Volume VII Number 1 Winter 2012 New Executive Assistant: was permissible for ASU faculty, he Breaking News: Honors Dana Aguilar was also the lead cellist in the Phoenix College Emeritus Fellowship Symphony. He continued to teach The Emeritus College and Barrett, and perform well past his retirement. the Honors College, have announced Members of the College were treated to the establishment of a new fellowship. his performances at the College’s annual A member of the Emeritus College symposia. He is survived by his wife, will serve for six months at Barrett, Sally, two daughters, a son and four participating with honors students grandchildren. DJ as the instructor of a 3-credit honors course, lecturer, research advisor and Record Attendance at mentor. The fellow selected will also Symposium dine with students in Honors Hall and hold regular office hours. In addition, ‘Arizona in 2020,’ the sixth annual the fellow will present both an Emeritus Emeritus College symposium, took College colloquium and a talk at its place on Nov. 5, 2011, in the Memorial annual symposium. A stipend of $3500, Union on the ASU Tempe campus. Dana Aguilar meal vouchers and a Research and There were 87 paid attendees, the See Breaking News on p. 11 The New Year brought us Dana highest number in the history of the Aguilar, the new administrative symposium. The three guest speakers assistant to the Dean of the Emeritus were the Honorable Harry Mitchell, Judith Smith Awarded Gray College. She replaces Carolyn Ellis, Roc Arnett (president, East Valley Mortarboard who retired on Dec. 31, 2011 (p.2). Partnership) and Fred DuVal (chair, Dana celebrated her tenth year at Arizona Board of Regents). Mitchell ASU last October, having worked in presented a “Vision of the Political the Graduate College, the College of Scene for 2020,” Arnett predicted Education, and the Biodesign Institute. “What We Can Expect in the She is earning a B.S. in Psychology Development of Arizona between with a minor in Religious Studies, and Now and 2020,” and Du Val explored is within six courses of completing her “Higher Education in Arizona 2020.” bachelor’s degree. See Symposium on p. 3 See Aguilar on p. 2 Research and Creativity Takayori Atsumi Awardees We lost Takayori Atsumi on Five proposals which had been Oct. 18, 2011. “Taki” was one of the submitted to the Research and Creative original and certainly one of the most Activities Program of the Emeritus Judith Smith enthusiastic members of the steering College were funded in January 2012. committee that prepared the proposal The awardees are Anne Ludwig, James The Gray Mortarboard Award was for the establishment of an Emeritus Mitsui, Wolfgang Preiser, Delmar given by Dean Dick Jacob to Judith College at ASU. He played his cello Kehl and Elaine Katzman. Each of the Smith at the sixth annual Emeritus at the Inaugural Convocation of the top three received $2,000; the others, College Symposium on Nov. 5, 2011. College and continually reminded $1,000 each. Preference was given to Recipients of this award are not us of the importance of including the College members who had not recently members of the College, but individuals arts among the programs we were been supported, whose support might who have assisted significantly in its planning. be critical to bringing their projects to establishment and the furtherance of Taki was an internationally renowned fruition, and whose proposals involved its programs. The award is given only cellist and professor of cello at ASU student support and participation. when deemed warranted. Smith, one for 36 years. In earlier years, when it See Awardees on p. 11 See Smith on p. 2 Emeritus College Newsletter Page 2 Volume VII Number 1 Aguilar (from p. 1) more time with her grandchildren. She at least ten members of the College. Dana, a working mother with does not expect to miss those daily Such a petition should be received at one small child, aspires to “lead by commutes from Anthem to the Tempe the Emeritus College Center by Friday, example” and to help others find joy in campus. April 13, 2012, to allow time for its their daily commitments and actions, distribution to the membership. including better health and fitness. She A vote to ratify the revised bylaws will is an independent wellness and life Happy Birthday to Molière be taken at the Annual Membership coach, who aims at ending the trend The Emeritus College Humanities Meeting of the Emeritus College on toward obesity in our nation. She works Faculty, co-chaired by Don and Thursday, April 26, 2012, a place and as a volunteer at local schools and non- Alleen Nilsen, is developing a series time to be announced. A two-thirds profit organizations and loves to read. of presentations and discussions on vote of College members present at She is “passionate” about self-defense important people in various academic the annual meeting is required for and home fitness programs like Krav areas, and Jean-Baptiste Molière (Jan. ratification. Upon member ratification, Maga, Taekwondo and Beachbody, in 15, 1622 – Feb. 17, 1673) is one of the proposed new bylaws will be addition to sports. Dana also mentors them. The first meeting of this new forwarded to the Provost for final teens and tweens and believes that “the group of emeritus faculty was on Jan. university approval. The Provost’s past doesn’t equal the future, and that 25, 2012, and centered around Robbie office has been kept abreast of the growth, no matter how slow, is better Burns, Scotland’s favorite son (Jan. 25, bylaws’ revision throughout the than no growth at all.” She is a welcome 1759 – July 21, 1796). procedure. addition to the Emeritus Center. Subsequent meetings this spring will focus on: Deconstruction and the French Smith (from p. 1) Retirement Party philosopher Jacques Derrida (July 15, of the College’s oldest and best friends, 1930 – Oct. 9, 2004)); Intertextuality is its sixth honoree. and Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901- Smith is a journalist with extensive Sept. 9, 1981); and Molière’s Comedy experience in California and Arizona, of Humours (L’Avare, La Malade and a feature writer for ASU’s Media Imaginaire, Le Bourgeois Gentil- Relations office. During the College’s homme, Le Misanthrope, Le Medecin earliest days when it was struggling to Malgré Lui and Tartuffe). acquire name and mission recognition, she understood the vision of Dean Revision of Bylaws Jacob and the founding members of the College. She expressed this in Carolyn Ellis and Dick Jacob The Emeritus College bylaws were noteworthy articles in the weekly last amended on April 23, 2009. Upon periodical, ASU Insight, the print A party for Carolyn Ellis, the entering its eighth year, a full review of version of today’s ASU News. She also Emeritus College’s office administrator College