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Corrections
The biography of Raymond
Pace Alexander, W’20,
that appeared in the Wharton Alumni Magazine Anniversary Issue erroneously
named him as Wharton’s first
black graduate. In fact, that
trail was blazed 37 years earlier
by Wharton undergraduate Miles Tucker, who earned a
Bachelor of Philosophy degree
in 1887 as a member
of Wharton’s fourth graduating
class. Additionally,
when Alexander began to
work at age 12 to help his father
keep his siblings together,
his mother had died seven
years earlier. His wife Sadie
Mossell Tanner Alexander was the first black woman to
earn a PhD at the University
of Pennsylvania and the first
African American in the
United States to earn a PhD
in Economics.
In the biography of Anil
D. Ambani, WG’83,
that appeared in the
Wharton Alumni Magazine Anniversary Issue, the name
of his latest venture was
misspelled. The correct
company name is Zapak.
com. Also, the profile stated
that his father, Dhirubhai
Ambani, the founder of the
Reliance Industries Limited
and recipient of a Wharton
Dean’s Medal, was a former
schoolteacher. In fact,
he was the son of a schoolteacher. |
