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How to get to the top
Reformed workaholic John Fry, executive vice president of the University, now keeps his work life and his family life strictly separated, and he thinks everyone else should be able to as well. “Those who are the most successful [on the job] are … those with the best balance between work and family,” Fry told a lunchtime audience of about 50 aspiring go-getters May 15.
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Decoration day
Did the rain dampen the enthusiasm of this year’s graduates? No, but according to our photographer, it may have dampened the creative impulse: it seemed that more people this year kept their mortarboard decorations to modest “Thanks, Mom” messages and things like that. But among those who did go for showier fare, there were some outstanding efforts, including a great group project by the graduating class of the School of Veterinary Medicine.
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From bad luck to bright future
Edain Velazquez (EAS’00) is only 21 years old and yet his life has already had more twists and turns, deeper sorrows, greater success, than you can find in a Dickens novel. A mysterious birth, poverty, a catastrophic gunshot wound, a guardian angel with a life-changing gift, a journey cross-country to a private, privileged world. An Ivy League degree.
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How we’ll spend our summer “vacations”
Summer’s here, which means it’s time to take it easy. Yeah, right. Most of the students we collared on the Walk and in the dining halls had working vacations already lined up for this summer, and a few who didn’t were so embarrassed that they didn’t want us to use their answers. We did manage, though, to find a few people who plan to get some recreation and relaxation this summer.
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Czech bounces between two worlds
If you knew Tereza Slepickova (C’00) only by her curriculum vitae, you might imagine her as a scowling, prematurely middle-aged woman who never encountered an abstruse political theory she didn’t like. You’d be wrong. But the mistake would be understandable. A native of the Czech Republic, Slepickova graduates from Penn this spring with a double major in international relations (honors) and German studies plus minors in economics and political science — and with a G.P.A. of 3.9 out of 4.0.
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“Building America’s First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania”
George E. Thomas and David B. Brownlee 400 pages, 374 black-and-white and 16 color illustrations, 5 maps, $45.00 cloth “Building America’s First University” tells a story that begins with Benjamin Franklin’s notion that learning ought not to be restricted to a leading religion or class. His college’s original emphasis on modern languages, the natural sciences, contemporary literature and professional education, radical in its time, went on to become the model of American higher education.
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The wave of the future
Frank Lloyd Wright. Louis Sullivan. William L. Price. William L. Price? George Howe, whose PSFS Building brought the modernist style to America, believed that Price belonged in that same pantheon with Wright and Sullivan. The three, he wrote, “were among the first to grasp the architectural possibilities of the new life and the new means of construction.”
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Dean resigns
Nursing School Dean Norma Lang will step down as dean, effective this summer. Under her leadership, the School of Nursing has consistently ranked in the top two nursing schools in the country in the U.S. News & World Report survey of graduate schools. This year the School of Nursing received more National Institutes of Health research dollars than any other private nursing school in the nation.
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Model employees set tone for University
The first Models of Excellence awards ceremony, at the Annenberg Center’s Zellerbach Theatre May 8, was one of those rare campus events where the ceremony upstaged the food at the reception afterwards. About 400 people — honorees, family and friends, supervisors, nominees, faculty and staff — saw a production worthy of the Oscars, including a video montage of Penn notables (none named Franklin) set to a thunderous musical score and congratulations to all from Vice President for Human Resources Jack Heuer and President Judith Rodin.
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Crane takes fashion seriously
Fashion is no frivolous topic for Professor of Sociology Diana Crane, Ph.D. In fact, she considers the study of human duds to be an excellent way of documenting such large issues as changing gender roles, the emergence of feminism, and the fragmentation of social classes over the past century. Consider, for example, hats and T-shirts. “Between about 1850 and 1960, men weren’t fully dressed without hats,” Crane said recently. A man’s hat defined his occupation and his social position, from the English lord to the Paris rag-picker, she said.