Editor’s note: In addition to the academic papers Eli shared with us a few posts ago, he also sent photos and sports ticket stubs.
Billy Goldstein, Eng’93, and I drove to Ithaca to visit a friend that was hosting a party, but we were there for the Penn-Cornell game. I remember the crowd was smallish, and the 50-or-so Penn fans made a lot more noise than the home fans. After the half, the third quarter started late because the field was full of drunk Cornell students and they had to be escorted off the field!
Penn defeated Cornell 14 – 7 to end the season with a 5 -2 Ivy and 7 -3 overall record.
Ticket stub from the Penn vs. Cornell Football game at Cornell on November 21, 1992. Photo by Eli Faskha, ENG’93, W’93
Back page of The Daily Pennsylvanian discussing the upcoming Penn vs. Cornell football game, Nov. 20, 1992
The Daily Pennsylvanian, Nov. 20, 1992 page 9
The DP articles from the Monday after the game.
Back page of the DP on November 23, 1992
Page 9 of the DP on November 23, 1992
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of November 17 – 18, 2017, marked 25 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 2018)!Meet us at the Button!
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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Donate to The Penn Fund in honor of our reunion! We want to break the 25th reunion participation giving record and every gift matters!
BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM FOR ALUMNI WEEKEND NOW!
The Marriott Downtown (where we had a Penn 1993 and a Penn Alumni room block) is sold out for Alumni Weekend. There are alternative hotels. We recommend booking ASAP! Please see our class website for additional details.
Thanks to classmate Sonia Biswas for sharing these images of the Penn Calendar from our Senior Year that she still has!!
The Penn Calendar 1992 – 1993, photo by Sonia Biswas, C’93
Does anyone else still have their Penn Calendar from our time at Penn? There is a listing in the back of all the events happening in Philadelphia throughout the year.
Inside back cover of the Penn Calendar
Sonia shared the May page from her calendar – the month we graduated from Penn twenty-five years ago!
May 1993 in the Penn Calendar, photo courtesy of Sonia Biswas, C’93
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of October 13 – 14, 2017, marked 30 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM FOR ALUMNI WEEKEND NOW!
The Marriott Downtown (where we had a Penn 1993 and a Penn Alumni room block) is sold out for Alumni Weekend. There are alternative hotels. We recommend booking ASAP! Please see our class website for additional details.
A famous phrase seen and referenced often at Penn. You may recognize the phrase, or the phrase in its original Latin, Inveniemus viam aut faciemus. But do you remember where you have seen this written on campus?
It is on the arch of the Class of 1893 gate that straddles the walkway between Houston Hall and Williams Hall. How fitting that a Penn class that graduated 100 years before us (the original Penn ’93), is responsible for enshrining this quote on campus.
The Penn Current featured a story of the gate in April, and I knew we had to share more about this gate with our class in the countdown to our reunion year. The old photo below shows College Hall in the background. Houston Hall is to the right of the gate, and Williams Hall is the building that is now to the left.
The Class of 1893 Gate – Photo Credit University Archives and Records Center. The latin inscription across the arch translates to, “We will find a way or we shall make one.”
Marking an entrance into campus from Spruce Street, and tucked between Houston and Williams halls, sits the Class of 1893 Memorial Gate. Designed by two members of the class—Elliston P. Bissell and William C. Hays—the gate has a brick and terracotta base with arched ironwork that spells out the class motto in Latin: Inveniemus viam aut faciemus. (This translates to mean “We will find a way or we shall make one.”)
Bissell and Hays were part of the first class in Penn’s School of Architecture, and designed the gate in 1900. Hays, in fact, was already familiar with sketching ideas for campus structures: He won first place in the competition to design a student union for Penn, Houston Hall. (Milton Bennett Medary, Jr. won second place and the two designs were combined, with Medary’s design being the exterior.) In 1904, Hays took a position at the University of California and, over the years, worked as architect and consulting architect on many of that university’s buildings on the Davis, San Francisco, and Berkeley campuses. After the San Francisco fire of 1906, Hays was on the team that supervised the rebuilding of much of the destroyed city.
After graduation, Bissell worked first with the firm Cope and Stewardson, and then opened his own firm, Bissell and Sinkler, where he worked until his retirement in 1936. In his career, Bissell helped to restore buildings in Independence Square, designed residential buildings in Gloucester, N.J., and Chester, Pa., and helped to restore Elfreth’s Alley and estates in Germantown. For years, Bissell was also a member of the Committee for the Preservation of Historic Monuments and a chairman of a state survey of historic buildings.
For more information about this and other historical aspects of Penn, visit the University Archives website.
