63 writes, “After coedited a new book with Patricia Caso, titled ated a very diff erent kind of addiction book— a 15-month break from racing due to the pan- 20 Women Storytellers: Taking Action with a memoir of his tumultuous career in the demic, I ran a 5K race on D-Day 2021 in Den- Powerful Words and Images. She writes, “It addiction fi eld interwoven with his personal ver. I never stopped running and training, just follows my fi rst book, 20 Women Changemak- life story. [His conception of addiction] has

64 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Events set him in opposition to the demonization of 1970 PHILADELPHIA drugs. But he also opposes the ostensibly Kenneth L. Fredrickson L’70 writes, “Over Join the Penn Alumni Club of Philadelphia humane but actually disempowering notion the past x number of years (more than I care for two virtual book club events featur- of addiction as a disease. This wrongheaded to remember) I have been researching for ing alumnae authors. On September 15 idea views addiction as if it existed only in a two books I have been writing. The fi rst one, we will talk with Chandler Baker C’08 person’s brain and body and not in the per- Killing Atheism: Powerful Evidence and Rea- about her new novel, The Husbands, and son’s mind and soul—and community.” sons to Believe Jesus, has been published by on October 13 we will meet with Sanaë Dr. Stephen Permut C’67 was inducted Wipf & Stock. This book was written for those Lemoine C’11 to discuss her work, The as the 160th president of the Philadelphia who are struggling with their faith or trying Margot Affair. Visit www.pennclubphilly. County Medical Society on June 25. Steve is to help others but cannot get around the com for more information and to register. a tenured professor and former chair of the problem of ‘If there is a God, why doesn’t he VIRTUAL Department of Family Medicine and Com- show himself?’ It bypasses traditional apolo- In light of ongoing global health concerns, munity Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of getics and powerfully shows that God does Medicine at Temple University. not hide. We off er secular evidence demon- visit www.alumni.upenn.edu/clubs to find Martin Seligman Gr’67, a Penn professor strating that the story of Christ must be true. the latest information on Regional Club and director of the Positive Psychology Center, My website is www.killingatheism.com, for events in your area. And be sure to check was awarded an honorary doctorate from the more information.” out www.alumni.upenn.edu/govirtual for Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) on Sandi Shustak Kligman MT’70 writes, an abundance of virtual events and digi- May 28. He also took part in an RCSI MyHealth “’70 is the new 50th! Forever, whenever ... and tal resources available for alumni. Series guest talk, entitled “Positive Psychology, our ‘whenever’ will be this May 13–16! Re- Agency and Human Progress,” which can be union cochairs Ted Gilmore W’70, Mau- viewed at www.rcsi.com/myhealthlectures. reen Hare Luschini Nu’70 and I, along with rated it myself. It is a compendium of my life Warren B. Smith C’67 has written a new class copresidents Nina Robinson Vitow story interwoven with illustrations from the book, titled The Titanic and Today’s Church: A CW’70 WG’76 and Tim Carson W’70, can’t Bible. A sample audio track is available from Tale of Two Shipwrecks. From the book’s descrip- wait to greet you in person but urge you to either chirpbooks.com or nookaudiobooks. tion, it is “the story of two shipwrecks. One took make hotel reservations now as Alumni Week- com. Just search for the title. I think anyone, place over a century ago; the other is in progress end 2022 will be huge with three sets of Re- and particularly those of Christian faith, and is happening today. The similarities are as- union classes celebrating! Reunion informa- would enjoy listening to this story.” tounding as they compel us to become more tion can be found on our class website (www. aware of our Spiritual Adversary’s schemes and alumni.upenn.edu/1970). Book your hotel Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! devices (2 Corinthians 2:11), eff ectively ‘stand now—most have generous cancellation poli- against’ them (Ephesians 6:11), and ‘come out cies. Plan to come early (watch for details 1972 from among them’ (2 Corinthians 6:17).” about a reception event on Thursday, May 12, Dr. Stephen Kramer C’72 writes, “I re- that 1970 will be invited to) and stay through cently retired after 38 years of clinical prac- Monday, May 16, to gown up and march in the tice as professor emeritus of psychiatry and 1968 Commencement procession along with the behavioral medicine at Wake Forest Baptist William W. Schwarze L’68, partner other 50th Reunion classes of 1971 and 1972. Health Sciences in Winston-Salem, North emeritus at the intellectual property law fi rm Thursday and Sunday nights will be great Carolina. During my tenure I helped de- Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP, has times for private dinners with old friends, velop programs in forensic psychiatry and been named among the 2021 Pennsylvania without missing ‘Drinks with the Sphinx’ on neuropsychiatry. Previously I retired after Super Lawyers. Friday night or our Union League ‘Bask in the 25 years of service to the American Board of Glow’ Saturday night gala. Please join our new Psychiatry and Neurology. I continue with Facebook Group, started by Ann Kent Cow- my work for the Joint Commission as fi eld 1969 en CW’70, ‘Penn Class of 1970—50th Re- representative/physician surveyor, and as a Stephen A. Spitz W’69 has joined the union,’ for all the latest news.” topic editor for DynaMed, an EBSCO prod- Pennsylvania-based law fi rm Saxton & Stump uct. I’m enjoying my second term on the as senior counsel. He will continue to provide board of directors of the Winston-Salem services to clients with his partner Irish “Ryan” 1971 Symphony, and grandparenting with my Neville under the name Spitz & Neville in Jack Narvel ASC’71 writes, “My fi rst wife, Rochelle Prague Kramer CW’74 Charleston, South Carolina. Stephen focuses book, Like Eating Jelly with Chopsticks, is Gr’74, who also retired from the medical his practice on real estate, property, and equity. now available as an audiobook! I have nar- center as a reference librarian.”

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1973 John Quelch WG’74, dean, vice provost, entitled ‘Promises for the Future,’ that exam- Lawrence Finkelstein W’73 L’76 writes, “I and professor at the University of Miami, has ines recent developments in contracts law retired at the end of 2018 after 42-plus years at been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor involving the use of the theory of promissory Blank Rome LLP (although I’m currently work- and received the Alumni Award of Merit from estoppel as an alternative to traditional formal ing there on a very part-time schedule). My wife the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. contract formation. This paper is drawn from Barbara and I were hoping to travel extensively a larger, book-length project on contracts law and spend more time with our nine-year-old that will be published next year.” twin grandsons; obviously, the last year put a 1976 kibosh on those plans. I can report, however, Joan Lipman Brown Gr’76, who holds Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! that a number of Class of ‘73 classmates met the Elias Ahuja Chair of Spanish at the Uni- remotely as an Organizing Committee to begin versity of Delaware, was inducted into the 1977 planning our 50th Reunion (to take place May Order of Don Quijote by the national Spanish Alex Sirotkin C’77, an attorney and busi- 13-14, 2023), including Anita Sama CW’73, honorary society Sigma Delta Pi and the na- nessman in Raleigh, NC, published his debut Wendella Fox CW’73 L’76, Bill Keller C’73, tional professional organization AATSP novel in January, The Long Desert Road, Mark Maas C’73, and Robert Drumheller (American Association of Teachers of Spanish which, according to the book’s blurb, “explores C’73. Since then, more than a dozen classmates and Portuguese) in May. The award “recog- timeless questions of our place in the universe signed on. We’re eager to hear from classmates nizes exceptional and meritorious service in through the lives of three unforgettable char- who have 50th Reunion ideas and energy to the fi elds of Hispanic scholarship, the teach- acters.” He writes, “I modeled the character of serve on outreach, communications, fundrais- ing of Spanish, and the promotion of good Lauren after my daughter Stephanie, a bipolar ing, programming, and social committees. We relations between English-speaking countries heroin addict, and to whom the book is dedi- are planning to meet (virtually and hopefully in and those of Spanish speech.” Brown was rec- cated. Stephanie died from an overdose just person) for meetings and many class events in ognized for her “cutting-edge theoretical work last year, on October 2. She was almost 27. I advance of our reunion. As boosting attendance on the canon” that has “shaped the identity was the primary source of emotional and fi - is job one, we need help fi nding contact info for and curriculum of Spanish and Latin Ameri- nancial support for her for the last decade. those in the Class of 1973 for whom Penn has no can Studies,” as well as for her scholarship on When I started the novel in 2016, I was quite email address or other contact info. Please send Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish hopeful, even delusional perhaps, about my alumni news, and contact details, as well as your literature by women, and oral-language ac- daughter’s prospects. So while the story con- ideas and willingness to participate, to re- quisition. Brown’s book Calila: The Later Nov- tains some graphic violence, and otherwise [email protected], and stay alert for els of Carmen Martín Gaite was published by depicts the grim life of a bipolar addict, it’s more info and plans as they unfold.” Bucknell University Press in April. She writes, ultimately optimistic. I dreamed of releasing Dr. Samuel Forman C’73, a historian and “The book’s roots were planted at Penn in the the novel to some acclaim, about which Steph- Harvard University faculty member, has written mid-’70s, when I asked the late Spanish pro- anie and I would celebrate together. Instead, a new nonfi ction book, Ill-Fated Frontier: Peril fessor Gonzalo Sobejano a question that when the book was published this past Janu- and Possibilities in the Early American West. would shape my career: ‘Are there any great ary, it was bittersweet for me, even surreal. My From the book’s press materials: “Ill-Fated Fron- contemporary Spanish novels by women?’ I novel is about addictions, certainly, but there’s tier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compel- discovered the fi ction of Spanish author Car- so much more. I want people to read my book, ling narrative of the frictions that emerged men Martín Gaite and wrote the fi rst disserta- most of all, because it says things that are im- among entrepreneurial pioneers and their 60 tion on her early novels, followed by the fi rst portant to me.” To learn more about the book, slaves, Indians fi ghting to preserve their land, book on her fi ction. Martín Gaite—whom I visit https://amzn.to/3eO2C1q. and Spanish colonials with their own agenda.” called Calila—and I became close friends, and my book features letters and conversations between us over the course of 25 years.” 1978 1974 Michael P. Malloy L’76 writes, “I served Creighton Meland Jr. W’78 has pub- Sanford M. Jacoby C’74, Distinguished as a member of the organizing committee and lished COVID-19 Litigation: A Discourse on Research Professor at UCLA, has written a cohost for the 8th Annual International Con- Nondelegation, Constitutional Rights and new book, Labor in the Age of Finance: Pen- ference on Business, Law, and Economics, Statutory Interpretation, an analysis of pan- sions, Politics, and Corporations from Dein- sponsored by the Athens Institute for Educa- demic litigation. It is available on Amazon. dustrialization to Dodd-Frank (Princeton tion and Research. The conference took place Dr. Gary S. Moak C’78 writes, “I was pro- University Press, 2021). in Athens, Greece—virtually—during May 3–4. moted to associate professor of psychiatry at the Rochelle Prague Kramer CW’74 Gr’74 On the fi rst day of the conference, I off ered Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth where see Dr. Stephen Kramer C’72. welcoming remarks. I also presented a paper, I direct the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Pro-

