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In Ella’s footsteps
As a young girl in Memphis, Dee Dee Bridgewater used to sing along with her mother to Ella Fitzgerald records. Now, her reputation as one of the world’s leading jazz vocal stylists secure, she’s recorded a tribute to the legendary singer. Selections from that tribute, the double Grammy-winning “Dear Ella” (Verve), make up a large portion of the music Bridgewater will perform when she opens the 2000-2001 Penn Presents season Sept. 22.
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Penn data to help nabes
In neighboring community Spruce Hill, males outnumber females, blacks barely outnumber Asians, and the two combined still do not outnumber whites. Even though median annual household income is about $50,000, 921 of the 7,804 housing units in the neighborhood are vacant. These facts about several neighboring communities come from a Web site Penn is tailoring to give neighborhood organizations information they can use to improve their economic growth.
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Athletic feats of excellence
Women’s squash took their first ever Howe Cup title this year, finishing the season undefeated. Under the leadership of head coach Demer Holleran, who just ended her eighth season in Philadelphia, the team success rested on a solid overall lineup. Three players — Katie Patrick (W’00) and Runa Reta (C’03), and Rina Borromeo (C’01) — were named to the All-Ivy First Team and Reta was named All Ivy Rookie of the Year. Men’s wrestling and men’s basketball also prevailed in the Ivies.
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Coffee buzz
Whether it’s an 8 a.m. class or the 3 p.m. slump, nearly everybody needs some caffeine sometimes. And the range of offerings around campus is overwhelming. Everybody knows Xando, the unavoidable campus centerpiece on 36th at Sansom. Meanwhile, Starbucks, on 34th andSansom, is arguably the most famous coffeeshop on earth. And Dunkin’ Donuts, Walnut near 36th, is highly popular as well.
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Love of learning fires love eternal
Rita Heller (CW’48) met her husband on a blind date. “When I saw him, I said, ‘Oh, I know you. You’re the one who wears the checked shirt with the plaid pants and a tweed jacket.’” She laughed at the memory. “That shirt was bright red and green. Loudest thing I ever saw.” “It had a fluorescent dye,” her husband Aaron (C’48, G’49) recalled proudly. “It was because he was just out of the army,” Rita said, “and he had to get away from the khaki.”
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Celebrate the return of the campus center
This year’s sophomore class never saw the inside of the place. The Class of 1897, the first to see it ever, would find it at once familiar and strange if they were around today. And those who remember what it looked like before it closed for a four-year reconstruction are in for a very pleasant surprise. Houston Hall, the nation’s first student union and the centerpiece of the Perelman Quadrangle, is once again open for business, and starting today, the University will celebrate with a week-long grand opening.
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“Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard 352 pages, 350 black and white illustrations, $45 cloth
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From school to lab in two years
The Wistar Institute had a nagging headache: It had a hard time keeping research technicians. So it turned to the Community College of Philadelphia for a cure. And now six CCP students are on their way to careers in biomedical research. All this was made possible by the creation of the Biomedical Technician Training Program, a two-year program that prepares CCP science students for careers as research technicians.
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Business 12, academe 3
As freshmen trickled into “How To Start Your Own Business,” we mused that perhaps punctuality should have been the first lesson. But the dozen or so students who showed up Sept. 5 for the overflow section of orientation’s most-requested session settled in right away. “Who do you think wrote the laws of American capitalism?” local entrepreneur Lawrence Gelburd (WG’91) exclaimed. “Poor people? Noooo. People with money? People who run corporations? Yeeaah! C’mon, Jack! Let’s make a deal! That’s what bankruptcy law is all about.”
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John Dixon Hunt Awarded Cultural Honor by the Cultural Ministry of France
PHILADELPHIA Prof. John Dixon Hunt, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a member of the prestigious Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier Des Artes et Lettres) by the Cultural Ministry of France for his exceptional endeavors in landscape architecture.