VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER. 1969

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Nominations for President Considered by Committee Black Center Organized; The Search Committee to nominate a new President of the University of Penn- Council Weighs Black Studies sylvania has begun meeting weekly to To increase for activities The Committee of the Univer- evaluate received from alumni, opportunities Steering suggestions related to black students and Afro-Amer- sity Council has begun to constitute a new students, and staff. faculty ican culture, a non-profit corporation has special committee to consider all proposals Some 120 names had been submitted been formed by black students and com- for a black studies program at the Univer- by early September, said William G. munity leaders to operate a black students' sity. Owen, Secretary of the Corporation. Most center at 3914 Locust St. Bernard Wolfman, chairman of the were sent in response to an open invita- The new corporation Nyumba ya Steering Committee of the University tion to the University community from Ujamii, Inc., (Swahili for "House of the Council and professor of law, has requested William L. Day, Chairman of the Trus- family") was formed early in September that any additional proposals for a black tees, to help nominate a successor to Dr. and will rent its building from the Uni- studies program he submitted to the secre- Gaylord P. Harnwell, President, who said versity. The facility, formerly the parish tary of the Steering Committee, William in January that he plans to retire at or house of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, G. Owen, Secretary of the Corporation. about the end of September, 1970. was purchased by the University in May 112 College Hall. At that time, a criteria committee of for $60,000. Activities of the corporation Dissolved during the summer was an faculty, students and trustees, with Mr. will he carried on with funds raised by ad hoc Council committee under the Day as chairman, was named; this group the students from private sources. The chairmanship of Dr. Almarin Phillips, then became the Search Committee. center is not being established through professor of law and professor and chair- direct channels, man which Day said the Committee had adopted University said Mrs. Alice of the economics department, F. Emerson, Dean of stated it was not to out the the following guidelines to evaluate nom- Students, because that able carry inees: direct University support of a center de- (Continued on page 5) voted to concerns of black I. A solely people youthful, progressive, vigorous the between the of 35 and might jeopardize University's eligibility person roughly ages for Federal and state funds. Mortgage Plan Is Ended 55. "A center whose focus is the concerns 2. An individual with a broad academic After Four Years of black people greatly enhances the op- First and and earned doctorate or its The Pennsylvania Banking background portunities for intellectual and social de- terminated the in his He must have Trust Company has guar- equivalent discipline. velopment of students on the campus and under which a commitment to excellence in anteed mortgage program teaching provides a setting for establishing a pro- and staff members have and research, to University faculty and academic freedom gressive dialogue between students and and/or renovated some 150 homes and bought integrity. the wider community," Mrs. Emerson said. in since 1965. to University City 3. Evidence of capacity for administra- Among activities be housed at the The termination, effective September work. black students' center are a black studies tive 13, 1969. was made necessary by the con- (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 6) dition of the current money market, the hank explained. Aside from the overall national tight- ness of money, University Associate Treas- West Phila. Free School to urer George B. Peters said, the Common- A call for volunteers to teach team of sixOpeteachers,n University cially-trained using wealth of Pennsylvania imposes a 72 in the West an curriculum in Philadelphia Community Free ungraded, experimental ceiling on mortgage loans. Since banks School has been issued Dr. David R. mathematics, science, for- by English, history, can receive the 8' prime interest rate Goddard, Provost, along with Free School eign languages. on other kinds of investments, this tends "float" to planners Dr. Aase Eriksen of the Gradu- The rest of the time they will to dry up sources of funds for home fi- ate School of Education and Francis M. other educational institutions and to busi- nancing for the time being. Betts III, Assistant to the President for nesses and industries which are volunteer- "Should the condition of the money External Affairs. ing staff time and facilities to teach small market improve," Mr. Peters said, "we The Free School, a new system of small groups. The business-and-industry involve- hope to resume this highly successful houses designed to relieve overcrowding at ment is not a vocational project, Dr. program." West Philadelphia High School, will open Eriksen points out, but is an elective-en- The plan, which had begun with a the first two of its proposed five units in richment program designed to make the $2,000,000 limit, was so popular that the November. Each house will have no more basic subjects relevant and to help the stu- limit was raised to $3,000,000 in 1967. than 200 pupils. dent know and understand his total com- and the amount guaranteed was within a Students will spend most of their time munity. few dollars of the new limit when the "at home" with a head teacher and spe- (Continued on page 3) termination came.

