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September 4, 2018
Lunch Colloquium
NOTE: TUESDAY MEETING
WEBCAST
Lunch Colloquium
NOTE: TUESDAY MEETING
September 17, 2018 Lunch Colloquium Jagdish Sheth
September 17, 2018 WEBCAST Lunch Colloquium Jagdish Sheth Please click here to register
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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
Many of us have been quite busy this summer working on final plans for the AROHE (Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education) Conference that the Emeritus College is hosting here in early October. Planning for the Conference began soon after the last conference in August of 2016. Those of you who have ever helped to organize a national conference know how much work is involved and how many details there are to work out. Most of the Conference will be held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel (ECCH), but we didn't want to hold a conference at Emory and not give the participants any opportunity to see at least a bit of Emory or Atlanta, and it is the parts of the Conference not at ECCH that most need the help of volunteers.
If Conference attendees were to see just a bit of the Emory campus, what should that be? The Woodruff Library is at the heart of campus, both literally and figuratively, and within the library, the Rose Library holds the most distinctive collections as well as providing access to the most stunning views of campus and the Atlanta skyline. However, the Rose Library is not large enough to host a reception by itself and so we are using both the Jones Room in the library and the Rose Library for a reception on Sunday evening, October 7, followed by a banquet in Cox Hall. Those venues are a bit too far from the ECCH to be walkable for many attendees, which means we have to provide shuttles. Thus, we will need to have people helping to load shuttles at ECCH, unload the shuttles near the Woodruff Library, guide people to the Jones Room, and then later lead people to Cox Hall. On Monday evening, we are having small groups go to various local restaurants, and that will require some drivers to go with attendees to the restaurants. A call for volunteers is below; please let us know if you are willing to help (if you haven't yet responded to earlier pleas).
We are not letting the Conference supplant our other activities, and our Lunch Colloquiums start next week, on Tuesday, September 4, with Ann Hartle, one of our newest members. That will be a great way to start the new semester--with civility! You can also read below about the activities of some of our members and see the new members who have joined just in the last few weeks.
We also say thank you to Holly York for serving so well as our Senate and Faculty Council representative for the last three years, and thank you to Marilynne McKay, who will be our new representative. Registration is now open for OLLI fall courses along with an encouragement for members to become new OLLI teachers. A list of EUEC members who have taught in OLLI is on the home page of our website and we would love to put your name there as well!
I am very grateful to John Bugge, Gretchen Schulz, and Ann Hartle for help with editing and proofing.
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Lunch Colloquium--Tuesday, September 4
Why Montaigne Matters: Recovering the Lost Virtue of Civility The Luce Center Room 130 11:30-1:00
Ann Hartle, Professor of Philosophy Emerita
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Volunteers Needed for the AROHE Conference
Below is the call that John Bugge sent out a week ago for volunteers for the AROHE Conference we are sponsoring in October. Thank you to those who have already responded! It appears we are still in need of a few more.
Volunteers Needed for the AROHE Conference
In early October the Ninth Biennial Conference of AROHE - the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education - will take place at Emory. People from colleges and universities across the United States and Canada will come here to share ideas about making academic retirement more challenging, rewarding, and productive.
As a leader in AROHE, your Emeritus College is the main sponsor of the Conference, along with member institutions of GA-HERO, the Georgia Association of Higher Education Retiree Organizations.
Our Planning Group is hoping to recruit some of you to volunteer during the three days of the Conference, Sunday, October 7th through Tuesday, October 9th.
If you'd like to formally register for the Conference so you can attend the sessions you can do so on the site, and at a reduced rate if you let Gray Crouse know in advance of your intentions ( gcrouse@emory.edu).
Here are when and where we need volunteers: (Volunteers do not need to register for the Conference)
1) On Sunday afternoon, from around 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., we could use as many as ten people to lend a hand in offering a festive Reception to be held in the Woodruff Library, and an evening Banquet in the Cox Hall Ballroom. (Wine and beer will be gratis for you at the Reception, but we have to ask those who'd like to attend the Banquet to pay a part of the cost - $25.) We'll also need help directing guests getting on and off shuttle buses that will take them from the hotel to the campus.
2) On Monday and Tuesday, we would like to have perhaps a half-dozen volunteers show up each day at the hotel to help insure that all the arrangements we've made go according to plan. The time commitment here would be approximately 8:30 to 2:30, and a continental breakfast and the hotel's superb buffet lunch will be provided.
