Class of 1968 News

 

  




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Click here for all Class of 1968 Friendship Hour recordings.

 
You can find Class newsletters, emails, reunion programs and other information below:  

Click here to read Trains, Planes and Automobiles - Class of 1968 answering travel questions

Click here to read Samuel Freedman

Click here to read Hans Binnendijk

Click here to read My Proud Legacy by Betsy Scott Kleeblatt

Click here to read A voyager’s story: Patagonia in 2024 by Jim Talens, EE’68

Click here to read the  

Click here to read Tiny Tale – Stumbling into the Ivy League Or How I Didn’t Go to that Football School From Conni Bille

Click here to read more about Architect Julian Abele

Click here to read about Julian Abele - by Diane Holsenbeck.  

Click here to read the Class of 1968 February 13 (2024) email

Click here to read the bio of Dr. Karen Reivich

Click here to read the bio of Professor Michael E. Mann.

Click here to read Blockhead: Football Was Very Good to Me by Bob "Poultry Legs" Gilbert

Click here to read the Class of 1968 January 2024 email.

Click here to read Hans Binnendijk's bio (January 2024 email).

Click here to read An Update on the Heritage West Project (January 2024 email).

Click here to read A Classmate's Story by Marilyn Roderick, MD (January 2024 email).

Click here to read Penn History (January 2024 email).

Click here to read the December 2023 Class Newsletter. 

Click here to read the Question to the class from August 2023 - Sharing special memories of Van Pelt Library

Click here to view Dick Katz Culinary Medicine Presentation from August 25th Class Zoom

Click here to read an article by Conni Bille' CW'68 about the making of the Historic Philadelphia Tour booklet

Click here to read the Historic Philadelphia Tour booklet created for Penn Alumni by Conni Bille' CW'68

Click here for  Reading suggestions from Lenny Levin & Janet Berenson: Introducing KABBALAH

Click here to read about Tom Issacs, CHE'68

Click here to read about Janet Berenson and Rabbi Lenny Levin.

Click here to read Mike Levy's article from the March 14, 2023 email

Click here to read Don Morrison's article from the February 14, 2023 email

Click here to read about Hans Binnendijk, C’68

Click here to read Memories of Skimmer.

Click here to read The Pennorama DP Article about Bill Creeden.

Click here to read Summer by Don Morrison.

Click here to read  Skimmer Memories

Click here to read  What NATO Needs To Do Next By Hans Binnendijk and Timo S. Koster

Click here to read the bios for Ira Harkavy & Robert Cort: the Netter Center, with Hans Binnendijk: On The Ukraine (9/16/22 Zoom)

Click here to read the article about Penn Medicine vaccine income windfall from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Click here to read the 1968 Crew story

Click here to read Myles Krieger's story

Click here to read what Don Morrison writes

Click here to read what Bill “Woody” Woodward C’68 writes.

Click here to read what Tony Parkinson writes.

Click here to read what Don Morrison writes.

Click here to read what Carol Greco writes.

Click here to read What Classmates Write for the April 5th email.

Click here to read Phyllis and Sidney Rodbell: Our Family Scholarship

Click here to read Don Morrison's article about Hartmann’s masterpiece

Click here to read How Trials Were and Should Be - Larry N. Sokol 

Click here to read Trying to Balance Your Life and Lives of Your Clients - Larry N. Sokol

Click here to read about Hans  Binnendijk, C'68

Click here to read about Mark Alan Hughes and the Kleinman Center

Click here to read An Aston Martin on the Gran Premio Nuvolari by Joe Hurwich

Click here to read My Life in Wine by Jack Goldenberg

Click here to read the Question of the Month:1. Are you living where you grew up? Did you stay in one career, or did you pivot? What are you doing now?

Click here to read LITTLE DID I REALIZE My Undergraduate Years at Penn by Randall Feldman

Click here to read November 2021 email 

Click here to read October 2021 email

Click here to read about how Class of 1968 can support Penn's Community Kitchens

Click here to read Diary of my transition from Fine Art Photographer to Documentary Filmmaker by Alan Feinberg

Click here to read more information about the Class of 1968 Friendship Hour with Professor William Burke-White

Click here to read more information about the Class of 1968 Friendship Hour with Dr. Paul Offit and Megan Kassebaum

Click here to read Question of the Month: What is your proudest achievement. How did your Penn experience influence your life?
Click here to read East Africa Revisited: The Gift of Service By Harrison Bloom, MD
Click here for Reflection on Civic Action by Diane McClure Holsenbeck
Click here for Reflection on Civic Action by Joe Klein
Click here for Reflection on Civic Action by Doug Frenkel
Click here for Reflection on Civic Action by Don Morrison
Click here for Reflection on Civic Action by Geoff Stone
Click here for information on how to mentor a Penn student through Penn FLASH, Ben Connect and Umentor
Click here for The Penn1968 Newsletter sent on September 1 including The Favorite Penn Professor Project

Click here to read only The Favorite Penn Professors Project with classmate tributes compiled by Lee Gordon.

