Newsletter Volume 11 Issue 8 - December 11, 2024 | |
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This will be our last newsletter for 2024. The first 2025 issue will be distributed on January 8.
Happy Holidays!!
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Lunch Colloquium -- Holiday Party -- December 16, 2024 | |
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Lunch Colloquium -- Holiday Party
Monday, December 16, 2024
11:30am-1:00pm
This event is IN-PERSON ONLY
Please join us for a special holiday lunch colloquium. No lecture/speaker, just food, music, and spending time with emeritus friends before the holiday break.
Please click here to register so we will know how much food and treats to serve!
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Upcoming MedShare Volunteer Opportunity | |
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If you’d like to join this group, we are doing this the second Thursday afternoon of each month. The last date for 2024: Thursday, December 12. We will start 2025 with January 9. Registration on the MedShare web site is required.
To register:
Visit the MedShare event registration page at: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/console.php?console_id=0319&console_type=event&ht=1&res_code=EmoryEmeritus
Click the "Sign Up" button for your event and enter your email and first name. If you don't have a MedShare volunteer account, you'll be prompted to create one.
Select the listed event and click “Register."
For registration issues, questions or information about carpooling, please contact Marianne Skeen, marskeen@comcast.net.
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Despite some initial technical difficulties with the Luce Center room equipment, our recent BookFest Lunch Colloquium produced an excellent list of book recommendations that is provided below:
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Suggested and Presented by Kurt Heiss
The Truth About Immigration
by Zeke Hernandez 2024
(non-fiction)
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Suggested and Presented by Virgil Brown
The End of Everything
by Victor Davis Hanson 2024
(military history)
America First
by H.W. Brands, 2024
(history, WWII)
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Suggested and Presented by Carole Hahn
Something Lost, Something Gained
by Hillary Clinton, 2024
(biography)
The Art of Power
by Nancy Pelosi, 2024
(biography)
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Suggested and Presented by Katherine Mitchell
The Unwanted
by Michael Dobbs, 2019
(history, Holocaust)
Darkness over Denmark
by Ellen Levine, 2000
(history, WWII)
The World Must Know
by Michael Berenbaum, 1993
(Holocaust)
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Suggested and presented by John Boli
Novel Without a Name
by Duong Thu Huong, 1996
(novel, Vietnam war)
Westward Expansion
by Ray Allen Billington & Martin Ridge, 1982, 2001
(US history)
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Suggested and Presented by Marilynne McKay
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey, 2023
(lit fic, sci fic, philosophy)
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Suggested and Presented by Joe Beck
My Father & Atticus Finch
by Joseph Madison Beck, 2016
(non-fiction)
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Authors worth reading / revisiting
Ann Rogers suggested James Michener: The Covenant and others by Michener (historical fiction)
Marilynne McKay suggested Mary Roach: Fuzz and others by Roach (popular science)
Ron Gould suggested Ben Kane: Clash of Empires (historical fiction) and Katie Gayle: An English Garden Murder (mystery)
Additional recommendations (not presented in colloquium)
Annabella Fitch Hutton recommends Early One Morning by Robert Ryan, 2014 (novel, WWII)
Edye Bradford recommends Peter Matthiessen: (Nature, history), The Snow Leopard (1978), The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972), The Peter Matthiessen Reader (2000)
Richard Colvin recommends Churchill’s Trial by Larry Arnn, 2015 (history)
Selden Deemer recommends The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, 2017 (non-fiction), The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox, 2013 (non-fiction), and Lost in the Taiga by Vasily Peskov, 1994 (non-fiction) Smithsonian Magazine: "This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing"
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James Flannery, Founding Director, W. B. Yeats Foundation and Winship Professor Emeritus of the Arts and Humanities, would like to share information with us for a program that might be of interest to many of our Emeritus members: The 2024 Southern Celtic Christmas Concert.
Consult your local PBS station for broadcast times, including Georgia Public Broadcasting which this year will broadcast the SCCC statewide for the fourteenth year running.
Produced in Ireland, in the mountains of Appalachia, and on the stage of the Schwartz Center for
Performing Arts at Emory University, A Southern Celtic Christmas celebrates in music, dance,
poetry, song and story the high spirits and mystical beauty of the Christmas traditions of the
Celtic lands and their connections with similar traditions of the American South.
Featured in the show are a number of world class artists, including three Grammy
Award-winners: “First Lady of Celtic Song” Moya Brennan, bluegrass and Celtic banjo virtuoso
Alison Brown and Riverdance composer Bill Whelan with a stunning choral setting of a seventh
century Irish prayer-poem. Also featured are the soulful gospel harmonies of Rising Appalachia, madcap
percussionist and fiddler Joe Craven, and renowned songster John Doyle in an achingly beautiful
ballad that captures the ways in which music and other cultural traditions gather families together at Christmas.
