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October 7, 2020
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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Once again in this newsletter, we have information on a diverse and fascinating array of talks, given in the past two weeks and being presented in the next two weeks. It took a lot of work by a lot of people to bring them to us and tell us about them, but the outcome has surely been worth it!
 
We all know how essential clean water is, although even in the US its value is sometimes not appreciated as it should be until we see the consequences of lack of clean water. In the US, the value of mental health doesn't seem to be uniformly recognized, as observed in mental health provisions or lack thereof in healthcare plans, and the situation is much worse in many less developed countries. Carol Worthman presented not only the importance of mental health but also showed how reframing the narrative of mental health could perhaps spur greater attention to the issue. Thanks to Jan Pratt, you can read about Carol's talk below and thanks to Don O'Shea and Stacey Jones, our web person, you can see her talk on our videos page.
 
Jeff Rosensweig's talk was particularly timely as we sit in the middle of a pandemic wondering what is going to happen to the economy (and our retirement portfolios!). It is of course interesting to see what effects the pandemic is having and might have on various world economies, but also personally relevant: If we knew what would happen we might be able to alter our investment strategies. Unfortunately, uncertainty makes the decisions difficult. Thanks to Jim Keller, you can read about Jeff's talk below, and you can also see the recording of his talk on our website.
 
Next week we will have a talk we have been waiting a long time to hear: Robyn Fivush and Marshall Duke will have a conversation about family storytelling, and we are invited to listen in--and participate! The following week we will have another "class" taught by Gretchen Schulz on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. Those on our permanent lunch colloquium reservation list and those who register will be sent a copy of the story to read in so they can do their homework.
             
I am very grateful to Gretchen Schulz, Ann Hartle, and Marge Crouse for help with editing and proofing.  

 LCOct12topLunch Colloquium--Monday, October 12, 2020
 
 

"A Conversation about Family Storytelling"
 
Location:  Zoom Meeting  
11:30 am - 1:00 pm 

 Robyn Fivush, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and  
Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts  
Marshall Duke, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology



 LCOct19topLunch Colloquium--Monday October 19, 2020

 
 
"Déjà vu all over again:  Let's read another story together"
 
Location:  Zoom Meeting  
11:30 am - 1:00 pm 

 Gretchen Schulz 
Professor of English Emerita, Oxford College
 


LCSep21TopLunch Colloquium Report--Monday, September 21, 2020




"Is There a Mental Health Equivalent to Clean Water?" 
 
 Carol Worthman 
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology Emerita
 
 

 LCSept30topLunch Colloquium Report--Wednesday, September 30, 2020

 
 
"The Global and US Economic Outlook at a  
Time of Massive Uncertainty"  
 
 Jeff Rosensweig 
Professor of International Business and Finance, Director, John E. Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government, Goizueta Business School
 

 
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 LCOct12bottomLunch Colloquium--Monday, October 12, 2020
 
 
 
"A Conversation about Family Storytelling"
 
Location:  Zoom Meeting  
11:30 am - 1:00 pm 

 Robyn Fivush, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and  
Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts  
Marshall Duke, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology 
 
Stories are fundamentally the way that humans understand their world and themselves. In today's Colloquium, Professors Fivush and Duke will discuss the research they've done over the past two decades that has documented the critical importance of family storytelling across the generations as a way for individuals, especially young adults, to form a sense of identity and bolster their psychological well-being. Several longitudinal research projects conducted in Emory's Family Narratives Lab and Emory's Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life have helped to demonstrate that, especially when challenging events occur (events like a pandemic, perhaps), families that are able to tell stories of perseverance and resilience provide their members with a sense of individual meaning and purpose that can help them meet the challenge--and survive--and even thrive. Duke and Fivush have published many papers on this topic, both together and individually, including Fivush's 2019 book, Family Narratives and the Development of an Autobiographical Self (Routledge). 
 
About Robyn Fivush:   

Dr. Robyn Fivush, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology, received her PhD from the Graduate Center of The City University of New York in 1983 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Human Information Processing, University of California at San Diego. She joined the Emory faculty in 1984 where she is also associated faculty with the Department of Women's Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. She currently directs the Family Narratives Lab as well as the Institute for the Liberal Arts.  
 
