tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79406971463965211932024-03-27T01:37:57.287-05:00********* DES News Updates ********* DePaul Emeritus Society-Chicago, IL The DES is open to all faculty and staff of DePaul University who have retired from the university with 20 years of full-time service and are 55 years or older, or have retired from the university with 10 years of full-time service and are 62 years or older.Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.comBlogger503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-38697780562673013432022-01-28T10:30:00.000-06:002022-12-03T19:01:38.337-06:00In Memoriam - John Milton CSV<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7JXq08ForLexqWHoRTzVYRodl_duiUE71gYHU28r15o7OLISJQxdo1HJRR2mkoF3hQ9d8KvZpQ7qxCFjxLXOpjFrLgYQYa9y_S1B0ZK95iSQDAgy27Js0az8kjBWJNSgqeiDSO6bsTbRI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="397" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7JXq08ForLexqWHoRTzVYRodl_duiUE71gYHU28r15o7OLISJQxdo1HJRR2mkoF3hQ9d8KvZpQ7qxCFjxLXOpjFrLgYQYa9y_S1B0ZK95iSQDAgy27Js0az8kjBWJNSgqeiDSO6bsTbRI/" width="192" /></a></div><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Milton Death, Obituary – John Milton Has Passed Away</h1><div class="below-title-meta" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 0px; color: #a2a2a2; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20.3281px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 697.344px;"><div class="adt" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">By <span class="vcard author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fn" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://societyalert.com/author/blessing/" rel="author" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Joseph Blessing">Joseph Blessing</a></span> </span><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <span class="date updated" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 26, 2022</span></div><div class="adt-comment" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="link-comments" href="https://societyalert.com/john-milton-death-obituary-john-milton-has-passed-away/#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">0 Comment</a></div></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Milton Death, Obituary –</strong> Fr. John Milton, CSV, would have celebrated 70 years as a Viatorian in September and 65 years as a priest. He was among the inaugural class of brothers to profess first vows at the Province Center in Arlington Heights and he lived out his vows through his long and productive life. Students at Cristo Rey St. Martin surprised Fr. Milton with a cake on his 90th birthday in 2019.</p><h2 style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 24px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">John Milton Death, Obituary – John Milton Has Passed Away</h2><p style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He passed away Jan. 24 at the age of 92. All but five years of Fr. Milton’s active ministry were spent teaching physics. He was a founding member of the science department at Saint Viator High School, where he taught for 20 years, and he spent another 24 years as a professor at De Paul University in Chicago. He started his career at Cathedral Boys’ High School in Springfield, before short assignments at Spalding Institute in Peoria and Bishop McNamara High School in Kankakee.</p><p style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon his retirement in 2011, Fr. Milton served as a science consultant to faculty members at Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep, where he helped obtain lab equipment through his network of physics colleagues and helped to start the school’s first AP physics course. Students and faculty members alike enjoyed the projects he brought to the class, including one standout, “When Pigs Fly.”</p><p style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: https://societyalert.com/john-milton-death-obituary-john-milton-has-passed-away/</p></div><br /><p></p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-17647427145887892322022-01-04T18:54:00.001-06:002022-12-03T19:01:26.283-06:00In Memoriam - Cornelius Sippel<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-2pM_eDe_jOxAZK3GG98WV_4QmuvmkqDZ9nmCAikrztqCrOjUBcNudVs-hAP37Bys3sWw3Kvpb_koj9XeVh9cwj9olV84an8wSQltXUTCRI_t3C960auP1x6l3MY3RmA6w8jhhKVGBdZ-CppM9Gr7ih4dVgLM3V5GZVm21j9Ti5rRVCpPibcMkyXs6w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="228" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-2pM_eDe_jOxAZK3GG98WV_4QmuvmkqDZ9nmCAikrztqCrOjUBcNudVs-hAP37Bys3sWw3Kvpb_koj9XeVh9cwj9olV84an8wSQltXUTCRI_t3C960auP1x6l3MY3RmA6w8jhhKVGBdZ-CppM9Gr7ih4dVgLM3V5GZVm21j9Ti5rRVCpPibcMkyXs6w=w320-h280" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">It is with great sadness I learned of Dr. Cornelius Sippel death today. I was using his name and wanted the correct spelling and found his obit instead. Dr. Sippel was my History 101 teacher in 1964! May he rest in peace.</span><p></p><h5 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xyorhqc xtvhhri x1anpbxc" style="animation-name: none !important; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen x1xlr1w8 xi81zsa" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--secondary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">CORNELIUS SIPPEL</span></h5><div class="x1e56ztr" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">October 1929 - December 2021</span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">Cornelius Sippel III “Corny”. Corny passed away quietly late December 2021 at Glenview Terrace Care Center following a series of illnesses and setbacks. His accolades included a BA from Carlton College and masters and doctorate degrees in history from the University of Michigan. His academic career was interrupted by the Korean War where he served in the Army stationed in Tokyo Japan. His entire teaching career as a history professor was spent at DePaul University in Chicago where he taught for over 50 years. He always spoke fondly of his students and his advanced classes where debate was fostered and encouraged. As the department grew and the need arose for a professor to teach Russian history, he rose to the challenge, doing research and writing his own book. He carried his love of history and current events into retirement, participating in book clubs and discussion groups. Sports and exercise were a regular part of Corny’s life. He was a lifelong Michigan Wolverine fan and loved Big 10 football. He enjoyed cheering on the Chicago pro teams and called the Cubs the “Loveable Losers”. His love of swimming spanned his entire life and included captaining and being on the swim team