Almanac, 09/1969, Vol. 16, No. 01 - University of Pennsylvania

VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER. 1969
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Nominations for President
Considered by Committee
The Search Committee to nominate a
new President of the University of Pennsylvania
has begun meeting weekly to
evaluate suggestions received from alumni,
students, faculty and staff.
Some 120 names had been submitted
by early September, said William G.
Owen, Secretary of the Corporation. Most
were sent in response to an open invitation
to the University community from
William L. Day, Chairman of the Trustees,
to help nominate a successor to Dr.
Gaylord P. Harnwell, President, who said
in January that he plans to retire at or
about the end of September, 1970.
At that time, a criteria committee of
faculty, students and trustees, with Mr.
Day as chairman, was named; this group
then became the Search Committee.
Day said the Committee had adopted
the following guidelines to evaluate nominees:
I. A youthful, progressive, vigorous
person roughly between the ages of 35 and
55.
2. An individual with a broad academic
background and earned doctorate or its
equivalent in his discipline. He must have
a commitment to excellence in teaching
and research, and to academic freedom
and integrity.
3. Evidence of capacity for administrative
work.
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West Phila. Free
A call for University volunteers to teach
in the West Philadelphia Community Free
School has been issued by Dr. David R.
Goddard, Provost, along with Free School
planners Dr. Aase Eriksen of the Graduate
School of Education and Francis M.
Betts III, Assistant to the President for
External Affairs.
The Free School, a new system of small
houses designed to relieve overcrowding at
West Philadelphia High School, will open
the first two of its proposed five units in
November. Each house will have no more
than 200 pupils.
Students will spend most of their time
"at home" with a head teacher and spe-
Black Center Organized;
Council Weighs Black Studies
To increase opportunities for activities
related to black students and Afro-American
culture, a non-profit corporation has
been formed by black students and community
leaders to operate a black students'
center at 3914 Locust St.
The new corporation Nyumba ya
Ujamii, Inc., (Swahili for "House of the
family") was formed early in September
and will rent its building from the University.
The facility, formerly the parish
house of St. Mary's Episcopal Church,
was purchased by the University in May
for $60,000. Activities of the corporation
will he carried on with funds raised by
the students from private sources. The
center is not being established through
direct University channels, said Mrs. Alice
F. Emerson, Dean of Students, because
direct University support of a center devoted
solely to concerns of black people
might jeopardize the University's eligibility
for Federal and state funds.
"A center whose focus is the concerns
of black people greatly enhances the opportunities
for intellectual and social development
of students on the campus and
provides a setting for establishing a progressive
dialogue between students and
the wider community," Mrs. Emerson said.
Among activities to be housed at the
black students' center are a black studies
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School to Open
cially-trained team of six teachers, using
an ungraded, experimental curriculum in
mathematics, science, English, history, foreign
languages.
The rest of the time they will "float" to
other educational institutions and to businesses
and industries which are volunteering
staff time and facilities to teach small
groups. The business-and-industry involvement
is not a vocational project, Dr.
Eriksen points out, but is an elective-enrichment
program designed to make the
basic subjects relevant and to help the student
know and understand his total community.
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The Steering Committee of the University
Council has begun to constitute a new
special committee to consider all proposals
for a black studies program at the University
Ḃernard Wolfman, chairman of the
Steering Committee of the University
Council and professor of law, has requested
that any additional proposals for a black
studies program he submitted to the secretary
of the Steering Committee, William
G. Owen, Secretary of the Corporation.
112 College Hall.
Dissolved during the summer was an
ad hoc Council committee under the
chairmanship of Dr. Almarin Phillips,
professor of law and professor and chairman
of the economics department, which
stated that it was not able to carry out the
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Mortgage Plan Is Ended
After Four Years
The First Pennsylvania Banking and
Trust Company has terminated the guaranteed
mortgage program under which
University faculty and staff members have
bought and/or renovated some 150 homes
in University City since 1965.
The termination, effective September
13, 1969. was made necessary by the condition
of the current money market, the
hank explained.
Aside from the overall national tightness
of money, University Associate Treasurer
George B. Peters said, the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania imposes a 72
ceiling on mortgage loans. Since banks
can receive the 8' prime interest rate
on other kinds of investments, this tends
to dry up sources of funds for home financing
for the time being.
"Should the condition of the money
market improve," Mr. Peters said, "we
hope to resume this highly successful
program."
The plan, which had begun with a
$2,000,000 limit, was so popular that the
limit was raised to $3,000,000 in 1967.
and the amount guaranteed was within a
few dollars of the new limit when the
termination came.

2
Election of Trustees
Is Announced
Four new Trustees of the University
have been elected to five year terms while
one current Trustee has been elected to a
second five year term.
The four new Trustees are Isaac W.
Burnham, 2nd, founder of the New York
investment banking house Burnham and
Company; Marcus A. Foster, former principal
of Simon Gratz High School in
Philadelphia; Charles B. McCoy, president
of E. I. du Pent de Nemours & Company,
Wilmington; and Milton T. Daus, senior
partner in a Cleveland law firm.
Henry M. Chance II, president of
United Engineers and Constructors, Inc.,
Philadelphia, is the re-elected Trustee.
Isaac W. Burnham was graduated from
the Wharton School in 1931. He is a director
of four companies; a member of the
foreign investment committee of the
New York Chamber of Commerce; a
trustee of Lexington School for the Deaf,
New York City; and chairman of the Wall
Street Division of the YMCA.
Marcus A. Foster is a 1946 graduate of
Cheyney State College who received a
master's degree from the University's
Graduate School of Education in 1949.