Dr. Fivush's research focuses on early memory with an emphasis on the social construction of autobiographical memory and the relations among memory, narrative, identity, trauma, and coping. She has published over 150 books, book chapters, and articles including her most recent book, Family Narratives and the Development of an Autobiographical Self: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory.
 
About Marshall Duke: 
 
Dr. Marshall Duke, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology, holds a PhD in clinical psychology from Indiana University. Following two years of service as a psychologist in the United States Army, he joined the Emory faculty in 1970.  For the past decade he has been a member of the core faculty of Emory University's Center for Ethics and Emory's Center for the Study of Myth and Ritual in American Life. He is also affiliated faculty in the university's Psychoanalytic Studies Program. Dr. Duke has held positions as a visiting professor at University College, London, and Tel Aviv University, Israel, as well as a visiting research associate at Harvard University, Exeter University, Exeter, England, and University College, London.
 
As Editor in Chief of the Journal of Family Life and author of more than 100 research articles and nine books, he has focused on social relationship deficits in children and adults, locus of control, and the importance of family stories and rituals in the nurturing of resilience in children. His work has been written about in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Parents Magazine, and Time Magazine.
 
Dr. Duke is the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award, Emory's most prestigious award recognizing exemplary service to the university. He is also a two-time recipient of the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching award in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching. Our own Dr. Duke also travels in the company of celebrities, chief among them Oprah Winfrey on whose show he appeared.

 
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 LCOct19bottomLunch Colloquium--Monday October 19, 2020

 
 
"Déjà vu all over again:  Let's read another story together"
 
Location:  Zoom Meeting  
11:30 am - 1:00 pm 

 Gretchen Schulz 
Professor of English Emerita, Oxford College
   
When our Lunch Colloquiums switched to Zoom last April, one of our first sessions let us experiment with the "remote learning" so many of our colleagues are engaged in now, as Gretchen Schulz offered us a "class" devoted to discussion of James Joyce's short story "Araby." So good a time was had by all that we soon scheduled other "classes" requiring some "homework" to prepare those "attending" for the lively exchanges that ensued. Vernon Robbins led us through analysis of "The Infancy Gospel of James" and Holly York led us through analysis of some poetry by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Now Gretchen returns (she's baaaaaack) to ask all would-be-students-again to read another short story by another giant of the genre, this time, one who's with us still. Joyce Carol Oates may have published 58 novels and hundreds of short stories (and plays and poetry and essays), but, as she has said herself, she is still best known for one of the first short stories she ever published, "Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?" (1966)  Let's do our "homework" by reading the copy of the story we'll make available-and then gather to consider why this might be so. 
 
About Gretchen Schulz:
 
Gretchen Schulz earned a BA in English from Wellesley College and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). She taught at Agnes Scott College and Georgia Institute of Technology before coming to Oxford College in 1979-1980. In 2000, she earned another MA. after four summers of study at the Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts at St. John's College in Santa Fe.
 
Renaissance drama is her area of expertise, and she has studied Shakespeare at Harvard University (as one of 15 chosen for a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar), at the Folger Institute (as one of 16 chosen for a Mellon-funded seminar on "Shakespeare in an Age of Visual Culture"), and at the Blackfriars Theater in Staunton, Virginia, and the Globe Theatre in London (as one of 24 chosen for a National Endowment for the Humanities institute on "Shakespeare's Playhouses, Inside and Out"). She served as a long-time Board member (and sometime Chair of the Board) of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, which she still serves as Resident Scholar. Her most recent publication in this area is an edition of Othello that she did for the New Kittredge Shakespeare series by Focus Publishing.
 
In the last 21 years, both before and after her retirement in 2011, Dr. Schulz has also devoted much time to advancing interdisciplinary studies on the Oxford and Emory campuses, on other campuses throughout the country, and beyond. After years of presenting at the annual conferences of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, she co-chaired the conference Oxford and Emory hosted in Atlanta in 2006; she has served on the Board of the Association since 2008, and is currently in her ninth year of service as co-editor of the journal Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies.
 
