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Newsletter Volume 8 Issue 3 - September 29, 2021
In this issue:
REMINDER:
Zoom Updates
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, October 4
Denise Raynor
"Unmasking the Masked Man: The Real Lone Ranger"
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Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, October 19
Susan Soper
"The Memoir Kit: Your Good Life"
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AROHE Conference News
Emeritus College Participants at the Upcoming Conference
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In Memoriam
Clark Poling
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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REMINDER
Zoom Updates
Just a reminder to check for Zoom updates. The most recent, as of this writing, is 5.8.0.

If you have any problems in getting the update, please contact Dianne at dianne.becht@emory.edu for more information.
Lunch Colloquium - Monday October 4, 2021
Denise Raynor
Professor Emerita, School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology

Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

We all remember. A white hat. A white horse. And, of course, a white man. But, as Denise Raynor will explain today, referencing the research she’s done for a book she’s preparing for Young Adult readers, the real Lone Ranger was the first Black US Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi. The remarkable Bass Reeves rose from slavery to become one of the most effective lawmen in history, arresting more than 3000 in the course of his long career, including one of his own sons (who had murdered his wife). He had courage and physical prowess to spare. But he was also cunning and inventive, using his skin color along with his wits to outsmart law-breakers and bring them to justice. And he managed to look good while doing so. A stickler about his appearance, he also used his style to win friends and strike terror in the hearts of foes. He was, indeed, a legend in his own time—and it’s past time we came to celebrate him as the model for a legend of our own.

About Denise Raynor:

Denise Raynor, MD, MPH, is Professor Emerita, Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of OB/GYN as a perinatologist. She remains an adjunct professor in the Emory College Department of Psychology. She also has an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in General Hospital Management. At Emory, she conducted basic laboratory and clinical research; provided clinical care primarily at Grady Hospital where she directed the perinatal ultrasound unit; and served as GYN/OB Residency Program Director. She taught perinatal fellows and residents in OB/GYN, Emergency, and Family Medicine who practice across Georgia and the US. She has published numerous scientific articles in obstetrics and fetal behavior.

After leaving Emory, she oversaw the residency program accreditation site visit at Danbury Hospital, then completed a preventive medicine fellowship, and worked on the development of Planning for Healthy Baby, a Georgia Medicaid program to provide contraception for women ages 18-49, before joining a private perinatology practice. She also served as chair of the Georgia March of Dimes Maternal Child Health Committee for several years. She is currently writing books on unknown African Americans in history and the impact of racial bias in medical education on disparities in health outcomes.
Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, October 19, 2021
“The Memoir Kit: Your Good Life"
Susan Soper
OLLI@Emory Instructor of an obituary writing class
that segued into a memoir writing class

Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

The memoir genre in book publishing has certainly exploded in the past several years. As Mary Karr – author of The Art of Memoir – told an interviewer: “It’s trashy ghetto-ass primitive. Anyone who’s lived can write one.” True, but many of us don’t know how or where to start—or how to keep going. The Memoir Kit class Ms. Soper teaches for OLLI is an accessible approach to capture life’s stories: the ups, downs, risks, relationships, losses, hurdles, and heartbreaks we have all survived. Motivated by more than 250 prompts, her students have shared whimsical, funny episodes, and charming tales as well as dark moments about death, addiction, abuse, and abandonment. Twelve chapters of these prompts are being compiled into a book, The Memoir Kit: Your Good Life, One Story at a Time.


About Susan Soper:

Susan Soper began her journalism career in Washington, D.C. at the New York paper Newsday, and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for The Heroin Trail, tracing the drug’s path from Turkey to Long Island. Returning to her hometown of Atlanta, she was a news writer at CNN before returning to print journalism at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she spent 20 years, primarily as a senior editor overseeing all the features sections and as a writing coach. After leaving the paper in 2002, motivated by 9/11 and a trip to Cuba, she took on a variety of book editing projects and created the ObitKit: Live. Love. Laugh. Cry. Write it down! (www.obitkit.com), an obituary workbook that has been featured in dozens of newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, the AJC, and The Wall Street Journal and on NPR. For the past several years, she has been teaching as an Olli@Emory instructor, starting with an obituary writing class that segued into a memoir writing class.
 
Susan Soper is a graduate of Oglethorpe University—where she was an officer of the Board of Trustees. She also served on the Board of Visitors for Emory University
AROHE Conference News
Emeritus College Participants at the Upcoming AROHE Conference
 
Emory University’s Emeritus College will be well represented at the upcoming AROHE Virtual Conference (October 12-14th). Here is a list of speakers and the topic of their presentation
 
October 13, 4:30-5:30 pm EDT
Ann E. Rogers
From Zoom to Hybrid (and Back) in Four Months
With the help of Zoom, the Emeritus College pivoted to virtual programming at the onset of the pandemic, increasing the frequency of our popular Lunch Colloquiums from every week to weekly as well as increasing the attendance. As the risks associated with COVID began to decrease we began planning to resume in-person programing, in combination with virtual programing. The presentation will describe the technology that will enable this hybridization.
 
