EC Luncheon Honors Graduate Student

Fellowship WinnersPrepared by Marie Provine

Emeritus College faculty enjoyed an intellectually stimulating luncheon on May 2, 2017 at the University Club in which two graduate-stu-dent fellowship winners discussed their research. The speakers were among the four students that the Emeritus College helped to sup-port this past year through a gradu-ate fellowship program founded by the Faculty Emeritus Association. The program, based on collabo-ration with the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program in the ASU Graduate College, selects several winners among the highly moti-vated graduate students in the PFF program. When the Faculty Emeri-tus Association dissolved two years ago, the fellowship program moved to the Emeritus College.

Graduate students selected for this program must demonstrate a strong interest in teaching as well as research, and must have accom-plished enough as students to give the selection committee confidence that they can balance the many de-mands of faculty members at a re-search-oriented university or college.

The four students selected for this year’s fellowship were: Ayseg-ul Demirtas, Mohamed Mohamed, Fred Morstatter, and Dan Tobin. At the luncheon, Dan Tobin and Fred Morstatter presented their re-search findings and discussed their plans for the future. Dan Tobin, who is receiving his Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance, is an accomplished actor, director, and playwright. His experience includes both classical and experimental theatre. He described his work and the perspective a playwright brings to creating narratives that engage audiences. Fred Morstatter will receive his PhD in Computer Sci-ence. He gave an engaging talk on what we can learn from social-me-dia data, including how to deal with sampling bias, privacy issues, and

hacking. Not surprisingly, he was met with many questions about computers in the question and an-swer session that followed.

The Emeritus College committee that selected these students was hard at work this Spring selecting winners for the 2017-2018 year. The com-mittee, composed of Drs. Sarah Hudelson, Barry McNeill, Ma-rie Provine, and Elaine Surbeck selected Angelique Aitken, Beatriz Barragan, Jose Gomez, and Monire-halsadat Mahmoudi for this coming year. Emeritus College faculty and friends can look forward to some engaging presentations next Spring from these talented graduate student teacher/researchers.

Fear Not the Walk to the Emeritus College Office

by Babs Gordon

Some members of the Emeritus College hesitate to come to College offices on Tempe campus for meet-ings, classes, or social events because they cannot or do not wish to make the long walk from a parking garage. Fear no more; there is a solution.

Here is my experience: Last sum-mer visiting family members request-ed a trip to Special Collections in Hayden Library to view some family memorabilia housed there. I could not convince them that to get to the library they would have to take a hot and somewhat lengthy walk. How hot can it be? they questioned. I did not wish to take a mid-July walk across concrete during a week that tempera-tures hovered at a simmering 110 degrees. I knew that neither my hus-band nor I were up to the walk, so I called the Disability Resource Center (DRC) on campus to inquire if they could accommodate us.

Certainly. How many of you are there? When and at what time do you wish to be picked up? Where shall we meet you? I answered those questions and gave them my ASU ID number; it was as easy as that.

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“A Place and a Purpose”

Fellowship Recipient Fred Horstatter and Selection Committee

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On our chosen date, we parked in structure 5 (Stadium structure), and waiting for us at the southwest exit was our driver in a large passenger cart. We were comfortable as we whisked along with balmy desert “breezes” blowing in our faces. The driver took us directly to the eleva-tor entrance to Hayden Library at the top of the Library stairs.

“And when shall I return?” the student driver asked.

“I’ll call the office. Is that OK?”“That’s fine.”

I called back when we finished, and by the time we came up to Cady Mall, the cart was waiting for us. The driver returned us to where she had picked us up three hours earlier.

It’s as easy as that. So do not hesitate to come to campus for fear of inconvenient parking or a long walk. The Emeritus College has so much to offer, and we want every-one to join us.

If you do not have parking priv-ileges, you can park in the Fulton Center garage and be picked up there. The Emeritus College will validate your parking ticket. Call the Disability Resource Center at (480) 965-1234, or email DRC@asu.edu to make arrangements.

Short Talks

The last Short Talks of the 2016-17 academic year took place on May 9. Lynda Stryker entertained and informed attendees with a presen-tation on the Galápagos Islands. She shared highlights from a Road Scholar cruise, taken with fellow travelers from around the world.

Lynda began by locating the Galápagos, an archipelago of eigh-teen islands off the coast of Ecua-dor, in “the middle of nowhere.” Volcanically formed, there are still active volcanoes and lava flows, so that some islands are still being formed. Currently populated by about twenty-five thousand people, the Galápagos were discovered in the sixteenth century by early whal-ers, who used the islands as a rest stop and a place to restock provi-sions, the Galápagos giant tortois-

es being a favorite animal to hunt. Whalers also brought many nonna-tive animals to the islands, and these have become predators to the native species. Ecuador took ownership in 1832, soon after Darwin’s famous voyage, and in 1959 the Galápagos became a national park and a major source of tourism dollars.

