By Kiera Reilly, C’93
Today, January 17, 2017, marks the 311th Birthday of Penn’s founder, Benjamin Franklin. To celebrate Ben, and note the 74th week until our 25th reunion, we look back to December 1990, when Penn concluded a year of celebrating the 250th Anniversary of its founding.
As noted in this issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian from December 6, 1990, the final event of the year-long celebration of Penn’s 250th anniversary would be a, “Winter Holiday Festival on the Green.”
Clip from front page of the DP on December 6, 1990 noting the end of Penn’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
Continuation of DP article from December 6, 1990, on the final celebration for Penn’s 250th
The party was the day before finals started on campus for the fall semester.
Thank you go Joanna Kwa, C’93, for sharing this photo of Krista Prescop, C’93, and Johanna Pasternak Maleh, W’93, at the event.
Krista Prescop and Johanna Pasternak Maleh pose with a toy soldier in front of Ben Franklin. Photo from Joanna Kwa
I have two not very good photos from the party – one is of Ben Franklin decked out in a red scarf for the celebration.
Ben Franklin statue on College Green decorated for the final celebration of Penn’s 250th Anniversary in December, 1990.
My other picture is of the lighted, wrapped “presents” that decorated College Green.
Wrapped presents with the Penn seal
Does anyone else remember this party? I vaguely remember attending and thinking it was a fun break from studying for finals.
The Daily Pennsylvanian Full Pages
I include below the two full pages from The DP on December 6th – it is interesting to see the other campus news items, especially the one on the hopeful re-opening of Troy’s by our classmate Matthew Klein!
Cover page of the December 6, 1990 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian
Page 9 from the December 6, 1990 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian continues articles from the front page on the final 250th event
Penn Class of 1993 Reunion Countdown
The weekend of December 9-10, 2016 marked 74 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 13, 2018)! Join us we count down the weeks to our reunion #93tothe25th:
- Do you have old photos or mementos from our time at Penn? Photos of Spring Fling? Football at Franklin Field? Classes at DRL? We are taking a trip down memory lane and would love for you to share your memories with our class in a future post. Please email us upenn1993@gmail.com!
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