San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association The SJSU Emeritus and Retired Faculty (ERFA) Newsletter Association

Fall 1-2-2014

SJSU ERFA News, Fall 2014

San Jose State University, Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association

Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/erfa

Part of the Higher Education Commons

Recommended Citation San Jose State University, Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association, "SJSU ERFA News, Fall 2014" (2014). Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter. Paper 24. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/erfa/24

This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the The SJSU Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FALL 2014 • VOLUME 28 • NUMBER 1 SJSU Remembrance of Things Past ERFA Fred Schutz leads us to realize that wars are not all bad (page 4), while Calvin Stevens tells us what life was like for his family on the News western plains (page 5). A Newsletter of the San Jose State University Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association President’s Message Staying connected to the University By Joan Merdinger Our speaker will be Dr. David I look forward to meeting as As your new President this year, Wagner, professor emeritus many of you as I can this year. If I’d like to welcome you back to from Sacramento State and you’d like to contact me, I can be the new academic year on behalf current Chair of the CSU-ERFA reached at jmmerdinger@yahoo. of the ERFA Board. I am an Committee on Health Benefits. com. Emerita Professor of Social Work, His presentation will cover the and prior to retiring in 2012, I upcoming changes to CalPERS No fading away here served as the AVP/Faculty Affairs. and their effects on Long Term I’ve enjoyed my career at SJSU Care and health benefits. It should Info available on and am happy to be associated be most informative, as well as with ERFA as a way of continuing timely. SJSU retirees my University service. I’d also We also look forward to seeing By Jo Bell Whitlatch (Library) like you to know you at our annual Holiday After we retire, many of us seem that your Board Celebration in December. It’s to disappear into the empyrean. has been working always a wonderful way to bring Except for close friends and a few diligently to bring the calendar year to a close with SJSU-ERFA members, we lose you stimulating an informal gathering of friends touch with most of our colleagues, programs and and colleagues in a convivial both predecessors and succes- events again this atmosphere. As for our Spring sors. Even though some retirees year to keep us all 2015 Excursion, I want to thank leave behind scholarships in their connected to SJSU. those of you who answered the name, we, like current faculty and As part of our survey I sent out this summer students, find it difficult to know stated mission to contribute to asking about your interests, and much about them. the University, we’re initiating soliciting your suggestions. The To find information about our the ERFA Faculty Research and Board will review your votes colleagues, one useful source is Creative Activity Award this year. and preferences and announce the collection of San Jose State We plan to award $2500 to up its decision in an upcoming University College Catalogs, to two candidates to support Newsletter. Finally, we’ll wrap which generally include faculty scholarly research and creative up this 2014-2015 year with our members’ dates of appointment at activities among our on-campus annual Spring Luncheon and SJSU, their degrees and granting colleagues. We intend to offer Business Meeting at The Villages institutions. Many of these SJSU these awards each year and in May. I hope to see you there as College Catalogs are still available will be accepting applications well. Continued on page 8 beginning in Fall 2014. SJSU- ERFA will oversee the competitive process with assistance from the Provost’s Office and the Center calendar for Faculty Development. Friday, October 24, 2014 Wednesday, December 10, 2014 As for stimulating events, please Fall Luncheon Holiday Celebration make sure you put the ERFA Fall Luncheon on your calendars. It Mariani’s Restaurant MLK Library, Rms. 225-229 will take place on Friday, October See enclosed flyer. 