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January 12, 2016, Volume 62, No. 18 |
Arlin Adams, Emeritus Trustee
John Flick, Microbiology and Immunology
Ronald Sanders, Office of the Registrar
Kenneth R. Sandler, Psychiatry
Sondra Siegel, Conference Services
Maurice N. Srouji, Pediatric Surgery
Anthony F. C. Wallace, Anthropology
Arlin Adams, Emeritus Trustee
Arlin Adams, LAW’47, HON’98, emeritus Trustee as well as chair and emeritus member of the Penn Law School Board of Overseers, died at his home on December 22. He was 94.
Judge Adams was appointed to Penn’s Board of Trustees in 1985 and served on its Academic Policy Committee. He chaired the Law School’s Board of overseers from 1985-1991 and was an adjunct member of the Law School faculty for more than two decades. He served as an Overseer of the School of Social Work (now the School of Social Policy & Practice) and the Wharton School, and as chairman of the Fels Institute of Government. He and his wife, Neysa Cristol Adams, CW’42, served as co-chairs of Penn's Harrison Society.
Judge Adams established the Neysa C. Adams Award in the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Neysa Cristol Adams Prize in Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences. Judge and Mrs. Adams created the Arlin and Neysa Adams Internship Program at the Law School.
In 1998, Judge Adams was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Penn (Almanac March 31, 1998). He received the University’s Alumni Award of Merit in 1994, the Law School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1981 and its James Wilson Award in 2001. In 2005, the Arlin M. Adams Professorship of Constitutional Law was established (Almanac July 12, 2005).
Judge Adams earned his undergraduate degree from Temple University in 1941 and his law degree from Penn, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. He began his legal career at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis. He was named Secretary of Public Welfare for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in 1969, he was appointed by President Nixon to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He later returned to Schnader, then retired in 2012.
Judge Adams is survived by his wife, Neysa; three daughters, Judith, Carol Kirshner and Jane; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on January 15 at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027. |
John Flick, Microbiology and Immunology
John A. Flick, a retired associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, died on October 26, 2015. He was 98 years old.
Dr. Flick earned his bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He joined the Penn faculty in 1944 and worked closely with second-year medical students, often in his lab, where students launched and completed research projects under his supervision. He served as chair of the department of microbiology. He retired in 1982.
Dr. Flick is survived by his wife, Arlene, CW’60; five children, Gregory, M’77, David, Carl, Catherine and Anne, CW’74, GEd’76 (Neil Braun, C’74); and five grandchildren, Elizabeth, Emma, Samantha Braun, C’12, Spencer Braun, C’14 and John Dews. |
Ronald Sanders, Office of the Registrar
Ronald (Ron) Vincent Sanders, WEV’84, a retired University of Pennsylvania registrar, died on December 24. He was 72 years old.
Mr. Sanders was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He attended St. Francis Xavier School and Gettysburg High School, then served in the U.S. Air Force from 1960 to 1964 and in the Reserves until 1966. He worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and attended evening school at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences (now Philadelphia University), earning his associate’s degree.
He joined the Penn admissions office in 1973 and earned his bachelor’s degree from the Wharton Evening School. In 1985, he became registrar. He helped to launch Penn InTouch 2000, a web-based degree planning and audit system (Almanac February 22, 2000), and won a Models of Excellence award as a member of the Penn Portal Team (Almanac February 17, 2004). He also served on the Facilities committee of the University Council. He retired from Penn in 2009.
Mr. Sanders is survived by his wife, Constance; one daughter, Monica Embery (Richard), three sons, John (Denise), Eric (Kim) and Chad; seven grandchildren, Allyssa Embery, Elizabeth Embery, Jack, Sarah Embery, Stephen, Mary and Emily; and four sisters, Lucille Carter, Patricia Brodbeck, Janice Balderas and Teresa. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project at P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675 or www.woundedwarriorproject.org
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Kenneth R. Sandler, Psychiatry
Kenneth R. Sandler, M’70, FEL’74, a member of the psychiatry clinical faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine for more than 30 years, died suddenly at his home in Malvern, Pennsylvania on December 24. He was 71.
