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This issue of our newsletter is sent to members and friends of the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC). I hope the newsletter will help keep you informed about our activities and help you feel connected with our members throughout the U.S. On the left are links to our website and links to contact either me or the EUEC office.
With best wishes,
Gray
Gray F. Crouse Director, EUEC
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 Message from the Director
We had another great Sheth Lecture last Monday. The last ten years at the Federal Reserve Bank were certainly the most challenging in decades, and Dennis Lockhart helped us all appreciate that period of time through the eyes of those at the Fed. You can read a summary of his talk below, thanks to Ron Gould, and in a few weeks will be able to view the entire talk on our website.
There is no diminution of our activities in the summer term. Next Monday, we will get a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's great recital halls--just down the road at Clayton State. If you have been there, you know what a gem Spivey Hall is, and if you haven't, you may be inspired to try it out.
One of our missions is to help our active colleagues plan for an active and fulfilling retirement, and having sufficient financial resources is one requirement for such a retirement. Klaas Baks gave many great pieces of advice in his retirement seminar on April 13, and next week, two of our own members, Peter Sebel and Frank Gordon, will talk about many of the important issues in financial planning. Although these seminars are presented for active faculty, you are welcome to attend. Please see details below.
There is much more in this newsletter, but I want to highlight the announcement for this year's Bianchi Excellence Awards which can provide funding for a variety of member activities. Having access to these funds is a great perk of membership!
If you are interested, i also have below a personal account of Saturday's March for Science in Atlanta.
I am very grateful to John Bugge, Herb Benario, and Gretchen Schulz for help with proofing and editing.
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Lunch Colloquium May 1 
The Courage to Think Small: Emilie Spivey's Creation of Spivey Hall
The Luce Center
Room 130
11:30-1:00
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April 17--Sheth Distinguished Lecture
Crisis, Recession, & Recovery: The Decade 2007- 2016
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Bianchi Excellence Award
EUEC is extremely fortunate to have funds that can be awarded to members to support research. Applications are due May 25 for the Bianchi Excellence Awards, and information about applying can be seen by clicking here. The award provides members with financial support for ongoing intellectual activities by means of small, strategic grants to cover expenses incurred in pursuit of a broad range of projects.
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Faculty Activities
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A summary of the March 21 meeting of the University Faculty Council can be seen by clicking here. At the previous Faculty Council meeting, our representative, Holly York, provided a summary of the EUEC communication structure. She did such a great job, she was asked to come back in March and speak about EUEC activities, and her talk is summarized in the summary. A summary of the March 28 meeting of the University Senate can be seen by clicking here. There was further discussion of President Sterk's " Courageous Moral Action and Community Engagement" call-to-action. The summary for the April 11 Faculty Council meeting has not yet been posted, but that meeting featured a presentation by the Faculty Club working group. Their presentation can be seen by clicking here. |
Financing Your Retirement II: Return of the Asset Allocators May 4
Another in our series of seminars aimed at active faculty will be given on Thursday, May 4, at 4 p.m. in the James B. Williams Medical Education Building, Room 110. This will be another seminar on the theme of how to provide financially for one's retirement.
The seminar will be led by two of our own members, Peter Sebel, MB BS, PhD, MBA, Professor of Anesthesiology, and Frank Gordon, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology. Peter will speak about estimation of fixed and variable expenses, funding sources for retirement (investments/Emory retirement/Social Security), simulations of retirement outcomes, and the issue of financial advisors. Frank will talk about asset allocation--what is it and why do it? --and index funds--why average is good enough. After these presentations, there will be opportunity for lots of questions from the audience.
Although this seminar is presented for active faculty, EUEC members are welcome to attend. So that we can plan for the number of faculty attending this seminar, we ask that you register by clicking on this link.
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Retirement Seminar April 13
Financing Your Retirement
Klaas Baks, Professor in the Practice of Finance, Goizueta Business School, and Executive Director, Center for Alternative Investments Klaas spoke for two hours, patiently answering every question the large audience asked. The issues raised ranged from the utility of backdoor Roth conversions to what fund to choose for one's investments. There is a lot of useful information contained in his answers. A podcast of his talk will soon be available and can be found by clicking here and looking under "Retirement Seminars."