bylaws was warranted, based provided advice on building a portfolio since spring 2011, was held on Decem- on its rapid growth in membership and of information and photographs for ber 15 in celebration of her retirement experience. In summer 2011, Dean the fledgling College that would be from ASU. It was held in the conference Richard Jacob charged the Bylaws useful to other news organization. As room of the EC Center. Many faculty Committee, chaired by Patricia Etter, Jacob stated, “we never experienced members, and others unable to attend, to prepare a revision that would correct significant difficulties in explaining wished her well. Dana Aguilar (p. 1), for problems or omissions in the the vision of the Emeritus College … who replaces her, attended the event. A current document. Among the changes due in great respect to Judith’s having special guest was Carolyn’s husband, proposed by the Committee were adopted and assisted us.” Jeff Ellis, who took time from his work procedures for conducting Council to surprise her. member nominations and elections. A colorfully decorated chocolate After receiving the approval of the Spring Colloquium Speakers cake and sparkling cider were served College Council on Jan. 12, 2012, the The first speaker scheduled for the at the party, and Linda Stryker played proposed bylaws’ revision is being Emeritus College colloquium series this the piano. Dean Dick Jacob thanked prepared to send to the membership for spring is Dennis Hoffman, director of Carolyn for her excellent service to the review. the WPC Seidman Research Institute in EC and presented her with a Kindle Additional amendments to the bylaws ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business. Fire as a departing gift. proposed by the membership must be His topic for Feb. 15, 2012, is “A Carolyn looks forward to spending submitted by petition and signed by See Colloquium Speakers (p. 5) Emeritus College Newsletter Winter 2012 Page 3

Symposium (from p. 1) Luncheon guests were treated to a recital of two movements from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins. The violinists were Amanda Meyers and John Aguilar, and Leonard “Aryeh” Faltz played the piano. Another luncheon highlight was the presentation of the College’s Gray Mortarboard Award to Judith Smith. Contributed papers by College members included 18 talks divided among three sets of parallel sessions, which were moderated by EC Council members. Presentations spanned the arts, humor, history, medicine, sciences, psychology, religion, sociology and volunteering. For the fist time, a pre-symposium social gathering was held at the Emeritus Center in Old Main on the evening before the event. Spirited discussions and tasty refreshments were enjoyed by about 30 emeriti and spouses in attendance. By consensus the 2011 symposium was the best one to date. Emeritus College Newsletter Page 4 Volume VII Number 1 Editor’s note: I forward these timely letters from two of our readers to all members of the Emeritus College so that they may begin the New Year with a thoughtful challenge and some light-hearted holiday fun. Enjoy! Sensible Calendar Reform To The Editor: Year is Rosh Hashanah. The Muslim calendar begins from I continue the discussion Dick Jacob opened (fall 2011 the year of emigration (hegira) of Mohammad from Mecca newsletter) about the calendar. to Medina in 622 CE. Are you confused by end-of-the-year bills and the Britain and most Protestant countries continued to use beginning of a new tax year? Wondering whether another the Roman Julian calendar — named after Julius Caesar in birthday, another year on a diet plan can be skipped? Or are 45 BCE –– instead of the European–adopted calendar of you just curious about how the reckoning of time began, Pope Gregory, but finally passed a calendar reform law in why Hanukkah sometimes overlaps Christmas, or why 1751. British citizens went to sleep on Sept. 2, 1752, and Easter never falls on the same week? Welcome to the world the next day was reckoned September 14. Even Alaska used of calendar confusion based on the most ancient of rituals the Julian calendar until 1867. Russia did not adopt calendar –– religious feasts, harvest and taxes. reform until 1918. The word calendar is derived from the Latin word kalendae. Names of the months, except April and June, are still It dates from the third millennium BCE and is based on Roman: January for the god Janus, who looks both ways; registration for taxation and the dating of festivals. Months February after Februa, the Roman feast of purification; were determined by lunar phases. March after Mars, the god of war; May after the goddess The Babylonians used 29 and 30-day periods because they Maia; July after Julius Caesar; August after Roman emperor reckoned in multiples of twelve. Thus, 5 x 12 equals 60, Caesar Augustus; and September, October, November and which is still how we calculate hours and minutes. Egyptians December were, respectively, the seventh, eighth, ninth and fixed a month at 30 days, but the Romans alternated between tenth months in the Julian calendar. Days of the week are 28, 30, and 31 days. named after the Norse gods Woden, Thor, Frieda and Tyr Pope Gregory’s calendar reform, begun in 1572, ended in (Tîwaz; Tuesday), the Roman god Saturn, moon day and sun the Papal Bull of 1582. In it, ten days were omitted from the day. calendar, the time value of 365.242 was accepted, and the I propose a new calendar of 13 months of 28 days each, so beginning of a new year was set as January 1. Also, every that the first day of each month would be the same weekday. fourth centennial year would be a leap year to maintain This would equal 364 days. The last day of the year would be accuracy. For example, 2000 was a leap year, but not 1700, a holiday named after a globally significant person. Leftover 1800, or 1900. hours and minutes could be calibrated like leap years are Jewish and Muslim calendars are still fixed on lunar cycles. now. The months would be similarly re-named, possibly The Jewish calendar dates from the Babylonian exile in the after the world’s major religious leaders. sixth century BCE. It is reckoned from the supposed year of creation in 3,761 BCE. The beginning of the Jewish New Don Sharpes

