President’s Message It is hard to believe that this is the final President’s Message of my first year as your The Emeritimes president. In my first message, I thanked my Publication of The Emeriti Association California State University, Los Angeles predecessor for his service to the Association, and in this message I would like to conclude my Volume XXXIX, Number 3 Spring 2018 year by thanking the members of the Associa- tion’s executive committee for their unstinting service. Panel to Speak on Student Well-being Hard though it is to be- lieve, Cal State LA cel- at April 27 Spring Emeriti Luncheon ebrated its 70th anniversary At the spring luncheon and meeting on Fri - Jonna Fries, director of counseling and this past year amidst con- day, April 27, Cal State LA first lady Debbie psychological services, has provided mental tinued great change; its Covino, director of counseling and psychologi- health first-aid training to more than 500 Cal 50th anniversary seems like cal services Jonna Fries, and vice president State LA employees and suicide prevention just yesterday. Enrollment for student life Nancy Wada-McKee will training to more than 1,500 students. She has has reached almost 28,000 speak about the development and expansion a doctoral concentration in diversity and her students, and in a recent of the Mind Matters initiative, faculty interest textbook, Eating Disorders in Special Popu- Academic Senate meeting, President Covino in using the “Mind Matters Minute” in their See SPRING EMERITI LUNCHEON, Page 2 announced that the University had received classes, the high demand for mental health first more than 60,000 applications for admission aid, and the restructuring of the Counseling next year, from which it hopes to accept about and Psychological Services process to serve 7,000 students. With its stellar record of enhanc- more students more immediately. “Student Spring ing upward mobility for its students, Cal State Success and Well-being” is the title of their LUNCHEON AND ANNUAL MEETING LA has become one of the system’s first- choice presentation. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018 campuses. More than 50 new faculty were Debbie Covino, wife of President William 11:30 A.M. TO 3:00 P.M. added this year as part of the University’s plan A. Covino, is a master clinical hypnotherapist, GOLDEN EAGLE BALLROOM 1 to increase its full-time teaching force. integrative life coach, speaker, and blogger/ At the same time, the turbulence of the world author. She has spoken about the importance of COST: $38 PER PERSON outside the campus has imposed new responsi- self-care and inner well-being to diverse groups Send check payable to the Emeriti As- bilities on it. Cal State LA has responded to new throughout Southern California, including sociation, along with your entrée choice: needs by providing its students with innovative staff, faculty, and students at Cal State LA. She grilled salmon; BBQ sliced chicken; or support systems: advisement about immigration has also taught courses in self-hypnosis for wrangler steak, to Marshall Cates, 1036 law and procedures for our DACA students, personal and professional success through Armada Drive, Pasadena, CA 91103 no a food pantry for our homeless students, and the Cal State LA College of Professional and later than Monday, April 16. For addi- enhanced counseling services for students with Global Education. She is the co-founder of the tional information, call Marshall at 626- mental health needs. Cal State LA Mind Matters program, which 792-9118 or email him at marshallcates@ See PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE, Page 2 focuses on the inner well-being of the campus gmail.com. community. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Faculty Approve Changes to Academic Senate Membership Emeriti Biography Project: By John Cleman The Time is Now .................................... 2 Following a process that lasted more than other California State University campuses. Sub- Professional and Personal ...................... 3 two years, tenured and tenure-track faculty have sequently, a task force of executive committee approved, and President William A. Covino has members was assigned to develop a proposal for Lifelong Learning Now Under signed, an Academic Senate proposal to revise amending the Senate Constitution membership. Emeriti Association Sponsorship ........... 3 the Senate membership. After much debate on The proposal that the task force advanced Dorothy Keane Establishes the Senate floor through this past academic included a number of minor clarification changes, Roland Carpenter Fellowship................. 3 year, the key changes are the additions of these but the main intent was to take “a step towards Our Winter-Summer In Argentina .......... 