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The 2019-2020 Emeritus College Colloquium series began with an in-formative presentation by Stephanie A. Bivens, Esq., C.E.L.A., titled “Es-tate Planning and Elder Law: What You Really Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Family. “ Bivens shared the top ten mistakes made in estate planning. These are: 1) pro-crastination and failure to plan at all; 2) do it yourself planning; 3) failure to update estate planning documents regularly; 4) failure to coordinate non-probate assets with your overall plan; 5) failure to include everything

Art Exhibit Celebrates Earth Day

The paintings of Emeritus Col-lege member Mark Reader will be featured in an installation titled “Notice/Nurture/Nature…and each other” that will be on display in the lobby of the University Cen-ter Building (UCENT) at the ASU Downtown campus through the Spring, 2020 semester. The exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The paintings have been chosen to re-create the immediacy and irreplaceability of the natural world, and they demonstrate what the arts can do to gentle our person-al and collective carbon footprint. They also remind us to join in the

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Emeritus Press at Arizona State University

Volume XIV, Number 4 Fall 2019

“A Place and a Purpose”

Colloquiua Lecture Series Kicks Off

"Celebrating a Life"

Five Trailblazing Sun Dev-ils Recognized for National Hispanic Heritage Month

By Hannah Moulton Belec Educational Outreach & Student Services, September, 2019

This month, five former ASU faculty and staff and Valley leaders are being recognized for their outstanding con-tributions to the Hispanic and Latino community in Arizona. The honor-ees were featured in a video that de-

Marcelino Quinones, Miguel Montiel, Lydia Aranda (Virgina Pesqueria's daughter), Christine Marin, Cordelia Candelaria, Edward Delci and Anita Verdugo.

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October 18-20, 202010th Biennial AROHE

Conference

The Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Educa-tion (AROHE), ASU Emeritus College and ASU Retirees Associ-ation (ASURA) invite you to enjoy the opportunity to network with leaders of Retirement Organiza-tions (ROs) and AROHE, and with administrators in higher education, researchers who study retirement, innovators in retirement and aging, and sponsors who offer support to retirees.

buted during the Sept. 21 ASU foot-ball game before thousands of fans at Sun Devil Stadium. “This year’s honorees for Hispanic and Latinx (Latinx is a gender-neutral term for Latino and Latina) Heritage Month embody the long and proud history of their community at ASU," said Edmundo Hidalgo, vice president of outreach with Educational Outreach and Student Services at ASU. "They embody everything Sun Devils are

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common effort to re-enchant the fu-ture. Reader has been an activist in environmental issues for more than fifty years. He taught in ASU’s first Earth Day event in 1970. He has contributed many of his paintings to educational and charitable institu-tions, including the ASU emeritus art faculty collection (Phoenix and Tem-pe campuses). The Emeritus Col-lege and the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions are the co-sponsors of this project. Further information about this exhi-bition will be sent to Emeritus Col-lege members as E-Cards.

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William Verdini, opened this year’s Short Talks with an informative and often amusing talk titled “The Psy-chology of Waiting.” Waiting (que-ing ) systems research considers ar-rivals, arrival processes and service processes, measures these factors and develops mathematical models which are applied to real-life situa-tions. Verdini framed his talk by ask-ing: What is annoying about waiting? What causes us anxiety when wait-ing? What subjective solutions have been tried? He then gave examples of waiting line behaviors, considering especially bank and grocery lines. He distinguished between perceived un-fair waiting (violating the fifteen item limit in the grocery express lane) and fair waiting (TSA Precheck, the Post Office, level of severity for ER ser-vice). Uncertainty plays a role in wait time behavior (at the doctor’s office, for example); reactions to wait time

are context specific. Verdini used Southwest Airlines to exemplify at-tempted solutions to common com-plaints (long boarding lines, waits to store luggage in the cabin, lack of cabin room for luggage). South-west’s solutions: eliminate pre-as-signed seats and encourage early line-ups; reduce the need for carry-ons by making checked bags free. South-west also tried to solve the problem of onboard food quality by eliminat-ing meals and serving peanuts only! Those present gave examples of their own. The October Short Talks featured two presentations on Antarctica, one

by retired Antarctic researcher Ed Stump and one by Jay Braun. Stump titled his presentation “Exploring Scott Glacier with the Blackburn Party 1933-34: The Last Great Dog Team Traverse in Antarctica.” Stump highlighted nineteenth and twentieth century explorations of this land, beginning with the British Antarctic Expedition led by James Clark Ross (1839 - 1843). He moved forward to the British National Antarctic Expe-dition (1901-04) led by Robert Scott, in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the South Pole. A second Scott expedition arrived at the South Pole in January, 1912, only to discover that Ronald Amundsen of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedi-tion had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. Scott and four crew died on the return trip. By the late 1920s the sled dogs and ponies used by Amundsen and Scott were replaced by airplanes as American Richard Byrd flew to the South Pole and back (1928-30). The second Byrd expedition (1933-35) was especially notable for the first live radio broadcast from the South Pole. The last explorers to use dog teams were the members of the Blackburn Party, who took beauti-ful photographs of their trek up the length of the Scott glacier in 1934. Stump illustrated his talk with maps and photos, using both photos taken by these explorers and photos that he took over the years.