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Election of Trustees Is Announced Four new Trustees of the University have been elected to five year terms while one current Trustee has been elected to a second five year term. The four new Trustees are Isaac W. Burnham, 2nd, founder of the New York investment banking house Burnham and Company; Marcus A. Foster, former prin- cipal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia; Charles B. McCoy, president of E. I. du Pent de Nemours & Company, Wilmington; and Milton T. Daus, senior partner in a Cleveland law firm. Henry M. Chance II, president of United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Philadelphia, is the re-elected Trustee. Isaac W. Burnham was graduated from the Wharton School in 1931. He is a di- rector of four companies; a member of the foreign investment committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce; a trustee of Lexington School for the Deaf, New York City; and chairman of the Wall Street Division of the YMCA. Marcus A. Foster is a 1946 graduate of With a helping hand from 5-year-old Reggie Reed of West Philadelphia, President Cheyney State College who received a Harnwel! unveils a sign on the site of the new Walnut Center building, due to open in master's degree from the University's January as the new home of the kindergarten and preschool experiment now housed Graduate School of Education in 1949. at 3914 Walnut St. The University is constructing the $500,000 facility on a "turnkey" The former Gratz High School principal basis for the Board of Education. Mrs. Dolores 'Brisbon, head of the Center's Parents has been in the Philadelphia school sys- Association, is also shown above, with Dr. David Horowitz, deputy superintendent of tem for 21 years and was recently named Philadelphia schools. its associate superintendent of community affairs. He was the 1969 recipient of the Philadelphia Award. He is a member of the Association of Educators, the board of managers of the Metropolitan YMCA, Wharton Limits R.O.T.C. Credit and the National Association of The faculty of the Wharton School ment involved who may either be a civilian Secondary voted last to eliminate academic or a member of the School Principals. spring military service. credit for courses taught exclusively by Further, academic credit will not be given Charles B. McCoy received a bachelor's military instructors while the faculty of for any course in which enrollment is re- in degree chemical engineering from Mas- the Engineering agreed that credit stricted to ROTC students. sachusetts Institute of in 1932. Schools Technology will be based upon an analysis of the aca- In the Engineering schools, a maximum He is a director of Wilmington Trust demic content of the courses. of four course units of credit will be al- First National Bank, and Company, City Earlier in the year the College of Arts lowed, subject to the approval of each stu- Diamond State Telephone Company; and and Sciences had decided students would dent's faculty advisors. While the faculty is a trustee of Wilmington Medical Center. receive credit only for those courses of- has determined that credit will be given Milton Daus, a member of the Class of fered and taught by a University academic only after analysis of content, to date no 1925 in the Wharton School, was elected department. Military science courses such analysis has been completed. by alumni in 12 midwestern states. He taught by military officers assigned by the served as President of the University's Army and Navy, with academic content New Ph.D. Course Starts General Alumni Society from 1966 to determined by the Army and Navy and 1968 and has been co-chairman of the intended solely for the education of future In Political Science Cleveland Committee for a Greater Penn- military officers, would be noted in a stu- The University has received a grant of sylvania and chairman for its Alumni An- dent's transcript but not counted toward $100,000 from the National Science nual Giving. courses needed for graduation. Foundation in support of a revised Ph.D. The Wharton faculty has determined program developed by the Department of Henry M. Chance II was graduated that credit toward the baccalaureate degree Political Science. According to Dr. Oliver from the in 1934 with a University degree should be given only for such courses as P. Williams, professor of political science in civil a engineering. He is director of are offered under the auspices of an estab- and chairman of the department, students Pennwalt Corporation, president of the lished civilian academic department, ap- will be able to earn the Ph.D. degree in Haverford School, and member of the proved in the usual manner by a faculty four years (including two summers of board of managers of the Franklin Insti- curriculum committee, and taught by a study) rather than the period of five or tute. regularly appointed member of the depart- six years previously needed.

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Free School to Open. Youth Take Part (Continued from page 1) Neighborhood Among resources most needed from the University are volunteers who can arrange In Summer Programs at University laboratory work in the physical sciences Some 24 high school students from Human Relations Learning Laboratory, for groups of youngsters, according to Mr. West Philadelphia this summer took part held by the University-Related Schools Betts. Faculty members volunteer as indi- out, the use of in a work-study program at the Univer- Program to help groom teachers for the viduals, he pointed and de- sity's Computer Center. new University City High School. facilities must then be approved by the The six-week "Introduction to Com- Other projects held during the summer partment or school. puter Careers" was sponsored by the involved several hundred youngsters, most More than 70 businesses and nonprofit Center with pupils' salaries underwritten of them West Philadelphians, in campus organizations are being contacted by Mr. by local organizations including the First activities: Betts to build a network of resources for Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co., West " The second Summer Recreation Pro- the "floating" portion of the program. Dr. works the curriculum in Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the ject held by the Human Resources Center Eriksen out plans in of Fidelity Bank, and H. Freeman & Sons, in conjunction with the Young Great So- each case, and is also charge training to work in this Inc. ciety provided recreation on a staggered West Philadelphia teachers The 24 juniors and seniors, mostly from schedule for some 150, aged 9 to 