Byrne Hall

Byrne Hall
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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, June 12, 2015

Book Club Meeting, June 3, 2015

The three different lives of Greta Wells in Andrew Green's “Impossible Lives of Greta Wells provided us with plenty of fodder for discussion. Jumping between 1985, 1918, and 1941 with the same characters was a interesting technique for the author to portray how personalities and circumstances are shaped by the times in which they live, as well as by their own characters.  The use of electro convulsive therapy as the device to move Greta between times, the role of women in marriages, the impact of psychological connections of twins, and the status of gay men in society all provided source for consideration. A good turn out of attendees engaged in an interesting discussion. We all thanked Bill Fahrenbach for providing the chronology of what happened when to guide us through the different lives.

Our next book will be “The Sixth Extinction:  An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert   suggested by Helen Marlborough. Next meeting is Wednesday, August 5, in the Richardson Library, Room 115, at 1:30 pm.  Please join us if your summer schedule and summer reading permit!

Contact Kathryn DeGraff or Helen Marlborough if you have any questions.

Suggested titles for future consideration:
“Archangel”  Andrea Barrett
“All the Light We Cannot See”  Anthony Doerr
“Frances Perkins:  The Woman Behind the New Deal”  Kirsten Downey
“Being Mortal” Atul Gawande
“Some Luck” Jane Smiley
“Stoner” John Williams

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