66 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 gram. I am a past president of the American Since 2015, John has taught national secu- munications at Barton College. I also am serv- Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and author rity and intelligence courses at Boston Uni- ing as chair of the Greater Chapel Hill area for of Beat Depression to Stay Healthier and Live versity. He is a retired CIA offi cer and former the Penn Alumni Interview Program. I am ac- Longer: A Guide for Older Adults and Their Department of Defense offi cial. tive in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Families (Rowman & Littlefi eld, 2016, 2018).” Sciences (a member since 1985), including Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! judging for the Student Academy Awards and the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, as well 1979 1982 as the Oscar pre-nomination judging process Rick Rosenberg W’79 writes, “I am Robert Carley C’82, an artist based in Con- for a number of motion picture categories.” pleased to announce that I was recently elect- necticut, writes, “A mix of my photos of fl ags ed as chair of the board for Shalom Austin, the from across the country and my homemade hub of Jewish life in Austin, overseeing the fl ags are on display at the Mattatuck Museum 1986 Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Service, the in Waterbury, Connecticut, through September Betsy Sands WG’86, her husband Jeff rey Jewish Community Center of Austin, and the 12. The exhibit marks my 20 years of photo- Sands, and Jeff rey’s sister Deborah Sands Jewish Foundation. I am honored by this op- graphing 9/11-inspired tributes across 45 states. Gartenberg, who are administrators of the portunity to give back to our community. In In addition, two special fl ags were on display George H. and Estelle M. Sands Foundation, my day job, I am a managing principal for the for July 4 at my local beach in Darien: one made received an Honorary Alumni Award from real estate consulting fi rm DPFG Incorpo- of face masks and another of paint liners, roll- Penn Nursing. rated, assisting developers identifying fi nanc- ers, and trays. For a year, I decided to save my ing solutions for their infrastructure and used face masks and recycle them into face Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! other public improvement needs.” mask fl ags. The face mask fl ag celebrates our Judith Stellar Nu’79 received the Alum- new freedom from many face covering man- 1987 ni Award for Clinical Excellence from Penn dates. Also, I will be having a book out soon, Abigail Abrash Walton C’87 is the re- Nursing on May 14 in a virtual program. titled Liberated from the Flagpole, the Metamor- cipient of the 2021 William R. Freudenburg phosis of the Flag Since 9/11.” You can read more Lifetime Achievement Award from the As- about and see photos of Robert’s fl ag art in a sociation for Environmental Studies and Sci- 1981 profi le that ran in the July 3 issue of Republican ences. This year, Abigail also joined the ad- Michael Kelley C’81 has written a new American, available online at bit.ly/2T2l6n6. visory board of Columbia University’s Center novel, The Lost Theory. From the book’s de- on Sustainable Investment. scription: “Sean McQueen, a staid, middle-aged NYU literature professor, is rattled when he 1984 receives a letter from his best friend, Dylan, Mark Wasserman W’84 writes, “I am 1988 claiming he’s discovered ‘the theory of every- looking for a fellow alum who is a labor at- Jeanne Shen W’88 writes, “I joined the thing,’ a revelation that promises to alter man’s torney. I can be contacted at markwasser- board of trustees of Noblis, an organization that view of existence and reconcile science with [email protected].” provides scientifi c and technical solutions to spirituality. After Dylan’s mysterious death, the federal civil, defense, homeland security, Sean vows to track down his friend’s now- and intelligence and law enforcement sectors. missing scientifi c theory. ... As Sean stumbles 1985 I look forward to working on strategic issues through this dangerous journey for a lost the- Blaise Noto ASC’85 writes, “Since receiving with my fellow trustees—especially in the areas ory, he also pursues true love and rediscovers my MA from Annenberg, I began my career in of risk and human capital. Governance has a primal desire for self-realization. Fans of public relations and marketing, rising to ex- been a topic of interest and study for the last mystery, magic, love, and explorations of self- ecutive vice president of worldwide publicity several years. Last year I earned my director- discovery will relish this adventure overfl owing at Paramount Pictures. Taking a turn in my ship certifi cation from the National Association with wit, intrigue, and redemption.” career, I moved to Maui and opened Blaise of Corporate Directors and am glad that I have John D. Woodward Jr. W’81, a Professor Noto & Associates, serving clients in the United a dynamic setting to use it.” of the Practice of International Relations at States (I worked on a number of Mel Gibson the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global productions) as well as doing business in Chi- Studies at Boston University, received the na, Cambodia, and Thailand. Returning to the 1989 Pardee School’s 2021 Gintner Family Prize mainland in 2012, I taught briefl y at the Uni- Sharon Farman Cooper C’89 has joined for Faculty Excellence, awarded for excel- versity of North Carolina School of the Arts Cuddy & Feder LLP as partner in the Trusts, lence in teaching and mentoring students. before becoming assistant professor in com- Estates, and Elder Law Practice.

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Lolita Jackson EAS’89, former special Jonathan Ringel C’90 W’90 has joined 1993 advisor of climate policy and programs for Poston Communications, a public relations Lisa Nass Grabelle C’93 L’96 and Kiera the Offi ce of the New York City Mayor, has agency that serves law fi rms and other pro- Reilly C’93 write, “We are already thinking been recognized by the UK Honours System. fessional service fi rms, as senior vice presi- about our 30th Reunion in May 2023. We invite Lolita has been made an honorary Member dent for content. Jonathan writes, “I moved anyone that is interested in helping us plan our of the Most Excellent Order of the British to the agency after 26 years of reporting and reunion to join our already robust board. Con- Empire (MBE) in recognition for her services editing news articles about the legal com- tact us at [email protected] or ki- to transatlantic business relations and cli- munity for ALM Media. My tenure included [email protected]. Stay connected with our mate diplomacy. Currently, she serves as ex- two years in Washington, where I covered class and learn about upcoming Zoom calls via ecutive director of communications and the US Supreme Court, and 16 years as man- our Class of 1993 Facebook group, or on Insta- sustainable cities for Sustainable Develop- aging editor of the Daily Report legal news- gram @Penn_1993 and Twitter @Penn1993.” ment Capital. paper in Atlanta. I’d love to hear from any Margaret Wilmoth Gr’93 received the Thomas Lambert C›89 has launched a Penn alums and can be reached at ringel@ Outstanding Alumni Award from Penn Nurs- new law fi rm, FLB Law, based in Westport, postoncommunications.com.” ing on May 14 in a virtual program. Connecticut, of which he is one of the manag- ing partners. 1991 1994 Ezra Glenn C’91 was recently inducted Douglas “Lefty” Leferovich C’94, a magi- 1990 into both the Boston Society of Film Critics cian working in Las Vegas, was honored as the Elyse Sitner Barroway W’90 writes, “I’ve and the Boston Online Film Critics Associa- 2021 Magician of the Year from the Society of fulfi lled a lifelong dream and written a chil- tion. In addition to teaching a course on “The American Magicians Parent Assembly #1 of dren’s book, When I Grow Up. Its simple yet City in Film” at MIT, his writing on fi lms and New York City in a virtual show streamed live powerful message fosters thought-provoking urbanism have appeared in Experience Mag- from Las Vegas on June 22. Douglas writes, discussions between children and those that azine, WBUR’s The ARTery, Bloomberg’s City- “The show opened with a video from Mr. Las love them. It is available on Amazon.” Lab, Bright Lights Film Journal, and the New Vegas himself, Wayne Newton, welcoming ev- Alycia Bischof Nu’90 GNu’95 GrNu’21 York Observer, and he is the regular fi lm re- eryone to the 112th annual Salute to Magic and Sherry Greenberg Nu’90 GNu’92 viewer for Planning Magazine. show (the fi rst time in 112 years that the show Gr’14 are coauthors of a paper in OJIN: The Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall C’91 has writ- was not held in New York City). Then the fi rst Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, titled ten a new book, Slave Revolt on Screen: The half of the show featured Murray Sawchuck “Post COVID-19 reimbursement parity for Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games and I doing some of our best tricks from the nurse practitioners.” In addition, Alycia re- (University Press of Mississippi), described by last 10 years on the Vegas Strip. Flying in from ceived the Alumni Spirit Award from Penn the publisher as “a trailblazing book on the New York was the fi rst vice president of the Nursing on May 14 in a virtual program. depiction of the Haitian Revolution in fi lm Society of American Magicians Parent Assem- Rachel Grace C’90 has been named chief and video games.” Alyssa is a professor of his- bly #1, Sterling Lee, who presented me with a people offi cer at ConcertoCare, a New York– tory at California State University San Marcos. plaque and a 3D custom art piece to honor me based in-home care provider for adults and as the 2021 Magician of the Year. This is truly seniors with complex health care needs. In Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! an honor and a highlight of my life.” More in- this role, Rachel will develop hiring and em- formation can be found at salutetomagic.com. ployee advancement solutions in support of 1992 Pelayo Primo de Rivera WG´94 see ConcertoCare’s planned US expansion. Lisa Scopa W’92 has been appointed chief Luis Ramon Redondo WG’12. Alison Velez Lane L’90, CEO and direc- fi nancial offi cer of the Boston-based start-up tor of the Campaign Train Group, has been Lovepop, which creates pop-up cards and gifts. named to the Daily Record’s 2021 listing of Eric Werwa MtE’92 has been appointed 1996 Maryland’s Top 100 Women. She was also deputy assistant secretary for policy and envi- Elizabeth L. Davis C’96 has recently been one of 12 women who were inducted into the ronmental management within the Offi ce of elected chair and president of Murphy & Mc- Circle of Excellence, receiving the award for Policy, Management and Budget at the US De- Gonigle, a boutique law fi rm specializing in a third and fi nal time. Alison was profi led in partment of the Interior by President Joe Biden fi nancial services with offi ces in Chicago; Wash- a special magazine that was inserted into Hon’13. Previously, Eric served as chief of staff ington, DC; New York; Richmond, Virginia; the May 14 issue of the Daily Record, avail- and legislative director for Rep. Deb Haaland, and San Francisco. She joined the fi rm in 2018. able online at thedailyrecord.com/top- who is now Secretary of the Interior. He and Falguni Desai W’96 has joined Microsoft 100-women. his wife, Jenny, live in Washington, DC. in New York as a digital strategy advisor. She