And as Paul Harvey might say, “now you know the rest of the story!”
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of August 4 – 5, 2017, marked 40 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Important hotel update! Overwhelming response from our great class has sold out the Downtown Marriott Class of 1993 room block for Saturday night. There are alternative hotels. We recommend booking ASAP! Please see our class website for additional details.
This summer the craft bug hit me, and with long sunny days, what better craft project to tackle than painting numbers? I was in Jo Ann Fabrics and Crafts and the large paper mache numbers were on sale! I decided to buy three different sizes of numbers and painted them different ways. A perfect project for a lazy summer day – also, painting is fun! You focus on making it perfect and forget all the other projects or tasks you *should* be doing instead.
Crafting for Penn 1993!
Small wooden numbers (note how the sides are in the contrasting blue or red?). I really like how these look.
Playing around with how to paint the large numbers – Each color area needed two coats. On the right I did blue edges, then white border and red…but you couldn’t really see the blue.
I brought the numbers to Philadelphia, and we took some photos at the Center City location for our Friday night party.
Kiera Reilly, Colleen Kelly, Hillary Hayes and Lisa Grabelle scouting locations for our Friday night reunion party with our 1993 numbers! (Intentionally obscured the view until we officially announce reunion weekend details)
The numbers also explored campus a bit, thanks to our Alumni Relations liaison Colleen Kelly.
Sweeten Alumni House
The LOVE statue in front of the Castle and Sweeten Alumni House
1993 on the steps of College Hall
The Button!
Do you have anything that says Penn 1993 on it? Share it with us upenn1993@gmail.com.
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of July 28 – 29, 2017, marked 41 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Important hotel update! Overwhelming response from our great class has sold out the Downtown Marriott Class of 1993 room block for Saturday night. There are alternative hotels. We recommend booking ASAP! Please see our class website for additional details.
By Kiera Reilly, C’93 with help from Howard Blecher, Marianne Alves Brogdale, Deb Brown, Ed Gold, Debbie Jaffe, Betty Magome, Kathleen Paralusz, Meesh Joslyn Pierce, Jef Pollock, Bardo Ramirez, and Lisa Bardfeld Shapiro
As I’m going through old photos and papers from our time at Penn, I’m listening to Depeche Mode, one of my favorite bands from high school and college. And as I’m sorting through old emails and documents, I found this list of songs from classmates.
When we were preparing for our 15th reunion in May of 2008, we needed a song that would play as we marched down Locust Walk in the alumni parade and arrived at the viewing stand. By popular vote, House of Pain’s “Jump Around” won. And, after listening to it, how can you not Jump Around?
“Jump Around,” wasn’t the only song that we remembered…here are other suggestions from classmates. It was interesting to read how many of us suggested the same songs or the same bands. Throw these all together on a playlist and you have a ‘mix tape’ soundtrack of the early 90’s at Penn! (A mix tape! What is that???)
Songs suggested multiple times by 1993 Classmates
“Jump Around” – House of Pain
“Groove is in the Heart” – Deee-Lite
“Two Princes” – Spin Doctors
“These Are Days” – 10,000 Maniacs
“No Rain” – Blind Melon
Here are some of the notes and song memories that classmates shared in 2013.
Debbie Jaffe:
“Groove Is in the Heart” by DeeLite reminds me of Penn. Spot on with Indigo Girls and Blues Traveler (especially “Closer I am to Fine” and “But Anyway”).
Ed Gold:
“All I Want” – Toad the Wet Sprocket
Marianne Alves Brogdale:
“Oh what a night,” is the one I always think of – and songs from Murph’s. I also always think of “Two Princes” because my roommate loved it.
I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), Meat Loaf
I’m Every Woman, Whitney Houston
Whoot, There It Is, 95 South
Fields Of Gold, Sting
Hey Mr. D.J., Zhane
Kathleen Paralusz:
How about “Jump Around”? I have very fond memories of DKE parties w/ that song playing.
Jef Pollock:
“Two Princes” – Spin Doctors
“These Are Days” – 10,000 Maniacs
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Nirvana
“Life is a Highway” – Tom Cochran
Matthew Sweet – almost anything
Howard Blecher:
“True Faith” – New Order
“Bizarre Love Triangle” – New Order
“She Sells Sanctuary” – The Cult
“Boys Don’t Cry” – The Cure
“Just Like Heaven” – The Cure
“In Between Days” – The Cure
“Chains of Love” – Erasure
“The One I Love” – R.E.M.
“Superman” – R.E.M.
“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” – R.E.M.
