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 Class
of ’80
Room with an Urban View
Weary
of the corporate life, Jane
Mendelson C’80 GCP’82 fantasized about finding a charming
place to convert into a bed-and-breakfast. She finally happened upon
it–in Harlem. Continued...
Generations
Quakers Meeting House
When
Dr. Bernard Steinberg GrE’71,
and his wife, Jacqueline Steinberg wanted to renovate their 50-year-old
Chestnut Hill home, the active retired couple must have had just one
logical choice of where to turn: the Philadelphia architectural firm
of their son and daughter-in-law. Continued...
Class
of ’92
A Mush With Greatness
When
February comes to Fairbanks,
and temperatures dip to 40 below, or colder, it would seem the time
to hunker indoors and wait for Alaska to thaw. But Aliy Zirkle C’92
does the opposite, setting out on her dog sled for a 1,000-mile journey.
Continued...
New Chapter in Alumni Education
Dr.
Alan Filreis, the Class of 1942 Professor
of English and faculty director of the Kelly Writers House, has recruited
some of his colleagues to join groups of alumni in book-discussion  groups–by
e-mail–in the coming year. The Writers House Virtual Book Groups,
as he calls them, "make possible smart and interesting conversations,
carried on across Penn generations as well as across space and time."
Continued...
Class
of ’71
Moving Memories
and More
The
caller was frantic. His father lives
in an Alzheimer’s facility. His mother had sold her house to move
to a retirement village, and had to leave within a month. But she broke
her arm and leg in a fall, requiring six weeks of rehabilitation. Continued...
Class
of ’91
A Reel Artist
Growing
up on her grandfather's farm,
by an unspoiled creek along the Chesapeake Bay, Ellen McCaleb C’91
would observe the seasonal processions of fish by her house–striped
bass, red drum, bluefish, mackerel. Fishing outings with her father,
"a tough task master" around the farm, provided precious occasions
for the two to simply have fun together. Continued...
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