PLEASE NOTE

Updates to our EUEC Bylaws

Last month, members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the updates to our bylaws proposed by the Executive Committee. Ninety-one percent approved changing the name of the Emeritus College to the Emeriti College, 92% approved changing the language describing membership categories to reflect the more inclusive definition of membership that is published on our webpage, and 95% of those responding approved correcting the bylaws to reflect current committee names and titles. The name change and other updates to the bylaws will not be finalized until they are approved by the Board of Trustees during their fall meeting.

--Ann



Lunch Colloquium -- Ron Schuchard -- MONDAY-- May 19, 2025

Ron Schuchard

Goodrich C. White Professor of English Literature, Emeritus

MONDAY, May 19, 2025

The Luce Center

825 Houston Mill Road -- Room 130

11:30am-1:00pm

“How the Irish Village Came to Emory: Distinctive

Literary Collections in the Rose Library”

Professor Ron Schuchard has been a key player in bringing manuscripts and letters of important Irish writers to the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library. The assemblage of these papers—from Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney to other renowned poets such as Joan McBreen, Dennis O’Driscoll, Rita Ann Higgins, Paul Muldoon, and many others—form the foundation of what is referred to as the “Irish Village” at Emory. Bringing these collections together has required persistence and imagination over time. We’ll hear stories and strategies as to how these efforts led to such a stellar set of collections coming to Emory.



About Ron Schuchard:

Professor Ronald Schuchard is the Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Emeritus, at Emory University. He has published extensively on W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and other significant writers. Most recently, he has served as general editor of the major eight-volume online and print editions of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, volume 2 of which won the Modernist Studies Association Edition Prize, and volumes 5 and 6 of which won jointly the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition.

A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has served as the founding director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory and the T. S. Eliot International Summer School at the University of London. He is also an advisor for the archives of English and Irish manuscripts at the Robert W. Woodruff Library and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London.



Lunch Colloquium -- Brendon Murphy -- MONDAY -- June 2, 2025

Brendon Murphy

History Teacher, Marist School in Atlanta

MONDAY, June 2, 2025

The Luce Center

825 Houston Mill Road -- Room 130

11:30am-1:00pm

"From Ancient Prejudices to Modern Challenges: Exploring

Historical and Contemporary Relations between Christian

and Jewish Communities"

In this lecture we will delve into the deep-rooted and sorrowful history of Christian antisemitism, tracing its origins from the first century to the Nostra Aetate declaration of 1965.

During this lecture, we will embark on a comprehensive journey through time, examining the various forms of Christian anti-Judaism that have plagued societies across centuries. From medieval pogroms to the horrors of the Holocaust, we will discuss pivotal events that have shaped the Jewish experience, emphasizing the resilience and strength demonstrated by Jewish communities in the face of adversity.

Only by examining the lessons of the past can we work together to create a future free from discrimination and bigotry.

About Brendon Murphy:

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Brendan Murphy earned a bachelor’s degree in education and history from the University of Notre Dame and holds a master’s degree in theology from Spring Hill College.

Murphy is a thought leader on religious solidarity and an advocate for combating hate and prejudice by drawing communities together. His contributions to education and interfaith dialogue are widely recognized and embody Pope Francis’ call to use discourse as a "privileged path to the growth of fraternity and peace in our world".

Murphy has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award from the Anne Frank Center in New York, and the ADL’s Abe Goldstein Human Relations and Unsung Hero Awards. His dedication to excellence in teaching has been acknowledged at Marist School with awards such as the Goizueta Chair of Excellence Award, and the Faber-McKinley-Stadler Award. Previously, Murphy was head coach of Marist’s varsity boys soccer team and led them to two state championships. He was given the Frank P. Hagan Memorial Coach’s Award. 

On the state level, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia Independent School Association and was twice awarded the Georgia Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He also has been recognized as Teacher of the Year by the University of Notre Dame.

In addition to serving as director of the Bearing Witness Institute and teaching his Holocaust seminar, Murphy moderates a Peace by Piece group, which brings students from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities together to foster friendship and understanding. In the coming years, he will replicate this Peace by Piece model in communities and schools across the nation.



University Faculty/Senate News

Information from Jeffrey Lichtman, Emeritus College representative to the Emory Senate and Faculty Council:

Dear Emory Community Member,

This past Tuesday, April 29, the Emory University Senate, which represents Emory’s faculty, staff, students, and alumni, voted in favor of a resolution on “the lines we must not cross.” In these unprecedented political times, we see the principles laid out here as vital for maintaining Emory’s mission to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Below find the full text of the resolution.