Jay Braun and his wife Sara Guti-erres travelled to Antarctica as tour-ists, departing on a cruise ship from Ushuaia (dubbed fin del mundo, or the

end of the earth) Tierra del Fuego, at the southwest tip of South America. Traversing the Scotia Sea, the cruise took them first to the Falkland Is-lands and then to the archipelago of South Georgia, before landing on the Antarctica peninsula. Braun shared photos of experiences on Carcass Island, Saunders Island, and Tra-vers and Stanley Islands in the Falk-lands. At each stop tour members had opportunities to walk on pristine beaches, observing native animals at close range. These included colonies (rookeries) of penguins including king penguins and baby kings who had not yet molted; rockhopping penguins; pilot whales, fur and ele-phant seals, and albatross. At Stan-ley, the Falklands’ capital, enormous

whale ribs stood in the front of the Stanley Cathedral, symbolic of the whale industry that flourished there. At South Georgia Island the group visited Strommess Bay, the location of an early twentieth century whaling station. Now in ruins, the buildings, machinery and huge vats used to ren-der whale blubber into whale oil are still visible. It was a fascinating trip.

Fall Short Talks Luncheon

Jay Braun

Ed Stump


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One of my favorite movies is the Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe (1972), which included some remark-able French comedy in a spy movie. A similar Gallic humor is ubiquitous in Martin Walker’s Chief of Police Bruno books. These fifteen stories are sequential, so I recommend be-ginning with the initial one (Bruno, Chief of Police, Vintage, 2008). Set in Perigord, a wine-producing region in France, most of the fifteen nov-els involve some aspect of WW II French Resistance that re-surfaces in modern times. Marigold and I were privileged to meet Walker at a re-cent Poison Pen soiree in Scottsdale. Walker is British, lives in France and the USA, and is a former diplomat, hence he is both suave and interest-ing. If you want to skip ahead in his book series, I recommend his 7th, The Resistance Man (Knopf, 2014). In this story Bruno’s two girl-friends meet (fireworks), while Bruno is solving a complex antiques dealers’ scam in Britain and California.

I enjoy reading series, such as Bru-no’s, that are still being written and hence extended. A second French author, Jean-Luc Bannalec, writes a different type of French detective story in which the lead character acts like a caricature hot-headed Amer-ican, but one who has a high level of intuition. These stories—there are currently four—have complex plots, with more than the usual an-cient Chinese sets of three themes. I particularly enjoyed the 4th book, The Missing Corpse (Minotaur, 2018), in which a retired, famous French ac-tress ‘helps’ the hero solve a puzzling case. This actress could only have been French! Bannalec’s stories are set in Brittany and invoke a French seacoast atmosphere.

Each of these authors’ stories emphasize French wine and cuisine, which provide interesting sidelights to the mysteries. (Even the villains have good taste.)

Louise Penny writes an interest-

ing series about a French-Canadian Police Inspector Armand Gamache who lives in the Quebec countryside. I find it illuminating to compare her writing with that of Walker and Ban-nalec on topics such as humor, sex and plots. For those who are inter-ested, take a look and let me know your comparisons on these or other dimensions.

The Walker and Bannalec books were recommended to me by son in law Brett Bodemer, Liberal Arts Li-brarian at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, who has degrees in Library Science and French.

Emeritus Bookshelf

Bob Barnhill’s

When I was 6 years old, I was hit by a car. That experience float-ed around in the back of my mind for years as I became a professor of statistics and served as an expert witness in over 120 automobile safe-ty cases. But it was only when I saw my first grandchild in the back of a 5-star safety rated car – one I knew was quite unsafe – that I realized my calling in life. I had to help families like yours make better car choices. A year ago, I launched www.TheAutoProfessor.com. My premier product is the Auto Grade, which is a car’s safety rating based on feder-al, fatal crash statistics. The ratings are based on the number of belt-ed drivers who walked away from a crash and the number who perished. Those cars with the best on-the-road survival record get A’s and B’s, those with the worse, get D’s and F’s. Plus, since these rating are based on statis-tics about real people, we often give different safety ratings by age and gender of the driver. Here’s an example in Figure 1. Overall, we give the 2017 Toyo-ta Camry an Auto Grade of B, that is, above average driver protection. When we look in more detail at the gender and age of the driver, the rat-ings vary quite markedly. Women be-tween the ages of 23 and 50 and men 23 to 30 are rated among the best

with Auto Grades of A’s and A-‘s. In other words, these types of drivers in this make-model experienced the least harm in the worse crashes. But this pattern does not hold up with the older drivers. Men over 51 receive an Auto Grade of B- whereas wom-en over 51 receive the worse grade of C+. The Auto Grades system is the only safety rating system that reflects the science, i.e., that we need more protection in cars as we age. Find out more about this very important health topic in our blog, Older Driv-ers: Getting Educated. In the past 25 years, the traditional safety rating systems by our National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-tion and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have helped to mo-tivate car manufacturers to achieve the highest 5-star safety rating and Top Safety Pick award. Manufactur-ers are making safer cars. But when the SmartCar ForTwo and the Chevy Tahoe both get 4 star safety ratings, you know something is wrong. We invite you to learn why this happens and how Auto Grades is different . And if you want to see if your car makes the grade, don’t hesitate to look because it’s all free.

