By Kiera Reilly, C’93 with photos from Jennifer Bernstein, C’93, Sonia Biswas, C’93, and Howard Levene, ENG’93
Looking for memories of our time at Penn, I found a long forgotten box full of old Penn t-shirts. I wondered if anyone else from Penn 1993 saved their Penn t-shirts, and it turns out they did. Here is a selection of some of the t-shirts that still survive with our classmates 25+ years later.
Penn Dixie t-shirt from Howard Levene, ENG’93.
Penn Dixie shirt courtesy of Howard Levene, ENG’93
I found an old Penn Debate t-shirt.
Penn Debate t-shirt front from Kiera Reilly, C’93
Penn Debate t-shirt back from Kiera Reilly, C’93
And a Penn Band t-shirt from Howard.
Penn Band t-shirt courtesy of Howard Levene, ENG’93
A fun Absolute Penn t-shirt from Jennifer Eisenberg Bernstein, C’93.
Absolutely Penn front from Jennifer Eisenberg Bernstein
Absolutely Penn from Jennifer Eisenberg Bernstein
Sonia Biswas, C’93, had a t-shirt that Penn Dining Service gave out for Spring Break in 1990.
Spring Break t-shirt from Penn Dining Services 1990 courtesy of Sonia Biswas, C’93
Penn Dining Service Spring Break t-shirt 1990 from Sonia Biswas, C’93
A Penn Engineering shirts from Howard Levene, ENG’93.
Penn Engineer t-shirt from Howard Levene, ENG’93
Penn Engineering shirt back from Howard Levene, ENG’93
Front of Penn Engineering shirt from Howard Levene, ENG’93
I found a t-shirt celebrating Penn’s 250th anniversary.
Penn 250th t-shirt shared by Kiera Reilly, C’93
Howard and I had t-shirts from our dorm halls.
Ware College House t-shirt from Howard Levene.
Ware College House t-shirt from Howard Levene, ENG’93.
Upper Quad t-shirt from Kiera Reilly, C’93
Several of us had the New Student Orientation t-shirt. All seem to have faded in the same spots.
NSO t-shirt from Howard Levene, ENG’93
NSO t-shirt close-up from Sonia Biswas, C’93.
NSO t-shirt from Kiera Reilly, C’93.
And as modeled here by Sonia Biswas, the t-shirts were always huge. Sonia says, “I always thought the shirts were ridiculous since I’m tiny, and they were all gigantic on me. We had no choice, since the only option was always XL. Ridiculous!”
Penn NSO t-shirt modeled by Sonia Biswas, C’93 today. The shirts are all XL!
Do you still have old Penn t-shirts? We are still collecting photos of shirts for more posts. Please email us photos of your t-shirts to upenn1993 {at} gmail.com!
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of August 18 – 19, 2017, marked 38 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.
While sorting through old photos, I found this photo from our senior year. It is the board of Connaissance, photographed with Albert Moore, our staff advisor for SAC activities, and legendary tennis player Arthur Ashe.
Connaissance board members pose with Connaissance Fall 1992 Speaker Arthur Ashe. L-R Caren Lissner, C’93, Robyn Reifman, C’94, Mark Whitcher, W’93, Arthur Ashe, Kiera Reilly, C’93, Meg O’Leary, C’94, and Albert Moore from the Office of Student Affairs. (note the halo around Caren’s head is how the photo was developed!)
I did not remember much about the speech – I remember Mr. Ashe came to Penn, that I went with Meg to pick him up at 30th Street Station, and that he died not long after he visited Penn.
I hoped that Caren, Robyn, Mark, Meg and Albert might recall more than that, and Meg was the only one that had a clear memory. She wrote:
My biggest memories are of the drive picking him up at the train station. If you remember, I hadn’t had my driver’s license very long and not a whole lot of experience driving. My driving made Mr. Ashe quite nervous – he held the dashboard the whole way and kept asking questions of Kiera, basically asking if she’d like to take over the driving and making sure that I was going the right way. I don’t think I drove him back to the station though. It wasn’t that long after that he died, and I remember feeling a little guilt that maybe my driving had stressed him out and made his illness worse.
I also remember that, of all our speakers, I felt that he was the most modest. He asked for very little special treatment – just reimbursement for his travel costs (he took the train from NYC; so pretty inexpensive) and a very reasonable speaking fee. And, in person, he was very unassuming and didn’t put on any airs, was quite down to earth.
Luckily, The Daily Pennsylvanian sent staff writer Charles Ornstein, C’96, (now a Senior Reporter for ProPublica), and he filed this report (you can see a PDF of the article here).
Arthur Ashe speaking at the University Museum on November 4, 1992.
Meg’s memory is correct about Mr. Ashe being so humble. As soon as I read her note, I remembered that too. We were fortunate to help bring many prominent speakers to campus, and as Connaissance board members we often had dinner with them before the speech. But he was probably the nicest and most unassuming speaker I ever met. It was a true honor to meet him and have him speak at Penn.
While he was on campus, Mr. Ashe spoke with DP Sports Writer Jonathan Mayo. The link to their conversation as published in the DP is here.
Sadly, Meg was correct in her recollection that Mr. Ashe died not long after he visited Penn. The DP reported his death on February 8, 1993.
