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NEWS FROM THE SRA o Colleagues for Life VOLUME 34 N 1 Retiree Community Newsletter January 2015 The USC Living History Project is an March 19 luncheon honors USC’s Emeriti Center legacy for our university newest staff retirees The heart of a great university is found in the intellectual capital of its professors, the Thursday, March 19, the SRA’s administrators who have shaped it, and the staff who make it run smoothly over the 30th Annual Staff Retirement years in order to enhance the experiences of its students. Recognition Luncheon in Town & Since the 1980s, the USC Emeriti Center – through the original H. Dale Gown will honor staff retirees of Hilton Living History Project – has videotaped key campus contributors to help preserve the university’s history. These recorded interviews are eclectic remembrances 2014. Invitations to this luncheon of major campus activities: the evolving academic environment, administrative will be mailed in early February restructuring, and research/teaching accomplishments. to all active SRA members. All “The USC Living History Project is one of the most important legacies that honored retirees may invite two guests. the Emeriti Center offers USC,” said Executive Director Janette C. Brown. Be sure to respond by the deadline “Through the generosity of retiree Louise Ball, we have established a Living History indicated on the invitation in order endowment that generates enough funds for two to three interviews per year.” to be recognized by USC’s Staff Presently, ACE/Sloan grant funds support the Emeriti Center’s efforts to capture Retirement Association. as many USC living histories as possible during the current academic year. The If you are a 2014 staff retiree ACE/Sloan grant recently funded the recording of Professors Nancy Warner and and do not receive an invitation, Charlotte Furth with interviewer Esther H. Gillies discussing the experiences please contact the Emeriti Center ■ of women faculty from the 1960s through today. It also funded 15 short videos of at (213) 740-8921. retired faculty who attended the Retired Faculty Association’s 65th Anniversary Celebration last October. In 2007, through the generosity of USC University Relations and USC Public Relations, more than 40 earlier videotaped interviews were digitized and preserved The J. Tillman Hall Staff Award for for future generations. To date, the Emeriti Center has been responsible for creating Service to USC will be presented at more than 60 archival quality recordings in cooperation with the USC Archives. the luncheon (see page 11). Most of the recorded interviews are posted on USC YouTube for viewing on the Internet. To view the list of completed interviews, including a past president and deans, professors, and staff members from coaches to a INSIDE: beloved parking guard, go to: bit.ly/USCLivingHistory. From the Executive Director 2 The Living History Project’s BIller Award honors Tool 2 potential interview list has more Emeriti College, Travel Opp 3 than 100 names of individuals From the RFA 4 with important perspectives From the SRA 5 on USC’s growth and Senior Cyber Tips; News 6 transformation over the past four Successful Aging 7 A recent taping for the Living History Project featured decades. “Additional suggestions Hadley award to Astrahan 7 (from left) Charlotte Furth, Professor Emerita of History, of names are encouraged,” Brown Meet new Navigators 8 USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Life’s little instructions 9 and Nancy E. Warner, Hastings Professor Emerita, added. “And contributions Cyber security summit 10 Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of to the USC Living History USC. They were interviewed by moderator Esther H. Project’s endowment are always Volunteers contribute 11 ■ Gillies, Clinical Associate Professor, retired, President, welcome.” Events 12 California Social Welfare Archives. web: emeriti.usc.edu COLLEAGUES FOR LIFE 1 NEWS FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The USC home department for retirees also serves the entire Trojan Family The USC Emeriti Center supports locations for educational and social events; listening USC faculty and staff retirees and pre- provide New Life Chapter workshops and installations; retirees in living healthy and purposeful research; develop resources for safe and explore lives by providing opportunities for independent living; and explore senior transportation continued teaching, service, research and living options for USC retirees. options; and Janette C. Brown learning. We support multidisciplinary, • Home Department Services: manage the work multigenerational, and multicultural We provide email support; issue Gold of the Retired Faculty and Staff Benefits programs and activities for the entire Cards; maintain