Why Your Car May Not Be as Safe as You Think

By Norma Hubele

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A drive to “save the world, one person at a time” Part-time Loveland Resident to organize second medical mission trip to Nigeria

By Shelley Widhalm

This article about EC member Shannon Perry appeared originally in the Loveland (CO.) Reporter Herald in August, 2019 and is reprinted with permission from that publication.

Retired nurse Shannon Perry feels for the people of Bacita, Nigeria, after she helped organize a medical mis-sion trip there in 2017. The village’s hospital, St. Brendan’s Catholic Hos-pital, is overcrowded, run down and doesn’t have enough staffing. So Per-ry, who lives part-time in Loveland and Phoenix, Ariz., and her mission-ary partner, Maria Fullinwider, are organizing a second mission trip to Bacita in April 2020 to set up a clinic, provide equipment and medication and help repair the hospital buildings.“They’re not long-term missions,” said Perry, a registered nurse with a doctorate in educational psychology who spent her career as a maternity nurse and has done mission work for more than 20 years. “We just go in and do what we can and leave.” Perry and Fullinwider need eight to 10 people to go with them for one week to the small rural village south-west of the capital of Abuja, includ-

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in your trust; 6) failure to plan for con-tingencies, such as heirs “dying out of order;” 7) failure to consider blended family issues and potential contests; 8)

failure to plan for potential incapacity; 9) failure to consider using a trust as a part of your estate plan; 10) failure to provide your designated successors necessary information regarding the identity and location of your assets. She detailed the documents necessary in an estate plan: a health care power of attorney (both physical and men-tal health care), a living will, a financial power of attorney, a last will and tes-tament or trust.

Bivens also discussed a central con-cern of Elder Law: long-term care for elders who, at some point, will need assistance to perform the tasks of dai-ly living. She explained the possibili-ties for such care, whether at home, in

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To learn more, please visit her website at www.bivenslaw.com.

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ing physicians, nurses, other medical personnel and those who are willing to do building repairs. The volun-teers will be required to pay $3,000 to $3,500 to cover their travel costs. Perry, a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Love-land, and Fullinwider, a member of Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Boulder, participated in a clinic in Bacita in 2017, where they helped distribute medications and supplies and saw 625 people in three days, some traveling from more than two hours away. They noted that the hospital had limited electricity, poor and outdated equipment, torn mattresses, dirty toilet facilities and peeling paint, plus a small, poorly lit

pharmacy with few medications avail-able. They realized they wanted to do more, so they organized the second trip.

The wish list

For the trip, Fullinwider is leading an effort to raise money toward a wish list worth $113,300 to help cov-er repair and equipment needs in sev-eral areas of the hospital. So far, she and Perry have raised $15,300. The wish list includes repairing the male, female and children’s and materni-ty wards and the operating room, outpatient area, laboratory, pharma-cy, administrative block and staff quarters. It also includes providing medication, tables and chairs for the pharmacy; equipment and furniture for the entire facility, such as oper-ating tables, beds, tables, chairs, and ultrasound and X-ray machines; and surgical instruments and supplies and linens. Of the money that will be raised, $25,000 will cover the cost of as-sessing needs and shipping a 40-foot container of medical equipment and supplies through Project CURE, a Centennial-based nonprofit that de-livers donated medical equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics in developing countries. Hospitals and others donate used equipment to the nonprofit, so that organizations helping the countries do not have to procure the donations or find the

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And so after all that

bio notes by Gus Edwards

I’ve often heard it said that you don’t pick your profession, your pro-fession picks you. I’m not always so sure that I believe it. But in my case it certainly seems that way.

At a very young age I became captivated by moving images on a screen. And not long after I learned to read, by the words on the page and the order in which they were placed. That became a source of major fasci-nation for me.

I read a lot. The good, the crazy, the not-so-good and even the for-bidden. Some authors who stood out and made a life long impression are Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Miller and W. Somer-set Maugham, among others. Later on, as an adult, writers like Fitzger-ald, Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Chester Himes, Joyce Carol Oates, Kafka, Pinter, Charles Bukowski and Marguerite Duras weighed in on my literary consciousness.

Books and movies in vivid and exciting ways revealed a larger world beyond that of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, the US territory where I grew up and went to school.

In 1959 I moved to New York City to try and become a part of the world of letters and cinema. With Theatre somewhere in the mix as well.

