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Office of Assistance to the President for Special Projects. Dilys Winegrad Records

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Call Number:
UPA 5.8 W767
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
7 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1977-1994 (inclusive)
Creator:
University of Pennsylvania. Office of the President. Assistant to the President for Special Projects
Form:
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Abstract:
During his term as President of the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1980, Martin Meyerson created an assistant to the President position entitled the Assistant to the President for Special Projects. These records relate to Dilys P. Winegrad's tenure as Assistant to the President for Special Projects from 1975 to 1994 and includes drafts of speeches, award citations and correspondence for the President of the University.

During his term as President of the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1980, Martin Meyerson created an assistant to the President position entitled the Assistant to the President for Special Projects. The President appointed Dilys Pegler Winegrad to this position in September 1975. The position's duties were principally those of speech-writing, but extended to a broad range of special projects, including the preparation of a volume of University history, and the organization of lectures, symposia, and exhibitions, and after it was established in 1982-1983, the management of the Arthur Ross Gallery, as well as other special tasks assigned by the University President. The position continued through the three administrations of Meyerson, Sheldon Hackney (1980-1993) and Claire Fagin (Interim President, 1993-1994), but by early 1994 the duties of directing and curating the Arthur Ross Gallery had increased to the point where that role became Dr. Winegrad's full-time responsibility in March 1994 and her reporting line moved to the Office of the Provost soon after the arrival of a new President, Judith S. Rodin, in July 1994.

These records relate to Dilys P. Winegrad's tenure as Assistant to the President for Special Projects from 1975 to 1994 and includes drafts of speeches, award citations and correspondence for the President of the University. An overwhelming proportion of the collection regards the matter of honorary degrees awarded by the University and individual schools during the annual University commencement and on various special occasions. The papers in this series consists of the manuscripts of speeches given by the University President during the ceremonies, the drafts and approved version of citations of honorary degree recipients, correspondence to and from the University President concerning the procedure, and background informational material of each honorary degree recipient. Included in the collection are also speeches the Assistant drafted for the President in relation to other special University or school events as well as correspondence she handled for the President on a regular basis.

This collection has been organized into three series. They are: files pertaining to the award of honorary degrees, 1977-1994; files pertaining to the special events and projects of the University, 1981-1983; and correspondence of the President, 1977-1980. All the files have been arranged chronologically.

Transferred to the Archives in August 1995.

Access restrictions: in accordance with the "Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center," all administrative records are closed for twenty-five years from the date of their creation.

On web. To 1994, includes names--seem to be folders for commencement speakers, hon degree recips and committee members. Terry says OK