Finally, Dr. Schulz has been making the most of the time her retirement has given her to serve the Emory University Emeritus College (for which she helps to schedule speakers for the Lunch Colloquiums). She much enjoys thus helping to make the pleasures of intellectual camaraderie available to all. As she has put it in a video about the EUEC that is archived on our website, the Emeritus College programming--in all its increasing variety and vitality--makes it possible for all its members to "stay in school forever." And she adds, "That's my idea of heaven, really."
 
 

LCSep24BotLunch Colloquium Report--Monday, September 21, 2020
 


"Is There a Mental Health Equivalent to Clean Water?" 
 
 
 Carol Worthman 
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology Emerita
 
Carol M. Worthman, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology Emerita, spoke to the Emeritus College Colloquium on September 21, 2020, on a topic, intriguingly titled "Is there a Mental Health Equivalent to Clean Water?" To explain, she framed the discussion in terms of water and public health. Clean water sustains life and benefits everyone in preventing disease; hence, it is considered essential and thus a human right, and providers have the moral obligation to see that everyone has access to it at affordable rates for use. Although, even in this country, we have people without access to clean water, particularly native peoples on reservations in the southwest, there is general agreement on its importance. But why draw the comparison with mental health?
 
Professor Worthman pointed out the tremendous gains in physical health over the last 150 years that have delivered dramatic improvements in survival and life expectancy.   These gains are tied to sanitation (including access to clean water) coupled with vaccines, prenatal care, better nutrition, and pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics. What has received less attention is mental health. Success of existing public health approaches has left a residue of chronic health challenges, in particular mental health problems, related more to living conditions and psychosocial and cultural factors influencing the quality of life than to the sheer quantity of years of life.
 
The cause of mental illness in an individual is often difficult to identify and difficult to treat. The Cartesian mind-body dualism separates mental and physical health, and the associated cultural model is of the body as a machine that can be fixed as a computer might be fixed. (The body is the hardware, and the psyche is the software.) Moreover, within an individualistic society such as the USA, mental health is thought to lie within the individual. Your mind - your problem. Another huge impediment to treatment in this area is stigma - mental illness involves cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impairments that the person "should" but cannot control. Professor Worthman argues that if medical science has come to better understand the intestinal microbiome and the role of bacteria in physical health and therefore come to rethink many of its practices including the use of antibiotics and disinfectants, it is likewise time for medical science to reorient its approach to mental health. She argues that this time of the COVID pandemic is exactly the right time for such rethinking.
 
The current pandemic has exposed the fault lines across the board in the economy and the educational system as well as in public health. For example, Professor Worthman cites the glaring disparities in death rates between African American and Latino and White Americans. African Americans are three times more likely to die from the virus than whites.   On the other hand, over the past five years researchers have noticed a disturbing increase in mortality amongst middle-aged white men in affluent societies. This trend is fueled by pain - by mental health problems, often tied to substance abuse, particularly that of opiates, and often resulting in suicide. Professor Worthman argues that mental health is embedded in its social context and that these findings along with the data from COVID-related research require a serious look at the structural problems in our society that impair an individual from realizing a good quality of life. Mental health issues lead patients to present with unexplained physical symptoms, to experience non-communicable diseases such as depression, and to engage in behaviors that increase the spread of communicable diseases such as TB and AIDS. Injury and violence lead people to suffer PTSD. COVID-related and longer standing and untreated mental health issues have been particularly devastating for healthcare workers who have suffered emotional injury as they are held responsible for meeting professional codes that they are unable to meet, which leads, in turn, to burn out, even suicide, or to leaving the profession.
 
