ABOUT YOUR HEALTH: Advanced Care Planning on Page 2 and National Healthcare Decisions Day on Page 3

Associate Professor of Strategic Communication in the Bob Schief-fer College of Communication, Dr. Bright and Dr. Jacque Lambiase are co-directors of the Certified Public Communicator Program.

She teaches courses about media planning, research and evaluation, digital media and its history.

Her research interests focus on consumer interactions in online envi-ronments, including social networking sites, customized websites and new media applications.

Professionally she has spent more than a decade working in the interac-tive advertising business in Austin, TX. Her website is: http://brightwom-an.com and follow her on Twitter: @lbright.

11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 24D.J. Kelly Alumni & Visitor’s Center

Park in the Visitor’s Center, Lot 6, unless it is full. Alternate parking is the parking garage between the Kelly Center and Ranch Management.

Arrangements have been made with TCU Police.

Reservations for each attendee are required by the deadline, 6 p.m. Sunday, March 20. Send an email to Stan Hagadone at j.hagadone@tcu.edu or call him at 972.393.8688

and leave your message on the answering machine.

Pay $11 at the door. Please honor your reservation to avoid being billed. If any dietary restrictions apply to you or your guest, please specify these in making your reservations. Attendees who do not want to eat still need to make reservations, but please specify that

you will not be eating so that a meal will not be ordered for you.

UPCOMING RETIREES’ LUNCHEON MEETINGS

April 27, Wednesday, with pre-luncheon presentation on “Preparing with Ad-vance Medical Directives.”May 26, ThursdayNo more luncheon meetings until fall.July Coffee, Time and place to be an-nounced.

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Retirees’ NewsletterTCU RETIREES’ MARCH PROGRAM: LIVING IN A MEDIATED WORLD—A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

Dr. Laura BrightAssociate Professor of Strategic Communication

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Leadership for TCURA: Help the Nominating Committee

Coffee, Books & Conversation will meet again on Wednesday, May 18, at 10 a.m. in the library at Univer-sity Christian Church.

The book to be discussed is "The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown. It is the story of nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Alpha Shirey will lead the discussion of the book.

If you have questions please call Judy Smith at 817-921-4798.

JoAnn StuddardJan. 13, 1930 – Mar. 7 2016

Administrative Assistant in En-gineering JoAnn Studdard was an alumna of TCU, receiving her bach-elor of music education degree at the University before going to Texas Women’s University for her master’s degree.

The native of Fort Worth was a member of Mu Phi Epsilon profes-sional music fraternity and Texas Retired Teachers’ Association, having taught elementary school students violin, viola, cello and base. In Japan she studied with Sinichi Suzuki and taught the Suzuki method at Orchestra Hall in Fort Worth. Studdard was a Member of the Fort Worth Civic Or-chestra and played professionally for many organizations.

INOTE: If you know of any recent TCU retired faculty or staff who have died, please send the information and an obituary if available to newsletter

editor: d.newsom@tcu.edu.

Thank you.

IN MEMORIAM

Would you like to be a part of the Retirees’ Association leadership team? Send your name or your suggestion for someone else to help in nominat-ing committee in its search. Positions open are Vice-President (program chair), Secretary, Representative-at-Large.

Take action now! A ballot will be presented to the membership at the April meeting and voted on at the May meeting.

Call or send an email with your suggestions to Jean Walbridge, nominating committee chair at 817.680.2527 or folkart@airmail.net.

Join Coffee, Books & Conversation on Wednesday, May 18

Presenters are Kendra J. Belfi, MD, FACP, a retired general internist and geri-atrician who was in private practice in Fort Worth for 35 years and Tashaa Hor-ton, RN, BSN, CPTC, a registered nurse for 21 years and currently and for the last six years the Manager of Hospital Donation Services at LifeGift. Belfi received her bachelor of arts from Rice University and her MD from UT Southwestern Medical School in Dal-las. Her internal medicine residency was done at UTSW affiliated hospitals in Dal-las. She has been a member of the Tar-rant County Academy of Medicine Ethics consortium for many years and served as its chair for seven. Also, she has been a member of two hospital ethics commit-tees, a hospice ethics committee and a nursing home ethics committee. Inter-