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Emory Open Access Digital Publishing Initiative
Most faculty are aware of the increasing difficulty of publishing monographs. One of the latest issues of Thoughtwork reports the following:
Emory, along with 11 other universities, has joined a new publishing initiative that aims to advance the dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty through free, open access editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited scholarship. Announced by the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of American University Presses, the Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative launches this spring. All dozen partners have committed to providing university-funded grants and other revenue sources to support publication costs, setting a target of awarding three publishing grants per year, and participating in the initiative for five years. The project is expected to make academic content accessible to more readers, thereby increasing the presence of humanities and social science scholarship on the web and assisting universities in reaching the public domain more effectively.
More information about the initiative, along with a list of participating institutions is available by clicking here.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium May 1
The Courage to Think Small: Emilie Spivey's Creation of Spivey Hall
Sam Dixon, CEO and Artistic Director, Spivey Hall
In the words of the legendary conductor Robert Shaw, "Spivey Hall is to music what light is to painting." The dream of organist, entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist Emilie Parmalee Spivey, Spivey Hall opened in 1991, built with private funds totaling $4.5 million. Intimate in size (392 seats), the elegant recital hall has superb acoustics that enable artists and audiences to feel a strong and deeply satisfying connection through the performance of fine music. Now in its 26th season, presenting concert and educational programming that serves patrons ages 3 to 95 hailing from more than 50 Georgia counties and seven states, Spivey Hall enjoys an international reputation for artistic excellence, and is both a living legacy and direct expression of Mrs. Spivey's values, tastes, and personality. How this gem of a recital hall came to be situated at Clayton State University, how its programming enriches lives in far-reaching ways (perhaps surprisingly, given its modest size), and how the beautiful "body" of Spivey Hall has also come to possess a beautiful "soul" are among the topics to be explored in this talk by Spivey Hall's executive and artistic director, Sam Dixon, who will also share the fascinating story of his own experience "working at the juncture where the art and business of music meet." About Sam Dixon
SAMUEL C. DIXON is Executive & Artistic Director of Clayton State University's Spivey Hall. He joined Spivey Hall in October 2004 as General Manager/Assistant Director, and in September 2006, following a national search, was appointed the successor to founding director, Sherryl L. Nelson. Sam previously served as Vice President of Artistic Operations at Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West, working with outstanding guest artists and faculty including celebrated mezzo-soprano, Marilyn Horne. While living in New York City and California, he provided artistic and management consulting services to a variety of performing arts and service organizations, including Chicago's Music of the Baroque, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the League of American Orchestras. Earlier he managed programming and festivals for the Minnesota Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, and the six professional orchestras of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, based in Sydney.
Born in Rochester, New York, Sam spent six years of his youth in Milan, Italy, where he fell in love with opera attending performances at La Scala. He later studied piano in the Eastman School of Music's Preparatory Department and played the French horn. A 1982/83 Fellow of the League of American Orchestras' Management Fellowship Program, he is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with highest distinction in music, and earned an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, concentrating in non-profit management, marketing, and management policy. In 2004 he chaired the grants panel of the Philadelphia Music Project, a program of The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. He also has served numerous years as a panelist for the state arts councils of Missouri, Maryland, and Georgia; on the Fulton County (GA) Arts Council; as a facilitator for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' Young Performers Career Advancement Program, and as a jury member for the 2016 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition in New York.
On Monday, Sam will be introduced by Rick Tigner, who is Chair of the Spivey Hall Friends Council
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April 17--Sheth Distinguished Lecture
Crisis, Recession, & Recovery: The Decade 2007- 2016
Dennis P. Lockhart, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaOn April 17, the crowning colloquium of the year was held at the Miller-Ward House. Dennis Lockhart, recently retired President and CEO of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, delivered the 2017 Sheth Distinguished Lecture, named in honor of Dr. Jagdish and Mrs. Madhuri Sheth, whose generous gift to the Emeritus College makes this wonderful annual event possible.