68 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 ALUMNI IN BUSINESS A guide for Gazette readers seeking to reach thethe bbubusinesssiiness serservicesviices off PPenneennn grggraduates.radaduauattees.s writes, “I’ll be focused on helping C-suite lead- torney (JAG). Penn leadership had the fore- ers at banking and capital markets clients on sight to allow its students to enroll in Navy digital strategy and transformation. In my free ROTC on campus following the tumultuous time I continue to support marine and forest Vietnam War period, where many Ivy League conservation groups. I look forward to recon- schools pushed ROTC off -campus or made it necting in the real world as things open up.” exceedingly diffi cult for prospective military Joseph Sciorra Gr’96 won the 2021 Work- offi cers to serve. This decision opened the ing-Class Studies Association’s Studs Terkel door for students like me to receive a top- Award for Single Published Article or Series, notch education at Penn and then take that Broadcast Media, Multimedia, and Film in degree in service of our nation. Following my Media and Journalism for his online essay Navy career, I returned to Penn’s campus to “Protesta Per Sacco e Vanzetti,” which he wrote serve as the Sharswood Fellow at Penn Law for the Library of Congress’s National Record- from 2017 to 2019. This two-year fellowship ing Registry. The essay concerns a 1927 Italian was critical in helping me transition from the immigrant recording that protested the then- military to legal academia—quite a leap! Since pending execution of the anarchists Nicola leaving Penn, I’ve served as a professor of law Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. In addition, at both the US Naval Academy and Syracuse Sciorra coedited a Festschrift to literary schol- University College of Law (where I am on the ar Robert Viscusi, titled This Hope Sustains faculty now). I try to make my way back to the Scholar: Essays in Tribute to the Work of Penn Law or Perry World House as much as I Robert Viscusi (Bordighera Press, 2021). can for scholarly events. It truly speaks to Tish Squillaro CGS’96 has coauthored a Penn’s strong interdisciplinary approach that new book with Timothy I. Thomas, HeadTrash the University has been there for me through- 2: Dealing with and Overcoming Other Peo- out a diverse and incredibly rewarding profes- For advertising information, email Linda Caiazzo ple’s Junk. This follows their previous book sional journey in the military and academia.” at [email protected] or call 215-898-6811. together, HeadTrash: Cleaning Out the Junk that Stands Between You and Success. Tish is be published on October 29. From the book’s CEO of CANDOR Consulting, where she ad- 1999 press materials: “[It] reimagines the essence of vises executives on how to clear up their “head John H. Walker Gr’99, an associate pro- family and plumbs the depths of a mother’s trash,” which she and Timothy describe as the fessor of anthropology at the University of ardent connection to her daughter. Though a “thought patterns and emotional tendencies Central Florida in Orlando, writes, “My col- work of fi ction, the book gives voice to Bosniak that hinder your ability to respond to business leagues and I just put out a new article in Pro- survivors who have long remained silent.” issues in a productive and professional way.” ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rudy Pakravan GAr’00 and Kristen titled ‘Pre-Columbian Fire Management and Sidell GAr’00 founded Sidell Pakravan Ar- Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! Control of Climate-Driven Floodwaters Over chitects in 2014. This year, Architectural Re- 3,500 Years in Southwestern Amazonia.’” The cord has honored their fi rm as one of “10 1997 story was picked up on several news sites and emerging practices advancing issues of form, Sam Chandan W’97 GEng’01 G’03 can be read at bit.ly/2THFBFs. It begins, “A construction, sustainability, and community GrW’04 see Luis Ramon Redondo WG’12. new study ... shows that pre-Columbian people engagement” in its 2021 Design Vanguard Mark Nevitt W’97 writes, “I owe a lot to of a culturally diverse but not well-document- awards. In particular, it was noted for its Penn, which has been absolutely essential in ed area of the Amazon in South America sig- commitment to community outreach, as helping me launch two incredibly diverse and nifi cantly altered their landscape thousands demonstrated by providing pro bono ser- rewarding careers (so far!). I arrived at Penn’s of years earlier than previously thought.” vices for the city of Berkeley, California, by campus in 1993 with the goal of receiving a creating a “Parklets” template for local res- Penn degree and receiving a commission in taurateurs to build pop-up cafés during the the US Navy (I come from a family of military 2000 COVID-19 pandemic. The article can be read veterans). Following my graduation from Penn Sheldon Fields Gr’00 received the Lillian in the Record’s June issue at bit.ly/3gV3eSO. in 1997, I took the somewhat unusual post- Sholtis Brunner Award for Innovation from Anya Plutynski G’00 Gr’02, associate Wharton path, bypassing Wall Street to attend Penn Nursing on May 14 in a virtual program. professor of Philosophy at Washington Uni- Navy fl ight school. I served in the Navy for 20 Dina Greenberg CGS’00 GGS’04 has writ- versity in St. Louis, has won the 2021 Lakatos years, fi rst as an aviator and later as an at- ten a new novel, Nermina’s Chance, which will Award from the London School of Economics

