Museum News

Originally Published in 2019

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Museum Overseers Welcome New Members

At its February 2019 meeting, the Museum Board of Overseers was pleased to welcome two new members—Andrew R. Moelis, C10; and Herbert L. Sachs, W69, PAR.

Andrew R. Moelis, C10 is a Principal at Camber Property Group (CPG), an emerging leader in mixed income and workforce housing development in New York City, where he focuses on business plan development while directing the firm’s overall investment and growth strategy. In the last three years under Andrew’s leadership, CPG has preserved or developed over 4,000 units of affordable housing in the New York metro area. Prior to founding CPG, Andrew was a Strategic Planning Associate at Empire State Development, valuing and coordinating the disposition of public assets.

A group of people in white hard hats looking at construction in the Museum
Overseers group tour at the Museum, with Andrew R. Moelis (in center) with the white shirt.

Andrew’s father, grandparents, aunt, uncle, and many cousins are fellow alumni, and in his Overseer role he continues a well-established family tradition of volunteer service at Penn. His interest in the ancient world and the Penn Museum collection ties back to classes taken in his undergraduate years at Penn. He attends lectures on the ancient Near East whenever he can at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Schools of Oriental Research. In addition to his Overseer service, Andrew is a founding member of the Penn Museum’s Young Alumni Council.

Herbert L. Sachs, W69, PAR is also from a family of many Penn graduates: he and his brother Keith, W67, met their future wives at Penn (Alice Snyder Sachs, CW69, and Katherine Stein Sachs, CW69), and have five Penn graduates among their six children. Herb and Alice both loved the Museum while students at Penn.

Herb is the recently retired President of Saxco International, LLC, a family-owned company supplying glass and other packaging to a large percentage of America’s wine, spirits, and craft beer producers. Alice is retired from teaching at Germantown Friends School. Herb serves as a Trustee at the Abington Health Foundation, a nonprofit philanthropy pillar program that financially supports the efforts of Abington/Jefferson Hospital and its affiliates. He is Honorary Vice President of the American Friends of Hebrew University, a nonprofit organization that connects the passions of Americans to the talent at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Herb is also President of the Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation, a non-sectarian, nonprofit organization created to preserve the Beth Sholom Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark and the only synagogue ever designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Herb and Alice reside in Rydal, Pennsylvania.

Joyce White in the museum and in the field
TOP: Joyce White at the Penn Museum. Photo by Ethan Wu. ABOVE: Dr. White working in the field, performing a test excavation in northern Laos. Photo by Cakacz, Wikimedia.

White Receives Award from Justice Department

Joyce White, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar in the Museum’s Asian Section, assisted the U.S. government as an expert witness in a case involving the looting, smuggling, and illegal sale of over 10,000 Thai artifacts. Her expertise on the Ban Chiang, Thailand archaeological site, a 1974– 1975 Penn Museum excavation, was vital to the long investigation—Operation Antiquity—that finally closed with jail sentences and fines for tax evasion and antiquities smuggling. Dr. White’s work identifying looted artifacts and testifying in court earned her an award from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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"Museum News." Expedition Magazine 61, no. 1 (May, 2019): -. Accessed February 15, 2025. https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/museum-news-12/


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