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May 2012 U.C. Riverside Retirees and Emeriti/ae Associations
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of summerof summerof summerof summer!!!!
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Bridge Group Update The February game was cancelled since so many of our members had scheduling con-flicts for that day. However, we were up and running in March with Betty Howe coming in 1st and Juanita Kindinger coming in 2nd. In April, the bridge group was up to full speed again, with three tables in operation. Peggy Ramsay finished 1st, Thel-ma Otto was 2nd, and Grace Taylor (sub) came in 3rd. Please contact me at 951-242-5297 if you would like to join in, either as a regular or a sub. -Marti
Cliff’s Notes
Retirees Association
OFFICERS President: Clifford Wurfel 1st Vice President (951) 588-6924 OPEN Treasurer: George Groty (951) 924-9536
COMMITTEE CHAIRS Bridge Group: Social Secretary: Marti Orth Betty Howe (951) 242-5297 (951) 686-7668 Hospitality: Membership: Blanche Kruse OPEN (951) 689-3885
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Emeriti Faculty Association OFFICERS President: Anthony Norman (951) 827-4777 Treasurer: Irving Balow (951) 672-7716
*** Director of Constituent Relations ***
Allison Tavaglione, [email protected], Office of Alumni & Constituent Relations, (951) 827-2586. Hours: Mon. 8am-5:00 pm, Tue-Thurs. 8am-12 pm.
Scholarship donations
are always welcome! Remember they are
tax deductible!
Make your check payable to UCR Foundation
and forward to our Treasurer for application to the
UCRRA Scholarship Account
Mail to: George E. Groty
24041 Forsyte Street Moreno Valley, CA
92557-5007
Retirees Association President Cliff
Wurfel is on Vacation!!
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Emeriti Association Emeriti Association Emeriti Association Emeriti Association ———— Anthony Norman, PresidentAnthony Norman, PresidentAnthony Norman, PresidentAnthony Norman, President
The Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Professorship 2011 - 2012 In 2003, each Chancellor of a UC campus received a letter from C. Judson King, Provost and Sen-ior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of California. The letter documented the real-location of the Edward A Dickson Emeriti Professorship Endowment (established in 1993) into ten equivalent campus-specific endowment funds. Each campus maintains their own endowment so as to create an annual payout fund that is used for that year’s award(s). The number and amount of awards may vary annually based on earnings from the past year of the endowment. The purpose of the award is to encourage the continuing contribution of emeriti faculty in fulfilling the University’s mission. Each emeritus professor receiving support from the Dickson Endowment shall be known as the “Edward A. Dickson, Emeriti Professor”. Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Professorship Awards are normally awarded annually to one or more emeriti members of the UCR faculty. In the most recent years, one or two $6,000 awards have been made to further the professor emeritus/a’s research through an application process announced by the Academic Senate annually in the fall. This year’s Edward A Dickson two awards for 2011-12 are each of $6,000.00 The Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Professorship Awards for 2011-12 are introduced below. Tony Norman, President of UCREA George Slusser, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages, will be extending his important re-search on science fiction by completing a new book, tentatively titled “The Other Shore: The Science Fiction of Continen-tal Rationalism.” Science fiction writing has paralleled historically the European scientific revolution as a world literary form. While the majority of science fiction has promulgated the idea that it is an Anglo-Saxon form of literature, the “other shore” referred to in Professor Slusser’s new book will focus on a much broader but neglected literature that developed from 17th century thinkers and writers such as Descartes and Pascal, who acted as mediators between scientific thought and literature and the arts. His proposed book will focus on the important line of Cartesian science fiction which emerged from France to Continental Europe, a line of literature which is no less important than the Anglophone science fiction better known in English speaking countries, including the United States. His approach to the history of the relation of science and literature will be comparative in nature and include thinkers and writers whose primary language was not English. Since completing his undergraduate degree at Berkeley in English and Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Har-vard, George Slusser has become one of America’s most knowledgeable scholars of science fiction. In addition to his own prominent writings in the field, Professor Slusser became known prominently at UCR as Curator of the library’s Eaton Col-lection of science fiction. Professor Slusser was named an emeritus faculty professor in 2004.