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and Political Science. She won the award for Megan O’Leary C’02 writes, “A few years search, from setting up your daily schedule her book, Explaining Cancer: Finding Order after graduating from Penn, I found myself and clarifying your ideal work, to creating a in Disorder. The Lakatos Award is given an- craving adventure, so I sold most everything one-of-a-kind resume and cover letter. ... Our nually for “an outstanding contribution to I owned and bought a one-way ticket to the approach is based in both theory and prac- the philosophy of science, broadly construed, US Virgin Islands. I lived on St. Thomas for tice: we draw on positive psychology, Bud- in the form of a book published in English four years, working on boats and taking men- dhist principles, and Nonviolent Communi- during the previous fi ve years.” It includes a tal notes. After many years of writing, revi- cation, as well as our leadership and career £10,000 (approximately $12,620) prize. sions, and editors’ notes, I just released a coaching work with thousands of clients.” mystery novel, based on my experiences in Jamila Justine Willis C’06, cochair of the USVI. It’s called Into the Blue, and it’s the law fi rm DLA Piper’s Consumer Goods 2001 currently available on Amazon.” Find out and Retail sector and chair of its New York Lt. Col. Ryan Little C’01 writes, “I recently more at meganoleary.com/amazon. Restructuring practice, was named to Bloom- returned from a deployment to Saudi Arabia, berg Law’s inaugural “They’ve Got Next: 40 where I served as the senior attorney represent- Under 40” list, highlighting up-and-coming ing the US to the Saudi military as it responded 2003 attorneys across various practices. to a series of attacks by Iran and its proxy forces. Eric Johnson L’03, the current mayor of Currently, I serve as the chief of international Dallas, writes, “My wife Nakita and I wel- humanitarian law for US Central Command, comed our third child, Lela Reece Johnson, 2009 which commands all US forces across the Mid- on May 21. Lela joins big brothers William Sarah Kaminetsky Jonas C’09 writes, dle East and Afghanistan. Previously, I was (age seven) and George (age three).” “Isaac Jonas and I are thrilled to announce deputy general counsel and assistant professor the birth of our son, Joseph Micah, on March at the US Military Academy at West Point.” 9. Joseph joins his very excited big sisters Shayna Maskell C’01, an assistant profes- 2005 Claire and Margot at our home in New Ro- sor at George Mason University’s School of Isaac Benzaquen WEv’05 see Luis Ra- chelle, New York. After a year of social dis- Integrative Studies, writes, “My fi rst book, mon Redondo WG’12. tancing, we are so grateful that our family Politics as Sound: Washington, DC, Hardcore Taylor Hamilton W’05 was quoted in two was able to celebrate Joseph’s birth with us, 1978–1983, will be published by University of recent Forbes articles discussing the online including uncles Dr. Josh Kaminetsky C’14 Illinois Press on September 28. The book ex- investing app Robinhood. Taylor, an IT worker, and Dr. Tzvi Jonas WG’19.” Sarah and Isaac plores the innovative and uncompromising made well over $100,000 in profi ts and paid work in Manhattan where Sarah is an at- hardcore punk scene in Washington, DC, off his student loans using the app. The articles torney at Morrison Cohen LLP and Isaac is which birthed a new sound and nurtured a are titled “How GameStop and an Army of Red- an investment analyst at Loews Corporation. vibrant subculture aimed at a specifi c segment dit Traders Exposed the Riskiest Market in Dr. Rosemary Lelich C’09 D’14 has of the city’s youth. Led by bands like Bad Decades” (January 31, 2021) and “The Inside achieved board certifi cation from the Amer- Brains and Minor Threat, hardcore in the na- Story of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Op- ican Board of Orthodontics. She practices tion’s capital unleashed music as angry and tion Kid Cowboys and the Wall Street Sharks orthodontics at Family Orthodontics in St. loud as it was fast and minimalistic. Politics That Feed on Them” (August 19, 2020). Louis Park, Minnesota. as Sound tells the story of how a generation created music that produced—and resisted— Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! politics and power. You can read more or get 2006 the book on Amazon or from UI Press.” Emily Baron Bernstein C’06 has been 2012 promoted to senior vice president of develop- Luis Ramon Redondo WG’12 writes, “Two Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! ment at McCormack Baron Salazar, an af- years ago I launched Pallantia Partners, a busi- fordable housing developer headquartered ness venture that allows foreign investors to 2002 in St. Louis. take part in the booming US single-family Regan Shields Ives GAr’02 has received Lauren Weinstein C’06 and her coauthor residence market while consistently bringing her Accredited Learning Environments Plan- Cathy Wasserman have released a new book, foreign investment to the US generating jobs ner designation from the Association for A Practical Guide to the Empowered Job in America. We buy portfolios of single-family Learning Environments Commission on Search: Build a New Mindset and Get a Great homes in high growth secondary cities of the Educational Facility Planning. She currently Job in an Unpredictable World. From the US where tech is booming (Austin, Charlotte, serves as principal and K–12 Educational stu- book’s description: “You’ll discover powerful Raleigh, Nashville), rent them out to people dio leader at Finegold Alexander Architects. tools to navigate every step of your job working in tech/medicine/academia and then,

70 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 after a period of fi ve years, we sell them ‘as a in the Litigation Practice Group. He works were not only cut off from family and society, block’ to large family offi ces (mostly interna- out of the fi rm’s Jackson, Mississippi, offi ce. they were also preemptively excluded from the tional) or ‘aggregators’ (intermediaries) who rewards of citizenship and adulthood.” then resell them to large pension funds such as CPPIB, CALPERS, etc. Our idea was born 2014 Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! organically, in parallel to my day job, when I Dr. Josh Kaminetsky C’14 see Sarah was a lawyer at Skadden in New York. I started Kaminetsky Jonas C’09. 2017 investing personal money in US real estate dur- Eric A. Santoli LPS’14 writes, “I recently Maureen “Molly” Hood GEd’17 writes, ing the 2008 crisis and started learning some found out that I am one of two artists who “Since I graduated, I created a mentorship tricks of the trade. One day, in the summer of have been chosen for the Versailles Founda- program for teenagers, called Imaginarium. 2018, after experiencing the tragic deaths of tion’s Munn Fellowship Artist Residency Our mission is helping students achieve con- two Wharton classmates, I decided to leave my Award, which will allow me to live and work fi dence and practical advanced skills through well-paid stable job and launch my own ven- for three months in 2023 at Claude Monet’s student-led, passion-based learning, so they ture. During this exciting journey, I received house and gardens in Giverny, France. I am can start vocational careers with experience. lots of help from the Penn community. Penn planning to write a journal-style book about You can fi nd more information on our web- professor Asuka Nakahara was one of the fi rst my experience in 2023 at Giverny. I am an site, www.imaginariumhomeschooling.com.” ‘luminaries’ I consulted with before launching artist and teacher currently living and work- Molly invites alumni contact at mhood@ my business, and countless of alumni in the US ing in northern New Jersey. More information alumni.upenn.edu. (e.g., Sam Chandan W’97 GEng’01 G’03 can be found on my website, ericsantoli.com.” Allison Barnes Reichhold GNu’17 has GrW’04, dean of NYU’s Schack Institute of been named a ANCC Magnet Nurse of the Real Estate) and abroad (e.g., Isaac Benza- Year by the American Nurses Credentialing quen WEv’05, founder of Ben Oldman Part- 2015 Center. The awards recognize “the outstand- ners; and Pelayo Primo de Rivera WG´94, Johnna Marcus SPP’15, a senior addiction ing contributions of clinical nurses in each founder of Kefren Capital) opened their doors social worker at Beth Israel Deaconess Medi- of the fi ve Magnet Model Components,” and for me and either met up with me or invested cal Center, recently published an article about Allison was honored under the Transforma- with me or gave me valuable advice. I couldn’t addiction in the Spring 2021 issue of Social tional Leadership category. have achieved what I have achieved if it weren’t Work Voice, published by the National Asso- for Penn and Wharton.” ciation of Social Workers (Massachusetts Monica Rhodes GFA’12 was among 10 Chapter). Titled Logging on: Building a Clin- 2019 global leaders selected as a 2022 Harvard Loeb ical Alliance in Substance Use Disorder Treat- Dr. Tzvi Jonas WG’19 see Sarah Kami- Fellow. According to the website, “Loeb Fellows ment, it was also covered in the SP2 News netsky Jonas C’09. are accomplished practitioners, infl uential in online and can be viewed at bit.ly/3xqKbGX. shaping the built and natural environment, John A. McCabe LPS’15 spoke at a vir- whose work is advancing positive social out- tual author event hosted by the Bucks Coun- 2020 comes in the US and around the world. ... Fel- ty (PA) Free Library on August 18. He is the Dave Liu LPS’20, a 30-year veteran of Wall lows audit classes at the [Harvard Graduate author of a book of short stories, Tracks Street and Silicon Valley, has written a new School of Design] and throughout the vast net- Through Our Lives: Stories Told on Philly El book, The Way of the Wall Street Warrior: Con- work of Harvard and MIT.” Monica is director Trains, and a novel, The Girl in Japan: A quer the Corporate Game Using Tips, Tricks, of resource management for the National Park Young Soldier’s Story, which centers on his and Smartcuts. From the book’s press materi- Foundation. She also advises Penn’s Weitzman studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. als: “Perfect for aspiring professionals climb- School of Design at the Center for the Preserva- ing the corporate ladder, The Way of the Wall tion of Civil Rights Sites, helping to establish Street Warrior is a must-read guide for anyone partnerships to advance the Center’s work. 2016 in a highly competitive industry looking to Angela Wang Nu’12 GNu’17 received the Laura Soderberg Gr’16, assistant professor get, and stay, ahead of the pack.” Early Career Alumni Award for Excellence from of English at the University of Southern Indi- Penn Nursing on May 14 in a virtual program. ana, has authored a new book, Vicious Infants: Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum US Lit- 2021 erature. From the book’s press materials: “Vi- Jamie Chung Nu’21 received the Alumni 2013 cious Infants off ers a counterhistory of literary Spirit Award for Graduating Students from Stephen Fritz C’13 has joined Bradley childhood as both perceived social threat and Penn Nursing on May 14 in a virtual program. Arant Boult Cummings LLP as an associate site of resistance, revealing that many children