In sum, the increased provision of a social good such as clean water has improved public health, physical health, and saved countless lives, but there has been no such improvement in addressing mental health. Provision of clean water is easy compared to the change in cultural norms that will be required to accomplish that. Professor Worthman admits the work will be hard. Issues such as inequity in wealth distribution, early childhood development, healthcare coverage, and quality education for all are challenging to address. Perhaps even more challenging is what she called inequities in resilience.   Resilience requires a sense of meaning, belonging, purpose, security and yes, health. She gave the example of a study done in Nepal on child soldiers. All were exposed to trauma, but the impact was not the same on all in the group; some nevertheless developed the power of resilience, which she defined as a self-perceived ability to make decisions and find a purpose in life.
 
So Professor Worthman says the virus behind this pandemic may be new, but there is a background of preexisting conditions intensifying its effects, not only in personal health but also in societies and the environment. She is challenging the academy to take the lead in reframing the approach to public health and developing the different strategies that are required to do that, reexamining assumptions and asking critical questions in an effort to achieve the ultimate goal of "no health without mental health," which is, as she says, simply "health."
 
--Jan Pratt


 LCSept30bottomLunch Colloquium Report--Wednesday, September 30, 2020

 
"The Global and US Economic Outlook at a  
Time of Massive Uncertainty"  
 
 Jeff Rosensweig 
Professor of International Business and Finance, Director, John E. Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government, Goizueta Business School
 
The Emeritus College Colloquium on September 30 was given by Dr. Jeff Rosensweig and entitled "The Global and US Economic Outlook at a Time of Massive Uncertainty." Dr. Rosensweig is a Professor of International Business and Finance and Director of the John E. Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government in the Goizueta Business School.
 
Dr. Rosensweig set the stage with a map of the world highlighting those areas with the largest density of population: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and China. He then purposefully transitioned into a conversation on the Coronavirus and the global areas hardest hit, namely the US, India, and Brazil. The number of cases in the world now stands at close to 34 million, and the number of deaths just recently exceeded 1 million. The United States currently has over 7 million cases recorded with deaths of over 200,000, a death rate just under 3% of those infected. It goes without saying that all this is having a profound effect on the global and US economy.
 
If one examines the graph of new cases in the US over time, it appears that we have had two waves of infection, with a peak in April and another in July. But a similar graph for the world cases demonstrates that the number of cases continues to rise over the same time, although a plateau may be occurring. The worry about another rise in the US and the possibility of a plateau and another rise in the world's cases again add to uncertainty.
 
In the presidential debate the evening before the presentation, President Trump mentioned a V-shaped economic recovery curve, whereas former Vice President Biden was alluding to a K-shaped curve. Dr. Rosensweig then defined and illustrated what a V-shaped recovery looks like (see diagram below) when one plots retail sales and/or personal consumption expenditures vs the time we have been in the pandemic (roughly March 1 to the present). The V-shaped curve initially dropped (when the retail sales fell 82%) followed by a sharp rise back to a normal index.




A W-shaped curve, which could still occur, would show a drop, a rise, a drop, and then another rise. A K-shaped curve occurs when "growth continues but is uneven, split between sectors and income groups." The K-shaped curve was used by Biden to show that the wealthy get wealthier (the arm of the K), and the poor and lower middle class become poorer (the leg of the K). But why did we see this V-shaped curve when the historical drivers of retail sales were locked down? Retail sales are constituted of store sales and ecommerce. Store sales obviously were hit hard, but ecommerce took up the slack and thrived. Personal consumption expenditures like those for services, theater, and sporting events have rebounded some but not to the same degree. The stock market sectors that soared included information technology, consumer discretionary spending, and communication services. We lost 22 million jobs within a 160 million workforce. We have now rebounded, but remain with a job loss of 11 million.
In the next section of his talk Dr. Rosensweig addressed where the global economy is going. (See diagram below.) During this time of the virus every major economy fell except that of China, which faced the pandemic early, gained control of it, and re-opened early. The US economy is predicted to decline 5-6% in 2020. Our usual growth is 2-3%. Interesting are the key economies that are predicted to have big rebounds in 2021: India (6.5%), Indonesia (4.5%), and China (just over 7%). And these rebounds will be sustained in 2022 and 2023. Part of this robust recovery is related to the steep loss in 2020 and a bounceback phenomenon. The UK (7%) and the US (4%) are predicted to have slower growth in 2021 and beyond.   Notice that many of the leaders in predicted recovery are the same as those noted above with large populations. Maybe we should look to these as the new emerging markets.