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Finding Aid Author
Kaiyi Chen
Finding Aid Date
February 1996
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General, 1977.
Box 1 Folder 1
Commencement addresses, 1977 May 22.
Box 1 Folder 2
Anderson, Robert Orville.
Box 1 Folder 3
Brooks, Gwendolyn.
Box 1 Folder 4
Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef.
Box 1 Folder 5
Humphrey, Hubert Horatio.
Box 1 Folder 6
Lloyd, Eleanor Biddle.
Box 1 Folder 7
MacLane, Saunders.
Box 1 Folder 8
Pendergrass, Eugene Percival.
Box 1 Folder 9
General.
Box 1 Folder 10
Honorary degree citations, 1978.
Box 1 Folder 11
Buchwald, Art.
Box 1 Folder 12
Comroe, Julius Hiram, Jr.
Box 1 Folder 13
Emmanuel, Pierre.
Box 1 Folder 14
Frauenfelder, Hans.
Box 1 Folder 14
Harris, Patricia Roberts.
Box 1 Folder 15
Hesburgh, Theodore Martin.
Box 1 Folder 16
Ray, Gordon Norton.
Box 1 Folder 17
Scheie, Harold Glendon.
Box 1 Folder 18
Ware, John Haines, III.
Box 1 Folder 20
General.
Box 1 Folder 21
Commencement addresses, 1979 May 21.
Box 1 Folder 22
Dean, Ruth Josephine.
Box 1 Folder 23
Fanfani, Amintore (not accepted by Mr. Fanfani).
Box 1 Folder 24
Gelfand, Izrail Moiseevich.
Box 1 Folder 25
Golden, William Theodore.
Box 1 Folder 26
Lederberg, Joshua.
Box 1 Folder 27
McCoy, Charles Brelsford.
Box 1 Folder 28
McCree, Wade Hampton, Jr.
Box 1 Folder 29
Merton, Robert King.
Box 1 Folder 30
Trudeau, Garry.
Box 1 Folder 31
Wexler, Jacqueline Grennan.
Box 1 Folder 32
Williams, Tennessee Thomas Lanier (not accepted due to illness).
Box 1 Folder 33
General.
Box 1 Folder 34
Commencement addresses, 1980 May 19.
Box 1 Folder 35
Addams, Charles.
Box 1 Folder 36
Azikiwe, Nnamdi.
Box 1 Folder 37
Jones, Reginald H.
Box 1 Folder 38
Linowitz, Sol Myron.
Box 1 Folder 39
Mangione, Jerre Geralando.
Box 1 Folder 40
Michener, James A.
Box 1 Folder 41
Wu, Chien-Shiung.
Box 1 Folder 42
Venturi, Robert.
Box 1 Folder 43
General.
Box 1 Folder 44
Baldwin, James A. (not accepted by Mr. Baldwin).
Box 1 Folder 45
Franklin, John Hope.
Box 1 Folder 46
Jordan, Vernon E., Jr.
Box 1 Folder 47
Kramrisch, Stella.
Box 1 Folder 48
Lessing, Doris.
Box 1 Folder 49
Ogilby, Lyman Cunningham.
Box 1 Folder 50
Schmitt, Francis Otto.
Box 1 Folder 51
General.
Box 1 Folder 52
Honorary degree invitations.
Box 1 Folder 53
Honorary degree dinner, Hackney's remarks on rights and privileges, 1982.
Box 1 Folder 54
Commencement addresses, 1982 May 17.
Box 1 Folder 55
Brown, Sterling A.
Box 1 Folder 56
Dickens, Helen Octavia.
Box 1 Folder 57
Goodman, Nelson.
Box 1 Folder 58
Mphahlele, Es'kia.
Box 1 Folder 59
Trescher, Robert Lincoln.
Box 1 Folder 60
Wolf, Edwin, II.
Box 1 Folder 61
Woodward, Comer Vann.
Box 1 Folder 62
General.
Box 2 Folder 1
Commencement addresses, 1983 May 23.
Box 2 Folder 2
Chance, Henry Martyn, II.
Box 2 Folder 3
Coale, Ansley J.
Box 2 Folder 4
Francis, Norman.
Box 2 Folder 5
Goitein, Shelomo D.
Box 2 Folder 6
Goodman, Ellen Holtz.
Box 2 Folder 7
Potok, Chaim.
Box 2 Folder 8
Scott, Jessie M.
Box 2 Folder 9
Starr, Isaac.
Box 2 Folder 10
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Box 2 Folder 11
Wright, Esmond.
Box 2 Folder 12
General.
Box 2 Folder 13
Bacon, Edmund N.
Box 2 Folder 14
Busch, August A.
Box 2 Folder 15
Chomsky, Noam.
Box 2 Folder 16
Cohn, Mildred.
Box 2 Folder 17
Goode, W. Wilson.
Box 2 Folder 18
Huxley, Sir Andrew.
Box 2 Folder 19
Quarles, Benjamin.
Box 2 Folder 20
Sakharov, Andrei.
Box 2 Folder 21
Winnet, Nochem Samuel.
Box 2 Folder 22
General.
Box 2 Folder 23
Baccalaureate, 1985 May 19.
Box 2 Folder 24
Commencement ceremonies, 1985 May 20.
Box 2 Folder 25
Commencement luncheon, 1985 May 20.
Box 2 Folder 26
Honorary degree dinner, 1985 May 19.
Box 2 Folder 27
Annenberg, Leonore.
Box 2 Folder 28
Chance, Britton.
Box 2 Folder 29
Eilenberg, Samuel.
Box 2 Folder 30
McPherson, Mary Patterson.
Box 2 Folder 31
Munger, George Almon.
Box 2 Folder 32
Putnam, Hilary Whitehall.
Box 2 Folder 33
Wideman, John.
Box 2 Folder 34
Regan, Donald T.
Box 2 Folder 35
Rochberg, George.
Box 2 Folder 36
Salvatori, Henry.