24th, at Mariani’s in Santa Clara. • FALL• 2014 FALL• 2014 SJSU ERFA SJSU ERFA Page 2 News News Page 3 University and Academic Senate Report In Memoriam SJSU in the News • Rebecca Herrold (Music) passed and was immediately hired to teach SJSU in 1968-69. With that fiasco By Peter Buzanski (IES) for which they had to pay had already instructed all College away after a long illness on May 5, at SJSU. He was a prolific writer he became persona non grata and (Academic Senator) excessive fees. SJSU came in for deans that the IES funds could not 2014, at the age of 75. Rebecca who wrote too many books and “the most hated man on campus,” This summer, SJSU came in for much public criticism in the lo- be so used. He knew the conster- was born in Warren, PA, in 1938, articles to be listed here, but much he said. Meanwhile, he had been double criticism in both the local cal press and in a KQED morning nation this misuse caused among and by the end of high school, as of his work was based on his wide- experimenting with student- and national news. First, the Cali- radio program where President Mo department and program chairs an accomplished pianist, won two ranging experiences in teaching. directed classes (one of which led fornia Legislative Analyst (CLA), attempted to defend his actions who needed these funds, earned scholarships to the Univ. of Miami They embrace teaching English to the burying of a car on campus Mac Taylor, singled out SJSU with little success. by their faculties, to supplement where she took her BA in Music in and Language Arts in elementary as an environmental protest) and and two other CSU campuses for Secondly, the CLA criticized their ever-shrinking budgetary ap- 1960. She married a fellow music schools, social activities and evening classes for working adults, misappropriation of funds. He SJSU for misappropriating those propriations. student, cellist Stephen Herrold, curriculum development, the role of for whose “life experiences” claimed that because required IES funds. The Chancellor’s Ex- In this Fall’s rankings of national and for the next 54 years they the federal government in education, he hoped to grant university courses were not being offered ecutive Order requires that the universities, SJSU was ranked shared their passion for music the social and cultural foundations credits. The reluctance of SJSU in sufficient numbers during the percentage of IES funds earned in eighth place among western while teaching at all school levels in of education and teaching administrators to cooperate led to regular sessions, students felt be used only for IES purposes, institutions of higher learning by various states: Georgia, Colorado, disadvantaged children. He not his fateful decision to leave and forced to attend alternate classes whereas SJSU returned much of the US News and World Report Oregon and California. Rebecca only taught teachers throughout the create his own learning programs. offered through the International those funds to the campus gen- magazine. However, the Washing- took her MA in Music from SJSU in Bay Area, but conducted classes He sought to provide educational and Extended Studies program eral fund. SJSU Provost Feinstein ton Monthly, a forty-four year old 1969, and her in Musical and workshops as far away as Iran, opportunities for people who were magazine well known for its liberal Arts from Stanford in 1974. She Crete, the Marianas and the Island not able to attend classes on college SJSU ERFA Officers, 2014-15 perspective, failed to provide a taught at SJSU for 25 years and of Saipan. Sid leaves behind his campuses, to provide easy-access was head of Music Education. She wife Sheila, four children and one classrooms near workplaces, President -- Joan Merdinger ranking for SJSU. The Monthly authored two college textbooks: grandchild. supplemented by “peer teaching” Vice Pres. -- Gail Evans uses more diverse criteria, like percentage of students with Pell Mastering the Fundamentals of • John Sperling (Humanities, ‘72) and distance-learning through Secretary -- Jo Bell Whitlatch Grants, social mobility, research Music and New Approaches to died on August 22, 2014, at age computers. His biggest hurdle Treasurer -- Abdel El-Shaieb and service. Understandably, the Elementary Classroom Music (three 93, in San Francisco. John was was to gain accreditation from Members at Large -- Marian Yoder, Monthly uses categories where editions). Rebecca is survived by a larger-than-life figure whose state agencies dominated by an her husband Stephen and her sister Horatio Alger trajectory took him academic establishment who saw Bill McCraw SJSU should not be evaluated, such as “Top 30 National Universi- Clarice. from a log cabin in the his efforts as an attempt to establish Patrick Hamill • Sidney Tiedt (Elem. Education, Ozarks (really!) to billionaire status a “diploma mill.” It was a long, Academic Senate -- Peter Buzanski ties” and “Top Affordable Elite,” but in one important category, ’99) passed away on May 20, 2014 as the founder of the University hard-fought process which drove