As regards the US, why has the stock market (S&P 500) done so well during this time in our economy? A major component is the Federal Reserve's willingness to print money. Some of its strength also is undoubtedly related to the Cares Act (Coronavirus Relief Fund) and the sectors mentioned above supporting the market.
Dr. Rosensweig introduced the next section of his talk by addressing issues of banks, monetary policy, and the Federal Reserve with a slide titled "Q infinity." (See diagram below.) The Q refers to the quantitative easing (QE) factor. Wikipedia defines QE as "a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys government bonds or other financial assets in order to inject money into the economy to expand economic activity." QE 1 occurred with the financial crisis in 2008, QE 2 in 2010, QE 3 in 2013, and QE 4 in 2020. Dr. Rosensweig suggested that this crisis should be termed Q Infinity rather than QE 4 as the Feds' role under Jerome Powell is placing no limits on helping this economy recover. Consider that our deficit in the recent past was at 1.4 T and will now be 3.4 T. This is related to the Feds injecting 4 T into the system. As the diagram shows, the Feds' assets have topped 7 trillion dollars.


Dr. Rosensweig gave the impression that we are in the midst of a great experiment with a new economic model, namely Modern Monetary Theory. This is a theory that Bernie Sanders has espoused and the Feds seem to be implementing, namely, government willing to run a deficit and print money. One worry is that this will lead to inflation. The inflation rate in the recent past has varied from 0.7% to 3%. In 2019 it was 2.3%, and in 2020 it is projected to be 1.3%. The cost of this strategy is unclear but being closely watched. Hopefully the inflation rate will not increase.
 

To summarize, many questions remain: 1) How many waves or peaks in cases of the virus as well as deaths from it will occur? 2) What will be the shape of the recovery curve? 3) Where will our new emerging markets appear? 4) Will the Feds' role be enough? 5) Will the Modern Monetary Theory prevail and inflation rates stay low? 5) How much will the political scene shape all of this?
 
Dr. Rosensweig finally turned to some practical advice for retirees:
 
  1. A rule of thumb: To determine how much of your portfolio should be in equities subtract your age from 100. For example, if you are age 75, then your share of equities should be about 25%.
  2. Be cautious about buying government and corporate bonds, especially when interest rates are low and especially when considering buying long term bonds since you risk capital loss. Since bonds are fixed income, and inflation occurs over the time of the bond, you may find that your buying power has been woefully reduced.
  3. You might look into International Bonds since in some countries the percent yield may be much higher than in the US, but also consider that the value of that currency (e.g., peso or rial) in relation to the dollar may change.
  4. Know that investment in Bit Coins is risky.
  5. If you have an interest in the area of economics, consider subscribing to the Economist Magazine, which is geared for intelligent lay readers. Also consider following CFR.com (Council on Foreign Relations), which is a free, informative news service.
 
Needless to say, it was a timely and thought-provoking presentation on a complicated topic delivered by one of Emory's most notable professors, which also contained elements of investment advice for all of us on fixed incomes. It also pointed out the luxury we enjoy in having investments with expected growth when so many are living off just their SS income or less as one of our members reminded us during the lively discussion that followed Jeff's presentation.  
 
--Jim Keller



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Carlton R. "Sam" Young
Professor Emeritus of Church Music

There is a long article published in United Methodist News about Sam Young's latest collection of music.  You can read that article by clicking here.  The article begins:
 
Most afternoons, the Rev. Carlton R. "Sam" Young spends a few hours in the upstairs office of the Nashville, Tennessee, home he occupies with his wife of 74 years, Marjorie Lindner Young.

If he has a text to set music to, he makes a double-spaced copy, marks all the accents, then reads the words aloud with emphasis.

"The rhythm comes up from the page and with it, invariably, comes a melody," Young said. "It just happens. I can't explain it."