“Rub You the Right Way” – Johnny Gill
Bardo Ramirez:
“Wild World” – Cat Stevens
“Don’t Call Me Daughter “– Pearl Jam
“Loser” – Beck
“The Choice is Yours” – Black Sheep
“Jump Around” – House of Pain
“No Rain” – Blind Melon
Mitchell Kraus:
Well, as far as songs – I looked up the top 100 for 1993, and #2 was – Whoomp! (There It Is) by Tag Team. I think that would be fun and relevant.
Deb Brown:
“Tennessee” by Arrested Development and two obvious R.E.M. songs: “Shiny Happy People” and “Losing my Religion”. Also “Dyslexic Heart” from the Singles soundtrack.
Lisa Bardfeld Shapiro:
“Jump Around” definitely brings back some senior year memories for me…..
Meesh Pierce and Betty Magome really went all out and sent us lots of songs…but they’re all so good and spot on that I couldn’t cut any of them from this post.
Do you have a favorite song from our time at Penn? Tell us in the comments!
Meesh Joslyn Pierce:
Meesh sent us a play list from her wedding – so many good songs from the 90’s here!
Fight for your right to Party – Beastie Boys
Come on Eileen (Dexys Midnight…)
Freedom ’90 – George Michael
Sweet Child o Mine – Guns n Roses
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
Joy and Pain
Brass Monkey – Beastie Boys
The Choice is Yours – Black Sheep
Jump Around – House of Pain
Been Caught Stealing – Jane’s Addiction
Just Another Day – Oingo Boingo
Ladies Night – Kool and the Gang
Mama Said Knock You… – LL Cool J
Walkin with a Deadman – Oingo Boingo
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
Orange Crush – REM
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
Mony Mony – Billy Idol
New Sensation – INXS
Love Shack – The B-52s
No Rain – Blind Melon
Groove is in the Heart – Deee Lite
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) – Digable Planets
I Touch Myself – Divinyls
Parents Just Don’t Understand – Fresh Prince
Cheeseburger in Paradise – Jimmy Buffett
Margaritaville – Jimmy Buffett
You Really Got Me – The Kinks
Jump – Kris Kross
Down Under – Men at Work
The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
To Be With You – Mr. Big
OPP – Naughty by Nature
Funky Cold Medina – Party on
I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
Baby Got Back – Sir Mix A Lot
Gin and Juice – Snoop Dogg
Back to Life (However Do you…) – Soul II Soul
Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
Desire – U2
Rump Shaker (Radio…) – Wreckx-N-Effect
Betty Magome:
Hope it’s not too late:
Here are some great songs from our class (4 years)!
“Groove is in the Heart” – Deee-Lite
“One” – U2
“Killing in the Name of” – Rage Against the Machine (angry, but I listened to it a lot)
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Nirvana and any Nirvana song
“These Are Days” – 10,000 Maniacs
“Candy Everybody Wants” – 10,000 Maniacs
“Stay” – Lisa Loeb
“Wicked Game” – Chris Isaak
“Jump Around” – House of Pain
“Walking in Memphis” – Marc Cohn
“No Rain” – Blind Melon
“Whoop There it Is” – Tag Team
“500 Miles” – The Proclaimers
“Connected” – Stereo MCs
“What’s Up” – 4 Non Blonde’s
“Forever Young” – Alphaville
“Bizarre Love Triangle” – New Order
“Doctor Doctor” – Thompson Twins
“Living in Oblivion” – Anything Box
“Russian Radio” – Red Flag
“How Long” – Information Society
“Pure” – Lightning Seeds
“Jump” – Kriss Kross
“Please Don’t Go” – KWS
“Lips Like Sugar” – Echo and the Bunnymen
Pet Shop Boys
“West End Girls”
“Love Comes Easily”
“It’s a Sin”
“What have I done to deserve this”
Depeche Mode
“Personal Jesus”
“Just Can’t get Enough”
“Enjoy the Silence”
“Strangelove”
“People are People”
“Master and Servant”
Erasure
“Oh L’Amour”
“Victim of Love”
“Ship of Fools”
“A Little Respect”
“Take a Chance on Me”
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of July 21 – 22, 2017, marked 42 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Important hotel update! Overwhelming response from our great class has sold out the Downtown Marriott Class of 1993 room block for Saturday night. There are alternative hotels. We recommend booking ASAP! Please see our class website for additional details.
By Melanie Hirschfelder Berkowitz, C’93, and Kiera Reilly, C’93
You never know what treasures you will find when cleaning out the attic, basement, or boxes of things in the back of a closet. As we countdown the weeks to our 25th Penn reunion #93tothe25th, we are encouraging classmates to share photos, memories or mementos of our time at Penn.