Studied acting with Stella Adler for a while. Then became a part of the blossoming Off-Off Broadway scene of the 1960s where you per-formed for free in abandoned or va-cant store fronts, lofts and churches all the while working in restaurants and other places to pay the rent and keep food on the table.

Somewhere in the course of things I began writing plays. Short ones at first, then later full length ones as well. Some were produced in the the-atres where I had performed as an actor. Still absorbed by film and its possibilities I also studied filmmaking at the NY Institute of Photography.

Later by misadventure I came across the most important person in my creative life: Douglas Turner Ward, Artistic Director and co-found-er of the famed Negro Ensemble Company. (the NEC). He produced, directed and acted in my first profes-sionally produced play The Offering. This led to the company presenting many others. Nine all told.

During that time I also wrote the TV adaptation of James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain and a PBS American Masters documentary on the NEC.

Not long after that ASU came into my life. I was engaged as Play-wright-in-Residence (1984 -86), then two years later invited to return as a faculty member in the Theatre De-partment to develop courses on Eth-nic Diversity both in Theatre and Film. Enjoyed the classes I taught in Intro to Cinema, Foreign Films,

Ethnic Films in America and the Multi-Ethnic Acting Workshop that I ran for ten years. Teaching became the thing I enjoyed the most. Play-writing and Film (in the commercial area) became secondary endeavors.

My tenure at ASU (1988-2010) provided me with some of the hap-piest times of my life. I loved being in the classroom and working with the students.

Published several book including: Black Theatre: Ritual performances in the Africa Diaspora and Monologues on Black Life, among others during that time. And I met several wonderful people (faculty and students) who’ve be-come life -long friends. People who have enriched my life in innumerable ways.

Today I ‘m retired and have re-turned full- time to my original pas-sions, Literature and the Movies. To that end with Travis Mills, a former student, I started a small film com-pany (Running Wild Films). Thus far we’ve produced twelve features and many, many shorts.

On the literary end of the spec-trum, I write poetry (and other things) almost daily as a way of amus-ing myself and as a means of main-taining my sanity along with keeping the world around me into some kind of focus.

Added to that I’m trying to learn

how to read again. This time it’s mu-sic. And so the beat goes on and will keep on going, I hope.

Emeritus Profile: Gus Edwards



gales, Arizona, retired in 2008 as the recipient of the Motorola Presiden-tial Professorship on Community Re-vitalization at the ASU Department of Chicana/o Studies (now known as the School of Transborder Stud-ies). He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Arizo-na, his master’s degree from Arizona State University and his doctorate in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. His career in academia and the community has in-cluded service and scholarship relat-ed to youth programming, dropout prevention, labor, human services, chronic disease and collaborative scholarship on diversity, and com-munity globalization. He is currently collaborating on an oral history proj-ect on Mexican immigration with his wife, Yvonne Montiel.

As part of the ceremony honoring them at the ASU/Colorado football game, our colleagues appeared on the stadium Jumbotron, talking about ASU. These are their comments: Christine Marin: When I was grow-ing up my parents used to say to me: Dream big, mija, Christine dream big. For them that meant go to school, get an education. When you become a Sun Devil, you become a Sun Dev-il. That means such a rich heritage of being here.

Cordelia Candelaria: I am very proud of the students. But I am also proud of the fact that ASU has grown and expanded to be such an inclusive institution.

Miguel Montiel: Hispanic Heritage is the gift that our ancestors have giv-en us. There is much to learn from that heritage.

Edward Delci: It’s important because the Hispanic-Mexican culture has been bedrock in this region for over four hundred years.

Christine Marin: ASU belongs to everyone. ASU belongs to anybody who has dreams of achievements and accomplishments. ASU belongs to anybody who wants to be here.

dedicated to: scholarship, excellence and dedication to improving our lo-cal community. We’re thrilled to shine a light on their amazing work during this heritage celebration.” National Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

The 2019 honorees:

Cordelia Chávez Candelaria earned her undergraduate degree from Fort Lewis College and her master’s de-gree and doctorate from the Univer-sity of Notre Dame. During her aca-demic career, she earned many grants and awards for scholarship on trans-border issues and women’s history, and ultimately was named a Regents Professor, the highest faculty honor awarded at ASU. Additionally, Can-delaria’s leadership experience includ-ed service as associate dean and vice provost at ASU and an appointment to the board of directors for the Na-tional Council of La Raza. She is the recipient of many honors in recog-nition of her exemplary scholarship, including the Outstanding Latina Cultural Award in Literary Arts and publications from the American As-sociation for Higher Education His-panic Caucus.

