The University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society has nominated two candidates to fill two alumni trustee positions for five-year terms starting January 1, 2004:

William P. Egan II WG’69 (Northeastern Region)
William P. Egan II of Boston, is a founder and general partner of Alta Communications, a Massachusetts-based venture-capital firm. He founded its predecessor firm, Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., in 1979, and has identified and backed several of America’s leading growth companies in the information technology, life sciences, and communications industries. He is chair and a past-president of the National Venture Capital Association, and a trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Duniry Foundation, and of Fairfield University, his undergraduate alma mater. Additionally, he serves on the board of Cephalon, Inc., and on the boards of several privately held communications, cable, and information-technology companies. At Penn he was a member of his 30th Reunion Gift Committee and of the Northeast Regional Advisory Board. He also is a member of the Academy of the University of Pennsylvania and has served on the Graduate Executive Board of the Wharton School since 1994.

Katherine Stein Sachs CW’69 (Metropolitan Philadelphia Region)
Katherine Stein Sachs of Rydal, Pa., is a research coordinator in the European painting department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She sits on the contemporary collector’s committee of the Harvard University Art Museums, serves on the Tate International Council, and chairs the Board of Governors of Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She has served Penn in several capacities over the years, having been a member of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women since 2000, chair of the Institute of Contemporary Art Board of Overseers of since 1998, co-chair of its annual Benefit Gala in 1999 and 1991, and chair of its endowment campaign in 1997. And in 1994 she served on the Class of 1969 Reunion Gift Committee. Recently she helped launch the first Arts Day at Penn, which brings together board members of the University’s arts and humanities centers to exchange ideas and celebrate their contributions to the academic experience of Penn students. Katherine met her husband, Keith L. Sachs W’67, at Penn.

Alumni may file other nominations until September 9; these nominations must be accompanied by a petition signed by five percent of all eligible degree-holding alumni.

For details write to: Robert J. Alig, executive secretary of the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society, E. Craig Sweeten Alumni House, 3533 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6226 or e-mail him at <aligb@ben.dev.upenn.edu>

The Penn Media Summit 2003 will take place at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

This year’s panels include News and Journalism, Sports and the Media, Writers on Writing, and the second part of a discussion initiated at last year’s summit, “At the Intersection of Commerce, Culture, and Creativity.” For more information on volunteering or registering for this year’s event, e-mail <pennmediasummit2003
@yahoo.com>. For those alumni interested in sponsoring the event, please e-mail David P. France C’89 at <dpfrance@hotmail.com>.

The Council is Penn’s resource for undergraduate legacy applicants. Through June 2004, the staff are available for informal Q&A sessions about legacy admissions from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. every Monday and Friday (except University holidays) in the Sweeten Alumni House at 3533 Locust Walk. Reservations not required.
For more information, visit (www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca)
or call (215) 898-6888.

ALA congratulates all recent graduates from the University. Founded only three years ago, ALA brings together Latino alumni and friends, new and old! For more information, visit (www.alumni.upenn.edu/groups
/ala.html)

Trustees’ Council of Penn Women
The TCPW Fall Conference, to be held Nov. 6-7, will focus on Life on Campus: Students, Faculty and Alumnae. The conference will lead right into the 125th Sculpture events and Homecoming Weekend on Nov. 7-8. Please make plans to stay around for the weekend’s important events including the Alumni Award of Merit Gala on Friday evening, Nov. 7, where TCPW members Susan Frier Danilow CW’74 G’74 and Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell CW’69 will receive the 2003 Alumni Award of Merit. Join the festivities as you work to fulfill the mission of your organization, celebrate as Penn alumnae and honor two of your fellow TCPW members. We hope to see you in Philadelphia this November.