DEATHS
Dr. Arthur Bloomfield, International Economic Advisor
Arthur I. Bloomfield, a professor emeritus of economics who was an advisor
to many of the world's emerging nations during his long and distinguished
career, died on October 6 at the age of 84.
Dr. Bloomfield was on the faculty here for 27 years, joining the economics
department as a full professor in 1958 and retiring in 1985. He had also
been a visiting professor at the City University of New York, Columbia,
Princeton, Johns Hopkins and the University of Melbourne.
As a State Department and Ford Foundation consultant, Dr. Bloomfield
advised on central banking, development banking, foreign aid and financial
policy in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Congo/Zaire, Malaysia, the Philippines
and the Caribbean.
He was a frequent contributor to economic journals and served on the
editorial board of the Journal of Post-Keynesian Economies. His many
books included Capital Imports and the American Balance of Payments,
1934-1939; Monetary Policy under the International Gold Standards, 1880-1914;
Speculative and Flight Movements of Capital in Postwar International Finance;
Short Term Capital Movements under Pre-1914 Gold Standards; and Patterns
of Fluctuation in International Investment before 1914. His most recent
work was Essays in the History of International Trade Theory, published
in 1994.
Dr. Bloomfield was a native of Montreal who took his bachelor's and master's
degrees from McGill University. After taking his Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Chicago in 1942 he joined the staff of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, where he was a senior economist and consultant until 1958.
During this time he served on several governmental commissions, among them
the Wilbur Commission to Indo-China and the Randall Commission on foreign
trade policy.
In 1949-50 he was a financial advisor to the Bank of Korea, where his
work formed the foundation of central banking in that country. With J. P.
Jensen, he co-authored Banking Reform in South Korea, published by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1951. In addition, he was a financial
advisor to the Korean Ministry of Finance and the United Nations Korean
Reconstruction Agency.
He received a special citation from the Government of Korea at the Korea-USA
Centennial in 1983, and an honorary doctorate in economics from Han Yang
University in Seoul in 1987. Other awards included Social Science Research
Council Fellowship in 1956; a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1957-58;
Ford Foundation faculty research fellowship in 1962.
Dr. Bloomfield was married to the former Dorothy E. Reese in 1987. He
is survived by his wife, a step-son, Alan Reese; a sister, Harriet Joseph;
five nephews and four nieces.
Robert G. Lorndale, Former Secretary of Council
Robert G. Lorndale, the retired Associate Secretary of the University
whose 28 years at Penn were marked by outstanding service as Secretary to
the University Council, died on October 11 at the age of 72.
Mr. Lorndale was born in Chicago and graduated from the Ashville School
in North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, on destroyer
escort in the Pacific, then took his bachelor's degree from Princeton in
1947 and an MBA from the Wharton School in 1951.
In 1961 he returned to Penn as Assistant Secretary of the University,
with responsibility for staffing numerous all-University committees and
for coordinating Commencement and other major convocations. He was later
promoted to Associate Secretary, and as the University's governance activities
increased in scope and complexity, Mr. Lorndale was regarded as a touchstone
of equanimity in times of controversy. "Bob Lorndale's career was devoted
to serving Penn's varied constituencies, and he did so with taste and with
pride,"said President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
After retiring in 1989, Mr. Lorndale served on the board of the Christian
Association at Penn, volunteered for the University Museum, rowed from the
Ondine Boathouse, and was active in the affairs of All Saints' Episcopal
Church in Wynnewood.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Barbara Quick Lorndale; his son,
Robert Gordon Lorndale, Jr.; two daughters, Dierdre Griffin and Kathryn
Miller; and four grandchildren. In lieu of flowers the family suggest memorial
contributions to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 3400 Girard Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Dr. Harold Persky, Scholar of Hormonal Effects
Dr. Harold Persky, an emeritus professor of psychiatry who had taught
at PennMed for 20 years before retiring in 1983, died on Wednesday, October
14,, at the age of 81.
Dr. Persky was an alumnus of the University of Chicago, where he took
his bachlor's degree, his master's and his Ph.D. in biochemistry.
He joined Penn in 1963 after teaching at Albert Einstein Medcial Center,
Indiana University Medical School, Indanapolis, and the Michael Reese Hospital
in Chicago. Frequently cited for his studies in the links between hormones
and moods, he was among the first to indicate that testosterone affected
the sexuality of women, and he was still actively researching these issues
when he retired in 1983.
Dr. Persky is survived by his wife, Trudy Dworkin Persky; a son, Joseph;
three stepsons; and two grandchildren.
Dr. Kevin Salhany, Anatomical Pathologist
Dr. Kevin Salhany, an award-winning teacher, scholar and consultant who
was associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, died Thursday,
October 15, at the age of 41.
"This tragedy touches each and every one of us in the Department,
as well as so many others throughout the University Health System who interacted
with Kevin," said Dr. Mark L. Tykocinski, chair of pathology and laboratory
medicine. "Kevin was respected as a physician and a scholar, and he
was greatly admired as a truly fine human being."
A 1978 graduate of Tennessee's Southern Missionary College, Dr. Salhany
took a master's degree at Hinsdale in Illinois and his M.D. at Loma Linda
University in California. After residencies and fellowships at Vanderbilt
University, he joined PennMed in 1991 as assistant professor. A member of
the surgical pathology and hematopathology services and of the University
of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, publishing widely and serving as a consultant
to regional pathologists, hematologists and oncologists outside Penn. Within
the University he worked with the hematology-oncology group and also with
individuals in surgery, thoracic surgery and otorhinolaryngology in the
evaluation of lymphoid proliferations in various organ systems. His personal
research interests included studies of cutnaneous and other lymphomas, focusing
on T-cell proliferations.
"Kevin was a team player and gave of himself in the teaching of
medical students, residents and fellows," Dr. Tykocinski said. In 1994
he won the Peter C. Nowell Teaching Award, and in 1997 he received a Student
Teaching Award given by the first-year class.
At presstime, funeral arrangements were in progress. The Department will
announce a campus memorial service for Dr. Salhany in November.
Memorial Reminder: The
memorial service for Dr. Marvin Wolfgang, who died in April, is tomorow
(October 21) at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Club. All members of the University
are welcome.
Almanac, Vol. 45, No. 8, October 20, 1998
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