14. experimental system. West Philadelphia and Overbrook High " Camp Thumbs Up, co-sponsored Selection of the basic teaching staff for the Schools were hand-picked for average to with the City Recreation Department, each house is being handled jointly by School and a above-average mathematical ability but used University sports facilities for four High by community group were not "whiz kids" who were already one-week encampments attended by some called the WPHS Advisory Committee. member Mrs. Novella Williams college-bound, according to Dr. David N. 1,169 children from 8 to 14 years old. Committee has been active Freeman, director of the Computer Center. " An English Institute in which some of the Citizens for Progress Another 84 West Philadelphia High 25 high school juniors began fashioning in educational design and planning. will be School students were chosen for a Uni- a new writing curriculum for West Phila- The scattered schoolhouses part Dr. versity program on the basis of their fail- delphia High was held under joint auspices of the District One program headed by ures, the University Community Relations of the University and the high school. Marechal-Neil E. Young, with supervision Office's Leonard Dill reported. " HEP-UP, the School of Medicine's by WPHS principal Walter Scott. The formal is Individual tutoring plus an enrichment program to introduce high school students University's relationship through program were set up for those whose fail- to careers in health sciences, held a sum- Dr. Eriksen, who has been named con- and its ures in math, science, history, English mer work-study phase for some 20 stu- sultant to the program, through and foreign languages put them in the dents and will continue in the fall. voluntary contributions, including Mr. Betts' services. potential drop-out category at the high " Some 14 high school students worked planning school. At the end of six weeks, com- this summer in a continuation of the com- munity representative Mrs. Ada Alexander puter course in biological sciences at the said, the personal tutoring system had School of Medicine. Presidential Search .... chronic brought numerous class-cutting " At the School of Veterinary Medi- (Continued from page 1) students to near-perfect attendance. An- Gratz School sent four cine, High high 4. Sensitivity to the aims and desires other 80 school children joined 46 in the summer of public school students phase of students and faculty. teachers in the Campus Summer School its to introduce year-round program city 5. and to articulate to new career Ability willingness youngsters opportunities. his views to associates both inside and out- New Facilities Dedicated side of the academic community and to Consolidation listen to and appraise the views of his col- The Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion, a Hospital leagues. million and research build- Will Not Take Place $7.7 teaching 6. to social and com- for the School of Medicine, was dedi- Plans for the consolidation of resources High sensitivity ing the cated last Earlier, officials of of munity problems affecting University May. university Presbyterian-University Pennsylvania and the to ef- unveiled a the Medical Center and The Graduate ability organize intelligent plaque naming olympic- Hospi- forts toward their solution. sized swimming pool in Gimbel Gymna- tal have been cancelled, according to a in and sium the Sheerr Pool. statement issued late June by Presbyterian 7. Great flexibility thinking The new Johnson Pavilion is connected and the University of Pennsylvania. judgment, including the ability to place in to the east end of the Medical School and The Graduate Hospital of the University proper perspective the whole spectrum of activities at - educational, will house eight multi-use teaching labora- of Pennsylvania will remain at its present Pennsylvania athletic, and recreational. tories, the medical library, the department 19th and Lombard Street location. of microbiology and research laboratories The original plan to relocate Graduate's 8. Sensitivity to the need for adequate for microbiology, and clinical departments facilities at Presbyterian's 39th and Powel- communication to and relations with the including internal medicine, neurology, re- ton Avenue site was announced in July, alumni and other publics, and a willingness search medicine and ophthalmology. 1965, and was based on a suggestion of the to assist in fund-raising in both the private The building is named for General local Hospital Survey Committee. and public sectors, with the understanding Johnson who was board chairman of Speaking for the University, Dr. Luther that the candidate chosen will not become Johnson & Johnson from 1938 to 1963; a L. Terry, vice president for medical affairs, involved in the direction of business enter- portrait of Mr. Johnson hangs in the foyer. explained that it has become evident that prises. The pool is named in honor of Stanley the medical needs of the immediate com- Names and resumes of additional can- I. Sheerr of the Wharton School Class of munity near 19th and Lombard streets didates should be submitted in writing to 1937, and president of Crown Textile could not be met satisfactorily if The the Committee in care of Mr. Owen, 112 Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia. Graduate Hospital were to be relocated. College Hall.

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Appointments of Faculty Are Announced The appointments of Dr. Rex E. Cross sor Honnold, who has been named to the Chemistry, Dr. William L. Kissick, George as director of the Division of Animal chair, has been a member of the law S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Medicine for the School of Medicine and faculty since 1946 and is an expert in the Preventive Medicine; Professor Covey T. the University Hospital and of Stanley fields of Constitutional Law and Sales Oliver, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Pro- J. Brody as associate professor of social and Sales Financing. He has been consult- fessor of Law; and Paul W. Bruton, Alger- planning and associate director of the ant to the Law Revision Commission of non Sidney Biddle Professor of Law. Pennsylvania Division of the Regional New York in relation to the Uniform Other faculty appointments include: Medical Program in health planning, head Commercial Code, was a member of the SCHOOL OF ALLIED MEDICAL PROFES- a list of recent faculty appointments which drafting commission that produced the SIONS: Miss Nancy B. Ellis, associate pro- also include Dr. Jack Guttentag, first in- final Convention and Uniform Law and fessor of occupational therapy. cumbent of