Newsletter Volume 10 Issue 15 - April 10, 2024 | |
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Jagdish Sheth
Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing
Goizueta Business School of Emory University
Thursday, April 18, 2024
11:30am-1:00pm
Miller-Ward Alumni House
Alumni Hall (Governors Hall)
“The Journey of an Accidental Scholar”
Jag Sheth will narrate the story about how he became an accidental scholar against all odds. He was born in Burma (now Myanmar), became a refugee during World War Two, and found his calling after coming to the United States. It is a story of an academic Horatio Alger.
About Jag Sheth:
Jagdish N. Sheth, Ph.D, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University is globally known for his scholarly contributions in consumer behavior, relationship marketing, competitive strategy, and geopolitical analysis. He has over 50 years of experience in teaching and research at University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory.
Dr. Sheth is a recipient of the 2020 Padma Bhushan Award for literature and education, one of the highest civilian awards given by the Government of India. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB); the Association of Consumer Research (ACR); the American Psychological Association (APA); and the American Marketing Association (AMA), a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) and the International Engineering Consortium and the recipient of all four top awards given by the American Marketing Association (AMA). He has been advisor to numerous corporations all over the world. He has authored or coauthored more than three hundred papers and numerous books.
He is the Founder of Center for Telecommunications Management (CTM) at USC, Founder and Chairman of India, China, and America (ICA) Institute, and Founder and Chairman of the Academy of Indian Marketing (AIM). He and his wife, Madhu Sheth, established the Sheth Family Foundation and the Madhuri and Jagdish Sheth Foundation.
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Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, April 29, 2024 | |
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Ron Gould
Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus
Monday, April 29, 2024
11:30am-1:00pm
"Math and Marriage – Don't Call the Lawyers Yet"
Pairings of objects from various sets has many applications, for example, pairing applicants with jobs, pairing representatives with districts, pairing wines with foods, and especially pairing people with each other. This idea of pairing has naturally come to be called the marriage problem in mathematics. In this talk I will look at several special cases of the general pairing problem, including optimal pairings from several different points of view. I will limit the mathematics as much as possible and maximize the jokes as much as possible. After all, there is no limit to the number of strange case marriage jokes available.
About Ron Gould:
Ronald J. Gould is Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus from Emory University. He received his B.S. in mathematics from SUNY Fredonia in 1972, his M.S. in Computer Science in 1978 and Ph.D. in mathematics in 1979 from Western Michigan University, with a specialty in Graph Theory and combinatorial mathematics. In his career his has written over 190 papers and two books, Graph Theory (Dover Pub.) and Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling: The Games People Play, (Taylor Francis Group) which received the American Library Association Choice Award, Outstanding Academic Titles in 2010. He has directed 28 Ph.D. students and 26 MS students and several postdocs.
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Member Meet Up -- M C Carlos Museum | |
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There are a few spots left for our Highlights of the Carlos Museum on Friday, April 12 at 1 pm.
If you are interested in attending this event, please sign up using this link. Information about parking and where to meet will be sent to those registered for the tour on Thursday, April 11.
A tour of the Carlos Museum was one of the activities suggested by members who responded to our member survey last year. If you know of a local activity or tour that might be of interest to other Emeritus College members, please let us know and we’ll send out an announcement or include information in the newsletter.
--Ann
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Georgia Association of Higher Education Retiree Organizations (GA-HERO)
We are excited to announce our next GA-HERO Meet-Up in beautiful Valdosta, Georgia!!
Friday, June 7, 2024
11:00am-3:00pm Meeting
Hosted by Valdosta State University Retirees Association
Join us on June 7 and get to know your GA-HERO colleagues face-to-face!
David Boyd and the Valdosta State Retirees Association have put together a program for us that promises to be informative and entertaining. They are also working on organizing a campus tour after the meeting. We will have the opportunity to enjoy many activities and events in and around the Valdosta area in the evening and on Saturday. Bring your colleagues, family, friends...your travel buddies …and plan to stay for the weekend and take advantage of Valdosta’s hospitality. The opening of the Summer Theatre season and the annual First Friday downtown celebration will be kicking off June 7-8 — just a small taste of what Valdosta has to offer!
Friday, June 7—11:00am to 3:00pm, GA-HERO meeting at Valdosta State University.
5:00pm-10:30pm, Valdosta’s First Friday, a Downtown Valdosta party like no other! Live music, art galleries, shopping, restaurants, drinks and more!
Saturday, June 8— Choose an activity for the day—meet exotic animals at Wild Adventures, take a guided tour of Georgia Beer Company, explore the wetlands at Grand Bay Education Center, learn more about the area at Lowndes County Historical Society and Museum, taste the wares at the South Georgia Pecan Company, or enjoy a round at the Stone Creek Golf Club...just a few of the many adventures awaiting you in Valdosta.
6:30pm—We are invited to attend the special opening reception for the first summer play at the Peach State Summer Theatre at VSU as guests of the VSU Retirees Association! Purchase from a block of tickets held for us at the special price of just $25 to enjoy this rousing musical comedy, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. It promises to be a delightful evening! Instructions for purchasing special tickets will be coming soon.
Watch for more information and details coming soon including information about hotels and restaurants!! Visit our website at ga-hero.org and click on the Spring 2024 Meetup link. Information will also be emailed to Retiree Associations across Georgia. Please help us spread the word and encourage colleagues to attend!
