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CLASS
OF ’90 Cancer:
A Spouse’s Candid View 
“It
has been, to put it mildly,
a real
bitch of a week,” writes Brendan Halpin C’90 in one entry of a candid
memoir about his wife Kirsten Shank’s (C’90) ordeal with breast cancer.
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’76 Art—and
Compassion —Behind Bars
Steel bars
and cinder blocks: Those harsh images would seem to define the
perimeters of prison life. But when Pennsylvania sculptor James Lloyd
FA’68 was asked to create a work of art for the hospice chapel of the
Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, he transformed those forms into
more freeing metaphors for the human spirit. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’91 An
Animator With All the Right Moves
Ever
wondered what it’s like to be
an Oscar Winner? Ask Cary Phillips
Gr’91, who won his second Academy Award for technical achievement this
past March. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’83 Searching
for Ms. Rightowitz
Like
many well-meaning parents,
Rachel
Rosen’s mother and father want to see their daughter settle down. So
when she moves from New York to San Diego after a traumatic breakup,
her mother insists on setting her up with a “nice” California girl.
Continued...
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But
Did They Serve
Red and Blue Popcorn?
Matt
Rosler C’96 attended a small festival in Los Angeles one night
for the premiere of a Penn alumnus’s film. While waiting in line,
he was surprised to bump into another Penn graduate, who also
had a film showing there. This encounter and others like it led
to the first annual Pennfest, hosted by Penn’s Alumni Club of
Southern California on February 19. More than 250 people attended
the event at the Hollywood Knitting Factory, which showcased 18
films and five live bands (including Goldspot, above).
“We’ve
had a lot of events where we’ve recognized established entertainment
folks,” says Rosler, the club president. What made this event
different was that it was “dedicated to emerging alumni
talent in film and live music. And this is something we want to
continue for years to come.” Rosler says this year’s organizers
have already received submissions for Pennfest 2003.
One of the featured bands got management after this year’s event
and some of the films were asked to participate in another film
festival as a result of Pennfest, Rosler adds. Another positive
development, he notes, is that the event has helped form relationships
between the digital-media program at Penn and alumni who work
in the film industry. Three undergraduates from that program sent
in short films for the festival.
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