at Carlton College. In addition he regularly played racquet sports, organizing a Saturday morning tennis group for many years and playing well into his 80’s. His love of games expanded to Bridge, Poker, and Sunday Game nights and later board games, Trivia, and cards with the grandkids. In the winter he tirelessly spent hours making and maintaining the family backyard ice rink which was enjoyed by friends, family and neighbors and in the summer he grew a wonderful assortment of garden vegetables. In addition for many years he umpired neighborhood “softball” games, planned block party kids contests and helped lead the 4th of July block parade. Dad created many cherished memories as the family photographer and meticulously planned and chronicled many wonderful family road vacations to California, Florida, Yellowstone National Park and others. His children fondly remember the infamous red sweater which he included in many scenic photos to “improve the color” of his slides (or when the kids resisted getting out of the car). A dog lover, Corny supported the SCPA and all his dogs over the years loved him dearly. Dad had a love of “acting” although his only formal role was in a grade school play of the Prince and the Pauper. However, he could recite jingles and intros from old radio and sing all the verses to every Christmas carol with drama and finesse. He played regular characters with kids and grandkids: Ghost, Monster, Mr. Stranger Danger, and the infamous “Fake Santa”. Dad had always told us of his desire to Donate his body to Science and his generosity was very low key and understated. He was a man of little advice but big example. We will miss reminiscing and laughing with Dad about the family vacations, experiences, and cast of family characters with which our lives have been blessed over the years. His place at the table will be missed terribly.</span></div><h5 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xyorhqc xtvhhri x1anpbxc" style="animation-name: none !important; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen x1xlr1w8 xi81zsa" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--secondary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">FRIENDS & FAMILY</span></h5><div class="x1e56ztr" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">Children: George Sippel (Tina), Tracey Gordon, Judy Reilmann (Dave) --- Grandchildren: Jeremy Gordon, Sharlene Osilaja (Adeolu), Bethany Duncan (Jeff), Justin Reilmann, Alexander Sippel --- Great Grandchildren: Isaac Osilaja, Naomi-Noelle Osilaja, Michael-Gabriel Osilaja</span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="animation-name: none !important; 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dozen members of the Book Club convened on Zoom to discuss <i>Angle of Repose</i>,
a long, complex novel dealing with a marriage and the struggles of an engineer
and an artist in the harsh environment of the western states. Some found it “depressing” or even
“confusing.” while others admired Stegner’s skills in structure and style, finding
his characters sympathetic and the narrative engaging. Some of these differences centered on
Stegner’s use of a limited narrator, Lyman Ward, who researches and recounts
the life of his grandmother Susan; especially in view of Lyman’s strong opinions
and the dream fantasy at the end of the novel, we might distrust some of his
judgments. Readers’ responses to Susan
ranged from impatience with her social snobbery and her decision to marry
Oliver Ward (a “consolation prize?”) to sympathetic admiration for her strength
and courage in the difficult circumstances of western life. Lyman views her sympathetically but never
defends or excuses her possible involvement with Frank; he is notably evasive
about the nature of their relationship and perhaps also condescending towards
her work as an artist.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Several
readers were interested in Stegner’s use of the Foote family letters and noted
that many letters were used almost verbatim; perhaps these added to the sense
of history, of real life, in the novel.
There was general agreement that Stegner’s narrative style was eloquent,
particularly in rendering the visual splendor and the harsh reality of life in
the western states. One reader added
that the novel’s treatment of life in the small town and cities of Idaho and
California revealed that the exploration and settlement of the West was not
only the work of brave individualists, but was controlled and exploited by
large Eastern corporations and unscrupulous lawyers and investors—like the
lawyer who cheats Oliver out of a homestead.
Altogether, the novel’s scope and style help to explain Stegner’s
literary awards and staying power, even if some readers “admired rather than
loved” the novel. Despite its multiple
stories, <i>Angle of Repose</i> makes a
determined march towards tragedy; after Agnes’s death Oliver and Susan can
never recover their trust and happiness, and even their son appears withdrawn
and cold. One reader pointed out that
Lyman’s final lines consider forgiveness, something greater than his
grandfather was capable of, and thus end the novel with the possibility of
redemption or healing.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifi0YmhRPGG1N_y0d8A_sp3mic-ZkV0YdVMZAuZtlqjexOJenQhQUvjfdYAEw2jVuApghOBobW6_T9qfc2AVUTK4PhbpLA5LPvHOvG2mpXvFJvrUzhKWKQDqDpx_UMMW1BROgtI32KyNz2MmD6Ej5pn4AMgxxOCmCbb7AkjxtJx9BrseUu2NuUVvGy=s120" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="80" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifi0YmhRPGG1N_y0d8A_sp3mic-ZkV0YdVMZAuZtlqjexOJenQhQUvjfdYAEw2jVuApghOBobW6_T9qfc2AVUTK4PhbpLA5LPvHOvG2mpXvFJvrUzhKWKQDqDpx_UMMW1BROgtI32KyNz2MmD6Ej5pn4AMgxxOCmCbb7AkjxtJx9BrseUu2NuUVvGy" width="80" /></a></div><br />Our next book will be John LeCarre's memoir <i>The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories of my Life. </i>Next meeting willbe Wednesday, February 2, still on Zoom. Discussion starts at 11 am, with link open at 10:30 for log on and chat. Please contact <a href="mailto:kdgraff2@comcast.net">Kathryn DeGraff</a> or <a href="mailto:hmarlbor@gmail.com">Helen Marlborough</a> with any questions.<p></p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-80489780899503510362021-12-12T20:58:00.001-06:002022-01-15T19:52:15.062-06:00In Memoriam - Frank Sherman<p> <span itemprop="birthDate" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato-Bold, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 2.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">OCTOBER 4, 1927</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; font-family: Lato-Bold, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 2.