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Stamp of Approval
FOR Dr. Ahmed Zewail
Gr’74 Hon’97 it was yet another mark of recognition
when the Egyptian government honored his contributions to molecular
science with the creation of two postage stamps bearing his portrait.
Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and professor
of physics at the California Institute of Technology, who has
obtained numerous national and international awards for his research,
was touched greatly by the accolade from his birth country and
to be "in the company of stamps honoring the pyramids, Tutan-khamen
and Queen Nefertiti." Released last year, the stamps are
still in circulation.
Although he is now a U.S. citizen, Zewail grew
up and studied in Egypt before obtaining his doctorate in chemistry
at Penn. Zewail is known for his development of ultrafast lasers
and electrons for studies of dynamics in chemistry and biology.
His work has made it possible to study atoms and molecules in
motion during chemical reactions.
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CLASS
OF '94
Garden of Hedon
TED Werth
C/W’94 calls himself "a chronic entrepreneur" –an
accurate description considering his string of business ventures, which
have ranged from creating a "webzine" and launching a live-concert
site in cyberspace to becoming partner in Original Sin, a hard-cider
company. Continued...
CLASS
OF '86
A Surprise Musical Prize
DR. Melinda
Wagner Gr’86 was composing her latest piece when the telephone
rang one morning in April. She had turned off the ringer to avoid distractions,
but still heard the answering machine pick up in the next room. It was
her publisher. "He had been getting phone calls that were slightly
cryptic and was calling to see if I had received any," Wagner recalls.
"We finally put two and two together." Continued...
CLASS
OF '77
Murder, She Writ: A Conversation with
Lisa Scottoline
BRASH, bold,
intelligent, loyal, impetuous,
tall, blond, Italian-American and Philadelphian. Those are the descriptors
one could use in depicting Bennie Rosato, protagonist of the sixth and
latest legal thriller by Lisa Scottoline C’77 L’81, Mistaken
Identity. Ask any of her legions of avid fans, and you will find
that many of the same adjectives come to mind as they describe Scottoline
herself. Continued...
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OF '73
Paris is for Pooches
BOSTON-based
photographer Michael Malyszko C’73 and poet Judith Hughes CW’73
took their two dogs with them to Paris and came away with enough off-beat
material to fill a rhyming photo album. Continued...
CLASS
OF '49
Former Quaker Football
Star Still Tough as Concrete
 IT
was November 1945. Chuck Bednarik Ed’49
had just come out of the Army Air Corps at age 20 and enrolled at Penn
at the urging of his high school football coach. Having flown 30 missions
on a B-24 over Germany, the solidly built, 6’3’’ center
and linebacker was now going to transfer his "killer instinct" to the
Quakers’ football field. Continued...
CLASS
OF '98
Social Worker Exposes
Mental Health Abuses
AN
adolescent boy screams, then whimpers, in pain as he is carried by his
arms and legs and strapped to the bed in a psychiatric hospital. Although
he is barely struggling with the aides trying to restrain him, one worker
has wrenched back the boy’s left arm into a leather cuff with such
force that he reinjures a damaged wrist. Continued...
 ALUMNI
LINKS
Connecting
Penn’s Past and Present
ELSIE
Sterling Howard CW’68, president of the University of Pennsylvania
Alumni Society, remembers how frustrated she felt that her daughter
Heidi Howard Tandy C’92 never got to meet any of her own classmates’
children while attending Penn. Continued...
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