As I Walked Across Campus Harry Dangel, Associate Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology and Special Education, College of Education

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t is hard to believe I observed my and more than 150 foreign countries, 45th first day of class at Georgia State including Azerbaijan, Macedonia, I this August. Although the campus has Madagascar, Myanmar, Cyprus and changed a lot, some things have stayed Palestine. Our campus is more richly the same. On the first day of classes, the diverse than ever. newbies could be seen clutching their The Collaborative University books, staring at maps trying to find Research and Visualization Environment their way and showing signs of stress, (CURVE) in the library is jaw dropping concern, and even panic — and that in its potential impact on students. Its was just the new faculty. But we’ve all high-definition screen allows one to see lived through that and survived. The details from anywhere in the world or students, on the other hand, seem the areas of canvas that show through much more at home on campus. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” Technology That first week an emeritus colleague for improved teaching is often more 25 Park Place—new home of the College noted the waves of students walking subtle — for example, an instructor- of Arts and Sciences through Woodruff Park. They look produced video that coaches students younger every year, especially for on how to read and understand a faculty parking lot, but a set from the those of us used to working with older, research article or a student getting upcoming movie “Fast and Furious 7.” non-traditional students who enrolled detailed verbal feedback from the As for physical changes, our in afternoon and evening classes and instructor by clicking small bubbles colleagues in the College of Arts and attended part-time. Our current student on a computer screen and hearing the Sciences are gradually moving into body of 32,842 is younger, more instructor’s detailed guidance. This is the 25-story former SunTrust tower qualified (3.4 high school grade-point much more helpful than when I simply overlooking Woodruff Park, and the average) and more likely to attend wrote “confusing” on student papers. second phase of the Petit Science Center full-time than in earlier classes. The Film crews have become a regular is under construction. Every year for at freshmen in the Honors College, which sight on campus. I saw a zombie get least the past five, new housing options has 1,464 students, have a record shot this summer as I was watching have opened for students. This year the average SAT of 1,300 and high school from the Student Recreation Center’s former Radisson hotel on John Wesley GPA of 3.8. second floor. In the parking deck across Dobbs Street (just off Courtland), which Many more students are proudly the street, a zombie was shot several was converted to student housing by wearing “All Blue, All In” T-shirts, and times until the crew filming AMC’s “The private developers in 2013, added a I’ve been told that for most of our Walking Dead” got it right. Last fall the 16-story tower to accommodate several current students, Georgia State was a auto crash debris in the picture below hundred more student residents. first choice rather than a fallback option. showed up in the parking lot behind the Our students come from all 50 states College of Education Building — not a

2 CHAIR’S COLUMN 2 DOWN UNDER 3 ENJOYING Missy Cody celebrates Dave Ewert and his wife OUTDOORS life and Georgia State tour Australia on an Sandra Owen shares University. exchange program. empowerment through America’s Great Outdoor initiate. R

Down Under, Down Under FIND YOURSELF WHILE ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS Dave Ewert, Professor Emeritus of Finance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business Sandra Owen, Clinical Instructor Emerita of Kinesiology and Health, College of Education