Mr. Lockhart spoke to a large gathering about Crisis, Recession, and Recovery: The Decade 2007-2016. This was the time period he was in charge of the Atlanta Federal Reserve, thus giving him a unique perspective on the economic downfall beginning in 2006 and in the subsequent recovery up to today. This period saw 8.5 million jobs lost in this country during the downturn and 15 million new jobs created during the long and slow recovery. This was the deepest recession during the postwar period, and it saw unprecedented government policy decisions made for bank and corporate bailouts. The impact over this decade certainly hit us all, directly affecting the everyday lives of many millions of people in this country.
Mr. Lockhart generally views the movements of the economy as a mixture of four separate subplots.
Subplot 1: The normal cyclic ups and downs of the economy that have always been present. Subplot 2: The policy decisions of the federal government. The fundamental point here is how interest rates are set to either spur investment or slow inflation. Subplot 3: Secular trends: these are persistent trends that seem impervious to monetary policy. This includes such events as weak business investment in research and development; the declining workforce participation due to the retirement of baby boomers; and nothing new on the horizon that would have a major impact on the economy like the development of electricity or the growth of computers and the development of the internet, or the development of cell phones. Subplot 4: Headwinds: which he views as temporary developments that suppress short-term economic development. Events such as rapidly rising oil prices or Brexit fall into this category (although Brexit so far has proven to be much less a problem than expected). Companies tend to delay investments when such headwinds are encountered or at least expected.
We ended with a brisk question and answer period that might have gone on all afternoon had we not had a 1:00 p.m. ending time! An early question tried to get Mr. Lockhart to address his views on the economic policies of the new administration. He deftly pointed out that he had spent the past ten years taking a nonpartisan approach to the economy. He wasn't yet ready to do otherwise.
--Ron Gould
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The Sheths and Dennis Lockhart
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Note: The video of this lecture will be posted on our website within a few weeks. You can find it when available by clicking here. Click here to return to top
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EUEC Distinguished Faculty Award--Steve Nowicki
Steve Nowicki and I came to Emory about the same time, in the late 1960s, and immediately on meeting him I sensed a subtle connection. My intuition turned out to be right: we were born and raised in the same state (and likely in the same state of mind), we attended the same university (he for a Master's degree, I for my B.A.), and, for what it's worth, we were both members in good standing of the Lombardi Irregulars. But mostly our connection was based on what so many others who know Steve have also felt, the warmth of his legendary amiability as a colleague and friend. His career as an active faculty member during over four decades at Emory saw him move from strength to strength. He was a vitally important member of the Department of Psychology throughout his career. He was, for example, named Head of the University Counseling Center, Director of the Psychology Center, and Director of Clinical Psychology Training all in the same annus mirabilis of 1979. Before he retired in 2011, he had directed a total of 63 Ph.D. dissertations and 101 undergraduate honors theses. And most important, perhaps, he had authored (or co-authored) some 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with six books. His list of awards and honors is very long. It includes, from Emory College, both the Emory Williams Teaching Award and the George Cuttino Mentoring Award; and from various professional organizations, being named as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (1989) and as the Researcher of the Year by the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology (1993). He also received the Mentoring Award from the Southeastern Psychological Association. Internationally, Professor Nowicki received two separate Fulbright Research Scholar awards to Germany and was named a Humboldt International Research Scholar there as well, all in the 1970s--high honors, indeed, for someone at the start of his career. Later on, he received Research and Visiting Scholar Awards from the University of Bristol for teaching and collaborative research there. Since his retirement in 2011, there has been no perceptible decrease in his scholarship. In the last five years he has published eleven papers in refereed journals, collaborated on a book with colleague Marshall Duke entitled Will I Ever Fit In? (2012), and, most recently, published his own single-volume summation of his life's work on the concept of "locus of control" entitled Choice or Chance (2016). In addition, in 2012, the first year he was eligible, he received the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowship from the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, and in 2015 a John Templeton Foundation Research Award. He delivered invited lectures at the University of Florence in 2012 and at Bristol in 2014. Finally, despite his ongoing commitment to scholarly research and the demands of his own clinical practice in psychology, he has generously given his time and expertise to the Emeritus College, offering programs designed to aid prospective faculty retirees in navigating the transition to emeritus status.