3) On Monday evening we'll be running what's called a "Dine Around," in which Conference attendees sign up to eat at one of about a dozen Decatur and Atlanta-area restaurants. Each group of three attendees from out of town will need to be escorted to dinner by a volunteer driver, so we are looking for EUEC members who, though they may not be attending the Conference themselves, would nevertheless enjoy going to dinner with a small group of visitors to Atlanta from such exotic locales as Berkeley, Chicago, and Boston. (You pay for your own dinner.) The restaurants are in Decatur or Poncey-Highland, so the drive should not be bad.
In every case, this would be a good chance to mix and mingle with some very interesting people from across North America, and to share with them your own ideas about academic retirement.
If you are willing to help out in one of these instances, we'd be very grateful if you could send us an email indicating the day you'd be available, addressed to emeriti@emory.edu.
Thanks very much!
John Bugge
Chair of the Planning Group
AROHE 2018
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Marilynne McKay will be our representative to the University Senate and Faculty Council for the next three years.
Thanks to Holly York for her service in the past three years. She represented us extremely well, and I hope you will thank her for her work when you next see her.
Thanks to both Marilynne McKay and Virgil Brown for standing for election. They were both superb candidates. We are fortunate that both will remain on the Executive Committee, so we will continue to profit from their wise leadership.
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Faculty Activities
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New Members
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Registration for OLLI fall courses is now open. You can get more information about OLLI and register for courses at olli.emory.edu. You can see the complete catalog of courses by clicking here. There are two fall sessions: a short session from October 24 - November 20 and a long session from September 5 - October 23. The OLLI courses are given at the Emory Continuing Education location in Executive Park, with convenient free parking. OLLI is in great need of additional teachers, and our membership comprises one of the most talented and experienced pools of candidates. If you would like more information about teaching at OLLI, please contact John Bugge or Dorothy Fletcher, members of our Teaching and Mentoring Committee.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium--Tuesday, September 4
Why Montaigne Matters: Recovering the Lost Virtue of Civility
Ann Hartle, Professor of Philosophy Emerita Over the past few decades, we have all heard repeated calls for greater civility in our public life. At the same time, the demand for greater civility is often exposed as the mask for an attempt to silence one's opponents and to shut down free speech. This situation reveals our confusion over what civility is and what it is not. Understanding civility requires we see it in its origins, its emergence as a new moral character at the beginning of the modern era. This character was first displayed and given expression in the Essays of Michel de Montaigne. And no one is better suited to share what Montaigne had to say than Ann Hartle, who has already published several books on this major thinker and who's working on another one right now. About Ann Hartle Ann is one of our newest members. She received her PhD from the City University of New York in 1976 and came to Emory in 1984. Her research focuses on the nature of philosophy and early modern philosophy. She was a 1982-1983 Fellow with the National Endowment for the Humanities and a 2003-2004 Senior Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She has written extensively about Michel de Montaigne, including 2007's Accidental Philosopher and 2013's Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy. Click here to return to top
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Faculty Activities
Michael Kutner
Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
At the 2018 Joint Statistical Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, (billed as one of the largest statistical events in the world), EUEC Member Mike Kutner was presented with the 2018 American Statistical Association Mentoring Award. The Award is: "For exceptionally guiding and influencing students and colleagues in both statistics and biomedical research; for dual mentoring to guide statisticians to do better collaborative statistics and biomedical scientists to do better collaborative science with statisticians; for continued guidance and direction provided to students well beyond their graduations and far into their careers; for stressing the role of accurate and honest feedback to his mentees; for fostering not just statistics, but statisticians; for enhancing collaborative biostatistics nationwide; and for establishing several awards to recognize the distinguished service to the profession of both current students and graduates." The Executive Director, Dr. Ron Wasserstein, read the following at the ceremony in Vancouver on July 29th: From the beginning of his career until today, Dr. Kutner has placed a very high personal priority on student advising, and his impact goes well beyond guiding students to successful completion of their degree. An early student of Dr. Kutner wrote: "Mike advised me to focus on statistical issues and use the best available methods from the numerical analysis experts as part of my effort to make methods available to the statistical community." The advice to use the best techniques to provide the best answer and to make analytic tools available to others presages current calls for reproducible research by 30-40 years! Fast forward to today, when a recently promoted associate professor observed "On the first day I moved to my office, Mike was the first one to knock on my door and gave me a warm welcome. We then talked happily for a couple of hours. Thus, when my chair was considering assigning me a mentor, I requested to have Mike." These bookends of his career illustrate Dr. Kutner's dedicated and ongoing dedication to the career initiation, career advancement, and career excellence of his mentees. Dr. Kutner was committed to the personal and professional growth of his mentees. Letter writers attested to his wise and honest feedback. One wrote that Dr. Kutner "is one of the most dedicated individuals I have met in terms of supporting both statisticians and biomedical researchers toward their personal success and career development." Dr. Kutner is continually interested in fostering statistics, but more so in fostering statisticians as scientists, and has an ongoing legacy of success in this endeavor. In speaking to Dr. Kutner's influence, his nominator wrote, "I found it telling that it was very difficult to find people in our Department and School who were not mentored by Dr. Kutner!... Dr. Kutner is a caring, dedicated mentor whose understated influence runs broad and deep, growing new generations of talent in the fields of statistics, biostatistics, and beyond." Jon P. Gunnemann Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics 
EUEC Member Jon Gunnemann is being honored with two events at Candler School of Theology on September 27. The events will reflect Gunnemann's research interests with a focus on religious perspectives on economic inequality. The headline event is a lecture by E. J. Dionne, "Can We Do Justice and Love Mercy in Politics? American Religion, Inequality, and Populism." Dionne is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, and a university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. He is a nationally known political commentator and appears weekly on National Public Radio and regularly on MSNBC.