hoda and I joined a Friendship Rhoda has three second cousins in any of our cherished memories on Accessibility, National Center Force (FF) three-week cultural and near Melbourne she had never met. Mare of social interactions with for Health, Physical Activity and immersion exchange that Cousin Walter arrived at our hotel with family and friends as we shared Disability, and state, regional and included two homestays of a week his sister, Rosemarie, and their mum, a sunset on the beach, a hike national hiking associations. As a CHAIR’S each in Hobart and Murray Bridge (a Gerda, to take us to sister Erika’s farm, underneath a mountain waterfall, a member, I continue to appreciate the farming community of 20,000 60 miles where more than alpacas reside. At the field of wildflowers in a hidden cove, committee’s genuine dialogue and COLUMN southeast of Adelaide). Our host in farm, we all sat on the deck drinking a morning paddle down a pristine commitment to connecting those with Hobart, Australia, explained that “down coffee as alpacas grazed within reach. river or the excitement of whitewater a disability to the natural beauties of MISSY CODY, under, down under” is how Tasmanians After lunch, Erika and her daughter led kayaking. Being outdoors invigorates our country. My special interest is in Associate Professor Emerita, refer to their island. We had a few days us on a walk through her herd of alpacas. the mind, body and spirit. As promoting inclusive tubing, canoeing Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and in Sydney to adjust to jet lag and a few Their curiosity got the best of them, and naturalist John Muir said, “In every and kayaking by providing “route to Health Professions • [email protected] days in Melbourne between the home they followed us. Watching and walking walk with nature, one receives far water” accessibility at local, state and stays. with a newborn, only a more than he seeks.” nationally designated water trails. Jimmy Carter few hours old, and its Trail Assessment Committee Begun in 2011, the America’s Members of the committee: introduced the FF to mother highlighted our Great Outdoors Initiative empowers hope you are celebrating today. • Discuss improving access to the governors at a White day. communities to prioritize and view. In summer, a Forest Service We are almost at the end of outdoors and leisure activities House gathering March 1, To get to Murray Bridge conserve the outdoor places and volunteer (using a power chair) joined fall semester, and I can see • Identify resources and establish I 1977, and its headquarters our group took a long, activities they most value. This me in my manual chair to participate much to celebrate. Our campus collaborations among national, are in Atlanta. Today’s pleasant and relaxing initiative appeals to cities to creatively in field-based accessibility tests at is robust and vibrant with new regional and state groups exchange format has train trip over terrain connect youth to America’s unique both locations. That day we shared research tools for students such • Provide National Forest Service local FF chapters plan more arid than the rolling natural heritage through outdoor fellowship, healthy exercise, sun as the library’s new CURVE facility, equipment training for trail visits for 15-25 individuals green/brown hills of experiences. Yet the initiative fails to shining through the forest and cool athletic events, arts programs, accessibility measurement (slope with other chapters. The Tasmania. Again, we were empower communities to recreate breezes off the lake. I was finding special lectures and student and grade) San Francisco Bay Area paired with our home- leisure and recreational activities myself again in nature. concerts for extracurricular • Participate in the Southeast chapter arranged our stay hosts and off to a that include the 20 percent of the U.S. Most youth and adults with and co-curricular enhancement, Foot Trails Coalition Conference exchange, and the 16 welcoming dinner. Our population who have disabilities. disabilities live in urban areas that construction of the College of Law • Initiate dialogue with the on our February-March hosts and now friends, As a woman who strives each provide public transportation and building and many, many students Southeastern Office of the Parks exchange came from Jan and John, are retired day to commune with nature in medical services. Many are unable to wearing Georgia State sweatshirts. Service concerning “route England, South Africa, from dry-land farming spite of the barriers I face being travel outside of their communities I am sure you have your own to water” accessibility for the Canada, West Virginia, and early-childhood/ mobility-impaired, I was elated to enjoy the outdoors. Their only Georgia State celebration list. Chattahoochee River Park area Hawaii, the Bay Area and special-needs teaching. to receive an invitation from the experiences in nature come from Celebration and thanksgiving go and the Riverway Project Atlanta — a great cultural They grew cereal crops, Centers for Disease Control and visiting their local parks, many of together, and I thank the many experience in itself. ran merino sheep on Prevention to be a member of This past spring, several committee which are not inclusive. I appeal emeriti and others who have After four days about 17,000 acres and the Trails that Comply with Trail members approached the North to you as community benefactors, contributed to the development sightseeing in Sydney, an earned several awards Accessibility Guidelines