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April 5, 2018
EUEC Distinguished Awards and Heilbrun Fellowship
April 10, 2018
PLEASE NOTE TUESDAY MEETING
Lunch Colloquium
Payson Kennedy
 

April 23, 2018
Sheth Lecture
Dana Greene
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April 2, 2018
This issue of our newsletter is sent to members and friends of the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC). I hope the newsletter will help keep you informed about our activities and help you feel connected with our members throughout the U.S.  On the left are links to our website and links to contact either me or the EUEC office.   
 
With best wishes,
Gray 

Gray F. Crouse
Director, EUEC
In this Issue:
DirectorMessage from the Director
 
Thursday of this week, we have one of our great celebrations of the year--our annual awards and honors reception in which we celebrate the distinguished accomplishments of several of our members, recognize the new members who have joined in the past year, and thank the many members who have financially supported our efforts in the past year. We celebrate 50 new members! What is particularly gratifying is that many of these are faculty who are joining the Emeritus College in advance of their retirement. No faculty member, whether active or retired, wants to join a moribund organization, and their joining is a testament to the vitality of our members, expressed in so many ways. Certainly our awardees, who are being recognized for their activity post-retirement, are one marker of the continuing life of the mind.

Our Lunch Colloquiums continue a remarkable trajectory of interest and variety. Erika Hall spoke of bias influencing whether an observer saw a cellphone or a gun in a person's hand. At the time she talked, we did not yet know of the police's killing of an unarmed black man the preceding evening in Sacramento, CA, when they thought they saw a gun in his hand; it was actually a cellphone! Next Tuesday, we hear from Payson Kennedy, founder of the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Two weeks after that is the Sheth Lecture with former Oxford College Dean Dana Greene speaking about a British poet.

I am very grateful to John Bugge, Herb Benario, and Gretchen Schulz for help with proofing and editing.  
 
LCApr10TopLunch Colloquium Tuesday, April 10




Finding Flow: Stories from the Nantahala Outdoor Center


The Luce Center 
Room 130 
11:30-1:00





Payson Kennedy, Founder and Retired President of the Nantahala Outdoor Center

 

Note:  This Colloquium is on Tuesday

 

Click here to read more below about this Colloquium 

 

 

LCMar19TopLunch Colloquium March 19






Black and Blue: Exploring Racial Bias and Law Enforcement in the Killings of Unarmed Black Male Civilians 








Erika V. Hall, Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Goizueta Business School

 
 
AwardsTopAwards and Honors Reception Thursday, April 5


Our annual Awards and Honors Reception and Recognition of New Members and Donors will be Thursday, April 5. 

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Campus memorial service to honor former Emory Provost Billy Frye



A campus memorial service to celebrate the life of Billy E. Frye, Emory's first provost, will be held Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. in Cannon Chapel.

 

The Emory community is invited to attend the service, which will be followed by a reception in Cannon Chapel's Brooks Commons. Those planning to attend are asked to email Joshua Peck at joshuam.peck@gmail.com.

 

A respected scholar, educator, and administrator, Frye is remembered for helping guide Emory during years of rapid campus and program development. Frye, who was 80, died Nov. 14 near Clarkesville, Georgia.  

 

The entire Emory Report article on Billy Frye can be read by clicking here

 

 

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Holly York, our Faculty Council and University Senate representative, gives a report on recent activity

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We note the passing of EUEC Member Murray Baron.

 

Click here to read more about Murray Baron 

 


AwardsBotAwards and Honors Reception Thursday, April 5

It is a particular pleasure to announce the recipients of this year's EUEC Distinguished Faculty Awards.  Many thanks to our Awards and Honors Committee for their work in determining the winners of this year's Distinguished Faculty Awards.  The Committee is chaired by Jim Roark with members Donna Brogan and Jim Keller.  The recipients this year are:

EUEC Distinguished Faculty Awards

  • Katherine Mitchell, Senior Lecturer Emerita, Visual Arts Department
  • Marilynne McKay, Professor Emerita of Dermatology
  • Nanette Wenger, Professor Emerita of Medicine

 

We will also honor the previously announced Heilbrun winners:

 

Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowship

  • Ron Gould, Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
  • Larry Taulbee, Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science

We will also recognize members who have joined in the past year and those who have donated to EUEC in the past year.