The former Gratz High School principal
has been in the Philadelphia school system
for 21 years and was recently named
its associate superintendent of community
affairs. He was the 1969 recipient of the
Philadelphia Award. He is a member of
the Association of Educators, the board of
managers of the Metropolitan YMCA,
and the National Association of Secondary
School Principals.
Charles B. McCoy received a bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1932.
He is a director of Wilmington Trust
Company, First National City Bank, and
Diamond State Telephone Company; and
is a trustee of Wilmington Medical Center.
Milton Daus, a member of the Class of
1925 in the Wharton School, was elected
by alumni in 12 midwestern states. He
served as President of the University's
General Alumni Society from 1966 to
1968 and has been co-chairman of the
Cleveland Committee for a Greater Pennsylvania
and chairman for its Alumni Annual
Giving.
Henry M. Chance II was graduated
from the University in 1934 with a degree
in civil engineering. He is a director of
Pennwalt Corporation, president of the
Haverford School, and member of the
board of managers of the Franklin Institute.
With a helping hand from 5-year-old Reggie Reed of West Philadelphia, President
Harnwel! unveils a sign on the site of the new Walnut Center building, due to open in
January as the new home of the kindergarten and preschool experiment now housed
at 3914 Walnut St. The University is constructing the $500,000 facility on a "turnkey"
basis for the Board of Education. Mrs. Dolores 'Brisbon, head of the Center's Parents
Association, is also shown above, with Dr. David Horowitz, deputy superintendent of
Philadelphia schools.
Wharton Limits R.O.T.C. Credit
The faculty of the Wharton School
voted last spring to eliminate academic
credit for courses taught exclusively by
military instructors while the faculty of
the Engineering Schools agreed that credit
will be based upon an analysis of the academic
content of the courses.
Earlier in the year the College of Arts
and Sciences had decided students would
receive credit only for those courses offered
and taught by a University academic
department. Military science courses
taught by military officers assigned by the
Army and Navy, with academic content
determined by the Army and Navy and
intended solely for the education of future
military officers, would be noted in a student's
transcript but not counted toward
courses needed for graduation.
The Wharton faculty has determined
that credit toward the baccalaureate degree
should be given only for such courses as
are offered under the auspices of an established
civilian academic department, approved
in the usual manner by a faculty
curriculum committee, and taught by a
regularly appointed member of the department
involved whomay either be a civilian
or a member of the military service.
Further, academic credit will not be given
for any course in which enrollment is restricted
to ROTC students.
In the Engineering schools, a maximum
of four course units of credit will be allowed,
subject to the approval of each student's
faculty advisors. While the faculty
has determined that credit will be given
only after analysis of content, to date no
such analysis has been completed.
New Ph.D. Course Starts
In Political Science
The University has received a grant of
$100,000 from the National Science
Foundation in support of a revised Ph.D.
program developed by the Department of
Political Science. According to Dr. Oliver
P. Williams, professor of political science
and chairman of the department, students
will be able to earn the Ph.D. degree in
four years (including two summers of
study) rather than the period of five or
six years previously needed.

3
Neighborhood Youth Take Part
In Summer Programs at University
Some 24 high school students from
West Philadelphia this summer took part
in a work-study program at the University's
Computer Center.
The six-week "Introduction to Computer
Careers" was sponsored by the
Center with pupils' salaries underwritten
by local organizations including the First
Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co., West
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the
Fidelity Bank, and H. Freeman & Sons,
Inc.
The 24 juniors and seniors, mostly from
West Philadelphia and Overbrook High
Schools were hand-picked for average to
above-average mathematical ability but
were not "whiz kids" who were already
college-bound, according to Dr. David N.
Freeman, director of the Computer Center.
Another 84 West Philadelphia High
School students were chosen for a University
program on the basis of their failures,
the University Community Relations
Office's Leonard Dill reported.
Individual tutoring plus an enrichment
program were set up for those whose failures
in math, science, history, English
and foreign languages put them in the
potential drop-out category at the high
school. At the end of six weeks, community
representative Mrs. Ada Alexander
said, the personal tutoring system had
brought numerous chronic class-cutting
students to near-perfect attendance. Another
80 public school children joined 46
teachers in the Campus Summer School
New Facilities Dedicated
The Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion, a
$7.7 million teaching and research building
for the School of Medicine, was dedicated
last May. Earlier, university officials
unveiled a plaque naming the olympicsized
swimming pool in Gimbel Gymnasium
the Sheerr Pool.
The new Johnson Pavilion is connected
to the east end of the Medical School and
will house eight multi-use teaching laboratories,
the medical library, the department
of microbiology and research laboratories
for microbiology, and clinical departments
including internal medicine, neurology, research
medicine and ophthalmology.
The building is named for General
Johnson who was board chairman of
Johnson & Johnson from 1938 to 1963; a
portrait of Mr. Johnson hangs in the foyer.
The pool is named in honor of Stanley
I. Sheerr of the Wharton School Class of
1937, and president of Crown Textile
Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia.
Human Relations Learning Laboratory,
held by the University-Related Schools
Program to help groom teachers for the
new University City High School.
Other projects held during the summer
involved several hundred youngsters, most
of them West Philadelphians, in campus
activities:
" The second Summer Recreation Project
held by the Human Resources Center
in conjunction with the Young Great Society
provided recreation on a staggered
schedule for some 150, aged 9 to 14.
" Camp Thumbs Up, co-sponsored
with the City Recreation Department,
used University sports facilities for four
one-week encampments attended by some
1,169 children from 8 to 14 years old.
" An English Institute in which some
25 high school juniors began fashioning
a new writing curriculum for West Philadelphia
High was held under joint auspices
of the University and the high school.
" HEP-UP, the School of Medicine's
program to introduce high school students
to careers in health sciences, held a summer
work-study phase for some 20 students
and will continue in the fall.
