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CLASS
OF ’93 Ladies
and Gentlemen,The Booda Velvets
Dan
Cromie C’93 was the type of freshman who made noise in the Quad’s lounges
at all hours of the night. But when a campus rock band called him up,
having liked the voice they heard wailing in the halls, his hobby took
flight. “I didn’t even know I could sing,” recalls Cromie a decade later,
unwinding after a summer concert at the Grape Street Pub in Philadelphia’s
Manayunk district. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’66 Painting
By Numbers
Last
year Dr. Hitoshi Nakazato
GFA’66
was looking for a way to celebrate the new millennium, three decades
of teaching at Penn’s Graduate School of Fine Arts, and his “new citizenship—not
American, but senior citizenship.” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’00 Annotations
on Anaconda
Under
ordinary circumstances,
says Lt. Andrew Exum C’00, “I am almost frighteningly laid-back. When
bullets start flying, usually my heart starts beating a little faster.”
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’89 The
Play-ing’s the Thing
According
to DiDinga lore,
there
lurk in the woods of Sudan nasty spirits called the Miningit.
They have been known to grab and detain children for days, before releasing
them with disoriented tales for their friends. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’88 He
Passed Up Torts for Tortes
Fourteen
years ago
political-science
major Robin Leigh C’88 graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa,
with an acceptance to Georgetown Law School securely in hand as he stood
within a sea of more uncertain Penn classmates. But today he is not
the high-powered attorney or political figure one might expect from
his college career. Instead, Leigh has reached what he recalls is his
“faraway dream from childhood”: He works in the restaurant business.
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’61 Virus
Fighter
Many
of the patients who
have
been treated successfully for diseases ranging from Hepatitis A to leukemia
to multiple sclerosis have Dr. Sidney Pestka M’61 to thank for their
health. Continued...
CLASS
‘76
He
Writes the
Songs
“Becoming
a professional lyricist
is always a long shot,” says David Zippel C’76. It’s clear that this
award-winning songwriter, whose 27-year music career will be celebrated
in a Philadelphia revue later this month, has beaten the odds. Continued...
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