the University of Pennsylvania this last March was U.S. delegate to the ANNENBERO SCHOOL OF COMMUNICA- Banking Chair; John Honnold, first in- United National Commission on Inter- TIONS: Dr. Bob Scholte, assistant profes- cumbent of the William Schnader Chair national Trade Law. sor of communications. of Commercial Law; Dr. Charles R. TWO PROFESSORS NAMED COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: Dr. Wright as professor of communications Dr. Wright, new professor of commu- Alan E. Mann, assistant professor of an- and sociology at the Annenberg School nications and sociology in the Annenberg thropology; Dr. Michael P. Cava, profes- of Communications; and Dr. Philip E. School, has for the last year been program sor, Dr Peter Rentizipis,adjunct profes- Palmer as professor of radiology. director for sociology and social psychol- sor, and Dr. Robert C. Davis and Dr. Dr. Cross, a veterinarian with special ogy at the National Science Foundation Donald Voet, assistant professors, of training in laboratory medicine, will be while he was on leave from the Depart- chemistry; Dr. James L. Clifford, visiting responsible for all facilities for the hous- ment of Sociology of the University of professor of English; Dr. Tapan Ray- ing and care of laboratory animals and California at Los Angeles. His research chaudhuri, visiting professor of history; will set up a diagnostic laboratory at the interests include mass communications, Dr. Jonathan Hodgson, assistant professor medical school to help investigators di- methodology of sociological research, of mathematics; Dr. Desmond P. Henry, agnose spontaneously-occurring diseases in medical sociology, attitude formation and visiting professor, and Dr. Zoltan Domotor, animals that could affect the investigator's public opinion, and broadcast rating assistant professor, of philosophy. experiments. methods. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCI- For the last five years Mr. Brody has An expert in the complexities of the ENCES: Dr. James R. Campbell, assistant been regional director of the department radiologic diagnosis of tropical diseases professor of education; Dr. John Szwed, of public welfare for the Commonwealth and factors that bear on the geographic associate professor of folklife and folklore; of Pennsylvania. He was a member of distribution of disease, Dr. Palmer, new Dr. Sami Hamarneh, visiting professor of the Governor's Hospital Study Commis- professor of radiology, comes to Pennsyl- history and philosophy of science; and Dr. sion and executive director of the state vania after spending 14 years in Rhodesia Bimal K. Matilal, associate professor of and local welfare commission and will and the Union of South Africa. Since Indian philosophy. help to develop technical capacities neces- 1964 he has been professor and head of SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE: Dr. sary to serve the health needs of the radiology at the University of Capetown. Irving M. Shapiro, assistant professor of citizens of West Philadelphia. At Pennsylvania, Dr. Palmer will be en- biochemistry; and Dr. Valdermars J. in clinical work and in Jekkals, assistant professor of crown and NEW CHAIRS ESTABLISHED gaged primarily teaching diagnostic radiology. He is also bridge. The University of Pennsylvania Bank- continuing research begun in Africa that GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: Dr. ing Chair has been endowed by 21 banks involves using a computer to map distri- Emily S. Girault, associate professor, and in the nation and is meant to focus the bution of diseases on that continent. Dr. James R. Campbell, assistant profes- attention of Wharton students "on the EXISTING CHAIRS FILLED sor, of education. significance of banking in our economic Four faculty members were appointed SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: Dr. John community and on the important contri- to existing chairs. These are Dr. Robin M. Eric Edinger, associate professor of civil bution careers in banking can make to Hochstrasser, Blanchard Professor of engineering; a secondary appointment for our national well being." Dr. Stanley A. Briller, associate professor Dr. who served as chairman (he is associate of med- Guttentag, The Women's Club will con- currently professor of the finance since 1967, was Faculty icine) and Dr. Steven J. Gitomer, assistant department duct a this fall of the status of selected from a list of distin- study professor of electrical engineering; Dr. nationally wcmen in the University. candidates. He is on the Senior Burton Paul, professor of mechanical en- guished Questionnaires have been mailed to staff of the National Bureau of Economic gineering; and Dr. C. D. Graham, Jr., vis- some 800 women who are A2 (faculty) Research and director of the Bureau's iting professor of metallurgy and materials or Al (administrative staff) members, of interest rates. In addition, Dr. science. study Dr. Elizabeth K. Rose, president, said. is the LAW SCHOOL: Mr. Martin Aronstein, Guttentag currently director of There will be one to the 800 American an as- mailing associate and Mr. James A. Finance Association and Dr. Scott, head professor, survey subjects, Dwight Strazzella, assistant of law. sociate editor of the Journal of Money, of the said. "We all receiv- professor, study, urge SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Dr. Peter Ster- Credit and Banking. Dr. Douglas Vickers, the to return it ing questionnaire Dr. professor of finance, has been named new so that a can ling, assistant professor of anatomy; chairman of the promptly significant study Brett B. Gutsche, assistant of department. be issued soon," he added. professor The William A. Schnader Chair of anesthesia; Dr. Robert E. Linnemann, as- for the Commercial is named for Mr. Sch- Membership applications sistant of clinical Dr. Law women's are available mail professor radiology; nader, a 1921 of the law school group by Aaron D. Freedman, of medi- graduate from the Women's Club, do professor and a who is called the father of Faculty cine; Dr. Peter H. Berman, associate lawyer Houston Hall. pro- the Uniform Commercial Code. Profes- (Continued on page 5)