Past President -- Carmen Sigler “The Top 100 Master’s Universi- at age 86. Sid lived an adventurous of Phoenix. In his autobiography, him from California to Arizona and Ex Officio Members ties,” SJSU was excluded from life for an academic. Born on the Rebel With a Cause (John Wiley, involved hiring, as advisors, retired Newsletter Gene Bernardini (Editor) and Clyde Lawrence (Layout/Design) consideration. Since 13 other CSU south side of Chicago in a working 2000), he tells the whole story: academics who had served on campuses—several much smaller class neighborhood, he enlisted in how he survived a poor, unhappy accreditation boards, buttressed Membership Wayne Savage Consolations Jill Cody ones—were evaluated, SJSU’s the Navy right out of high school. childhood, a near-fatal illness as a by campaign contributions to state exclusion was disturbing. After He shipped down the coast of boy, a learning disability (dyslexia) legislators who would side with him Activities Dolores Escobar-Hamilton Archivist Lonna Smith the SJSU Provost was alerted, he California, to Central America and that impeded his ability to read and over the traditional establishment. Barbara Conry CSU-ERFA Reps Don Keesey launched an investigation which is the Galapagos Islands, which write, and a coming-of-age stint He finally succeeded and his Lonna Smith Bob Wilson still ongoing. All that is known so whetted an appetite for travel. in the Merchant Marine where he learning programs (which became far is that our exclusion was not The opportunity offered by the GI overcame his learning handicaps. the ) soon Joan Merdinger Bill temporarily brought him back He worked his way through Reed spread from Arizona to dozens ERFA Member-at-Large--Adnan Daoud caused by an institutional refusal to respond to an inquiry. No in- to Chicago and Northwestern College in Oregon, then joined the of other states and Costa Rica. Webmaster--Carol Christensen quiry had been made. University, where he took a BA and US Army Air Corps to obtain the GI It would become the largest For- SJSU ERFA Office You may recall that the Academic MA in 1950-52. He soon left for Bill. He used it to attend grad school Profit private university in the Senate’s motion early this year Alaska, where he taught in a K-12 at UC Berkeley and was awarded a world and paved the way for many MacQuarrie Hall 438D school while working summers as a scholarship to Cambridge Univ. in “diploma mills” that followed suit. email: [email protected] • Telephone (408) 924-2478 asking the Chancellor’s office to review existing problems on this commercial salmon fisherman. He England, where he took his Ph.D. in John rejected that characterization, campus resulted in the Chan- organized a statewide fisherman’s Economic History. believing he was creating a practical Visit the SJSU ERFA Website at www.sjsu.edu/emeritusfaculty cellor’s open letter to the faculty co-op to negotiate with the canneries In 1960, John was offered a position education for the future. He later regarding steps that need to be while teaching, and became a in the Humanities Program at SJSU would say, “I only had one good Views and opinions expressed in this SJSU ERFA Newsletter are those of taken. In the first Senate meeting principal of an elementary school and took it on impulse. During his idea, but it was a great one.” the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the editor or this Fall, members were informed in Anchorage. He then enrolled at 12-years on campus, he organized By the end of his long career, he the Univ. of Oregon where he took a statewide CSU faculty union claimed he had never been cut of San José State University. Continued on Page 7 his doctorate in education in 1961, and initiated a disastrous strike at Continued on Page 7 SUMMER• 2014 SUMMER• 2014 Page 4 SJSU ERFA SJSU ERFA Page 5 Remembrance of Things Past News News Remembrance of Things Past Sharing memories with our members . . . Sharing memories with our members . . . My Happy Life in the Army “Is there always a snake in the grass?” By Fred Schutz (English) good fortune. I applied to Stars ing 8000 copies and had $5000 in By Calvin Howes Stevens, there, he became frightened left for observation and shooting, the bank. We intended to return and a roof composed of rough I was drafted into the US Army and Stripes, where I was given a (Geology) by the sounds of drums and after our discharge from the Army planks. The women and children in l943, and after basic training vocabulary test and then assigned My ancestors immigrated to incantations on the other side of to continue, but other attractions were evacuated to Sheridan, I read on a bulletin board about as