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Please send notifications of deaths soccer teams, where he earned letters in both. 1939 of alumni directly to: Alumni Records, Dr. Raymond H. Schneider C’39, Ran- He served in the US Navy during World War University of Pennsylvania, Suite 300, cho Mirage, CA, a retired physician; June 24, II. His daughter is Anne B. Scott WG’83. 2929 Walnut Street, Phila., PA 19104 2019, at 101. His daughter is Nancy S. Spelke EMAIL [email protected] CW’73. 1945 Newspaper obits are appreciated. Marvin Benjamin Levitties W’45, Bala 1940 Cynwyd, PA, a retired clothing company ex- Landing during the nation’s Bicentennial. At Fred G. Clark ChE’40, Sarasota, FL, a ecutive and former professor of retail and the Penn, she was a member of Sigma Delta Tau retired chemical engineer for Union Carbide; history of fashion at Harcum College; May sorority, Penn Players, and WXPN. One son Aug. 14, 2020, at 102. 17. His sons are John A. Levitties C’91 G’92 is Dr. David C. Lindy C’74 M’81 GM’03. and Matthew Sean Levitties WG’96. Ewing H. Miller II Ar’48 GAr’48, Wash- 1941 Dr. Carl K. Newhart D’45, Naples, FL, a ington, DC, a retired architect who designed Dr. Erwin Klingsberg Ch’41, Falls retired dentist; Feb. 21. He served as a dental many large, complex projects; March 29. His Church, VA, a researcher in organic chemis- offi cer in the US Navy during World War II work spanned from planning 24 American air try at the American Cyanamid Company; and remained in the US Navy Reserve for 26 bases in the UK to designing 31 buildings at March 10. He also taught chemistry at sev- years, retiring as a commander. Indiana State University and the University eral colleges and was an accomplished ama- of San Diego Master Plan. He served in the US teur pianist. 1946 Army Air Corps during World War II and be- Ruth Ingraham Galvin OT’46, Ocean came a prisoner of war, earning a Purple 1942 View, DE, Jan. 24. Heart, among other medals. At Penn, he was Russell S. Hunt ChE’42, Norfolk, VA, Vernon L. Langlinais C’46, Fort Worth, a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Jan. 27. TX, a retired chemical engineer; April 26. At Mary Anne McNelis Myer Ed’48, Phila- Dr. Beatrice P. Troyan CW’42, Philadel- Penn, he was a member of the Navy ROTC delphia, a longtime Philadelphia public phia, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist; and he later served in the US Navy Reserve. school teacher; April 22. At Penn, she was a April 23. One of the fi rst women to attend member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. One Hahnemann Medical College, she’d go on to 1947 grandson is Harry P. Surer C’25. serve on the faculty and staff at Hahnemann Charles H. Hindersman W’47, India- Richard E. Winston G’48, Havertown, for more than 30 years, delivering countless napolis, a retired vice president for fi nancial PA, a retired chemical engineer; May 10. He babies and training obstetrical residents and aff airs at Southern Illinois University; May served in the US Navy. One son is Steven P. fellows. She also ran a fertility clinic, served 6. At Penn, he was a member of Beta Theta Winston ChE’80 and one grandson is Michael as a project director of the Maternal and In- Pi fraternity, Friars Senior Society, the bas- Winston C’10 EAS’10. fant Care program at Crozer-Chester Medical ketball team, and the ROTC. Center, and was a lifelong advocate for wom- 1949 en’s reproductive rights. 1948 Helen A. Carroll GEd’49, Mount Carmel, Dr. Frederick J. Boehlke C’48 G’51 PA, a retired high school business teacher; 1943 Gr’58, Paoli, PA, professor emeritus of his- April 23, at 102. Robert A. Billstein W’43, Toledo, OH, tory at Eastern University, where he also Harold Guckes W’49, Glenmoore, PA, founder of a steel corporation and a roller served as the university’s archivist and his- owner of a car dealership; June 4. He served rink; May 8. He served in the US Army during torian; April 10. in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a member of World War II. At Penn, he was a member of Helen Exar Cummings Ed’48 GEd’51, Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the rowing team. Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. Bala Cynwyd, PA, a history and social sci- Dr. Donald F. Heiman C’49 M’53 Homer V. Buescher CHE’43, Cincinnati, ences teacher at Upper Merion (PA) High GM’57, Warrington, PA, a retired cardiolo- a retired chemical engineer for Procter & School; April 12. gist at the Wilmington (DE) Veterans Aff airs Gamble; July 30, 2020. He served in the US Benjamin Dangerfi eld III W’48, Wall- Medical Center; May 5. He served in the US Navy during World War II. ingford, PA, a retired accountant; May 11. He Army during World War II. At Penn, he was Alan R. Scott W’43, Branford, CT, an ac- served as a combat medic for the US Army a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. tor, writer, and lyricist of musical commer- during World War II. Robert A. Kuhn WG’49, Basking Ridge, cials with his wife, who wrote the music; Feb. Joy Dienes Lindy CW’48, Bala Cynwyd, NJ, a retired product supervisor at Allied 5. At Penn, he was a member of Beta Theta PA, a civic volunteer; May 10. She helped get Chemical in the chrome chemicals division; Pi fraternity, Penn Players, Mask & Wig, resident sticker parking in Center City Phil- Oct. 21, 2019. He served in the US Navy dur- Daily Pennsylvanian, and the lacrosse and adelphia and bring the Tall Ships to Penn’s ing World War II.

72 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 John P. Ondrechen G’49, Burnsville, MN, John J. Donnegan WG’51, Weston, MA, June Miller Kimmel CW’53, Davidson, a retired pension manager for the old Bethle- Nov. 22, 2019. He served in the US Marine NC, a retired region administrator for the hem Steel Corporation; June 19, 2020. He also Corps during World War II. Council on the Status of Women; May 25. taught mathematics at Lehigh University. He Frank C. Fryburg WG’51, Lancaster, PA, Dr. David M. Stabins D’53, Watertown, served in the US Navy during World War II. a former manager at RCA Corporation; May NY, a retired dentist; April 25. He served in Jack M. Pollin GEE’49, Tucson, AZ, a 12. He served in the US Navy Reserve. One the US Army. retired brigadier general in the US Army daughter is Susan P. Scott DH’73. Norman A. Stevens W’53, Flemington, NJ, and a mathematics professor at West Point; Colleen MacKey Grotzinger Ed’51, Har- a retired tax assessor for Bedminster and May 26. He served in the US Army during risburg, PA, a retired middle school English Bridgewater Township (NJ); April 11. He served World War II, the Korean War, and the Viet- teacher; Nov. 14. in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a member of nam War. Kathleen S. Yale HUP’51, West Hartford, Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Friars Senior Howard “Mike” Spencer W’49, Ponte CT, Aug. 3, 2019. Society. His brother is John K. Stevens W’61. Vedra Beach, FL, a retired executive in the chemicals industry; Nov. 11. He served in the 1952 1954 US Army Air Corps during World War II and Dr. Roy G. Nagle C’52 M’56 GM’60, Richard S. Chew Jr. FA’54 GFA’55, Nar- recently wrote about those experiences in a Lehigh Acres, FL, a retired physician and berth, PA, a former teacher at Episcopal book, One Man’s Journey: The Life, Lessons medical director of Kona Community Hospi- Academy; Dec. 31. & Legacy of a World War II Fighter Pilot. tal in Hawaii; May 3. He served in the US Jill Holdstein Edelson CW’54, New Army. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Ep- York, Aug. 21, 2020. She was active in New 1950 silon Pi fraternity. York’s theater community and was a cham- Dr. Theodore Adler D’50 GD’51, Stam- Arthur J. Yu C’52 Gr’57, Basking Ridge, pion of those with intellectual and develop- ford, CT, a retired orthodontist; Jan. 17. He NJ, retired head of research and development mental disabilities. At Penn, she was a mem- served in the US Army. at Borden Chemicals; April 23. One grand- ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Robert J. Kidd C’50, West Grove, PA, re- daughter is Nicole P. Lam C’15. Penn Players. tired pension manager at an insurance com- Allen H. Fisher W’54, New York, a CPA pany; May 19. He served in the US Navy dur- 1953 and later a CFO; Nov. 28, 2020. He served in ing World War II. John P. Anderson C’53 L’56, Kennett the US Navy. At Penn, he was a member of Rev. Ann Robb Smith CW’50, Northeast Square, PA, a retired corporate and regulatory Beta Sigma Rho fraternity. His daughter is Harbor, ME, an Episcopal priest and civil lawyer for Columbia Gas Systems; May 10. His Caren Fisher Berlin W’81, who is married to rights activist; June 6. Her husband is Dr. twin brother is Robert M. Anderson W’53. Edward A. Berlin L’84. Kaighn Smith M’54 GM’58, and one brother James A. Britton W’53, Southbury, CT, Ronald M. Katzman C’54, Camp Hill, is Edwin G. Robb C’57, who died June 25 (see a retired commercial and fi nancial property PA, cofounder of the law fi rm Goldberg, Class of 1957). appraiser; May 3. He appraised properties in Katzman, P.C; Jan. 8. He also served as as- 49 of the 50 states and coauthored a textbook sistant attorney general of Pennsylvania. At 1951 on fi nancing income-producing property. He Penn, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Lila Wolfman Booth Ed’51, Philadelphia, also worked as a college football offi cial. At fraternity, Glee Club, Debate Council, and the Nov. 29. At Penn, she was a member of De- Penn, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Army ROTC. bate Council and WXPN. One son is David B. fraternity. George F. Keane L’54, Trumbull, CT, re- Rosenbaum C’79. Gordon Cavanaugh L’53, Bethesda, MD, tired founder of the investment fi rm Com- Rev. Elwood J. Culp C’51, Sarasota, FL, a retired attorney and general counsel to the monfund, and a noted philanthropic invest- a reverend who led the Lutheran Social Ser- Council of Large Public Housing Authorities; ment strategist; May 20. vices of South Central Pennsylvania; Nov. 26. May 26. He was also appointed by President Harvey L. Miller WG’54, Atlanta, a for- He served in the US Navy during World War Carter as administrator of the Farmers Home mer state program manager for the IRS; Feb. II. One granddaughter is Eliza Culp C’20. Administration within the Department of 16, 2020. He was a veteran of World War II Nicholas C. Cummins W’51, London, a Agriculture. One son is Sean Cavanaugh C’86. and the Korean War. manager for a manufacturer of construction Dr. David R. Fink GEd’53 Gr’57, Vero Alan S. Smith W’54, San Francisco, retired products; May 30. At Penn, he was a member Beach, FL, May 6, 2020. president and co-owner of the Crown Market, of the ROTC and the Daily Pennsylvanian. Helena Mitchell Grandy CW’53, Naples, a kosher supermarket with stores in Connect- He served in the US Navy during the Korean FL, June 27. At Penn, she was a member of icut and Massachusetts; June 14. He served in War, earning a National Defense Service Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She received the the US Army during the Korean War. At Penn, Medal and a Korean Service Medal. Alumni Award of Merit in 1976. he was a member of Kappa Nu fraternity.