Click here to read our August 4 Newsletter including Sharing Memories - “Dining” and Drinking at Penn.

Click here to read only the Sharing Memories - "Dining" and Drinking at Penn shared by classmates.

Click here to view the July 14 Class email Zoom happy hour featuring Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Vice Provost for Student Engagement.

Click here to read Of Franklin Field and the two Chucks - Bednarik and Berry

Click here to view the 50th Reunion Slideshow
Click here to read the January 2020 print newsletter.
Click here to read the August 26, 2019 email featuring ATO's 50th Reunion Memories.
Click here to read In Memoriam - Alex Conroy.
Click here to read In Memoriam - Dave Montgomery
Click here to read October 9, 2018 email with latest Class events at Homecoming, as well as Engaging Minds and The Power of Penn Regional Event updates.
Click here to read September 12, 2018 email with updated Homecoming events information.
Click here to read the August 28, 2018 email about Homecoming  events.
Click here to read the August 7, 2018 email "Class of 1968 receives the David N. Tyre Award for Class Communications".
Click here to read the Memoir by Perry Clark, C'68.
Click here to read the "Setting 50th Reunion Records" May 22, 2018 email.
Click here to view the 50th Reunion At-A-Glance with map that indicates each campus class event.
Click here for a printable listing of the full 50th Reunion Schedule with event pricing.
Click here for the 68 Guest Guide to answer any Reunion Questions.

Click here to read The Legacy Garden remarks by Penn Alumni President Julie Platt and AVP Hoopes Wampler
Click here to read the Proclamations for outstanding athletes and teams
Click here to read the Breakfast of Champions Program.
Click here to read the Professors Forum Program.
Click here to read the Reflections and Reminiscence Brunch Program.

Click here to view the Class of 1968 Memorial slideshow.
Click here to read the Class of 1968 April 10, 2018 Spring E-Newsletter
Click here to read "The Corner of 34th and Walnut Streets" by Diane McClure Holsenbeck, CW'68
Click here to read "My Unforgettable Penn Encounters" by Lee Gordon, C'68
Click here to read "The Penn Bobsled Team" by Lou Calomaris, W’68, WG’70
Click here to read the Class email from Elsie Sterling Howard sent March 9, 2018
Click here to read the Mid-Winter Newsletter sent February 20, 2018
Click here to view the Invitation to "Breakfast of Champions" on May 12, 2018;
Click here to read "Recollections of Penn Freshman Football, 1964" by Rick Owens, W'68 
Click here to read "A Lifetime of PENN Connections" by Gail Petty Riepe, CW'68 
Click here to read "My Own Field of Dreams" by Marc Schoenfield, W'68 

Click here to read Classmates we can be proud of: JoAnne Stubbe, CW'68
Click here to read the Class of 1968 December 21, 2017 Winter E-Newsletter
Click here to read the tribute to Mary Blumberg Lehman, CW'68 by Leslie Maddin Bayer, CW'68
Click here to read the '68 Soccer article.
Click here to read the '68 Lightweight Crew article.  
Click here to read the December 5 email with 50th Reunion updates
Click here to find the word document with the 68 Reunion Book questions and character limit.
Click here to read about the 68 Reunion Book and view sample submissions.
Click here to read the November 2017 e-Newsletter: Six months to go & Six suggestions from the Reunion Committee
Click here to read the Autumn 2017 e-Newsletter
Click here to read about the '68 Cinema Celebration during Homecoming 2017 and Alumni Weekend 2018
Click here to read a 50th Reunion Memoir by Colin Hanna, C'68, PAR'96
Click here to read Women's Basketball - 1968 by Carolyn Marcus Jacobs, CW'68 article 
Click here to read  the '68 Penn Heavyweight Crew article by Phil McKinley, C'68, and Nick LaMotte, C'68, WG'72
Click here for the Burrison Gallery Call for Submittals for Alumni Weekend 2018
Click here to read the Class of 1968 Summer 2017 e-Newsletter
Click here to read the Class of 1968 Spring 2017 Print Newsletter
Click here to read the Class of 1968 Spring 2016 Newsletter

Click here to read the Class of 1968 Summer 2015 Newsletter
Click here for Looking Forward Email from Class President Al Conroy on September 13, 2013


View and Reminisce!