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"> – </span><span itemprop="deathDate" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato-Bold, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 2.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">NOVEMBER 22, 2021</span></p><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: MrsEaves-Italic, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Frank Sherman passed away November 22, 2021, at home attended by his wife, Barbara, daughter, Emily, and grandson, Ian Koller.</span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl3mypiJeG4eHnM_TayDabA9TK5Pbytm5I29PZFdu7ceGdq2XlAlptqHS2rndIT7P6NXI5fp52Rfwbkze1ZATCtpSZ9d6dkG8aZM0fXj5aJR4l7Pw5HL9-Z-NMYs00mE7WIi0CZ3aLvHh3m2m2HJ5mqDy5UdP8JFzx3TN7mfx_gtyn8zxnja4_KXcntQ=s2048" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl3mypiJeG4eHnM_TayDabA9TK5Pbytm5I29PZFdu7ceGdq2XlAlptqHS2rndIT7P6NXI5fp52Rfwbkze1ZATCtpSZ9d6dkG8aZM0fXj5aJR4l7Pw5HL9-Z-NMYs00mE7WIi0CZ3aLvHh3m2m2HJ5mqDy5UdP8JFzx3TN7mfx_gtyn8zxnja4_KXcntQ=s320" width="214" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">Frank Eugene Sherman was born October 4, 1927 in Lakeview Michigan. His childhood was spent in Lakeview until the Great Depression forced his parents to place him in an orphanage in Ohio. He moved to Chicago and lived on his own at age 16. Frank enlisted in the Army in January 1946, serving until discharged June 22, 1947. He attended the University of California at Berkeley on the GI bill, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He continued at Berkeley to earn a PhD in English Literature. While in graduate school, Frank met and married Barbara Hope. They had two daughters, Celia and Emily. His teaching career began at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, continued at Roosevelt College, and DePaul University, from which he retired as Professor Emeritus of American Literature in 1987.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">Frank's enthusiasm for education transcended his career. He was an early supporter and proselytizer for KPFA, the pioneering Bay Area radio station. He took his family for a European tour for most of 1965. He mentored many student groups on trips to England and Europe. Frank also enjoyed travelling on his own or with Barbara, primarily to London, Paris, Vienna, and Bayreuth. During retirement, he continued his dedication to, and support of, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and local theater. Chicago audiences and his many friends in the Arts community will be a little poorer because of his absence.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">Frank is survived by his wife, Barbara; daughters, Celia Roe and Emily Sherman; grandchildren: Francesca Hugueny, Alexander Roe, and Laurel and Ian Koller; and great-granddaughter, Beatrice Hugueny.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">Memorial donations in Frank’s name may be made to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, Development Department, 220 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60604 or at: <a href="https://cso.org/support/make-a-gift/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://cso.org/support/make-a-gift/</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">Source: Neptune Society: https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/rolling-meadows-il/frank-sherman-10458924</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414141; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 30px 0px 10px;">Photo credit: Elaine Beaudoin</p><p></p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-16697043464048652192021-10-30T10:32:00.003-05:002021-10-30T10:32:52.693-05:00Book Club October 6<p>A group of about a dozen readers met to discuss Stephen Johnson's <i>The Ghost Map</i>. We found many areas of
interest in Johnson’s account of John Snow’s efforts to pinpoint the causes of
a cholera epidemic in 19<sup>th</sup> century London. One obvious and widely shared response was a
horrified awareness of the limits of 19<sup>th</sup> century sanitation and the
dangers it posed to public health. Johnson
also provided a wealth of accompanying detail on living conditions and popular
ideas; in fact, some readers found the second half of the book overloaded with
“scattershot” detail that interrupted the narrative. Others appreciated
Johnson’s analysis of issues, such as his lively account of a cholera infection
or his explanation of popular resistance to Snow’s claims because of the belief
in miasma or poisoned air. One reader
noted that we might have learned more about the media and transmission of information
in this society, while others recognized Snow’s vivid demonstration in his map
of fatalities near the Broad Street pump.
Johnson also notes the persistent human tendency to blame the poor or
lower classes for their own illnesses, as many believers in miasma did. The linkage of illness to “weak morals” has
been documented in other places as well; Johnson gives a good account of the
social dimensions of public health issues.
We also discussed Johnson’s perhaps optimistic view of the possibilities
of urban life; discoveries like Snow’s help to alleviate the risks of life in
crowded urban areas, but public health efforts, as we know, face many
challenges.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6q9Rbd1iqgCekHNrnyhjL2HrQTOKuuy_0jtYNM5Vlf0ImE2F50j0gBaZrdowbiClcb2gk5pOXycsiyCMQgxY05AlAJBULDQBPJ2gwQL_5T1WIEC4TPsVaE6mgxohwKXGnMfTPHq4civA/s499/angle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6q9Rbd1iqgCekHNrnyhjL2HrQTOKuuy_0jtYNM5Vlf0ImE2F50j0gBaZrdowbiClcb2gk5pOXycsiyCMQgxY05AlAJBULDQBPJ2gwQL_5T1WIEC4TPsVaE6mgxohwKXGnMfTPHq4civA/w83-h128/angle.jpg" width="83" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">The next meeting, December 1, will focus on a work of
fiction. The group selected Wallace Stegner’s <i>Angle of Repose</i> for this meeting. As we agreed in August, our February meeting
will discuss John LeCarre’s memoir <i>The Pigeon Tunnel. </i>We will continue to meet on Zoom in December and we eagerly welcome new members. The Zoom link will be sent prior to the meeting, we open the link at 10:30 with the discussion beginning at 11 am Central Standard time. If
you have questions or suggestions, please contact either <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff</a> or
<a href="mailto:hmarlboro@gmail.com">Helen Marlborough.</a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-36780393461443485712021-08-25T15:58:00.001-05:002021-08-25T15:58:58.803-05:00Book Club August 4<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> About a dozen Book Club members met to discuss Britt
Bennett’s novel <i>The Vanishing Half,</i> exchanging thoughts on a number of
topics literary, historical, and social.