Box 2 Folder 37
Wideman, John Edgar.
Box 2 Folder 38
General.
Box 2 Folder 39
Addresses, baccalaureate, 1986 May 18.
Box 2 Folder 40
Addresses, commencement, 1986 May 19.
Box 2 Folder 41
Honorary degree dinner, 1986 May 18.
Box 2 Folder 42
Axelrod, Julius.
Box 2 Folder 43
Brown, Michael S.
Box 2 Folder 44
Fugard, Athol.
Box 2 Folder 45
Lauder, Estee.
Box 2 Folder 46
Schwan, Herman P.
Box 2 Folder 47
Stone, Lawrence.
Box 2 Folder 48
Honorary degrees, 1986-1987.
Box 3 Folder 1
Honorary Degrees Conferred by the University of Pennsylvania, 1757 Through 1987.
Box 3 Folder 2
Honorary degree dinner, 1987 May 17.
Box 3 Folder 3
Honorary Degree Committee.
Box 3 Folder 4
General, 1987 May 18.
Box 3 Folder 5
Baccalaureate ceremony, 1987 May 18.
Box 3 Folder 6
Invitations.
Box 3 Folder 7
Annan, Noel Gilroy.
Box 3 Folder 8
Austrian, Robert.
Box 3 Folder 9
Ehrlich, Thomas.
Box 3 Folder 10
Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr.
Box 3 Folder 11
Kuhn, Maggie.
Box 3 Folder 12
Lewis, Bernard.
Box 3 Folder 13
Muti, Riccardo.
Box 3 Folder 14
Rockefeller, Mary.
Box 3 Folder 15
Stevens, Robert.
Box 3 Folder 16
General, 1988 May 16.
Box 3 Folder 17
Addresses.
Box 3 Folder 18
Honorary degrees, correspondence, 1988.
Box 3 Folder 19
Honorary degree candidates breakfast.
Box 3 Folder 20
Honorary degree dinner, 1988 May 15.
Box 3 Folder 21
Honorary degree invitations.
Box 3 Folder 22
Honorary Degree Committee, 1987-1988.
Box 3 Folder 23
Baltzell, E. Digby.
Box 3 Folder 24
Burk, Joseph W.
Box 3 Folder 25
Coleman, Ornette.
Box 3 Folder 26
d'Harnoncourt, Anne.
Box 3 Folder 27
Dickey, Charles D., Jr.
Box 3 Folder 28
Gray, William.
Box 3 Folder 29
Gregorian, Vartan.
Box 3 Folder 30
Hoenigswald, Henry M.
Box 3 Folder 31
Morrison, Toni.
Box 3 Folder 32
Schroeder, Patricia.
Box 3 Folder 33
General.
Box 4 Folder 1
Procedures for program participants.
Box 4 Folder 2
Honorary Degree Committee, 1989-1990.
Box 4 Folder 3
Honorary degree dinner, speech, 1989 May 21.
Box 4 Folder 4
Honorary degrees, not acted on, 1988-1989.
Box 4 Folder 5
Goodall, Jane.
Box 4 Folder 6
Hayre, Ruth W.
Box 4 Folder 7
Koop, C. Everett.
Box 4 Folder 8
Morita, Akio.
Box 4 Folder 9
Relman, Arnold S.
Box 4 Folder 10
Rowley, Janet D.
Box 4 Folder 11
Smith, Sir David.
Box 4 Folder 12
Soyinka, Wole.
Box 4 Folder 13
Wallace, Mike.
Box 4 Folder 14
Wattleton, Faye.
Box 4 Folder 15
General.
Box 4 Folder 16
Addresses.
Box 4 Folder 17
Honorary degree citations.
Box 4 Folder 18
Honorary degree citations, final.
Box 4 Folder 19
Blumberg, Baruch S.
Box 4 Folder 20
Bush, Barbara.
Box 4 Folder 21
Cosby, Bill.
Box 4 Folder 22
Davis, Raymond, Jr.
Box 4 Folder 23
Fitzgerald, Ella.
Box 4 Folder 24
Zaslavskaya, Tatiana.
Box 4 Folder 25
General.
Box 4 Folder 26
Political correctness.
Box 4 Folder 27
Commencement, University president speech, 1991 May 21.
Box 4 Folder 28
Baccalaureate, University president address, 1991 May 20.
Box 4 Folder 29
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Box 4 Folder 30
Jamison, Judith.
Box 4 Folder 31
Koppel, Ted.
Box 4 Folder 32
Pritchard, James.
Box 4 Folder 33
Shannon, Claude E.
Box 4 Folder 34
Sinkler, Rebecca.
Box 4 Folder 35
Wolf, Charles S.
Box 4 Folder 36
General.
Box 5 Folder 1
Commencement script.
Box 5 Folder 2
citations, draft.
Box 5 Folder 3
Baccalaureate, University president address, 1992 May 17.
Box 5 Folder 4
Commencement speaker, selection of.
Box 5 Folder 5
Barwise, Jon.
Box 5 Folder 6
Bergen, Candice.
Box 5 Folder 7
Bergen, Candice --controversy re honorary degree.
Box 5 Folder 8
Billingham, Rupert E.
Box 5 Folder 9
Bok, Derek.
Box 5 Folder 10
Casani, John R.
Box 5 Folder 11
Comer, James P.
Box 5 Folder 12
Davis, Natalie Zemon.
Box 5 Folder 13
Koo, Chen Fu.
Box 5 Folder 14
Mahomed, Justice Ismail.
Box 5 Folder 15
Penzias, Arno.
Box 5 Folder 16
General.
Box 5 Folder 17
Commencement script.
Box 5 Folder 18
Commencement speaker.
Box 5 Folder 19
Citations, draft.
Box 5 Folder 20
Honorary Degree Committee, 1992-1993.
Box 5 Folder 21
Ben-Porat, Miriam.
Box 5 Folder 22
Benoliel, Jeanne Quint.
