Newsletter Volume 10 Issue 10 - January 24, 2024 | |
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Apologies to our members who joined via Zoom for our January 15 Lunch Colloquium with Colm Mulcahy -- "Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards."
Our technology in the meeting room has several limitations and the camera and audio could not capture all the activity during the lecture. Those who attended in person experienced an excellent talk with amazing card tricks and math demonstrations; however, Zoom attendees could only view the PowerPoint presentation.
Again, apologies to those attending via Zoom. If the video recording turns out, we will post on our website. Unfortunately, this lecture was more of an in-person event.
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Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
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Gary Hauk
Emory University Historian
Monday, January 29, 2024
11:30am-1:00pm
"From John Wesley to the Dalai Lama: Emory's Religious Pilgrimage and What It Means for a Modern Research University"
Founded as a Methodist college and later rechartered as a Southern Methodist university with generous funding from Asa Candler for the sake of “Christian education,” Emory nevertheless opened its doors early to students and faculty of other faiths. Two Jewish professors were hired in the 1880s, and the first Jewish student enrolled in 1916. By the end of the twentieth century, the student body reflected the religious diversity of the nation, and Emory soon would gain international attention as the only university with the Dalai Lama formally a member of the faculty. Despite Emory’s ascendance as a research university with renowned programs in medicine, public health, and the sciences, religion retains a prominent place at Emory. Why is this so, and what are the implications?
About Gary Hauk:
A writer, editor, ethicist, and historian, Gary Hauk served in the President’s Office of Emory University for more than thirty years, working with four Emory presidents as vice president and secretary of the University and later as deputy and then senior adviser to the president. He has taught freshman English, ethics, and the history of Emory. In 2015, after serving as the unofficial historian of Emory for many years, he was named the first official historian of the University. His most recent book, Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape (University of Georgia Press), blends personal memoir, history, and archival photography.
Gary earned his PhD in religion from the Laney Graduate School at Emory and holds BA and MA degrees in English from Lehigh University and a divinity degree from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. Since retiring from Emory in January 2020, he has continued to work as a freelance editor and writer and is past chair of the board of the Georgia Humanities Council. He speaks frequently to Emory alumni groups, students, and faculty and is an occasional guest preacher at Episcopal churches in Atlanta.
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Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, February 12, 2024 | |
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John Latting
Associate Vice Provost, Dean of Admission
Emory University
Monday, February 12, 2024
11:30am-1:00pm
"College Admissions in a Post-Affirmative Action World"
In June 2023 the Supreme Court ruled in two related cases that the way race and ethnicity are used in college admissions (at Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and was thus no longer permissible. With these two rulings the Court did away with “affirmative action” in higher education admissions. At Emory the decisions have significant implications for how the Office of Admission selects each class. In this presentation, the Dean of Admission at Emory, John Latting, will comment on the likely impact of the decisions on American higher education, and also share how Emory has decided to change its admissions process, how it is prioritizing goals, and how it hopes to continue to enroll undergraduate classes distinguished by their quality and diversity.
About John Latting:
John F. Latting is associate vice provost for enrollment and dean of admission at Emory University, where since 2011 he has been responsible for the incoming freshman and transfer classes at Emory College. Prior to his time in Atlanta, he worked in the admissions offices at Johns Hopkins, Caltech, and Stanford. John earned a Ph.D. in educational policy and management research from the Graduate School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley. He attended Stanford University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, after attending the public schools in Martinez, California.
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Meet and Greet at Athens Pizza | |
Even though it was freezing outside on Saturday, January 20, there was plenty of laughter and warmth when members of the Emeritus College got together for lunch at Athens Pizza. We plan on gathering monthly and hope you can join us in the future. | |
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Larry Riddle
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Agnes Scott College
My latest cross-stitch fractal design, Sierpinski Relative Friezes, was part of the Mathematical Art Exhibition at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco, January 3-5, 2024. Some video demonstrations of the various symmetries illustrated in the four frieze patterns in the artwork can be found at https://larryriddle.agnesscott.org/ifs/JMMVideos.htm.
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New members are the lifeblood of any organization.
Please make a special effort to welcome them to the EUEC!
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Mark M. Goodman
Professor - Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Psychiatry, and Hematology/Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Steven L. Wolf
Professor Emeritus, Division of Physical Therapy and Center for Physical Therapy and Movement Science
Emory University School of Medicine
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James Elliott
Associate Dean Emeritus
A. James Elliott 66C 66L, who was both an alumnus and associate dean of Emory Law, passed away on January 14, 2024.
Before joining Emory Law, Associate Dean Elliott was a leading attorney for 28 years with Alston & Bird.
As a lawyer, Associate Dean Elliott led many important initiatives to improve access to justice and to promote ethics, integrity and public service within the legal profession. In 1971, as a member of the Bar’s Young Lawyers Division, Elliott was instrumental in founding Georgia's Legal Services Program, which has provided legal services to almost one million poor Georgians. He also co-founded Georgia’s Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts program (IOLTA) which has raised $100,000,000 for legal charities, primarily to provide civil legal services for indigent persons.
Elliott participated in a meeting of influential judges and lawyers convened by Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas O. Marshall in 1988 to create what would become the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. The Commission established a code of fairness, integrity, and civility for Georgia’s attorneys when dealing with clients, colleagues, the court, and opposing counsel.
Elliott was elected to serve as president of the State Bar of Georgia in 1989. According to the Commission on Professionalism’s history, “Elliott gave Georgia’s professionalism movement momentum when he placed the professionalism project at the top of his agenda. In conjunction with Chief Justice Marshall, President Elliott gathered 120 prominent judges and lawyers from around the state to attend the first Georgia Convocation on Professionalism.”