One reader noted at the start that the novel might well have been titled
“Passing,” because its central characters were attempting to “pass” as members
of another race or sex; in that reading, Stella and Rees are particularly
important, “passing” by huge efforts in social behavior or even surgery, and
their characters are developed in depth; but in another sense the entire town
of Mallard, with its preference for light skin, attempts to pass as racially
other. Other readers commented that
these transformations are also “vanishings” because old identities are left
behind or disappear; and when Desiree flees from her abusive husband, she too
vanishes, absorbed back into the town she left as a teenager.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">These reflections led to a number of comments on the
pervasive racism of American society and the traditional themes of American
identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The inter-generational trauma
of racism finds violent expression in the brutal murder of the twins’ father,
for example, and helps to explain Stella’s fears of discovery and Kennedy’s
unfocused resentments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the
characters seem to be engaged in the traditional American quest to discover or
shape a new identity, free from the constraints of the past, but all these
quests are shaped by the stresses of racism and oppression. Still, a few
characters, such as Jude or Earl, accomplish their goals and represent the
strength and integrity possible within (and beyond) Black communities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some readers noted weaknesses in the novel’s structure or
style; in an effort to cover a number of current issues and locations, Bennett
sometimes leaves characters and situations undeveloped: Stella’s husband seems
a stereotype, for instance, and Stella’s black neighbors might deserve more
treatment. On the whole, however, the
novel raised important questions about current American culture an</span>d <span style="font-family: arial;">exposed the
high costs of racism in America, whether to individuals or to the culture as a
whole. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHY6JJoiDG3oAJrqUBhMrCCpp-VSRNovYDgkosLx7jdM-FGamxSHdnhxFQL6zl7bka38zv04SQmFQHxfl0vFBFWjI6L6lOaig3W06Ss7UVaE-etXA5CozL5z2fOEViKAKoQEnYpvMMfg/s218/ghost+map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHY6JJoiDG3oAJrqUBhMrCCpp-VSRNovYDgkosLx7jdM-FGamxSHdnhxFQL6zl7bka38zv04SQmFQHxfl0vFBFWjI6L6lOaig3W06Ss7UVaE-etXA5CozL5z2fOEViKAKoQEnYpvMMfg/s0/ghost+map.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Our next book will be </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Quammen.t.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><i>The Ghost Map</i></a> <span style="font-family: arial;">by Stephen Johnson. We will meet on Wednesday, October 6, at 11 am Central Time, via zoom. The link will open at 10:30 to provide for some connecting time prior to the book discussion. If you have any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff</a> or <a href="hmarlbor@gmail.com " target="_blank">Helen Marlborough</a>.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">We enjoy catching up with our fellow retirees and we welcome new members to the group. These zoom meetings have provided a great way for us to connect virtually with local and distant DES members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-77155694547654213602021-08-12T20:30:00.001-05:002021-08-12T20:30:37.439-05:00Sally Chappell - In Memoriam<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGuPz9PJhyphenhyphenSwUF8FH8vNrX-ok8m4Z6HkMkMxz9Lz4JW-YJaD_xvqi7QK-CLLAxJCEQyW3txWEqggOSYL5RwYMSKVpLstQl5IfnJSkfeLrM2MQkyFeYbRdlooq9ltAk5YamXl6qtqH_bCq/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGuPz9PJhyphenhyphenSwUF8FH8vNrX-ok8m4Z6HkMkMxz9Lz4JW-YJaD_xvqi7QK-CLLAxJCEQyW3txWEqggOSYL5RwYMSKVpLstQl5IfnJSkfeLrM2MQkyFeYbRdlooq9ltAk5YamXl6qtqH_bCq/w483-h321/image.png" width="483" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #b63100; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Obituary: Sally Anderson Kitt Chappell, Ph.D. (1929–2021)</span><p></p><div class="sfnewsAuthorAndDate" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px 18px 9px;">by Pauline Saliga, Kevin Harrington and Elaine Harrington | Aug 10, 2021</div><div class="sfnewsContent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Sally A. Kitt Chappell thrived on community, humanistic ideas and independent initiatives. She spent much of her adult life pursuing and integrating all three. Her gift for friendship and building new communities was recognized by all who knew her, however slightly, but particularly through her creation of numerous reading groups. Her love for and engagement with ideas spanned her life from her first years at Mills College to her last days when she described her final visits with family and friends as surreal in a good way, like the plot of a Magic Realism masterpiece. Her love of independent initiatives revealed itself in the quality of her work as a gifted scholar, teacher, colleague and administrator, and in the key role she played to create the Illinois League of Advocates for the Developmentally Disabled in 1997 to protect the rights of developmentally disabled individuals living in State Operated Developmental Centers in Illinois. In retirement she became even more prolific by publishing scholarly and popular books on ancient architecture and cultures, Chicago parks, poetry, children’s books, and a bibliomemoir on her ten favorite books that she read again and again. She also made time to master ikebana and watercolor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Sally Anderson was born in Topeka, Kansas, 27 June 1929, the first child of William Elbert Anderson, owner of a wholesale grocery business, and Elinor Tanke Anderson. In her 2009 book, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Words Work</em>, Sally Chappell described her birth as “a lucky start, for my father was a big-hearted, sensitive man and my mother a poet. She loved to read poetry aloud at bedtime and I am sure she planted the seeds of a love of meter and rhyme in me that would grow over the years.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Even as a young person, she loved both the natural and the built worlds. She developed an early engagement with nature while spending summers with her Aunt Dorothy in Port Clinton, Ohio, a popular vacation spot on the shoreline of Lake Erie. She also was curious about architecture at an early age, and she long remembered Topeka High School, designed by alums, Thomas Williamson, Ted Griest, and Linus Burr Smith and opened in 1931, as being “a very beautiful building.” <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />After her family encouraged her to leave Topeka for college, Anderson first attended Mills College in Oakland (1946–1948) then transferred to Smith College (1948–1950) where she earned a B.A. in political science. There she was introduced to her future husband, Vere Claiborne Chappell, by the latter’s sister who also attended Smith College. Post-college Anderson took a grand tour of Europe to see art and architecture first-hand. While there she also trained as a German interpreter. Sally Anderson and Vere Chappell married and moved to New Haven where Vere earned his Ph.D. in philosophy, and their first two children, Jennifer and Jonathan, were born. When Vere accepted a teaching post at University of Chicago, the couple moved to Chicago and had a third child, David. It was at University of Chicago that Sally Chappell began working on an M.A. in 1957 with Dr. Earl Rosenthal, historian of Renaissance art and architecture. She completed her M.A. in 1962. During the same period Sally and Vere Chappell divorced, and Sally reared their three children alone while teaching at Kendall College in Evanston and later at Mundelein College in Chicago. From 1965 to 1968 Sally Chappell attended graduate school at Northwestern University where she worked with Dr. Carl Condit, a historian of architecture and urbanism who wrote pioneering books on the history of Chicago architecture, particularly skyscrapers. Condit’s wife, Isabel, was a legendary peace activist in Chicago, and Isabel’s activism was as important to Sally as Carl’s scholarship. Under Carl Condit’s influence, Chappell became immersed in the history of both world and Chicago architecture, and she published articles on Chicago and architects Mies van der Rohe and Francis Barry Byrne in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Prairie School Review</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New City</em>. Her Ph.D. thesis was a monographic study on Prairie School architect Francis Barry Byrne.