{"id":223562,"date":"2026-06-20T00:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223562\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:33:19","slug":"legacies-the-pennsylvania-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223562\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacies \u2013 The Pennsylvania Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Gazette\u2019s May|Jun 2020 issue, we published \u201cThe Edge<\/a>,\u201d JJ Tiziou C\u201902\u2019s first-person account of a quirky endeavor he\u2019d launched a few years earlier of making an annual walk around Philadelphia\u2019s borders. In that first spring of the pandemic, his text and photographs provided a welcome breath of fresh air and freedom. Toward the end of the essay, JJ wrote briefly about his ambitions for using such walks as a way of bringing different people and groups together and added, \u201c\u201cI\u2019m not sure where this project will go next.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cCity Limits,<\/a>\u201d senior editor Trey Popp provides an answer, describing how the photographer and community organizer has developed Walk Around Philadelphia to the point that, in part thanks to a recent anonymous grant, he is contemplating stepping back from active management. Trey spoke with JJ for the piece, but more of the focus is on other walkers, including Lia Howard C\u201901 Gr\u201911, who adapted elements of the walk to her work as director of SNF Paideia\u2019s Political Empathy Lab, and and her husband, University Chaplain Chaz Howard C\u201900, who has participated multiple times and reflected on being both the helper and helped (\u201cnow I\u2019ve got a bad knee\u201d) during the rougher patches of the journey.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a moment of transition of sorts at Kelly Writers House, which celebrated its 30th anniversary over Alumni Weekend in May. I mentioned KWH\u2019s longtime faculty director, Kelly Professor of English Al Filreis, in the very first article I wrote as editor of the Gazette, and I believe I was among the first (few hundred) alumni writer-types to lament that Writers House wasn\u2019t around in our day.<\/p>\n

For \u201cThe 30-Year Squat<\/a>\u201d\u2014you\u2019ll get it if you read the article\u2014I spoke with Al and KWH Director Jessica Lowenthal G\u201907 Gr\u201907, as well as associate professor of English Simone White, who took over as faculty director on July 1, about the origins, development, and future of the very well-used cottage at 3805 Locust Walk. I also sat in on some events this spring and for the anniversary, and the piece excerpts a few of the \u201cToasts & Reminiscences\u201d shared by various students, faculty, and staff who\u2019ve been part of the House across its history.<\/p>\n

Since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics has been marshalling expertise across Penn schools to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness of the US healthcare system. As Mary Ann Meyers Gr\u201976 points out in \u201cLDI and American Healthcare<\/a>\u201d its scholars \u201cface what are arguably unprecedented challenges in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article surveys work addressing the impact of last year\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the complexities around incorporating artificial intelligence in patient care and administration, the rural healthcare crises, and a variety of healthcare access issues, a lot of it pretty grim. But despite all the challenges, outgoing LDI Director Rachel M. Werner M\u201998 GM\u201901 GrW\u201904, told Mary Ann that she still believes a \u201csustainable healthcare system that pays for better quality, equity, and efficiency\u201d can be achieved.<\/p>\n

Finally, please check out our annual photo gallery of this year\u2019s (sunny!) Alumni Weekend<\/a> festivities, and our Commencement coverage in \u201cGazetteer<\/a>,\u201d where historian Michael Beschloss offered the Class of 2026 a lesson in resilience from President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a speech he gave at Franklin Field in 1936.<\/p>\n

\u2014John Prendergast C\u201980
Editor<\/p>\n

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