The cruise that Lynda took visit-ed eight islands and fourteen differ-ent locations. Usually the ship sailed at night, and guided tours took place during the day. The tour included a trip to the Darwin Research Station on the island of Santa Cruz, where conservationists have been working to increase the numbers of giant tortoises and to reintroduce them to islands from which they have dis-appeared. Many plant and animal species exist only in the Galápagos, and Lynda showed us pictures of such creatures as land and marine iguanas, lava lizards, Sally Lightfoot crabs, red and blue footed boobies, frigate birds, the Galápagos hawk, sea turtles, giant sea tortoises, pel-icans, penguins, and sea lions and seals. In general the animals have no fear of people.

Lynda shared a variety of re-sources she had collected about the Galápagos Islands, and she con-cluded with a poem, which she has

submitted for publication. The EC Newsletter hopes to share a reprint of this poem in the future.

Message from the Dean

Please join me in thanking our exit-ing College Council members, John Aguilar , Marie Provine and Bar-ry McNeill; and in welcoming our new members, Don Nilsen, Scott Norton, Tony Gully and Harvey Smith, and our new University Sen-ator, Phil VanderMeer.

On your behalf, the Council has organized an excellent lineup of pro-grams, activities, and opportunities for you this coming year, including our 12th Annual Symposium on Sat-urday, November 18, 2017 - The Arts in a STEM World, and our Literary Musicale on Monday, December 11, 2017 at the ASU University Club.

Visit the Emeritus College web site regularly to see details regarding these programs and other activities of the Emeritus College. https://emerituscollege.asu.edu/.As always, to be successful, each of our initiatives requires your support and participation.

If you have an interest and would like to assist with the development of our programs, please send an email message to me (verdini@asu.edu) or to Administrative Specialist Dana Aguilar (d.aguilar@asu.edu), or call Dana at 480-965-0002 as soon as the spirit moves you.

Best wishes for the 2017-18 aca-demic year!

-Bill

I like to read mystery novels in-volving foreign countries. My cul-tural anthropologist daughter Mar-garet and son in law librarian Brett frequently recommend wellwritten books of this genre, as in the ex-ample that follows.

Louise Penny has written thir-teen novels from 2005-2017 about Quebec Surete Chief Inspector Ar-mand Gamache. Her writing draws out Gamache’s character, which is endowed with integrity, strength, charm and Gallic humor. The Chief Inspector’s story is developed in the books, beginning with Still Life, (St. Martin’s Press, 2005). The stories re-mind me of the movie, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (French: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire), a 1972 French comedy film directed by Yves Robert.

As in the ancient Chinese Judge Dee mysteries, Penny frequently develops three intertwined mys-teries. The highest level involves corruption at the top of the Surete and indeed of the Quebecois gov-ernment. A good deal of this high level corruption emerges in the 9th novel, How the Light Gets In,

(Three Pines Creations, St. Mar-tin’s Press, 2013). (The book’s title comes from Leonard Cohen’s “An-them”: “There’s a crack in every-thing. That’s how the light gets in.”) I won’t give away the plot, but note that the separation of Quebec from Canada is one element!

Many ASU Emeritus College members have discovered the joy of buying $1 books at local libraries, these books frequently being from the more distant past which we re-member well. In Phoenix, we use the Scottsdale Civic Center Library. As I write these reviews in Arlington, VA, we recently visited the Arling-ton Central Library, where I picked up several local books. One is Da-vid Brinkley’s Washington Goes to War (WWII), (Knopf, 1988). Because my aunt came to DC during WWII, and stayed, and her brother worked on the Manhattan Project and then returned to DC, I have always felt a close con-nection to our Nation’s capital, start-ing with a visit when I was 13 years old. Brinkley’s book illustrates what life must have been like for my aunt during those trying times.

Recovering Latino/Latina History at ASU: Part 2

by Christine Marin

Apache Blvd. Parking Structure, former site of Goodwin Stadium, which hosted the ASU Sun Devils football team from fall 1936 until the move to Sun Devil Stadium in 1958. The stadium held 15,000 people at its peak and opened in 1936. At the first

football game in Goodwin Stadium the Arizona State Teachers College Bulldogs defeated the California In-stitute of Technology 26-0. At the last football game, on September 20th, 1958, ASU beat Hawaii 47-6. The stadium was named for Garfield Goodwin, former mayor of Tempe, member of the Arizona State Teach-ers College Board of Education and a receiver on the 1899 Tempe Nor-mal School football team.

Cristobal Sigala, a member of a pioneer Mexican American family in Tempe, played on that 1899 Normal team when it won the Arizona Foot-ball League Championship football team trophy, known today as “The Territorial Cup”, and awarded to the team that wins the annual rival-

ry game between the Sun Devils of ASU and the Wildcats of the Uni-versity of Arizona. On that Thanks-giving Day in 1899, the Tempe Nor-mal School/ASU won that game against the U of A in Tucson.