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Fordham to Retire As Dean of Law School Faculty Promotions Announced Jefferson B. Fordham, dean of the Law Faculty promotions approved by the LAW SCHOOL: Mr. James 0. Freedman School, has announced his intention to re- Trustees have been announced by the Pro- and Mr. Robert A. Gorman to professors tire as dean not later than the end of the vost's Office. These are in addition to of law. 1969-70 academic year. Mr. Fordham will those promotions published in the May SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Dr. Robert L. devote full time to law teaching, research, issue of Almanac. Leopold to professor of community psy- and community service. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: Dr. chiatry; Dr. Zarko M. Vucicevic to assist- An ad-hoc, consultative committee to Dr. Bernard Wailes to associate professor of ant professor of ophthalmology; recommend a successor to Fordham has anthropology; Dr. Edward R. Thornton to Eleanor M. Bendler to assistant professor been and will be chaired of medicine and rehabilitation; appointed by professor and Dr. Bradford B. Wayland to physical Louis B. Schwartz, Franklin Dr. Stella Y. Boteiho to of Benjamin associate professor, of chemistry; and Dr. professor physi- Professor of Law. The committee includes Dr. Paul Nemir to of Ronald C. Rosbottom to assistant profes- ology; and professor Paul Bender, E. Leech, Curtis Noyes sor of romance languages. surgery. Reitz, and Ralph S. Spritzer, all SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: Dr. June professors GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCI- of law; Dr. Alfred Gellhorn dean of the Axinn to associate professor of social ENCES: Dr. William R. Coe to curator and School of Medicine; Dr. Michael Jameson, work. of and Dr. Hiroshi of classical studies; and Dr. professor archaeology; SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: Dr. professor to associate of Lawrence R. Klein, Benjamin Franklin Mayaji professor Japanese Alan M. Klide to assistant of studies; and Dr. Barbara Ruch to associate professor Professor of Economics. Prior to joining anesthesia; Dr. Robert J. Rutman to of and litera- pro- the University of Pennsylvania in 1952 as professor Japanese language fessor and Dr. B. McNair Scott to ture. Dwight dean of the Law School, Mr. Fordham associate professor, of biochemistry; Dr. OF ALLIED MEDICAL PROFES- served for five years as dean of the Ohio SCHOOL George P. Mayer to associate professor of State University College of Law. SIONS: Mr. Eugene Michels to assistant medicine; and Dr. Monica Reynolds to professor of physical therapy. professor of physiology. Faculty Appointments. SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE: Dr. WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND COMMERCE: (Continued from page 4) Leonard Abrams to associate professor of Dr. Herbert Levine to pro- fessor of neurology and pediatrics; Dr. periodontics. fessor of economics. Kunihiko Suzuki, associate professor of neurology; additional appointments for search Commission, composed of black Dr. Nicholas K. Bonatos as professor of Black Studies students under the leadership of Miss in Dr. Ghahre Cathy Barlow, (a junior in the College neuropathology surgery; (Continued from page 1) man Khodadad and Dr. Frederick A. for Women) be continued; Simeone, assistant professors of neuro- Council's charge of May 8 to investigate In the event the Steering Committee surgery; Dr. Kinuko Suzuki, assistant the feasibility of a black studies program. would not be able to reconstitute a professor of pathology; Dr. Audrey E. This committee had been created to sug- workable ad hoc committee, it should Evans, associate professor of pediatrics; gest possible programs for black studies invite all interested parties to submit Dr. Ladislav Vyklicky, visiting professor and to review the report of a committee to the Council, proposals regarding of physiology; and Dr. Renee Fox, pro- appointed in March under the chairman- black studies; fessor of in ship of Dr. Alfred J. Rieber, professor and sociology psychiatry. These should be made part SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: Dr. Alan chairman of the history department, to proposals African and Afro-American life and of a single document and include the Keith-Lucas as Pray Visiting Professor of study of the Black Studies Research culture. The Richer Committee's report report Social Work; Dr. Max Silverstein, profes- Commission and the Richer Committee sor, Dr. Jack C. Sternbach, associate recommended establishment of a separate - pro- report; fessor, and Dr. Alfred J. Kutzik, assistant College of Black Studies within the Uni- considered the professor, of social work. versity. This document be by SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: At the final meeting of the ad hoc Council at the earliest possible meeting in fall. Second Department appointment for Dr. committee Dr. Phillips indicated that he the was no to head a commit- Mehdi Shayegani, assistant professor of longer willing To be considered by the new committee tee that did not receive from microbiology (now assistant professor of cooperation are the Richer Committee report, as well black and the committee agreed public health and preventive medicine). persons, as several other research reports on black WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND with his It adopted a resolution position. studies programs, two of which were COMMERCE: Dr. Bruce L. Oliver, assistant to recommend to the Steering Committee commissioned by the Council's Steering Dr. A. of the Council that: professor of accounting; Stephen Committee: one is being prepared by two assistant of business As a matter of extreme urgency, the Magida, professor graduate students in economics, Andrew law; Dr. Erich Schneider and Dr. Ivor Steering Committee of the University Reschovsky and John Kwoka; the other Pearce, professors of economics; Council reconstitute the ad hoc com- visiting by Judith Teller, a senior in the Wharton Dr. Robert H. assistant professor mittee on black studies in close consul- Keeley, School and editor-in-chief of The Daily of finance; Dr. Wayne 0. Broehl, visiting tation with members of the Society of Pennsylvanian. Also to be considered are professor of marketing and international African and Afro American Students and a from the Black Studies Re- business; Dr. Eric L. Trist, professor of (S.A.A.S.), the Richer Committee, proposal such a search Commission, as well as dissents organizational behavior and ecology; Dr. other interested persons in way ad hoc com- from members of the Rieber Com- Eldon L. Wegner, visiting assistant profes- that the newly constituted three mittee would be able to function. with mittee. Earlier the had also re- sor of sociology; and Dr. Roger Diaz de University the constructive of the ceived a to a insti- Cossio, adjunct professor and Dr. James participation proposal operate joint concerned; with State Pickands, H, associate professor of statis- major parties tute of black studies Morgan tics and operations research. The funding of the Black Studies Re- College, Baltimore, Md.

