A Peek at Penn's Past

(culled from old issues of Almanac)

This Month in Penn's History

10 Years Ago

2/2/93--University to implement specific steps to ensure minority permanence on campus.

2/9/93--Provost Michael Aiken to serve as chancellor of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2/16/93--Deanship of the Annenberg School named in honor of Hon. Walter H. Annenberg; Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson named as dean.

20 Years Ago

2/1/83--Computer literacy made a requirement in Religious Studies program.

2/1/83--Arthur Ross Gallery opens in Furness Building.

2/8/83--Celebrating Philadelphia's 300th Birthday

30 Years Ago

2/13/73--Proposal for the Annenberg Center for Communication Arts and Sciences published.

2/13/73--College of Thematic Studies to offer courses in Women's Studies.

40 Years Ago

Feb. 1963--The University received a $3 million grant from the Ford Foundation to expand the graduate engineering program.

Feb. 1963--Visiting Professor and Director of City Planning Commission Edmund Bacon received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to author a book on the design of cities.

Feb. 1963--HUP planned to sponsor second annual Antiques Show and Sale in April.

  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 23, February, 2003