a staff writer. I worked princi- southeastern Montana from the creek. So he packed up his came along. For a time I did PR Wyoming, about 70 miles away, a program called ASTP (Army pally on a paper called Maptalk, Massachusetts in 1880, becoming bedroll and took off to spend that writing for Williams Air Base in Ari- while the men gathered and Specialized Training) which had designed to furnish current news the first Caucasians to settle in night, and succeeding ones, at zona. Then I went to Japan during planned to retreat to the fort to four branches of college study-- from back home to the military. I the area. They initially put down a friendly ranch farther from the the occupation in Assistant fight, if necessary. Again, nothing medicine, psychiatry, language, came to know many of roots on the Tongue River, but later Indian encampment. Fortunately, Personnel at our air base transpired. and engineering. The first three the writers there and, relocated to a place called Otter no trouble ensued. there. But my ultimate In the following years famines required previous college credits with a partner, started Creek, which they considered Sometime later, Levi’s father goal was education, and I struck the Indian communities. for admission—the engineering a magazine called The better for raising cattle. My made friends with one of the decided to take advantage I remember my mother talking program did not. The program was Philippine-American. grandfather, Levi Howes, was Indian chiefs called “Wooden of the GI bill. about how Indians would devised to meet a potential lack It was modeled on eight years old at the time I had a wonderful time in come to the ranch. They of certain professionals if the war Time magazine with its and at that young age one A true story from the western plains Manila, but then I could never knocked at the lasted a long time. I applied for red border, and Time of his major concerns was not have been more fortu- door but instead pressed the engineering program as a way covered it in an article running into snakes in the nate in my whole military Leg.” As far as my family and their faces against the windows, to acquire some college educa- called “Foxhole Baby.” grass. He said he once asked his life--a good start on my the other ranchers in the area indicating their hunger. My tion, and was sent to William and The Time article de- father, “Does there always have to college education, a were concerned, peace had grandmother always provided food Mary. I had only taken an algebra scribed how we got I WANT YOU . . . be a snake in the grass?” “No,” TO GO TO COLLEGE great time in learning been established. Later, however, and sometimes clothing when course in high school, but this $625 from a Philip- his father replied, “but you can AND BE HAPPY! more about writing, tensions developed again, and necessary. After the food was program took me through algebra, pine lawyer and with never be too careful.” editing, and the world in 1897 an Indian uprising was distributed, our family watched trig, analytic geometry, calculus, a few hundred more Six years later, when Levi was of business. The army really was anticipated. This resulted in the these sad, hopeless, displaced engineering drawing, chemistry of our own money began publish- 14 years old, tension developed my grandfather, providing travel, construction of a small primitive people disappear over the hills, and physics, some 70-plus units ing. “Manilans took a shine to between the settlers and local college and a professional educa- fort composed of irregular slabs only to return during the next in all—all packed into a few short their brash love of controversy. Indians. Despite his age, he was tion. It could have left me with of sandstone on the crest of a famine. months. One of their articles explained assigned by his father to watch lifelong injuries, or worse; instead barren hill at my family’s ranch. The last interaction between a I have never studied harder—I how some Filipinos felt they were part of the family’s herd of cattle it gave me a better future than I This “fort,” now a historic site family member and an Indian took studied a book while shaving, read being forced to collaborate with which were grazing across a creek ever thought possible. To this day called Fort Howes, consisted place many years later when my a book while walking through the Americans, or else. Another took from an encampment of Indians. I feel incredibly lucky. Sad to say, of one room large enough to mother, Levi’s daughter, answered campus (classrooms and buildings American GIs to task for criticizing Levi admitted to me some years for some people wars can be a accommodate about a dozen