Holiday Message from a Reader Greetings! are necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, faith or sexual preference of the wishee. my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms: responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is celebration of the winter solstice holiday practiced with the freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular any of the wishes for her/him or others and is void where persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of practice religious or secular traditions at all. the wisher. The wish is warranted to perform as expected I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling within the usual application of good tidings for a period and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the of one year or until the issuance of a new wish at the sole generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due discretion of the wisher. respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country Best regards (without prejudice) great (not to imply that Canada and/or the United States is/ Name withheld (Privacy Act) Emeritus College Newsletter Winter 2012 Page 5 Spring Outreach Program: Aannestad will present “The Northern William K. Marimow, Walter Cronkite Eight short courses taught by Lights: Myth and Science,” to the Sons School of Journalism and Mass Emeritus College members are of Norway, Scottsdale Chapter, Jan.20, Communication, ASU. scheduled for spring 2012 through and to the AAUW, Mesa Chapter, on All colloquia are held in the Fulton the ASU Osher Lifelong Learning March 7. Mary Laner’s lecture on Center, 6th floor Board Room, from 2 Institute. At Tempe Connections “Intimacy and Commitment” for the Or to 3:30 p.m. are: David Berman, “Arizona’s Adam congregation, Phoenix Country Progressive Roots: The War on Big Day School, Paradise Valley, was on Membership Business 1890 – 1920,” Feb. 7 to 14 January 22. The Emeritus College has seven new (four sessions); and Richard Jacob, members. They are: Karl Guntermann “The People and Physics behind the Short Talks (finance & real estate), C. Jay Hertzog Atomic Bomb,” April 2 to 23 (four The Short Talks luncheon speakers (associate; education & administration, sessions). At Sun City Grand are: Lou- on Oct. 11, 2011, were Jeremy Rowe Slippery Rock U, Pennsylvania), John ellen Finter, “Diné: The Navajo People (computing, informatics and systems Hall (public affairs), John M. Johnson from the North,” Feb. 13 to March 12 engineering) and Stephen Happel (justice studies), Martha H. Rader (five sessions); and Ahren Sadoff, (economics). Rowe’s talk was on (education), Ronald Roedel (electrical “From Quarks to Cosmos,” Feb. 20 “Analyzing and Interpreting Historic engineering), Anne S. Tsui (internation- to March 12 (four sessions). Norman Photographs: An Arizona Case Study.” al management) and Robert Youngblood Levine, “Dysfunction of the American Happel spoke on “How Bad Will the (politics & global studies). Political System,” April 10 to 20 (four Economy be Over the Next Year?” The total membership is now 453, sessions) will be at Friendship Village, On Nov. 15, Alleen Nilsen and Don including 406 regular, 42 associate Tempe. Others will be at ASU West: Nilsen, emeritus professors of English, and five affiliate members. Thirty-four Dirk Raat, “Sacred Ground: A History engaged their audience in a lively surviving spouses of deceased members of Native Americans of the Greater discussion about “Humor and Aging.” receive benefits. Southwest,” Feb. 8 to March 7 (five The December 13 luncheon was sessions); Don Sharpes, “A House still held at Friendship Village in Tempe First Evening Musicale Divided: The rise of Anti-government and attended by about 40 people. On Jan. 26, 2012, the Emeritus and Radical Movements in the U.S.,” Barry Leshowitz, professor emeritus College held its “First Evening Feb. 14 to March 6 (four sessions); of psychology, spoke on immigration Musicale” in the Emeritus Center, Old and Don Sharpes, “Sacred Bull, Holy reform and ASU day at the state Main 130, to inaugurate the piano given Cow: A Cultural Study of Civilization’s capitol. His talk, “The Arizona Dream to it by Frances New. Refreshments Most Important Animal,” March 13 to Act,” was followed by Dick Jacob, were served and emeriti provided the April 3 (four sessions). professor emeritus of physics and dean music. Spring lectures scheduled by the of the Emeritus College, who spoke EC Academy for Continued Learning on widespread science illiteracy. He are mostly sponsored through the discussed things people should know In Memory New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning about science. program at Mesa Community College. This year, these luncheons will be Takayori Atsumi The New Frontiers list includes: Per held at the Karsten Clubhouse. The ASU Professor of Cello Aannestad, “Exoplanets: A Thousand dates for short talks luncheons this Principal Cellist, Phoenix Symphony New Worlds,” March 22; Ron spring are Feb. 14, 2012, March 13, Orchestra Hardert, “Whistle Blowers as Heroes: April 10 and May 8. Founding Member of ASU Emeritus A Tribute to Studs Terkel,” Feb. 16; College Gary Kleemann,“ Putting First Things October 18, 2011 First: Time Management for Seniors for Colloquium Speakers S  Fun and Effectiveness in Retirement,” Look at the Economy for 2012.” March 29; Charles Merbs, “The The speaker on March 28 is Charles Lester Lee Satterthwaite Moche of Ancient Perú: Who Were Merbs, ASU professor emeritus of ASU Professor Emeritus of Education the Giants of Dos Cabezas?” Feb. anthropology, whose subject is “The Founding Member of ASU Emeritus 9; Don and Alleen Nilsen, “Humor Moche Giants of Dos Cabezas, Perú: College Related to Aging and Gender Issues,” Solving An Ancient Mystery.” This January 5, 2012 March 8; and Ahren Sadoff, “Should will be followed on April 18 by “The The names of deceased Emeritus College Intelligent Design Be Taught in the Digital Divide: What is the Future of members appear here in grateful recognition Science Classroom?” Feb. 23. Per Investigative Journalism?” given by of their support. Emeritus College Newsletter Page 6 Volume VII Number 1

A Former Dream House February It was a former dream house, My body, now with disheveled shingles, The world goes round again Peeling plaster, neglected windows, and February month of winter Guarded by sturdy yard yuccas. and cold darkness

So why do you, Spoiler, return so often, early morning blackbirds To my weakened residence, perch on telephone wires Creating the bewilderment and I look up and wait Not even the jinn can decode? for those familiar days I hold other spirits close to arrive: For protection, truth-telling, To fend off dreaded apparitions your birthday, the loneliness Like you appearing now in daylight. of Valentine’s Day, your mother’s birthday Tired organisms, the drum pulses of life, Need quiet moments for reflection, and the portentous Not unwelcome news of foreclosure, day that arrives only Or messages of how to deal with default. every four years