Edward Delci was born in Mesa and was the first in his family to attend college, graduating with a degree in Spanish and a minor in Latin Amer-ican studies from Arizona State Uni-versity. He served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador and Peru before earning his master’s degree in social work at ASU and working as a director of minority recruitment at the univer-sity. He and his late wife, Virginia Pesqueira, have been involved in civ-ic engagement and advocacy for mi-grant and immigrant communities in the state. Delci served as the faculty adviser to ASU’s MEChA club and as a registrar of voters and has been recognized for his leadership with the CLFSA Cesar E. Chavez Communi-ty Service Award, the Los Abogados Community Leadership Award and many more.

Virginia Pesqueira was a well-known and respected educator, professor and teacher, with expertise in bilin-gual education, reading and multi-cultural studies. Born in Tucson, she had big dreams of attending college and earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona before earning her master’s degree and doc-torate at ASU. Through her dedica-tion to education, she helped launch and further programs such as the Chicano Studies Department at ASU (now called the School of Transbor-der Studies), the Hispanic Mother Daughter Program, Los Diablos, MEChA and more. Pesqueria passed away after a battle with ovarian can-cer in 2016.

Christine Marin earned her doctor-ate from ASU and is the founder of the prestigious Chicano/a Research Collection and Archives at Hayden Library. She is an expert in Southwest and 20th century Mexican American history. Among many other scholarly and community distinctions, Marin was awarded the Outstanding Fac-ulty Award during her time at ASU for her teaching on transborder stud-ies and women’s studies. Marin is a proud native of the copper mining community of Globe, Arizona. She is presently researching the history and stories of African American women in Globe and Miami, Arizona.

Miguel Montiel, a native of No-


Marcelino, Chris and Ed holding photo of Virginia.



A Story Worth Telling

by Richard Loveless

The 2018 episode in Thailand of 12 boys and their coach being rescued from a deep underground cave trig-gered a memory that I think is worth the telling. But first a disclaimer is in order. I am in no way suggesting that something I did had anything what-soever to do with the success of that rescue operation. I simply think there is a coincidental relationship that rang a bell in my past experience.

Sometime in the early 60’s I was teaching a graduate course in Arts Management at the University of South Florida, Sarasota Campus. One reading I distributed to the class members was a paper I had written ti-tled, “Linear V.S. Cyclical Models for Managing Contemporary Art Institu-tions.” The paper was developed over thirteen years during the founding and evolution of “The New Place.” Thus the emphasis was both a pro-posal to rethink alternative managing methods and processes, and to de-

scribe the contemplative practice that evolved in the creation of “The New Place” over that period of time. The students were to read this paper as a starting point to engage in a new con-versation.

One of the students in the class thought the ideas in this paper would be a good read for her husband. He was an internationally recognized consultant training rescue crews who specialize in responding to air-line disasters, particularly those that happen on the ground in and around an airport. His wife reported that he was currently training crews at the Bangkok Airport and found the cul-tural differences in Thailand favored a linear organizational system where each individual had a specific job to do with a rigid practice of avoiding any kind of interaction or collabo-ration with his/her peers. The top down to bottom organizational chart laid out precisely the responsibility of each individual, defining their partic-ipation in the rescue mission based on independent rather than interde-pendent roles. When the consultant examined my paper, he thought this is precisely the model I need to reori-ent these crews for a more effective response to all types of disasters.

He developed a cyclical model that stressed the connections and meth-ods for integrating their individual skills into a collaborative relationship where crew members were free to invent new and novel methods for working as a team to bring closure to a rescue effort. The consultant pub-lished an essay in the international trade paper on the success of this effort. He claimed this method was widely adopted by other air traffic control entities, particularly in Asia and other non-western cultures.

In some reports I read of the recent rescue operation it was stated that the methods used so successfully in this effort grew out of previous training methods developed for airport disas-ters, floods, fire and extreme weath-er storms. Reading this triggered the memory of that teaching experience, giving me a reason to smile.

History

My mother knewHer daughter would never seeGirls being forced to have baby-sized feetSo that their bodies would grow up provocativeFrom the bottom up. Mother chose not to tell meThe story of Chinese women being forced to bearThe unbearable.

My daughter would never seeHow people fetched water in order to drinkSo I saved my time by not describingHow people labored to get water.

I am glad that I could hold my granddaughter's puny handWalk into a museum, point to the three-inch-shoe,traingylar, ornate, locked in a transparent case,

And tell herThat such deviceWill never be resurrected.

Frances New

ASU belongs to everyone.

This article appeared originally on Septem-ber 24 in ASU Now. Thanks for per-mission to reprint it here in honor of our Emeritus College colleagues.

Photo by E. Hervig. Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. 2018.



warehouse space.Perry, who worked as a nurse for 60 years and taught nursing at the asso-ciate degree and college level for 26 years, became interested in missions work with her first medical mission trip to Ghana in the mid-1990s. She also went to Kenya three times and to Honduras on mission trips as a nurse volunteer. Most of the trips lasted one to two weeks and were through different organizations, some of which were religious-based, she said.