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1955 1957 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania; Richard J. McGowan Jr. C’55, McKin- Marilyn Smith Hipple DH’57, Penning- Sept. 20, 2020. ney, TX, a retired English teacher for the US ton, NJ, May 6. She was the fi rst person to Dr. Lawrence M. Pass C’58, Scottsdale, AZ, Department of Defense, who taught at Amer- earn a Bachelor of Science degree in oral a retired hematologist-oncologist who main- ican schools abroad in Turkey, Germany, and hygiene at Penn. At Penn, she was a member tained a practice in Youngtown, OH; March 24. England; Feb. 25. He served in the US Army. of Alpha Xi Delta women’s fraternity and the He served in the US Air Force. At Penn, he was At Penn, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Choral Society. Her husband is Dr. William a member of Tau Delta Phi fraternity. fraternity. His daughter is Anne McGowan P. Hipple C’55 D’57 GD’62. Elayne Soff er Stamm CW’58, Merion Johnson C’92. Harold Oslick CE’57 GCE’59, Somerset, Station, PA, a former reading teacher in the Stanley Schneider GEE’55, Swarthmore, NJ, former project manager of New Jersey Philadelphia School District; July 17. Her PA, Sept. 9, 2020. Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail; May 25. husband is Stephen L. Stamm ME’54. David W. Smith C’55, Falmouth, ME, a Edwin G. “Ted” Robb C’57, Bryn Mawr, David J. Steinberg L’58, Narberth, PA, a retired attorney for the New York State De- PA, a retired marketing executive for a man- retired entertainment lawyer; Jan. 8. One partment of Health; May 5. At Penn, he was ufacturer of foil and wood-grain components granddaughter is Anabel J. Silver C’23. a member of Phi Kappa Psi and WXPN. for cars, consumer products, and electronic Malcolm H. Stull C’55, Denver, CO, a appliances; June 25. He served in the US 1959 retired attorney; Nov. 27. At Penn, he was a Army. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Psi Virginia Ann Boch Bus DH’59, Wayne, member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. His fraternity and the wrestling team. His former PA, a former pediatric dental hygienist; May 3. son is Dr. Philip A. Stull C’84. wife is Lee Cooper van de Velde CW’58, and Joanne Tweed Hopper Nu’59, Downing- his sister is Rev. Ann Robb Smith CW’50, who town, PA, a retired nursing instructor and 1956 died on June 6 (see Class of 1950). supervisor; May 9. She served as a captain in Rose Sachs Cooperman Ed’56, Villa- Harvey Rosenberg GEE’57 W’63, San the US Army Nurse Corps. nova, PA, Dec. 3. At Penn, she was a member Diego, CA, March 28. At Penn, he was a mem- Dr. William R. Muir GM’59, Lumber- of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. One daughter ber of Debate Council. ton, NJ, a retired surgeon; May 24. is Laurie Dameshek W’83, and one grandson Lee G. Tagliaferri W’57, Lawrence Town- Feodor U. Pitcairn C’59, Huntingdon is Alex J. Vigderman C’12. ship, NJ, founder of an investment manage- Valley, PA, a retired banker with Pitcairn Dr. Jerome Dersh GM’56, Boca Raton, ment fi rm and a professor of accounting at Trust; May 13. He was also the director and FL, an ophthalmologist and sculptor; May Pace University; May 23. He served in the US cinematographer of several documentaries 14. He served in the US Air Force. Army. One son is Mark Tagliaferri W’85, and on underwater wildlife and authored four Dr. Milton Newman D’56, Riverview, FL, two grandchildren are Isabella H. Taglia- books. He served in the US Army. a retired dentist; March 3. He served in the ferri C’20 and Natasha H. Tagliaferri W’22. Hon. Allen L. Schwait W’59, Baltimore, US Air Force. a retired Baltimore City Circuit Court judge Charles Graydon “Gray” Rogers WG’56, 1958 and former chairman of the University of Vero Beach, FL, retired president of an invest- Stephen C. Adamson W’58 ASC’63, Maryland Board of Regents; May 27. At Penn, ment management fi rm; June 25. He served Chelsea, MA, a retired educational sales man- he was a member of Beta Sigma Rho frater- in the US Navy during the Korean War. ager; Sept. 21. He served in the US Navy and nity and the basketball team. Lionel Savadove W’56, New Hope, PA, a the US Navy Reserve. At Penn, he was a mem- Charles F. “Charley” Shaff ert G’59, former tax attorney who later became a fash- ber of Phi Sigma Delta fraternity, Friars Se- Shrewsbury, MA, professor emeritus of Eng- ion store executive; March 2. He served in nior Society, and the lacrosse team. lish and American studies at Castleton State the US Army. Robert F. Fogelman W’58, Memphis, College (now Castleton University) in Ver- Robert L. Stevens W’56, Goleta, CA, for- TN, a real estate executive and philanthro- mont; May 2. He served in the US Navy dur- mer manager of his family’s clothing store pist; May 30. At Penn, he was a member of ing the Korean War. who later became a real estate agent; March Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, Friars Senior Soci- 1. He served in the US Air Force. At Penn, he ety, Mask & Wig, and the cross country and 1960 was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma frater- track teams. One daughter is Catherine S. Dr. Geraldine M. “Gerry” Phipps Ed’60 nity and the sprint football team. Fogelman C’91. Gr’71, New Bedford, MA, a professor of Rus- William J. Wason W’56, Troy, NY, a re- Faith Christensen Johnson DH’58, Ber- sian history at the University of Massachu- tired senior securities analyst; June 6. He wyn, PA, Jan. 23. She worked in dental health setts Dartmouth; Jan. 30. At Penn, she was a served in the US Air Force during the Korean and real estate. member of the Daily Pennsylvanian, Mortar War. At Penn, he was a member of Acacia David B. Kresge G’58, Chadds Ford, PA, Board Senior Society, and the basketball and fraternity and the heavyweight rowing team. a retired teacher at what is now known as tennis teams.

74 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 Alan T. “Al” Willoughby WEv’60, New- tually named the Herbert C. Brown Distin- Dr. Jorge A. Tramontana GM’64, At- town Square, PA, a retired systems engineer guished Professor of Chemistry, before win- lanta, a retired surgeon; May 7. for IBM; April 7. He served in the US Army ning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry himself in Betty Jean Shropshire Waters SW’64, Medical Corps. His wife is Roberta M. Wil- 2010. The prize recognized his research in Voorhees, NJ, March 12. loughby CW’65. using palladium complexes as catalysts to link together carbon molecules into larger, more 1965 1961 complicated structures. He shared the Nobel Gerald E. Gajnos Gr’65, Hudson, NH, Dr. Enso A. Mattioli D’61, Williams Prize with Richard Heck of the University of retired chemistry professor at Western New Township, PA, a retired dentist; June 26. He Delaware and Akira Suzuki of Japan’s Hok- England University who later taught at St. served in the US Army as a dentist. kaido University. He was the seventh Nobel Anselm College and UMass Lowell; June 4. Dr. Richard A. “Dick” Miller Gr’61, laureate with ties to the Penn chemistry de- Edward S. Hurwitz D’65, Sanibel, FL, a Waynesboro, VA, a retired high school sci- partment. He retired from Purdue in 2019. retired dentist; May 27, 2020. His wife is Ro- ence teacher and former chemist; April 29. Stephen B. Schneider W’63, Roslyn salie Moses Hurwitz CW’64 GEd’84. Heights, NY, a retired accountant; June 9. At Theodore H. Tung Gr’65, Cleveland, OH, 1962 Penn, he was a member of Tau Delta Phi frater- a former senior vice president and chief Sally Ann Allen CW’62 GEd’76, Lower nity. His children are Dr. Jeff rey Harris Schnei- economist for National City Bank; May 11. Merion Twp., PA, Sept. 22, 2020. der C’88 and Bonnie E. Schneider C’91, and one William Samuel Hipp III WG’62, Ft. grandchild is Sydney M. Schneider C’16. 1966 Lauderdale, FL, a founder of a soil engineer- Elizabeth A. Buchanan CW’66, Penn ing corporation who previously worked as a 1964 Valley, PA, April 26. computer programmer, stockbroker, and IT James L. Alkire WG’64, Pleasant Hill, Delmont F. Fleming Gr’66, Fredericks- specialist; April 16. CA, a retired city manager; April 22. burg, VA, professor emeritus of English at Dr. Kenneth J. Forman C’64, Huntingdon what is now the University of Mary Washing- 1963 Valley, PA, a retired cardiologist; May 9. His ton; May 4. James D. “Jim” Bower Jr. W’63, Tuck- wife is Dr. Barbara Rifkind Forman CW’64. Carolyn Oswald Kendall GEd’66, Lan- erton, NJ, a former production plant man- Dr. Richard A. Inciardi GEE’64, The caster, PA, a retired fourth grade teacher; ager who also served as a councilman and Villages, FL, an aerospace executive; Feb. 1. May 23. mayor of Tuckerton; May 30, 2020. David F. Kleeman W’64, Newtown Square, Phillip W. McClanahan WG’66, The Sea Samuel M. Jannetta C’63, Atlanta, a re- PA, a retired international tax partner at Ranch, CA, a retired investment banker; Sep- tired executive at IBM; Nov. 6, 2020. At Penn, PricewaterhouseCoopers; May 6. One daugh- tember 20, 2019. he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fra- ter is Jeannette Kleeman W’00. Clifton C. Olds Gr’66, Brookline, MA, a ternity, Friars Senior Society, and the baseball Lynn Popowsky Kramer CW’64, Hammon- retired art history professor at Bowdoin Col- and lightweight football teams. His wife is ton, NJ, chief fi nancial offi cer of the Kramer lege; April 8. Susan Butler Jannetta SW’65, and one broth- Beverage Company; March 1. At Penn, she H. Donald Pasquale L’66, Valley Forge, er is Anthony P. Jannetta W’56, who is mar- was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. PA, founder and managing partner of a com- ried to Sally Stull Jannetta PT’57. One grand- One brother is Irwin A. Popowsky L’77. mercial real estate development fi rm; May daughter is Laura A. Jannetta C’25. Irving S. Shapiro C’64, Rockville, MD, 25. He served in the US Army Signal Corps. Dr. Donald R. Lundy Jr. V’63, Muncy, Jan. 27. Rev. Mother Dorcas Rosenlund (Dr. PA, a veterinarian; April 21. Dr. Paul Silverstein M’64, Oklahoma Mary L. Rosenlund) GM’66, Bethlehem, Ei-ichi Negishi Gr’63 Hon’11, Indianap- City, a plastic surgeon who designed and di- CT, a former pediatric gastroenterologist and olis, IN, Nobel Prize winner and Herbert C. rected a state-of-the-art burn treatment cen- clinical professor at Penn’s School of Medi- Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry ter at the Baptist Medical Center (now Inte- cine who later entered the Abbey of Regina at Purdue University; June 6. Born in Japa- gris Health) in Oklahoma City; April 19. The Laudis; May 20. nese-ruled Manchuria, he came to America as burn center was renamed in his honor in D. Garth Wise WEv’66 CGS’71, Denver, a Fulbright scholar and completed his dis- 2000, and in 2019 he was honored at the PA, a retired Amtrak employee; May 14. sertation work under Penn chemistry profes- Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors Gala as a sor Allan Day in 1963. He went on to work at “surgical innovator for burn victims.” He 1967 Purdue University under Herbert C. Brown, served in the US Army during the Vietnam Dr. John H. Bell Jr. D’67, Windber, PA, who had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in War, evacuating and treating burned soldiers. a retired dentist; May 20. He served in the 1979. He worked for a time at Syracuse Uni- One brother is Dr. Peter R. Silverstein M’72, US Navy as a dentist during the Vietnam War. versity, then returned to Purdue and was even- whose wife is Linda G. Silverstein CW’71. Robert Y. Justis Jr. WG’67, Telluride,

