CAMPUS NEWS
Twenty faculty retire at end of academic year
The following emeriti faculty have an average of 26 years of
service.
- R. Barclay Brown, music
- Ronald Dunbar, anesthesiology Arthur Falek, psychiatry
- Lorne Garrettson, pediatrics James Gouinlock, philosophy Barbara
Greene, medicine
- Ronald Knobel Jr., public health
- Robert Kysar, theology
- Marilynne McKay, dermatology
- J. Maxwell Miller, theology
- Emilia Navarro, Spanish
- Mary Neff, math and computer science
- Beverly Pease, medicine
- William Pendleton, sociology
- William Plauth Jr., pediatric
- Stephen Schwarzmann, medicine
- Demetrios Sgoulas, pathologyTuncer Someren, medicine
- Robert Tomlinson, French and Italian
- Ronald Whitten, psychiatry
Emory doctor leads American Geriatric Society
Joseph Ouslander has assumed the presidency of the American Geriatric
Society (AGS), the national professional organization for geriatricians
and other health care providers involved with America's older population.
Ouslander is a faculty member and director of the Division of Geriatric
Medicine and Gerontology in the School of Medicine as well as vice president
for professional affairs at Wesley Woods Center. He also directs the Atlanta
VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center.
During his term as AGS president, which ends May 2001, Ouslander will
play an active role in the society's new Foundation for Health in Aging
as a member of its board of directors. Established in May, the foundation
was created to raise public awareness about the need for geriatric care
and to conduct research to improve care and quality of life for older adults. |
Chace condemns pickets and their hate-filled messages
toward gays
Monday morning, June 14, many of us arriving on campus at the Haygood-Hopkins
Gate were greeted by the sight of a small group of men and women holding
placards and signs. These sign carriers, all apparently members of a single
family from Kansas who form the Westboro Baptist Church, came to Atlanta
to picket Emory, the CDC, the Southern Baptist Convention and the King Center.
To call their message tasteless would be an understatement at best. Their
message is offensive and extreme in every sense.
Advertising their hatred while standing on public property in front of
Emory on Flag Day--of all days--these people exercised a freedom that we
as Americans and as university citizens hold dear. I am compelled to say
publicly, however, that I find their message wholly repugnant. Emory University
stands for something quite different, and much better, than the venom we
saw masquerading as Christian teaching. I want us to recall that Emory does
not discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation, and
the one thing we will not tolerate as a community is discrimination or hate
crimes directed by our members toward others.
--President Bill Chace
Inaugural Candler Series features cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Music at Emory's new Candler Series at Glenn will feature such musical
luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, Nigel Kennedy, Barbara Bonney and
the Vienna Chamber Orchestra led by Philippe Entremont, who launch the series
on Oct. 15. Patrons who subscribe to the series before Aug. 16 will have
the added option of purchasing tickets to concerts featuring the Kronos
Quartet and Eliot Fisk (with the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta)
before they go on sale to the general public.
Subscribers will also receive a 20 percent discount off regular ticket
prices, lost ticket insurance and the option to purchase additional extra
single tickets throughout the season at a 20 percent discount. Subscriptions
cost $88 or $72, depending on zone.
For more information or to subscribe, call 404-727-5050 or send e-mail
to <boxoffice@ emory.edu>. |