accurate contact and Resource Committee. Trojan Family and greater community. information; partner with retirement • Legacy: We facilitate recording As the home department for all USC navigators assisting faculty and staff of USC Living History interviews; and retired faculty and staff, we provide transitions; provide USC schools with support legacy initiatives in publications, resources and support innovative resources and information; support creative works, and research. programs of benefit to the entire Trojan Retired Faculty Association and Staff •Intergenerational mentoring: Family. Our retiree leaders also guide Retirement Association programs and We mentor local and international us with recommendations from campus events; and help USC retirees find students through Caldwell Scholarships colleagues with expertise in a variety of resources. and “Trojan Global Intergenerational disciplines. We have the best experts and • Education/Research/Service: Friends” (TGIF); mentor interns and information available right within our We provide research stipends and student workers; and support those own building at the USC Davis School of special awards for service; partner with transitioning to retirement. Gerontology. USC schools for research and service How can we help you? Please call or It is an honor and pleasure to work opportunities; explore new courses; email. We would like to hear from you. ■ with all of our retired faculty and staff support regional cultural events; and offer Janette C. Brown colleagues. Here are only some of the service opportunities through Trojans – things we are doing now: Helping Trojans. Executive Director Healthy Living: Advocacy: • We offer wellness • We advocate for [email protected]; (213) 740-7121 events and resources; offer new regional assistive listening devices and campus Douglas C. Basil Awards Inaugural Biller Award honors David Tool support retired faculty The inaugural Robert P. Biller Award, named for the late Two $5,000 awards are available distinguished USC administrator, was presented to retiree for retired USC faculty to support a David Tool in December. project or research. To apply, submit: The award, established jointly by the Retired Faculty an application; bio or CV; and a Association and the Staff Retirement Association, carries short project description. For more Janette Brown with it a $500 prize and will only be awarded when a USC information call at retiree demonstrates extraordinary service that benefits David Tool with (213) 740-7121 or go to the university retiree community, USC students and the Yvonne Biller, widow https://bit.ly/basilaward. of Robert P. Biller. surrounding neighborhood. New deadline: Feb. 20, 2015 Tool fulfills all these requirements. Since returning from 17 years in China a few Douglas C. Basil : “I years ago, the former USC lecturer and staff member has been active in his North have great admiration University Park neighborhood with the USC Community Emergency Response for my fellow Emeriti Team (CERT Training), has planned and implemented mentoring programs for and wish to provide international students through USC’s Trojan Global Intergenerational Friends some assistance to program, and has helped veterans transition to campus life. sponsor their research Generous with his time and talents, Tool and his wife, Sharon, have hosted ■ and contributions.” numerous events in their home, including potluck dinners that have created a sense of community and safety for residents in their area. ■ 2 USC EMERITI CENTER January 2015 NEWS FROM THE EMERITI COLLEGE An exploration of Washington, D.C., with Emeriti Colleagues A unique tour of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Broadcasting and a lobby group are proposed. educational travel performing arts, and a concert of Gershwin The capstone will be a commemorative adventure, led by music will follow. performance at Ford’s Theatre on the Professor Emeritus Monday will start with guest Sesquicentennial of President Lincoln’s David Marsh presentations followed by visits to view assassination. This educational adventure and Marlene America’s founding documents in The is offered tuition-free. All travel, hotel and Jerry Walker Wagner, Associate National Archives and the Newseum to see food expenses are the responsibility of Dean for External how the media makes history come alive. participants. An administrative fee of $150 Relations (ret.) in the USC School of Social The Lincoln Memorial will evoke powerful per person is being charged to cover the Work, is being offered by the USC Emeriti memories of the Civil War and the 1963 cost of the bus tour of the eastern shore of College for the benefit of retired faculty, Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Maryland and tickets for the Ford’s Theatre. staff, alumni and friends