OBITUARIES
Former Wharton dean
Donald C. Carroll, former dean of the Wharton School, died Feb. 24 at the age of 67 after a long illness. Carroll joined the University in 1972 as the Wharton School's ninth dean and the first to be chosen from outside the school.
During his 11 years as dean, Carroll presided over dramatic changes in Wharton's physical and programmatic structure, including the transfer of its social-science programs to the School of Arts and Sciences, the creation of new interdisciplinary programs and inter-school degree programs, groundbreaking international agreements, the creation of the Executive MBA Program, the completion of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall and initial planning for the Steinberg Conference Center.
Carroll was the first recipient of the Reliance Professorship at the Wharton School, created in 1979 to endow the deanship. He was also a Sloan Fellow and a Ford Fellow as well as a internationally-known lecturer and the author of numerous technical publications.
A spring memorial service will be held on campus. His family requests that memorial contributions in his name be made to the Wharton School.
Romance languages professor
Charles Bernheimer, professor of romance languages and comparative literature, died Feb. 21 of pancreatic cancer at age 55 in his Berkeley, Calif., home.
A 1963 graduate of Haverford College, Bernheimer received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1973 and taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 18 years before coming to Penn in 1988 as a full professor. At Penn, Bernheimer served as the chair of the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program. He was the author of two books, edited three others, and wrote numerous articles and book chapters. Among his numerous honors and awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and an ACLS Fellowship in 1990.
The Department of Romance Languages has established an essay prize in his name and will announce plans for a memorial service at a future date.
-- Nathaniel Glasser and Sandy Smith