Sincerely yours,

Noëlle McAfee, President

Emory University Senate

The Lines We Must Not Cross

Adopted by the Emory University Senate

April 29, 2025

We the members of the Emory University Senate join the Emory University Faculty Council in affirming Emory University’s mission to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Emory’s mission incudes commitments to “high standards of academic excellence and integrity,” to “humane teaching and mentorship and a respectful interaction among faculty, students, and staff,” as well as “a commitment to use knowledge to improve human well-being; and a global perspective on the human condition.” We worry that our mission is in peril. 

In these unprecedented political times, we watch in dismay as the federal government threatens universities that do not comply with its agenda. We have two deep concerns. First, core parts of the agenda conflict dramatically with the academic freedom that is central to Emory’s educational mission. Second, we object that the government is attempting to impose its will through extortionate bullying; the government threatens to harm not only the university, but also other innocent people—for example those who would be cured by sponsored health research that the government threatens to eliminate—unless the university complies with the government’s demands.



We are also dismayed as other universities try to appease the federal government by trading away their institutional autonomy and core commitments, forfeiting academic freedom, and becoming complicit with the government in punishing protected speech. Of course, Emory should be flexible in considering any reasonable and legitimate concerns. But we should not be so flexible that we break and destroy the university’s very reason for existence: to be a location for the free creation of knowledge. Emory must stand firm in refusing to sacrifice its fundamental values. A university that acquiesces to the government’s extreme demands may benefit temporarily. But it will have sacrificed its soul. Emory must act now so that when we look back ten years from now, we feel pride, not shame.

We are heartened that Emory’s administration is staying true to Emory’s mission, including working with the University Senate to adopt a robust open expression policy. We urge the administration, in dealing with the federal government, to persist in doing what is right, not what is expedient. The following are bright lines over which the university should never allow itself to be pushed. 



• Because a university’s academic mission is central to democracy, extramural attempts to curtail the university’s academic mission are assaults on democracy itself. Therefore, we will neither sacrifice the norms of academic freedom nor allow outside pressure to inappropriately intrude upon teaching, grading, research, or hiring.
• We affirm the principles of open expression and free inquiry underlying Emory’s Open Expression Policy. We commit to defend these principles for all members of our community. We will not abide by or assist in the removal of any person from the University on the grounds that their speech causes offense.
• We affirm the dignity and worth of all members of the University community and understand equality of dignity to be a precondition for freedom of speech. 
• We are committed to protecting all members of our community from arrest, deportation, and visa revocation for their real or purported political views. We further commit to providing assistance to members of the University community whose legal status makes them vulnerable to state authority. Furthermore, we will help any member who travels abroad to rejoin our community of inquiry.

Note: This statement echoes a resolution unanimously adopted by the Emory University Faculty Council on April 15, 2025. Both documents draw extensively from an op-ed published in the University of Chicago student newspaper by Professor Clifford Ando, the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Classics and History and in the College, as well as Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University.

Upcoming MedShare Volunteer Opportunity

If you’d like to join this group, we are doing this the second Thursday afternoon of each month. Upcoming sessions:June 12. 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.

Member Activities

Jag Sheth

Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing

Dear Friends,

This link will take you to a synopsis of my latest book co-authored with Suresh Sharma: Digital Shock. It is all about "The 7 Side Effects of Digital Technology" that we are experiencing today. Like a potent drug, digital technology has made human life more convenient and efficient. Unfortunately, like all potent drugs, it has many side effects with long term negative consequences. 

As you will read in the book, the 7 side effects are: digital addiction, families living like roommates, enjoying virtual relationships over physical ones, developing public acrimony especially using social media, increased cyber-crimes, repurposing brick and mortar shipping centers, and the inability to protect IP rights.

I hope you will read it. And if you buy it on Amazon, please write a short review to let me and others know what you think. Also, please feel free to call, text or What’s App me at 404.751.8888 if you have any questions, concerns or would just like to chat about the book. I look forward to hearing from you.

Warmest Regards,

Jag

Ann E. Rogers

Director, Emeritus College

Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff

School of Nursing

Ann was recently quoted in a May 2025 article in the New York Times for a sleep-related article entitled "What's the Best Way to Wake Up?"

To view the article, please click here.

New Members

New members are the lifeblood of any organization.

Please make a special effort to welcome them to the EUEC!

