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"To see that horde of people coming over the bridge with all the flags and pipers is just spectacular"
Edwin Ledwell in front of Sansom Place West (formerly Graduate Tower B), one of the high-rise dormitories whose construction he oversaw in the 1970s. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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Mortarboard madness
The usual expressions of gratitude ("Thanks Mom!") and relief ("Almost done") graced the mortarboards of the Class of 1999 as they entered Franklin Field. Not everyone was relieved, though. One woman, looking ahead to the job search, used her cap to deliver wry commentary on the value of a college degree (see first photo). Our roving photographer on Locust Walk managed to catch some of our favorites.
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Family practice makes perfect
Romance bloomed at the School of Nursing, where William Tkacs (Nu'74) and Nancy Camenisch (Nu'75, GNu'77) met. Nancy was the third generation in her family at Penn. Her father William Camenisch Jr. (W'46) and grandfather William Camenisch Sr. both attended Wharton. This year, Nancy C. Tkacs returned to the nursing school as a member of the faculty, an assistant professor of physiology in nursing.
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Awards to young researchers
I. Joseph Kroll, Ph.D., has won an Outstanding Junior Investigator award - one of about three per year in high energy physics - from the U.S. Department of Energy. The $300,000 award will be spread over several years. Kroll's research is in experimental high energy particle physics - specifically B hadrons - examining data from proton-antiproton collisions produced at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill.
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The hombre is a citizen
Until I joined the U.S. Navy, I never confronted what it means to be a Puerto Rican and an American citizen. Having grown up in Puerto Rico, it was an everyday reality that I never had to question. My father, along with many remarkable school teachers, taught me to appreciate my Puerto Rican culture, history and national identity. I also learned the names of all the American presidents and the names of all the states and their capitals. For 50 minutes a day, I studied English.
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Use heart, head, says Morial
In a short speech that mixed wit with seriousness, New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial (C'80) marveled at the ways in which the world has changed over time and urged his fellow Penn grads to use their hearts as well as their minds to shape the future. Morial was the keynote speaker at the College of Arts and Sciences' graduation ceremony May 16 in Franklin Field.
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Fitness and fun for you - and your kids
Here's a chance to combine exercise and fun this summer - the Village Volleyball series in front of Harrison College House, 39th and Irving streets, Hamilton Village. From 3 to 6 p.m. every Tuesday through July 27, you can join your Penn colleagues for free volleyball games (nets and balls provided) and surprise contests such as "All the Slush You Can Drink," "Spelling Bee," and "Memorize Pi to the 50th Decimal." All you need to bring besides yourself is your PennCard. For more information e-mail vross@ sas.upenn.edu or call 573-9054.
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Roy Vagelos
Since it's used as a case study in a Wharton School business-ethics course, you could say that the story of how Merck & Co. decided to just give away a valuable new drug is a textbook example of routine corporate social responsibility. In fact, though, it isn't. As far as Roy Vagelos (C'50) knows, no other pharmaceutical manufacturer has even attempted to duplicate what Merck did with Mectizan, a drug that proved effective in killing the parasite that causes river blindness, a chronic illness in much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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"It's a way of being aware of what's going on, or something you may not have been aware of before."
Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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When seeing isn't seeing
Ever since the tragic pictures of Kosovo began appearing in the media, the analogy between these atrocities and the earlier ones of World War II keeps popping up. On the one hand, we applaud a world that has finally seen fit to respond in a way it did not during the Nazi atrocities, and we laud the media's role in showing the world what atrocity looks like.