The Georgia Association of Higher Education Retiree Organizations (GA-HERO) is a Georgia network of college and university-based retiree organizations that seeks to foster the development and sharing of ideas, information, current research, advocacy, and best practices among its members. Additionally, GA-HERO endeavors to create awareness that campus-based retiree organizations are beneficial both to retirees and to the campuses on which they are based. Emory's Emeritus College is a founding member of GA-HERO and presently the only private University; other members include 11 Georgia University System institutions.
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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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Marilane Bond
Associate Dean, Medical Education Administration - School of Medicine
Ted A. Brzinski
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences Instructor, Emory Medical Imaging Program
Sherryl H. Goodman
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology
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Frankie Wallace Stegall
Professor Emerita of Ophthalmology
Frankie Wallace Stegall of Atlanta, Georgia, passed away on March 24, 2024 at the age of 87.
A native of LaFayette, Alabama, Frankie graduated Jacksonville University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1959. She married and moved to Atlanta in 1960, and by 1963 she was a recent divorcee with a young child who chose to enter the medical field as an Orthoptist, a profession that she had only known of for a short time, but to which she was inexorably drawn.
After graduating Emory University’s Orthoptic Training School in 1965, she went on to a most remarkable and distinguished career as Chief Orthoptist and Director of Emory’s Orthoptic/Ophthalmic Program, and as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Emory Medical School (retired Professor Emerita, Ophthalmology).
In addition, she was an international leader in Orthoptics, having been published and having lectured across much of The United States, Europe and Asia, and having won several awards for her significant contributions to Orthoptics and Ophthalmology.
Over her career, her medical acumen helped countless thousands upon thousands of adults and children to see better, and her teaching and pre-operative consultations helped many, many Ophthalmic surgeons to achieve excellent surgical results.
And over her life, she developed many long lasting, loving friends, in whose company she delighted, and with whom she shared a mutual enrichment of life. She was a loyal, generous, witty and insightful friend.
She was a wonderful mother to her son, J. Ron Stegall, Jr. and her daughter-in-law, Dr. Stephanie Anderson Stegall; a wonderful grandmother to her twin granddaughters, Katherine Mae Stegall and Molly Grace Stegall (all of Chattanooga, TN); and a wonderful first cousin to her lifelong best friend, Betty McClain of Marietta, GA.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother, R.C. Wallace Sr. and Louise Wallace, and her brother, R.C. Wallace, Jr., all of LaFayette, AL.
A graveside service was held on Friday, March 29, 2024, 1:00 p.m. (Central Time) at the LaFayette Cemetery.
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Emory Farmers Market
Cox Hall Bridge - Main Campus
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:00am-2:00pm EST
Through a weekly gathering of farms, restaurants, small-scale artisanal businesses, and Emory community members, the Emory Farmers Market fosters education and personal relationships through food. Community members have the opportunity to engage with small-scale producers and support the local economy, contributing to a more robust and sustainable food system, while enjoying delicious, local food.
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Jazz on the Quad
Located in front of the Carlos Museum | 1700 North Decatur Rd.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6pm EDT
2023–2024 Department of Music
Free Event/No Tickets Required
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with the Emory Jazz Combos in a free outdoor performance.
Under the direction of Emory's acclaimed Jazz Artist Affiliates, the Emory Jazz Combos give students an opportunity to explore many facets of improvisation in a small group setting. Usually consisting of five to eight members, the primary focus of these groups is on gaining experience in improvising and soloing for each participant.
Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck or Lowergate South Parking Deck
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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 colorful flags hanging from the ceiling from our previous walk were once found in the Dobbs University Center, more affectionately known as the DUC.
The Dobbs University Center was designed by Portman and Associates and was originally completed in 1986. The structure was built around and connected to Alumni Memorial Hall.
An excerpt from an Emory News article:
In the early 1980s Emory University picked an architect with an oppositional style--Portman--to design its campus center and largest dining hall. Portman, whose Peachtree Center and Hyatt Regency define the Atlanta skyline, merged new and old at the Dobbs University Center (DUC) with the same drama of his supersized work. The three-story, 150,000-square-foot DUC adheres to the rear facade of one of the older 1920s buildings on campus. The two structures meet in the Coca-Cola Commons, a capacious indoor piazza and tiered dining hall that references Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.
As a campus center (and main student dining hall), the DUC must do the heavy lifting of an increasingly commoditized typology. At American colleges and universities today, the campus center is both a social nucleus and a potentially powerful marketing tool. Emory decided the existing DUC was not fit for either task.
During the summer of 2015, Emory released a proposal to demolish the DUC and replace it with a contemporary structure. The DUC was razed in late-summer of 2017.
As I mentioned before, the DUC offered food, meeting spaces, housed numerous departments and campus organizations, and was connected to Alumni Memorial Hall, which is now back to it's original free-standing state.
While the new Student Center is beautiful and state-of-the-art, I miss the DUC and it's wonderful quirkiness.
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Let's enjoy the beautiful spring weather and take a walk to a somewhat hidden place on campus. This spot may not be as well known as other places at Emory, but is a very useful and important part of the Emory community. It is a vital component to sustainability and is used not only by those on campus, but many of the nearby neighborhoods as well.
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Where will you find this on the Emory campus?
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