The Lower Merion School Board is red and blue with Penn people. The board president is Janet Perry, program director for the Law School's Center on Professionalism. Re-elected on the same slate with her earlier this month were two more Penn people: Alan M. Lerner, practice associate professor of law, and Frieda Hopkins Outlaw, assistant professor of nursing.

Rosie O'Donnell, in a nun's habit, became a Penn personality for a day when the actress visited the Chinese Rotunda and the Buddhism Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Nov. 2. The museum is making its major motion-picture debut in a Miramax release, "Wide Awake," at the Cannes Film Festival next year and for general release here next summer. The plot involves a 10-year-old boy's search for God. As part of the filming, some young actors got caught in a turnstile of the museum's main entrance. To find out what role the turnstile plays, you will have to wait for the film's premiere.

Nursing School Dean Norma Lang and Anne P. Keane, associate professor of nursing, will be teaching in Taiwan in December as part of the World Health Organization-International Council of Nursing project. Dean Lang will spend some of her time with the Taiwan Nurses Association, while Professor Keane will consult with the local nurses about graduate education.

Her day job is an administrative assistant in the placement office of the Law School. She also participates in Penn's workplace mentoring program. But nights and weekends, Helena Reid is a singer with a voice described as "very powerful," by her boss and old friend, Jo-Ann Verrier, assistant dean for career planning and placement. Singing since she was four-years-old in her church choir, Ms. Reid now has two credits on commercially produced CDs as a soloist of contemporary gospel music performed by the Dobbins Mass Choir. She also has sung backup solos for a friend who used to perform with the Hawkins Family Singers, and has performed in shows at the Walnut Theater.