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City Council Enacts Among other things "Campus Weapons Law" The City Council of Philadelphia this summer passed an ordinance widely refer- APPOINTMENTS: AUTHORS: red to as the "campus weapons law." Bill DR. OTIS H. GREEN, emeritus professor DR. HENRY WELLS, professor of politi- No. 1187, signed by the Mayor on July 5 of romance languages, has accepted an ap- cal science, is author of a book, The Mod- as an amendment to Chapter 10-800 of pointment as Folger Consultant on Spanish ernization of Puerto Rico: A Political The Philadelphia Code, reads as follows: Renaissance Materials with the Folger Study of Changing Values and Institutions, Press in §10-822 Carrying of Weapons in or on Library in Washington, D.C. this fall. published by Harvard University Public and Private Buildings Earlier, Dr. Green presented a lecture, May. Dr. Wells is a Fulbright-Hays lec- (1) Definition "Plus Ultra: The Cultural Expansion of turer this year in the School of Political Weapon. Any firearm as defined in Bill Spain in the Sixteenth Century," at Mary Science at the University of Costa Rica No. 2690, approved August 17, 1967 (1967 Washington College in Fredericksburg, and will be on leave until the end of spring Ordinances, Page 896), and any other semester, 1970. as in Bill No. 544, Virginia. weapon defined approved EDWIN L. TAYLOR, executive director of DR. MORTON J. SCHUSSHEIM, professor August 26, 1968 (1968 Ordinances, Page the Graduate Hospital, has been elected of city planning, is the author of Toward 906). The the (2) Prohibited Conduct President-Elect of the Hospital Association a New Housing Policy: Legacy of No person shall possess any weapon in of Pennsylvania. He has been vice-presi- Sixties, published by the Committee for any educational institutions except: dent of the Association during the past Economic Development. (a) private security guards; year. MRS. LOUISE B. BALLINGER, associate in (b) City, State or Federal law enforce- DR. MANFRED ALTMAN, professor of the Graduate School of Education, is the ment officers; mechanical engineering and director of author of the book Perspective, Space and (c) State or Federal military forces on Van Nostrand- active both the Institute for Direct Energy Con- Design, just published by duty; Reinhold. (d) members of any reserve officers train- version and the Applied Science and Tech- Teachers, Administrators and Collective ing corps, color guards and drill or nology Division of CURE, has been ap- rifle teams, when engaged in lawful pointed chairman of the energy conversion Bargaining, a book written by DR. EDWARD organizational activities; committee of the American Society for SHILS, professor and acting chairman of (e) any person authorized by law enforce- Engineering Education. the industry department and Dr. C. Tay- ment agencies to possess weapons. ANTHONY C000ING, director of Houston lor Whittier, former superintendent of (3) Penalty schools in has been honored The violation this section Hall, has been appointed to represent Re- Philadelphia, penalty for of Industrial Relations Section of shall be a not more than three hun- gions I, II, and III on the nominating by the fine of as one of the dred (300) dollars or imprisonment of not committee for the Association of College Princeton University twenty more than ninety (90) days, or both. Unions International. outstanding books in industrial relations The bill passed in July was a revised DR. JOHN J. MIKUTA, associate professor for the year 1968. HONORS: version of a proposed ordinance which of obstetrics and gynecology, has been JACK SCHULTZ, of medi- the faculty members of Pennsylvania and elected Secretary-Treasurer of the newly DR. professor last was elected to the other institutions criticized in June hearings formed Society of Gynecologic Oncolo- cal genetics, May of Science while DR. at City Hall. gists, of which he is a founding member. National Academy JOHN BROBECK, and chairman of Dr. Mikuta is currently director of the professor and DR. ERVING GOFFMAN, Black Center. gynecologic oncology section at the Uni- physiology, Franklin Professor of Anthro- versity Hospital and is also treasurer of Benjamin (Continued from page 1) and were both elected research the Bound" the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia. pology Sociology, project, "Upward American of Arts tutorial and the Last spring he conducted the postgraduate Fellows of the Academy program, Philadelphia and Sciences. Committee for College Placement, through course on gynecologic oncology at the which black graduates of Philadelphia meeting of the American College of Ob- DR. HERBERT LEVINE, professor of eco- high schools find college openings around stetricians and Gynecologists held in nomics, is one of four scholars on campus the nation. The Society of African and Miami. to receive a postdoctoral grant from the Afro American Students will have offices MILES H. SUCHER, assistant to the vice American Council of Learned Societies on Slavic and East in the new center. president for medical affairs, has been through its program The corporation lists five undergradu- named new Executive Director of the European Studies. The other three are Dr. ates, two graduate students and two com- Heart Association of Southeastern Penn- Anthony Salys, professor of Slavic and leaders-Mrs. Novella Williams Baltic Dr. Teune, asso- munity sylvania while DR. HARRY F. ZINSSER, languages; Henry of the Citizens for and Walter ciate of science; and Progress professor of clinical medicine and director professor political Palmer of the Black Coalition-as initial of at the Graduate Dr. Mieczyslaw Giergielewicz, professor members of its board of directors. cardiology Hospital, was elected President of the association. of Slavic literature. The members undergraduate are Miss DR. C. NELSON DORNY, assistant pro- Butcher, a in the DR. ARNOLD 0. REICHENBERGER, pro- Wendy junior College fessor of electrical engineering, was one of for Women; Donald G. senior fessor of romance languages, has been ap- Maynard, 18 men and women appointed to serve as in the School of Chemical pointed to the editorial board of the pub- Engineering; White House Fellows for 1969-1970. The Donald F. Wallace and Wil- lication Ibero-Romania edited by Max sophomores Fellows will serve as assistants to bur E. Commodore, both of the Hueber Verlag, Munchen. In April he special College members of the White House staff and of Arts and Sciences; and David Wideman took part in the symposium on classical held at cabinet. of the College of General Studies. mythology in modern literature Graduate students are Miss Patricia Catholic University of America in Wash- DR. JOHN S. MORGAN, dean of the the Lou Lane, a first-year graduate student in ington, D.C. where he spoke on "Classical School of Social Work, received from linguistics, and Buford W. Tatum II, of Mythology in Spanish Poetry of the Canadian Red Cross Society its decoration the Law School's Class of 1971. Golden Age." as an Honorary Member in recognition of