October 14, 12:30-1:30 EDT
Ron Gould and Gretchen Schulz
Growing (While) Old: Maximizing the Multidisciplinarity of the RO (Retirement Organization) Experience
We presenters will share the primary lesson learned from long experience with our own RO, that ROs allow academics who have spent years constrained by disciplinary boundaries (often involving literal as well as intellectual space) to mix with colleagues from every discipline imaginable, enjoying programming that is itself as mixed--as multidisciplinary--as it can be. We will argue it's the learning that ensues (such a pleasure) that turns "growing old" into "growing while old."
 
October 14, 12:30-1L30 EDT
Marilynne McKay and Kent Weaver (University of Toronto)
Open Discussion: Technology for the Future
Discussion of the challenges and benefits of technology for us, our retirement organizations, and our world.
 
Emory attendees, among them Holly York, Brenda Bynum, Marianne Scharbo-DeHaan, and Kurt Heiss, may help to staff our Virtual Booth at the Resource Exchange Fair during the conference. And besides presenting, Ron Gould will be moderating a session on Intergenerational Initiatives: Retirees Mentoring Students. Gretchen Schulz is also serving as co-chair of the Program Committee and Gray Crouse, who is as a member of the AROHE Board of Directors, is serving on the Conference Tech Committee. 
 
Although the deadline has passed for Early Bird registration, you can still register to attend the AROHE Virtual Conference until October 10th. Even if you’re not a member of the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE), you can register as an Individual Member since Emory University Emeritus College participates as a member organization.


More information about the Conference, including the full schedule for the three days of programming, may be found at the Conference website, https://www.arohe.org/Conference-Program-2021/
In Memoriam
Clark Poling
Professor Emeritus of Art History

Clark Poling, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Emory University, died on September 13, 2021 at the age of 80.  

Poling received his BA from Yale University in 1962, his MA from Columbia University in 1966, and his PhD, “Color Theories of the Bauhaus Artist,” from Columbia in 1973.

During his thirty-three years at Emory, Poling served as Chair of the Art History Department and was the Director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum (formerly the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology) from 1982 until 1986. He was an internationally renowned art historian who was highly regarded for his work in early twentieth-century French and German art and theory. His many publications include Bauhaus Color, High Museum of Art, 1976; Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983; Kandinsky's Teaching at the Bauhaus: Color Theory and Analytical Drawing, Rizzoli, 1987; Henry Hornbostel and Michael Graves, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1985; Surrealist Vision and Technique: Drawings and Collages from the Pompidou Center and the Picasso Museum, Paris, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996; and André Masson and the Surrealist Self, Yale University Press, 2008.

As pioneering Director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Poling managed the major reorganization and reinstallation of the collections, worked alongside Michael Graves to design the 1985 renovation, and developed the museum’s first series of special exhibitions. In the years following his term as Director, Poling remained involved in museum programs and activities by chairing committees, giving lectures, curating exhibitions, and serving as an advisor for the Works on Paper collection. Poling’s erudite, elegant style informed the museum’s distinctive design profile, which remains one of its signature features over three decades later. In 2001, he received the Carlos Museum’s Woolford B. Baker Service Award.

Poling was also active in the Atlanta arts scene, organizing multiple exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, and serving on the boards of local museums and cultural institutions.

Clark Poling was a generous and gentle man, a brilliant scholar, and a beloved teacher. His legacy endures not only in the works of art he acquired and the body of research he contributed, but also in the lives and careers of the countless undergraduate and graduate students who thrived under his tutelage.

--Written By Catherine Howett Smith for Emory University


Please click here to view the obituary for Clark Poling
Walking the Campus with Dianne
The bookcase viewed on our last walk can be found at the Luce Center. It is located in the entry area of the building at the beginning of the hallway leading to Ann and Dianne's offices and the small meeting room of the Emeritus College.

This bookcase holds an immense cache of knowledge, creativity, and artistic talents from some of our well-known Emeritus members. We just recently acquired a copy of Gene Bianchi's Interbeing: New and Selected Poems on Ecological Spirituality that will be included among the other books in the case.

Once we get through this pandemic and resume in person meetings, when visiting the Luce Center, you can peruse the publications and perhaps even check one of them out for a period of time.

Below, I've included a photo of the Luce Center building where you can find the talent-filled bookcase....and just in case you've missed seeing the building in person.
Autumn is approaching, which means the temperatures are better for spending time outdoors. Let's take advantage of that and walk to the main campus to take a look at something that gets seen and stepped on every single day (and leaves no doubt about the name of our university).
Where will you find this on the Emory Campus?
Emory University Emeritus College
The Luce Center
825 Houston Mill Road NE #206
Atlanta, GA 30329