The first missions trip

In 2017, Perry and Fullinwider went to Nigeria through the International Missionary Foundation. They helped with clinics in Bacita and Lokoja, working with physicians, nurses and midwives, and spending three days in each city. In Bacita, they met the Rev. Thom-as Raphael Baba, a previous Muslim ordained as a Catholic priest and as-signed five years ago to be the ad-ministrator of St. Brendan Catholic Hospital. “This is the Muslim part of the country. Father Baba’s father was Muslim,” Perry said. “The Catholics and Muslims in that area get along really well, partly because of Father.” While Fullinwider and Perry were there they accomplished quite a bit but still had more they wanted to do. Fullinwider sent funds to help repair the children’s ward and clear some of

Baba’s debt for salaries. Perry helped Baba pay for the renovation of the chapel and maternity ward and paint-ing of the male ward and laboratory, plus cover the salary of a nurse for two years. “I sincerely appreciate Shannon and Maria for their love, care and gener-osity towards St. Brendan’s Catholic Hospital,” Baba said. “Their medical mission trip also improved the ser-vices we offer. Many people are now aware of their health conditions, and they do visit the hospital for treat-ment and medical check-ups. Medical missions are important because about 85 percent of the population in these areas (is) living in extreme poverty, and they cannot afford to pay medical bills. So the medical mission will help.”

The second missions trip

Almost 50 percent of Nigeria’s population lives in extreme pover-ty, defined by the United Nations as earning $2.12 or less a day in U.S.

Teaching a class.

Clinic in process.

dollars, which is about $800 a year, though the Nigerians do grow some of their food. Physicians there earn $450 a month and nurses $170 a month. There isn’t any health insur-ance, so everything is self-pay. “These people are really, really poor, so they don’t have the money to pay,” Perry said. During the mission trip, volun-teers will provide health assessments, do physical exams and write prescrip-tions for medicine and treatment, and if they have the training, provide physical and occupational therapy. Volunteers also will work on build-ing repairs. The list of needs includes installing and repairing roofs, win-dows and doors, updating the electri-cal system, installing air-conditioning, painting the interior and exterior of the buildings, and installing toilets, sinks and showers. Volunteers will be able to stay in Baba’s guest quarters, and food will be prepared on site, plus transportation will be provided to and from the airport and for sight-seeing and school visits. “It’s important to me personally. I wanted to help people and save the world one person at time. That’s the reason why I became a nurse,” Perry said. “I saw needs there, and it affect-ed my heart. I feel called to help peo-ple when I see people in need. These people don’t have access. They don’t have social services. The people are wonderful every place I have been.…When one person gets something, they share with their neighbor.”

Want to help?

What: Medical mission and hospital repair trip to Bacita, Nigeria.When: April 2020, the dates still to be determined.To donate: Donations can be sent to the Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 6739 S. Boulder Road, Boul-der, CO 80303. Put “Bacita Mission” in the memo line. The funds will be sent to the diocese of Denver, which will then send them to the diocese of Nigeria.For more info: Or to volunteer, email Maria Fullinwider at [email protected] or Shannon Per-ry at [email protected]




Faculty Publications

Jean Brink‘s new book The early Spenser (1554-80): 'Minde on honour fixed' will be published by the Uni-versity of Manchester Press in their Spenser series this coming Decem-ber. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) is having a book launch on Thursday, February 27, 2020.

Norma Faris Hubele & Kathryn Kennedy (2018). “Forward Colli-sion Warning System Impact,” Traffic Injury Prevention, 19(S2). This paper reports on an assessment of the po-tential benefits of both high and low-speed automatic braking and forward collision warning systems for cars. The findings, consistent with past re-search by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, indicate that close to 25% of rear-impact crashes could be prevented with such driver-assist technology. These technologies rep-resent an important ‘social good,’ particularly when equipped in larger vehicles. When these large sport util-ity vehicles and pickup trucks rear impact smaller passenger cars, if a fatality occurs, the death will occur in the smaller vehicle by odds of nearly 3-to-1.

Koptiuch, Kristin. (2019). “Taquerías Conversas: Latinx Im-migrants Remake the Flickering Urban Landscape of Phoenix,” Entanglements, 2(1) 2019: 76-96.https://entanglementsjournal.org/taque-rias-conversas/

Koptiuch’s most recent article has been published in the online-only journal, Entanglements. The journal publishes “experiments in multimod-al ethnography,” such as Koptiuch’s, which includes several micro-video loops, which are meant to convey for the reader the dizzying affective ex-perience of moving through a met-ro Phoenix cityscape transformed by Latinx immigrant planners-from-be-low. As a bunch of intelligent folks with long-term experiential knowl-edge of metro Phoenix, Kristin would love to receive your response comments! Norton, M. Scott. (2019). The Con-troversial Issues Faced in Education: The Pros and Cons Being Encountered in To-day's Schools, Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London. This volume presents the major ed-ucational debates encountered na-tionally in local school education programs. Such controversies often inhibit school program success. The local school system is faced by differ-ences of opinion on school matters generated at the local, state and feder-al levels. The discussion underscores the need for major improvements in educational research practices at all levels of government if the resolu-tion of existing controversies is to be ultimately resolved. School funding, education purposes, sex education, student discrimination, curricular offerings, homework, recess, on-line education, cursive writing, the open classroom, excessive administration, educational equity, and teacher qual-ity, are a few examples of differences that must be addressed.