committee. Georgia Chattahoochee-Oconee leaders and volunteers to empower of our university community over Dave and Rhoda in Australia FF welcoming committee for their productivity and The committee formed Aug. 16, 2013, Forest Service District and identified your community through its parks the past 100 years. greeted the 16 of us in the Hobart efficient use of water. One of the other with 16 members and has grown two locations easily recreated in the and recreation program to assess and I wake up each day celebrating airport and paired us with our home- hosts, Jerry, has relatives he visits often to 36 members representing the woods along Lake Blue Ridge and recreate local parks and water trails books to read, people important stay hosts, who took us to a dinner in North Georgia. Jerry, originally from National Forest Service, National Lake Chatuge, providing a total of allowing everyone to find themselves to me and a new day with no reception. Rhoda and I became friends the U.S., came to Murray Bridge and Parks Service, National Coalition two miles of undulating paved trail in nature. mistakes in it yet. I look forward with our host, Julie, a retired high-school taught high-school auto mechanics for of Amputees, National Center through beautiful forest with a lake to celebrating with you this fall, science teacher and widow who had several years. He repaired a Ferrari that especially at our emeriti holiday just moved into a new townhouse. She he drove to school — which, I expect, reception prelude to the School ignored our protests and put us in the increased enrollment in his classes. of Music’s Holiday Gala. spacious master bedroom. A final highlight included visiting a CURVE Grand Opening See you there! We had our first “barbie” at the Mount host’s sheep farm, riding in a tractor- SandraDr. Laura Owen, Burtle, Clinical Associate Instructor Dean, DigitalEmerita Library of Kinesiology Services and Health,Special CollectionsCollege of Field National Park and walked off a few pulled wagon over many very dry of the calories on the waterfall trail. A few acres, watching sheep shearing and The Collaborative University Research and Visualization CURVE’s unique days later, we had a delightful celebration enjoying our last barbie. Our willingness Environment (CURVE) is a new $1.2 million center within the design encourages with the St. David’s Cathedral bells, organ to experiment with Friendship Force Georgia State Library whose mission is to enhance research and interactive and and grand piano in a concert of Bach’s worked well, and we encourage you to visualizations by providing technology and services that promote interdisciplinary research mighty works for keyboard. “Bells and consider an exchange. interdisciplinary engagement, collaborative investigation and and learning at all levels. innovative inquiry. CURVE was introduced to emeriti in a special CURVE welcomes Bach” was a double celebration on For more information, go to presentation on Wednesday, Sept. 10. undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff to March 1, as it was both St. David’s Day friendshipforce.org. The centerpiece technology, the CURVE interactWall, is a benefit from its advanced visualization and computing capabilities. and FF’s World Friendship Day. state-of-the-art, 24-foot-wide, touch-enabled video wall designed To learn more about CURVE or to request a demonstration, for collaborative visual and data-rich research projects. contact Joe Hurley, CURVE’s interim director, at [email protected]. 2 3 COORDINATING BOARD Mildred (Missy) Cody, chair – BFLSNHP [email protected] Harry Dangel, vice-chair, membership – COE [email protected] As I Walked Across Campus Rankin Cooter, immediate past chair – COE continued from page 1 [email protected] L. Lynn Hogue, secretary – Law [email protected] John Hogan, treasurer, past chair – RCB What’s next? The trolley line through [email protected] campus should be running this fall. It will Dave Ewert, past chair – RCB [email protected] connect the King Center with Centennial Glenn Abney, bylaws chair – CAS Olympic Park and transport students, [email protected] faculty and staff, as well as introduce Teryl Frey, activities chair – CAS [email protected] more out-of-town visitors to our campus. Anne Page Mosby, author series chair – As for Turner Field, those of us who live Library Emerita [email protected] in Atlanta are quite aware that the Braves Harvey Newman, member – SPS are vacating their home, and Georgia State, [email protected] Sandra Owen, website chair – COE in partnership with a private development [email protected] company, has submitted one of several Lorene Pilcher, past chair – COE proposals under consideration by the [email protected] Props for the movie Fast and Furious 7 Pat Sartain, communications chair – city. Preliminary details include a 30,000- alumni director emerita behind the COE Bldg [email protected] seat stadium for football and soccer, a Charles Williams, member – RCB baseball field on the footprint of Fulton [email protected] Marshall Kreuter, member - SPH County Stadium that incorporates the downtown and see for yourself. You may [email protected] left-field wall where Henry Arron hit his also want to read about the University’s David Fraboni, university representative – Development and Alumni Affairs record 715th home run, student housing, Strategic Plan at http://strategic.gsu.edu/ [email protected] classrooms, residential housing and retail and campus master plan http://www2.gsu. options for the neighborhood. Come edu/~wwwmsp/2006/masterplan/.

