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Faculty Staff News FYI November 27, 2002 Sir Roland Hanna Dies at Age 70; All-Star Tribute Planned December 11

ir Roland Hanna, a professor Hanna began his piano studies at the and Smithsonian Orchestras, the in the School age of 11. After graduating from Cass Symphony Orchestra, and the of Music and an internation- Technical High School and a two-year National Symphony Orchestra. His ally known pianist, composer, stint with the U.S. Army Band, he active itinerary carried him to major Sand collaborator with many of the continued his musical studies at the clubs and auditoriums throughout the great jazz musicians of the last half Eastman and Juilliard Schools of United States, Europe, and Japan. century, died of a viral infection of the Music. In the 1950s and 1960s he Hanna’s writing also incorporated a heart on Wednesday, November 13. A played with the Big mixture of jazz and classical elements. memorial concert featuring Wynton Band, , Sarah Vaughn, His catalogue of over 400 composi- Marsalis, , , , and Carmen McRae. He tions includes not only works for stan- and Dr. Billy Taylor will be held at the was later the pianist for the Thad dard jazz ensembles but also trios for College on Wednesday, December 11 Jones- Orchestra from cello, flute and french horn, as well as at 8 pm in LeFrak Hall. 1966-1974. Hanna formed the New larger works for piano and orchestra. “He could play everything from York Jazz Quartet in 1971 and per- Among his numerous recordings were Chopin to blues to Ellington and be- formed with them through the 1980s. albums dedicated to the music of Duke yond with equal conviction and tech- As befits a performer who claimed Ellington, , and George nical assurance,” noted Edward that two of his biggest influences were Gershwin. His most recent CD, Every- Smaldone, director of the School of Art Tatum and Artur Rubinstein, thing I Love, was released last month. Music. “We never knew where he Hanna seemed equally comfortable Hanna was knighted in 1970 by the would take us, but we always knew we with both jazz and classical music. He president of Liberia for humanitarian were in for a glorious ride. Sir Roland appeared with the American Com- services after giving a series of benefit brought an unassailable professional- posers Orchestra, the Lincoln Center concerts in that country. He is sur- ism and personal warmth and love to vived by his wife of 48 years, his role as colleague and teacher that Ramona, and two daughters and two was rare in a musician and artist of CUNY Campaign sons. Funeral services were held on Monday, November 18, at the Canaan such depth and talent. He was one of a There is still time to take part in the Baptist Church on W. 116 St. kind and we will miss him deeply.” CUNY Campaign! Booklets and Other performers scheduled to Hanna was among the cornerstones donation forms have been appear at the December 11 memorial of the College’s M.A. in Jazz Perfor- distributed through the campus concert include the Queens College mance Program, along with composer, mail, including a list of organiza- Orchestra, conducted by Maurice arranger, and saxophonist Jimmy tions you may support. Once you Peress, Yoshio Aomori (bass), Cecil Heath, who founded the program and pick a charity, you may make a Bridgewater (trumpet), was responsible for bringing Hanna to contribution either by writing a the College. Sir Roland continued to (bass), (trumpet), Barry check or by choosing payroll de- play a major role in that program after Harris (piano), Fred Hersch (piano), ductions throughout the year. Heath’s retirement in 1998, working (drums), For more information, contact Bob along with trumpeter and composer (trumpet), Jeb Patton (piano), Carie Weller at 5780. Please return forms Michael Mossman and saxophonist Smith (vocalist), Michael Weiss and checks to the QC Campaign by Antonio Hart. (piano) (saxophone), and Monday, December 16. Born in Detroit in 1932, Roland Paul West (bass). Jeffery Renard Allen 100 years into the past and 100 years into the future. He is also working on a Notes Receives Whiting Award collection of short stories entitled Jeffery Renard Allen (English), whose Kwanzaa Celebration Shadowboxing and a volume of poetry. novel Rails Under My Back has won The Africana Studies Program invites extraordinary praise, has just received the faculty and staff to the College’s a 2002 Whiting Writers’ Award. The Service Award Kwanzaa celebration on Tuesday, $35,000 award is given to encourage Ceremony Honorees December 3 at 3:30 pm in the Patio exceptionally promising emerging Room North, Dining Hall. The event is On November 12 the College honored talent. Recipients are chosen by a sponsored by the President and Admin- faculty and staff who have been at the committee of writers, literary scholars, istration of Queens College, the Ethnic College for 