Contacting Members
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Honors and Awards
Distinguished Emeriti are chosen every year by a committee of their peers in the Emeritus College. This designation indicates a person whose contributions to academia, the University, the community and mankind have continued beyond retirement. consisting of a major contribution to the University.Distinguished Emeriti
For more information, contact Charity Crabtree.
| Honoree's Name (Year) | Department | Nominator |
| Bain, James (2004) | Pharmacology | Steven Holtzman, Pharmacology |
| Benario, Herbert (2008) | Classics | David Bright, Classics |
| Bianchi, Gene (2005) | Religion | Paul Courtright, Religion |
| Connell, Betty (2008) | OB/GYN | Marilynne McKay, Dermatology |
| Crown, Ali (2009, DSA) | Center for Women | Marianne Scharbo-DeHaan, Nursing |
| DeHaan, Robert (2006) | Cell Biology | Eleanor Main, Educational Studies |
| Dietz, Arthur (2006) | Finance | Jim Hund, Business |
| Dilday, Rose (2004) | Nursing | Susan Eckert, Nursing |
| Dillingham, William (2004) | American Literature | John Bugge, English |
| Fleming, Bond (2003, DSA) | Oxford College | * |
| Gardner, Clinton (2004) | Christian Ethics | Ted Weber, Theology |
| Hurst, Willis (2005) | Medicine | John Stone, Cardiology |
| Karp, Herbert (2006) | Neurology | Robert Kibler, Neurology |
| Kibler, Bob (2007) | Neurology | Herb Karp (Neurology) and Mario Digirolamo (Geriatrics) |
| Murdy, Bill (2008) | Oxford College | Bill McKibben (Mathematics) and Eloise Carter (Biology, Oxford) |
| Nahmias, Andre (2009) | Pediatrics | Barbara Stoll, Pediatrics |
| Navarro, Emilia (2007) | Spanish | Martine Brownley, English |
| Nitschke, Marie (2006) | Librarian | Linda Matthews, Librarian |
| Penn, Neil (2005) | History | Bond Fleming, Dean of Oxford College |
| Rozier, John (2007) | Information Services | Mary Cobb Callahan, Center for Lifelong Learning |
| Runyon, Ted (2008) | Theology | Ted Weber, Theology |
| Sellers, Jr., Thomas (2003) | Community Health | * |
| Sprawls, Perry (2009) | Radiology | Carolyn Meltzer, Radiology |
| Ward, Jake (2005) | Dean of Alumni | Gary Hauk, Vice President |
| Ward, Richard (2007) | Psychiatry | Sammye Brown |
| Weber, Ted (2009) | Social Ethics | Ted Runyon, Theology |
| Woody, Mary (2003, DSA) | Nursing | * |
| Young, Harvey (2003) | History | * |
DSA Distinguished Service Award
Named in honor of Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr., Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology of Emory University, and funded in the year 2000 through an extraordinarily generous gift on his behalf from members of his family, the Alfred Heilbrun Distinguished Research Fellowship Program for Emeritus Faculty in Arts and Sciences offers an opportunity for heightened engagement in active and continuing research.Heilbrun Fellows
The program grants two Fellowships for a twelve-month term each academic year beginning September 1st. A stipend supports normal expenses connected with the Fellow’s proposed program of research, and Fellows are given the use of campus study space in the Woodruff Library.
For more information, contact John Bugge, Professor of English.
| Name of Fellow (Year) | Title | Selected Publications |
| Herbert Benario (2001) | Professor of Classics, Emeritus | "Teutoburg," Classical World 96 (2003) 397-406. "Arminius into Hermann: History into Legend," Greece & Rome 51 (2004) 83-94. "Conrad Celtis and the City of Nürnberg," Classical Outlook 82 (2004-2005) 101-104. "Recent Work on Tacitus: 1994-2003," Classical World 98 (2005) 251-336. |
| Eugene Bianchi (2003) |
Professor of Religion, Emeritus | A Bumpy Road to the Holy, a memoir on spiritual development (currently being edited for publication). |
| Brenda Bynum (2004) |
Lecturer of Theater/Drama, Retired. | Unavailable. |
| Lawrence Clever (2006) |
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus | “A History of the Parachor” (preparing for submission to Journal of Chemical Education). Article on oxygen and ozone solubility (to be completed June 2009). |
| Robert Detweiler (2007) |
Professor of Liberal Arts, Emeritus | Deceased. |
| William Dillingham (2002) |
Professor of English, Emeritus | Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (chosen by the periodical Choice as one of the outstanding titles of 2006). |
| Abbott Ferriss (2002) |
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus | “Social Structure and Child Poverty,” Social Indicators Research 78:3 (2006) 453-472. “The Quality of Life Concept in Sociology,” The American Sociologist 35:3 (2004) 37-51. |
| Jacob Goldstein (2003) |
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus | Fundamentals of Computational Chemistry: Concepts, Methods, and Applications (by J.H. Goldstein and J.P. Bowen, scheduled for completion 2009). Phil Bowen has taken over his work since his passing. |
| Alfred Heilbrun, Jr. (2001) |
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Disordered and Deviant Behavior: Learning Gone Awry. University Press of America, 2005. The Death Penalty: Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors. University Press of America, 2006. |
| David Hesla (2007) |
Professor of Liberal Arts, Emeritus | Transcription of handwritten diary (1923-1926) kept by his father as a missionary in China, accepted by the Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Analysis of the use of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra in the composition of tone poem by the same name by Richard Strauss (to be submitted to Journal of Musicology when completed). |
| Robert Kysar (2006) |
Professor of Religion, Emeritus | "John Is Dead! Long Live John!" and "Anatomies of Narrative Criticism: The Past, Present and Futures of the Fourth Gospel as Literature." Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Studies, forthcoming. Postmodernism and the Book of John. Westminster John Knox, forthcoming. |
| Clyde Partin, Sr. (2005) |
Professor of Health, P.E., and Dance, Emeritus | Athletics for All: A History of Health, Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation at Emory University 1836-2005. Lenz Publishing, 2006. |
| Bob Silliman (2004) |
Professor of History, Emeritus | “Naturalists from Neuchâtel: America and the dispersal of Agassiz's scientific factory,” Geological Society, London, Special Publications 287 (2007) 255-269. Original project (Lettres) expanded to a full-fledged biography of the Swiss-American naturalist Lesquereux after finding a thousand manuscript letters at the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia) and the Harvard Botany Libraries. |