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of August 11 – 12, 2017, marked 39 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 Lisa Bardfeld Shapiro, C’93, and Kiera Reilly, C’93
While our #93tothe25th countdown posts are a bit behind schedule (see our last post 40 Weeks To Go), we thought it fitting to skip ahead Penn Homecoming is this weekend. Twenty-five years ago we celebrated Homecoming during our Senior Year.
Classmate Lisa Bardfeld Shapiro was the Drum Major of the Penn Band and shared this video recorded by her father Bennett “Buddy” Bardfeld, W’55, L’58 as the Penn Band takes the field during half-time of the Homecoming football game.
Lisa writes: Script Penn began in the 1970’s and it became tradition for the Penn Band to “write” this at the end of the half time show at the Homecoming game. The video is from our senior year, 1992. Band alumni are welcomed to join the current students on the field for script Penn, with or without instruments. Once Penn is spelled out, everyone in the stands is asked to rise for “The Red and Blue”.
Lisa also shared some of her buttons from Homecomings since we graduated. Does anyone else have any old Homecoming buttons?
Penn Homecoming buttons from 1994, 1995 and 2002 courtesy of Lisa Bardfeld Shapiro, C’93
We hope to see you this weekend at Penn Homecoming! Click here for Homecoming activities this weekend, including gatherings with the Classes of 1988 – 1993!
Let’s Go Penn! Beat Princeton!
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
This weekend, November 3 – 4, 2017, marks 27 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.
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 Ruth McIlhenny Gorme, C’93, and Kiera Reilly, C’93
Looking back at our time at Penn, we are asking classmates to share photos and memories. Little did we know that someone would have a mug that survived from freshman year!
Ruth McIlhenny Gorme sent us this photo of an Underground Cafe mug that she has from our freshman year (the year the cafe opened in High Rise North).
The Underground Cafe mug that Ruth McIlhenny Gorme still has from our freshman year!
Ruth writes:
Since I lived in Harrison House freshman year, I needed to watch Twin Peaks somewhere and this was the place to watch it in the high rises.
That is right – most students did not have a TV in their dorm room, so once it opened, the Underground Cafe became a gathering spot for watching popular television shows.
I worked at Penn Student Agencies which opened the cafe in January, 1990, and I saved this ad from The Daily Pennsylvanian advertising the opening.
Ad from The Daily Pennsylvanian promoting the soon to open the Underground Cafe in High Rise North. Photo by Kiera Reilly.
This ad from The DP had the tagline, “Everyone Needs a Reality Shelter.”
Ad for The Underground Cafe appeared in the January 24, 1990, issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian
Here is the review of the cafe that appeared in The Daily Pennsylvanian on February 2, 1990:
Review of the opening of The Underground Cafe from the February 2, 1990 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian
Did you visit the Underground Cafe? Do you remember watching a favorite TV show or listening to a student band? Let us know in the comments.
Penn Class of 1993 25th Reunion Countdown
The weekend of July 14 – 15, 2017, marked 43 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.
We asked classmates to send us photos of their Penn t-shirts from when we were students. And Howard Levene sent t-shirts and many seemed to be from CUPID, so we asked, did he work for CUPID? You surely all remember CUPID – the Center for University of Pennsylvania Identification. It was in the Hutch (Hutchison Gym, adjacent to the Palestra) every year as school started. Here is what Howard shared about CUPID.
CUPID 1990 shirt, front view, from Howard Levene, ENG’93
CUPID 1990 t-shirt, back view, from Howard Levene, ENG’93
Oh, I didn’t just work at CUPID, I was the Assistant Coordinator from March to December 1992.
Sophomore (Fall 90) and Junior year (Fall 91) I was a CUPID worker and got promoted. I’m pretty sure I still have a Spring Fling Security Orange Jacket in the trunk of my car as a side-effect from that.
CUPID was great – you got paid and you could move in a week early and avoid the rush to move into the dorms. For a person like me who lived locally (Parents in South Jersey) it wasn’t hard to do the move (no shipping, just loading a car trunk), and it was great to avoid the crush of traffic.
It also made so much sense – put all the orientation in one area (Gym membership, Library sign-up, Bike Registration, etc) so students could just walk around in the Palestra.
I may even have a recording of PARIS somewhere in my ancient files….
CUPID shirt 1991, back view, from Howard Levene, ENG’93
CUPID t-shirt 1992, back view, from Howard Levene, ENG’93 at the University of Pennsylvania. There seems to be a black and white version of this shirt.
CUPID t-shirt 1993, front view, from Howard Levene, ENG’93.
CUPID t-shirt 1993, back view, from Howard Levene, ENG’93 at the University of Pennsylvania.
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 July 7 – 8 2017, marked 44 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.
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.
My mom recently found the July 1, 1989 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian at her house. Apparently the DP sent an issue to all of the incoming freshmen, and it’s been in my childhood home since then.
The top of the fold headline article was a bit jarring though….class is less selective but quality up!
The July 1, 1989 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian sent to incoming Freshman
It was interesting to see the front and back page stories of the day.
The full front page of the July 1, 1989 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian
Fran Dunphy was newly hired as the Head Coach of the Men’s Basketball team, and Gary Steele was promoted to be the Head Coach of the Football Team.
The back page of the July 1, 1989, issue of The DP
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 30 – July 1 2017, marked 45 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 website for additional details:
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).
Book the Downtown Marriott on-line but select “Attendee” from the drop-down menu.
Book at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel room block which is directly across the street and $279/night.
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.
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