Norton, M. Scott. (2019). Today is Tomorrow: Assessing Today's K-12 Edu-cation for Success in the Future, Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London.This volume considers many of the-ories/concepts that have been set forth historically that have implica-tion for educational practices and the extent to which such concepts have been retained in practice in contemporary education. Educators, students, parents and the general cit-

izenry would find these publications of special interest.

Faculty Notes

Kathleen Desmond, Associate Member of the EC, chaired the ses-sions, "Do artists work for a living? Artistic labor as a philosophical con-cept" by Karen Gover, and "Under-standing site-specific art", by Elisa Caldarola, Università di Padova, at the 77th Annual American Society for Aesthetics Meeting in Phoenix October 9-12. She served on the lo-cal planning committee that arranged for featured speaker Natalie Diaz, ASU Associate Professor of English, Mohave Poet and MacArthur Grant Recipient, to deliver the Arthur Dan-to Memorial Lecture on Friday, Oc-tober 11. The venue for the lecture was the Heard Museum of American Indian Art.

Desmond presented "Postmodern Retirement (Designing Higher Edu-cation Retirement for Cultural Rele-vance, Value and Worth)" at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Portland March 19 – 23, 2019. And she sub-mitted an abstract to chair a session and to present a paper at the 80th Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting in Albuquerque NM March 17-21, 2020. The conference theme is: Cultural Citizenship and Diversi-ty in Complex Societies. Desmond's session will be in the Higher Educa-tion Topical Interest Group and is titled "The Role of Arts Criticism in Higher Education" with three pan-elists, an art consultant and profes-sional theatre critic from Phoenix, an Art Historian from the University of Missouri, and an Ethnomusicologist from UCLA.

Lorna and Bill Glaunsinger served as Grand Awards Judging Chairs for the 2019 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last May at the Phoenix Convention Center. Over 1,800 pre-college students competed for over $5 million in awards at this event.



Bill Glaunsinger, in collaboration with the ASU School of Molecular Sciences, created a new Innovation Award for the School. The Award consists of a $1,000 cash prize, a commemorative plaque and access to expert entrepreneurial assistance. The first Award winner in 2019 was graduate student David Ciota for his research on new low-dimensional metal oxides that are soluble in or-ganic solvents for a variety of appli-cations such as antimicrobial paints, flame retardants and catalysts. The Dance BFA degree, currently housed in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre, celebrated its fiftieth an-niversary this fall with a dance show-case at the Paul Galvin Playhouse. The program was dedicated to Beth Lessard, who served as Chair of what was then known as the Depart-ment of Dance between 1977-94. Beth wrote the proposal resulting in the establishment of a formal dance department, and her leadership, pas-sion and tireless efforts to develop dance at ASU have received national recognition. Beth spoke at this spe-cial event.

In November, 2019 JoAnn Yeoman Tongret took part in a lecture/dem featuring five of her short plays in New York City. The production, un-der the auspices of the Metro Artist

Initiative, was a unique perspective into the production process from imagination to performance. Using

Tongret’s short plays, the presen-tation illuminated the production journey especially from the writer's, director's, and actors' points of view. A cast of thirteen took part in the demonstration. The audience includ-ed Metro membership plus members of the public. The template for this particular view of “page to stage” is singular.

Eric vanSonnenberg presented multiple posters with several col-leagues at the Association of Amer-ican Medical Colleges Annual Meet-ing: Learn, Serve, Lead, held in Phoenix from November 8 through 12, 2019. These posters were: Lynch K, Guevorkian M, Eid T, Shi A, Hus-sain O, Alattar Z, Castaneda P, van-Sonnenberg E. The Alumni Medical Student UACOMP HOST Program: A Means to Reduce Costs & In-volve Alumni; Shah-Patel L, Munter B, Kang P, vanSonnenberg E. The Specialty Newsletter—A Unique Way to Present Specialty-Specific In-formation, Networking Contacts, & Match Insight; Smith S, vanSonnen-

berg E, Kang P, Kaib S. Learning Specialists in Undergraduate Medical Education: A National Pilot Survey; Shah-Patel L, vanSonnenberg E, Kang P, Kaib S.; Career and Profes-sional Advising in Medical Schools in the United States: A Pilot Survey; Coudret D, Baker Z, vanSonnen-berg E. A New Method to Collect, Monitor, and Share Medical Student Data. With colleagues he also pre-sented two oral abstracts: Coudret D, Baker Z, vanSonnenberg E. As-sessing and Using a Learner Profile to Enhance Medical Student Success; Shah-Patel L, vanSonnenberg E, Baker Z, Kang P. The Changing Face of Values to Medical Students.