a knock on her front door in Sheri- were only vague shadows), some- the Filipinos.” ago, that, on his first evening boon. men, with openings in the walls dan, Wyoming. She was met by an times even studied a book in a bar By the fifth issue we were sell- old Indian warrior who said he was with a date! I somehow navigated destitute and had heard she was with a book in front of me. How a friend of the Indians. My mother thick those shadows were became The importance of being Emeritus . . . replied she was willing to help clear to me when, many years To improve the Academic Senate’s policy regarding Emeritus and Retired shared office space? and walked back to her bedroom later, I showed my wife around Faculty, the current Chair of the Professional Standards Committee, Ken 5.How often do you use the Emeritus parking on campus? Daily? Weekly? to retrieve her purse. When she the William and Mary campus. As Peter, is circulating a questionnaire seeking feedback from SJSU-ERFA Monthly? turned around she was startled we walked, I realized that I hardly members. It consists of the following seven questions: 6. Do you think that Lecturers should be eligible for Emeritus status? If so, and alarmed to find the Indian had recognized the walkways or build- 1. Do you use the book and reference resources located in the MLK li- under what conditions? followed her unnoticed through ings. The past was only a haze, a brary? If so, how often? 7. Is the title of Emeritus Faculty important to you? Please briefly explain. the house. Somewhat shaken, she wonderful cloudy haze of confused 2. Do you use electronic resources such as Link+, Inter-Library Loan, or quickly handed him a few dollars. memories of that time. electronic books, articles, or databases through MLK Jr. Library? If so, how He smiled, simply said “Thank When the program was shut often? You may respond in one of two ways. You can reply either via email to you,” and left. down in 1944, I was assigned 3. Do you attend University events? If so, please give an example and state [email protected] or by regular mail to Kenneth Peter, Dep’t of Politi- Frightened as she was, like Levi, to an artillery unit among the how often. cal Science, One Washington Sq., San Jose, CA 95192-0119. Since the she discovered that there doesn’t forces that were about to invade 4. Does the University supply you with your own office space? With a policy is currently under review, a prompt reply will be most appreciated. always have to be a snake in the the Philippines. Thus I arrived grass. in Manila. And there I had great FALL• 2014 FALL• 2014 SJSU ERFA SJSU ERFA Page 6 News News Page 7

Special news from and about our members. Edited by Gene Bernardini In Memoriam This edition contains news about travels and activities taken from the membership renewal forms. Members are invited to send additional news Continued from Page 3 his longtime companion, Joan kind and gentle man, a consummate Chatabout themselves to GeneRoom Bernardini at [email protected] . . . or by snail mail at 775 Seawood Way, San Jose, CA 95120 out to be an academic (despite Hawthorne. professional who worked well authoring a long list of writings on • Anne Fountain (Foreign in Cambodia. “We also sampled antagonistic” contact him at • Lee Dorosz (Biology, ‘02) died on with people—students, faculty, educational theory and curriculum). Languages, ’12) and her partner some exotic dishes,” Dennis says, [email protected]. September 2, 2014, at the age of 76, staff and administration. He was The university experience was too Mike Conniff, both spent the “like stir fried crickets and pan- • Allen Friebel (Teacher after a two-year struggle with cancer. particularly interested in university placid for his restless nature. He Spring semester of 2014 teaching fried tarantulas with garlic—not Education, ’94) writes that “life is Born in Baltimore, MD, he graduated outreach, facilitating the path of decided he was, above all, a risk- at the University of Florida. Anne bad with cold beer or the local good at our retirement community, from Loyola HS in Towson, MD at diverse students to the campus and taker, and the entrepreneurial just published a new book: Jose white lightning (rice or palm wine).” The Terraces, in Los Gatos.” He the age of 16 and attended Catholic making the university experience a th life, which he embarked upon in Marti’, the United States and As for academic pursuits, the 11 and wife Nancy celebrated their Univ. in Washington, DC, where he welcoming one. Upon retiring, he th his early fifties, was more suited Race (published by the Univ. edition of Dennis’ major textbook, 60 wedding anniversary in June earned his BA in Psychology. He and