PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies will honor Elin Danien with the 2001 CGS Service Award.

Danien, 71, is being honored as the founder of the Bread Upon the Waters Scholarship Fund, a program that provides full tuition support to women older than 30 who are earning undergraduate degrees through part-time study at Penn. Since its inception in 1987, the Fund has grown to support nearly 70 women, 32 of whom have graduated.

Danien, who lives in Yardley, Pa., began her studies at Penn as a 46-year-old freshman following a career which encompassed acting, journalism and advertising copywriting. She graduated seven years later, summa cum laude, with a degree in anthropology. To celebrate and commemorate the positive experience she had as an older, non-traditional student, Danien gave $1,000 to CGS to establish the Bread Upon the Waters Fund.

Since her founding donation, the fund has grown to support annually more than 25 "Breadwinners,"each one of them a gifted person who might not otherwise have had the opportunity to attend Penn. Danien, who earned her Ph.D. in Mayan anthropology from Penn in 1998, is still actively involved in working with the Bread Upon the Waters program.

Danien will receive her award Monday, May 21, at 12:15 p.m. during the College of General Studies Commencement ceremony on the 36th Street Walkway behind the Wistar Institute on Penn campus.