Byrne Hall

Byrne Hall
The Academy building was turned over to DePaul University, and renamed Byrne Hall. Bygone DePaul | Special Collections & Archives

Introduction

About the DePaul Emeritus Society

DePaul University values its ongoing connections with its faculty and staff retirees, as it values their past contributions to the university’s mission. The DePaul University Emeritus Society was founded in 2008 with the merger of the Staff Emeritus Society and the Emeritus Professors Association. The Society is sponsored by the University’s Office of Mission and Values.

The purpose of the DePaul Emeritus Society is to provide a means for ongoing connection, communication, and socialization between the university and its emeritus faculty and staff, and between individual retirees whose professional lives were for so many years dedicated to university service.

Photos, events, and information of interest to members of the DePaul Emeritus Society will be posted to this blog. Please take a look, add your comment, offer to be an "author" or just enjoy.

Friday, September 24, 2010

In Memoriam - Jeffery Wasson

Jeffrey Wasson's scholarship covered an eclectic range of musical genres, from Gregorian chants to the early-20th-century work of American composer Charles Ives.

A music teacher at Barat College for 17 years and -- after that Lake Forest school closed -- at DePaul University, Mr. Wasson, 61, died of heart failure Monday, Jan. 4, at his home in Evanston, said his friend Sidney Friedman. He underwent a heart bypass operation 20 years ago and recently had been in failing health.

At DePaul, where Mr. Wasson was a music professor for the last eight years, he taught theory and history to music majors as well as music appreciation courses for students in other disciplines, said Kurt Westerberg, chairman of musicianship studies and composition.

Chicago Tribune, January 24, 2010

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