According to our bylaws, members of our Executive Committee serve three-year terms.  The good news is that a rotating membership brings new people and ideas to the Executive Committee.  The corresponding bad news is that it means the Executive Committee loses the voices of members who have contributed so much in their years on the Committee.  Fortunately, those members will still be around and will continue to contribute in many other ways!

 

A heartfelt thanks to those members who are rotating off:  Donna Brogan, Pat Douglass, and Nat Gozansky!  Their service on the Committee is greatly appreciated and we much look forward to their continuing involvement with EUEC in other ways.

 

We welcome our new members:

• John Ford, PhD, Senior Vice President and Dean for Campus Life, retired
• Mike Kutner, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
• Jan Pratt, LLB, Professor Emerita of Law 

Thanks to these new Executive Committee members!

 

Our website has been undergoing a transformation in the last few months and if you haven't visited recently, I encourage you to go to  http://www.emory.edu/emeritus/ and check it out.  We have a webmaster, Stacey Jones, who is the one responsible for the many enhancements.  In particular, the videos that we have of our various programs have been organized into one place.  On the home page, if you click on the box on the left:

 



 (Click here to see the videos page.)






you will be taken to a web page with a list of the available videos, organized by topic.  One of the top tabs will lead you to the online version of our newsletters, and other tabs will link you to information about our various programs and activities.

No website is ever "finished" and we are trying to keep ours up to date and reorganize parts that have not received enough attention.  We are so far resisting the urge to create a new fancy website with more pictures and graphics.  Major work of that sort can be very expensive; rather, our focus is on providing content that will be useful to our members and that will give faculty who are considering retirement information to help their transition and encouragement that there can be a full life in retirement.  We value your input in this process.  Please let us know of suggestions you have that will help improve our website!

 

The Teaching and Mentoring Committee has awarded an OLLI Teaching Fellowship to Clark Poling for the new course he taught this past fall and for the contributions he has made to OLLI course offerings over the past few years.

 

Click here to read more below about Clark and the course he taught

 

Click here to read below about activities of members .

We note the passing of EUEC Member John Lyon.

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Gretchen Schulz recommends this play.  Several EUEC members will be attending the January 15 performance with her.

Playing January 7, 2017 to January 29, 2017

            with a $15 General Admission Preview Thursday, January 5

            with a $20 General Admission Preview Friday, January 6

 

This is the story of a man whose insatiable thirst for knowledge leads him to the black arts through which he discovers the sensual world of indulgence, devils, and temptation beyond imagining.* And for this he barters his immortal soul. 

 

This Doctor Faustus will be unlike any play you have ever seen. Running only ninety minutes, it will be played by two actors without intermission. The audience will be seated on stage and around the Tavern. The play itself, done in ritual form, will be enacted in the center of the space. 

 

Doctor Faustus and Mephistopholes will be played by two of Atlanta's very best actors, Chris Kayser and Laura Cole.  Jeff Watkins, Artistic Director of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, is directing this production of Marlowe's remarkable play.

 

For tickets, call the Shakespeare Tavern at 404-874-5299 or go to the Atlanta Shakespeare Company web site. The production will sell out, so early purchase of tickets will be a good idea.  The highest full price tickets for the production are $39.  Students, seniors, educators, and military personnel pay less.  On Sunday evenings, the cheaper tickets are $31.  Should you wish to attend when others from the EUEC are attending, get tickets for Sunday evening, January 15, a 6:30 p.m. show.

 

* You know--what all of us whose insatiable thirst for knowledge leads us to seek a career in the professoriate discover. [Editor Gretchen's comment]

 

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for history. Prior to joining Emory, he was a reporter and editor for more than 35 years, held various reporting and editing positions at The Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and served as a managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He directs the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University (coldcases.emory.edu), for which students examine Georgia's modern civil rights history through the investigation of unsolved and unpunished racially motivated murders.  In November of last year, he was inducted into the Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame.

An OLLI Teaching Fellowship was awarded to Clark V. Poling, Professor Emeritus of Art History, for the new course he taught this past fall and for the contributions he has made to OLLI course offerings over the past few years. Clark taught for thirty-three years at Emory University, serving as chair of the Art History Department, director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Faculty Curator of Works of Art on Paper. He has published books and articles on the Bauhaus and on Surrealism and has organized exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. In retirement he lived for several years in California and while there taught courses at California College of the Arts, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes of the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University, as well as in Stanford's Continuing Studies, and at the University of San Francisco. He has taught summer courses in France for Emory University and frequently lectures for museum audiences.

About Clark's OLLI Course:

In the fall, I taught a course for OLLI on "Surrealism in France," which drew a capacity enrollment and was a very gratifying experience.  The students were enthusiastic and the staff were very supportive.

 

 

 

 

The course began with Surrealism's background in the rebellious Dada movement in World War I and continued through its flowering in 1920s and '30s Paris.   Forming an alliance of poets and artists, the participants advanced a critique of society that promoted the virtues of irrationality and freedom from stylistic, moral, and political constraints.  Early psychiatry and Sigmund Freud's new theories inspired the Surrealists to explore their own dreams and fantasies, producing startling images often visualized through inventive artistic techniques, including new approaches to photography.  In style, their work ranged from free-wheeling abstractions to carefully depicted dream images.  Renouncing traditional artistic media, the Surrealists produced composite sculptures and bizarre "dream" objects, and they also designed exhibition installations that created haunting environments.  The course treated painters including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, and Joan Miró and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti, as well as the major contributions of Pablo Picasso.  Attention was also paid to the participation of women artists in the movement, using its concepts and techniques to explore issues of gender and assert their own identities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I enjoyed the opportunity to re-immerse myself in a subject that I had taught to Emory undergraduates and graduate students, and I plan to teach other courses for OLLI, including one on art in post-WWII Paris this coming spring.

 

--Clark Poling 

 

Congratulations to Clark, and be on the lookout for his course this spring!

 

 

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EUEC Member Clark Poling has just published an article in the journal Master Drawings that is a result of research supported by the Heilbrun Fellowship he was awarded in 2011.  The article is titled "Giacometti and Sartre: On Drawing" and in it he acknowledges the Emeritus College and the fellowship.