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Everyone is welcome at Irv’s Place

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Irv’s Place. In fact, Dining Services is betting that its new kosher restaurant will appeal to the area’s growing Muslim community and to vegetarians.

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Riepe named Trustee chairman

James S. Riepe (W’65,WG’67) has been named chairman of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania effective June 18. He replaces P. Roy Vagelos (C’50) as chairman.

James S. Riepe Elected Chairman of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA --- James S. Riepe, vice chairman of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., a Baltimore-based investment management company, will become chairman of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, effective June 18, 1999, according to an announcement by P. Roy Vagelos, M.D., retired chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc., who has been chairman of the Penn trustees since 1994 and a trustee since 1988. Mr. Riepe (W'65, WG'67) is a graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

New Leadership and a New Affiliation for Penn's Fels Center of Government

PHILADELPHIA - Samuel H. Preston, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has named leading criminologist Lawrence W. Sherman as the new Director of the Fels Center of Government. Sherman will also be appointed the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology. The Fels Center, which will now become part of the School of Arts and Sciences, was previously associated with Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts.

Gould Named New Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA --- Following an international search, Claudia Gould, Executive Director of Artists Space in New York City, has been named Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 7, 1999.

You snooze, you lose

(clockwise from top left) Ann Matter, Al Filreis, Ponzy Lu and Roger Allen are among the Penn faculty giving the world's shortest lectures this summer on Locust Walk. Roger Allen and Al Filreis photos by Addison Geary Ponzy Lu photo by Tommy Leonardi

"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

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.

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.