Vol. 98, No. 6
Features
Lily Yeh’s Art of Transformation
Dissatisfied with her work as a painter, Lily Yeh was searching for “a luminous place, a place where I could locate the sacred in the mundane”—and found it in blighted North Philadelphia.
By Phil Leggiere
Class Acts
With volunteerism on the rise nationally, Penn’s alumni programming has expanded beyond highball toasts and traveling lectures to include cleaning up parks and driving nails, creating new ways to engage with the old alma mater.
By Susan Lonkevich
Wideman on Campus
The writer John Edgar Wideman—a star athlete and Rhodes Scholar at Penn in the early sixties—was back on campus last spring. In a wide-ranging interview at Kelly Writers House, he talked about the construction of reality, the joys of basketball, the writer’s search for a subject and the mysterious power of faith.
By John Prendergast
Alumni Weekend 2000
Photography by Addison Geary
Departments
From the Editor
Crossing Boundaries
Letters
Monty’s fan club, animal rights reconsidered, more on gene therapy.
Notes From the Undergrad
The view from 2000.
Alumni Voices
The view from 1985, reconsidered.
Gazetteer
Poet Seamus Heaney on graduates’ “in-between condition”
Freshmen will read Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Student groups gain space on Locust Walk
Lang steps down as nursing school dean
IHGT will no longer conduct human trials
Caplan blasts press on bioethics treatment
New Glee Club director named
Flameless fuel-cell promises cleaner energy source
Natalie Angier on women and evolutionary psychology
Undergraduates co-edit foreign policy book
$75,000 awarded to winning business plans.
Off the Shelf
What price virtuality? The Age of Access.
Sports
All basepaths lead to Rome?
Alumni Profiles
A more in-depth look at some of Penn’s outstanding alumni.
Elsie Sterling Howard CW’68 and Leonard Shapiro W’64 | Shapiro Succeeds Howard as Alumni Society President
Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 | When Culture and a Community
Church Intersect, the Spire’s the Limit
Kathleen Harris Nu’98 | Something to Grin About
Jason Diaz W’95 | He’s Got the Meter Running On Crime
Adam Gertsacov C’86 | Itching to Perform
Alumni Notes
Comings, goings, appointments, promotions, accolades, and other personal news
Pennsylmania
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