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DECEMBER FEBRUARY Emeriti Holiday Party St. Valentine’s Day Luncheon SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 • 1 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Rialto Theater, SunTrust Suite Rialto Center for the Arts • 80 Forsyth St. NW

Please join emeriti for a holiday reception. Following the It’s not too early to think about Valentine’s Day! With it reception, guests are invited to attend the 17th annual Georgia comes Georgia State’s traditional gift of the Valentine’s Day State Music Department Holiday Concert. Tickets can be luncheon. Every year the university treats us to a reception purchased at www.rialtocenter.org or by calling 404-413-9849. where we meet friends, former colleagues, current deans and Emeriti members will receive a 15% discount on tickets. They just other administrators. This time of fellowship and catching up need to mention they are Emeriti Association members. is followed by an elegant lunch on beautifully decorated tables and includes Georgia State’s best entertainment. Parking in the Equitable building will be validated. JANUARY State of the Georgia Economy THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 • 11 a.m. • Commerce Building MARCH Bennett Brown Room Author Series THURSDAY, MARCH 5 • 11 a.m. Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Director of Georgia State’s Economic Library South, Eighth Floor, Colloquium Room Forecasting Center, will discuss the state of the Georgia Economy in his annual update. Parking is available at any Georgia Former professor and chair emeritus of the Department of State deck with an attendant. Please show your PantherCard. Computer Information Systems, Dr. William Cotterman, will Parking is also available in Commerce Building lot for a fee discuss his book “Improbable Women: Five Who Explored the (only cash accepted). Middle East.” The book explores the lives of five daring women from different time periods who ventured into the heart of the region.

RECAP: PROVOST EVENT

n Wednesday, October 15, the Georgia State Emeriti with follow up advising, Association held its annual program to welcome new the graduation rate Oemeriti and hear the provost’s university update. This for our students has year we had one new member, Vijay Vaishnavi, Professor Emeritus jumped from 32% to in Computer Information Systems. 54% over the past decade. This is nearly Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness, Peter Lyons, double the graduation updated progress on the University’s Strategic Plan. Most striking rate of other urban, is our success in graduating students. Georgia State draws most research universities of our students from the two bottom family income quartiles with similar student for which about 12.5% of students get a college degree by age demographics. 24. This is one-fifth the graduation rate for students from families in the top two income quartiles. But through programs such As a result of our success, the Association of Public and Land as the Summer Success Academy for at-risk entering freshmen, Grant Universities recognized Georgia State with their first MVP redesigns of bottleneck courses, supplemental instruction Trailblazer Award as the public university making the greatest tutoring programs, and careful monitoring of students’ progress difference nationally in student success. Events & Activities RECAP: AUTHOR SERIES In Memoriam By Anne Page Mosby, professor emerita, University Library Dr. William “Bill” Martin, professor emeritus of sociology, died at his home on GLENN ESKEW Sunday, June 22, 2014. A memorial was Book: Johnny Mercer: Southern held for him on July 6, which would have Songwriter for the World been his 90th birthday. Martin earned his bachelor’s degree An Oscar statuette, a Grammy magna cum laude and his master’s degree in sociology at Vanderbilt University. trophy and a Golden Globe After doing graduate work in sociology award were special guests at Indiana University, he returned to of the emeriti faculty who Vanderbilt for his Ph.D. and joined the gathered to hear history Sociology Department at Georgia State as professor Glenn Eskew an associate professor in 1970. He retired discuss his recent biography, from Georgia State in 1991. “Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World.” These artifacts A lifetime interest in science fiction represented part of Georgia State’s Popular Music and Culture Collection, led Martin to join First Fandom, an which Eskew used in researching the life of the famous songwriter and organization of “golden age” fans of jazz musician. University Library Archivist Kevin Fleming joined Eskew science fiction, and the Science Fiction in describing archival material on the life of Johnny Mercer. Mercer was Research Association. He attended science in the forefront of American popular culture from the 1930s into the fiction conventions and was a guest at many DragonCons. 1960s, collaborating with Hollywood and Broadway stars of the period such as Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald and Dr. John S. Wright, professor emeritus Frank Sinatra. He also was co-founder of Capitol Records, which became of marketing, died July 17, 2014 at the one of the leading, transformative companies in the music industry. age of 94. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota, his MBA from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He taught marketing STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS and advertising for more than four decades. He was chair of the Marketing Department at Georgia State from 1969 to President Mark Becker delivered his 1973. He retired in 1990. While at Georgia annual “State of the University” Address State, Wright published several academic at Georgia State on Wednesday, October books, including five editions of his college 15, 2014. To read the complete text of textbook, “Advertising.” President Becker’s address, go to the After retiring from Georgia State, University website at www.gsu.edu, Wright devoted his efforts to non-profit click the About tab and select Office of organizations, serving on the boards the President. There you can click on of the American Diabetes Association, the complete text of his address. We Life Enrichment and the Georgia Radio think you will be proud as you read the Reading Service. He discontinued this outstanding list of accomplishments work because of visual problems and President Becker noted for Georgia returned to teaching, offering classes at State University. various universities in the Atlanta area for more than 20 years.