ShutterButton: Penn's First President

He's certainly no A-Gutt, but he'll do. Pictured here is Thomas Sovereign Gates, the very first President of the University, named in 1930 (bet you didn't know that). His intelligence and leadership proved indispensable at a time when our nation was in social and political turmoil. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Gates oversaw the use of the university campus as a training ground for American troops. We wouldn't expect anything less of a Penn prez.