Melanie Hirschfelder Berkowitz, C’93, found some items from Penn in her attic. One was the Spring 1990 issue of Highball Magazine, a humor magazine created by Penn students. This issue is the 35th anniversary issue.
The Spring 1990 issue of Highball Magazine, photo courtesy of Melanie Hirschfelder Berkowitz, C’93
Melanie writes:
I was cleaning out my attic and found a few mementos from Penn you might be interested in…my personal favorite, an edition of Highball Magazine with a very interesting page inside.
No, not the masthead…
Masthead page of Highball Magazine’s Spring 1990 issue, photo courtesy of Melanie Hirschfelder Berkowitz, C’93
Perhaps this page?
Page inside Highball Magazine’s Spring 1990 issue, photo courtesy of Melanie Hirschfelder Berkowitz, C’93
Melanie says,
I did not write for Highball, and I’m not sure why I kept it, but the Trump thing was too funny not to share.
What do you have in your attic? Share it with us by emailing upenn1993@gmail.com.
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of June 23 – 24, 2017, marked46 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Important hotel update! Overwhelming response from our great class has sold out the Downtown Marriott Class of 1993 room block for Saturday night. Here are alternatives if you are planning the Saturday night stay. We recommend booking ASAP! Please see our class websitefor additional details:
1. Call the Downtown Marriott directly and book by phone under the “UPenn Alumni Weekend 2018” room block for $259/night. Call (800) 320-5744 (for international classmates, call (215) 625-2900) 2. Book the Downtown Marriotton-line but select “Attendee” from the drop-down menu. 3. Book at the Loews Philadelphia Hotelroom block which is directly across the street and $279/night. 4. Book at the Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown room block which is just 2 blocks away and $244/night.
You may have noticed that our weekly reunion countdown took a bit of a summer break (senioritis perhaps?). But it is August and as children around the country start or prepare to start their school year, the Class of 1993 is gearing up for the year ahead and the planning for our 25th Reunion in May!
We thought a re-boot of our countdown was in order, and what better way to re-boot than by looking back at the machines we re-booted at Penn – our very own computers! For many of us, we arrived at Penn with typewrites (like me) and no personal computer. Papers were written on computers borrowed from the few hall-mates that had them or in the computer labs around campus. We toted our floppy disks in our back-packs and popped them in the computers whenever we needed to work.
Classmate Caren Lissner shared a photo of her college computer and memories of her first computer purchase – a Macintosh.
Caren Lissner’s Macintosh Classic II from her senior year at Penn.
Caren’s recollection:
By the end of senior year, around 1993, I’d saved just enough money to buy a Macintosh Classic II from the Penn computer store at a discounted student rate (it was something like $1,100). I had always used the campus computer rooms and libraries to type papers, so I was glad to finally have my own machine so I could work on resumes. The computer moved with me to Hoboken after college, and I ended up writing my first published novel on it. I loved my little Mac even though I finally bought a a Dell around 1999 and put it away in storage. Now it’s in a closet, and I’m never giving it away (but I should probably clean it up a little).
Caren Lissner’s floppy disks
Did you have a PC at Penn? Did you arrive on campus with it freshman year or did you purchase it while you were a student? Do you still have any of your floppy disks?
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of June 16-17, 2017, marked 47 weeks until the 25th Reunion of the Penn Class of 1993 (May 11 – 14, 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!
Classmates are invited to join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Important hotel update! Overwhelming response from our great class has sold out the Downtown Marriott Class of 1993 room block for Saturday night. Here are alternatives if you are planning the Saturday night stay. We recommend booking asap! Please see our class websitefor additional details:
1. Call the Downtown Marriott directly and book by phone under the “UPenn Alumni Weekend 2018” room block. Call (800) 320-5744 (for international classmates, call (215) 625-2900)
2. Book the Downtown Marriott on-line but select “Attendee” from the drop-down menu
3. Book at the Loews Philadelphia Hotelroom block which is directly across the street and $279/night
4. Book at the Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown room block which is just 2 blocks away and $244/night
By Lisa Nass Grabelle, C’93, L’96, and Kiera Reilly, C’93
Last summer, we started counting down the ninety-three weeks until our 25th Penn Reunion, and now, the weekend of May 12 – 15, 2017, we are at the one year mark until we celebrate the twenty-five years since our graduation from Penn.
We celebrated our first Alumni Day on Saturday, May 15, 1993, by marching down Locust Walk as a class to lead the alumni parade of classes. We gathered on College Green to listen to Penn President Sheldon Hackney and sing, “The Red and The Blue.”