ested in promoting advance planning, she has followed the various changes in the Texas advance directives act over time after participating in changes made in the act during the 1999 legislative session. She is a facilitator instructor for the Respecting Choices program. While practicing, Belfi served as medical director for a Continuing Care Retirement Community for 29 years and a co-medical director for an Alzheimer’s facility for 18 years. Horton earned her BSN from the Uni-versity of Texas at Arlington and worked primarily in critical care and acute hemodialysis before joining LifeGift. The combination of both fields led to her involvement in organ donations.n See National HealthCare Decisions Day,

April 16, on the next page.

Advance Care Planning: Taking Control of Your Health CarePre-Luncheon Program for April 27, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

in the Justin Board Room in the Kelly Center

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As a geriatrician and hospital physi-cian ethics consultant, I saw firsthand the power of conversations which helped families know what treatments their loved ones would or would not want if they became seriously ill and could not speak for themselves. For several years I have been on the board of a local coalition, Coalition for Qual-ity End-of-Life Care, which seeks to help people navigate issues that come up at the end of life. For the past few years we have participated in National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) by organizing events and publicizing what other groups in Tarrant County are doing to help people with their own advance healthcare planning. As a physician, I had many conversations on this subject with my patients and ex-perienced firsthand the relief that many families felt when their loved one had let them know ahead of time what level of medical care they would want. It is always hard to lose a loved one but it is much easier to be in the position of hon-oring someone’s wishes than to be in the position of having to make the decisions yourself (and then second-guessing yourself afterwards about whether you did the right thing or not).

National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) was founded by Nathan Kottkamp, an attorney who was serving on several hospital ethics committees and became aware of the conflicts and difficulties which arose when people were severely ill in the hospital, un-able to speak for themselves and had no directives concerning their care. He puts it this way: “I serve on several hospital ethics committees as part of my health law practice, and I am repeat-edly confronted with a very disturbing

issue. Time and time again, families, providers, and hospital administra-tors struggle to interpret the wishes of patients who never made their health-care wishes known (or failed to com-plete an advance directive to record their stated wishes). These families and professionals do their best to advocate for what they believe their loved ones or the patient would want or is in their best interests, but they are inherently doing so without any guidance, and it is agonizing. I founded National Health-care Decisions Day (April 16) because I know that we—both potential patients and healthcare providers—can do a much better job of making our wishes known and then honoring those wishes to avoid these very sad situations.”

He started with his home state of Vir-ginia and within two years, in 2008, the first NATIONAL Healthcare Decisions Day was launched. Since then the pro-gram has expanded its reach each year through a combination of social media outreach and local volunteer organiza-tions which spread the word.

When asked why April 16th was chosen, he refers to an adage by Ben Franklin that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Therefore, it seemed logical to make NHDD the day after tax day every year.

The Mission of NHDD: National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) ex-ists to inspire, educate and empower the public and providers about the impor-tance of advance care planning. NHDD is an initiative to encourage patients to express their wishes regarding health-care and for providers and facilities to

respect those wishes, whatever they may be.

Their vision is that across the country, every healthcare facility will participate as the flagship venues for the public engagement. Other participating organizations/facilities that have their own physical spaces will engage in ac-tivities as well. Those organizations that lack physical spaces will work in con-junction with others or at non-healthcare venues (libraries, grocery stores, drug stores, etc.) to support the initiative. A variety of churches, synagogues, and mosques around the country will also support the effort by highlighting the importance of advance care planning with their congregations.

The Coalition for Quality End-of-Life Care has been actively involved in organizing and promoting local events for the past two years and is beginning work on the 2016 NHDD currently. For more information and for resources centered on having the conversation, we would invite you to visit our website at www.coalitionqec.org. The Resource page has links to several organizations that have resources to help you express your wishes about your future medical care and the video page of the website has some links related to the importance of advance care planning as well. As events are scheduled for 2016, they will also be listed on our website.

See the announcement of our pro-gram next month in this newsletter. In the meantime—do visit our website or Facebook page.

