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Museum researcher digs up ancient Olympic facts
When David Gilman Romano Gr’81 attends this summer’s Olympic Games in Athens, he’ll watch the track and field events with particular interest. A track coach and runner who competed at the University of Oregon with legend Steve Prefontane, Romano is also a leading expert on ancient athletics and the Olympic Games.
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Bookquick/“Charles Brockden Brown’s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic”
In 1798, a decade after the Founding Fathers created a nation based on the principles of liberty and equality, Charles Brockden Brown, then an unknown Philadelphia writer, invented the American Gothic novel. His first book, “Wieland,” is the story of a religious fanatic haunted by demonic voices instructing him to murder his wife and children.
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Provost Barchi to step down
Provost and Professor of Neurology Robert L. Barchi Gr’72 M’73 will be leaving Penn to pursue a new opportunity as president of Thomas Jefferson University beginning in September. He will also serve on the board of Thomas Jefferson Hospital and the Jefferson Health System and oversee nearly 2,300 future physicians, scientists and health-care professionals.
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House-hunting? Penn can help
Penn faculty and staff who want to call West Philadelphia home can still rely on their friendly neighborhood employer for a helping hand. Thanks to the Enhanced Mortgage Program—open to all Penn and Health System employees—buyers who purchase homes within a defined area of West Philly can obtain a forgivable loan of $7,500 from the Office of Community Housing.
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The art of constructing deals
When Paul Sehnert visits 40th and Walnut with his young sons, Ben (9) and Josh (12), they invariably comment on the “cool parking lot” next to the Fresh Grocer. Sehnert, 48, takes in the whole scene—the busy grocery store, the lines for tickets across the street at the Bridge, the “moving and grooving” along 40th Street—with a sense of personal satisfaction. That’s because he’s the man responsible for structuring Penn’s real estate deals and coordinating the University’s partnerships with outside developers.
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CAMPUS BUZZ
Vanna Play?: Ben Franklin—Ben on the Bench, that is —gets to hang with plenty of famous people. Over the years, he’s schmoozed with visiting dignitaries from Desmond Tutu to Bill Cosby. And just a few weeks ago, Dr. Bono stopped by to swap notes. On a recent sunny morning, Ben enjoyed some female company, in the shapely form of Vanna White. Not that the two got much privacy, what with the film crew, the cue-card holder, the sound man and the hangers-on.
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A role model returns
Growing up in North Philly, Salome Thomas-EL dreamed of slam-dunking his way to fame and fortune as a basketball star. That never happened, but Thomas-EL, a gifted child, aced his way through school, graduated from college and quickly landed a high-profile Manhattan media career.
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Ask Benny: How to donate your bike to charity
Dear Benny,What is the policy regarding removal of abandoned bikes from Penn-owned bicycle racks? Who’s responsible for removing them, and how often is this done? — Wondering About Wheels
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In good company Among the many honors bestowed upon Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Curie was membership in the American Philosophical Society. Now a Penn professor and the chairman of a Penn Museum board have been added to those exalted ranks: Bruce Kuklick, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and A. Bruce Mainwaring, chairman emeritus of the Museum’s Board of Overseers from 1991 to 1995.
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In focus
Whether he tackled controversial subjects like sex and violence (“A Clockwork Orange,” 1971), injected stunning visual effects and innovative music into the sci-fi genre (“2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968, left) or toyed with the film noir narrative structure (“The Killing,” 1956), director Stanley Kubrick’s style was always recognizable. It’s an amazing feat, considering that the notoriously detail-obsessed—and later reclusive—director had only 14 fiction films to his credit from 1953 until his death in 1999.