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January 26, 2016, Volume 62, No. 20 |
Nancy Wang Cheng, Penn Libraries
Ellen Fuller, Nursing and Physiology
Aaron Gellman, Wharton
Nancy Wang Cheng, Penn Libraries
Nancy Wang Cheng, a retired Penn librarian of three decades, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 31. She was 93 years old.
Ms. Cheng was born in Shanghai, China. She received her BA from St. John’s University, Shanghai. She came to Philadelphia for her graduate studies and was unable to return home in 1949 as a result of the Communist Party takeover of Mainland China. In 1963, she earned her master’s degree in library science from Drexel University.
Ms. Cheng joined Penn in 1961 as an assistant in Oriental Studies in SAS. In 1964 she became a cataloguer in Van Pelt Library. She became the East Asian bibliographer in 1969. Her extensive bibliographical knowledge provided invaluable assistance to many dissertation candidates and academic researchers; she was also considered a warm and amiable colleague with a wonderful sense of humor. She retired from Penn in 1990 and then briefly served as a lecturer in Penn’s College of General Studies.
Ms. Cheng is survived by her brother, Zurong; two sisters, Zumei and Zuqian; two sons, Benjamin (Maggie) and Franklin (Kathleen); and four grandchildren, Christopher, Allison, Nicholas and Zachary.
A “Celebration of Life” for Ms. Cheng is planned for March 5. See the West Laurel Hill Cemetery website: http://www.forever-care.com
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Ellen Fuller, Nursing and Physiology
Ellen O. Fuller, professor emeritus at Penn’s School of Nursing, died on November 16, 2015 at McLeod Hospice House in Florence, South Carolina. She was 92 years old.
In 1945, she enlisted in the US Army Nurse Corps. She served in the allergy clinic during World War II at a hospital for convalescing soldiers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she met her future husband, who was a patient. Dr. Fuller earned her BS in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia. She then attended Emory University, earning her MSc and then her PhD in physiology in 1968. She taught on the faculties of Georgia State University and Emory University and was a visiting fellow at Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
She joined Penn in 1980 as associate professor of nursing (Almanac May 19, 1981) and the first director of the Center for Nursing Research at Penn’s School of Nursing. She was also associate professor of physiology, a joint appointment in Penn’s School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine. In 1985, she was promoted to professor of physiology (Almanac July 9, 1985).
She served on Penn’s Faculty Senate, first as secretary (Almanac March 2, 1982) and then as an at-large member (Almanac April 24, 1984), and on the University Council (Almanac December 4, 1984). She was also editor of the School of Nursing’s Nursing Research Newsletter (Almanac April 6, 1982). She retired in 1988.
Dr. Fuller is survived by two daughters, Cynthia (Bill Cotterell) and Marion Fuller Aller (Charles Aller); two sons, Mark and Andrew; and one daughter-in-law, Mary.
The family suggests donations to the Searsport Historical Society, 4 Sears Island Road, Searsport, ME 04974, or to the American Heart Association (http://www.heart.org).
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Aaron Gellman, Wharton
Aaron Gellman, a former adjunct professor at the Wharton School, died on January 11 of multiple organ failure in JourneyCare Hospice in Glenview, Illinois. He was 85 years old.
Dr. Gellman earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia. He attended the University of Chicago, then entered the US Army in 1951. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1954-1957 and completed his PhD in 1968.
He was an adjunct professor at the Wharton School at Penn starting in the department of regional sciences and transportation in 1968. He became a lecturer and then a professor in that department. In 1984, he was a member of the graduate group for the newly established master of science in transportation based in Penn’s School of Engineering & Applied Science (Almanac January 31, 1984).
He later directed the Transportation Center at Northwestern University and served on the Northwestern faculty from 1992-2014.
Dr. Gellman is survived by three sons, Samuel, Alexander and Daniel; Sheila Goldberg; and seven grandchildren. |
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