I settled debts, forgave enemies, leap year anniversary Dismissed scriptural words, of our child’s suicide, Buried ancestors with honor, issue of our love, Kept a little lust for myself. body of our hope – But you think you can enlighten anyone this year my poet friend also About the illusion of time, infinity of space, went into the light When you expire like me, without pageantry, All sulfur breath and sightless in oblivion. adding another date to February that darkens my landscape, Umbilical long ago detached, that wintry bleakness, Memories sink into the sea Of all lost remembrances, ah, now March again when wind As smoke rises, lights go out. comes to blow away the snow –

No refrigerator magnetizing photos, and April next – the spring to No oration from Pericles, bring me back to warmth. So I, unable to invent more time, Let silence rule my thin bandwidth. Bettie Anne Doebler

Don Sharpes Emeritus College Newsletter Winter 2012 Page 7 Emeritus Profiles: Alleen and Don Nilsen Alleen and Don Nilsen, emeritus ter developed diabetes, which Alleen professors of English and noted humor had to manage under relatively scholars, are among the energetic new primitive medical conditions. members of the Emeritus College. They Alleen says that her Afghan experience helped organize and now serve as co- turned her into a true feminist. “But it chairs of the newly formed Emeritus was not just the Afghans who made me College Faculty for the Humanities. In a feminist; it was also the American November, each presented a paper at wives. Because we were all obligated the College’s sixth annual symposium to hire three servants, we had nothing and spoke at its Short Talks luncheon. Humorists Alleen and Don Nilsen to do. Some became alcoholics, some Don was raised on a Mormon family Look magazine, who came to write became very good at bridge, and others farm in Palmyra, Utah. As a youth, about the successful desegregation of a just slipped into depression. Luckily, he engaged in church-sponsored “southern” high school, one year before I was hired the second year by the basketball, volleyball and wrestling, the Supreme Court made it mandatory. American International School to teach but also loved music. An aunt and Don and Alleen met in their senior first grade.” one of his grandfathers were pianists, year at Brigham Young University in Alleen decided that the next time they and he could pick out the melodies of Provo, Utah. “He was the smartest kid traveled abroad she would have “her hymns by ear on the pump organ. in my French class, plus he was taller own Ph.D. and do something more While in high school, Don played the than me!” Alleen quips. She earned her important than sit home and complain cornet in both concert and marching bachelor’s degree in English; he earned about the servants.” When they returned bands. He sang in his junior high his in French. They married, then to the U.S., Don finished his Ph.D. and school choir and, years later, with the attended graduate school with three accepted a position at the University ASU choir. Don did not take formal small children in tow. Don received a of Northern Iowa. This enabled Alleen piano lessons until he was in his forties. master’s degree in Applied Linguistics to enroll in the doctoral program at the Now he plays the piano for the primary from American University and a University of Iowa. She completed her children at the Del Rio Ward of the LDS Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from degree in 1973. Next, the couple came Church. He also has “played Stravinsky the University of Michigan. Alleen’s to ASU, where they taught until their for four hands with Lois McCleod, a graduate degrees are in Educational retirement in May 2011. member of the music accompaniment Supervision (American U) and English Kelvin, their older son, earned department at ASU.” Education (University of Iowa). his Ph.D. from the University of Like Don, Alleen Nilsen spent her Accompanied by their young Arizona. He taught computer science early years in a small Mormon town: children, the Nilsens taught in Kabul, at Iowa State before starting his own Snowflake, Arizona. After the Second Afghanistan, from 1967 to 1969 –– computer programming company. Sean World War, her cattleman father moved Alleen at the American International graduated from ASU and went to Law the family of four boys and two girls School and Don at Kabul University. School at the University of Louisville to Phoenix, where they attended the Don had been hired by USAID for two in Kentucky, where he practices law. Kenilworth School. Alleen remembers years through the Michigan linguistics Nicolette studied math and foreign having written an article for the school program. While at Kabul, he worked languages at ASU, then earned an paper in eighth grade. In it, she played on his dissertation and trained two M.A. in Leisure Studies, worked as a around with teachers’ names, which Afghan ‘counterparts,’ both of whom tourist guide for Japanese travelers in may have been the start of her interest in had completed master’s degrees at Guam and, for one year, taught English names and naming. From Kenilworth, Columbia University. Don and Alleen in Japan. She and her husband own a she went to Phoenix Union High School, developed bilingual materials for construction company in Utah, where then the largest high school between teaching English to students at Kabul they live and work. There are 11 Nilsen California and the Mississippi. During University. Alleen co-authored some grandchildren. her junior and senior years, she worked of the textbooks and wrote a book The Nilsens have produced some 30 as an assistant to the Dean of Women. designed for Aryana Afghan Airlines books and numerous scholarly articles. She says this is where she began to that described the Afghan language Their expertise is in a number of areas, learn about educational leadership and and culture. A description of the notably Humor. They founded the management. She also had the chance Nilsens’ stay in Afghanistan is on International Society for Humor three to escort important visitors to campus, the web site http://www.public.asu. decades ago. In 2000, they produced including photographer Margaret edu/~apnilsen/afghanistan4kids/ the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Bourke-White and reporters from While there, their four-year-old daugh- See Nilsens on p. 9 Emeritus College Newsletter Page 8 Volume VII Number 1 Emeritus Faculty Notes In November 2011, Charles Backus (engineering) received the local services to facilitate those adoptions. Dillon Southwest values first ever award at a ceremony of the Gilbert Historical Society: cultural diversity and encourages its adoptive families to understand “For Contributions to Higher Education and the Community.” and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of all family members.” In December 2011, he received the East Valley Partnership’s Fausel also completed the web site/blog www.responsiblefaith. “Dwight W. Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence com/ The title of his most recent blog is “The Gospel According in leadership.” The Pinal County Board of Supervisors approved to Ayn Rand: The Voice of the Religious Right.” incorporating the “Superstition Vistas Study” into the Pinal County Len Gordon (sociology) has been active in the Pacific General Plan. This is a project Backus initiated and chaired for Sociological Association (PSA) and is a founding member of the last 10 years on dealing with the planning, development and its new Emeritus Faculty Division, which will organize sessions preservation of 275 square miles of State Trust Lands. It involved for annual PSA meetings. At the 2012 annual PSA meeting in raising $2 million, overseeing international planners as they studied San Diego, March 22-24, he will serve as chair and discussant in the area, and coordinating with all the stakeholders. two sessions that will assess the effects of emergent sociological Bob Barnhill (computer science & engineering) resigned from research developments on a variety of social issues. Len and Emeritus College Council, but will continue to write the Emeritus Dorthy have been renovating their home in Scottsdale during his Bookshelf column for this newsletter. leave as Emeritus College Dean and have planned to see family in Joy Chaudhuri (political science) flew from Chicago to Delhi, such ‘exotic’ places as Michigan and Ohio. India, in September, 2011. On the way, he saw the polar ice At age 70, John M. Johnson (justice studies) won the Gold cap, Greenland, Siberia, Tashkent, houses in Kabul, Islamabad, Medal for racquetball singles in the 2011 Senior Olympics in the Rawalpindi and Lahore. These sights meant more to him than 65+ division. sleep during the long journey. In Delhi, he visited Professor Mary Laner (sociology) spoke about “Intimacy and Rainia, a friend from Jawaharlal Nehru University whose specialty Commitment” to the Or Adam congregation at the Phoenix is the history and philosophy of science. Chaudhuri also visited Country Day School on January 22. She will present “Happiness” landmarks like the Qutb Minar, a famous tower with Islamic to the Stonegate group in March and “Jealousy and Deception” to calligraphy but no human images. It was built in the early 13th the Koffee Klatsch at Friendship Village in April. century by a Turkish slave, Tugluq, an invader and conqueror. In Norman Levine (history; U Maryland) will be a Visiting Old Delhi, he saw the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid, built by Shah Professor at Wuhan University, China, for the first semester of fall Jahan. 2012. On Jan. 17, 2012, he lectured at York University, Toronto, Chaudhuri passed by the courthouse in New Delhi where Canada, on “Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” His book, Marx’s terrorists had killed some 30 people a few days before his visit. He Discourse with Hegel (Macmillan Press), will be published in viewed the fusion of Persian architecture and Indian craftsmanship February 2012. at the Taj Mahal, and that of Persian and early Hindu architecture at Bruce Mason (political science), who wrote his dissertation on the Fatehpur Sikri, which was built by the Moghul emperor, Akbar. “Political Protest” in America in 1952, remains interested in that In Jaipur, Rajputana, he observed the 16th century Vedic creations topic. Although a Democrat, he co-authored three texts on Arizona of Raja Hari Singh and architect Bhattacharya. His journey ended state government with four Republican friends, tutored John in Udiapir, where he viewed the large hill where the last tiger hunt McCain on Arizona governments when he first ran for Congress, was held in 1952. and assisted in a Tucson program to teach high school students In October, Patricia Etter (libraries) attended the annual meeting about civility in politics. of the Western History Association in Oakland, where she was In November 2011, Charles Merbs (anthropology) presented given the 2010 Philip A. Danielson award for best presentation at a paper titled “The Contribution of Vertebral Development in the Scottsdale Corral of Westerners International. Her title was: Understanding the Moche Giants of Dos Cabezas, Perú” at “All Roads Lead to Yuma: A Cast of Characters.” the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physical Etter’s article, “Son of Sacagawea on the Southern Trail” Anthropology, which was held in Montreal, Quebec, and sponsored appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Overland Journal. It tells by the University of Montreal. the life story of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea John Metz (music) and his wife Barbara (cello and viola da and Toussaint Charbonneau. The article is accompanied by her gamba) have performed classical and romantic music across the photographs of sites along the trail. U.S. but recently returned to early music. He has a new harpsichord. Each year Etter distributes a brochure titled “Southwest Books In addition to the Metz recital at ASU on January 21, they have of the Year.” The 2011 version lists 21 “best” books chosen by performed in Maine, Connecticut and upstate New York. They also panelists Bruce Dinges, Director of Publications for the Arizona teach cello and piano privately in southeastern Connecticut. John Historical Society, W. David Laird, former head of libraries at the has started to compose for choir, and is following his successful University of Arizona (UA), Bill Broyles, Research Associate at Noel score with a new piece for Water Communion Sundays, as UA, Margaret Loghry, retired teacher Administrator for Tucson celebrated in the Unitarian Universalist Congregations across the Unified School District, and Etter, representing Arizona north. nation. They determined how to select the best from about 200 books which On Jan. 11, 2012, Shannon Perry (nursing, SFSU) and 42 other covered everything in Arizona and the Southwest from geology, women began their ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness and border issues, flora/fauna, to science, even fiction. Brochures will funds in support of projects that combat human trafficking. More be available for the Emeritus College. information is on the web site thefreedomclimb.net/ Donald F. Fausel (social work) was recently re-elected president Don and Alleen Nilsen will give a presentation to celebrate of Dillon Southwest, an international adoption agency with pro- Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday at the Hamilton Chandler Public grams in South Korea, China and Ethiopia. Its mission is: “to provide Library at 11 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2012. The public is invited. a loving, nurturing home for all children referred to the agency. The John W. Reich (psychology) is completing a book under contract agency assists families who desire to provide homes to