" Some 14 high school students worked
this summer in a continuation of the computer
course in biological sciences at the
School of Medicine.
" At the School of Veterinary Medicine,
Gratz High School sent four high
school students in the summer phase of
its year-round program to introduce city
youngsters to new career opportunities.
Hospital Consolidation
Will Not Take Place
Plans for the consolidation of resources
of Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania
Medical Center and The Graduate Hospital
have been cancelled, according to a
statement issued late June by Presbyterian
and the University of Pennsylvania.
The Graduate Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania will remain at its present
19th and Lombard Street location.
The original plan to relocate Graduate's
facilities at Presbyterian's 39th and Powelton
Avenue site was announced in July,
1965, and was based on a suggestion of the
local Hospital Survey Committee.
Speaking for the University, Dr. Luther
L. Terry, vice president for medical affairs,
explained that it has become evident that
the medical needs of the immediate community
near 19th and Lombard streets
could not be met satisfactorily if The
Graduate Hospital were to be relocated.
Free School to Open.
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Among resources most needed from the
University are volunteers who can arrange
laboratory work in the physical sciences
for groups of youngsters, according to Mr.
Betts. Faculty members volunteer as individuals,
he pointed out, and the use of
facilities must then be approved by the department
or school.
More than 70 businesses and nonprofit
organizations are being contacted by Mr.
Betts to build a network of resources for
the "floating" portion of the program. Dr.
Eriksen works out the curriculum plans in
each case, and is also in charge of training
West Philadelphia teachers to work in this
experimental system.
Selection of the basic teaching staff for
each house is being handled jointly by the
High School and by a community group
called the WPHS Advisory Committee.
Committee member Mrs. Novella Williams
of the Citizens for Progress has been active
in educational design and planning.
The scattered schoolhouses will be part
of the District One program headed by Dr.
Marechal-Neil E. Young, with supervision
by WPHS principal Walter Scott. The
University's formal relationship is through
Dr. Eriksen, who has been named consultant
to the program, and through its
voluntary contributions, including Mr.
Betts' planning services.
Presidential Search ....
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4. Sensitivity to the aims and desires
of students and faculty.
5. Ability and willingness to articulate
his views to associates both inside and outside
of the academic community and to
listen to and appraise the views of his colleagues.
6. High sensitivity to social and community
problems affecting the University
and the ability to organize intelligent efforts
toward their solution.
7. Great flexibility in thinking and
judgment, including the ability to place in
proper perspective the whole spectrum of
activities at Pennsylvania
- educational,
athletic, and recreational.
8. Sensitivity to the need for adequate
communication to and relations with the
alumni and other publics, and a willingness
to assist in fund-raising in both the private
and public sectors, with the understanding
that the candidate chosen will not become
involved in the direction of business enterprises.
Names and resumes of additional candidates
should be submitted in writing to
the Committee in care of Mr. Owen, 112
College Hall.

4
Appointments of Faculty Are Announced
The appointments of Dr. Rex E. Cross
as director of the Division of Animal
Medicine for the School of Medicine and
the University Hospital and of Stanley
J. Brody as associate professor of social
planning and associate director of the
Pennsylvania Division of the Regional
Medical Program in health planning, head
a list of recent faculty appointments which
also include Dr. Jack Guttentag, first incumbent
of the University of Pennsylvania
Banking Chair; John Honnold, first incumbent
of the William Schnader Chair
of Commercial Law; Dr. Charles R.
Wright as professor of communications
and sociology at the Annenberg School
of Communications; and Dr. Philip E.
Palmer as professor of radiology.
Dr. Cross, a veterinarian with special
training in laboratory medicine, will be
responsible for all facilities for the housing
and care of laboratory animals and
will set up a diagnostic laboratory at the
medical school to help investigators diagnose
spontaneously-occurring diseases in
animals that could affect the investigator's
experiments.
For the last five years Mr. Brody has
been regional director of the department
of public welfare for the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. He was a member of
the Governor's Hospital Study Commission
and executive director of the state
and local welfare commission and will
help to develop technical capacities necessary
to serve the health needs of the
citizens of West Philadelphia.
NEW CHAIRS ESTABLISHED
The University of Pennsylvania Banking
Chair has been endowed by 21 banks
in the nation and is meant to focus the
attention of Wharton students "on the
significance of banking in our economic
community and on the important contribution
careers in banking can make to
our national well being."
Dr. Guttentag, who served as chairman
of the finance department since 1967, was
selected from a list of nationally distinguished
candidates. He is on the Senior
staff of the National Bureau of Economic
Research and director of the Bureau's
study of interest rates. In addition, Dr.
Guttentag is currently director of the
American Finance Association and an associate
editor of the Journal of Money,
Credit and Banking. Dr. Douglas Vickers,
professor of finance, has been named new
chairman of the department.
The William A. Schnader Chair of
Commercial Law is named for Mr. Schnader,
a 1921 graduate of the law school
and a lawyer who is called the father of
the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor
Honnold, who has been named to the
chair, has been a member of the law
faculty since 1946 and is an expert in the
fields of Constitutional Law and Sales
and Sales Financing. He has been consultant
to the Law Revision Commission of
New York in relation to the Uniform
Commercial Code, was a member of the
drafting commission that produced the
final Convention and Uniform Law and
this last March was U.S. delegate to the
United National Commission on International
Trade Law.
TWO PROFESSORS NAMED
Dr. Wright, new professor of communications
and sociology in the Annenberg
School, has for the last year been program
director for sociology and social psychology
at the National Science Foundation
while he was on leave from the Department
of Sociology of the University of
California at Los Angeles. His research
interests include mass communications,
methodology of sociological research,
medical sociology, attitude formation and
public opinion, and broadcast rating
methods.