 

The Reception will be Thursday, April 5, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Governors Hall of the Miller-Ward Alumni House.  

 

You may register by clicking here.  We ask that you please register by Tuesday, April 3. 

 

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LCApr10BotLunch Colloquium Tuesday, April 10


Finding Flow: Stories from the Nantahala Outdoor Center


Payson Kennedy, Founder and Retired President of the Nantahala Outdoor Center

In 1972, Emory alum Payson Kennedy was working at Georgia Tech and with his wife, Aurelia, was raising four young children in suburban Atlanta. A year later he had given up this conventional life and was living with his family in a new community located on the Nantahala River in the mountains of western North Carolina, working as a raft guide and helping to found the Nantahala Outdoor Center, which has since become one of the largest and most successful outdoor recreation businesses in the world.

 

Payson will talk about his decision to make this change in his search for more frequent experiences of "the flow state" while also sharing stories from many other recent and former NOC employees, all of which he has compiled in a book due out this very April, NOC Stories: Forty-fiveYears of Changing Lives at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Our own Stewart Roberts will introduce his life-long friend.

 

About Payson Kennedy

 

Payson Kennedy enjoyed a fifteen-year academic career at Longwood College, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Illinois, and Georgia Tech. He worked at the new NOC in the summer of 1972 and then began year-round work at the NOC in June of 1973. He served at the NOC as President and later as CEO, Chairman of the Board, and CPO (Chief Philosophical Officer) until his retirement from full-time work in 1998. He returned to full-time work at the NOC as CEO and CPO from 2004 through 2006. While working at the NOC, he also guided regularly on six rivers, taught canoeing and kayaking courses, worked as a ropes course instructor, and led extended trips in Central America, the Cayman Islands, and Nepal. Since retiring from full-time work, he continues to serve on the NOC Board, guides a few trips on the Nantahala River, and especially enjoys regular bicycling, working in his pond, and continuing to do adventure travel trips.

 

Payson, '54C-'59G, studied philosophy and sociology at Emory.  You can read an article about him in the Winter 1998 Emory Magazine by clicking here.

 

He was given a Lifetime Achievement 2016 Canoe & Kayak Award.  You can read the award citation by clicking here and additional information on Payson by clicking here

 
 

LCMar19BotLunch Colloquium March 19



Black and Blue: Exploring Racial Bias and Law Enforcement in the Killings of Unarmed Black Male Civilians

Erika V. Hall, Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Goizueta Business School

 

Listening to Erika V. Hall, Assistant Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta Business School, present her paper "Black and Blue: Exploring Racial Bias and Law Enforcement in the Killing of Unarmed Black Male Civilians" at the Lunch Colloquium on March 19 reminded me of a documentary I saw a couple of years ago about the Black Panther movement.  The showing was sponsored by the Emory chapter of the Black Law Students' Association and featured my friend and colleague, Kathleen Cleaver, who was active in the movement.  I was struck by two things.  First, that the students knew almost nothing about the movement.  Admittedly it was 50 years ago, long before they were born and, indeed, even before their parents were adults.  Second, the core message of the Black Panther movement was almost completely overlooked in the media coverage of the movement.  Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the movement in 1966 primarily to provide armed citizen patrols to protect their community from acts of brutality by the Oakland Police Department!  Now, 50 years later, Erika Hall, through her research, is still addressing and seeking to shine a light on that same issue! I, for one, find this quite depressing.