Within church music, Young has been a big name for more than half a century as a composer, arranger, scholar, editor. 

He edited The Methodist Hymnal (1966) and The United Methodist Hymnal (1989). He directed the music for nine General Conferences, including the 1968 Uniting Conference that created The United Methodist Church.

"He's really been the true Mr. Music of United Methodism," said the Rev. Don Saliers, theologian-in-residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology.

And now, at age 94 and despite having multiple myeloma, Young is out with a new collection of sheet music.
 
There is a video interview with Sam talking about this new collection that you can view by clicking here.  
 
 
James W. Keller   
Professor Emeritus of Radiation Oncology 
  
 
 
Jeffrey Bradley was celebrated as the James W. Keller Distinguished Professor in Radiation Oncology on Aug. 31. The virtual ceremony included remarks from Bradley as well as Jan Love, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; Deborah Watkins Bruner, senior vice president for research; Walter J. Curran, Jr., executive director of Winship Cancer Institute; and James W. Keller.
 
Bradley is professor and executive vice chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology. The endowed professorship was established in 2007 with a generous gift from the Emory Department of Radiation Oncology and a number of patients and family members of James W. Keller, MD, for whom the professorship is named.
 
A more extensive article on this award may be read by clicking here.  
 
 
 
 
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Neil Shaw Penn, PhD, Professor Emeritus of History, Oxford College

Neil Shaw Penn, 88, passed away on Sept. 11, 2020. Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Neil was the oldest of five brothers. Despite acute polio at age eight and life-long crutches, Neil cut a distinctive figure around their hometown of Dunbar, West Virginia. Neil earned his bachelor's degree at West Virginia Wesleyan College, a master's in history at Duke University, and a PhD in history from Emory University. In his first years teaching at West Virginia Tech - decades prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - each weekday found Neil patiently climbing two flights of the steep walnut staircase - the equivalent of 50 push-ups - to his assigned second story classroom. 
 
In 1973, Neil wrote a doubly rewarding PhD dissertation. After extensive research and writing he came to Oxford College to teach and complete his doctoral degree requirements. During the final period of writing and frequent evening editing sessions with his charming, insightful, and proficient typist, Carol, he not only earned his doctorate from Emory University but also conducted an old school courtship.  In 1974, he and Carol were married in a quiet wedding beneath the crystal chandelier of the old Oxford College chapel.
 
A professor of history for over 40 years, Dr. Penn was considered by both students and colleagues one of Oxford College's finest teachers. Neil was honored with every teaching award that Oxford College offered. Students dedicated the yearbook to him and twice presented Neil with the Phi Theta Kappa Award for Dedication, Enthusiasm and Creativity in Teaching. The Oxford College Alumni Association presented Neil with their Outstanding Teaching Award, and his colleagues honored him with the Fleming Award for Excellence in teaching and also established the Neil Penn History Award to be presented annually to the top history student. Upon his retirement in 1998, students endowed a Library Book Fund in his name. And in 2005 Emory University Emeritus College presented Neil with the Distinguished Emeritus Award. 
 
Foremost a teacher, Neil found numerous ways to impact the college beyond the classroom. He selected and hired several of Oxford's longest serving and most beloved faculty and he was active in many phases of student life including advising the campus newspaper, The Spokesman, and student government and ever so many college committees. His regular, long, open door office hours ensured students found him always available to meet, to guide, to discuss, to explore. Over 20 years after retiring from teaching at Oxford, his students sought him out when returning to visit the campus. 
 


WalkBotWalking the Campus with Dianne

The face (with the rather disgusted expression) from our last walk can be found just inside the back entrance to the hospital. It's actually part of a duo of angels (see below).  Once you enter the revolving door from Asbury Circle, the sculpture is located on the wall to your left.    And, if you've noticed, neither of those faces have an expression you would expect from angels!! 
 

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For our next walk, we're going to look at another sculpture, although it is quite different from the one we just saw.   This one is outdoors and not carved from stone, but made from metal and tucked in an out-of-the-way spot at Emory.

Where will you find this on the Emory Campus?





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