Click on the link below to see all of our wonderful photos from our 50th Reunion:
https://pennalumni.smugmug.com/2018/Alumni-Weekend/Class-of-1968-50th-Reunion

 

Congratulations to the 1968 Communications Team which won the David Tyre Communications Award from the ACLC

Micky Neiditch, Vice President for Communications, and for the Penn1968.com website- Betty Rothschild, for the video- Rich Sabreen, Sue Croll, Carolyn Marcus Jacobs, and Janet Oberlander Simons; for the Reunion Book- Leslie Madidin Bayer, Randy Elkins, Jack Goldberg, and Peter Marvin; and for Facebook- Carol Clapp

1968 set new records in every category-
  • 338 Classmates & 522 total alumni and guests registered for an official event
  • More than 100 additional classmates attended only unofficial events, linked to the Reunion
  • 510 classmates submitted biographies for the 50th Reunion Book
  • Over 400 images became a part of the Retrospective Video
  • 300 classmates have registered for the Penn1968.com website-open to classmates until at least 2020
1968 set a remarkable new Donor Participation Record- 500 donors to The Penn Fund!

1968 enhanced the Sunday Memorial Brunch, and created multiple successful new events:
  • The inaugural Faculty Reunion
  • The Breakfast of Champions
  • The Military Reunion
  • The Legacy Garden Dedication
  • A new Penn Tradition linking the Graduating class & the 50th Reunion Class
  • The Singles Mingle
  • The Cinema Celebration




Class of 1968 50th Reunion Committee


complete list to date
Kathy Anderson Adams
Celeste Reill Anderson
Mia Argentieri
Kathy Lowenthal Baladian
Leslie Maddin Bayer
Wayne Baruch
Lois Dietz Benedetti
Dennis Blake
Frank Boka
Merle Chernofsky Born
Barbara Russo Bravo
David Buchen
Mike Burwick
Lorna Campbell-Seely
Karen Whitestone Carr
Gene Castellano
Carol Shlifer Clapp
Joe Cohen
Phyllis Samitz Cohen
Jim Colins
Alex Conroy
Robert Cort
Doug Cox
Bill Creeden
Susan Croll
Michael Crow
Jon Day
Nina Demartini Day
Tad Decker
Charlie Dewey
Donald Douchkess
Lee Eisenberg
Judy Finestone Erdberg
Tom Farrell
David Feldman
Judy Wallach Finger
Andrew Finger
Neal Fink
Charles Forman
Bob Fountain
Douglas Frenkel
Neal Friedlander
Michael Glosserman
Joan Chernoff Gluck
Marsha Goldberg
Jack Goldenberg
Janine Mager Gordon
Lee Gordon
Mark Grant
Carol Soiffer Greco
Troy Gustavson
Colin Hanna
Tom Harlowe
Robert Hawley
Diane McClure Holsenbeck
Elsie Sterling Howard
Jack Howett
Beth Alstchul Hurwich
Joe Hurwich
Maggie Wilner Hut
Steve Hut
Tom Isaacs
Carolyn Marcus Jacobs
Joel Jacobson
Betsy Berk Kahan
Marilyn Turetz Kanas
Leslie Ann Mertz Kaplan
Samuel Kaplan
LInda Kates
Ellen Schwartzman Kelson
Rick Kelson
Betsy Scott Kleeblatt
Irwin Klein
Carol Kiryluk
Chip Kowalcyk
Ron Kriss
Bobbi Penneys Susselman Laufer
Syd Lefkoe
Jack Lehman
Susan Wagner Leisner
Michael Levy
Darlene Hollinger Lohmeyer
Peter Marvin
Pam DuBose McIver
Susan Laudenslager Meade
Ken Meskin
Larry Miller
Dave Montgomery
Audrey Moody
Richard Morgenstern
Don Morrison
Michael Neiditch
Tom Northrup
Larry Nussdorf
Frank Osborn
Douglas Owens
Rick Owens
John Raudabaugh
Jim Restivo
Gail Petty Riepe
Phyllis Ettinger Rodbell
Sidney Rodbell
Betty Ostrov Rothschild
Jim Rothschild
Eric Ruby
Ted Sachs
Steve Savage
Faith Johnson Schonfeld
Lonny Schooler
Carol Monheit Schwartz
Mona Shangold
Fran Poeppelmeier Sheeley
Larry Shiekman
Sara Beth Shrager
Larry Simon
Janet Oberlander Simons
Allen Sokal
Christine Cobler Sommer
John Sommer
Marjorie Seltzer Stanek, MD
Marty Patonetz Turnbull
Robert Tuteur
Winston Walp
Marilyn Kramer Weitzman
Bruce Wessels
Georgianna Ziegler
Stephen Zipf, Jr.