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CO, retired head of economic development 1970 Joseph R. Horgan C’72, Oakland, CA, an for the electric provider Central Vermont Sean J. O’Callaghan L’70, Havertown, attorney; March 19. Public Service; May 3. He served in the US PA, a retired administrative law judge for the Dr. Jan E. Paradise CW’72 M’76 Army Reserve. US Department of Health and Human Ser- GM’80, Newton, MA, a retired pediatrician; Dr. Michael D. Levin M’67, Elkins Park, vices; May 13. He served in the US Navy. His April 12. Earlier in her career, she served as PA, a pediatrician; April 25. daughter is Margaret M. O’Callaghan G’04. assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn. Her Alexander “Scott” Logan L’67, Fort My- Alexander B. Sidline GEE’70, Philadel- husband is Dr. Gary R. Fleisher GM’79, and ers, FL, a retired certifi ed fi nancial planner; phia, April 28. one son is Daniel A. Fleisher EAS’01. April 28. He served in the US Navy and the Dr. Philip P. Toskes GM’70, Gainesville, Lt. Col. Lawrence “Larry” Reimann US Navy Reserve. FL, a gastroenterologist and professor of Nu’72, Albuquerque, NM, a retired lieuten- Edmund J. Purdy C’67, Mebane, NC, a medicine at the University of Florida; May ant colonel in the US Air Force who later retired executive at an executive recruiting 19. He served in the US Army. worked as an anesthetist; Dec. 3. He served fi rm; June 9. At Penn, he was a member of in the Vietnam War. the Daily Pennsylvanian, WXPN, and the 1971 Stephen Strasser C’72, Dublin, OH, a track and cross country teams. One brother Ann Shorey Bishop Nu’71, Yardley, PA, professor at the Ohio State University’s Col- is David E. Purdy Gr’82. a retired nurse; Jan. 13. lege of Medicine; June 19. At Penn, he was a Nemia Briones Melgarejo Chai Gr’71, member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity and the 1968 Columbus, GA, professor emerita of linguis- tennis team. Edward C. Friedrichs III GAr’68, Reno, tics at Columbus State University; May 26. NV, retired president and CEO of the architec- Dr. Michael J. Gratch C’71, New Hope, 1973 tural fi rm Gensler; May 13. He served on the PA, an orthopedic spine surgeon; May 5. At Fraser Bryan Wilkins C’73, Washington, board of advisors for Penn’s School of Design. Penn, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa DC, a journalist who later became a trainer Arthur T. McManus WG’68, Ambler, PA, fraternity and the sailing and track teams. of thoroughbred racehorses; May 19. a retired banking executive and controller; One son is Michael J. Gratch C’06. May 1. He spent his retirement years as a George N. Paraskevopoulos Gr’71, War- 1974 docent at the Philadelphia Zoo. He served in ren, NJ, a retired economics professor at Iona Dr. Charles Brindis M’74 GM’77, Boul- the US Navy and US Navy Reserve, retiring College; April 12. His son is Nicholas G. Para- der, CO, an anesthesiologist at the Univer- as captain. skevopoulos EE’82. sity of Pittsburgh Medical Center; May 16. Joseph S. Vincent Jr. WG’68, Clem- Raymond L. Reaves GCP’71, Parker, CO, Carlton J. Norris GAr’74, Camden, DE, mons, NC, an accountant; April 13. a former director of planning for Allegheny April 21, 2020. Thabet “Zak” Zakaria Gr’68, Rose Val- County (PA); Dec. 6. Dr. Arthur V. Tennyson V’74, Mel- ley, PA, retired deputy director of transporta- bourne, FL, a retired assistant executive vice tion planning at the Delaware Valley Re- 1972 president at the American Veterinary Medi- gional Planning Commission; May 13. Dr. Mary P. Cullinan CW’72, Spokane, cal Association; Jan. 24. He served in the US WA, a college professor and administrator who Air Force and the US Air Force Reserve. 1969 most recently was the fi rst woman president Samuel M. Fineman W’69, Boca Raton, of Eastern Washington University; May 3. 1975 FL, retired owner of a fabric business called David L. Freidl W’72, Blackwood, NJ, a Jing Jue Young GrE’75, Whittier, CA, Homemaker’s; May 17. At Penn, he was a retired civil engineer/project controls man- March 20. member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. The ager who worked at United Engineers & Con- Samuel M. Fineman Library at Boston Uni- struction, Raytheon, and Washington Group 1976 versity Law Libraries is named after him. International. At Penn, he was a member of Glenn N. Eichen WG’76, New York, a re- Ruth V. Powers GEE’69, Henrico, VA, a Kappa Sigma fraternity and the sprint foot- tired tax planning executive at a bank; April retired computer analyst and project man- ball team. 7, 2020. His sister is Susan Eichen WG’79. ager at TRW Incorporated, a former aero- Thomas J. Gambino W’72 WG’76, Dr. Alan L. Schneyer C’76, Concord, MA, space company; May 10. Broomall, PA, a retired executive at SunGard, a physician and researcher in the Reproduc- Mary Winder CW’69 GCP’71, Boise, ID, a software company; July 3, 2020. At Penn, tive Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts Gen- a retired senior planner and supervisor for the he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. His eral Hospital who later founded a startup Sarasota County (FL) Planning Department; wife is Patricia Flounders Gambino Nu’75 working to cure diabetes; Nov. 18, 2020. His March 23. Earlier, she had a long career as a GNu’79, and two sons are Jeff Gambino W’00 siblings include Barbara Engel CW’73 GEd’78 city planner in the state of New Jersey. and Jon Gambino C’02. and Mark C. Schneyer C’86.