Kendra Belfi, MD, FACP

National Healthcare Decisions Day: April 16, 2016By Kendra Belfi, MD

AcademicGood Friday Holiday March 24-27Classes resume March 28 8 a.m.Last day of classes April 27Study Days April 28-29Final Exams May 2-6Commencement Saturday, May 7

ArtsStudio Art/Art EducationAnnual Juried Exhibition March 14Moudy Gallery, Reception 5 p.m. Through March 24

Film: “Sahara” (1943) March 17 164 Moudy Bldg. South 7 p.m.

Sebastiaan Bremer March 18Fort Worth Contemporary Arts2900 W. Berry St.Gallery open noon-5 p.m.Wednesday-Saturday

Ensemble Concert Series March 21TCU Percussion Orchestra ConcertEd Landreth Auditorium 7 p.m.

Film: “It Happened onFifth Avenue” (1947) March 24164 Moudy Bldg. South 7 p.m.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition March 28Amanda Arredondo Moudy Gallery, Reception 6-8 p.m.Through April 1.

“Sexual Perversity in Chicago” Hays Theatre, Walsh PerformanceArts Center:March 31-April 1 at 5:30 p.m.April 2 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.April 3 at 2:30 p.m.

DanceTCU in Concert March 31 Studio Theatre, Erma Lowe Hall,March 31 at 7 p.m.; April 1 at 7 p.m.April 2 and April 3 at 1 and 7 p.m.$10, Students $5, Children under 6, Free.

Film: “Brigadoon” (1954) March 31164 Moudy Bldg. South 7 p.m.

Ensemble Concert Series April 4TCU Percussion Orchestra ConcertEd Landreth Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition April 4Mason BryantMoudy Gallery, Reception 6-8 p.m.through April 8

Ensemble Concert SeriesCombined Choirs Concert April 7Frog Corps, Women’s Choir andUniversity SingersPepsico Recital Hall, 7 p.m.

Film: “The Locket” (1946) 164 Moudy Bldg. South, 7 p.m.

The 7th Annual Trombone Summit,April 9, Walsh Performing Arts Center,9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

REEL AGINGWhat Movies Can Tell Us About Signs of Change

Mark your calendars now for the final two dates for the spring edition of Reel Aging. On April 5, the movie will be “Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont” followed on May 3 by “Driving Miss Daisy.” Each movie will be screened in the Kelly Center board room begin-ning at 10 a.m.

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OfficersPresident Kirk Downey972-863-3628 or214-632-0317k.downey@tcu.edu

Vice President Stan Hagadone972-393-8688214-893-7551 cellj.hagadone@tcu.edu

SecretaryBill Pohl817-927-0604w.pohl@tcu.edu

Treasurer Victor Belfi817-923-2450v.belfi@tcu.edu

TCU Retirees’ Association Board of Directors 2015-2016Past President Jean Walbridge817-921-6676817-680-2527 cellfolkart@airmail.net

Other members ofthe Executive Council

UCAC representativeEmily Burgwyn817-688-1719e.burgwyn@tcu.edu

Membership ChairLarry Adams817-926-7314l.adams@tcu.edu

Communications ChairDeVonna Tinneyd.tinney@tcu.edu817-294-5044

Health and Wellness ChairManfred Reinecke817-927-8536m.reinecke@tcu.edu

Representatives-at-LargeBronson Davis817-763-8589bcdftw@gmail.com

Sanoa Hensley817-923-1412s.hensley@tcu.edu

Doug Newsom,Newsletter Editor

Bill Ray903-523-5982front30@mac.com

Judith Smith, Archivist817-921-4798j.o.smith@tcu.edu

Will Stallworth817-346-8485w.stallworth@tcu.edu

Newsletter Doug Newsom, Editor817.732.2901 d.newsom@tcu.edu Broc Sears, Designer Department of Strategic Communication Bob Schieffer College of Communication 817.257.5052 b.sears@tcu.edu

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The Texas Christian University Retirees’ Association exists to provide opportuni-ties for fellowship, to promote lifelong learning, to advocate for fair benefits, to recognize the accomplishments of its members, and to strengthen the relationship between the retirees and the University.

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