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Dr. Sally Chappell’s teaching career began in earnest in 1968 in the Department of Art at DePaul University where she began as an assistant professor who taught both general education art history survey classes to a great many first-generation students and more specialized courses focusing on art, architecture and urbanism to art majors. Although not particularly religious herself, she enthusiastically adopted the mission of St. Vincent de Paul for the education of children in the age of urbanization and industrialization, and Chappell was soon promoted to associate and then full professor. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chappell’s students remember her as a master of engagement because she started every class with a five-minute discussion about life or current events. She would ask students for their opinions and make everyone feel that their comments were taken seriously, much to their amazement. She considered these discussions life lessons and to this day her students cherish all the critical-thinking skills she helped them develop. Back in the classroom, having successfully broken down the social barrier between professor and students, she continued with the class content, using the Socratic method to extend the dialog and make the class a meeting of minds. Her students loved her, not just for what she taught them, but for the authentic concern and respect she showed them. As a former student, Fr. Ed Udovic, C.M., Ph.D. recently wrote, “I had never before had a teacher like Sally. Her passion swept the class up in an exciting embrace, and pushed us forward not just to see, but to understand, appreciate, question, and envision…Her classes helped form me as a historian, and nurtured my desire to do doctoral studies and teach.” In recognition of her transformative teaching style and leadership, in 1990 DePaul University presented Sally with two of the most prestigious awards that the university bestows on their professoriate: the Courtelyou-Lowery Award for Excellence in Teaching and Collegiality and the Sears Roebuck Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">During her years at DePaul, Chappell delivered many scholarly and public talks on a wide variety of topics focusing on buildings, engineering, urban planning, and landscapes with the same charisma that she brought to the classroom. She also published on those topics in prestigious publications including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Art Journal, Inland Architect, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Threshold, </em>the<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Chicago Architectural Journal, </em>and the<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In the late 1970s and 1980s Chappell expanded the scope of her work to serve three communities-—the public, her university, and fellow professionals. For the public, Chappell collaborated on exhibitions organized by two newly-established Departments of Architecture in Chicago museums. The first was at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979 with curator John Zukowsky and architectural historian Robert Bruegmann on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Plan of Chicago: 1909–1979</em>. The second was at the Chicago History Museum in 1982 with curator Ann Lorenz Van Zanten on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Barry Byrne, John Lloyd Wright: Architecture and Design. </em>For her university, Chappell helped secure two Title 6 grants to create an image library for teaching, and accepted important committee assignments including Graduate Studies, Freshman Seminar and Honors, and Chair of the Art Department (1977–1980). For her profession, Chappell served as president of the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (1981–1982), on the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and for many years on the Board of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Also for her profession, in 1984 Chappell organized and directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, an eight-week master class for 25 college professors from across the U.S. The Institute, which focused on new views of Chicago architecture and urban planning, featured lectures by local professors including Robert Bruegmann, Carl Condit, Joan Draper, Kevin Harrington, David van Zanten and other experts from the area’s leading universities and cultural institutions, which at the time all had strong architectural history programs. The institutions included DePaul, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern, University of Illinois, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Chicago History Museum and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In 1977 Chappell entered a second, joyous marriage to psychiatrist Dr. Walter Kitt. They honeymooned in Europe, including Venice, a city that Chappell introduced to her students through passages from John Ruskin’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Stones of Venice</em> and Frank Jewett Mather’s writings, which she read aloud in class. Walter and Sally enjoyed more than 44 years together. They continued to travel extensively for many years, including a notable 1990 trip to Japan through the DePaul Foreign Studies Program. While in Kyoto, by chance and innate charm, they became acquainted with a wealthy Japanese sight-seer who escorted them around Kyoto in a chauffeur-driven car to visit all the gardens and temples that were on Kitt Chappell’s well-researched itinerary. Sally and Walter also spent many winters in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Sally, true to form, created another reading group, this time of poets. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In 1987 Chappell was invited back to the Art Institute to write a catalog essay for a major exhibition that opened in Chicago and later traveled to Paris and Frankfurt, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chicago Architecture: 1872–1922: Birth of a Metropolis. </em>Chappell’s essay for the catalog, “As If the Lights Were Always Shining: The Wrigley Building,” was the result of her multi-year year study on the Chicago architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White. Her research culminated in a monograph on the firm titled, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Transforming Tradition: Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White (1912–1936)</em> (University of Chicago Press, 1990). The book won the Association of American Publishers’ award for Most Outstanding Book on Architecture and Urban Planning in 1992.