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Janet Dennis, THM ’78
became an athlete after experiencing heart failure and receiving a heart transplant in 2005 at age 50. She went on to represent Team Philadelphia at five Transplant Games of America and Team USA at four World Transplant Games, most recently in the 2015 games in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Dennis serves as a volunteer chaplain at Penn Medicine, working on the floor where she spent six and a half weeks waiting for a heart.
Mary E. Williams, SMC ’88
wrote A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles about her experience as one of the first patients in a groundbreaking cancer clinical trial as well as her friendship with her roommate at Temple. It will be published by National Geographic in 2016. Williams is a senior staff writer for award-winning website Salon.
Brian Alegant, BYR ’95
was named the 2015 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Alegant, who is Barker Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is the first music professor to have been granted the honor. |
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