children with Prometheus Books press. It will be published by 2013 and is through quality international adoption programs. It [provides] See Faculty Notes on p. 10 Emeritus College Newsletter Winter 2012 Page 9 ability to make mental connections graduate English courses at ASU, Emeritus amid seeming chaos, and to get exactly primarily in linguistics. He has been BOOKSHELF the right assistance from a small set of interviewed for numerous magazine, colleagues, illuminates the stories. news, and radio or television stories. There are two reviews from the Both Don and Alleen are pleased that New York Times worth perusing: the many of their students have found their television section on Oct. 23, 2011, way into classrooms across the state, In 1979, during my second sabbatical re the BBC DVDs and the Weekend and that many of their doctoral students leave at Brunel University in England, Arts section on Dec. 9, 2011, about have become academics in colleges and the BBC presented Alec Guinness the American movie. The three books, universities. in an adaptation of John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Upon retirement, the Nilsens became novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Each Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s active in the Emeritus College. As co- Tuesday, for six weeks, my colleagues People were reissued in 2011 in chairs of the Emeritus College Faculty and I would gather in the tea room of paperback form by Penguin. for the Humanities, they have scheduled the mathematics department and ask: meetings of this new group, starting in “What was that (episode) about?” Nilsens (from p. 7) January 2012. Don and Alleen expect to In due course, I read the three books American Humor, named one of the become even more active in the College in the series (“Karla trilogy”), watched 25 most outstanding reference books in the future. They are not a couple who the BBC dramatizations of the first for that year by the American Library can remain idle for long. and third books (now on DVDs) and Association. They have published five LS/WD recently watched the American version books on humor in literature — British, of the first book. The history behind Irish and American — and two books ‘Death of a Rebel...’ these books is fascinating. Le Carré about literature for young readers, Scott Donaldson, professor emeritus is the pen name of David Cornwell, a including Names and Naming in Young of English, College of William and British spy whose cover was destroyed Adult Literature and Literature for Mary, and associate member of the by the infamous Kim Philby. The British Today’s Young Adults, co-authored ASU Emeritus College, just published villain in Tinker, Tailor is modeled on with Ken Donelson (ASU English his 18th book, Death of a Rebel: The Philby. The principal character, George department) and soon to appear in its Charlie Fenton Story (2012, Fairleigh Smiley, reminds me of an English ninth edition. Dickinson University Press). In it, he friend, mathematician Geoff Hayes, The list of conferences and relates Fenton’s life — a renowned who worked at the National Physical presentations in which the Nilsens writer and popular teacher at Yale and Laboratory, a successor to the British have participated, or served as leaders, Duke, who wrote books on Hemingway Bletchley Park, where Enigma code- would fill a dozen pages, not to and Stephen Vincent Benét. breakers worked during World War mention their long list of awards and Fenton, acknowledged as a leading II. Both the BBC productions and the other recognitions. They try to include scholar in American literature at age American movie capture the spare some humor in all of their writing. 40, committed suicide at the peak of his character of Smiley, who invariably “Humor wakes people up,” Don says. career. Donaldson describes him as “An uses one word instead of many. The “And alertness helps people remember individualist in a time of conformity, BBC presentations follow the books. things over a longer period of time, his tragic tale has much to tell us about The American film uses flashbacks, especially if they have been involved what it meant to be an American man in with excellent musical accompaniment, in contributing to the humor.” the middle of the twentieth century.” to shorten the story while retaining its After joining the ASU faculty, Alleen Donaldson is one of our nation’s most essential features. served first as professor of Education leading literary biographers. He had The three stories have several themes. and then as a professor of English been a student of Fenton’s at Yale and, I would suggest that loyalty –– to other education. She has also served as after retirement, continues his work as persons, to ideas, to one’s country –– associate dean of the ASU Graduate a productive writer of articles, reviews is the overriding theme. Within this College and as assistant vice president and books. He delivered the keynote construct, I find it interesting to evaluate for academic personnel. Her research address at the 2010 International the behavior of both the ‘good’ guys has been funded by grants from the Hemingway Conference in Lausanne, and the ‘bad’ ones. Another feature is National Science Foundation, the U.S. Switzerland. In addition to this, his that in the first and third books, Smiley Department of Health, Education and latest memoir/biography, he has is brought back out of forced retirement Welfare and the Arizona Humanities several articles in press and is working by younger, and more political, men to Council. on a book about the excitements and solve major espionage problems which Before Don’s retirement, he had complications of writing literary are too much for them. Smiley’s brilliant taught 25 different undergraduate and biography. Emeritus College Newsletter Page 10 Volume VII Number 1 Faculty Notes (from p. 10) by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.) tentatively titled Radical Speech/Radical Hearing: Why Voices of Altheide, David L. and Johnson, John M., 2011. Living in Moderation Can’t Be Heard. Arizona: Life in the Tumultuous Sunbelt, Cultural Studies – Jeremy Rowe (computer informatics & decision systems) gave Critical Methodologies, 11 (4):346-358. several presentations in October 2011: as panelist on “Copyright Altheide, David L. and Johnson, John M., 2011. Reflections and Intellectual Property Issues,” Daguerreian Society Symposium, on Interpretive Adequacy in Qualitative Research. In: The Sage St. Petersburg, Fla. (Oct. 28); invited speaker on “Stereoscopic Handbook of Qualitative Research, Vol. 4, Norman K. Denzin and Documentation of Territorial Arizona” at PhotoHistory XV, Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds., Sage Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, pp. George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y. (Oct. 