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To (want to) recover is part of who we are. s3 Society Developments: Senior Life Member Discount Dark Times in the White House: 2010 Convention Recovery When Presidents Die in Office Letters to the Editor By John Milton Cooper, Jr. Coming Next Issue Out of 44 commanders in chief, 29 Phi Kappa Phi Bookshelf 4 eight have passed away on the job. 30 Chapter Update When Tragedy Inspires Recovery: 31 Member Spotlight Visual Arts in Post-Katrina New Orleans 32 Member News 33 In Memoriam 8 By Susan E. Krantz Artists help the city recuperate emotionally, economically. Accommodating Loss s COLUMNS By Anne Chandler 22 Arts and Entertainment 12 How we deal with grief partly depends n By (William) Arnold Johnston on how we interpret the mourning process. and Deborah Ann Percy 23 Sports and Exercise Diagnosing Historic American n By Joe Cascio y Military Medical Innovations 24 Science and Technology By James Curley g By Catherine C. Shoults 14 The Spanish-American War and World War I revolutionized healthcare. 25 Education and Academics n By Timothy L. Hulsey U.S. Employment Travels Long, 26 Business and Economics Bumpy Road to Recovery y By Philip R. Wahl II By James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca 27 Workplace and Employment 16 The job sector will take many years to rally from the recession. n By Kimberly Thompson Marketing and the Effects of Recessions s Features By Mark J. Kay What are ways to scale back yet 28 About Books: 18 s What It Means to Be Human recognize opportunities in a downturn? s in 1984 and Today e By Eric D. Lehman Fade in, Fade out: Addiction, 35 Poetic Pause: ” “45 Days Clean” Recovery, in American Movies r By Katherine Cottle 20 By Stefan Hall Now playing in an unlimited run: drugs and alcohol. 36 And One More Thing … y with Bob Zany On the Cover: Sunrise at Black Point Wildlife Drive on the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Fla., January 2010. (Photographer Joel Reynolds, Titusville, Fla.) Summer 2010 1 President’s Message Board Directors By Robert B. Rogow ● Increase enrollment of new members of We launched a public relations campaign SOCIETY PRESIDENT A month after I became and upgraded the Phi Kappa Phi Web site Robert B. Rogow, C.P.A., Ph.D. president of The Honor partly to attract initiates. To allow more Eastern Kentucky University College of Business and Technology Society of Phi Kappa Phi in students to accept membership, we expanded Business & Technology Center 214 August 2007, the board of the Online Enrollment Program to 521 Lancaster Ave.