An expert in the complexities of the
radiologic diagnosis of tropical diseases
and factors that bear on the geographic
distribution of disease, Dr. Palmer, new
professor of radiology, comes to Pennsylvania
after spending 14 years in Rhodesia
and the Union of South Africa. Since
1964 he has been professor and head of
radiology at the University of Capetown.
At Pennsylvania, Dr. Palmer will be engaged
primarily in clinical work and in
teaching diagnostic radiology. He is also
continuing research begun in Africa that
involves using a computer to map distribution
of diseases on that continent.
EXISTING CHAIRS FILLED
Four faculty members were appointed
to existing chairs. These are Dr. Robin M.
Hochstrasser, Blanchard Professor of
The Women's Faculty Club will conduct
a study this fall of the status of
wcmen in the University.
Questionnaires have been mailed to
some 800 women who are A2 (faculty)
or Al (administrative staff) members,
Dr. Elizabeth K. Rose, president, said.
There will be one mailing to the 800
survey subjects, Dr. Dwight Scott, head
of the study, said. "We urge all receiving
the questionnaire to return it
promptly so that a significant study can
be issued soon," he added.
Membership applications for the
women's group are available by mail
from the Women's Faculty Club, do
Houston Hall.
Chemistry, Dr. William L. Kissick, George
S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and
Preventive Medicine; Professor Covey T.
Oliver, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor
of Law; and Paul W. Bruton, Algernon
Sidney Biddle Professor of Law.
Other faculty appointments include:
SCHOOL OF ALLIED MEDICAL PROFES-
SIONS: Miss Nancy B. Ellis, associate professor
of occupational therapy.
ANNENBERO SCHOOL OF COMMUNICA-
TIONS: Dr. Bob Scholte, assistant professor
of communications.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: Dr.
Alan E. Mann, assistant professor of anthropology;
Dr. Michael P. Cava, professor,
Dr Peter Rentizipis,adjunct professor,
and Dr. Robert C. Davis and Dr.
Donald Voet, assistant professors, of
chemistry; Dr. James L. Clifford, visiting
professor of English; Dr. Tapan Raychaudhuri,
visiting professor of history;
Dr. Jonathan Hodgson, assistant professor
of mathematics; Dr. Desmond P. Henry,
visiting professor, and Dr. Zoltan Domotor,
assistant professor, of philosophy.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCI-
ENCES: Dr. James R. Campbell, assistant
professor of education; Dr. John Szwed,
associate professor of folklife and folklore;
Dr. Sami Hamarneh, visiting professor of
history and philosophy of science; and Dr.
Bimal K. Matilal, associate professor of
Indian philosophy.
SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE: Dr.
Irving M. Shapiro, assistant professor of
biochemistry; and Dr. Valdermars J.
Jekkals, assistant professor of crown and
bridge.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: Dr.
Emily S. Girault, associate professor, and
Dr. James R. Campbell, assistant professor,
of education.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: Dr. John
Eric Edinger, associate professor of civil
engineering; a secondary appointment for
Dr. Stanley A. Briller, associate professor
(he is currently associate professor of medicine)
and Dr. Steven J. Gitomer, assistant
professor of electrical engineering; Dr.
Burton Paul, professor of mechanical engineering;
and Dr. C. D. Graham, Jr., visiting
professor of metallurgy and materials
science.
LAW SCHOOL: Mr. Martin Aronstein,
associate professor, and Mr. James A.
Strazzella, assistant professor, of law.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Dr. Peter Sterling,
assistant professor of anatomy; Dr.
Brett B. Gutsche, assistant professor of
anesthesia; Dr. Robert E. Linnemann, assistant
professor of clinical radiology; Dr.
Aaron D. Freedman, professor of medicine;
Dr. Peter H. Berman, associate pro-
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5
Fordham to Retire
As Dean of Law School
Jefferson B. Fordham, dean of the Law
School, has announced his intention to retire
as dean not later than the end of the
1969-70 academic year. Mr. Fordham will
devote full time to law teaching, research,
and community service.
An ad-hoc, consultative committee to
recommend a successor to Fordham has
been appointed and will be chaired by
Louis B. Schwartz, Benjamin Franklin
Professor of Law. The committee includes
Paul Bender, Noyes E. Leech, Curtis
Reitz, and Ralph S. Spritzer, all professors
of law; Dr. Alfred Gellhorn dean of the
School of Medicine; Dr. Michael Jameson,
professor of classical studies; and Dr.
Lawrence R. Klein, Benjamin Franklin
Professor of Economics. Prior to joining
the University of Pennsylvania in 1952 as
dean of the Law School, Mr. Fordham
served for five years as dean of the Ohio
State University College of Law.
Faculty Appointments.
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fessor of neurology and pediatrics; Dr.
Kunihiko Suzuki, associate professor of
neurology; additional appointments for
Dr. Nicholas K. Bonatos as professor of
neuropathology in surgery; Dr. Ghahre
man Khodadad and Dr. Frederick A.
Simeone, assistant professors of neurosurgery;
Dr. Kinuko Suzuki, assistant
professor of pathology; Dr. Audrey E.
Evans, associate professor of pediatrics;
Dr. Ladislav Vyklicky, visiting professor
of physiology; and Dr. Renee Fox, professor
of sociology in psychiatry.
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: Dr. Alan
Keith-Lucas as Pray Visiting Professor of
Social Work; Dr. Max Silverstein, professor,
Dr. Jack C. Sternbach, associate professor,
and Dr. Alfred J. Kutzik, assistant
professor, of social work.
SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE:
Second Department appointment for Dr.
Mehdi Shayegani, assistant professor of
microbiology (now assistant professor of
public health and preventive medicine).
WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND
COMMERCE: Dr. Bruce L. Oliver, assistant
professor of accounting; Dr. Stephen A.
Magida, assistant professor of business
law; Dr. Erich Schneider and Dr. Ivor
Pearce, visiting professors of economics;
Dr. Robert H. Keeley, assistant professor
of finance; Dr. Wayne 0. Broehl, visiting
professor of marketing and international
business; Dr. Eric L. Trist, professor of
organizational behavior and ecology; Dr.
Eldon L. Wegner, visiting assistant professor
of sociology; and Dr. Roger Diaz de
Cossio, adjunct professor and Dr. James
Pickands, H, associate professor of statistics
and operations research.
Faculty Promotions Announced
Faculty promotions approved by the
Trustees have been announced by the Provost's
Office. These are in addition to
those promotions published in the May
issue of Almanac.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: Dr.
Bernard Wailes to associate professor of
anthropology; Dr. Edward R. Thornton to
professor and Dr. Bradford B. Wayland to
associate professor, of chemistry; and Dr.
Ronald C. Rosbottom to assistant professor
of romance languages.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCI-
ENCES: Dr. William R. Coe to curator and
professor of archaeology; and Dr. Hiroshi
Mayaji to associate professor of Japanese
studies; and Dr. Barbara Ruch to associate
professor of Japanese language and literature.
SCHOOL OF ALLIED MEDICAL PROFES-
SIONS: Mr. Eugene Michels to assistant
professor of physical therapy.
SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE: Dr.
Leonard Abrams to associate professor of
periodontics.
Black Studies
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Council's charge of May 8 to investigate
the feasibility of a black studies program.
This committee had been created to suggest
possible programs for black studies
and to review the report of a committee
appointed in March under the chairmanship
of Dr. Alfred J. Rieber, professor and
chairman of the history department, to
study African and Afro-American life and
culture. The Richer Committee's report
recommended establishment of a separate
College of Black Studies within the University.
At the final meeting of the ad hoc
committee Dr. Phillips indicated that he
was no longer willing to head a committee
that did not receive cooperation from
black persons, and the committee agreed
with his position. It adopted a resolution
to recommend to the Steering Committee
of the Council that:
As a matter of extreme urgency, the
Steering Committee of the University
Council reconstitute the ad hoc committee
on black studies in close consultation
with members of the Society of
African and Afro American Students
(S.A.A.S.), the Richer Committee, and
other interested persons in such a way
that the newly constituted ad hoc committee
would be able to function. with
the constructive participation of the
major parties concerned;
The funding of the Black Studies Re-
LAW SCHOOL: Mr. James 0. Freedman
and Mr. Robert A. Gorman to professors
of law.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Dr. Robert L.
Leopold to professor of community psychiatry;
Dr. Zarko M. Vucicevic to assistant
professor of ophthalmology; Dr.
Eleanor M. Bendler to assistant professor
of physical medicine and rehabilitation;
Dr. Stella Y. Boteiho to professor of physiology;
and Dr. Paul Nemir to professor of
surgery.
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: Dr. June
Axinn to associate professor of social
work.
SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: Dr.
Alan M. Klide to assistant professor of
anesthesia; Dr. Robert J. Rutman to professor
and Dr. Dwight B. McNair Scott to
associate professor, of biochemistry; Dr.
George P. Mayer to associate professor of
medicine; and Dr. Monica Reynolds to
professor of physiology.
WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND
COMMERCE: Dr. Herbert Levine to professor
of economics.
search Commission, composed of black
students under the leadership of Miss
Cathy Barlow, (a junior in the College
for Women) be continued;
In the event the Steering Committee
would not be able to reconstitute a
workable ad hoc committee, it should
invite all interested parties to submit
to the Council, proposals regarding
black studies;
These proposals should be made part
of a single document and include the
report of the Black Studies Research
Commission and the Richer Committee
-
report;
This document be considered by the
Council at the earliest possible meeting
in the fall.
To be considered by the new committee
are the Richer Committee report, as well
as several other research reports on black
studies programs, two of which were
commissioned by the Council's Steering
Committee: one is being prepared by two
graduate students in economics, Andrew
Reschovsky and John Kwoka; the other
by Judith Teller, a senior in the Wharton
School and editor-in-chief of The Daily
Pennsylvanian. Also to be considered are
a proposal from the Black Studies Research
Commission, as well as dissents
from three members of the Rieber Committee.
Earlier the University had also received
a proposal to operate a joint institute
of black studies with Morgan State
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City Council Enacts
"Campus Weapons Law"
The City Council of Philadelphia this
summer passed an ordinance widely referred
to as the "campus weapons law." Bill
No. 1187, signed by the Mayor on July 5
as an amendment to Chapter 10-800 of
The Philadelphia Code, reads as follows:
§10-822 Carrying of Weapons in or on
Public and Private Buildings
(1) Definition
Weapon. Any firearm as defined in Bill
No. 2690, approved August 17, 1967 (1967
Ordinances, Page 896), and any other
weapon as defined in Bill No. 544, approved
August 26, 1968 (1968 Ordinances, Page
906).
(2) Prohibited Conduct
No person shall possess any weapon in
any educational institutions except:
(a) private security guards;
(b) City, State or Federal law enforcement
officers;
(c) State or Federal military forces on
active duty;
(d) members of any reserve officers training
corps, color guards and drill or
rifle teams, when engaged in lawful
organizational activities;
(e) any person authorized by law enforcement
agencies to possess weapons.
(3) Penalty
The penalty for violation of this section
shall be a fine of not more than three hundred
(300) dollars or imprisonment of not
more than ninety (90) days, or both.