The Tempe Normal football team was organized in the fall of 1896, and played its first football game in 1897, against the Phoenix Indian School team. The Normal team lost to the Phoenix Indian School team, 38 to 20. Juan Ochoa of Tempe played halfback for the Tempe Normal football team from 1903 to 1905. After he received his diploma, he played for the Universi-ty of Southern California. He later served with Tempe’s Company C of

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Editor’s NoteThe Fall 2016 EC Newsletter

(Volume XI, Number 4) shared re-search and a walking tour by EC fac-ulty member Christine Marin focusing on Latino/Latina history at ASU. On March 30, 2017, to celebrate National Farm Worker Awareness Week and pay tribute to Arizona native and civil rights hero, César Chávez, Marin led a second tour. This installment features information not shared in the previous newsletter.

1899 Territorial Cup Team

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the National Guard, where he pur-sued Pancho Villa along the Mexi-can border near Douglas.

Memorial Union Dedication Plaque. Located at the southwest entrance near the first flight of stairs, the 1956 plaque explains the name of the MU with these words: “This Union building is a living me-morial. Commemorated here are the valor and deep loyalty of students, faculty, and alumni who served in defense of their country. Many gave their lives on distant seas, in far off lands, in foreign skies. This building is dedicated to them in humble grat-itude so that their sacrifices shall not be forgotten. May it inspire the liv-ing to preserve the democratic tra-ditions they cherished.” Among the Arizonans killed in action in World War II, whose names appear on the plaque, are: Orlando Contreras Lo-era of Miami, Fred Carpeña Sauce-do of Globe, and Raymond Noriega Moraga of Tempe.

The Center for Family Stud-ies on Forest Mall was the original home of the Hispanic Research Center, established by the Arizo-na Board of Regents on March 1, 1985. Inside the Center are mu-rals painted by Martin Moreno. One mural is a depiction of César

Chávez. It captures the heart and soul of Chávez, and his work with the United Farm Workers.

Chávez, organizer and labor lead-er, grew up in farm labor camps, attended nearly thirty schools and reached only the seventh grade. He served two years in the Navy. After his service, he settled down in San

Jose, California after marrying Helen Fabela of Delano, in 1948. In Cali-fornia’s Central Valley he began to develop his concept of a farm labor organization and movement with the help of Dolores Huerta, Fred Ross and many others. The Nation-al Farm Workers Association, later known as the United Farm Workers AFL-CIO, evolved into a movement for social justice and human dignity.

Danforth Chapel was con-structed in 1948, funded with a gift from William Danforth and funds from churches, civic and business organizations in Tempe. It is a multi-faith chapel used by the university community for prayer, meditation, memorial services, weddings, bap-tisms, Bible studies, and worship. When César Chávez died on April 23, 1993, MEChA and ASU’s Chi-cano Faculty and Staff Association sponsored and held a Memorial Ser-vice to honor his memory. A priest from the Newman Center prayed and officiated a Mass. Students wore black arm bands to honor Chávez, and the priest came daily to offer prayers to all who came to the Dan-forth Chapel.

The Hayden Library, since 1970, has housed the Chicano/a Re-search Collection, an archival repos-itory that preserves Chicano/a and Mexican American history in Arizo-na and the Southwest. This collec-tion has compiled a distinguished collection of manuscripts, photo-graphs, books, newspapers, and ephemera. Today, it continues to ac-quire primary and secondary sourc-es that complement the instruction-al and research needs of the ASU community and the general public.

Nelson Fine Arts Plaza. The beautiful fiber-glass sculpture in the plaza, created by Luis Jiménez of New Mexico, is called “Southwest Pietá.” It illustrates the ending of a legend attributed to Aztec culture. According to the legend, Popocate-petl and Ixtaccihuatl, the Aztec em-peror’s daughter, were secret lovers. In order to prove himself to Ixta’s father, Popo went to war, while Ixta remained faithful to him at home.

Popo’s evil rival sent word back to Ixta that Popo had been killed in battle. When Ixta heard of her lov-er’s death, she died of grief during her wedding ceremony to the evil rival. After Popo returned safely, he discovered the tragedy. He took Ixta’s body to the highest mountain and stayed with her for many days. The gods took pity on the lovers and turned them into beautiful moun-tains for all eternity. Two mountains near Mexico City are named Popo-catepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, after the two Aztec lovers.

Credit for the photo of the 1899 Territorial Cup team: University Archives, Hayden Library. Credit for the photos of the Southwest Pietá and the painting of César Chávez: Christine Marin.

Emeritus Profile: Jay Braun

Raised in territorial Alaska from 1938 through the mid ‘50s, often in quite remote areas, I was an only child—“a little handful,” according to old friends of the family. My dad was a baker by trade with a 7th grade education, and he was restless. We moved often, every two or three years, throughout central and south-eastern Alaska. He served as a rang-er for the McKinley Park Service for a while and then ran a fur-trading post. Most often, however, he owned or worked in bakeries. We eventually settled in Skagway, Alaska, then the seaport for the Yukon Territory, and here I managed to graduate third in my class of five from high school.