 

After the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, Professor Hall began to look deeply into the psychological aspects of that killing and other police killings of unarmed black males.  She refutes the idea that each of the killings can be explained by their idiosyncratic circumstances.  She suggests that the very factor of "blackness" has negative consequences manifested in these killings of unarmed black men.  Intriguingly, she pointed out that whites favor the term "African-American" over "black," underscoring that the negative connotations of "black" are much greater than those of "African-American."  Referring to many studies, Professor Hall demonstrated that bias against those seen as "black" may be unconscious even in those convinced they have no bias, and in the case of law enforcement, acting on that bias is often deadly.  Studies show that those seen as "black" may be seen as being more violent than whites, subhuman or superhuman, adult-like, and hierarchy subverters, and hence more dangerous than whites.

 

Using images drawn from police training material, Professor Hall showed how police officers must make split second decisions:  Is the suspect armed?  Is the item in his hand a cell phone or a gun?  The suspect is nervous - does that connote guilt?  Anecdotal evidence including some from Professor Hall herself suggests that black men are generally nervous when addressed by police officers given their lived experience.  The studies show that the police criterion for deciding to shoot is less stringent if an officer is confronting a black male rather than a white.  Interestingly, light-skinned blacks are less likely to be shot than darker-skinned blacks. Police officers consistently overestimate the age of a black suspect claiming they thought him older than his actual age and therefore potentially more dangerous. Police officers have a higher social dominance orientation than those in the community generally and therefore tend to overreact and over-punish those whom they see as challenging that hierarchy.  When they do overreact, it is notoriously difficult to indict police officers for acts of brutality, acts that their biases led them to believe are justified.  The police brotherhood closes ranks, protecting their fellow officers.

 

In conclusion, Erika pointed out that we all have biases, acknowledged or unacknowledged.  The question is how do we override those biases so that we do not disadvantage others. Police killings of unarmed black males are the most acute evidence we have of the operation of bias towards members of the black community.  What would Bobby Seale or Huey Newton say?

 

--Jan Pratt

 

You can read some of Erika's recent papers by clicking on the following links:

 

Black and Blue

 

A Rose by Any Other Name

 

The Hubris Penalty 

 

 

As if to illustrate the contemporary reality of what Erika talked about on Monday, on the previous evening in Sacramento, CA, Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by police in his grandparents' backyard.  As the AP News reported:

 

Body camera footage from two officers who fired at the man includes audio of them asking the man to show his hands then shouting "gun, gun, gun" before beginning to fire.  

 

Neither the body camera videos nor the helicopter video clearly depict what the man was doing in the moments before the police fired.

 

The man turned out to be holding a cellphone and no gun was found.

 

NewMemBotNew Members

New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC!
 
Arthur Jackson Fountain Jr., MD FACR, Associate Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Imaging Sciences 

Beatrice F. McConnell, MD, Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, retired
  

In Transition  

Aftab Ansari, PhD, Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
Rebecca R. Bailey, PhD, Professor of Art History and Faculty Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas
 
Ruth Berkelman
, MD, Rollins Professor and Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness and Research, Rollins School of Public Health  
 
Claire Coles, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics
 
Lula L. Hilenski, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director, Microscopy in Medicine (MiM) Core

Michael Huey, MD, Associate Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine and Assistant Vice President and Executive Director, Student Health Services

Willliam C. Hutton, DSc, Professor of Orthopedics
 
Michael McConnell, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Karen A. Newell, MMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, Assistant Professor Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and Academic Coordinator, Emory Physician Assistant Program

Bruce S. Ribner, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine

David F. Smith, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Director, Emory Comprehensive Glycomics Core
 
 
Affiliate Members
 
Peggy Thompson, PhD, Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor Emerita of English, Agnes Scott College

I joined the faculty of Agnes Scott College in 1985 and retired in 2016 as Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor Emerita of English.  As a teacher, I was most gratified when helping students of all levels improve their writing, and developing new courses in my area of specialization, British literature of the long eighteenth century (1660-1820).  I am the author of Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Deception, Desire, and Agency (2012) and editor of Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (2015).  I also published on relationships between comedy and Christianity, and on the authors Richardson, Wycherley, Southerne, Burney, Dryden, Behn, Duck, and Collier.

