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CLASS
OF ’50
How
A Chemist Found Prints Charming
It
all began when two well-dressed
men poked their heads in the doorway of Dr. Madeleine JoulliÈ’s office
several years ago. “They said, ‘We’re from the Secret Service,’ and
showed me their identification,” recalls JoulliÈ G’50 Gr’53, Class of
1970 Professor of Chemistry at Penn. “I said, ‘My God, what did I do?
Are you going to arrest me? Continued...
CLASS
OF ’71
A
Princess’s Diary
Dr.
Cecilia Segawa Seigle Gr’71 returned
to her native Japan to research one book topic and came across an unexpected
treasure —a 36-volume diary written by a 17th-century Japanese imperial
princess. Though the document had been hand-copied from the original
in 1902, and stored in the Historiographical Institute at the University
of Tokyo, scholars had all but ignored it until now.
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’95
The
Underground
World of Cockfighting
The
trailer for Cockfight begins with
the ominous image of a man strapping razor blades onto a rooster’s talons
and carrying the bird into a dirt ring. It has all the elements of a
gritty exposÈ. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’97
Three
Slackers,
Three Bikes, and a Prairie
After
getting fired from their temp
jobs, three “slackers” named Cal, Stan, and Dave start a bicycle-courier
service in Omaha, Nebrasksa. Though the enterprise would seem to have
little chance on the Great Plains, the trio achieve great success through
their “punctuality, courtesy, and good hygiene.” That’s when their troubles
begin. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’63
Preparing
Major Tom for Microgravity
Sending
astronauts to Mars and
back requires more than a feat of rocketry. It takes a thorough understanding
of how the entire human body responds to long-term space travel. “We
do not know enough to declare that it’s safe and it’s worth the risk
for humans to do this,” says Dr. Martin Kushmerick M’63 Gr’66. “NASA
will not send people on a suicide mission.” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’67
Engendering
Progress
In
the early 1970s, the secretaries
at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington put together a
list of demands for the male attorneys in their office. One of them
that would change Marcia Devins Greenberger’s life—and arguably the
lives of countless other women—was that the center establish a section
on women’s law and bring in a female attorney to staff it. Continued...
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