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Lunch Colloquium BookFest 2019 Monday, July 22, 2019
WEBCAST ONLY BookFest 2019 Monday, July 22, 2019
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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
The summer has been hot, but so too have our Lunch Colloquiums, and the heat certainly hasn't kept members away! Thanks to Vernon Robbins, if you weren't able to attend Pablo Palomino's talk last week, you can read Vernon's article below about how music has helped to shape a Latin American identity.
What about next week's Lunch Colloquium? That depends on you. We hope to have many of you give short recommendations for books that others of us would like to read. See below for more details, and if you are interested, contact Gretchen Schulz.
Many of our members have either taught or taken OLLI courses, or both. OLLI is moving, effective today. You can read about the new space below, and there are links if you want to know more about OLLI or its new location. It would be great if more of you would participate in teaching OLLI courses and a wonderful way to support both Emory and the surrounding community.
You can also read below about our new members and some of the activities of our members. Please let me know about your activities--it is difficult to find out about them otherwise.
I am very grateful to Gretchen Schulz, Ann Hartle, and Marge Crouse for help with editing and proofing.
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Lunch Colloquium--Monday, July 22
BOOKFEST 2019: Recommendations for Rest-of-Summer Reading The Luce Center Room 130 11:30-1:00
Voracious Readers Anonymous, Assorted Members of the EUEC
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Lunch Colloquium--Tuesday, July 9
The Making of Latin America as a Cultural Region: Identity and Otherness from a Musical Perspective
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Faculty Activities
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New Members
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OLLI is on the 3rd floor of this building at
2635 Century Pkwy NE
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Many of you are familiar with OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute that has been headquartered at Executive Park. Effective today, July 15, OLLI, a part of Emory Continuing Education, will be at the Century Center complex on Clairmont Road, near I85. Information about the new facilities can be read by clicking here.
Katherine Foster, who is Director of Emory Continuing Education, states that "the new space is great and we have lots of surface parking for the students."
For those of you not familiar with OLLI, you can read all about their mission and offerings at their website olli.emory.edu. As the website states:
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Emory is a lifelong learning program for seasoned adults who enjoy learning for fun. At OLLI, the thirst for knowledge never ends, with classes and social programs that nourish the mind, body, and soul.
OLLI has undergone a large expansion in students (those taking classes), and with that large increase, the number of offerings has also increased, and OLLI is even starting to offer special events and travel. The increase in students has also increased the need for teachers, and OLLI is extremely interested in having EUEC members teach. Many of our members have, in fact, taught at OLLI, and the home page of our website lists 27 members who have taught at OLLI in the past few years.
Those who have taught at OLLI find it a very rewarding experience. The students (mainly older adults who can attend class during the weekdays) are very engaged and are not simultaneously using their smartphones to text or scroll through Facebook! Note also that you could teach in areas outside of your professional specialties. As just one example, David Goldsmith, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, has taught courses in photography. The standard course is one hour per week for eight weeks, but there are many other ways to teach as well, from giving just one lecture, to splitting a course with fellow EUEC members. At present, OLLI does not offer any compensation for teaching, but EUEC offers EUEC OLLI Fellowships to those teaching a course for the first time, in order to encourage member participation.
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Lunch Colloquium--Monday, July 22
BOOKFEST 2019: Recommendations for Rest-of-Summer Reading
Voracious Readers Anonymous, Assorted Members of the EUEC
Now that we're well along in the lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer, we thought we'd seek speakers among our members to suggest titles and authors they have enjoyed and think others might enjoy, too, whether relaxing at the beach or in the mountains, in far-flung sites around the world, or in the Adirondack chairs on our porches and patios. We'll be recruiting people willing to offer brief presentations on favorite books (or perhaps book series) via this newsletter and online invitations before and after that. In the meantime, please be considering what you yourself might recommend by way of some light (or maybe not-so-light) reading for the long hot days (and short hot nights) that still remain before the leaves (and the weather) turn.
Here is Gretchen's invitation for participation in the Lunch Colloquium:
Read any good books lately? Of course you have. (As we all know, one of the great pleasures of retirement is lots of time to read.) And might you be willing to recommend one (or more) of those good books to those of us looking for likely additions to our rest-of-the-summer reading lists?
