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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
Holiday Greetings! We had a great end-of-the-year celebration with a double hit--getting to hear Susan Socolow talk about her career and having a terrific rendition of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in addition to cider, cookies, and camaraderie. You can read about it below.
You can also read about our new members and, as always, you will see that our faculty have been busy. Please do let me know about your activities. I want to give a special word of thanks to our three members who volunteered to be judges for the Mary Lin Elementary School Science Fair. Such support of our public schools is really appreciated. In addition, as you can read below, one of the judges had attended Mary Lin over 65 years ago and had not been back since!
There is also an opportunity to volunteer to serve on a Senate Committee. I am also pleased to report that there is movement on the Class and Labor Phase 2 Report on Faculty Concerns. The Executive Summary of the Report has been released and a Steering Committee has been established to work on the issues identified in the report. There is more information on the report below.
Finally, there are two holiday gifts for you below: a suggestion from the Libraries on books you might want to read now that will have movie adaptions showing next year, and a selection of the twelve best 2017 photographs from Emory Photography.
I wish you all a very Happy New Year and look forward to seeing many of you next year here at the Luce Center.
I am very grateful to John Bugge, Herb Benario, and Gretchen Schulz for help with proofing and editing.
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Lunch Colloquium December 4
Life, Luck, Language, and How I Became a Historian
Susan Socolow, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita of Latin American History
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For EUEC Faculty who Published a Book in 2017:
Seeking Faculty Books Published in 2017
On the afternoon of Monday, February 12, 2018, the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, together with the Emory University Bookstore and Emory Libraries and Information Technology, will host the annual Feast of Words, a celebration of Emory faculty authors (or editors) of books published in 2017. At that time, the CFDE also will publish a list of these titles. The Feast of Words celebration is sponsored by the AJC-Decatur Book Festival and will take place in the Joseph W. Jones Room of the Woodruff Library.
If you published a book this year, please complete the online form at this link to be included on this list of honorees. Please submit information about book-length projects only.
Please submit information as soon as possible so that every effort can be made to have your book represented at the event on February 12.
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Faculty Activities
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New Members
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We note the passing of EUEC Member Abdel Ragab.
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Committee on Class and Labor: Phase 2 Faculty Concerns
In November of this year, a letter to the faculty began as follows:
In the spring of 2010, the Provost and the Executive Vice President for Business and Administration signaled Emory University's commitment to engage in a process that looked at distinct labor segments within our Emory community. In January 2013, the Class and Labor 1 Committee released their report and recommendations centered around issues related to staff employed across the university. In October 2013, then Provost Claire E. Sterk charged the Class and Labor Faculty Committee (Class and Labor Phase 2) on behalf of the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Business and Administration. This committee has completed its charge in the development of recommendations.
Nadine Kaslow and I chaired that Committee and we are very pleased that Provost McBride and Executive Vice President for Business and Administration Chris Augostini have now made the Executive Summary of the report available to the community and have set up a steering committee to carry the work of the Committee forward. The Executive Summary and other information may be read by clicking here. Note that an Emory NetID is required to view the report.
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Call for University Senate Committee Applications
A call has been issued for applications to serve on a committee of the University Senate. Serving on a Senate Committee is a way to give back to the University and contribute from your wealth of University experience and also meet faculty, staff, and students from across the University. Clicking on the name of a committee will lead you to a web page describing the committee and its function.
Call for University Senate Committee Applications for 2018-2019
The Emory University Senate ( http://senate.emory.edu/) invites interested faculty, staff, or students to apply for one of the following committees for the 2018-2019 academic year: Advisory Council on Community and Diversity Athletics and Recreation Campus Development Campus Life Environment Fringe Benefits Governance Honorary Degrees Library Policy Open Expression Prevention of Sexual Violence Transportation and Parking If you wish to serve on one of these committees during the 2018-2019 academic year, please send your CV and a brief statement of interest to Senate Assistant Emrah Simsek emrah.simsek@emory.edu by Monday, January 15, 2018. If you now serve on one of these committees, you do not need to re-apply. Many thanks to all who currently serve or have served on an Emory Senate committee. We are grateful for your service, and we hope more members of the Emory community will become involved in the work of the University Senate. Henry Bayerle
Associate Professor of Classics, Oxford College
President, Emory University Senate
Chair, Emory University Faculty Council
hbayerl@emory.edu
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From the University Libraries:
As the holiday season begins, you might find yourself with some downtime to turn to leisure reading. With that in mind, here are some 2018 books soon to appear as film adaptations ; read them so you can compare when the film comes out. Click here to read the Library suggestions.
You will note that the above Library article references the Emory Overdrive Collection that makes various ebooks and audio books available to those with online Library access.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium December 4
Life, Luck, Language, and How I Became a Historian Susan Socolow, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita of Latin American History
In her December 4 talk for the EUEC Lunch Colloquium, Susan Socolow explained that it was no "deep theoretical perspective" that attracted her to history. Instead it was "my fascination with language, people, and the stories of their lives. I have always been curious about people's lives, and perhaps because of that, I have had an interesting life myself." On that last point no one in the audience could have doubted her.
