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POETRY
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Vacation
with Verse
Meadows,
trout streams, forests, waterfalls: The scenery of the Catskills
alone is poetic enough. Come April, it will serve as a fitting
backdrop for a retreat on modern poetry designed especially for
alumni. Penn and the Kelly Writers House are hosting the three-day,
two-night workshop at the Straus Estate at Frost Valley. It will
be taught by Dr. Al Filreis, the Class of 1942 Professor of English
and the faculty director of the Writers House.
The seminar will feature reading and discussion of poems by Robert
Frost, William Carlos Williams M’06 Hon’52, H.D., Lorine Niedecker,
Marianne Moore, and others. The cost of the course, lodging, meals,
and recreational activities is $210. Enrollment is limited to
20 people.
For more information on the location, call (845) 985-2291, ext.
204, or e-mail <timeaway
@frostvalley.org>. To learn more about the workshop, see
(www.english.upenn.edu/
~afilreis/poetry.html)
or write to Filreis at <afilreis@english.upenn.edu>.
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CLASS
OF ’71 Uprising
Against Evil
It
began as just another story, one
of many Jon Avnet C’71 (Fried Green Tomatoes, Up Close and
Personal, The Burning Bed) has brought to film and television, but
somewhere in the seven years it took the producer to tell the World
War II story of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto and their battles against
the Nazis, it became much more. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’79 & ’81 Art
in the Family
Painter,
printmaker, and video artist
Gwyneth Leech C’81 has displayed her work in 15 one-woman shows in New
York, Scotland, and England. But last fall she had the novel experience
of sharing exhibition space with four of her relatives. Continued...
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CLASS
OF ’75 Where
There Are Wheels, There’s a Way
Hal
Colston C’75 was working for
a community-action agency in Vermont when one day, Debra, a welfare
recipient with two kids, walked into his office in tears. “She had just
bought a car for 500 bucks and couldn’t get it home,” he recalls. “It
had no brakes. For two weeks I tried to help her get her money back.
The idea popped in my head that we needed a community-based garage helping
people where they are, like a community-health agency.” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’88 Testing,
1, 2, 3—And Please Pass the Mashed Potatoes
Ira
Rosen C’88 enjoys few things
more
than spending a relaxing evening at home with friends and family members.
So about once a month he moves the furniture out of his dining room,
plugs in the amps, and waits—along with those nearest and dearest to
him—for the rock band to start playing. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’90 My
Friend the Adventure Writer
When
you watch the tape of Mike Finkel’s 1988 appearance on Sale of the
Century—a blink-and-you-missed-it Let’s Make A Deal imitator—“future
adventure writer” is hardly the first phrase that comes to mind. Irritating
geek? Possibly (“For each of my A’s last semester, I’ll take number
4!”). Fashion nightmare? Without a doubt (eggnog blazer, Ken Doll coif).
Ivy League junior who didn’t know the name of the Virgin Mary’s husband?
Sadly, yes. Continued...
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CLASS
OF ’79 Signs
of Progress for Deaf Studies
For
Dr. Sheryl Cooper C’79, mastering
the manual alphabet as a child seemed as natural as learning her ABCs.
“I grew up around deaf people,” says the Towson University assistant
professor who today coordinates one of about only 15 undergraduate deaf
studies programs in the country. Continued...
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CLASS
OF ’65 AND ’69
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 Big
Man on Campus:
Hon.
Edward G. Rendell C’65 Hon’00, Philadelphia’s former mayor who
recently announced his bid for Pennsylvania governor, was at three
Penn events on October 25. He spoke at a banqet for the Wharton
Small Business Development Center’s Philadelphia 100, an event
honoring the Philadelphia area’s fastest growing companies; talked
at the Law School about “The Economics of Sports Teams Franchises
for Cities”; and appeared with his wife, Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell
CW’69—a judge for the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals—at a gathering
of the Philadelphia Alumni Club, where they were honored as “the
PENNultimate couple.” Photo by Jacques-Jean
Tiziou
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CLASS
OF ’90
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When
a dilapidated storage building on the Warner Hollywood
Studios lot was granted new life as a restaurant, Los Angeles
architect Eric Rosen GAr’90 presided over the makeover. His design
played upon such features as the original ceiling structure to
reveal the beauty of the property. The restaurant’s large glass
doors allude to the original sliding garage doors of the storage
building. Rosen’s work has appeared in several publications, received
numerous design awards and has been exhibited in the United States
and Japan. Also shown, Rosen’s own residence in Venice, California.
Photos by Erich Koyoma
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