Never Been There, Never Done That
Husband (check). Kids (check). Now where’s my life of adventure?
A Cool Hand Leads Hotlanta
Atlanta’s civic savior Shirley Franklin G’69 Hon’07.
Next Stop: City Hall?
Philadelphia’s (likely) next mayor Michael Nutter W’79.
He’s Got (Short) Game
Supreme putter Brad Lebo C’83 D’90.
Bill Boggs Takes on Success
Success secret-sharer Bill Boggs C’62 ASC’64.
Check Out Options, Win Big Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Stecklow C’76.
A Long Day’s Journey into Knighthood
Norwegian knight Olaf Halvorssen W’66 WG’68.
Alumni Notes
July|Aug 2007
Obituaries
July|Aug 2007
Biscuits Rising
The Disco Biscuits—Penn’s own jam band of the 1990s—have a new sound (some call it Bisco), a different (and non-alumnus) drummer, and a growing fan-base (“this whole, like, people-following-us-around-the-country, circus type of thing”). Their headlining performance at this summer’s Jam on the River at Penn’s Landing may have been their most memorable ever—even if it was shut down after only 30 minutes.
Alumni Weekend 2007
Slideshow. Plus: "Food for Thought."
Harold Ford’s Next Move
The notorious “Call Me” ad may—or may not—have cost former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. C’92 election as the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction. But despite his narrow loss in Tennessee last fall, he emerged from the race as “a rock star, basically.”
The Secret of Our Success
Women can achieve a fulfilling blend of motherhood and career—just maybe not perfection. And that’s OK, says journalist and mother Leslie Bennetts CW’70, in an excerpt from her new book, The Feminine Mistake.
Sing a Song of the PUC
How being a roadie prepares you for life.
The Mother Hens of Andrín
“I felt excessively like a biology exhibit.”
Southern Historian, Crimson President
Drew Gilpin Faust G’71 Gr’75 is Harvard’s new president.
Getting Fresh with Food
Alumni bring fresh food options to Philadelphia’s poor.
Heart, Soul, and Kidney
Joan Saltzman G’70 gave her heart—and a kidney—to John Katz.
Warehousing the Arts
Paul Ruppert C’89 stocks art and theater at the Warehouse.
Alumni Notes
May|June 2007
Obituaries
May|June 2007
Arnold Eisen’s Moment
With his appointment as chancellor of New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the noted religious-studies scholar—and one time Gazette student columnist and assistant to former Penn President Martin Meyerson—is only the second non-rabbi to serve as the symbolic head of American Judaism’s Conservative movement.
Oldies School
From Penny Loafer to Swing Doll.
In Praise of Yak Dung
Practicing the “art of happiness” on a trek in the Himalayas.