The bill passed in July was a revised
version of a proposed ordinance which
the faculty members of Pennsylvania and
other institutions criticized in June hearings
at City Hall.
Black Center.
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research project, the "Upward Bound"
tutorial program, and the Philadelphia
Committee for College Placement, through
which black graduates of Philadelphia
high schools find college openings around
the nation. The Society of African and
Afro American Students will have offices
in the new center.
The corporation lists five undergraduates,
two graduate students and two community
leaders-Mrs. Novella Williams
of the Citizens for Progress and Walter
Palmer of the Black Coalition-as initial
members of its board of directors.
The undergraduate members are Miss
Wendy Butcher, a junior in the College
for Women; Donald G. Maynard, senior
in the School of Chemical Engineering;
sophomores Donald F. Wallace and Wilbur
E. Commodore, both of the College
of Arts and Sciences; and David Wideman
of the College of General Studies.
Graduate students are Miss Patricia
Lou Lane, a first-year graduate student in
linguistics, and Buford W. Tatum II, of
the Law School's Class of 1971.
Among other things
APPOINTMENTS:
DR. OTIS H. GREEN, emeritus professor
of romance languages, has accepted an appointment
as Folger Consultant on Spanish
Renaissance Materials with the Folger
Library in Washington, D.C. this fall.
Earlier, Dr. Green presented a lecture,
"Plus Ultra: The Cultural Expansion of
Spain in the Sixteenth Century," at Mary
Washington College in Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
EDWIN L. TAYLOR, executive director of
the Graduate Hospital, has been elected
President-Elect of the Hospital Association
of Pennsylvania. He has been vice-president
of the Association during the past
year.
DR. MANFRED ALTMAN, professor of
mechanical engineering and director of
both the Institute for Direct Energy Conversion
and the Applied Science and Technology
Division of CURE, has been appointed
chairman of the energy conversion
committee of the American Society for
Engineering Education.
ANTHONY C000ING, director of Houston
Hall, has been appointed to represent Regions
I, II, and III on the nominating
committee for the Association of College
Unions International.
DR. JOHN J. MIKUTA, associate professor
of obstetrics and gynecology, has been
elected Secretary-Treasurer of the newly
formed Society of Gynecologic Oncologists,
of which he is a founding member.
Dr. Mikuta is currently director of the
gynecologic oncology section at the University
Hospital and is also treasurer of
the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia.
Last spring he conducted the postgraduate
course on gynecologic oncology at the
meeting of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists held in
Miami.
MILES H. SUCHER, assistant to the vice
president for medical affairs, has been
named new Executive Director of the
Heart Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
while DR. HARRY F. ZINSSER,
professor of clinical medicine and director
of cardiology at the Graduate Hospital,
was elected President of the association.
DR. ARNOLD 0. REICHENBERGER, professor
of romance languages, has been appointed
to the editorial board of the publication
Ibero-Romania edited by Max
Hueber Verlag, Munchen. In April he
took part in the symposium on classical
mythology in modern literature held at
Catholic University of America in Washington,
D.C. where he spoke on "Classical
Mythology in Spanish Poetry of the
Golden Age."
AUTHORS:
DR. HENRY WELLS, professor of political
science, is author of a book, The Modernization
of Puerto Rico: A Political
Study of Changing Values and Institutions,
published by Harvard University Press in
May. Dr. Wells is a Fulbright-Hays lecturer
this year in the School of Political
Science at the University of Costa Rica
and will be on leave until the end of spring
semester, 1970.
DR. MORTON J. SCHUSSHEIM, professor
of city planning, is the author of Toward
a New Housing Policy: The Legacy of the
Sixties, published by the Committee for
Economic Development.
MRS. LOUISE B. BALLINGER, associate in
the Graduate School of Education, is the
author of the book Perspective, Space and
Design, just published by Van Nostrand-
Reinhold.
Teachers, Administrators and Collective
Bargaining, a book written by DR. EDWARD
SHILS, professor and acting chairman of
the industry department and Dr. C. Taylor
Whittier, former superintendent of
schools in Philadelphia, has been honored
by the Industrial Relations Section of
Princeton University as one of the twenty
outstanding books in industrial relations
for the year 1968.
HONORS:
DR. JACK SCHULTZ, professor of medical
genetics, last May was elected to the
National Academy of Science while DR.
JOHN BROBECK, professor and chairman of
physiology, and DR. ERVING GOFFMAN,
Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology
and Sociology, were both elected
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
DR. HERBERT LEVINE, professor of economics,
is one of four scholars on campus
to receive a postdoctoral grant from the
American Council of Learned Societies
through its program on Slavic and East
European Studies. The other three are Dr.
Anthony Salys, professor of Slavic and
Baltic languages; Dr. Henry Teune, associate
professor of political science; and
Dr. Mieczyslaw Giergielewicz, professor
of Slavic literature.
DR. C. NELSON DORNY, assistant professor
of electrical engineering, was one of
18 men and women appointed to serve as
White House Fellows for 1969-1970. The
Fellows will serve as special assistants to
members of the White House staff and
cabinet.
DR. JOHN S. MORGAN, dean of the
School of Social Work, received from the
Canadian Red Cross Society its decoration
as an Honorary Member in recognition of

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his service to the Canadian Red Cross Society
and to the international work of the
League of Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red
Lion and Sun Societies throughout the
world. The Honor was conferred upon
him by the Governor-General of Canada
in his capacity as Honorary President of
the Canadian Red Cross Society.
DR. HERMAN BEERMAN, professor of
dermatology, was honored by a Festschrift
in the May, 1969 issue of the Journal of
Investigative Dermatology which also featured
a full-colored portrait of him.
DR. PAUL SLOANE, associate professor
of psychiatry, has been honored by the
Albert Einstein Medical Center with the
establishment of an Annual Lectureship in
his name. Dr. Sloane is Emeritus Senior
Attending Physician at the Center.