Perhaps nothing will have been more reassuring to such persons than the model Professor Nowicki himself presents of the resplendently successful emeritus professor who, though now retired, has never seemed to break stride in his ongoing pursuit of the life of the mind. He is a perfect candidate for the Distinguished Emeritus Award of the Emory University Emeritus College.
--John Bugge
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Faculty Activities
Corinne A. Kratz
Emory Director, African Critical Inquiry Program
Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies
On April 25, EUEC Member Cory Kratz will be giving a seminar titled "Redesigning Popular Histories through Exhibits" at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology. She will also be giving a separate seminar for the Anthropology Department while there. More information can be found by clicking here.
Nanette Wenger, MD, MACC, MACP, FAHA
Professor Emerita of Medicine
EUEC Member Nanette Wenger was interviewed on the WABE program "Closer Look" on March 28. She discussed with Rose Scott and Jim Burress how her work in the medical field has changed mindsets. You can listen to the show by clicking here.
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New Members
New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC! Maureen Kelley, PhD, FACNM, FAAN , Professor Emerita of Nursing
Robin E. Rutherford, MD, Professor of Medicine In transition: William B. Size, PhD, Professor of Environmental Science Click here to return to top
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Atlanta March for Science April 22
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March for Science Assembling at Candler Park
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The Atlanta March for Science was organized as a local event in concert with the March for Science in Washington, D.C. and hundreds of other locations around the globe. It had a large organizing team with members both in and out of universities. The Director of the March was Dr. Jasmine Clark, who got her PhD in Emory's Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (and was a TA for me in my human genetics course!). She is currently a lecturer in the Nursing School. There was a lot of involvement in the March by students in the Laney Graduate School who designed Emory T shirts and buttons:  Thus Emory played a substantial role in planning and participation. A large stage was set up in Candler Park; on the stage before the March started, there was music by a local band. The lyrics of the tunes played, however, were not standard fare: There was a song about quorum sensing, another about paleontology, and another about epigenetic modifications in DNA. The music was followed by several talks about the importance of science and supporting science, and all talks stressed the importance of non-partisanship in that support. The March itself started about 1 pm, going from Candler Park down North Avenue, up Moreland to Little 5 Points,and then down McClendon back to Candler Park. I am not an expert in estimating crowd size, but it seemed like there were at least a million people:  I was fairly close to the beginning of the March, but never saw the front. Even though I walked back against the March, I never saw the end, either. I am fairly certain that it stretched at least the length from Candler Park to Little 5 Points and then down Moreland to North, and may have been even longer.
The spirit of the March was incredibly positive. There was determination, but not anger, in the March. The diversity of the marchers included all ethnicities and all ages. The lack of partisanship was remarkable (remarkable, but not entirely absent). There were also a number of chants, such as: What do we want?
Science
When do we want it?After peer review
From my vantage point, the March seemed to be a great success. Scientists and non-scientists alike were demonstrating their support of science in a positive and determined way that also suggested this interest was not a one-time affair. A short video with aerial footage of the March can be seen on YouTube by clicking here. An Emory News article can be read by clicking here. --Gray Crouse Click here to return to top
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Walking the campus with Dianne
Thanks to Dr. Herb Benario, our last walk introduced me to a pleasant little space on campus -- the Rich Memorial Building, which houses the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Department of Theater Studies, and Theater Emory, as well as the Department of Economics. The East Annex of the building houses the Emory Dance Program. It is a small building (relatively small compared to other Emory structures) nestled among trees near the Fishburne parking deck, the Schwartz Center, and Goizueta Business School. If you get a chance to visit that area be sure to walk through the nicely shaded breezeway area of the building. I've provided an additional photo of part of the building with the Woodruff Library in the background.
  The weather is nice, the pollen is . . . well, the pollen is everywhere, but let's stay outside and look at an interesting structure on an outer part of the main campus. Take a look and see if you can figure out where we are.
Where will you find this on the Emory campus? 
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Emory University Emeritus College The Luce Center
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