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his service to the Canadian Red Cross So- upon them Honorary Doctor of Letters campus, was honored at a dinner last May of ciety and to the international work of the degrees from the University during its by his fellow chaplains, representatives League of Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red commencement exercises last May. the University, students and the Jewish Lion and Sun Societies throughout the DR. HOWARD E. MITCHELL, 1907 Foun- community, on the occasion of the 25th world. The Honor was conferred upon dation Professor of Urbanism and Human anniversary of his ordination as a rabbi. him by the Governor-General of Canada Resources, was the principal speaker at STAFF APPOINTMENTS: in his capacity as Honorary President of the Commencement exercises of the Phila- Several staff changes have been made in the Canadian Red Cross Society. delphia College of Arts last May and re- the Development Office over the summer. DR. HERMAN BEERMAN, professor of ceived from that school an Honorary Doc- JOHN P. BUTLER, III, formerly director of dermatology, was honored by a Festschrift tor of Fine Arts Degree. He spoke on the Alumni Annual Giving, has been named in the May, 1969 issue of the Journal of "Changing Student Commitment Toward Director of Capital Programs. Succeeding LANE, Investigative Dermatology which also fea- the Community: Implications for the Col- him is EDWARD F. former assistant tured a full-colored portrait of him. lege and University." to the Vice President for Development and DR. PAUL SLOANE, associate professor DR. WILTON M. KROGMAN, professor Public Relations. of psychiatry, has been honored by the and chairman of physical anthropology and ROBERT K. HESS, former associate di- Albert Einstein Medical Center with the director of the Philadelphia Center for rector of Capital Programs, has been establishment of an Annual Lectureship in Research in Child Growth, last May re- named Director of Corporations and his name. Dr. Sloane is Emeritus Senior ceived an Honorary Doctor of Science Foundations Relations. Attending Physician at the Center. from the University of Michjgan. He later TRAVELERS AND SPEAKERS: DR. R. L. WIDMANN, assistant professor spoke before the Southern California Den- DR. GEORGE D. LUDWIG, professor of of English, was awarded a Folger Fellow- tal Association on facio-dental growth and medicine, will spend a sabbatical year in ship by the Folger Shakespeare Library in its role in dental practice. 1969-70 in the laboratories of Prof. Theo- Washington, D.C. this last summer where DR. LOREN EISELEY, Benjamin Franklin dore Bucher at the Institute for Physiolog- she continued her research for a New Professor of Anthropology and History of ical Chemistry and Physical Biochemistry Variorum edition of Midsummer Night's Science, received an honorary Doctor of at the University of Munich, Germany. Dream. Humane Letters last spring during cere- Acting in his place as Governor of the DR. J. ROBERT SCHRIEFFER, Mary monies at Southern Methodist University. American College of Physicians for East- Amanda Wood Professor of Physics, has Dr. Eiseley is also a member of the ad- ern Pennsylvania will be Dr. Francis J. been designated an Andrew D. White visory board of a new magazine called Sweeney, Jr., director of Jefferson Hospital. Professor-at-Large of Cornell University The Environment Monthly, devoted to re- DR. BARBARA RUCH, associate professor beginning this fall. He will make occa- porting "the events and actions which af- of Japanese language and literature and sional visits to the Cornell campus, for fect the quality of our environment." director of the Institute for Medieval Jap- teaching and discussions. DR. JOANNA WILLIAMS, associate pro- anese Studies, was one of fifteen American DR. Guy LACY SCHLESS, assistant pro- fessor of education, is one of 18 faculty and Japanese scholars invited by the Amer- fessor of clinical medicine and associate members named a Fellow in Educational ican Council of Learned Societies and the physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital, Research by the U.S. Office of Education. Social Science Research Council to partici- has been named Visiting Research Fellow A portrait of DR. JESSE T. NICHOLSON, pate in a Disciplinary Survey Conference in Medicine to Guy's Hospital Medical professor of orthopedic surgery who is re- in Japanese Language and Linguistics held School at the University of London, Eng- tiring as chairman of that department, was recently in New York. She was also one land where he will do research in diabetes. presented to the University at a reception of thirty invitees to a similar conference His fellowship is provided through a grant in his honor last June. Dr. Nicholson has on Japanese Literary Studies. from the American Philosophical Society. been chairman since 1946 and will con- FRANCIS M. BETTS, III, Assistant to the DR. SAMUEL N. KRAMER, Clark Re- tinue as professor. President for External Affairs, presented a search Emeritus Professor of Assyriology DR. HENRY PRIMAKOFF, Donner Pro- paper entitled "COPRA, Cost of Physical and DR. OTIs H. QREEN, emeritus profes- fessor of Physics, received at a dinner in Resource Allocation, An Analytical Plan- sor of romance languages had conferred his honor a Distinguished Alumni Award ning- Model" to-the l969 Annual'Forum Re- from the New York University Graduate of the Association for Institutional Dr. Peter Flesch, 53, Dies School of Arts and Sciences. search, held in Chicago last May. Dr. Peter Flesch, professor of research RABBI SAMUEL H. BERKOWITZ, for 16 DR. DARWIN PROCKOP, associate profes- dermatology at the University's School of years director of the Hillel Foundation on sor of biochemistry, was an invited speaker Medicine, died July 1 in Woods Hole, at the Symposium on Connective Tissue, Massachusetts. He was 53. Is Revised sponsored by NATO and held at Santa Towing Policy DR. JOEL ROSENBLOOM, A native of Hungary, Dr. Flesch re- Because cars are parking in University Margherita, Italy. assistant of was an ceived his M.D. degree from the Univer- facilities without the appropriate permit, professor biochemistry, invited sity of Budapest in 1939. In 1943 he the free towing program that was tried last participant. DR. FRANK SEELEY, earned an M.S. in pharmacology at the year has been discarded and violators will F. professor of University of Chicago and received his be charged for towing. Slavic languages and literatures, gave a Ph.D. there in 1949. Cars parked illegally will be towed to lecture at University of North Carolina last Dr. Flesch joined the medical faculty at the Pennsylvania Auto Investigation Bu- spring on Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons." the University of Pennsylvania as assistant reau Garage at 246 South 59th Street. The DR. DANIEL WILNER, adjunct assistant professor of dermatology in 1950. Garage is bonded and responsible for dam- professor of radiology, presented a paper Dr. Flesch was co-discoverer of tricho- age to a car in towing and storage. on "Fibrous Defects of Bone: A Radio- siderin, an iron-containing red pigment A car will be released to its owner upon logical Approach Toward Clarification of found in red hair. He discovered the reac- payment of $15 plus storage charges of $1 the Nonenclature" at the annual meeting tion between chemical compounds formed per day and $1 per night or part of a.day. of the Eastern Radiological Society in during the manufacture of synthetic rub- Any owner finding his car about to be Mid-Pines, North Carolina. He also par- ber and certain chemicals in human skin towed may pay the truck operator $4 and ticipated in a panel presentation on "Un- that caused temporary baldness in workers. have his car released immediately. knowns of Bones and Joints."