Box 5 Folder 23
Gellhorn, Alfred.
Box 5 Folder 24
Hackney, Lucy Durr.
Box 5 Folder 25
Hackney, Sheldon.
Box 5 Folder 26
Landau, Ralph.
Box 5 Folder 27
Martin, Agnes.
Box 5 Folder 28
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys.
Box 5 Folder 29
Wilson, William Julius.
Box 5 Folder 30
Commencement-miscellaneous.
Honorary degrees, 1993-1994.
Box 5 Folder 31
Honorary degree recipient directory, 1757-1990.
Box 5 Folder 32
Honorary degree diploma, English translation.
Box 5 Folder 33
Commencement speeches by Sheldon Hackney, 1978-1992.
Box 5 Folder 34
Honorary degree dinner speeches by Sheldon Hackney.
Box 1992 Folder 35
General.
Box 6 Folder 1
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 2
Citations.
Box 6 Folder 3
Burket, Lester William.
Box 6 Folder 4
Dummett, Clifton Orrin.
Box 6 Folder 5
Goldman, Henry Maurice.
Box 6 Folder 6
Grossman, Louis Irwin.
Box 6 Folder 7
Krogman, Wilton Marion.
Box 6 Folder 8
Citations.
Box 6 Folder 9
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 10
Peter Ferdinand Drucker.
Box 6 Folder 11
Robert Strange McNamara.
Box 6 Folder 12
Paul Petterolf Miller, Jr.
Box 6 Folder 13
Sybil Collins Mobley.
Box 6 Folder 14
Akia Morita.
Box 6 Folder 15
Helmut Schmidt.
Box 6 Folder 16
Elmer Boyd Staats.
Box 6 Folder 17
General.
Box 6 Folder 18
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 19
Citations.
Box 6 Folder 20
Francois, E. Jules.
Box 6 Folder 21
Kupfer, Carl.
Box 6 Folder 22
Patz, Arnall.
Box 6 Folder 23
Schepens, Charles Louis.
Box 6 Folder 24
Patz, Arnall.
Box 6 Folder 23
Schepens, Charles Louis.
Box 6 Folder 24
Wiesel, Torsten Nils.
Box 6 Folder 25
General.
Box 6 Folder 26
Haas, F. Otto.
Box 6 Folder 27
Burnett, John H.
Box 6 Folder 28
General.
Box 6 Folder 29
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 30
Porter, George.
Box 6 Folder 31
Price, Charles Coale.
Box 6 Folder 32
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore.
Box 6 Folder 33
General.
Box 6 Folder 34
Citations.
Box 6 Folder 35
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 36
Allam, Mark Whittier.
Box 6 Folder 37
Caras, Roger A.
Box 6 Folder 38
Dixon, Fitz E.
Box 6 Folder 39
Ohno, Susumu.
Box 6 Folder 40
Randolph, Theodora A.
Box 6 Folder 41
Soulsby, Ernest Jackson L.
Box 6 Folder 42
Rockefeller, Margaret McGrath.
Box 6 Folder 43
General.
Box 6 Folder 44
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 45
Eckman, John W.
Box 6 Folder 46
Heilbrun, Carolyn.
Box 6 Folder 47
Kindleberger, Charles P., II.
Box 6 Folder 48
Miller, Arthur Asher.
Box 6 Folder 49
Patrick, Ruth.
Box 6 Folder 50
Springer, Otto.
Box 6 Folder 51
Watts, Andre.
Box 6 Folder 52
General.
Box 6 Folder 53
Remarks.
Box 6 Folder 54
General.
Box 6 Folder 55
Citations.
Box 6 Folder 56
Shoemaker, Louise.
Box 6 Folder 57
General.
Box 6 Folder 58
Laudations.
Box 6 Folder 59
Speech.
Box 6 Folder 60
Rogers, David Elliott.
Box 6 Folder 61
Mainwaring, Margaret R.
Box 6 Folder 62
Brunner, Lillian S.
Box 6 Folder 63
Lubic, Ruth Watson.
Box 6 Folder 64
Schorr, Thelma M.
Box 6 Folder 65
General.
Box 6 Folder 66
ENIAC.
Box 6 Folder 67
Hoare, Charles Antony R.
Box 6 Folder 68
Karp, Richard Manning.
Box 6 Folder 69
Newell, Allen.
Box 6 Folder 70
Knuth, Donald Ervin.
Box 6 Folder 71
Bordogna, Dean Joseph.
Box 6 Folder 72
Policy for special convocations, 1986.
Box 7 Folder 1
General.
Box 7 Folder 2
Convocation.
Box 7 Folder 3
Remarks.
Box 7 Folder 4
Citations.
Box 7 Folder 5
Flannery, Kent V.
Box 7 Folder 6
Lounsbury, Floyd G.
Box 7 Folder 7
Mellink, Machteld J.
Box 7 Folder 8
Reiner, Erica.
Box 7 Folder 9
Wilson, David M.
Box 7 Folder 10
General.
Box 7 Folder 11
Sheldon Hackney remarks.
Box 7 Folder 12
Doshi, Balkrishna Vithaldes.
Box 7 Folder 13
Esherick, Joseph.
Box 7 Folder 14
Halprin, Lawrence.
Box 7 Folder 15
Shepheard, Peter.
Box 7 Folder 16
Ozal, Turgut, 1991.
Box 7 Folder 17
General.
Box 7 Folder 18
President's Forum, 1993.
Box 7 Folder 19
Humphrey, Arthur E.
Box 7 Folder 20
Churchill, Stuart W.
Box 7 Folder 21
Amundson, Neal R.
Box 7 Folder 22
Reno, Janet, 1993.
Box 7 Folder 23

