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Summer 2012 Home economics • Adoption of orphan babies • Home-court advantage U.S. foreclosure crisis • Native American reservations • Home sustainability Literary homes • Undergraduate living • Telecommuting Cinematic homes • Science at home • Home truths 100th birthday of chapter homes • Home away from home Holocaust letters hit home • Crossword puzzle homework The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi names Mary Todd as its new executive director. About Us Phi Kappa Phi Forum and Its Phi Kappa Phi Forum mission statement Phi Kappa Phi Forum, a multidisciplinary quarterly magazine that enlightens, challenges and Relationship with the Society entertains its diverse readers, serves as a general- hi Kappa Phi Forum is the multidisci- interest publication as well as a platform for The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. plinary quarterly magazine of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. P Phi Kappa Phi Forum Each issue of the award-winning journal (Issn 1538-5914) is published quarterly by reaches more than 100,000 active members as The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, well as government officials, scholars, educa- 7576 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, La. 70806. tors, university administrators, public and Printed at R.R. Donnelley, private libraries, leaders of charitable and 1160 N. Main, Pontiac, Ill. 61764. learned organizations, corporate executives ©The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2012. and many other types of subscribers. All rights reserved. Nonmember subscriptions It is the flagship publication of Phi Kappa Phi, $30 per year, domestic; $45 outside the U.S. Single copies $10 each; $3.25 each for active, the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective dues-paying members. Periodicals postage paid all-discipline honor society, with chapters on Baton Rouge, La., and additional mailing offices. more than 300 college and university campuses across the country. Phi Kappa Phi was founded A note on content in 1897 at University of Maine and upwards of The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the staff one million members spanning the academic The first organizational meeting of what came to be disciplines have been initiated since the Soci- of Phi Kappa Phi Forum, the Society known as The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi took staff, or the Board of Directors of ety’s inception. Notable alumni include former place in Coburn Hall (above) at University of Maine in The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former NASA Orono, Maine, in 1897. The Phi Kappa Phi name was astronaut Wendy Lawrence, U.S. Supreme adopted on June 12, 1900. 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Fax to: (225) 388-4900 thorities, oftentimes active Phi Kappa Phi Through words and images, Web links Copying for other than personal or internal members, who offer variations on an and multimedia components, the magazine reference use without permission of Phi Kappa Phi Forum is prohibited. overall theme. intends to appeal to the diverse member- Notables to have contributed pieces include ship of Phi Kappa Phi by providing th Phi Kappa Phi Forum staff Ronald Reagan, 40 President of the United thoughtful, instructive, helpful — and Editor: Peter Szatmary States; Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights sometimes provocative — material in (800) 804-9880 ext. 42 trailblazer; Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice smart, engaging ways. 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Q & As have run grants for local and national literacy initia- mailing address, send your new address along the gamut from public servants such as Lynne tives, and Phi Kappa Phi Forum applauds the with your old address, your name, phone Cheney, former chair of the National Endow- recipients in this edition, listing them all and numbers (cell, home, work), email address, member status and member number. ment for the Humanities, to famous artists spotlighting a few. (For more information Note: Your member number is the first such as playwright August Wilson to literary about Phi Kappa Phi monetary awards, go multi-digit number from the left directly critics such as Stanley Fish. online to www.phikappaphi.org/awards.) above your name on your mailing label. (For other significant contributors, go online As an arm of the Society, Phi Kappa Phi Send to: Change of Address to www.phikappaphi.org/forum.) Forum helps uphold the institution’s mission: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi The spring, summer and fall issues “To recognize and promote academic excel- 7576 Goodwood Blvd. further contain columns on fields such as lence in all fields of higher education and to Baton Rouge, La. 70806 education and academics, science and tech- engage the community of scholars in service Postmaster nology, and arts and entertainment in to others.” ■ Archive Send address changes to: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi www.PhiKappaPhi.org 7576 Goodwood Blvd. Baton Rouge, La. 70806 Contents Summer 2012, Vol. 92, No. 2 This Issue: HOME Where we reside connects to how we live. And how we fit in relates PHI KAPPA PHI FOCUS to where we 2 President’s Message come from. By William A. Bloodworth, Jr. Editor’s Note Cover photo illustration by Arnel Reynon By Peter Szatmary 3 Letters to the Editor Coming Next Issue Home Economics: 29 Phi Kappa Phi Bookshelf 4 30 Society Developments Ever Timely and Forever Complex 31 Chapter Update By Yvonne S. Gentzler By Caroline Cooper The profession, created more than 100 years ago, 32 Member Spotlight betters existence for one and all. 33 Member News 34 In Memoriam Ellen Swallow Richards: 8 Visionary on Home and Sustainability COLUMNS By Nancy Kwallek 22 Business and Economics Today’s “green” impetus owes much to a 19th-century By Philip R. Wahl II vanguard in nascent ecology. 23 Workplace and Employment By Kimberly Thompson 24 Education and Academics Adoption: By Timothy L. Hulsey 12 25 Science and Technology Homeward Bound By Catherine C. Shoults By Christopher Frost and Kathryn Minyard Frost and Lenore Shoults A couple adopting two orphan babies ask: 26 Sports and Exercise Can “home” be imprinted on the brain? By Joe Cascio 27 Arts and Entertainment By (William) Arnold Johnston Did I Really Leave Home? and Deborah Ann Percy 15 Can I Really Return Home? By Emil Her Many Horses FEATURES A Native American ponders his tribal origins and 21 Crossword Puzzle discovers worldwide analogues. By Jim Bernhard 28 Book Review Home Truths Written by Gerald Duff Homing in on Reviewed by William A. Bloodworth, Jr. 18 Shakespeare and Nabokov 35 Poetic Pause By Samuel Schuman “Before They Made Engines” By Karlanna Lewis These canonical writers examine their sense of place 36 And One More Thing … in diametrically different ways. with Bob Zany SUMMER 2012 1 President’s Message By William A. Bloodworth, Jr. percentage of younger citizens earning Board of Directors ime flies. Good times college degrees. While such statistics SOCIETY PRESIDENT William A. Bloodworth, Jr., Ph.D. fly faster. measure only quantity, quality and excel- Office of the President If I, a jogger, could lence are powerful motivators, too. Phi Augusta State University T 2500 Walton Way run as fast as my time as Kappa Phi promotes excellence to honor Augusta, Ga. 30904-2200 president of the board of di- those who achieve it — and to cause others [email protected] rectors of The Honor Society to strive for it. SOCIETY PRESIDENT-ELECT of Phi Kappa Phi has gone And to strive for it as lifelong learners. Diane G. Smathers, Ed.D. by, I’d be headed to the Olympics in London. When we cite our motto — “Let the love of Emeritus College E-304 Martin Hall But my fleetness would be no match for the learning rule humanity” — or part of our Clemson University endurance of the nation’s largest, most inclu- mission — “to engage the community of Clemson, S.C. 29634 sive, and best academic honor society. scholars in service to others” — we’re not [email protected] In my short and swift-passing tenure as talking about a short race.