My mother grew up in a Cath-olic orphanage for girls after losing her own mother to the 1918 flu ep-idemic. She was a full partner with Dad, running the food and lodging operation when we had the trading post, taking care of the finances and the store in the bakeries. She also took it upon herself to make sure that I was being exposed to whatev-er was available from an educational perspective. Even before I knew for sure what “college” was, she talked about the certainty of my ending up there: “Well, when you get to college you’ll have a chance to find really

good answers to all your questions.” (I had asked her if I would still exist if there had been a different sperm or ovum, a question that occurred to me after reading a book Mom gave me called The Stork Didn’t Bring You.)

An avid and early reader, I read everything I could get ahold of—the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, True, The Man’s Magazine, Max Brand westerns and the entire Hardy Boys series, mostly under the covers at night by flashlight. But schooling was hit-and-miss; I was a so-so student—maybe I wasn’t getting enough sleep. Ad-venture and exploration stories were favorites, and I remember being es-pecially captured by Paul de Kruif ’s, The Microbe Hunters, which was pub-lished in the ‘20s and remains an in-spiring read today. I knew early that “Science” was for me but wasn’t sure what to do about it. At fourteen I may have been the only person in Skagway (pop. 650) with a subscrip-tion to Scientific American.

At seventeen I left home and landed a job with the Alaska Road Commission: I was taught basic surveying over a two-week period at the home office in Juneau and then was sent by bush plane out into a wilderness area to join a small sur-vey crew encamped there. Summers surveying, with paychecks deposit-ed directly into the bank, support-

ed me throughout college at the University of Oregon, but with no frills—I was a cheap date.

At the U of Oregon I discovered Liberal Arts and actually became deeply interested in several courses (sometimes at the expense of others). A genetics course provided a lab ex-perience that led to a series of epiph-anies about evolution, and about the power of math to predict Drosophila phenotypes. Oddly, an excellent liter-ature/poetry class rang my bell, but it was the hardest “B” I ever earned. And a comparative psychology curse opened the door to a job as a re-search assistant in a primate labora-tory where I was strongly encouraged to apply to graduate schools.

About 15 years after the still-un-answered sperm/ovum question, I found myself with a PhD in Physi-ological Psychology from The Ohio State University and with a job of-fer to join the psychology faculty at Yale as an Assistant Professor with a salary of 9K. I was 26 years old and somewhat baffled by the fact that I ended up at Yale, of all places, married, a baby on the way—and car payments! Yikes!!

During the late ‘60s things got su-per busy. I wrote papers and grants, became absorbed in building a labo-ratory, worked the lab with students and explored ideas about the role of the brain’s cortex in memory and perception. By the end of the de-cade I found myself involved in the anti-war movement that was raging at the time. I became especially in-censed by the shooting of peaceful demonstrators at Kent State Univer-sity in 1970. Marching in solidarity with “the cause,” I even went door-to-door for McGovern’s presiden-tial candidacy in 1971, incidentally learning, as I did so, important les-sons in humility. Avocational life became busy and began to interfere with other important things, like family responsibilities and keeping my eye on the goal of upending cer-tain views about the function of the mammalian neocortex.

After eight years in New En-gland, with a promotion under my

Moreno Painting of César Chávez

Southwest Pietá

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belt, I recognized a distinct longing for more time away from the uni-versity and for more access to the wide-open spaces. In 1973 I hit the jackpot. I was offered a Psychology position at Arizona State University, (with a 35% raise in salary!), which is where I’ve been ever since, taking time for special wilderness excur-sions, wringing enjoyment out of every sabbatical leave, and earning a certain (limited) reputation as the expert on the gustatory cortex of the rat! (Anybody care for reprints? I still have a stack.)

A key for me in 1973, howev-er, was an extended kayak trip with my Dad, then in his 60s, down the Teslin River and into the Yukon. We had talked about this trip for years, and the experience of it is with me now, many decades and kayak trips later, as a signal event in my life.

In the ‘80s I hit another jackpot. I met Sara Gutierres, and after about twenty years of courtship and mutual adventures, she accepted a marriage proposal. Then the 90s whizzed by as I served as head cheerleader—chair—for the Psychology Depart-ment, surprised to discover that I had the temperament for that kind of work. For me this was one last blast of self-actualization as a fac-ulty member. It helped enormously to be surrounded by outstanding ad-ministrative role models, Dean Gary Krahenbuhl, President Lattie Coor, and a group of affable fellow chairs. Oh! And the Psychology faculty seemed to thrive on minimalist lead-ership for which I take full credit.

Overall, the proverbial glass seems pretty full for me and Sara. Retirement in 2006 opened up more time with our blended family and grandchildren, and the past decade has seen lots of travel and new inter-ests for both of us. As we like to say in the Emeritus College, “You can’t retire from what you are.”