General.
Box 7 Folder 24
Advisory Committee, Finance Department.
Box 7 Folder 25
Celebration in Chicago, 1981 June 12.
Box 7 Folder 26
Wharton stamp ceremony, 1981 June 18.
Box 7 Folder 27
Philadelphia: Past, Present and Future, opening conference, 1981 March 27.
Box 7 Folder 28
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Conference, 1981-1982.
Box 7 Folder 29
General.
Box 7 Folder 30
Welcoming remarks.
Box 7 Folder 31
Remarks: introduction of Bryce Jordan.
Box 7 Folder 32
Remarks.
Box 7 Folder 33
General.
Box 7 Folder 34
Les Bouches Inutiles.
Box 7 Folder 35
"German-American Studies" Exhibition, opening remarks, 1983 Sept. 27.
Box 7 Folder 36
General.
Box 7 Folder 37
Welcoming remarks.
Box 7 Folder 38
Remarks, introduction of Karl Carstens.
Box 7 Folder 39

1978 Oct.
Box 7 Folder 44
1977 Aug.
Box 7 Folder 40
1977 Dec.
Box 7 Folder 41
1978 Jan. - Apr.
Box 7 Folder 42
1978 May - Aug.
Box 7 Folder 43
1978 Dec.
Box 7 Folder 45
1979 Jan. - Feb.
Box 7 Folder 46
1979 March - Apr.
Box 7 Folder 47
1979 May - Sept.
Box 7 Folder 48
1979 Oct. - Dec.
Box 7 Folder 49
1980 Jan. - Jul.
Box 7 Folder 50
1980 Aug. - Dec.
Box 7 Folder 51

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