DEATHS
Sir
Peter Shepheard
| Joseph Russell Elkinton | Robert
Lincoln Trescher | Willis Jay Winn
Sir
Peter Shepheard, A Visionary Landscape Architect and Planner
Sir
Peter Shepheard, the former dean of the Graduate School of Fine
Arts and emeritus professor of landscape architecture who transformed
Penn's campus, died in England on April 11, at the age of 88.
Mr.
Shepheard, an architect, landscape architect, and planner, was
born in Birkenhead, England, and graduated from the Liverpool
School of Architecture in 1936. His early career was in central
and local government in England and he worked on projects such
as New Towns and the Greater London Development Plan. He was a
founding partner in the firm of Bridgwater and Shepheard (later
Shepheard, Epstein and Hunter).
Mr.
Shepheard came to Penn in 1957 as a visiting professor, becoming
professor with tenure in 1971. He served as dean of GSFA from
1971 until 1979. During his tenure as dean, Mr. Shepheard was
responisble for the development of the Landscape Architecture
Master Plan or "the LAMP" as it became known. The LAMP,
when implemented transformed the area from the Schuylkill River
to 40th St. and Woodland Walk from 33rd and Chestnut streets to
Woodland Cemetery into a pedestrian campus.
While
dean, Mr. Shepheard also established an interdisciplinary undergraduate
major in the Design of the Environment. This major, an interdisciplinary
degree, synthesized the departments of architectue, city planning,
fine arts, and landscape architecture, which was considered ahead
of its time.
He
continued teaching at Penn until 1994 when he became professor
emeritus but returned to participate through last fall in a series
of public lectures in landscape architecture which he had developed
while dean.
Some
of Mr. Shepheard's most well known projects include the London
Zoo, Bessborough gardens, and the gardens of the U.S. Ambassador
at Winifred House. He also published books on garden design, Modern
Gardens (1953) and Gardens (1969).
Mr.
Shepheard became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) in 1972 and was knighted "for services to architecture"
in 1980. He was president of the Landscape Institute from 1965-1966
and awarded the Landscape Institute Medal (UK)--the profession's
highest accolade, in 1999.
Mr.
Shepheard is survived by his daughter, Sarah; and a son, Paul.
Mr.
Shepheard's essay--from the out-of-print Landscape Development
Plan of February 1977--The Spaces in Between--which
had appeared in Almanac October 7, 1980--is now
available on line at www.upenn.edu/almanac/issues/past/Shepheard.html.
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This
drawing of Blanche Levy Park, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, was a gift of the architect, Sir Peter
Shepheard and is part of the collection of his drawings
now in Penns Architectural Archives. The pedestrian-oriented
area was constructed in 1980.
Both
photos are courtesy of The Architectural Archives, University
of Pennsylvania
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Dr. Elkinton,
Emeritus Professor
Dr.
Joseph Russell Elkinton, professor emeritus of renal electrolyte
in the School of Medicine, died on April 6, at the age of 91.
Dr.
Elkinton earned his bachelors degree from Haverford College and
his M.D. from Harvard University Medical School in 1937. From
1948 until his retirement in 1971, Dr. Elkinton headed the chemical
section, now the renal-electrolyte and hypertension division of
the School of Medicine, where he developed a research program
in blood chemistry and kidney disease. He also was the editor
of the Annals of Internal Medicine from 1960 until 1971.
He
is survived by a daughter, Gwyneth E. Loud; a son Joseph S.; a
brother and five grandchildren.
A
memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. on June 16 at Wellesley,
MA, Friends Meeting.
Mr.
Trescher, Emeritus Trustee
Robert
Lincoln Trescher, Penn Emeritus Trustee and Chair Emeritus of
the Board of Overseers of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
died on April 10 at the age of 89.
Mr.
Trescher (W '34, L '37, H '82) was Chairman and Senior Partner
of the law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads
and, until recently, served as counsel to that firm. A past Chancellor
of the Philadelphia Bar Association, he was a fellow of the American
Bar Foundation and the American College of Trial Lawyers. In addition,
he was former Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association's
Commission on Standards of Judicial Administration and former
Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary.
Mr.
Trescher was a past Vice Chair of Penn's Board of Trustees and
member and Chair Emeritus of the Board of Overseers of the Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology. Mr. Trescher was a former Chair
of the Board of Overseers of the Law School, President of the
Law Alumni Association, and served as Chair of the Development
Fund of the Law School from 1955 to 1965.
He
was presented with the Law School's Distinguished Service Award
in 1979, received the University's Alumni Award of Merit in 1959,
and was the first recipient of the Marian Angell Godfrey Boyer
Medal for Distinguished Service to the University Museum. Mr.
Trescher established the Robert L. Trescher Trustee Scholarship.
He has supported several areas of the University, including the
Law School, the Medical Center, and the University Museum.
He
is survived by his wife, Glendora; two daughters, Victoria Agnich
and Ellen Hass; and four grandchildren.
Memorial
contributions may be made to the Law School of The University
of Pennsylvania, 33rd and Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, PA 19104
or to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, 34th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Dr. Winn,
Former Dean of Wharton
Dr.
Willis Jay Winn, former dean of the Wharton School, died on April
11 at the age of 84.
Mr.
Winn, a native of Plattsburg, Mo, received his bachelors degree
from Central College, of Fayette, Mo. He received his M.B.A. from
Wharton in 1940, and became an instructor in finance in the same
year. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Penn in 1951. In
1957 he became a professor of finance and in 1958 was selected
acting dean and then dean of the Wharton School.He received an
honorary degree in economics in 1972.
He
remained dean until 1971 when he was appointed president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a member of the Federal
Reserve Board's Open Market Committee. He remained president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland until he retired in 1982.
He
is survived by his wife, Lois Gengelbach Winn; a daughter, Judith;
a son, Steven; and a granddaughter. Memorial donations may be
made to the Willis Winn College Scholarship Fund, U.S. Bank, Box
E, Plattsburg, MO., 64477.
Sir
Peter Shepheard
| Joseph Russell Elkinton | Robert
Lincoln Trescher | Willis Jay Winn