DR. R. L. WIDMANN, assistant professor
of English, was awarded a Folger Fellowship
by the Folger Shakespeare Library in
Washington, D.C. this last summer where
she continued her research for a New
Variorum edition of Midsummer Night's
Dream.
DR. J. ROBERT SCHRIEFFER, Mary
Amanda Wood Professor of Physics, has
been designated an Andrew D. White
Professor-at-Large of Cornell University
beginning this fall. He will make occasional
visits to the Cornell campus, for
teaching and discussions.
DR. Guy LACY SCHLESS, assistant professor
of clinical medicine and associate
physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital,
has been named Visiting Research Fellow
in Medicine to Guy's Hospital Medical
School at the University of London, England
where he will do research in diabetes.
His fellowship is provided through a grant
from the American Philosophical Society.
DR. SAMUEL N. KRAMER, Clark Research
Emeritus Professor of Assyriology
and DR. OTIs H. QREEN, emeritus professor
of romance languages had conferred
Dr. Peter Flesch, 53, Dies
Dr. Peter Flesch, professor of research
dermatology at the University's School of
Medicine, died July 1 in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts. He was 53.
A native of Hungary, Dr. Flesch received
his M.D. degree from the University
of Budapest in 1939. In 1943 he
earned an M.S. in pharmacology at the
University of Chicago and received his
Ph.D. there in 1949.
Dr. Flesch joined the medical faculty at
the University of Pennsylvania as assistant
professor of dermatology in 1950.
Dr. Flesch was co-discoverer of trichosiderin,
an iron-containing red pigment
found in red hair. He discovered the reaction
between chemical compounds formed
during the manufacture of synthetic rubber
and certain chemicals in human skin
that caused temporary baldness in workers.
upon them Honorary Doctor of Letters
degrees from the University during its
commencement exercises last May.
DR. HOWARD E. MITCHELL, 1907 Foundation
Professor of Urbanism and Human
Resources, was the principal speaker at
the Commencement exercises of the Philadelphia
College of Arts last May and received
from that school an Honorary Doctor
of Fine Arts Degree. He spoke on the
"Changing Student Commitment Toward
the Community: Implications for the College
and University."
DR. WILTON M. KROGMAN, professor
and chairman of physical anthropology and
director of the Philadelphia Center for
Research in Child Growth, last May received
an Honorary Doctor of Science
from the University of Michjgan. He later
spoke before the Southern California Dental
Association on facio-dental growth and
its role in dental practice.
DR. LOREN EISELEY, Benjamin Franklin
Professor of Anthropology and History of
Science, received an honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters last spring during ceremonies
at Southern Methodist University.
Dr. Eiseley is also a member of the advisory
board of a new magazine called
The Environment Monthly, devoted to reporting
"the events and actions which affect
the quality of our environment."
DR. JOANNA WILLIAMS, associate professor
of education, is one of 18 faculty
members named a Fellow in Educational
Research by the U.S. Office of Education.
A portrait of DR. JESSE T. NICHOLSON,
professor of orthopedic surgery who is retiring
as chairman of that department, was
presented to the University at a reception
in his honor last June. Dr. Nicholson has
been chairman since 1946 and will continue
as professor.
DR. HENRY PRIMAKOFF, Donner Professor
of Physics, received at a dinner in
his honor a Distinguished Alumni Award
from the New York University Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences.
RABBI SAMUEL H. BERKOWITZ, for 16
years director of the Hillel Foundation on
Towing Policy
Is Revised
Because cars are parking in University
facilities without the appropriate permit,
the free towing program that was tried last
year has been discarded and violators will
be charged for towing.
Cars parked illegally will be towed to
the Pennsylvania Auto Investigation Bureau
Garage at 246 South 59th Street. The
Garage is bonded and responsible for damage
to a car in towing and storage.
A car will be released to its owner upon
payment of $15 plus storage charges of $1
per day and $1 per night or part of a.day.
Any owner finding his car about to be
towed may pay the truck operator $4 and
have his car released immediately.
campus, was honored at a dinner last May
by his fellow chaplains, representatives of
the University, students and the Jewish
community, on the occasion of the 25th
anniversary of his ordination as a rabbi.
STAFF APPOINTMENTS:
Several staff changes have been made in
the Development Office over the summer.
JOHN P. BUTLER, III, formerly director of
Alumni Annual Giving, has been named
Director of Capital Programs. Succeeding
him is EDWARD F. LANE, former assistant
to the Vice President for Development and
Public Relations.
ROBERT K. HESS, former associate director
of Capital Programs, has been
named Director of Corporations and
Foundations Relations.
TRAVELERS AND SPEAKERS:
DR. GEORGE D. LUDWIG, professor of
medicine, will spend a sabbatical year in
1969-70 in the laboratories of Prof. Theodore
Bucher at the Institute for Physiological
Chemistry and Physical Biochemistry
at the University of Munich, Germany.
Acting in his place as Governor of the
American College of Physicians for Eastern
Pennsylvania will be Dr. Francis J.
Sweeney, Jr., director of Jefferson Hospital.
DR. BARBARA RUCH, associate professor
of Japanese language and literature and
director of the Institute for Medieval Japanese
Studies, was one of fifteen American
and Japanese scholars invited by the American
Council of Learned Societies and the
Social Science Research Council to participate
in a Disciplinary Survey Conference
in Japanese Language and Linguistics held
recently in New York. She was also one
of thirty invitees to a similar conference
on Japanese Literary Studies.