 

Trained in philosophy as well as literature, I am currently researching and writing about habit in later eighteenth-century writing, including sermons, conduct literature, and the works of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen.  My presentations in recent years have also encompassed current challenges faced by academe, especially in the humanities.

I continue to serve on the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Life and to review regularly for a range of presses.  In addition, I am busy tutoring kindergartners whose primary language is Spanish, registering voters, and promoting a living wage for all full-time employees.

 


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The February 27 meeting of the University Senate began with remarks from Provost Dwight McBride, who provided a brief update on his early observations of Emory, its core identity, and shared aspirations. McBride spoke of the ways in which the Office of the Provost will support faculty excellence and opportunities for Emory to reach aspirations for academic eminence. The Strategic Plan is scheduled to launch at the beginning of the fall 2018 semester. To further the goal of faculty excellence, Emory will do more to connect across disciplines and departments, and expand research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students.
 
The national search has been launched for the hiring of the next Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. McBride outlined some of the responsibilities for this Vice Provost role. The search committee is led by Dr. Lanny Liebeskind, Vice Provost for Strategic Research Initiatives and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry. The Provost is aware of the concerns that many researchers have expressed regarding support of faculty in the areas related to research administration, and he is looking forward to the report being produced by a taskforce examining opportunities for improvements in research administration support and services.
 
Provost McBride noted two new appointments in the Office of the Provost. Dr. Pamela Scully has been appointed as the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education to assist in the continued improvement of the undergraduate experience and student success. Caroline Driebe is the new Director of Communications and Outreach in the Office of the Provost and is charged with helping to improve communications and engagement opportunities.
 
Following Provost McBride's remarks was a report from the Campus Safety Committee, which provided a status update on questions previously asked in reference to protection and crisis prevention, mitigation and response, and locks on classroom doors. Honorary Degree Committee chair Joe Crespino reminded Senate members of the nine honorary degree candidates. A full list of the candidates and their biographies can be found on the Senate Box site. The Senate members approved the full list of honorary degree candidates.

Senate President Henry Bayerle announced that the John F. Morgan Sr. Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Dr. Carol Anderson has been rescheduled for April 9 at 4 pm in the Oxford Road Building.
 
The February meeting of the University Faculty Council was largely devoted to reports from the Faculty Counselors, who are selected to represent the faculty on the Emory Board of Trustees. Reports were presented by delegates to the committees on Finance, Audit and Compliance, and Academic Affairs.
 
The final report detailed the organization of the Class and Labor 2 Implementation Committee.  In January 2018 Provost McBride appointed this University Faculty Council-based steering committee to plan the implementation of the Class and Labor 2 Committee recommendations. Members have been appointed to serve five-year terms.

--Holly York 
 
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InMemBotIn Memoriam


EUEC Member Murray G. Baron, MD, passed away on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at his home in Palo Alto, California. Murray had an over fifty-year career as a radiologist. He was a pioneer in the field of angiography of congenital heart disease and co-wrote a textbook on pulmonary radiology. First and foremost, he was the teacher of hundreds of Radiology residents, most recently as Professor of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine. Murray was predeceased by his beloved wife of 57 years, Eva Baron, and was a devoted father to Dr. Andrea Baron, Pamela Baron, father-in-law to Dr. Robert Spears, and grandfather to Max, India, and Jed Spears.


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WalkBotWalking the Campus with Dianne
 

 
Our last walk brought us to the Miller-Ward Alumni House.  The photo is of the "Inman Gate" which honors alumni John S. Inman Jr. and his sons, John S. Inman III and Mark A. Inman.  This gate leads from the parking area of the Miller-Ward Alumni House up the steps to the walkway past the Redmond Garden. The gate was donated by the Inman family during construction of the house 
 


For our next walk, let's go inside a building that, I'm sure, a few of you may recognize.  During my walk, the building was rather quiet (I was there late in the day on a Friday), but I imagine most days, it's full of people learning how to improve quality of life (hint!).

Where will you find this on the Emory Campus? 




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The Luce Center
825 Houston Mill Road NE #206

Atlanta, GA 30329

   

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