He was described by some colleagues in the department of psychiatry as “a national expert in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with substance use disorders.”
Dr. Sandler was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated cum laude from the University of Delaware, then received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and was board certified in psychiatry and addictions by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He joined the Perelman School of Medicine faculty over 30 years ago and taught pre-clinical classes. He was also president, founder and chief executive officer of Lighthouse, a New Jersey-based rehabilitation facility.
Dr. Sandler is survived by three children, Vanessa, Kayla and Kyle; his sister, Nancy (John); his nephews, Matthew, Andrew and Peter; and Tacy Ammons and Randy Sandler. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to CADEkids (www.cadekids.org) or Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (www.fidf.org). |
Sondra Siegel, Conference Services
Sondra Boss Siegel, a retired associate director in Conference Services at the University of Pennsylvania, died on December 5 in Rochester, New York. She was 77 years old.
Ms. Siegel grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1984, she came to Penn as a temporary extra person in the School of Arts & Sciences’ College of General Studies (CGS). Later that year, she was hired as an administrative assistant in the School of Arts & Sciences.
In 1988, she became a coordinator in Conference Services. In 1998, she was promoted to associate director of Conference Services. In this role, she arranged an average of 110 meetings per year, working in partnership with offices across campus to meet housing, security, food service and other needs of clients holding meetings or events on campus.
She retired from Conference Services in 2006, then returned to Penn to work in Residential Living until 2010.
Ms. Siegel is survived by her son, Stephen (Michelle Dziejman); her daughter, Merrie; three grandchildren, Mitchel, Sophia and Jimena; her sister-in-law, Ruth Thomas; her nephew, Michael; her niece, Sarah; and Aaron Siegel.
Donations in her memory may be made to Penn’s Village (www.pennsvillage.org) or the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation (www.freelibrary.org).
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Anthony F. C. Wallace, Anthropology
Anthony (Tony) Wallace, C’47, G’49, Gr’50, professor emeritus of anthropology at Penn, died on October 5. He was 91.
Dr. Wallace was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He earned his BA in history and his MA and PhD in anthropology, both from Penn. He began teaching in Penn’s department of anthropology in 1948. In 1961, he became professor and chairman of the department (Almanac October 1961). He was also curator of North American ethnology in the Penn Museum, though that was largely honorary. As chairman of the department of anthropology in the 1960s, he obtained a million dollars from the National Science Foundation to help build the Academic Wing of the Museum.
In 1980, he became the first Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought at Penn. In 1983, he became University Professor of Anthropology (Almanac September 13, 1983). He served on the board of the Research Foundation of the University, the Faculty Editorial Committee of the University Press and the Ethnohistory Committee. He retired from Penn and took emeritus status in 1988.
Dr. Wallace was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The former president of the American Anthropological Association also chaired an ACLS sub-commission in the US-USSR exchange, and was an advisor in the American space program. He received a Guggenheim fellowship to study the role of personal networks of mechanicians in industrial innovation in the 19th century (Almanac December 5, 1978).
In 1979, he received the Bancroft Prize for his book, Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (Almanac April 1979). In 1980, he won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award for the same book. Additional awards included the Cleveland Foundation’s Annisfield-Wolf Award for The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca and the Cornplanter Medal for Iroquoian Studies.
His books include King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung, 1700–1763 (1949), Culture and Personality (1961, rev. ed. 1970), Religion: An Anthropological View (1966), The Social Context of Innovation (1982), St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town’s Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry (1987) and The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (1993).
His 2012 book, Tuscarora: A History, describes the challenges of cultural survival for the Iroquoia reservation community in western New York. Dr. Wallace first stayed with Tuscarora hosts as a Penn graduate student in 1948.
His papers are at the American Philosophical Society (http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.64a-ead.xml). |
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