his wife Kathy moved to New to his spirit. He had gone from Press of Florida) while Mike, Public Relations Strategies and after recent travels to Hawaii, worked as a psychologist in the York City. From there they traveled being an academic Marxist in his designated the Bacardi Eminent Tactics, was published by Pearson Lake Tahoe, Boston and on a New Maryland prison system, then took widely, visiting all seven continents, youth to becoming a firm believer Scholar, headlined an international in March. England cruise. an MA in Clinical Psychology at the which allowed him to indulge his in the free-market system. But he conference on Panama. • Betty Auchard (widow of Denny • Edith Crowe (Library, ’07) is University of Illinois (1968) and his hobby of photography. They came always was an anti-establishment • Bill Barrett (Computer Auchard, Education, ‘88) continues pleased to announce her marriage doctorate in Human Physiology back to the Bay Area at least once iconoclast who, in his later years, Engineering, ’04) keeps busy to write her memoir stories and to Amy Wisniewski as of August at UC Berkeley in 1972. At SJSU a year to visit family and friends. used his great wealth to finance writing Android cellphone invites anyone to access her Story 29, 2013. he taught courses in Biological Lee’s wife of 54 years, Kathy, and offbeat causes: Medical Marijuana applications. One of them makes Blog at www.bettyauchard.com/ • Norborn Felton (Natural Studies, then served as Assoc. Vice their son, Leon Charles III, have Initiatives in several states, animal shopping easier in a supermarket; blog. Leave your name and email Sciences/Geology, ’86) describes President in Undergraduate Studies announced a Celebration of Life cloning, saltwater agriculture and another allows one to predict how address if you’d like to receive himself as a “snowbird” who and Curriculum Development for for Lee to be held on December 2, life-prolonging experiments for liberal or conservative people new ones as they are posted. spends 6 months of every year in over ten years. He was also elected 2014, from 4--6 pm in MLK Library, the aged. He is survived by his are by their answers to certain • Lois Brainard (Elem. Ed/Instr. Quartzsite, AZ, during the winter Chair of the Dep’t of Biology for Rm. 225. son, Peter, two grandchildren and questions; and a third helps Tech., ’83) writes that she season. “That’s where I keep out three separate terms. Lee was a figure out the daily Jumble puzzle remembers teaching in those WW of trouble pursuing my various in the SJ Mercury News. Bill II quonset huts on campus long hobbies and managing the B-10 University & Academic Affairs News is also working with a group to ago when Tommie Smith was Campground.” help stamp out timber poaching one of her students. His statue • Marjorie Fitting Gifford (Math- SJSU in the News in developing countries. The there today reminds her of Smith’s ematics, ’92) still lives in Hawaii presence then and now. where she was delighted recently Continued from Page 2 then the Dean of College of Engi- whose situation made this impos- company is called Treetag and that during the summer a number neering, who almost single-hand- sible. This policy proved divisive, it can be accessed at www. • Peter Buzanski (History,’96) and by her doctor’s comment. After his wife Colleen returned early this chastising her for avoiding having of intense meetings took place edly obtained private funds for the both in Committee and on the JungleBird.org. and that those remedial steps will construction of the present Engi- Senate floor, but eventually the • Stephen Achtenhagen summer from a visit to Fallbrook, a colonoscopy until now, he said, CA, 30 miles northeast of San “All clear. I guess you’re good to be discussed soon. In the mean- neering building. And, finally, the measure was passed and sent to (Marketing, ’00) spent six weeks while, the University President President praised Charles Burdick the president. The president took in May and June at his condo on Diego. Fallbrook is the avocado go for another 80 years.” capitol of the world and while there has apparently taken to heart the for his many contributions to the from May to August to decide how Maui, enjoying his retirement. complaints that caused the Senate welfare of the university. to respond—and then came to a Joe Boudreau (History, ’03) they observed the consequences of the drought. Most of the Good News from to act and his recent actions reveal In another indication that the surprising conclusion. Mindful of recently uprooted his lawn and a different president. In his annual President is seeking to modify his the CSU mandate that all degree replaced it with plants