... throwing streamers after the first basket at
a basketball game
... the wall on the side of the bookstore that we used to paint
to advertise events
... unairconditioned quad rooms with doors that were perpetually
open
... a juke box in Stouffer's dining that played constantly
... Stouffer Dining Hall....
Favorite Penn Memories
Favorite Penn Professor
My Most Embarassing Penn Moment
Lessons Learned
Favorite Penn Memories:
Conducting The Star Spangled Banner at the Palestra just after
it was announced that USA had beaten Russia in hockey in the
1980 Olympics.
-Ann McCarthy Gallagher
Among many: Working security at the rally at Franklin Field
for the Final Four hoops team in '79; Re-founding and becoming
the first president of TEP and broadcasting Penn hoops as Sports
Director of WXPN
- Brian Radin
Being in the1979 Final 4 (okay not really my most vivid memory,
but that is the one clean enough for my adoring public)...
Going to Penn basketball games and the theme parties at 3924
Spruce Street.
Springtime on campus, music coming from the Frats, people lingering
on Locust Walk and College Green. One unusually hot day junior
year, while I was trying to get some sun on a patch of grass
behind High Rise South, I was hit in the head by a flying water
balloon. Wasn't too happy at the time, but looking back it was
pretty funny!
-Eva O'Brien
Best Penn memory has got to be getting to final four (contrast...worst
memory would be that we had a non-existent football team that
lost all its games)
- Woody Rosenbach
Muddy Waters Concert Spring Fling
Tie -- both freshman year: Getting to place my first vote (age
18) for term limits for Philadelphia Mayor so Frank Rizzo would
be out AND our Ivy League basketball team being in the Final
Four --- even if the sports reporters couldn't get it right
and kept calling us Penn State.
- Liz Greco-Rocks
Climbing the clock tower in the lower quad. Also, performing
in Tommy and Godspell outdoors in the quad (before spring fling
productions were moved indoors!).
- Elissa Hassman Waldstein
Getting to play and dance on-stage every year as the first
4-year Bloomer; Illegally scaling the walls of the quad to get
on the roof of Provost Towers with my fellow gymnasts; and living
in Phi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu during the summer and seeing
how the other half lives (so-to-speak). Thank g-d I was born
a woman!
- Sally Katz
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Favorite Penn Professor:
E. Digby Baltzell, who termed the term WASP (now deceased)
- Eva O'Brien
Murry Dolfman, Business Law
Drew Faust, American Civilization of the South, or the woman
who taught Women in Film and Literature (can't remember her
name - but she was great).
Ilona Gerbner, Theater Lab
-Liz Greco-Rocks
Nick Constan, Legal Studies, in undergrad and Janice Bellace
who taught Labor Law in the MBA program
Thomas Childers, European History and Jack Reece, European
History, who has since passed from AIDS -- 2 teachers who actually
taught me something other than subject matter, how to write
and think.
Albert Z Rubenstein , Political Science, who sadly just died
of a heart attack December, 2001.
Mr. Brucher (organic chemistry) and Nick Constan (Business
Law) Sorry I couldn't pick just one-I love them equally!
-Elissa Hassman Waldstein
I have three favorites: 1). Judge Leon Higginbotham (deceased),
Sociology class- Race and the Law and author: In the Matter
of Color. He had a way of making us feel like we lived history
(i.e., the Dred Scott decision--Supreme Court Chief Justice
Taney-- "The black man has no rights that a white man is
bound to respect") and his life experiences! And he gave
me the understanding that the quality of life for us was defined
by the letter of the law. 2) Henry Gleitman taught Psch 1--
I remember his animated and entertaining presentation on the
sex life of the praying mantis to this day! 3) Ralph Smith--his
guidance inside and outside the classroom was special. As a
student, he, too was a boxer!
-Phil Cuffey
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My Most Embarassing Penn Moment
Getting a "B" in Human Sexuality
Just one?
I don't get easily embarrassed, but having all my underwear
hanging from a tree outside my dorm room window as an April
Fool's prank comes close... good thing they were clean.
Champagne cork popping early, in the oppressive heat at graduation,
and nailing the guy in front of me in the back of the head.
My grandmother visiting my fraternity and it not having one
working toilet.
Several encounters during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale.
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Lessons Learned
Prepare for all your job interviews.
Tolerance and the willingness to embrace diversity. Our R.A.
(I can't remember his name but I lived in the Butcher-Speakman
basement freshman year) encouraged us to avoid the same people
we were friends with in high school and seek out people who
were different. He was right. No sense in repeating high school
in college.
1) What you learned in most college classes has absolutely
no bearing on whatever you end up doing in life. And the information
is rarely used...even in Quizzo. 2) That it's physically possible
to stay up for three days without sleep but not recommended.
3) Youth and innocence are so rarely appreciated at the time,
and so easily lost.
You are never too smart to be an idiot. I'm not quite sure
what that means, but there is probably a lesson to be learned
there.
How to think independently and how to party collectively (work
hard plus play hard equals success in life)
It's okay to change your mind about where you think you're
heading, you have to always try new things or walk down a different
path, and the value of friendships that last a lifetime.
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