20 and 35 years. In a cere- and editors. Allen, who has been at Studies Council, the English Depart- mony attended by President Jim Queens College since 1992, is also the ment, and the SEEK Program. Muyskens and Acting Provost Evange- author of a previous volume of poetry, los Gizis in the Student Union, the Harbors & Spirits (Asphodel Press). Frank McCourt December 3 following members of the College In reviewing Rails Under My Back, community received pins and certifi- Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize- the New York Times noted that “Allen’s cates for their service: winning author of ’Tis and Angela’s prose is intense, concentrated. His Ashes, will read from his works on language, which ranges from the deli- Thirty-Five-Year Service Awards Tuesday, December 3 at 7 pm in LeFrak cately lyrical to the aggressively vulgar, Art: William W. Clark Hall. General admission seats, available demonstrates extraordinary poise; he at the door, are $8. For information call can also deploy, in his dialogue, a wide Buildings & Grounds: Joseph B. 4646 or visit www.qc.edu/readings array of voices and nuances of tone. . . . Gosha Besides Joyce and Faulkner, other 20th- Chemistry & Biochemistry: Randolph Victorian Domestic Handicrafts century novelists whose work Allen’s R. Smith The Women’s Studies Program will calls to mind are Dos Passos, Ellison, Earth & Environmental Sciences: sponsor a lecture by Talia Schaffer and Henry Roth Ð an indication of the Leonard J. Cinquemani, Nicholas (English) regarding “The Victorian remarkable literary company in which K. Coch Domestic Handicraft” on Wednesday, this novel may be seen to move.” Economics: Hugo M. Kaufmann December 4. Schaffer, who specializes Among other awards, Rails Under My English: Beverly A. Gross, Fred Ka- in Victorian women's writing, is the Back received the 2000 Chicago Tri- plan, Charles H. Molesworth, An- author of The Forgotten Female Aes- bune Heartland Prize for Fiction. Origi- thony J. O’Brien thetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victo- nally published by Farrar, Straus & rian England. The lecture will be held Giroux, the novel is now available in Family, Nutrition & Exercise in the Student Union VIP Room, Union paperback from Harcourt. Sciences: John R. Magel Grill, from 12 noon - 2 pm. Compli- Allen described writing the book as History: Vivian R. Gruder mentary lunch will be served. Students primarily an act of faith. “In that sense, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library: earn 1 CLIQ point for attending. it really sustains you. It reaffirms your Shoshana Kaufmann commitment to humanity, despite all Linguistics & Communication Disor- Lectures at GT Museum of the various troubles we’ve seen in the past and continue to see today.” ders: Alan M. Stevens The Godwin-Ternbach Museum will be Born and raised in Chicago, Allen Aaron Copland School of Music: Hu- sponsoring two lectures in December. began writing Rails Under My Back in bert S. Howe, Jr., Arbie Orenstein The first is “How Can We Read Them? 1990 while working on his doctorate at A History of Prints in the 19th and 20th Philosophy: Harvey Burstein the University of Illinois in Chicago. A Centuries” by Marilyn Kushner, the professor who was impressed by Curator of Prints at the Brooklyn Mu- Twenty-Year Service Awards Allen’s work suggested he go to New seum of Art, on Thursday, December 5 York and find an agent. Allen did, and Accounting & Information Systems: at 6 pm. On Wednesday, December 11 was also offered a post at Queens Col- Carol D. Klinger at 5 pm, Julia Sneeringer (History) will lege, where he teaches African Ameri- Buildings & Grounds: Freddie M. address “Imagining Women: Artistic Canty, Sallie M. Gill, Gaynell can literature and creative writing. and Political Representations of Women Green, Joseph Perry, Donna M. Allen was recently a Director’s in the Modern Era.” Both lectures take Sorenson Fellow at the New York Public Li- place in the Museum, located on the Counseling & Advisement Center: brary Center for Scholars and Writers, fourth floor of Klapper Hall. For infor- Elizabeth J. McCaffrey where he did research on his forthcom- mation call 4747 or visit ing novel Hour of the Seeds, which Drama, Theatre & Dance: Susan A. www.qc.edu/art/gtmus.html. follows an African-American family Einhorn