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">After Chappell retired from teaching in 1994, she had time to pursue her passions, which included scholarly and popular writing, poetry writing, travel, book discussions, ikebana, and watercolor. Chappell published two books through University of Chicago Press in retirement, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos</em> (2002) and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chicago’s Urban Nature: A Guide to the City’s Architecture + Landscape </em>(2007). In more recent years, Chappell discovered the joy of self-publishing on topics of special interest to her, including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Words Work: Selected Writings of Sally A. Kitt Chappell</em> (2009), the bibliomemoir <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Ten Heavens of My Literary Paradise</em> (2014), the children’s book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gloria Goldfish Loses a Loved One</em> (2014), and many books of her poetry including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shards</em> (2012), <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Time the Stars Came Down</em> (2016) and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Praise of Flesh: New and Selected Poems</em> (2017). She also enjoyed appearing, and often winning, poetry slams at the Green Mill, where Marc Smith started the Uptown Poetry Slam in 1984.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Chappell was also a founder of seven or more book clubs over the years. One she called the Dante Club, or "the not-for-sissies book club," as she said sometimes. It has met for more than 25 years, often reading classics, but also new books of note as well. This includes one wonderful meeting and stay in Tuscany at La Foce, the estate of Iris Origo, where club members discussed Origo’s WWII memoir, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">War in Val D'Orcia</em>. Other reading groups Chappell founded include George Eliot, Proust, Broch and Saramago.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In closing we leave you with two fond memories of Kitt Chappell from friends and colleagues. Karen Wilson, former Fine Arts Editor at University of Chicago Press, wrote, “I knew Sally as an exacting, broadly informed and self-directed scholar, as her publishing interests clearly indicate. But beyond informed and curious, Sally seemed always to be in possession of a world of talents. In our dealings and interactions, she showed an unmistakably indomitable and larger-than-life personality…” And from Sally and Walter’s close friends Kevin and Elaine Harrington, “We recall that Sally characterized herself as “ardent.” She said it reflecting on her approach at life, her fundamental character throughout life...She was ardent about ideas, art, architecture, cities, books, friends, Walter, her children and family, music, opera (her recall of arias by favorite singers, often heard years apart), teaching and learning.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Sally A. Kitt Chappell died as she wished, peacefully at home and surrounded by family, on August 2, 2021, after a short illness. Kitt Chappell is survived by her husband of more than 44 years, Dr. Walter Kitt, daughter Jennifer, sons David and Jonathan (married to Mary McGee Chappell), and step-son Gregory Kitt. Kitt Chappell is survived by four loving grandchildren, David’s son, Antionio Chappell, and Jonathan and Mary’s three children, Jennifer (Chappell) Ringwald (married to Steven Ringwald), Lauren Chappell, and Ryan Chappell (married to Ciara Delaney). Kitt Chappell expressed sadness that one granddaughter, Katherine Chappell, predeceased her in an accidental death, and felt blessed with the birth of one great-grandchild, Ruby Katherine Ringwald (daughter of Jennifer and Steven Ringwald), to whom Sally dedicated her 2016 book of poetry, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Time The Stars Came Down. </em>Kitt Chappell is also survived by four siblings: Georgana Tait, Ralph Allen, Glynn Anderson and John Anderson. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">A memorial service will be planned in the coming months. In lieu of flowers, please direct memorial gifts in honor of Sally A. Kitt Chappell to the Illinois League of Advocates for the Developmentally Disabled. You may donate online at <a href="http://iladd.org/donate" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bc3d2b;">iladd.org/donate</a>. You also may mail a contribution to ILADD, 8649 Carey Avenue, River Grove, IL 60171-1636, Attn: Wayne Ryerson, Treasurer. Telephone is 708-453-2824.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">– Pauline Saliga, Kevin Harrington and Elaine Harrington</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Source: Society of Architectural Historians, August 10, 2012; https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/sah-news/news-detail/2021/08/10/obituary-sally-anderson-kitt-chappell-ph.d.-(1929-2021)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">*********************************************************************************************************</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Sally A. Kitt Chappell, a respected architectural historian and beloved retired DePaul professor, died Aug. 2, 2021. She was 92.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Chappell joined DePaul's faculty in 1968 and taught for 26 years in the Department of Art, serving as its chair from 1977 to 1980. During Chappell's tenure, her tremendous commitment to liberal arts education, her passion for teaching and her extensive scholarly research contributed to the university's growth. She retired in 1994.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Mike Mezey, who served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recalls her influence on new faculty as the university grew.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">"Sally was a role model, particularly for female faculty, about how one could be a prolific scholar — as Sally was — an excellent teacher and a good citizen of the college," Mezey says. "She was involved in recruiting some of the best young art historians who came to DePaul and provided a foundation for what now is a very strong department. So she was, you might say, one of the founding mothers of that particular area of study."</p><figure class="float-right col-sm-12 col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; flex: 0 0 50%; float: right !important; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 570px;"><img alt="Sally Chappell holding a book" loading="lazy" src="https://resources.depaul.edu/newsline/sections/campus-and-community/PublishingImages/2020-21/SallyChappell_undated_1.jpg" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" title="Sally Chappell holding a book" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem;">Sally Chappell, shown in an undated photo, taught 26 years in DePaul's Department of Art, chairing the department from 1977 to 1980. (Image courtesy of Special Collections and Archives)</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Chappell won several prestigious grants, including two federal grants for the DePaul Library and a $111,500 grant in 1984 from the National Endowment of the Humanities to direct its summer institute. Chappell organized the institute that brought faculty members from around the country to DePaul to study Chicago architecture.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">"Without being overly dramatic about it, the current university stands on the shoulders of people like Sally," Mezey says. "People who were there when the university wasn't what it is now and who, through hard work, built what we currently have."