that require avocado trees have been totally destroyed. “We expect avocado CalPERS! address to the campus this Fall, he relationships on campus, he an- programs should not exceed 120 only drip irrigation in order to cope spoke more clearly and positively nounced a “Selfie with the Presi- units, the president wrote, “I be- prices to be astronomical this In July, CalPERS announced with the drought. “We’re the first than in the past. He recounted the dent” event in which he scheduled lieve physical education is a luxury coming year,” he says. that its portfolio of investments kids on our block to do this,” he proud 157 year history of this insti- a few hours with students and we can not (sic) afford, [however] • James Asher (Psychology, ’92) grew by 18.4% over the says. tution, singling out the contribu- others who wanted to have their I have signed this resolution into has, for several years, provided past fiscal year, ending on • Dennis Wilcox (Journalism/Mass tions of outstanding students, fac- photos taken with him. Finally, his University policy despite my own SJSU student teachers in Dr. June 30, 2014. This is a rate Comm., 05) and his wife Marianne ulty, staff and administrators. He action and comments on a policy personal objection . . . because, Rosalinda Quintanar’s classes a significantly higher than the spent six weeks this January spoke of John Carlos and Tommy recommendation made by the Sen- for me, an even more important demonstration in Arabic, Spanish 7.5% “discount rate” needed and February visiting Southeast Smith, the two students who both ate at its last meeting in May also tenet is that curriculum is and and Japanese of his Total Physical to meet CalPERS’ current and Asia. They spent a day caring for the Chancellor and the Governor in suggests a change. The Senate should remain the purview of the Response method, known future pension obligations. elephants at a conservation center the 1960s wanted disciplined and recommended that the two-unit faculty. Therefore, I have respected worldwide as TPR. If you are Time to breathe a sigh of relief in Thailand, took a spectacular expelled, while President Robert physical education requirement be the faculty’s collective decision to balloon ride over the landscape interested in seeing some dramatic and celebrate, for now. examples of language instruction Clark courageously refused to toughened and made mandatory keep SJSU’s physical education in Burma, and hiked through the do so. He singled out Jay Pinson, for all students, except for those requirement.” Comity prevails. temple complex at Angkor Wat that is “brain compatible” or “brain SJSU ERFA Non-Profit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID News San Jose, CA Permit No. 816 Newsletter of the Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0210

Return Service Requested

FALL• 2014 SJSU ERFA Page 8 News No fading away here Information available about retired SJSU faculty members Continued from Page 1 in paper format in the King Library. the present time are available State University/Special Collec- These course catalogs go all the online through CollegeSource tions and Archives to view col- way back to San Jose State Nor- Online. To access CollegeSource lections such as O. C. Williams’ mal School and San Jose State Online, you can go to the main papers, documenting his poetry Teachers College, from 1872-1935. library webpage: http://library. and tenure at San Jose State; the The Special Collections reading sjsu.edu/, then select Databases Faculty Publications Collection, room on the 5th floor also includes and scroll down to CollegeSource which includes academic publica- a subset of physical copies of the Online. If you are off campus, tions and scholarly articles written SJSU College Catalogs, with dates you will need to enter your name, by faculty members over an eighty ranging from 1940-present. You university ID and pin number (the year span (1907-1987); and two can find all this online at http://li- standard procedure for accessing significant oral history projects brary.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collec- databases off campus). interviewing San Jose faculty and tions/sjsu-special-collections-and- Finally, extensive information on administrators. archives various SJSU faculty members These library tools can help you The SJSU Library’s Special Col- is available through the Online with research, or simply satisfy lections and Archives hold all Archive of California: http://www. your curiosity and refresh your fad- of the SJSU College Catalogs, oac.cdlib.org/institutions/. ing memories. Take advantage of but the catalogs from 1969 to There you can select San Jose them.