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Greetings!
You are receiving this issue of our newsletter as a member or friend of the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC). I hope the newsletter will 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. Please note: Some email programs do not work well with the links in our newsletters. If you try a "Click here" link and it does not work correctly, follow the directions at the very top of this email. You will see a statement "Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to view in your web browser." If you click on that link, the newsletter will open in your browser and should work as intended.
With best wishes, Gray Gray F. Crouse Director, EUEC
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 Message from the Director
Last week, we had a record attendance for Mike King's talk. There were 55 of you crowded into the room. Because there is a limit on how many people we can accommodate in the room, unfortunately there were some people who were not able to come because registration was at capacity. The resulting discussion was really interesting, particularly with so many people in the room who had direct experience and knowledge of Grady's history.
Next week we move from charity hospitals to surrealism. Where else can one experience such a wide range of fascinating topics?
We are extremely fortunate at EUEC to have such wonderful resources. Not only do we have access to great speakers, but we also have opportunities for support of research activities. Below is the announcement for the next competition for the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowships for support of research for emeritus faculty in the Arts and Sciences. Several of the AROHE Board members (see below for information about the AROHE Board retreat here) visited the Luce Center and were very envious of our beautiful location and facilities. I continue to be grateful for the support of our activities from the University and for the contributions that so many of you make to EUEC and Emory, as well as locally, nationally, and internationally.
I am very grateful to John Bugge, Herb Benario, and Gretchen Schulz for help with proofing and editing.
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Lunch Colloquium February 6
Surrealist ThemesThe Luce Center 11:30-1:30 Room 130
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Lunch Colloquium January 23
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New Members
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A summary of the University Faculty Council meeting of November 15, 2016, can be found by clicking here. The meeting included a discussion of potential impairments of academic freedom in the classroom and the relationship between faculty and students under Title IX and Title VII policies. There was also a report by the faculty peer mediation and conflict resolution task force. A summary of the University Senate meeting of November 22, 2016, can be found by clicking here. |
Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium February 6
Surrealist Themes
Clark Poling, Professor Emeritus of Art History In this Lunch Colloquium, Clark Poling will share insights on Surrealism he has recently offered in an OLLI course, insights that have emerged from his many decades of research, presentation, and publication at Emory pre-retirement, where he served as chair of the Art History Department, director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Faculty Curator of Works of Art on Paper, and in California, post-retirement. We're pleased he's back in Atlanta again, ready to tell us how Surrealism arose in Paris in the 1920s and '30s as a critique of the society of its time, promoting 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. In style, their work ranged from free-wheeling abstractions to carefully depicted dream images. The major contributors to the movement included the painters Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, and Joan Miró, and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti, as well as the sometime participant Pablo Picasso. The talk will focus on themes shared by these artists: war and violence, the psychoanalysis of sex, and the creation of personal mythology. About Clark PolingEUEC Member Clark Poling received a BA from Yale and an MA and PhD from Columbia. He spent his academic career at Emory and retired in 2006. In retirement he has taught at the University of San Francisco, the California College of the Arts, at OLLI at the University of California Berkeley, and in Continuing Studies at Stanford. Closer to home, he has taught a number of courses at Emory's OLLI, and received an EUEC OLLI Teaching Fellowship last year. Clark was also awarded a Heilbrun Fellowship in 2011. Click here to return to top
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New Members
New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC! L. Ellen Patrick, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatric Radiology
Alan R. Hinman, MD, MPH, Director, Task Force for Global Health
Larry B. Vogler, MD, Associate Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics Click here to return to top
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Lunch Colloquium January 23
A Spirit of Charity: Restoring the Bond between America and Its Public Hospitals
Mike King, Journalist We had a full audience for the Lunch Colloquium on January 23 to hear retired AJC journalist Mike King discuss his new book, A Spirit of Charity: Restoring the Bond between America and Its Public Hospitals. Interest was keen, as many EUEC members (including me) spent their careers as Emory-affiliated Grady physicians and administrators, experiencing decades-long vagaries in Atlanta's relationship with Grady (this year marking a 125-year anniversary).