Regrets? Well, I registered too late for my classes one year at the University of Oregon and was left with a choice between modern dance and bowling to complete the P.E. requirement—I wish I’d had the courage to take the dance class.

The WPA, the Moeur Building, and Dance at ASU

By Beth Lessard

The B. B. Moeur building was con-structed between 1936 and 1939, a very long time before I joined the dance faculty at ASU. My interest in the building’s unique story result-ed from an accidental occurrence. I received a request from Professor Naomi Jackson of the Faculty in Dance at ASU to do a presentation for a Dance History class. The sub-ject was the history of Dance Edu-cation Certification at ASU.

Fortunately, Nina Murphy com-piled and published The History of Women’s Physical Education at Arizona State University 1885-1969 before she retired in 1969. By then Miss Mur-phy and faculty had developed the program from a few classes in Phys-ical Training in 1924 into a Depart-ment of Women’s Physical Educa-tion that included Dance.

In Miss Murphy’s book I found the story of the Moeur Building. Inspired to know more, I checked one of her sources and found more information in Hopkins’ and Thom-as’s 1960 volume The Arizona State University Story. I enjoyed both ac-counts of the project and hereby credit both sources for essentially the same, truly interesting, facts.

ASU began as the Territori-al Normal School in 1886 with four classrooms. Most students rode horses to class. The Normal School’s purpose was to prepare teachers, and everyone was required to take “Physical Culture”.

By 1928 the school had become Arizona State Teachers College and offered the Bachelor of Arts in Ed-ucation degree. But the school soon was rocked by the stock market crash that took the entire country into the Great Depression. In the early 1930’s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Public Works Administration (PWA) to provide billions of dollars in grants and loans for employment and to revive the economy. Then came the Works Progress Administration (WPA) a

large-scale public works construc-tion agency to build dams, bridg-es, hospitals, and schools. In 1935 College President Grady Gammage applied for and received a $445,000 loan to rebuild and upgrade facili-ties on campus. The female Phys-ical Education faculty members were asked to put together a floor plan and proposal for a desperately needed women’s gym.

Nina Murphy, appointed chair of Women’s Physical Education in 1936, and her small faculty, proposed an activity building to be named for Dr. Benjamin Baker Moeur, a Tem-pe physician and Governor of Ar-izona from 1933-1936. The grant for starting the Moeur Building was $7,000. After much haggling and many revisions, the plan was final-ized and construction began.

The WPA workers used picks and shovels to excavate the basement and the excavated earth was hand tamped into large building blocks. While similar to adobe, this new pro-cess made the blocks much stronger than original adobe. After the walls went up, with no steel supports, they were stuccoed by hand and painted.

With such a small amount of grant money, it was essential to en-list the support of the community. The response was gratifying. The windows, hardwood flooring, wiring fixtures, and roofing materials were donated by local businesses. Local farmers donated bales of cotton, and women on the WPA spun the cotton fibers into yarn. The hand dyed yarn was woven into fabric on large wooden looms. Yards and yards of different colored material were made into window curtains. The few remaining yards covered the composition rubber used for the seats and backs of the chairs, the di-vans and other pieces of furniture. Except for the piano, classroom chairs and swivel office chairs, all furniture, including desks, was hand made. Legend says that no nails were used or at least never seen.

The hand crafted Moeur Activity Building provided employment to hundreds of people. It is unique for several reasons. It defied the com-

mon belief among architects that a permanent building could not be constructed by hand without steel supports. The combination of the Modern style and the use of adobe in construction (adobe was rare in the 1930’s) made the building the only example of its type in Arizona. lt is the largest structure of its kind to be built in Arizona by WPA workers.

The Moeur building became more than the promised “gymnasium”. It served as an activity building and a student recreation center. It provid-ed a gathering place for off campus women, and contained classrooms, a service area, and faculty offices. What initially was designated as the activity room quickly evolved into the first, long awaited, dance studio.

WPA artists painted every room. For the dance studio walls they cre-ated murals representing famous modern dancers. The initial drawings for the murals in the studio, howev-er, caused quite an outcry. Leotards didn’t yet exist at the college, and the female dance figures appeared to be nude. The artist spent many sleepless nights and finally agreed to

add the outline of a short skirt so the murals could be finished. Talies-in student Bruce Richards painted the murals. As far as we know they still exist. Since the early 60’s, due to several renovations, they have been under many layers of paint.

The Moeur building was some-times referred to as “the building that came out of its own basement”. The citizens loved it and the dedica-tion of the building in 1938 became a major public event. Today the Moeur building retains much of its original integrity despite several in-ternal changes including the loss of the original murals.