2 Educational & Community Programs: 3667. Peck asks that members of the Madison Avenue. Bus departs from the Kenneth J. Dunn audience read at least one of his works, Armenian Church of Holy Martyrs, Elementary & Early Childhood Educa- if possible. He will autograph books 209-15 Horace Harding Blvd. in Bay- tion: Linda G. Gibson after the talk. side, at 11:30 am. Reservations are due by December 5. Call 428-5650 for English: Nancy R. Comley, Kathleen more details on either trip. E. Kier AIDS Awareness Office of Information Technology: Week Events A Religious Apparition Galina Galmer, Anthony Genosa, Lecture: “Lust, Love, and a Little Roxan Mahoutchi Luck: Learning from One Man's Story in the Bronx Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library: Leona of Growing Up with HIV,” presented On Thursday, December 12 history Siegel by guest speaker Mathew Kleiner. professor John T. McGreevy (Notre Aaron Copland School of Music: Monday, December 2 from 12 to 1pm. Dame) will offer a lecture on “Bronx David W. Gagné CLIQ event, sponsored by Health Miracle: Joseph Vitolo, Jr., Our Lady Service Center and the Chinese Stu- of the Universe, and Roman Catholic Publications: Stephanie M. Goldson dent Association. Devotion.” He will examine the expe- Memorial Quilt Display: A quilt with rience of Joseph Vitolo, Jr., an Italian Upcoming Jewish over 45,000 panels to honor those lost American boy who claimed to see the Studies Events to AIDS. Monday, December 2, 10 am Virgin Mary in the Bronx in 1945. to 4 pm, Student Union 4th Floor. McGreevy will discuss how the appari- On Sunday, December 8 at 2 pm in tion (and the shrine later constructed HIV Prevention: “Hidden Epidemic,” LeFrak Hall, the Center for Jewish on the site) shaped Vitolo’s life. He a discussion about HIV awareness by Studies will present the New York will also examine the meaning of such Simon Ho & Erica Leong from the premiere of An Evening with Madame phenomena for the workings of reli- Chinese-American Planning Council F, starring Claudia Stevens. Adopting gion in the United States and Catholic Inc., HIV/AIDS Services. Wednesday, the persona of Fania Fenelon, an el- piety around the world. The free event, December 4 from 12 to 1 pm in Stu- derly concentration camp survivor who which begins at 6:30, will be held at dent Union 303. CLIQ event, spon- performed at Auschwitz, Stevens uses the Calandra Italian American Institute sored by Health Service Center and the music and personal accounts to depict at 25 West 43rd St., 18th floor between Chinese Student Association. Fenelon’s struggles. An Evening with 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan. For Madame F has been presented over further information call (212) 642- 100 times nationwide. Admission is Anthro Museum Plans 2035 or visit www.qc.edu/calandra. $10. The Center’s final 2002 presenta- Trips to France and NYC tion in its Jewish Lecture Series will be The Anthropology Museum of the Extended Hours for “The Power of the Proverb: Yiddish People of New York is planning a trip Library Reading Room Folk-Sayings and Imagery” on to France. Travelers will leave for The Rosenthal Library Level 2 Read- Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 pm in Paris from JFK on Wednesday, March ing Room will have extended hours LeFrak Hall. The speaker is Chava 19 and return from Nice on Wednes- during exams, thanks to support from Lapin (Classical Languages), who is day, March 26. The price—$1,425 per the Auxiliary Enterprises Association. editor-in-chief of a literary Yiddish person double, single $1,760— The Reading Room will be open 24 journal. The lecture is free. includes airfare; three nights at the hours a day beginning at 7:30 am Aida Hotel in Paris; three nights in the Thursday, December 12 through 6 pm Author Richard Peck and Busby Hotel in Nice; breakfasts; hotel on Monday, December 23. Rosenthal tax and services; cancellation insur- Library service hours remain the same: Reading Motivation ance; first-class Eurail Pass; and a Mon.-Thur., 9 am-10 pm; Fri., 9 amÐ5 Richard Peck, the Newbery-Award welcome reception. For those who pm; Sat. and Sun., 12 noonÐ6 pm. winning author of A Year Down Yon- wish to spend less time in Paris or der, will visit the Graduate School of Nice, the Eurail Pass can be used for New December Concerts Library and Information Studies as a day trips to wherever you wish to A Graduate Composers Concert will be guest of the Reading Motivation for travel in France. A $460 deposit is held on Tuesday, December 3 at 7:30 Children and Young Adults class on required by December 15 to insure the pm in the Choral Room (264) of the Thursday, December 5 at 6:30 pm in air rate. Music Bldg. On Tuesday, December Rosenthal Library, Room 230. Anyone The Museum is also planning a trip 10, the New York University Contem- interested in the author, reading moti- to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on porary Players will perform in LeFrak vation, or literature published for chil- Saturday, December 14. The $50 cost Hall at 7:30 pm. dren and young adults is invited. For includes round-trip bus transportation information, call Mary K. Chelton at and dinner at the Nectar Restaurant on 3 credit, point, or other unit granted for b) An alternate summative evalu- From the the satisfactory completion of a course ation, such as a final term paper that is which requires at least 15 hours (of 50 submitted and graded