76 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2021 School Abbreviations GEE master’s, Electrical Engineering HUP Nurse training (till 1978) GEng master’s, Engineering and L Law 1978 Ar Architecture Applied Science LAr Landscape Architecture Richard J. Craig WG’78, Lafayette, CA, ASC Annenberg GEx master’s, Engineering Executive LPS Liberal and Professional Studies GFA master’s, Fine Arts retired CEO of the North American branch C College (bachelor’s) M Medicine CCC College Collateral Courses GGS master’s, College of General Studies ME Mechanical Engineering of MOL, a shipping company; April 24. CE Civil Engineering GL master’s, Law MT Medical Technology Stuart I. Gold C’78, Vauxhall, NJ, an attor- CGS College of General Studies (till 2008) GLA master’s, Landscape Architecture MtE Metallurgical Engineering ney and adjunct professor of law at Seton Hall Ch Chemistry GME master’s, Mechanical Engineering Mu Music University and Rutgers University; May 30. ChE Chemical Engineering GM Medicine, post-degree NEd Certificate in Nursing Richard Q. Whelan C’78, Merion Sta- CW College for Women (till 1975) GMt master’s, Metallurgical Engineering Nu Nursing (bachelor’s) tion, PA, a maritime lawyer; March 19. At D Dental Medicine GNu master’s, Nursing OT Occupational Therapy Penn, he was a member of Delta Psi frater- DH Dental Hygiene GPU master’s, Governmental PSW Pennsylvania School of Social Work nity and the soccer team. His wife is Virginia EAS Engineering and Applied Administration PT Physical Therapy Gr doctorate SAMP School of Allied Medical Jarvis Whelan C’78. Science (bachelor’s) Ed Education GrC doctorate, Civil Engineering Professions EE Electrical Engineering GrE doctorate, Electrical Engineering SPP Social Policy and Practice (master’s) 1980 FA Fine Arts GrEd doctorate, Education SW Social Work (master’s) (till 2005) Eleanor Warren Derr GNu’80, William- G master’s, Arts and Sciences GrL doctorate, Law V Veterinary Medicine sport, PA, a retired nurse and director of the GAr master’s, Architecture GrN doctorate, Nursing W Wharton (bachelor’s) school of nursing at Lycoming College; June 5. GCE master’s, Civil Engineering GRP master’s, Regional Planning WAM Wharton Advanced Management Leslie J. Newman C’80, Slingerlands, NY, GCh master’s, Chemical Engineering GrS doctorate, Social Work WEF Wharton Extension Finance March 24. GCP master’s, City Planning GrW doctorate, Wharton WEv Wharton Evening School GD Dental, post-degree GV Veterinary, post-degree WG master’s, Wharton 1981 GEd master’s, Education Hon Honorary WMP Wharton Management Program Eugenia Vansant Pearson GNu’81, Em- maus, PA, a nurse and a lecturer at several colleges; April 9. Dental Edward and Shirley Shils Clinic is also the Royal Tombs of Ur with Richard Zettler, named after them. One daughter is Nancy published by Penn Press. She also published 1982 Shils C’77 G’86 GEd’98 GEd’01 GrEd’01, and several peer-reviewed articles about cultural Virginia Sickles Legler GNu’82, Monon- one grandchild is Max Szczurek WEv’03. transmission and ethnoarchaeology. She re- gahela, PA, a retired nurse practitioner for a Ronald Turner L’84, Houston, a law pro- tired in 2003 to pursue her hobby of painting, Veterans Aff airs Medical Center; May 20. fessor at the University of Houston; June 3. though she was called back several times to give lectures and tours and as a guest con- 1983 1988 sultant and editor of Expedition. Mark E. Thometz GAr’83, Edmonds, WA, Godfrey M. Hodgson G’88, Oxford, UK, Sarah Bankson Newton WG’88, Con- a real estate developer; Aug. 5, 2020. a journalist and historian of American society cord, MA, May 2. She worked for a real estate and politics; Jan. 27. One of his best known pension advisory fi rm and later served on the 1984 works was the landmark study America in boards of several schools and organizations. Michael J. Konigsberg W’84, New York, Our Time: From World War II to Nixon (1976). a former fi nancial executive at Lehman Lee C. Horne Gr’88, Philadelphia, a for- 1989 Brothers, Barclays, UBS, and Apollo Global mer research associate at the Penn Museum Leonardo R. Mateu EAS’89, Atlanta, a Management; May 24. and the former editor of the museum’s mag- management consultant and woodworker; Shirley R. Shils CGS’84 CGS’90 G’93, azine Expedition; April 10. After receiving Sept. 24, 2020. At Penn, he was a member of Penn Valley, PA, a philanthropist and lifelong her PhD from Penn in 1988, she was hired by Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Sigma Kappa frater- learner who received her bachelor’s degree the Penn Museum as a research associate and nities. at age 70 and her master’s degree at age 75; the editor of Expedition. She wrote several Feb. 1, at 100. With her late husband, a for- articles detailing her work in south Asia and 1991 mer Wharton professor, she endowed the Mesopotamia. She also assembled a “Pyramid Michael L. Thompson G’91 Gr’98, Phil- Edward B. Shils and Shirley R. Shils Term Explorer’s Kit” that was a popular children’s adelphia, a former general manager at sev- Professorship in Entrepreneurial Manage- item in the museum’s gift shop. In 1994, she eral Borders bookstores; Feb. 2. ment at Wharton and the Edward B. and published her fi rst book, Village Spaces: Shirley R. Shils Term Professorship in Arbi- Settlement and Society in Northeastern Iran, 1994 tration and Alternative Dispute Resolution with Smithsonian Institution Press. Four Alison S. Greenspan C’94, Pacifi c Pali- at the Penn Carey Law School. The Penn years later, she coauthored Treasures from sades, CA, a fi lm and TV producer well

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known for her work on the ABC drama series 1963 and an associate professor four years medicine. In 1965, he joined Penn’s Student For Life and the movie The Sisterhood of the later. During his teaching, he discouraged Health Service as an attending physician. He Traveling Pants and its sequel; June 27. At cold language like referring to patients as rose through the ranks there, eventually serv- Penn, she was a member of Bloomers and “cases” and urged compassion. He also con- ing as its acting director from 1983 to 1985. Friars Senior Society. ducted infl uential research and published He was also on the attending staff of the Hos- more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in med- pital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), 2004 ical and scientifi c journals. At Penn, he orga- and from 1974 to 1977, he served as the chair Pamela D. Ransome CGS’04, Philadelphia, nized a research laboratory to investigate of its department of dental medicine. He an attorney for the US federal government; central nervous system control of gastric served as a dental offi cer in the US Navy. March 2. She served in the US Marine Corps. secretion and its relationship to peptic ulcer Dr. Jan E. Paradise. See Class of 1972. Edward D. Watson WEv’04, Miami, Feb. 1. disease. His fi ndings anticipated surgical in- Heather A. Peters, Philadelphia, an an- novations for neurologically based ulcers. thropologist, global human rights activist, and 2018 His sister was former fi rst lady Nancy Rea- a former assistant curator at the Penn Muse- Ross C. Gordon C’18, San Francisco, an gan. He served in the US Navy during World um and lecturer at the School of Arts and Sci- associate at an investment management fi rm; War II and the Korean War. ences; April 24. She came to Penn in 1981 as a June 4. Lee C. Horne. See Class of 1988. lecturer and research specialist in the School Anthony S. Kroch, Philadelphia, professor of Arts and Sciences’ anthropology depart- 2021 emeritus of linguistics in the School of Arts ment. She also served as the assistant curator Matthew Y. Wang C’21 D’24, Princeton and Sciences; April 27. In 1978, he obtained a of the Asian section of the Penn Museum. In Junction, NJ, a student in Penn’s seven-year fellowship to work with William Labov, a pro- this position, she undertook a variety of initia- accelerated biology–dental program; May 3. fessor of linguistics at Penn, to conduct socio- tives to foster scholarly communication, like linguistic interviews and analyze the language launching Buried Treasure, a radio series Faculty & Staff of upper-class Philadelphians. Three years about the Penn Museum’s fi nds, and recruiting David F. Babbel, Bryn Mawr, PA, professor later, he joined the faculty as an assistant pro- professors from universities in Asia to speak emeritus of business economics and public fessor of linguistics. He became a full profes- at Penn. After leaving Penn in 1993, she em- policy and a professor of fi nance at Wharton; sor in 1991. He conducted research that won barked on a career that included consulting May 20. He came to Wharton in 1985 as an University Research Foundation grants in and development projects with agencies such associate professor of fi nance and risk man- 2003 and 2007; and in 2006, he was named as UNESCO. Her work included advocating agement and an associate professor of insur- the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed for minorities, preventing human traffi cking, ance. In 1993, he became a full professor of Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences. He and increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS. A spe- insurance, and four years later he became a is best known for his work on historical syn- cial focus was social justice work in Asia, professor of risk management and fi nance. tax, demonstrating that grammatical changes standing up for ethnic minorities and advocat- While at Penn, he published over 130 peer- over time occur at a constant rate, and he also ing for their rights and culture. reviewed papers and presented his research helped pioneer the construction of large, an- Nicholas M. Rongione, Havertown, PA, a before district courts all over the country. In notated databases of historical texts and tools lecturer in legal studies and business ethics 1997, he spoke before Congress in opposition to search them. His daughter is Deborah at Wharton; April 27. A popular professor at to a bill that would result in mutual insurance Kroch Leaf C’96 Nu’96, who is married to Villanova University, he joined Penn’s faculty policyholders losing their ownership stake as Brian F. Leaf C’95 W’95. as an adjunct professor at Wharton in 1997. company executives got rich. He retired in Malcolm A. Lynch, a former professor of Three years later, he became a lecturer there, 2002. In 2003, he received Wharton’s William oral medicine and an interim dean of Penn’s teaching classes at Wharton and the Aresty G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching. School of Dental Medicine; June 4. He joined Institute for Executive Education. In 2005, he During retirement, he wrote a book about his the faculty of Penn Dental as an instructor in also became a consultant on business ethics missionary experience in Brazil, titled Mine 1965, working his way up to full professor of at Wharton. During his time at Wharton, he Angels Round About You. oral medicine in 1975. In the early 1970s, he was highly regarded, and in 1999, he received Richard A. Davis, Villanova, PA, a retired served as assistant dean for hospital and ex- the Teaching Award for Affi liated Faculty and neurosurgeon at the Hospital of the Univer- tramural aff airs, and then from 1988 to 1989, the 2001 and 2002 William G. Whitney sity of Pennsylvania (HUP) and an associate he was the interim dean of Penn Dental. A Awards for Teaching Excellence. He also had professor emeritus of neurosurgery at the renowned teacher, he received both a Lind- an appointment at Penn State University. Perelman School of Medicine; May 7. He back Teaching Award and Penn Dental’s Stu- Rev. Mother Dorcas Rosenlund (Dr. joined Penn as an associate in neurosurgery dent Council Award for Excellence in Teach- Mary L. Rosenlund). See Class of 1966. in 1958, becoming an assistant professor in ing. His expertise was not confi ned to dental

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