4 voting members: seven lecturer faculty, one being more inclusive, thereby ensuring that the for each academic college; two staff members; Cal State LA Academic Senate is representative Campus News ........................................ 7 one at-large student, either graduate or under- of its campus community.” The number of ten- In Memoriam ......................................... 8 graduate; and a second Emeriti Association ured and tenure-track faculty, college deans, and representative. ex-officio voting members, such as the statewide Emeriti Association Nomination Proposals to include lecturers as voting mem- Senate members, did not change. At one point Committee Report ................................ 12 bers of the Senate had been made in the past, but in during its consideration, the provost was to be 2016-17, the Senate executive committee took up added as a voting member, but the Senate voted the matter in earnest. Several town-hall meetings against that change. Visit the Emeriti Association webpage, were held in the colleges and committee-of-the- The last Constitutional amendment of any kind http://www.calstatela.edu/emeriti whole meetings were conducted in the Senate. In was in 2001, so this marks a major change, not addition, membership data were gathered from only in the Senate, but in the University culture. President’s Message (Continued from Page 1) This has also been an active year for your Please consider contributing to the project. A The Emeritimes Emeriti Association. We continued to assist stu- university is first and foremost its faculty, and dents with fellowships, making $16,000 worth with Cal State LA’s 75th anniversary rapidly WILLIAM E. LLOYD, Founding Editor-in-Chief of awards, which maintains intact our record approaching, this is your opportunity to write ELLEN R. STEIN, Editor of awarding more fellowships than any other part of its long and varied history. DENNIS KIMURA, Graphic Designer emeriti association in the CSU. Our relationship Finally, Association members will find en- with the Lifelong Learning program grew closer closed with this issue of The Emeritimes a EDITORIAL BOARD this year, with emeriti faculty delivering well- revised directory. Member contact information J. THEODORE ANAGNOSON, received talks at six senior centers, on topics was inadvertently omitted from the directory JOHN CLEMAN, HAROLD GOLDWHITE, ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to ancient sent out with the last issue. We have corrected FRIEDA A. STAHL (CHAIR), (VACANT) African archaeology. New speakers are always that oversight in this directory and apologize Address copy to: being sought; interested emeriti should contact for the inconvenience. Ellen Stein, Editor, The Emeritimes Peter Brier, the Lifelong Learning liaison. You 1931 E. Washington Blvd., Unit 2 will also find in this issue ofThe Emeritimes an Pasadena, CA 91104 Email: [email protected] article on the Association’s biography project. EMERITI ASSOCIATION SIDNEY P. ALBERT, Founder Spring Emeriti Luncheon (Continued from Page 1) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE STANLEY M. BURSTEIN, President JOHN CLEMAN, Immediate Past President WILLIAM A. TAYLOR, Vice President, Administration DEBORAH L. SCHAEFFER, Vice President, Programs MARSHALL CATES, Treasurer KATHRYN REILLY, Secretary DOROTHY L. KEANE, Membership Secretary BARBARA P. SINCLAIR, Corresponding Secretary (VACANT), Historian-Archivist A. Covino Courtesy of William Courtesy of Jonna Fries Affairs Public Courtesy of Cal State LA ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ, Debbie Covino Jonna Fries Nancy Wada-McKee Fellowship Chair lations, was recently published. Fries utilizes Pacific Americans in Higher Education. On DIANE M. KLEIN, Fundraising Chair her expertise in treating eating disorders and campus since 2008, Wada-McKee previously MARSHALL CATES, Fiscal Affairs Chair trauma to serve Cal State LA students. In her served as senior associate vice president for JOSÉ L. GALVÁN, Database Coordinator spare time, she teaches, maintains a private enrollment management and assistant vice DEMETRIUS J. MARGAZIOTIS, practice, and plays with family, friends, and president for student services. Her passion is Webmaster her who-rescued-who dogs. mentoring young and mid-career Asian Pacific JOHN CLEMAN, Academic Senate Representative Nancy Wada-McKee, vice president for professionals in higher education. student life, has over 30 years of experience in The emeriti and their guests will gather in PETER BRIER, Lifelong Learning Program Liaison student affairs, including leadership positions Golden Eagle Ballroom 1 at 11:30 a.m., with at Columbia University, Purdue University, lunch served at noon. Following dessert, the STANLEY M. BURSTEIN, JOHN CLEMAN, BARBARA P. SINCLAIR, CSU Long Beach, and Scripps College. She has panelists will deliver their presentation. The CSU-ERFA Council Delegates been a member of the