Prior to the lecture, there will be a panel discussion on "Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality." The panel shares the name of a recent Festschrift in honor of Gunnemann:
Both events are free and open to the public, but the Dionne lecture requires prior registration. More information about these events, including a link for registration, can be found by clicking here.
Corinne A. Kratz Emory Director, African Critical Inquiry Program Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies
EUEC Member Cory Kratz's article called "Kinship in Action, Kinship in Flux: Uncertainties and Transformations in Okiek Marriage Arrangement," has just appeared on the Cambridge website for the African Studies Review. The published hard copy will be out later in the year. The article can be read on the African Studies Review website by clicking here (Emory login required). The Heilbrun Fellowship that Cory received helped in the completion of this article and is acknowledged in the text.
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New Members
New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC!
Gay Robins, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita of Art History
Nagueyalti Warren, PhD, Professor Emerita of Pedagogy in African American Studies I came to Emory College in August 1988, from the American University in Cairo, Egypt where I had been on a Fulbright. As Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, I was the first African American hired in the College administration. My duties as dean included study abroad, college diploma ceremony, senior banquet, preregistration, Committee on Academic Standards, Conduct Council, students on academic probation, the PREP Program, and Summer Scholars. Delores Aldridge was the first faculty member that I met, other than those who had interviewed me. I requested and was given an adjunct professorship in what was then the African and African American Studies Program. The first class that I taught was on W.E.B. Du Bois, and I had a total of two students. In 1993, I travelled with two Emory students on the Semester at Sea Program. We spent the spring semester visiting ten countries, and in Cape Town, South Africa, spent several days with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife. My pedagogical belief is that the world is the classroom, and I seized every opportunity to take students into the multifarious laboratory of the world in which we live. As Mellon Mays mentor for Jacinta Saffold and Katherine Matthews, I took them to conferences in Trinidad and Tobago and to Grenada. In the Alice Walker seminar one year we travelled to New York to see The Color Purple musical. In 2005, having served seven years as Assistant Dean and eight as Associate Dean, I joined the department of African American Studies as Senior Lecturer and DUS and remained as DUS until 2015. In 2013, I was promoted from Senior Lecturer to Professor of Pedagogy. I'm a fellow of Cave Canem, a society for African American poets. Poetry comes second only to travel and to teaching, and both feed my creative imagination. I have written poetry since the age of eight. My mother framed the first poem, titled "I Wonder." Now I really wonder where all the time has gone. At the end of August, my retirement from Emory University becomes official. I have just completed a manuscript, "Alice Walker's Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit," forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. I expect to complete another manuscript on black women writers and will be spending time in the Rose Library. I'm thinking that retirement will mean freedom to do academic research and creative writing. I'm happy to join the Emeritus College and expect to enjoy life-long learning. J. Lynn Zimmerman, PhD, Professor Emerita of Biology
Affiliate Members
Eileen L. Cooley, PhD, Professor Emerita of Psychology, Agnes Scott College
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
The old cap and shoes can be found in a display case located in Henry L. Bowden Hall on the quad. Upon entering the building from the quad side, you'll find lots of history which includes the cap and shoes, an old yearbook, and various other items (see photos below).
Here's a bit of information on the building itself:
Dates: Construction in 1951 | Renamed in 1991 Purpose: Academics Originally called simply the History Building, this structure was renamed in 1991 to honor Henry Bowden, the long-serving chair of the Board of Trustees (1957-1979) who had played an instrumental role in the successful effort to desegregate Emory in 1962.
For our next walk, let's take a look at something that might make you more comfortable during these hot, humid summer days.
Where will you find this on the Emory campus?
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Emory University Emeritus College The Luce Center
825 Houston Mill Road NE #206 Atlanta, GA 30329 |
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