Edmund (Ned) Becker

Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Martha Fineman

Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law

James Galt

Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

Zhe Liang

Academic Research Associate, Department of Surgery

Lillian Meacham

Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinologist, School of Medicine

Astrid Prinz

Associate Professor of Biology

In Memoriam

Mary Alice Clower

Professor Emerita of Physical Education

Mary passed away on May 3, 2025. To view an obituary, please click here.

Upcoming Events at Emory

Miscellaneous Monthly: Rose Library's Open House Series - Native American History

Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 1-3:00pm EST

Woodruff Library - Rose Library 10th Floor

Have you ever wanted to see items from Rose Library's collections but not known how? Or maybe you don't even know what you'd like to see, just that you would like to see something cool and old!

If this describes you, you're in luck! This summer, Rose Library is continuing "Miscellaneous Monthly", our monthly open house series. Every third Tuesday of the month, you can stop by the 10th floor of Woodruff Library between 1pm and 3pm to view a selection of archival items. No appointment needed! Each month will have a different theme, so be sure to come by every month to see it all! Join us on May 20th to view materials from Native American history, with a focus on the Muscogee people. 

The 2025 Summer Institute for Global Charismatic-Pentecostal Studies

Thursday, May 22 and Friday May 23, 2025

Through music, charismatics and Pentecostals have shaped, and are shaping, the global Christian landscape socially, politically, and spiritually. At “Songs of the Spirit: Music and the Making of Global Pentecostalism,” this year’s Summer Institute for Global Charismatic-Pentecostal Studies, participants will critically engage with the past, present, and future of Pentecostal and charismatic musical communities through scholarly presentations and insights from musicians, artists, and leading figures in the worship music industry.

Contact Person: Ruth Kasali

Email ruth.kasali@emory.edu

For registration and more information please click here.

Theorizing African American Music

Thursday, June 5, 2025, 2:00pm EST

Performing Arts Studio

1804 N Decatur Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322

Registration / R.S.V.P. link: docs.google.com

Cost: Registration is $30 for students and $50 for all others

Contact Name: Simone McGaw Evans

Contact Email: smcgawe@emory.edu

We are pleased to announce the third meeting of “Theorizing African American Music,” to take place in person, June 5–7, 2025, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. TAAM-Emory will feature paper sessions, a panel on HBCU music, a panel featuring Black composers, a keynote by Horace Maxile, and two evening concerts on June 5 and 7. *Registration is required*

TAAM highlights African American and Black perspectives on music and music theory, perspectives that have historically been marginalized in the United States. This conference provides a platform for scholars interested in the theory and analysis of African American music. TAAM foregrounds Black voices as we welcome all music theorists, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, music critics, composers, performers, and others invested in African American music. The intent of the conference is twofold. First, we address the historical erasure of African American scholars and their perspectives from the discipline of music theory. Equally important, we include musicological, ethnomusicological, and other analytical perspectives on American music that can reasonably be said to have roots in African Americanism.

Please visit the website to register, and for updates and more details.

Registration: 2:00–6:00pm

Hors d’oeuvres: 4:00–7:00pm

Opening remarks: 6:00–7:00pm

Concert: 7:30p, featuring Khari Joyner, cello; Amyr Joyner, violin; Lydia Bangura, soprano;

Cornelius Johnson, tenor; Chris Jenkins, viola; and The Gary Motley Trio

Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the Burlington Road Building. Additional parking can be found in the Gambrell parking lot.

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

The waterfall with the old bridge over it can be found on Houston Mill Road where South Peachtree Creek goes under the road from Lullwater Preserve to Hahn Woods.

As with the other waterfall on campus, this one was part of the old grist mill and hydroelectric plant used in the early 1920s. The bridge is obviously no longer usable (or safe) as seen in the lower left photo. The photo on the top right is Henry James (H. J.) Carr sitting on the bridge he built, and the photo on the bottom right is the sidewalk view of the current automobile bridge that crosses over the creek with the waterfall to your right.

The truss bridge was built by H. J. Carr who purchased the Houston property in 1922. He also put together adjacent parcels from three other owners and by 1929 his estate totaled 61.1 acres .... there's so much more to H. J. Carr's story, but we will save that for another time.

For our next walk let's look at a piece of art that has been in place quite a long time, but probably doesn't get noticed as much as some of the other art on campus.



Where will you find this on the Emory campus?



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Atlanta, GA 30329

http://www.emory.edu/emeritus

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