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.
Slash Talk
Forget everything you’ve heard about work/life boundaries.
Exit Alig
Alig resigns as alumni-relations AVP
Bringing Penn’s Treasures Back Home
Display highlights Penn treasures—and collector who found them.
Tapping Franklin’s Currents Onstage
Puppets and props bring legend to life. Currently Franklin
Free! At Last
Interview Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 on Free!
Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night
One slave’s escape
Africa Calling
Andrew Passen C’80 G’90 has Africa in his blood
Inclusive Fruit for Reactionary Times
Susannah Heschel Gr’89 is a Jewish woman and feminist revolutionary
Hoops for Life
Dave Wohl C’71 hasn’t had to get a “real job” yet
Mumbai Law
Law alums are entrepreneurs of outsourcing