POSITION:
Staff supervisor, Annenberg Center box office YEARS AT PENN: 3 WHAT HE DOES: Whiteman (center) oversees a staff of two full-time
assistants and 32 student employees, including Aurelio Marquez (C06,
right), who answer anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 calls each
week and handle ticket sales and requests at the Annenberg box office.
If a patron has a request that the student agents cannot handle,
Whiteman deals with it himself. TICKETS SOLD: According to Marketing Manager Roy Wilbur,
95,000 patrons attended 170 Penn Presents performances last fiscal
year. CONTACT INFO: Box office: 3680 Walnut St., main lobby; Web
site: www.pennpresents.org;
phone: 215-898-3900.
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)