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February 23, 2016, Volume 62, No. 24 |
Maura Johnston, Office of Audit, Compliance & Privacy
John A. Quinn, Engineering
Raymond H. Welsh, Emeritus Trustee
Maura Johnston, Office of Audit, Compliance & Privacy
Maura Ann Johnston, former University privacy officer at Penn, died on December 2 in the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was 60 years old.
Ms. Johnston was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She earned her BA in English from Clark University (1977), her JD from Penn Law (1981) and her MBA from the Wharton School (1995).
She worked for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services as director of health care financing systems, as a special assistant US attorney in an Independent Agency Law Department and as deputy attorney general, Litigation Section, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She then served for six years at Temple University Health System, first as special assistant to the chief medical officer, then as director of medical affairs operations, where she coordinated aspects of system-level risk management, clinical quality improvement and patient safety programs.
Ms. Johnston joined Penn’s Office of Audit, Compliance & Privacy in 2007 as assistant privacy officer (Almanac October 2, 2007). She became the University privacy officer in 2009, a position she held until 2015. Her particular areas of focus included management of the University-wide Security & Privacy Impact Assessment program, assessment of third-party data privacy/security protections in the cloud and raising awareness regarding mobile device security.
Ms. Johnston is survived by her wife, Karen Johnson, and her brother, Thomas. Memorial donations in her name may be made to the ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, 321 Norristown Road, Suite 260, Ambler, PA 19002 or to Philabundance, 3616 S. Galloway Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, March 12 at 10 a.m. at the Unitarian Society of Germantown, 6511 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia, PA.
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John A. Quinn, Engineering
John Albert Quinn, professor emeritus of chemical & biochemical engineering at Penn, died on February 8 after a brief illness. He was 83 years old.
Dr. Quinn was born in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated at the top in his class with his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1954. He then earned his PhD in chemical engineering from Princeton University. From 1958-1971, he served on the faculty of the University of Illinois.
Dr. Quinn joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 as a professor of chemical & biochemical engineering. In 1974, he received a secondary appointment in the department of bioengineering.
He received Penn’s second annual S. Reid Warren Jr. Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1974 (Almanac January 14, 1974) and was the first incumbent of the Robert D. Bent Professorship in 1978 (Almanac May 23, 1978). He was appointed chair of the department of chemical & biochemical engineering in 1979 (Almanac January 23, 1979) and held the position until 1985.
During his time at Penn, Dr. Quinn served on the Faculty Senate Nominating Committee and the Senate Advisory Committee. He was a member of the University Council’s Academic Planning & Budget and Academic Review Committees, and later chaired its Research Committee. He served on the Campus Committee for the Program for the Eighties, the Council of University Scholars and the Research Foundation Board.
He was also a member of the Consultative Committee that advised the President and Provost on the appointment of Gregory C. Farrington as dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science; the Task Force on Retirement, which examined the effects of the federal uncapping of retirement; and the Bioengineering Task Force for Penn’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering.
He received the Allan P. Colburn Award in 1966 and the 1978 Alpha Chi Sigma Award (Almanac January 30, 1979), both from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1992 (Almanac May 12, 1992).
He retired and took emeritus status in 2001.
In 2004, his former students and colleagues endowed the John A. Quinn Lecture in Chemical Engineering, presented each spring at Penn in recognition of his extraordinary career as a researcher, mentor and educator.
He is survived by his wife, Frances; their children, Sarah Quinn Christensen (Steven), Becket Quinn McNab (Andy) and John Edward Quinn; four grandsons, Bradford, Christopher, Edward and John; two sisters, JoAnn and Virginia; and one brother, James.
Contributions may be made in his memory to the Lukas Community, Memorial Drive, PO Box 137, Temple, NH 03084.
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Raymond H. Welsh, Emeritus Trustee
Raymond H. Welsh, W’53, emeritus Trustee at the University of Pennsylvania, died on February 15 after contracting a bacterial infection. He was 84 years old.
Mr. Welsh earned his BS from the Wharton School in 1953. A corporate finance major, he was a member of the Friars Senior Society, the Houston Hall Student Board, the Penn Union Council, the Phi Kappa Beta Junior Honor Society, the Sigma Chi fraternity, the Penn Pics magazine staff and the Naval ROTC. After graduation, he served in the US Navy as a navigator and executive officer on a cargo ship in the South Pacific.
Mr. Welsh was senior vice president of Wealth Management at UBS Financial Services, a global financial services firm. He spent his entire career with UBS and its predecessor firms, UBS PaineWebber and Kidder, Peabody & Co.
At Penn, he chaired the Health System’s $625 million campaign, “Creating the Future of Medicine,” from 1989-2000. He helped the Health System exceed its fundraising goal by $45 million. He served on the Agenda for Excellence Council and was active in fundraising for the Campaign for Penn and the Program for the Eighties. He was also gift-chair of the Class of 1953 Reunion Giving Committee and a member of the Corporate Annual Giving Committee. With his wife, Joanne Welsh, CW’52, he co-chaired the Benjamin Franklin Society.
Mr. Welsh received Penn’s Alumni Award of Merit in 1993. He joined the Board of Trustees in 1994 and served on the Budget & Finance and Student Life committees. He was named an emeritus Trustee in 1998. He was also an emeritus Trustee of Penn Medicine and chair of the Clinical Care Associates Board. He was a longtime member of the Board of Overseers of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, President of the Class of 1953 and a director of Penn Alumni.
Mr. and Mrs. Welsh, members of the Academy, established gifts in their names for undergraduate scholarships and for scholarships at the Perelman School of Medicine. They created a fund at the Wharton School to benefit the Undergraduate Program in Leadership, Teamwork & Communication. They endowed the Joanne T. and Raymond H. Welsh Chair in Child Welfare & Family Violence at the School of Social Policy & Practice. They generously supported the Annenberg Center. In 2012, they established funding to provide support for cutting edge and personalized cancer care at the Abramson Cancer Center and for diabetes research.
Mr. Welsh is survived by his wife, Joanne; their children, Scott Welsh and Margaret Hooper; and their grandchildren, Christina, GR’14, M’14, Leigh, Henry, Brady, Charlie and Jake.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, February 26 at St. Christopher’s Church, 226 Righters Mill Rd., Gladwyne, PA 19035. Donations can be sent to the Raymond H. Welsh Memorial Fund, Penn Medicine Development, 3535 Market St., Suite 750, Philadelphia, PA 19104, or to Bancroft, 1255 Caldwell Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034. |
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