Ben Stoltzfus, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages, will be completing a book, “Rene Ma-gritte: Elective Affinities and Literary Titles.” This book promises to add new and important information to the interarts convergences that are currently attracting substantial attention in his field. Briefly described, it concerns the analysis of works of literature and paintings with the same title. Often a world-renowned artist would give his paintings the titles of the works he was reading. Thus, in the case of Rene Magritte, there are paintings named for prominent books by R. L. Steven-son, Edgar Allan Poe, et al. “Ekphrasis” is the term used by art critics and literary critics whenever they examine the inter-arts connections between the visual and the verbal. More recently the definition has been expanded to include any rhetori-cal device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form. But what can be said when a renowned artist borrows the title of a book, but his picture appears not to illustrate that literary work? Professor Stoltzfus identifies Magritte as practicing “reverse ekphrasis” because his picture both comments on and subverts its literary antecedent. Thus, for example, in the case of Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Glass Key, the painting depicts a rock balancing precariously on a mountain ridge, but no key. Stoltzfus’s analysis follows from the fact that Ma-gritte was a reader of philosophers as well as poets and novelists. His book, influenced by Roland Bartges’s seminal essay, Rhetoric of the Image, promises to be the first to explore the meaning in language based on the denotation and connotation of objects. Professor Stoltzfus has been a widely respected member of the UCR faculty since 1960 and has continued his active scholarship and publication since becoming an emeritus member in 1993.
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TheUCRRetirees’Associationwelcomes
it’snewestmembers:
KristiKing
Kathy Jones - LifeMember
TheUCREmeritiFacultyAssociation
welcomesit’snewestmembers:
CarltonBovell
ChristopherReed
Jun. 9 Donald Johns
Jun. 9 Vernal B. Norris
Jun. 13 John Letey, Jr.
Jun. 13 Jim Sims
Jun. 17 Chester N. Roistacher
Jun. 29 Bette Quinn
Jun. 30 Barbara Gable
Jul. 1 Volker O. Herbert
Jul. 5 Janet M. Sandell
Jul. 6 John H. Coleman
Jul. 10 Clifford N.(Ken) Robson
Jul. 12 John Pollock
Jul. 13 Darian Daries
Jul. 14 Eden M. Luntao
Jul. 17 Porfirio G. Pacheco
Jul. 21 Phyllis L. Morton
Jul. 23 Georgia Elliott
Jul. 30 Susan Chiuminatta
Jul. 31 Nancy E. Douglas
Aug. 7 Richard A. Morandi
Aug. 20 Bibi Z. E. Khan
Aug. 20 Evelyn P. Sadler
Aug. 20 F. Elleta Wild
Aug. 21 Kristi King
Aug. 21 Robert C. Neuman
Aug. 22 Esperanza Delgado
Aug. 24 Beverly Guidero
Aug. 29 Virginia L. Field
Aug. 30 Dennis Focht
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Nancy Beckage John Steadman, III
In Remembrance……..In Remembrance……..In Remembrance……..In Remembrance……..
You are invited to the:
UCR Campus Memorial
Thursday, May 24, 2012
4:00pm
Botanic Gardens
Visit the website to RSVP and
to see the names of those
that will be remembered this
year
www.memorial.ucr.edu
Retirees Association Scholarships
Thanks to members of the UCR Retirees and Emeriti Associations 2- $1,500 scholarships were awarded to two deserving students
Congratulations to:
Kevin Bennett Hashina Patel
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Retirees’ Association Board of Directors
According to it’s bylaws, the Retirees Association is
now asking for nominations for the 2012-13 Board of Directors.
This year, the board openings are President,
President Elect, Secretary and Treasurer. If you would like to serve on the board or would like to nominate a fellow retiree, please submit
names for consideration to: Allison Tavaglione at [email protected]
A slate of officers will be announced at the June 15 luncheon.
June 15 Luncheon Guest Speaker Dr. Carlos Cortes, Faculty Emeritus of History
A book reading and signing of his autobiography “Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time”
In his new memoir: Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time, Cortes lovingly chronicles his family’s tumultuous, decades-long spars over ethnicity, religion, class, and culture, from his early years in legally segregated Kansas City during the 1940’s to his return to Berkeley (where his parents met) in the 1950”s, and to his parent's separation, reconciliation, deaths and eventual burials at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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UC Riverside Retirees’ Association UC Riverside Emeriti/ae Association Office of Alumni & Constituent Relations University of California, Riverside 2203 Alumni & Visitors Center 3701 Canyon Crest Drive Riverside, CA 92521-0110
UCRAA Calendar of Events
8 Friday ALL DAY Deadline for Summer Luncheon Reservations
15 Friday 11:30—1:00 Summer Luncheon at the Alumni & Visitors Center
18 Monday 12:30—3:30 Bridge at the Janet Goeske Center
16 Monday 12:30—3:30 Bridge at the Janet Goeske Center
20 Monday 12:30—3:30 Bridge @ Janet Goeske Center