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Carol Welty Faris, Annenberg School

Carol Welty Faris, former employee of Penn Law, the University’s Provost Office and the Annenberg School for Communication, died August 2. She was 90.

Ms. Faris was born in Oberlin, Ohio. She studied music at Colorado College and the University of Colorado and then attended Columbia University. She lived in London and Edinburgh, Scotland, while her husband served in the US Air Force.

She moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Philadelphia in 1966. She studied with and succeeded Newell Robinson as organist and choirmaster at Grace Church, Mt. Airy, which at the time was renowned for its choir of men and boys. She was the first adult woman to sing in the choir on a regular basis and was the second woman to serve on the church vestry.

Ms. Faris joined the staff at Penn in 1977 as a bibliographer/researcher at Penn Law. In 1981, she became a secretary in the Provost’s Office. From 1983 until her retirement in 1992, she was a secretary at the Annenberg School.

Ms. Faris also worked at Marlboro Music from 1989 until 2009 and the Pennsylvania Health Law Project in the 1970s.

Ms. Faris is survived by her sister, Sylvia Geer; three sons; and seven grandchildren.

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