CLASS OF ’67 Alumni Leader: Connecting and Reconnecting with Penn Paul Williams W’67 remembers his junior and senior years at Penn as “two of the best years of my life.” Continued...

CLASS OF ’91 Balancing is Believing Two boys in southeastern Ghana are sent to fetch water from the well. When they start to goof around, moving in circles, swinging buckets at their sides, their mother scolds them for walking lugulugu—as if they are drunk. Continued...

CLASS OF ’90 Wholesome Foods, Devine Flavor Well before whole foods became commonplace in the American vernacular, Denise Devine WG ’90 had the scoop. Continued...

CLASS OF ’ 98 Land Grants and Literature As co-founder of a new literary journal, Land-Grant College Review, Dave Koch C’98 has been paying his Web designer in cans of Moxie Root Beer. Continued...

CLASS OF ’96 All Bets are on Banks’ Acting Career It’s not often that a Penn graduate can wax poetic about working with Madonna. And it’s pretty rare that a Quaker can cite the decade’s biggest blockbuster, Spiderman, on her résumé. But if you’re Elizabeth Banks C’86, you can do both. Continued...

CLASS OF ’98 Shaping Dough into Drama David Wise C’98 nudges over a plump pillow of dough to fit another knish onto the cookie sheet. “A mother always knows how to make room for one more,” he explains. A tired smile crosses the actor’s face, which is softened by a wisp of red hair falling from the bun on his head. Continued...