Susan declared that "I became a Latin American historian because of several strokes of luck. The first is that I failed French." It was third-year French during her freshman year at Barnard College. The College then required two foreign languages, so she was obliged to settle on a different main choice. She decided to try Spanish "because everyone told me it was 'easy'." It wasn't, but the summer after her junior year she made major progress with the language at the National University of Mexico. More important, she became fascinated with the people who spoke it. Returning to Barnard for her senior year she changed her major from history to Latin American Studies.
Following college (BA, 1962) a coin flip pointed Susan toward graduate school rather than law school. Her application to Columbia's MA program in political science was rejected. "Imagine my surprise when I received an acceptance from the History MA program." She made many Latin American friends among fellow students, some of whom arranged for her to stay with their families on visits to Mexico and Central America. In 1964 she received a joint master's degree in history and Latin American Studies. Since her major professor thought women in Susan's position should aspire no higher than teaching high school or junior college, she decided to aspire elsewhere and applied to the Foreign Service.
After her Foreign Service training Susan was told that her first posting would be in Bogotá, "where I had already spent a freezing 'summer'" (working at a Sears Roebuck store!). That experience prompted her to spend most of her savings on warm clothing, but at the last minute "my posting was changed to subtropical Asunción, Paraguay." There she spent "a wonderful year," both in her work and meeting all manner of Paraguayans. Her reposting "turned out to be another stroke of luck," and the best was to come. Just before leaving Asunción for a new assignment she met fellow New Yorker Dan Socolow at a dentist's office. He proposed within three hours, they were married a few days later, and have now stayed married for fifty-two years. There was a hitch. Foreign Service policy "made it mandatory for women, not men, to resign their posts if they married." Not informed of this when she joined the Service, she now had to leave it.
Dan worked for the Ford Foundation, which funded various Latin American projects. He was soon reposted to Buenos Aires, where the couple spent most of the next few years. There Susan perfected her rioplatense Spanish, studied Portuguese and French, and worked as an unpaid researcher on "a project to measure, year by year, political, social and economic change in nineteenth-century Latin America."
When Dan decided to pursue a PhD in political science, Susan decided to do one herself in history. They moved to Chicago, where Dan became a student at the University of Chicago. Susan became "a long-distance student" at Columbia, while holding a full-time job teaching Spanish at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. Before they left Buenos Aires the Ford Foundation had promised Dan to cover travel expenses necessary for his dissertation research on some acceptable topic. Learning that this arrangement would take Dan to Santiago, Chile, Susan drafted a dissertation prospectus to study the colonial merchants of Santiago. The day before she was to defend it the Foundation called to announce that they would not be going to Santiago but back to Buenos Aires. Pressed for time, Susan used White Out to change "Santiago" to "Buenos Aires" and "Chile" to "Argentina." It worked. The prospectus was approved and the couple returned to Buenos Aires. "Thus, I became an Argentine historian." Her study of the merchants of Colonial Buenos Aires became her dissertation and, later, her first book.
Now the mother of two small sons, Susan received her doctoral degree in 1973, but the job market for history PhDs had just imploded. It took her five years to land a tenure-track job. During that difficult time she did part-time teaching and - luckily - took an intensive course in quantitative methods for historians at the Newberry Library. This turned out to be crucial in the competition for Emory's job. Appointed an assistant professor, she taught Latin American history and quantitative methods at Emory until 1983.
That year Dan became President of the American University of Paris. Susan was granted a leave of absence and moved with him to Paris. There she became visiting professor at the École de Hautes Études, teaching Latin American history (in French!). During her five years in France Susan published her first two books with Cambridge University Press. The third, also with Cambridge, was about to appear as The Woman of Colonial Latin America. It is her most influential work, and has been published in Spanish and Portuguese editions, and re-published in an expanded and updated second edition in 2015. Having left Atlanta in 1983 still an assistant professor, shortly after she returned she was promoted to full professor with an endowed chair. Her numerous other honors include four Fulbright Fellowships and membership in Argentina's National Academy of History, the only North American woman ever so honored.
As her reputation rose, Susan was able to persuade the History Department to hire a second Latin Americanist and establish a graduate program focused on colonial Latin America. She proudly related that "I was able to attract an extraordinary group of students, many of them from the Southern Cone [Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil]." Many of these students "are now cherished colleagues and friends teaching at many of the best universities in the United States and Latin America." Some of them are now working on a Festschrift in her honor.
--John Juricek
During the Holiday Party part of the program, we were treated to a dramatic reading of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas. Making that reading a very special time were the performers: our own Brenda Bynum and John Bugge:
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New Members
New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC!