As the promo for the final Lunch Colloquium of the summer (reprinted above) suggests, we are looking for volunteers to describe books they have enjoyed that they think others might enjoy, too. If you've got one to discuss, we'll be happy to allot you five minutes of our Bookfest time. If you've got two or three, we can schedule you for ten minutes. And of course you can choose a book or books of any kind at all.
If you would like to volunteer, please do so in an email to Gretchen Schulz (at gschulz@emory.edu). If you can name the book or books you'll be recommending, please do so. But if you'd like to volunteer without yet specifying titles, that'll be fine. All we do need to know at this point is if you're requesting five or ten minutes of time. And we'll schedule accordingly--or try to. First come, first scheduled, until we run out of time.
Note that we should be able to arrange for presentations by people participating via the webcast, so we invite "voracious readers" who cannot manage physical attendance to volunteer, as well. Contact Gray Crouse (gcrouse@emory.edu) to find out how to participate from a distance.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium--Tuesday, July 9
The Making of Latin America as a Cultural Region: Identity and Otherness from a Musical Perspective Pablo Palomino, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Mellon Faculty Fellow, Oxford College of Emory University
It was great fun last Tuesday, July 9, seeing and hearing Dr. Pablo Palomino present an unfolding story of people and geographical areas emerging into a "Latin American" identity during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. His overall presentation proposed that the phrase and identity of "Latin American" was both given to the people and area and attained by the people and area through creative media in the context of multiple social, cultural, historical, and political forces. Where does the idea of "American" come from? From multiple actors and movements: by the "Pan American" ideology and political program promoted by the United States as early as the 1890s; by diplomats and intellectuals promoting a sentiment of brotherhood among the areas of "central" and "south" America; and by multiple interactive strategies among local groups, nations, and regions including the United States of America and Mexico. Where does the concept of "Latin" come from? First and foremost from Spain and Portugal, who were major empires ruling over large geographical areas south of the United States of America, until independent nations emerged there during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But why were they labelled "Latin"? Through processes of interaction with each other, with the United States, and with "European" nations, languages, and cultural traditions, often with a relation to "romance" languages, like Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. So what about music, which was the primary topic in Pablo's presentation? Of utmost importance, Latin American music is "diverse," a mosaic of highly localized practices and influences related to international "networks" of highly skilled, often superbly well-trained, artists who organized groups, orchestras, and dancing clubs or schools (samba, tango, cha cha cha), using radio broadcasting and other means to attract large crowds and thousands of devotees both inside and outside regions we associate with central and south America. So, did our heads spin with information? Definitely. Were we significantly confused? Sometimes. Were our presuppositions challenged? Probably in one way or another. But most of all we went away with a deep appreciation for the way in which what we call "Latin America" is a vibrant, lively, deeply loved, and highly respected combination of regions, nations, peoples, and artistic traditions with an amazing array of transnational locations, networks, and relationships that have continually made rich contributions to humanity in the past and continue to do so in myriads of ways in the present. -- Vernon K. Robbins
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New Members
New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC!
Affiliate Members
Larry Riddle, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Agnes Scott College
I received my PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1982, then moved to Atlanta to join the Emory mathematics department. I began teaching at Agnes Scott College in 1989 and retired this past June after 30 years at the college. During my time at Agnes Scott I was the recipient of the Vulcan Materials Company Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Joseph Gladden Public Lecture Award. As part of my work with students at Agnes Scott, I began developing a website on biographies of women mathematicians in the mid 1990s. This project has been an on-going activity ever since and now profiles over 150 women, illustrating their lives and many accomplishments in mathematics. Another scholarship activity has been the development of a website about fractal geometry. I have also combined my mathematical interests in fractals with my needle craft hobby by creating cross stitch embroidery pieces to illustrate the beauty and mathematics of fractals. Several of my pieces have been displayed at the Exhibitions of Mathematical Art that are part of the national meetings of the American Mathematical Society each January. A gallery of my mathematical artwork is available at my website larryriddle.agnesscott.org.
I have been involved with the Advanced Placement Calculus program for over 35 years, first as a Reader, then a Table Leader and an Exam Leader. In July 1999, I became the Chief Reader for AP Calculus and served a four-year term. In this position I was responsible for organizing and overseeing the annual week-long AP Calculus Reading during which the free-response section of the exam was graded by over 600 college and high school mathematics teachers at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. I later served a two-year term as the chair of the AP Calculus Development committee that writes the AP exam and develops the curriculum for the AP Calculus program. I continue to do consulting work on AP Calculus for the Educational Testing Services.
