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. 2 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.