FRANCIS M. BETTS, III, Assistant to the
President for External Affairs, presented a
paper entitled "COPRA, Cost of Physical
Resource Allocation, An Analytical Planning-
Model" to-the l969 Annual'Forum
of the Association for Institutional Research,
held in Chicago last May.
DR. DARWIN PROCKOP, associate professor
of biochemistry, was an invited speaker
at the Symposium on Connective Tissue,
sponsored by NATO and held at Santa
Margherita, Italy. DR. JOEL ROSENBLOOM,
assistant professor of biochemistry, was an
invited participant.
DR. FRANK F. SEELEY, professor of
Slavic languages and literatures, gave a
lecture at University of North Carolina last
spring on Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons."
DR. DANIEL WILNER, adjunct assistant
professor of radiology, presented a paper
on "Fibrous Defects of Bone: A Radiological
Approach Toward Clarification of
the Nonenclature" at the annual meeting
of the Eastern Radiological Society in
Mid-Pines, North Carolina. He also participated
in a panel presentation on "Unknowns
of Bones and Joints."

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Hospital.
Among other things
practice at Delaware County Memorial DR. RONALD C. ROSBOTTOM, assistant
DR. PAUL M. LLOYD, professor of romance
languages, lectured at the International
Linguistic Association in New York
DR. ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN, professor of last May "On Vulgar Latin."
political science, was a discussant at the DR. LAWRENCE D. SHER, assistant professor
regional meeting of the International Studies
Association in Pittsburgh last April. He of electrical engineering, gave an in-
vited lecture on the biological interactions
later spoke on "The Relevance of the of microwave radiation at the 1969 International
Yugoslav Model for Developing Countries"
Microwave Symposium in Dallas.
at the Center for International Affairs
DR. HENRY L. PRICE, professor of anes-
at Harvard and delivered a paper on thesiology, gave the Foregger Memorial
"Yugoslav Foreign Policy Since the June
War" at the Northeast Conference of the
American Association for Advancement of
Slavic Studies in Boston.
Lecture in Atlanta in September at the 8th
District Meeting of the American Society
of Anesthesiologists. His topic was "Circulatory
Effects of Anesthetics."
DR. P. L. BARGELLINI, professor of electrical
engineering, presented a paper, "Ex-
ADOLPH MATZ, professor of accounting,
While he was in Japan teaching, DR.
tension of the Concept of Satellite Communication
was invited to speak before students at
System Capacity to a Two Di-
Nihon University, and, later, before execu-
mensional Model" at the International tives of the Nippon Electric Company. He
Conference on Ccmmunications held in also attended the Annual Convention of
Boulder, Colorado this summer and sponsored
the Japanese Accounting Association in
by the Institute of Electrical and Kobe and was guest speaker for Pennsyl-
Electronic Engineers. His paper will be vania's MBA Alumni Society.
published in the Conference Proceedings. DR. J. O'M. BOCKRIS, professor of
DR. ROLAND MUSHAT FRYE, professor chemistry, has been invited to chair sessions
of English, lectured at the Annual Spring
and to present a lecture on the theory
Festival at American University on the of dendritic electrocircuitry stabilization at
topic of "Shakespeare Considers his Stage." the meeting of the International Society of
DR. JAMES L. A. ROTH, clinical professor
Electrochemistry in Strasbourg, France.
of medicine and director of the Divi-
The general subject of the meeting is
sion of Gastroenterology in Graduate "Transport Control in Reactions at Interfaces."
Medicine, participated in a panel discussion
on "Controversies on Peptic Ulcer DR. GEORGE N. STEIN, clinical professor
Management" at the Annual Meeting of
of radiology, presented a paper on
the American College of Physicians in "Identification of Bleeding Sites by Selective
April. Earlier, he discussed "Current Concepts
Arteriography" at the meeting of the
of Duodenal Ulcer Disease" at a American Medical Association last July.
meeting of the Hobart Amory Hare Honor He later presented a paper on "Ulcerative
Medical Society of Jefferson Medical College,
and Granulomatous Colitis-Is There a
and presented a paper on "Drug In-
Difference" at the meeting of the Post
duced Gastro-Duodenal Ulcer" in a series Graduate Medical Assembly of South
of lectures on modern concepts of medical Texas in Houston.
professor of romance languages, gave two
lectures on the French Novel in the 18th
century at Franklin and Marshall College
in Lancaster late last spring.
DR. STUART W. CHURCHILL, Carl V. S.
Patterson Professor of Chemical Engineering,
and DR. WARREN D. SEIDER, assistant
professor of chemical and elecrical engineering,
attended the National Meeting of
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
at Cleveland; Dr. Churchill later attended
a meeting of the Advisory Committee
for Chemical Engineering and the
Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Engineering Education where he gave
a paper, "Should Chemical Engineering
Remain in the Engineering College?"
The spring issue of Chemical Engineering
Education featured an article on Dr.
Churchill written by DR. A. E. HUMPH-
REY, director of the School of Chemical
Engineering, as well as an article by Dr.
Churchill on new directions for engineering.
DR. JOHN A. LEPORE, assistant professor
of civil engineering, presented a paper
at the AIAA Structural Dynamics and
Aeroelasticity Specialists Conference held
in New Orleans last spring. He spoke on
"Dynamic Stability of Thin Circular Plates
Subjected to Purely Stochastic Radial Excitation."
Dr. Lepore also recently received
a National Science Foundation grant to
continue his research in the field of dynamic
stability of elastic system under stochastic
excitations.
DR. SIDNEY SHORE, professor of civil
engineering, also attended the AIAA meeting
where he gave a presentation on
"Thermostructural Simulation of Lifting
Vehicle Structures." He later co-chaired a
session on "Novel Loading Devices/Strain
Gages" at the meeting of the Society for
Experimental Stress Analysis held in Philadelphia.
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