22); consultant 581-594. in appraisal sessions at the Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Johnson, John M., 2011. J’accuse, Cultural Studies – Critical Creative Photography INFOCUS Photo Fair, Gebert Contemporary Methodologies, 11 (4):415-417. Art Gallery, Scottsdale (Oct. 16); and keynote speaker on “Silver Levine, Norman, 2012. Marx’s Discourse with Hegel, Palgrave Images and Glass Plates” at the annual historic photographic fair Macmillan, Gordonsville, VA, 380 pp. of the Arizona Historical Society (Oct. 15). He gave presentations Linder, D. E., Reich, J. W. & Braver, S. L., 2012. Collective about the photographic history of Arizona, sponsored by the full-cycle social psychology: Models, principles, experience. Arizona Humanities Council, for the Rossen House Museum (Nov. In: Six Degrees of Social Influence: Science, Application, and 12) and Bullion Plaza Museum (Oct. 7), and for Art Intersection the Psychology of Robert Cialdini, Douglas T. Kenrick, Noah J. (Nov. 5). Rowe was also appointed to the Advisory Board of Art Goldstein and Sanford L. Braver, eds. Oxford University Press, Intersection, a gallery in Gilbert, Ariz. 208 pp. Don Sharpes (education; Weber State U.) accepted an invitation Mamlouk, M., vanSonnenberg, E., Shankar, S. and Silverman, S. to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to give a couple of lectures, meet with G., 2011. Omental cakes: unusual aetiologies and CT appearances. journalists and literary figures and conduct research from Jan. Insights into Imaging. doi: 10.1007/s13244-011-0105-4. 25 to Feb. 15, 2012. One of his topics will be “Educating for Mamlouk, M. and vanSonnenberg, E., 2011. Interventional Health Care in Bolivia, Implications for Welfare Economics in the radiology for necrotizing pancreatitis. J. Gastrointest Surg; Developing World.” 15(7):1101‑1103. Brenda Shears (global sustainability) received the second Marzke, Mary W., Tocheri, Matt W., Marzke Robert F. Annual Appreciation Award for contributions to Central Arizona and Femiani John D., 2012. Three-dimensional quantitative Project’s Long-Term Research (CAP LTER) project on Jan. 13, comparative, analysis of trapezial-metacarpal joint surface 2012. The CAP LTER is in its 14th year and is one of 26 ecological curvatures in human populations. Journal of Hand Surgery, 37:72- research sites funded by the National Science Foundation. It 76. is a multi-disciplinary project focused on urban ecology and Rowe, Jeremy, 2011. Member Profile: Jeremy Rowe. The administered through ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability. Daguerreian Society Quarterly, 23(2)8. The LTER network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs. POST-RETIREMENT YEARS Joseph Wytko (music) has accepted invitations to serve in Elaine Menter Katzman early 2012 as Guest Artist Professor-Artist Performer in Paris, My post-retirement from the ASU College of Nursing in France, at the Villeneuve-le-Roi Conservatoire, the Conservatoire 1992 has had many twists and turns. I had moved to Arizona à Rayonnement Departmental d’Aulnay-sous-Bois, and the from Syracuse, N.Y., at an age when most people are looking Conservatoire Le Havre; and in Belgium at the Lemmensinstituut forward to retirement, but I was seeking advanced degrees and in Leuven and the Hogeschool Gent Conservatorium in Ghent. He new professional challenges. ASU’s academic opportunities and recently presented concerts with the chamber music trio Ascendo3 athletic diversions justified the risks taken by me and my husband at the ASU Kerr Cultural Center and at Central United Methodist when we moved to the sunny southwest. Church in Phoenix, and performed several concerts as orchestral Why, then, did I retire from ASU after only ten years? I had saxophonist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra (L. Bernstein, achieved tenure and felt gratified when my academic articles were F. Loesser, Gershwin) and in Scottsdale with the Arizona published, but I rarely felt the deep satisfaction I had anticipated. Musicfest Orchestra (S. Prokofiev). Wytko served as a jurist for the I was not a happy camper when I resigned with the new title of international 2011 6th Concurso de Interpretación (Saxophone) at professor emerita. This all changed when I became a founding the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, where he also member of the Emeritus College. presented master classes. The post-retirement path I chose has worked well for me. I was able to use ASU’s tuition benefit to complete post-graduate training in its psychiatric nurse practitioner program and receive Recent Faculty Publications certification. Backus, Charles, October, 2011. “Does Artificial Insemination During the next 15 years, I became associated with several Work on an Arizona Commercial Ranch?” Ar i z o n a Ca t t l e l o g , community agencies and private groups. They gave me great Arizona Cattle Growers Association, pp. 10-12. satisfaction and other rewards, until other life changes intervened. Comeaux, Malcolm, 2011. Caniques: Marbles and Marble This time it was my health that altered my career trajectory and, Games as Played in South Louisiana at Mid-Twentieth Century, ultimately, my life plans. Louisiana History, 52(3):324-356. At the age of 84, I am re-thinking my professional ambitions Comeaux, Malcolm, 2011. Photojournal: The Cajun Mardi and am more concerned with family affairs, including my Gras in Southwest Louisiana. Focus on Geography, 53(1):14-23. husband Larry, our three children, eight grandchildren and seven Comeaux, Malcolm, 2011. Steal the Flag: A Game Played in great-grandchildren. I am fully retired and have more time for South Louisiana, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, 52:53-70. friends and family, and I will round out my life playing the piano Donaldson, Scott, 2012. Death of a Rebel: The Charlie Fenton (amateur level), writing and volunteering … unless an enticing job Story, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 198 pp. (Co-published opportunity comes my way. Emeritus College Newsletter Winter 2012 Page 11 Science Literacy January 24, 2012 Dear Colleagues, Mailbox Thank you so much for coming yesterday to the Letters to the Editor and opinions may be sent to organizational interest meeting for the Emeritus College [email protected] or to Winifred W. Doane, Faculty for Scientific Literacy and Numeracy. The Emeritus College, PO Box 873002, Tempe, AZ 85287- 3002. Submissions longer than 200 words will be edited. We The process going forward will be to conduct a round- reserve the right not to print inappropriate letters. Names will robin conversation via email for the next few weeks in order be withheld upon request, but letters received