My wife, Cheryl Slaughter, is an Emory University alumna and was an administrative assistant for the Emory physics department for many years. We met when Henry Sharp in the math department and Alan Garrison in the physics department organized a joint math-physics hiking excursion to the north Georgia mountains. We still enjoy taking walks around Lullwater Park whenever we can. We also both played with the Emory Early Music Ensemble for many years before it was disbanded by the music department, later to be resurrected as Lauda Musicam of Atlanta for which we now perform (on recorder and harp, respectively).
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Faculty Activities
Professor, Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Executive Vice President for Health Affairs/President, CEO, and Chair, Emory Healthcare Emeritus  Mike Johns was chair of a committee convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with support from the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Cancer Institute to develop a national strategy for cancer control. The resulting 174-page consensus report, Guiding Cancer Control: A Path to Transformation, was released on June 27 of this year and presents the committee's strategic vision and its recommendations defining the key principles, attributes, methods, and tools needed to achieve the goal of implementing an effective national cancer control plan.
A short article on the report in Medscape can be read online by clicking here, or as a document by clicking here. The report itself can be accessed by clicking here. That website leads to links in which the entire report can be either read or downloaded for free, or ordered as a print copy.
Donna Brogan
Professor Emerita of Biostatistics
Donna Brogan taught a two-day continuing education course on May 20-21 of 2019 at CDC for research scientists who conduct statistical analyses of health surveys. The resulting survey data typically need to be analyzed by specialized statistical techniques because of complex sampling plans that are used. In this course Donna showed how to use SUDAAN (a specialized software package for complex survey data) to do the following analyses: (1) fit multinomial or ordinal logistic regression models and (2) detect trends over time in health indicators.
David Eltis Professor Emeritus of History
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Emory historian David Eltis has overseen the database's transition from punch cards to CD-ROM to today's interactive website
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The newly-updated website for "Slave Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database" is currently featured on the University website with a major news article that can be read by clicking here. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University - an early supporter of the Slave Voyages project -calls it "one of the most dramatically significant research projects in the history of African studies, African American studies and the history of world slavery itself." A recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution suggested that the Slave Voyages website could help build the case for reparations and is another indication of the notice being given to the newly redesigned website.
Brenda Bynum Senior Lecturer Emerita, Department of Theater Studies
Brenda Bynum presents...
"Jordan Is So Chilly: An Encounter With Lillian Smith"
July 25, 2019 Decatur Library Auditorium 7:15 p.m. From the Decatur LIbrary: We are pleased to present an encore performance of Jordan Is So Chilly: An Encounter With Lillian Smith, a one-woman show adapted and performed by local actor Brenda Bynum. The text of Jordan Is So Chilly is drawn completely from Lillian Smith's writings and interviews. Much of the material has never been published and is collected at the Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia. Bynum has performed this piece at the Decatur Library, the Decatur Book Festival before the Lillian Smith Book Award ceremony, and throughout the state of Georgia due to the generous support of the Georgia Humanities Council.
Free tickets are required for this event. To obtain tickets, please click this link. Please Note: This event is scheduled after the Decatur Library is closed for the evening. Please enter the building through the Ground Floor, Rear Doors. We will have signs posted to assist you. Late attendees will not be permitted entry once the performance begins.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
The maze we happened upon during our last walk can be found on the main campus located between Alabama Hall and the new Campus Life Center. During the summer, this spot can be relatively quiet; however, during the busy days of the academic year, you might find it a bit challenging for peace and quiet.
The labyrinth walk is not actually a maze, but a circular path with no blind alleys or surprise turns. There is really no wrong or right way to walk a labyrinth -- just one way in and one way out. Participants walk the path that leads to the center circle and once you reach that circle, you retrace your steps back out. While walking the path, you can meditate, pray, or simply think about anything you want. It's actually quite a nice thing to do after a hectic day.
Let's stay outdoors and find a place to sit in the shade. These chairs(?) don't look very comfortable, but might be a nice place to rest for a few moments.
Where will you find this on the Emory campus?
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