John E. McGowan, Jr., MD, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology
I came to Emory in 1973 to help formalize the Infection Control Program at Grady Hospital, along with working as an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases physician at Grady. I had worked in these areas at Harvard/Boston City Hospital, where I stayed after training, after serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at CDC. I worked at Grady in teaching/research/service for 25 years, through 1998, moving to the new School of Public Health when it needed faculty. I began a Case Study course in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, a course in Hospital (later Healthcare) Epidemiology, and others over the years in the classroom and on the internet. My main research interests are the relationship between antibacterial resistance and antibiotic use, and antibiotic stewardship (proper use for the current patient and for patients to come). Details are at https://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/profile/#!JMCGOWA
I enjoy being a "bridge builder" between people, programs, and schools, as exemplified by directing the MDMPH dual degree program, co-directing the multi-school Masters of Science in Clinical Research program, and helping establish multi-school student opportunities in the early years of the Emory Global Health Institute. I look forward to the broad range of interests at the College.
My wife, Linda Kay McGowan, is retired from CDC and volunteers for several non-profits, and our daughter, Angie, is a public health lawyer working at HHS on the national plan for Healthy People 2030.
In Transition James M. Hughes, MD, Professor of Medicine and Public Health Bradd Shore, PhD, Goodrich C. White Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology |
Faculty Activities
Ronald Schuchard
Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Emeritus
EUEC Member Ronald Schuchard gave the annual T. S. Eliot Lecture for the T. S. Eliot Society of the U.K. at Newnham College, Cambridge University, on 27 November: "The Man and Woman Who Suffer in The Waste Land." His inaugural Charter Lecture for the University of London, "T. S. Eliot in the Wartime Classroom 1916-1919," has been published by the University's International Programmes division in a limited edition. Volume 5 (1934-1939) and volume 6 (1940-1946) of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition have been published online on Project Muse of the Johns Hopkins University Press and are now available on discoverE.
William Casarella
Professor Emeritus of Radiology
Donald C. Davis
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Bhagirath Majmudar
Professor Emeritus of Pathology
EUEC Members Bhagirath Majmudar, Bill Casarella, and Donald Davis, above, served as judges at the Mary Lin Elementary School Science Fair on December 15. Mary Lin is an Atlanta Public School in Candler Park and fourth and fifth graders participated in the Fair.
Judge Davis: It was a well-organized event. There were 120 projects and about 30 judges! It was particularly special for me as I attended Mary Lin over 65 years ago and had not been back. I got a tour of the school and a Mary Lin shirt which I plan to wear to a family Christmas event on Saturday!
Judge Casarella: It was a pleasure to participate. The kids and the school were great. Mary Lin appears to be an excellent school. Looking forward to next year.
James W. Flannery
Director, W.B. Yeats Foundation
Winship Professor Emeritus of the Arts and Humanities
EUEC Member Jim Flannery writes:
I think EUEC Members will be interested in the Emmy Award-winning Southern Celtic Christmas Concert, which this Christmas will be broadcast for the fifth year in a row on PBS stations across the country. Coverage of the program ranges from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle on the West Coast to New York, Boston, Philadelphia and all points in between from Washington on down to Austin and New Orleans. The responses from viewers have been so positive that American Public Television, the distributor of the program to PBS, has agreed to carry it for another two years through December 2019.
Here in Georgia, GPB will feature the program as a Holiday Special for the seventh year in a row, with the broadcast scheduled on Christmas Eve at 7:00 pm. The program has become one of the most popular of all their Holiday offerings - an "evergreen classic" that many families have made an integral part of their celebration of the Christmas Season.
As you may be aware, the SCCC features a number of talented Emory faculty members and students along with some of the top professional performers of traditional Celtic and Southern music, including three Grammy Award-winners. The program was filmed at the Schwartz Center, which has never looked more beautiful, thanks to a brilliant design by Sarah Ward of the Department of Theater Studies. Of special interest is a rare television interview with Seamus Heaney, whose archives are among the crown jewels of MARBL. All of these strong Emory connections are reflected throughout the SCCC, as evident from the ad that will appear in the upcoming issue of Emory Magazine. The ad concerns the availability of a DVD of the program at a reduced rate for members of the extended Emory family (faculty members and students, the Emeritus College and alumni).
I would be grateful to you if you could bring the program, especially the special offer on the DVD as well as the GPB broadcast, to the attention of the Emeritus College.
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In Memoriam
EUEC Member Abdel Ragab died on December 3, 2017. He came to Atlanta in 1975 as the first Pediatric Oncologist at Emory University Children's Hospital, Egleston, where he continued his research and served as the Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology until his retirement in 1997. Abdel was the founder of CURE Childhood Cancer, a nonprofit organization that raises money for childhood cancer research; he remained active until his passing. His complete obituary can be read by clicking here.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
Our last photo is an original mobile by our own Al Padwa. It hangs just inside the entryway near the HB Coffee Lab in the new section of the Atwood Chemistry Building. The mobile is one of many Padwa creations located throughout the campus. This one is titled "Aerial Ceiling Dweller" and was created in 2015. I've included two additional photos below to give you a better idea of where this particular piece can be found. Dr. Padwa's art has also been featured in a couple of our Emeritus Art Shows at the Schwartz Center. You can see one of those pieces below bottom right:
Our next photo is a creation by another Emeritus member who has definitely left his or her mark in one building in particular. See if you can figure out who the artist is and where the creation is located.
Where will you find this on the Emory campus?
And lastly, a photo from our recent snow to assist me in wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday!!!
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