Support for Harmony Project Phoenix

During the last weekend in May a PBS talk show highlighted the Har-mony Project Phoenix (HPP). The program began with short solos by members of the project, followed by questions posed to Diogo Perei-ra, the HPP director, and JoAnn Cleland, chair of an EC committee supporting this community service

to youth through music. More pho-tos were shown of children bene-fiting by receiving free instruments, free lessons and training to perfor-mance in orchestras, bands, and choirs. The program was archived and can be seen at http://www.azpbs.org/horizonte/play.php?vid-Id=10739. If you are interested in providing support for this project in any way, please contact Jo Cleland at jvcleland@cox.net. Thank you.

Modern dance class in the Moeur Building studio, murals in the backgroundPhoto by Chuck Conley, University Archives

Save the Date: Upcoming Events

Short Talks: October 10 and November 14

Colloquium: October 17

EC Symposium: November 18

Walking Tour: October 11In celebration of Hispanic

Heritage Month, on October 11 Emeritus College faculty mem-ber Christine Marin will con-duct a walking tour of the ASU Tempe campus noting historic landmarks and buildings related to the contributions of Mexi-cans/Latinos/Latinas to the in-stitution. The tour will begin at 5pm at the School of Transbor-der Studies, located in Interdis-ciplinary B, Room 165, and con-clude at 8:30pm. A reception will follow in Hayden Library. For further information, please con-tact Christine Marin, Christine.Marin@asu.edu. All are welcome.

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Literary/Musicale Beautiful and Humorous

Memories

Prepared by Jo Cleveland

At the May Lit/Mus a sense of nos-talgia filled the room as readings and music brought touching and laugh-provoking memories.

Ed Stump shared in poetry and glorious photos his memories of Sastrugi; as we viewed and listened we traveled with him, awestruck by the beauty of nature. In contrast Don Nilsen made us laugh as we recalled songs and puns from our childhood days. Laughter was trad-ed for sighs when Babs Gordon and Gus Edwards shared read-ings about tender relationships, and Marie Provine and Linda Stryker played three short flute/guitar du-ets. Alleen Nilson added another humorous twist through jokes by and about Native Americans. Marie Provine and Aryeh Faltz brought us another cultural perspective as they played a tango from Argenti-na. The contrast between tears and giggles continued as we reponded to Cordelia Candelaria’s readings.

The word “Bagatelle” usually im-plies a light-hearted piece, but the one performed by Jackie and Dick Jacob had a delightfully poignant flavor.

Those of us who have been musicians all our lives swayed and hummed along to the classical solos performed by Aryeh Faltz, Marie Provine and Linda Stryker, bring-ing us memories of our lessons and performances over the decades.

Dick Jacob closed this “variety show” humorously, sending us out smiling, eating goodies and learning from Carl Cross about the carillon. We went on our way with melodies ringing in our minds and hearts.

Welcome to New Emeritus College Council Members

Three Year Terms:

Anthony (Tony) Gully Tony joined the ASU faculty in 1972, after teach-ing positions at Pomona College, Stanford University and California State University, Los Angeles. He earned a PhD at Stanford University in 1972. At ASU, he served in lead-ership positions at both college and university levels, including, Secretary, Faculty Senate; Chair of the Univer-sity Personnel Committee; Assistant Dean, College of Fine Arts; and As-sistant Chair, Department of Art. Several times he was named a finalist as ASU Outstanding Teacher in the College of Fine Arts, and he won that distinction one time. He also served for ten years as Editor, Stud-ies in Iconography , and as Art Editor for four professional journals. Tony retired from ASU in 2008.

Don Nilsen Don Nilsen is the Assistant Dean of ASU Emeritus College’s Division of the Human-ities. With his wife, Alleen, he is the co-founder of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), and winner of the Lifetime Achieve-ment Award by the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor Association (AATH). Their most re-cent books include Names and Nam-ing in Young Adult Literature (Scare-crow, 2007) and Literature for Today’s Young Adults (Pearson, 2013). They are currently writing a book about political humor for Cambridge Uni-versity Press. Since their retirement from ASU’s English Department in 2011, they have taught courses for the ASU Honors College, Osher, New Adventures, New Frontiers, Sagewood, Stonegate, Sun City, and the Arizona Humanities Council.

Scott Norton M. Scott Norton, a former public school mathematics teacher and school administrator, served as Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision at

the University of Nebraska, Lin-coln, later becoming Professor and Chair of the Department of Edu-cational Administration and Policy Studies at Arizona State University. He has published widely in nation-al journals in such areas as teacher retention, teacher load, retention of quality school principals, organiza-tional climate, and student retention. Retiring from ASU in 2004, he has continued to write and publish. His most recent book, Guiding Curricu-lum Development: The Need to Return to Local Control, was published in Oc-tober, 2016. A new book, Guiding the School District’s Human Resources Func-tion, has just gone to press.