Of special interest is a rare television appearance by the beloved Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney
in which he talks about the reverence for nature at the heart of Celtic spirituality. Shepherding us
on the whole journey is noted Yeats scholar and director, Irish tenor and storyteller James
Flannery, whose performance of Heaney’s wonder poem “St. Kevin and the Blackbird” is one of
the highlights of the program.
Another of the distinctive features of the program is stunning visual imagery ranging from the
mist-shrouded mountains of Ireland and South Appalachia to the dramatic ruins of Glendalough,
the sixth century monastic community founded by Saint Kevin. It also includes haunting images taken from the stained-glass windows created by the renowned Irish artist Harry Clarke.
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Ann E. Rogers, Emeritus College Director and Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, has been appointed to serve a four-year term as a member of the Safety and Occupational Health Study Section. This group evaluates the scientific and technical merit of all grant proposals submitted to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Paul B. Courtright
Professor Emeritus of Religion and Asian Studies
Paul B. Courtright passed away on December 9, 2024. During his long and distinguished career, he published and taught on Hindu marriage, pilgrimage traditions, and the religious landscape of British colonial India. Paul earned his BA at Grinnell College, M.Div. degree at Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974.
He was awarded a Heilbrun Fellowship in 2016 and gave a lunch colloquium for the Emeritus College in 2020.
Paul was a visionary administrator. He came to Emory University in 1989 as chair of the Department of Religion, a position in which he served until 1996 and during which time he worked to expand and diversify its faculty. He helped to begin Emory’s Ph.D. program in West and South Asian Religions (WSAR), part of the Graduate Division of Religion, whose graduates soon began to teach across the United States, establishing Emory as one of the premier doctoral programs for the study of religion in South Asia. He was also instrumental in strengthening the Emory-Tibet Partnership and created the Program in Asian Studies that has since been integrated into departments.
Many students and faculty Emory benefited from Paul’s collegiality and intellectual vision; he was widely loved for his gift for bringing people together and for his generous and supportive mentorship.
Paul raised four children with his beloved wife, Peggy Courtright, with whom he also shared eight grandchildren. Paul’s funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on December 13, 2024 at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 1790 LaVista Road NE, Atlanta, GA.
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Suna Cinema / Azali
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 5:00-7:00pm EST
White Hall 111
Sunu Cinéma presents "Azali" a film that tells the story of Amina, a young girl from a small northern village in Ghana.
Her mother wants her to have a better life, while her grandmother wishes for her to marry an older local man.
In an effort to secure a brighter future, Amina's mother unknowingly sells her to strangers. On her journey, Amina befriends a boy who was also sold as a child.
Together, they escape with other kids, navigating the streets of Accra to survive.
No registration necessary.
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Relaxed Morning
Saturday, January 4, 2025, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Relaxed Mornings are for anyone who would appreciate a calmer visit to the museum. Scheduled on the first Saturday of each month, Relaxed Mornings are primarily for, but not limited to, autistic young people and adults; adults living with mild cognitive impairment; and any other visitors with sensory needs or who may prefer a more relaxed experience, along with their families, friends, and care givers.
Sensory friendly bags are available for all guests at the Information Desk on Level One. These bags include an assortment of items to help visitors better enjoy our galleries. Three types of fidget toys and noise cancelling headphones are included for those who may need additional sensory support. There is also a KultureCity lanyard that guests can wear, which includes QR codes to helpful information. For those who may need assistance with sharing their needs or feelings, we provide an emotion/needs card that allows guests to communicate with staff.
Signs throughout the museum indicate a potentially louder space using the phrase “Headphone Zone.” Quiet spaces are located in the lobby on Level Two and the balcony on Level Three. A pre-visit social story can be found here.
Relaxed Mornings are scheduled during regular museum hours at times that generally experience less traffic and no other programs are scheduled.
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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 piece of art that looks like a good place to sit is actually an artful bench!
The Emory Chairs Project was launched in spring 2003 to celebrate the opening of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Through it, 37 fun and innovative chair displays were placed around campus produced by a variety of different artists.
One installment of the Emory Chairs Project that has stuck around decades after the project, is “Emory Bench” by Horace Farlowe, who taught sculpture for many years at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art before passing away in 2006. Constructed from Georgia marble and installed in 2003, the piece is integrated into the function of Emory’s campus.
Often, students and other community members can be found sitting on the bench reading, studying or taking in the views of campus.
To view (or sit on) “Emory Bench,” walk down Fishburne Drive at the Baker Woodland across from the Rich building near the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
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That's it for 2024! We will resume walking the campus in January. Until then, stay warm, have a wonderful holiday season, and enjoy some autumn and holiday photos (below) that I took during a recent bike ride through campus.
*Be sure to make note of the mistletoe in the tree at Woodruff Circle (photo-third row, right). If you find yourself in that spot with your sweetheart, well........you know what to do!
Happy Holidays!!!
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