As associate dean, Elliott’s long experience as a partner at a major firm lent gravitas when he talked with students about the importance of professionalism. “You really do feel like you have an opportunity of strengthening the moral compass they come to school with to begin with,” he said in 2009.
Associate Dean Elliott received several important accolades in recognition of his service to the profession and Emory.
In 2009, Emory Law established the A. James Elliott Community Service Award, which is given annually to the 3L demonstrating the greatest commitment to community service while at the law school.
In 2017, Elliott received the Randolph Thrower Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Bar. The award recognizes lawyers who are committed to providing opportunities to build a more diverse profession.
Elliott also received the 2020 Chief Justice Thomas O. Marshall Professionalism Award, given annually by the Georgia Bar to one lawyer and one judge who continually demonstrate the highest professional conduct.
Elliott was a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and of the American and Georgia Bar Foundations. In addition to his degrees at Emory, he later earned his MBA at Kennesaw State University. He most recently taught Legal Profession, Banking, and Commercial Real Estate Finance. He also served as a faculty member of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice. In 2012, Elliott received the University’s Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Candler Concert Series: Canadian Brass
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N Decatur Road
Friday, January 26, 2024, 8pm EST
2023–2024 Candler Concert Series
$45 | Emory Students $10
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE (Season Subscriptions are Available Here)
View or Download program here
Canadian Brass
"The Canadian Brass achieve a blend that’s akin to the dark smoothness of aged Scotch whisky, purring out rounded legato lines in which no breath seems to transpire.”—ClassicsToday
As the world’s most famous brass group, Canadian Brass is known for its extraordinary ability to perform many types of music at a preeminent level, exhibiting a full range of musical styles—from trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes, to Bach and Mozart.
The Canadian Brass consists of trumpeters Joe Burgstaller and Ashley Hall-Tighe, hornist Jeff Nelsen, trombonist Achilles Liarmakopoulos, and Chuck Daellenbach on tuba.
Their Emory program features works from Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, and Piazzolla, while also celebrating music from the Beatles Songbook. As a special collaboration between the Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series and the Emory Department of Music, select Emory student musicians will perform side-by-side with Canadian Brass for Dectet by Michael Kamen and Jubilate Deo by Giovanni Gabrieli as a double brass quintet.
Emory Student Musicians:
Joey Chen, trumpet; Austin Watkinson, trumpet; Noah Choe, horn; Tim Brewer, tenor trombone; Misha Gupta, bass trombone
Free Parking is Available on Weekends and After 6 p.m. on Weekdays: Fishburne Parking Deck or Lowergate South Parking Deck
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2024 EPIC Inspiration Awards
Tull Auditorium - Gambrell Hall
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 6:30-8:30pm EST
The EPIC Inspiration Awards celebrate members of our community who demonstrate extraordinary commitment to public service.
This year's honorees are:
Lifetime Commitment to Public Service
Lawrence J. Bracken II
Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Outstanding Leadership in the Public Interest
Elizabeth Markowitz 90L
Chief Strategy Office, Fulton County Clerk of Court
Unsung Devotion to Those Most in Need
Atteeyah Hollie
Deputy Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
The awards presentation will begin promptly at 6:30 pm with a reception to follow at 7:30 pm.
Emory Law students attend for free but must register using this link. All other attendees may purchase tickets or sponsor the event here: http://engage.emory.edu/EPIC2024.
Proceeds from the event provide funding for summer grants to students working in otherwise unfunded positions in public interest, government, and with judges.
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The Journey to Healing for One Emory Racial Healing Circles
A ZOOM Program
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 1-2:30pm EST
The entire Emory University community is invited to participate in Racial Healing Circles hosted by the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Initiative during the spring 2024 semester.
A Racial Healing Circle is an opportunity for people from all backgrounds to come together and establish connections through our shared humanity. It is a space where people engage in authentic story telling in a facilitated safe, brave, and responsible space with a human-centered focus on similarities, not differences.
Each circle is 90-minutes in length. Participants are strongly recommended to arrive 5 minutes early and plan to stay until the end.
- VIRTUAL - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 1:00pm-2:30pm - Black History Month: RHC for the Diasporic Community
- IN-PERSON - Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 1:00pm-2:30pm - Women's History Month: RHC for the Empowerment of Women's Voices (Emory Interfaith Center 1707 N Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322)
- VIRTUAL - Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 1:00pm-2:30pm - Arab American Heritage Month: RHC for a Unified Community
- IN-PERSON - Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 1:00pm-2:30pm - Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month: RHC for AAPI
This event is free -- Registration is required.
Please click here to register.
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Details and other information, as well as additional campus events, can be found on the Emory Events Calendar.
If you'd like to share an event/program of interest before the next newsletter
please contact Dianne Becht Dianne.becht@emory.edu
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Walking the Campus with Dianne | |
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The long hallway viewed on our last walk is the bridge that connects the new part of the hospital with the old. As you can see in the photo below on the left, it crosses over Clifton Road and allows excellent views of the busy street.
There are actually two hallways that converge at one end of that bridge (as seen in the panoramic photo below) that give you options to either cross over the street or go into different areas of the hospital. Both hallways are excellent spaces for walking and viewing a busy area of campus.
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It's been too cold in Atlanta to go outdoors, so let's explore a place where we can be warm. This place is one of my favorite buildings on campus and this particular spot in the building houses a very big cat.
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Where will you find this on the Emory campus?
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