One year term (serving third year for Barry McNeill)

Harvey A. Smith Harvey Smith earned an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics, an M.S. in Physics and an A. M. and Ph.D in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. While pursuing the doctorate, he taught mathematics at an engineering school, directed a theoretical engineering project, and served as a consultant in engineering and in theoretical criminology. Fol-lowing the doctorate, he spent a year as an NSF fellow in pure mathemat-ics. He then worked for a year in a systems analysis group attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For the next eleven years, he taught mathematics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and continued to serve as a consultant to various federal agen-cies. He then came to ASU as chair of the mathematics department and continued to consult for the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. After retiring in 2003 he began auditing ASU courses in languages and the humanities and participated in the ASU study-abroad program, spend-ing 6 weeks in Florence studying Art History and Italian. He participates in the EC writers’ group and pub-lishes regularly in Emeritus Voices.

Emeritus College Senator

Philip VanderMeer Philip Van-derMeer began teaching at ASU in 1985 and retired in May, 2016 as a Professor of History. He taught American political and urban histo-ry, concentrating on the 20th centu-ry. He chaired 13 Ph.D. and 16 M.A. committees. Among his most recent publications are Burton Barr : Politi-cal Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona Politics (2014, University of Arizona Press) and Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009 (2010, University of New Mexi-co Press). As a faculty member he served as President of the Univer-sity Senate 2008-09, member of the University Academic Council 2007-11, senate member 1989-90 and 2004-8, parliamentarian 2006-8 and 2010-11, plus other duties such as the ACD Manual Revision Commit-tee and the Grievance Policy Task Force. He also served as member and chair of the General Studies Council; a member of the university Curriculum and Academic Program Committee; Chair of the CLAS Cur-riculum Committee and member of the CLAS Academic Standards Committee. Recently he served his department as Head of the Histo-ry Faculty 2011-13 and Director of Public History 2012-13.

Emeritus College Council at Work

The Fall Literary/Musicale will take place on Monday, De-cember 11 from 1 to 3pm in the University Club lounge. Park-ing will be available in the Uni-versity Club lot.

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ognized Emeritus College facul-ty member, Santos Vega, with its first ever Volunteer of the Quarter Award at a Volunteer Recognition Celebration attended by Hospital staff & community volunteers. The Director of Auxiliary Services pre-sented the Award stating that “se-lecting the first recipient of the new award was easy because Santosis a great volunteer with a longtime commitment, including donation of his book, Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital Story (2015), to the Hospital’s Auxil-iary Fund for student scholarships in health & medical studies.”

Recent Faculty Publications

Charles Brownson published four stories in Unlikely Stories Mark V, an online journal of fiction, po-etry, and graphic art: “The News”, “Tor”, “Among the Natives”, and “Five Empty Things”. (www.un-likelystories.org). Also during 2017 the Ocotillo Arts Press, of which Brownson is the founder and pub-lisher, published Backflashes, a mem-oir by W Walsh Doane, and a new artists book, The Book of Ka, ulti-mately in an edition of eight. Copies will be available in the fall. Copies of Professor Doane’s book are avail-able from the Press or Amazon.

Norton, M. Scott. Effective Leadership for Policy Development. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little-field Publishers.

Sharpes, Donald. 2017. A World Elegy: Perspectives on Global Affairs. Haup-page, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Sharpes, Donald. 2017. The Evolving Human Primate: An Explo-ration Through the Natural and Social Sciences. Hauppage. NY: Nova Sci-ence Publishers.

Havill C., Coleman A., Hall H., Pettitt W., Eric vanSonnenberg. The Rotator Cuff: Normal Function and What Can Go Wrong. Poster pre-sented at the Arizona-Nevada Science

Conference. Glendale, Arizona 3/17.

Hall H., Havill C., Coleman A., Pettitt W., Eric vanSonnenberg. Naturopathic and Convention-al Medicine: the Interrelationship. Poster presented at the Arizo-na-Nevada Science Conference. Glendale, Arizona 3/17.

Coleman A, Hall H, Havill C, Pet-titt W, Eric vanSonnenberg. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament: Nor-mal and Abnormal. Poster presented at the Arizona-Nevada Science Con-ference. Glendale, Arizona 3/17.

Eid T., Eric vanSonnenberg, Azar A., Mistry P., Eid K., Kang P. Abstracting the Abstract: What Do You Prefer? Poster presented at the Association of American Medical Colleges, Regional Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2/17.

Remembering a Colleague

William Prather, Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Science, died in June of this year. Although Bill was not a member of the College, his late wife Elizabeth (Liz) was a Council member for several years, and both participated actively in all College functions until their health began to fail. He will be missed.

In Memoriam

Donald FauselSocial Work

Donald GieschenPhilosophy

Joan MoyerCirriculum and Instruction

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

Editor’s Note

I apologize to Elmer Gooding for not acknowledging his photogra-phy in the Spring, 2017 newsletter. I acknowledge Elmer and Don Nilsen for their photography of Emeritus College Events for this volume. I thank all newsletter con-tributors and express my appreci-ation to Jo Cleland for consulta-tive assistance. And I thank Selina Martinez and VISLAB for for-matting work on the newsletter.