King says that the history of public hospitals begins with the commitment that "In America, we don't let people die in the streets." The focus of his book is on five famous public hospitals in the cities of Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, and New Orleans. The physicians in our audience could readily name the hospitals in each city: Grady, (Cook) County, Parkland, Jackson, and Charity. America's oldest public hospitals were founded in 1736--Bellevue in NYC and Charity in New Orleans--the latter sadly abandoned in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. All have benefited from research and teaching affiliations with medical schools.
King is a veteran award-winning journalist who has specialized in coverage of medicine and health care for more than forty years. From 1972 to 1987, he served as a reporter, editor, Washington correspondent, and medical writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal. In 1987 he joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's science and medicine staff covering health disparities and policy issues at the state and national level. In his last four years at the AJC (2010-14) he was a member of the newspaper's editorial board responsible for commentary on medicine and health policy issues. During this time, he wrote a series of "Saving Grady" editorials--46 over a period of 18 months--that outlined the scope of the problem with Georgia's largest public hospital and proposed solutions, prompting an examination of the roles state and local governments should play in addressing the issue of indigent care funding at Grady.
As a reviewer for The New York Times put it, "Mike King's decades of experience as an Atlanta-based journalist covering health care in the South" prepared him well to deal with the subject of his new book, the trials and tribulations (and remarkable achievements) of this country's public hospitals. Though the story of such hospitals (including Atlanta's own Grady Hospital) is "a moving, ridiculously complicated target," King hits that target squarely, rousing "outrage on behalf of [these] continuously threatened [institutions]" that contain "the few square miles in this country where health care is an unquestioned right, not a grudgingly granted privilege."
Kirkus Reviews called the book "A searing and sobering indictment of the public health care system that highlights the inequality of treatment. Carefully documented, journalistically crafted, and artfully told, this account illuminates the myriad struggles of public hospitals to effectively treat the indigent. Mike King bluntly asks: 'Have we reached the point where public officials, particularly those in the South, are frozen in the ice of their own indifference when it comes to the government's responsibility in caring for the poor?'"
There was a lively discussion following King's presentation, notable for an emphasis on areas of excellence at Grady that include trauma services, the burn center, stroke treatment, HIV-AIDS treatment, and newborn intensive care and medical research that has influenced care in hospitals across the US and internationally. We were pleased to hear more about Grady's new hospital board made up of representatives of Atlanta's philanthropic and medical community, including people from Emory and Morehouse, but we fear for an uncertain future for public hospital funding in the new Republican administration.
--Marilynne McKay, MD
After the Lunch Colloquium, Mike had signed copies of his book, The Spirit of Charity, available. He even had a device connected to his cellphone that would accept credit cards for payment. Alas, that modern technology was defeated by the granite walls of the Luce Center. He advises that anyone who would like a copy of his book can order it from Amazon.com or can get it from the local independent bookstore, A Capella Books, in Inman Park. He thinks that A Capella Books has some signed copies there, but if not, anyone interested can call the store in advance and ask for a signed copy. Mike lives close by and will deliver a copy to the store in advance.
Click here to see a video of this Lunch Colloquium
Click here to listen to an interview on "Closer Look with Rose Scott and Jim Burress"
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Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowships
With a stipend of $10,000, the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowships represent a fantastic opportunity for support of research and scholarship for emeritus faculty in the Arts and Sciences. Below is the call for applications from Michael A. Elliott, Interim Dean, Emory College of Arts and Sciences:
It gives me great pleasure to announce the 17th year of competition for the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowship. Named in honor of our colleague Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr., Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology, and funded through an extraordinarily generous gift from his family, this wonderful Fellowship offers an opportunity for heightened engagement in research and scholarship, and plays an important role in supporting a vibrant Emeritus community. The program will support two fellowships in the amount of $10,000 each for a twelve-month term starting September 1st - the normal academic year. In addition, each Fellow will be afforded exclusive use of a faculty carrel in the Woodruff Library. I invite applications from all Arts and Sciences faculty who achieved emeritus status on or before September 1, 2016. Interested faculty are requested to submit both a letter of application that describes in some detail the research project to be undertaken during the term of the fellowship, specifying (if relevant) how the stipend might be budgeted for special research needs; and a curriculum vitae that includes activities undertaken since gaining emeritus status. Submissions will be reviewed by the Committee on the Heilbrun Fellowship, composed of senior faculty in Emory College of Arts and Sciences. The criteria for selection will include: - The relationship of the proposed project to the candidate's previous research.