anonymously will to solicit opinions and solidify suggestions. At some point, not be printed. a steering committee will have to be set up to establish the organization’s structure, principles and goals. If you would An Invitation like to be considered for membership on this committee, January 23, 2012 please let me know by a private communication. We will Dear Emeritus College Faculty, plan to meet again sometime in March to visit face to face The ASU College of Public Programs and ASU Emeritus what we’ve accomplished thus far. I would like to hear from our psychologists ideas for College cordially invite all interested Emeritus Alumni measuring the effectiveness of any outreach activities in faculty and spouses to contribute artwork to the semi- which we may engage. permanent collection of the Emeritus Art Gallery hosted in I expressed at our meeting my earnest hope that a product the UCENT Building located at the Arizona State University of the organization would be the submission of at least one Downtown Phoenix campus. The collection showcases the proposal to the NSF Informal Science Education Program by the January 2013 deadline. The 2011 Program solicitation talent of ASU professors, expressed through the works of is NSF 11-546, and the link to it is http://www.nsf.gov/ retired faculty members of the ASU Emeritus College. The pubs/2011/nsf11546/nsf11546.pdf/ artwork of the Emeritus College artists enriches and inspires Dick Jacob the University atmosphere and environment. All works contributed must remain on loan for at least one Awardees (from p. 1) year and may be donated to the permanent collection upon The titles of funded proposal are “Project 2012” (Ludwig, artist request. The following art media are able to be shown interactive dance), “Creative Writing for Publication” by the gallery: painting, drawing, collage, mixed medium, (Matsui, book of poems), “Architectural Criticism: photography, and fabric art. Art works must be wired and Exploring Future Directions and Methodology” (Preiser, ready to hang. Artwork will be previewed and approved by architectural criticism, building postmortems), “Real Life: the Emeritus College Art Committee. Interested artists please Loves, Losses and Legacies” (Katzman, family memoir) email the attached Submission Form and digital images of and “Jack Lewis and his American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: each submitting artwork to Dana Aguilar with the Emeritus a Study of Instructive Affinities” (Kehl, book on affinities College at [email protected]. Submission Form and digital between writers). images are due by Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. All work will be The Research and Creative Activities Committee for this reviewed and qualified candidates will be notified of next cycle consisted of David Berliner, Mary Marzke and Peter steps by Friday, Feb. 27. Qualified candidates must drop off Killeen (chair). Letters to all grant applicants were mailed their artwork on Saturday, March 17 between 10 a.m. and before Dec. 25, 2011. 12 noon at the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus, UCENT building, room 271, 411 North Central Avenue, Phoenix Breaking News (from p. 1) 85004. [Please contact Amanda Meyers at (480) 965-0002 Creativity grant of up to $2000 will be provided in support for submission forms.] of the fellow. The initial service term will be July 1, 2012, New and renewing artists are required to sign a 2012 through Dec. 31, 2012. contract. Contracts will be sent out in March 2012 and are Qualified applicants must be a regular or associate member asked to be returned, signed, by March 16, 2012 via email of the Emeritus College, have submitted a grant proposal to to [email protected]. This letter serves as notification of the College’s Research and Creativity Grants Program, and addendum to extend the agreement details of current contracts propose areas in which an Honors Course could be given. on file ending December 2011 to March 16, 2012, at which The grant proposal will be evaluated by the Emeritus College time new and renewal 2012 contracts are due. Any concerns Research and Creativity Grants Committee. If approved by regarding contracts or artwork between December 2011 the Committee, a review by members of the Honors College faculty and the dean of the Emeritus College will follow. and March 2012 should be directed to Elizabeth Apodaca, Selection will be made based on the needs and goals of the Special Events Coordinator at [email protected]. Honors College. Sincerely, Editor’s note: We thank Babs Gordon, Dick Jacob, Mary Jessica Eileen Shea, M.Ed, CNP Laner and Deanna Stover for their help in editing and/or Community Engagement Art Program Coordinator proofreading this edition of the newsletter. Carolyn Ellis, Amanda Meyers and Deanna Stover helped with photography. Dean’s Office of the College of Public Programs Emeritus College Newsletter Page 12 Volume VII Number 1 Mission of The Emeritus College The Emeritus College at Arizona State University The purpose of the Emeritus College is to give a home and a focus to continued intellectual, creative and Dean - Richard J. Jacob (physics) social engagement of retired faculty with the Univer- Dean on Sabbatical – Leonard Gordon (sociology) sity. The Emeritus College fosters and promotes the Associate Dean - Elmer R. Gooding (economics) scholarly and creative lives of its members, prolong- ing fruitful engagement with and service to the Uni- College Council versity and community. The Emeritus College provides Robert E. Barnhill (computer science & engineering) the University a continued association with productive Winifred W. Doane (life sciences) scientists, scholars and artists who have retired from Patricia A. Etter (ASU libraries) their faculty positions but not from their disciplines. Beatrice Gordon (English) Gary Kleemann (technology management) The Emeritus College Newsletter is published Barry Leshowitz (psychology) quarterly (winter, spring, summer and fall) by Ann Ludwig (dance) The Emeritus Press © of Arizona State University. Elizabeth S. Manera (secondary education) Linda Stryker (astronomy & integrative studies) Its content may be freely reproduced, provided credit is given to the author and the newsletter. Staff Commercial re-use is forbidden. Submissions and Administrative Specialist - Dana Aguilar comments should be sent to the Emeritus College, Office Assistant/Receptionist - Amanda Meyers c/o Dana Aguilar, PO Box 873002, Tempe, AZ Emeritus Press Intern - Deanna Stover 85287-3002 or [email protected]/ Honors College Student Worker - Lorenzo Slay Editor: Winifred W. Doane Website Address: http://emerituscollege.asu.edu Associate Editor: Linda Stryker Telephone: 480-965-0002 Fax: 480-727-3324

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