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Among other things Hospital. professor of romance languages, gave two DR. PAUL M. LLOYD, professor of ro- lectures on the French Novel in the 18th mance languages, lectured at the Interna- century at Franklin and Marshall College tional Linguistic Association in New York in Lancaster late last spring. DR. ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN, professor of last May "On Vulgar Latin." DR. STUART W. CHURCHILL, Carl V. S. political science, was a discussant at the DR. LAWRENCE D. SHER, assistant pro- Patterson Professor of Chemical Engineer- regional meeting of the International Stud- fessor of electrical engineering, gave an in- ing, and DR. WARREN D. SEIDER, assistant ies Association in Pittsburgh last April. He vited lecture on the biological interactions professor of chemical and elecrical engi- later spoke on "The Relevance of the of microwave radiation at the 1969 Inter- neering, attended the National Meeting of Yugoslav Model for Developing Coun- national Microwave Symposium in Dallas. the American Institute of Chemical Engi- tries" at the Center for International Af- DR. HENRY L. PRICE, professor of anes- neers at Cleveland; Dr. Churchill later at- fairs at Harvard and delivered a paper on thesiology, gave the Foregger Memorial tended a meeting of the Advisory Commit- "Yugoslav Foreign Policy Since the June Lecture in Atlanta in September at the 8th tee for Chemical Engineering and the War" at the Northeast Conference of the District Meeting of the American Society Annual Meeting of the American Society American Association for Advancement of of Anesthesiologists. His topic was "Circu- for Engineering Education where he gave Slavic Studies in Boston. latory Effects of Anesthetics." a paper, "Should Chemical Engineering DR. P. L. BARGELLINI, professor of elec- While he was in Japan teaching, DR. Remain in the Engineering College?" trical engineering, presented a paper, "Ex- ADOLPH MATZ, professor of accounting, The spring issue of Chemical Engineer- tension of the Concept of Satellite Com- was invited to speak before students at ing Education featured an article on Dr. munication System Capacity to a Two Di- Nihon University, and, later, before execu- Churchill written by DR. A. E. HUMPH- mensional Model" at the International tives of the Nippon Electric Company. He REY, director of the School of Chemical Conference on Ccmmunications held in also attended the Annual Convention of Engineering, as well as an article by Dr. Boulder, Colorado this summer and spon- the Japanese Accounting Association in Churchill on new directions for engineer- sored by the Institute of Electrical and Kobe and was guest speaker for Pennsyl- ing. Electronic Engineers. His paper will be vania's MBA Alumni Society. DR. JOHN A. LEPORE, assistant profes- published in the Conference Proceedings. DR. J. O'M. BOCKRIS, professor of sor of civil engineering, presented a paper DR. ROLAND MUSHAT FRYE, professor chemistry, has been invited to chair ses- at the AIAA Structural Dynamics and of English, lectured at the Annual Spring sions and to present a lecture on the theory Aeroelasticity Specialists Conference held Festival at American University on the of dendritic electrocircuitry stabilization at in New Orleans last spring. He spoke on topic of "Shakespeare Considers his Stage." the meeting of the International Society of "Dynamic Stability of Thin Circular Plates DR. JAMES L. A. ROTH, clinical profes- Electrochemistry in Strasbourg, France. Subjected to Purely Stochastic Radial Ex- sor of medicine and director of the Divi- The general subject of the meeting is citation." Dr. Lepore also recently received sion of Gastroenterology in Graduate "Transport Control in Reactions at Inter- a National Science Foundation grant to Medicine, participated in a panel discus- faces." continue his research in the field of dy- sion on "Controversies on Peptic Ulcer DR. GEORGE N. STEIN, clinical profes- namic stability of elastic system under sto- Management" at the Annual Meeting of sor of radiology, presented a paper on chastic excitations. the American College of Physicians in "Identification of Bleeding Sites by Selec- DR. SIDNEY SHORE, professor of civil April. Earlier, he discussed "Current Con- tive Arteriography" at the meeting of the engineering, also attended the AIAA meet- cepts of Duodenal Ulcer Disease" at a American Medical Association last July. ing where he gave a presentation on meeting of the Hobart Amory Hare Honor He later presented a paper on "Ulcerative "Thermostructural Simulation of Lifting Medical Society of Jefferson Medical Col- and Granulomatous Colitis-Is There a Vehicle Structures." He later co-chaired a lege, and presented a paper on "Drug In- Difference" at the meeting of the Post session on "Novel Loading Devices/Strain duced Gastro-Duodenal Ulcer" in a series Graduate Medical Assembly of South Gages" at the meeting of the Society for of lectures on modern concepts of medical Texas in Houston. Experimental Stress Analysis held in Phil- practice at Delaware County Memorial DR. RONALD C. ROSBOTTOM, assistant adelphia.

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