- The feasibility of completing the project within the term of the Fellowship.
- The pertinence of the research to resources available at Emory.
- The overall value of the research to the applicant's field or discipline.
Fellowship recipients will be asked to agree to the following conditions: - Submission of a written report to the Committee upon completion of the Fellowship.
- Formal acknowledgment of Fellowship support in any published work that results.
- Attendance at receptions and social gatherings sponsored by the Committee.
Applications should be mailed to The Committee on the Heilbrun Fellowship, c/o Susan Lee, Executive Assistant to the Dean, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Mailstop 1580-002-2AB, 400 Candler Library, 550 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322 and be received by April 4, 2017. An announcement of awards should be forthcoming from the Committee by the first of May. You can also click here to see a copy of the call for submissions Click here to return to top
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Faculty Activities
James Larry Taulbee Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science
EUEC Member Larry Taulbee's book Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and War Crimes in Modern History: Blood and Conscience in two volumes (Praeger Security International, and a Kindle Edition) is being published with the hardcover edition available at the end of February. "Written by an expert on international politics and law, Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and War Crimes in Modern History: Blood and Conscience is an easy-to-understand resource that explains why genocides and other atrocities occur, why humanity saw the need to create rules that apply during war, and how culture, rules about war, and the nature of war intersect."
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AROHE is the only national organization for higher education retirement organizations such as EUEC. As announced in Issue 6, EUEC will be hosting the next AROHE biennial conference here in 2018. Although most meetings of the Executive Board are held via teleconference, there is a face-to-face meeting every two years for the newly installed Board. This year, the Board meeting was held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, so the Board members could see the facility where the next conference will be held. All but two of the new Board members were able to attend, and in addition there were several old Board members present, making for a total of 16 members present, including Gray Crouse as a new Board member and John Bugge as an outgoing Board member. Among those attending were members from California, Montana, Minnesota, and Toronto. Gray led a walking tour of campus for those who arrived early, and John invited everyone to his house one evening for a reception and heavy pupus. All of the Board members were very impressed with the location for the next conference and are very excited about the upcoming Conference.
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In Memoriam
EUEC Member Thomas F. Sellers died on January 18, 2017. He was born in Atlanta on April 5, 1927, and received his MD at Emory University in 1950. He taught infectious disease medicine, and later preventive medicine, to medical students at Emory University for over thirty years and was one of the founders of Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. Tom was one of EUEC's founding members.The Anthropology Department only recently learned of the death of their colleague, Professor Emerita Pat Whitten, on December 23, 2016. Carol Worthman of Anthropology wrote: "As a primatologist, Pat's innovative work combined field and lab techniques to identify the impact of ecological factors and social dynamics on reproduction and health. She pioneered the use of endocrine measures in wild primate populations at field sites in Kenya, Madagascar, and South Africa, and her lab gained international recognition for creating novel methods to measure hormones in fecal samples. Her combined theoretical and methodological approaches helped to revolutionize field primatology and made her a widely valued colleague and mentor, not least at Emory. Pat joined the young Emory Anthropology Department in 1989, where her intellect, calm, and foresight were invaluable to building success of the department and its programs. Her quick wit, incisive humor, and ready kindness endeared her to all, and doubtless contributed to her wide impact in collaborative research on sometimes thorny topics such as the roots of infanticide or effects of subordination. Generations of students, and not a few faculty, long will remember her spot-on primate imitations or droll, sparkle-eyed remarks. She is deeply missed by her colleagues and students, yet her legacy as a scientist, colleague, and friend is strong and enduring."Click here to return to top
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Walking the campus with Dianne
As expected, quite a few of you recognized the Lullwater House/President's Home located within Lullwater Preserve. The house is amazing and I hope to one day get a peek inside! I've provided a couple of additional photos to show off the beauty of the building.
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