Faculty Notes

Chuck Backus and his wife Judy celebrated their sixtieth wedding an-niversary on September 1, 2017.

William Glaunsinger organized the 2nd Annual ISEF-AZ Prepara-tory Program at the Arizona Science Center Public Hall on April 23, 2017. The goal of this event was to better prepare Arizona’s 25 ISEF-bound students to compete for awards at the 2017 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Student projects were judged by ASU facul-ty, Emeritus College members and corporate scientists.

William Glaunsinger served as Co-Chair of the Chemistry catego-ry at the 2017 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles. He also continued to serve on the Judging Advisory Commit-tee for ISEF.

Dick Jacob recently completed four years of service on the Arizona State Retirement System Board of Trustees. At a recent Board meeting commemorating retiring Trustees for their service, Dick was cited for having read “ every word of agenda supporting documents.” He pleads not guilty to such slander.

John M. Johnson presented a ple-nary address, “Making a Difference with Participatory Democracy,” at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, University of Il-linois, May, 2017.

Shortly after retiring and joining the Emeritus College in mid-May, John Meunier and his wife Dorothy Ann (Dotty) headed off for summer in their English home, a house Meu-nier designed and built while on the faculty at the Cambridge University School of Architecture in the nine-teen sixties. The Meuniers stopped in New York to celebrate the 60th Anniversary Reunion of Dotty’s Barnard Class. Since then John has been preoccupied with prepara-

tions for the 57th Reunion of the Class of 1960 from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He or-ganized a week-long event shared between London, Bath, and Cam-bridge. Previous reunions, hosted by other class members, have been in their home cities of Paris, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Basel.

The other preoccupation has been fighting to redirect the renovation of the Burrell Museum in Glasgow which some newsletter readers may have visited. This is a building that Meunier and partners won the com-petition for, and ultimately the com-mission to build, in the 70’s and 80’s.

Robert “Bob” Osterhoudt, Pro-fessor Emeritus of Kinesiology, fin-ished second in the M75 (men 75-79 years of age) 80 meters high hurdles (the national silver medalist), sec-ond in the M75 weight throw (the national silver medalist), and third in the M75 hammer throw (the nation-al bronze medalist) at the USATF National Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, on July 13-16, 2017. Pro-fessor Osterhoudt’s performance in the 80 meters high hurdles, 17.57 seconds, currently ranks him second in the United States and third in the world in the event.

This June the Law & Society As-sociation awarded Doris Marie Provine their Ron Pipkin Service Award. The award honors an LSA member who has demonstrated sustained and extraordinary ser-vice to the Association. In Au-gust, Provine received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Eligi-bility for this award includes at least forty years of sustained excellence in scholarship, teaching and service to the Law and Courts Section of the APSA. A panel of scholars dis-cussed the significance of her work at the annual conference in San Francisco. In her nonacademic new

life she has sold a painting and, in July, performed the Andante of Te-lemann’s D Minor Sonata for flutes and cello (with two violins pretend-ing they were flutes like me).

Donald Sharpes will be teaching a short course in October at OLLI on the ASU West campus on the topic of his forthcoming book, The New Age Of The Confederacy, Trump And The Surge In National Disunity, and teaching the same content on the campus of California State Univer-sity East Bay in January 2018.

JoAnn Yeoman Tongret has been commissioned by a member of the National Stage Fight Association to write some short contemporary scenes for rehearsal, classwork, and presentation. The scenes reflect present-day situations and feature female combatants. Although there are scenes available for classes that are in the public domain, most of those are classically structured (sword/rapier) or feature only male combatants. Tongret’s scenes are meant to fill some of those gen-der gaps. A sampling of Tongret’s scenes includes a roller derby “cat” fight; a comic book heroine named “Mad Mabel;” a martial arts scram-ble; and a soft-shoe competition that turns into a hat and cane struggle.

Eric vanSonnenberg has received the following awards this year: Ra-diology Editor’s Award for Distinc-tion in Reviewing, 2017; inclusion on the Dean’s List, Phoenix Semi-nary, MDiv student 2017; the Robert and Ethel MacPherson Scholarship for Academic Achievement, 2017. In addition, in May he and several colleagues gave an oral presentation to the American Roentgen Ray Soci-ety, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Cita-tion: Intwala D, vanSonnenberg, E., Hibner, M., Kang, P., Castellanos, M. Pudendal Neuralgia: Experience in 100 Cases. American Roentgen Ray Society, New Orleans, La, 5/17.

On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital rec-

New Members

Andrew Smith (Life Sciences)Robert Oldani (School of Music)John Cesta (Finance)Roger Berger (Mathematics and Natural Sciences)Donald Blumenfeld-Jones (Education)Robert Marzke (Physics)Gray Cavender (School of Social Transformation)Filiz Ozel (Architecture)Evelyn Cesarotti (Nursing)Manual Barrera (Psychology)

Total Emeritus College mem-bership is 499.

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