Emeritus College members Lin Wright and Marilyn Wurzburger presented, "Founding of the Child Drama Collection," at a campus sym-posium celebrating the 40th anniver-sary of the Child Drama Collection at ASU Library.

Letters to the Editor and opinions may be sent to Sarah Hudelson at [email protected] or c/o The Emeritus College, PO Box 873002, Tempe, AZ 85287-3002. Submissions longer than 200 words may be edited. We reserve the right not to print inappropriate letters. Names will be withheld upon request, but letters received anonymously will not be printed.

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A New Partnership

The Osher Lifelong Learning Insti-tute (OLLI) at ASU is the first Osher university-based program in the na-tion to offer a volunteer travel pro-gram affiliated with the Peace Corp and Discover Corps, a travel agency founded by a former Peace Corps volunteer. In October 2019, the in-augural group of 25 OLLI Corps members traveled abroad to help Peace Corps volunteers teach En-glish, distribute health information and visit ecological research centers in Belize. Learn more about this lat-est program of OLLI at ASU, at their website - https://lifelonglearning.asu.edu/ OLLI at ASU is always working to find innovative ways to integrate older adults into the ASU community and beyond.

Juliana Meehan (Stage Manager), JoAnn Tongret (Writer), and Kathleen Conry

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Beth Lessard



Save the Date: Annual Roatch-Haskell Lectures

On February 28, 2020 the ASU School of Social Work will sponsor the annual Roatch-Haskell Lectures. The venue will be the University Club of Phoenix, 39 E. Monte Vis-ta, Phoenix. The event will begin at 8:15 in the morning. The Roatch Lecture will be delivered by Profes-sor Simon Pemberton of the De-partment of Human Geography, Keele University, United Kingdom. He will speak on: “Superdiversity as a new reality: Investigating access to healthcare services in superdiverse neighbourhoods in Europe.” The Haskell Lecture will be delivered by Professor Gerardo Miel, Department of Sociology, Universidad Autóno-ma de Madrid, Spain. He will speak on: “Perspectives on gender equality in the EU: Family policies and fa-thers’ work.” The response to the lectures will be delivered by Assis-tant Professor David Rothwell, Col-lege of Public Health, Oregon State University. His presentation is titled: “Superdiversity viewed from the U.S.: Migration, poverty and reality.” Reg-istration for the event will open on January 8th. 2020. Please contact Dr. Emilia Martinez-Brawley, John F. Roatch Distinguished Professor of Social Work for further information.


Please consider sharing your relevant expertise by presenting at a Concur-rent Session and/or exhibiting at the Resource Exchange Fair, or by vol-unteering to help with local arrange-ments. We are seeking proposals for presen-tations and exhibits in four overarch-ing categories:• Opportunities to Connect. What Retirement Organizations do for their members.• Opportunities to Serve. What Re-tirement Organizations and their members do for their institutions and those in the wider community.• Opportunities to Celebrate. What your organization has created and

In MemoryRobert H. Fenske

Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership & Policy

StudiesOctober 17, 2019

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In grateful recognition of the support given by these members to the Emeritus College

implemented that enhances retire-ment for those in higher education with a nomination for one of three AROHE Awards – Innovation, Dis-tinguished Leadership, Distinguished Service.• Re-Creating Retirement. What AROHE and regional consortiums do to help retirees Connect, Serve, and Celebrate.

Emeritus College members travel-ing from out of state to present may consider applying for EC Conference Travel Assistance. For more informa-tion, see https://emerituscollege.asu.edu/conference-travel-assis-tance.Bill Verdini ([email protected])Joseph Carter ([email protected])

Emeritus Suite Opens in School of Life Sciences

The School of Life Sciences on the Tempe Campus unveiled their new Emeritus Suite on September 10th, 2019. Serveral offices were convert-ed into a 1,000-square-foot commu-nal space with desks and individual offices. 10 emeriti have joined the suite, which has room for 12, and are regularly using the space to men-tor students and prepare for guest lectures and graduate committees. Dean Carter attended the offical launch party, representing the Emer-itus College's support of department level initiatives to engage their active emeriti."I'm very impressed," said Carter, "It's a deliberate commit-ment to utilize emeritus faculty who by definition are well-renowned and dedicated to the school. And use them as an asset not only for them-selves but also for the school and the univiersity's goals."

New Members

We welcome 1 new member, Myles Lynk (Law).

The total membership now stands at 510, including 451

regular members, 55 associate members, and 6 affiliate.

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May it be yours this lovely season and the

coming year.We hope you had a

wonderful holiday season!

We are grateful for you!From the EC Staff



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Mission of The Emeritus CollegeThe purpose of the Emeritus College is to give a home and a focus to continued intellectual, creative and social engagement of retired faculty with the University. The Emeritus College fosters and promotes the scholarly and creative lives of its members, prolonging fruitful engagement with and service to the University and community. The Emeritus College provides the University a continued association with productive scientists, scholars and artists who have retired from their faculty positions but not from their disciplines.

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