The Penn Band leads the Penn Alumni Parade of Classes on Alumni Day at Penn, May 15, 1993
The Penn Alumni parade of classes on Alumni Day at Penn, May 15, 1993
Singing, “The Red and The Blue,” on College Green for Alumni Day, May 15, 1993. Photo by Kiera Reilly, C’93.
On Monday, May 17, 1993, we processed from Superblock, down Locust Walk, and into Franklin Field for our Commencement.
The Commencement Procession across the 38th Street Bridge and down Locust Walk, May 17, 1993. Photo by Lisa Nass Grabelle, C’93, L’96
Leaving Superblock as we start the procession to Franklin Field, photo by Kiera Reilly, C’93
The Class of 1993 leaves Superblock, crossing the 38th Street Bridge for Penn’s Commencement, May 17, 1993. Photo by Kiera Reilly, C’93
Twenty-four years passed…
And we are now in full swing planning our class’ 25th Reunion for May 11-13, 2018! Our planning committee is growing by the day, and we’d love for you to join us. Email us at upenn1993@Gmail.com or lisagrabelle@yahoo.com to join our Reunion Committee.
First Lady Hillary Clinton, Interim Penn President Claire Fagin, and Penn President Sheldon Hackney watch the Commencement Procession at Penn, May 17, 1993. Photo by Kiera Reilly, C’93
Our Reunion will be here before we know it – look for information about our hotel block very soon. In the meantime, be sure to save our the reunion dates on your calendar, and also save Monday, May 14, which is Commencement. The 25th and 50th reunion classes are invited to march in the Commencement procession, and it is very special to walk on Franklin Field again with the alumni classes. We strongly encourage you to participate if you can!
The Class of 1993 enters Franklin Field for Penn Commencement, May 17, 1993. Photo courtesy of Kiera Reilly, C’93
Graduates on Franklin Field for Commencement, May 17, 1993. Photo by Lisa Nass Grabelle, C’93, L’96.
Every classmate is invited to join us for a fun weekend of reunion planning back at Penn Reunion Leadership Conference (PRLC) on September 15- 16. The conference is actually one day on Saturday, September 16th, but we will have Class of 93 only planning on the 15th in the afternoon and then all go out that night. We welcome you to join us for either or both days.
We want to continue our trip down memory lane, and are looking for blog posts, photos, mementos or memories of our time at Penn. Please email us if you have something to share – we want to include as many classmates as possible in our future posts.
We are excited as we look toward this next year, and hope to make our reunion next May one that our entire class will not forget.
The Alumni Parade of classes enters Franklin Field for Penn Commencement, May 17, 1993. Photo courtesy of Kiera Reilly, C’93.
Penn Commencement on Franklin Field, May 17, 1993. Photo courtesy of Kiera Reilly, C’93.
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of May 12 – 13, 2017, marked 52 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!
This weekend, August 19 – 20, 2016 marks 90 weeks to the Penn Class of 1993’s 25th reunion (May 11 – 13, 2018). #93tothe25th
Going through boxes of old papers, I found THE book that we used to find our classmates as we started Penn together – The Freshman Record.
Before Facebook, this was the book to look for people based on their high school, home town or what dorm they were living in at Penn. Everyone sent in their high school yearbook photos, and I remember once we made new friends at Penn, it was fun to look through the book and see our glamorous shots from high school. I think also upper classman used the book to scope out the freshman class?
Do you still have your copy of the Freshman Record? Do you have a memory to share? Comment below!
We are also accepting photos and memories from our fellow 1993 classmates to be featured on a future #93tothe25th countdown post. Email us at UPenn1993@gmail.com.
If you are a member of the Penn Class of 1993, please join our Facebook and LinkedIn groups. We are also on Twitter, Tumblr, and recently joined Instagram.
And don’t forget to save the date of our 25th reunion on your calendar:
The countdown to Alumni Weekend continues, and before we know it we’ll be back on campus celebrating our 20th reunion. The Penn Class of 1993 reunion and gift committees are calling and emailing classmates, encouraging them to attend and to make a gift to The Penn Fund.
To get everyone in the Red and Blue spirit for Alumni Weekend, here are some buttons I’ve collected from when I was a student, the first few years after we graduated, and now as a staff member in alumni relations.
Buttons I collected while working for alumni relations.
Homecoming 1998 and 2000, Penn’s 250th Anniversary in 1990, and Ivy Champs in ’92-’93.
1992’s South Street Strut, 1993s Walnut Walk and South Street Strut
Does anyone else have a Penn button collection?
We hope to see everyone from the Class of 1993 at THE Button in May!
For details about our Saturday parade and picnic, and BIG class Quad party, click here! Don’t forget to follow our Facebook and Twitter. Check out who is planning to come here. Go online and register now!
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