during the 15th Provost minutes each) of instruction and at least week, or a juried trial in art studio 30 hours of supplementary assignments. performed during the 15th week of the Final Exam Exemptions This basic measure must be adjusted semester; or University rules normally require a proportionately to translate the value of c) Additional activities in special final examination for each class during other academic calendars and formats courses in other than the 15th week of the 15th week of the semester. For of study in relation to the credit granted the semester, such as extra field trips some courses, this may not be appro- for study during the two semesters and reports or extra assignments and priate and an exemption may be re- which comprise an academic year.” conferences with students. quested. The academic calendar calls for a 6) At the end of the 13th week, Instructors who do not intend to hold 14-week term, with the 15th week chairpersons should submit a list of a final exam during the 15th week must reserved for final exams. The 15th exempted courses and the reasons for request an exemption. The Guidelines week gives students time to prepare for such exemption to their divisional Regarding Final Examinations describe final exams without conflicting with dean. when an exemption is appropriate. To other course commitments. If one class Note: State requirements for credits request an exemption, instructors must has an exam in the 14th week while and college assumptions about final complete the exemption request form classes are still in session, students exams also apply during Intersession available at the Provost’s webpage often feel the need to cut their other and Summer Session. (http://vanguard.qc.edu/provost/poli- courses so they can prepare for the cies/index.html), return it to their chair- 14th-week exam. Clearly, the lack of Submitting Grade Rosters standardization is a hardship for some person, who must review each request The policies of the Academic Senate students and creates inequitable condi- and, if deemed appropriate, endorse it require you to return grade rosters no tions for faculty. and forward it to the divisional dean. In later than one week after the end of the case of multiple sections of a course In summary, then: final exams. The deadline for the Fall which the chairperson and dean have 1) It is good academic practice to semester is Monday, January 6, 2003. already approved for exemption, the conclude courses with a formal final I urge you to observe this deadline chairperson need only forward one exam, or the last in a series of shorter and encourage you to submit grades exemption form to the dean. exams. These should be given during sooner, if possible. If grades are late, Please remember that an exemption the 15th week of the semester. students are disadvantaged in a number form must be filed and approved by the 2) There are other courses for which of ways: graduation may be delayed, chairperson and dean for every course reasonable alternatives to final exams applications to graduate schools may which will not meet during the 15th exist. These might include seminars, not be accepted, and students will not week. studio and performance courses, certain know what to take during the next laboratory courses, student teaching, semester. Guidelines Regarding etc. All such courses should, however, Please take the time to read the Final Examinations include appropriate summative evalua- entire text on the reverse side of the These guidelines were developed to tion activities. grade rosters. In addition to instructions help chairpersons decide which courses 3) Classroom exams given during for completing the rosters, you will may be exempted from having a final the first 14 weeks of the semester do also find College policy regarding the examination during the 15th week of the not satisfy the requirement for a final assignment of grades. Your coopera- semester. While the guidelines may exam or an alternative summative tion is appreciated. appear to be restrictive, they are neces- evaluation. sary for clarity, uniformity, and account- 4) Whenever possible, summative Evangelos J. Gizis ability. While there are alternatives to evaluation activities should take place final exams, they should be offered only during the 15th week of the semester. in appropriate situations. 5) Waivers from the requirement for To Our Readers Please submit 1) In accordance with long-standing a formal final exam during the 15th items for FYI at least two weeks in practice and the support of a sizeable week of the semester must be obtained advance to the Office of News and portion of the faculty, it is generally from the department chairperson, who Information Services, Kiely Hall agreed that a final exam supports the will judge the appropriateness of: 1310, 997-5590. 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