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Chappell was a passionate teacher, deeply committed to the value of a liberal arts education for undergraduate students. She was the first DePaul faculty to earn the Sears Roebuck Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award in 1990. The same year, DePaul awarded her the Rev. William T. Cortelyou-Martin J. Lowery Award for Excellence, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' highest faculty honor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Pauline Saliga, who took some of her courses in the early 1970s, calls Chappell's teaching "beyond compare." Inspired in part by Chappell, Saliga pursued a career in architectural history. She now serves as executive director of the Society of Architectural Historians.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Saliga remembers how Chappell would start each class with a five-minute discussion about a current event or life decision she was wrestling with, then ask students to weigh in.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">"That's one of the things that I learned from her that even the seemingly simplest questions do have a certain level of complexity, if you take the time to consider all sides," Saliga says. "And it's that critical-thinking aspect of her work that I still carry with me today, questioning and trying to get at the kernel of truth." Saliga co-wrote <a href="https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/sah-news/2021/08/10/obituary-sally-anderson-kitt-chappell-ph.d.-(1929-2021)" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2072e0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: border 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">an obituary for the society</a> honoring Chappell.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Chappell was a respected voice on Chicago architecture, one of her research passions. She wrote extensively both for scholarly journals and the general public about architectural history, urban planning, city parks and landscape architecture. She authored several books, including <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Planning-Graham-Anderson-1912-1936/dp/0226101347" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2072e0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: border 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">the first academic history</a> of the architecture firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, which designed the famed Wrigley Building in Chicago. She also wrote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cahokia-Mirror-Sally-Kitt-Chappell/dp/0226101371/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2072e0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: border 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">the first book about Cahokia Mounds</a> from an architectural history viewpoint, and she completed <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Urban-Nature-Architecture-Landscape/dp/0226101401/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2072e0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: border 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">a guide to Chicago's parks and landscapes</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Chappell is survived by her husband of 44 years, Dr. Walter Kitt, three children, one stepchild, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Chappell earned her doctorate in architectural history from Northwestern University. She also held a bachelor's degree from Smith College and a master's from the University of Chicago. A memorial service will take place in the coming months.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem;">Source: Newsline, August 12, 2021</p></div>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-37910180198723239782021-07-20T15:22:00.001-05:002021-07-20T15:22:54.751-05:00In Memoriam - Jill O'Brien<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0f-AnZyOGzoBUdp_S3kK4EgI4HbZujPkbNlQiZmEdKQ7dT6sv39e8hQbAlJ_0rqhRNJePJS6OtxJrKlWVCbsivs7KXTlXxqgGt8jijKmslbyewxYm8VucL5yOYk2cwivTKfmVWTDZcoRL/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="314" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0f-AnZyOGzoBUdp_S3kK4EgI4HbZujPkbNlQiZmEdKQ7dT6sv39e8hQbAlJ_0rqhRNJePJS6OtxJrKlWVCbsivs7KXTlXxqgGt8jijKmslbyewxYm8VucL5yOYk2cwivTKfmVWTDZcoRL/" width="318" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Jill O'Brien, professor emeritus in the College of Communication, passed away on June 30. She served DePaul University for 34 years, in the Department of Communication and then the College of Communication, in roles that included associate dean of the college, chair of the department and the second communication studies program director.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">During her career at DePaul, O'Brien made substantive contributions to the development of the communication program, including expanding the curriculum to include organizational and interpersonal communication, generating the first concentrations in the communication curriculum, authoring the constitution of the newly formed Department of Communication and the restructuring and professionalization of the DePaul radio station.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">O'Brien also developed the first adjunct-faculty orientation program, which became a model for other colleges at the university.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Even as she prepared for retirement, O'Brien made substantial contributions on the University Committee on Academic Policy. She will always be remembered for her wonderful laugh, her great sense of humor and her tremendous work ethic.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Finally, upon retirement in 2014, O'Brien received the Via Sapientiae Award, the highest honor DePaul can bestow upon a member of the university community, in recognition of her distinctive and extraordinary contributions.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Source: DePaul Newline Online, July 8, 2021</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Jill Louise O'Brien, PhD, OP (formerly Sr Job) of Chicago, IL died peacefully in her home Wednesday afternoon, June 30, 2021. Jill's parents John J & Jean V. (née Pellettieri) O'Brien preceded her in death. Jill is survived by her two siblings: John D O'Brien, Dr. Judith A O'Brien (the late Malcolm) Heyworth and three beloved nieces: Catherine Heyworth, Christina Heyworth, Caroline Heyworth. Family, faith, learning and teaching were Jill's passions. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Jill had a big personality. Her wonderful laugh, gift for funny storytelling, quick wit, and deep loyalty will always be remembered by those lucky enough to have known her. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Jill's formal education began at Queen of All Saints elementary school, Regina Dominican High School and Siena Heights College in Adrian MI where she took vows as a Dominican (1968), Her formal education continued at Loyola University (Chicago) and then the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) where she earned her doctorate in Communication (1974). Jill's list of lifelong learning achievements and certifications are innumerable. Jill taught many levels of students ranging from 1st graders (Toledo, OH) to college students at Murray State U (KY)and then undergrad, grad, post-grad & professional students through DePaul University, (Chicago) where she was on the faculty for over 34 years. During her long career she was instrumental in expanding the Communication class offerings through their English Dept. When a Dept. of Communication was created Jill authored it's constitution, generated the first concentrations in the new department's curriculum and served as it's second-ever chairperson. She was also responsible for restructuring and professionalizing DePaul's radio station. DePaul eventually launched a separate College of Communication (2008) with Jill developing many of it's new programs & initiatives including a first ever orientation program for adjunct faculty which became the model for other colleges. Even as she prepared for retirement Jill served on the University Committee on Academic Policy. After her retirement Jill became a recipient of DePaul's Via Sapientiae Award - the highest award which can be conferred upon a member of the DePaul community to recognize distinctive and extraordinary contributions to the university throughout a professional career. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Jill also had a full private life which included volunteering enormous amounts of her time, energy & boundless talents to her work for the Dominicans. This included serving on the Advisory Board of Dominican University 's McGreal Center. She was the Central Province archivist and in 2013 crafted the Lay Dominican Oral History project (LDOH). Jill was honored to represent Dominican Laity for the entire USA in Rome for the 800th anniversary of the death of St Dominic (2017). Jill touched thousands of lives during her lifetime. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">In her home during her last days on earth a priest from her longtime parish (QAS) anointed her, Rainbow Hospice followed her, closest family cared for her & sat vigil in person as countless others added their prayers for the angel of peace to watch over Jill and lead her to the reign of God. St Catherine of Siena said "be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire". Jill did just that. Services and interment private. Burial Mt Carmel Cemetery. Prayers, masses, & sharing of a memory on her memorial at </span><a class="Box-sc-5gsflb-0 Link-we4j6d-0 cXrRaa" color="blue" href="http://www.smithcorcoran.com/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699;" text-decoration="underline">www.smithcorcoran.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;"> and </span><a class="Box-sc-5gsflb-0 Link-we4j6d-0 cXrRaa" color="blue" href="http://www.legacy.com/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699;" text-decoration="underline">www.legacy.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;"> would be appreciated. For further information contact Smith Corcoran Funeral Home at 773-736-3833</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Source: Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2021, page 36</span></p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-63743342961163959362021-06-21T15:54:00.002-05:002021-06-21T15:54:43.846-05:00Book Club June 2<p> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Most members of the DES Book Club enjoyed McCullough’s
detailed, wide-ranging account of Americans in Paris from the 1830s to the
close of the nineteenth century.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Many
readers commented on McCullough’s easy, graceful style; they were impressed
also by his thorough research and his use of sources like letters and diaries
to illuminate the individual lives of his American subjects.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">And of course they were impressed by the
range of fields this work covers—medicine, technology, art, literature, and the
many Americans who were transformed by their studies in Paris. In particular,
the accounts of artists were vivid and compelling.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">A few readers felt that the work covered too
much detail, so the effect was scattered; they felt McCullough had assembled
material without achieving a unified narrative with an “arc” or controlling
idea.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">But in general there was
admiration for McCullough’s achievement and his ability to convey the energy
and wonder of these encounters with Paris.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">We all agreed that the paperback would benefit from better maps,
especially to encourage an understanding of the extensive changes in Paris
during these years.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At the close of the meeting, Nancy Rospenda reminded
everyone to send her any contributions to the newsletter—especially accounts of
how we spent the year of the pandemic.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Contributions should reach her by June 30 for the next issue of the
newsletter.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JzU_I2s2YYJ6kYuj8zxoLUjQuSed2_iLtaphrNodE-iZIHwUXRK76Ne6z3ajSZYdV-YpXnXeQVlW_aNGak5HPt1GEqchYAx8eHVQ7INMf3JCILx__2-a27vpdL0PitoKn7sKZewHbe4/s120/june.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JzU_I2s2YYJ6kYuj8zxoLUjQuSed2_iLtaphrNodE-iZIHwUXRK76Ne6z3ajSZYdV-YpXnXeQVlW_aNGak5HPt1GEqchYAx8eHVQ7INMf3JCILx__2-a27vpdL0PitoKn7sKZewHbe4/s0/june.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Our next book will be <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/868197705/the-vanishing-half-counts-the-terrible-costs-of-bigotry-and-secrecy" target="_blank"><i>The Vanishing Half</i></a><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">by Brit Bennett. Our next meeting will be August 4 at 11 am, Central Daylight Time. The zoom link opens at 10:30 to permit everyone time to connect and say hello. If you have any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff</a> or <a href="mailto:hmarlbor@gmail.com" target="_blank">Helen Marlborough</a>.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We enjoy catching up with our former colleagues and enjoy welcoming new members to the group. Zoom meetings have provided a great way for us to connect virtually during this time.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-33156615357665955162021-04-20T19:58:00.001-05:002021-04-20T19:58:23.718-05:00In Memoriam - Frank Wukitsch<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-gxzm0jdfMKDv_7kfp3LKb48xvrdJUp168GSpv7k9lYX6VCl5bm63J8mAa_JjJiqp5VNWDIc0NtO1r-xqcpLRAdHrF9DdDhDgVSdkAnAO1Kq6yKoIWWe4L5cENJwJ7NPtZ7jh8dAY-AhZ/s640/Wukitsch%252C+Frank+obit+photo+2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-gxzm0jdfMKDv_7kfp3LKb48xvrdJUp168GSpv7k9lYX6VCl5bm63J8mAa_JjJiqp5VNWDIc0NtO1r-xqcpLRAdHrF9DdDhDgVSdkAnAO1Kq6yKoIWWe4L5cENJwJ7NPtZ7jh8dAY-AhZ/s320/Wukitsch%252C+Frank+obit+photo+2021.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">April 18, 1941 - January 26, 2021</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Frank E. Wukitsch, 79, passed away on January 26, 2021 in Geneva. Frank was born on April 18, 1941 in Chicago to Frank and Dorothy (nee Schlesser) Wukitsch. He was united in marriage to Susan (Bonnie) Zimmerman on April 30, 1968 in Basel, Switzerland.</span></span><p></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Frank will be remembered for his love for his family, the theatre and old tools. Frank’s father, a tool and die man for the Chicago Stockyards, instilled a love for woodworking and tools at a young age. Frank would often go with his father to job sites and learned woodworking from a master. After four years in the army (stationed in Germany), Frank went to work for the Raytheon Company working on missiles. While in Germany, Frank and Susan were introduced by a mutual friend and were married two months later in Basel, Switzerland. Returning to the United States, Frank received a Masters Degree in Theatre and went on to teach theatre at the Latin School in Chicago and The Goodman School of Drama/The Theatre School- DePaul University. His many students talk of his “quiet but powerful sense of calm and generous heart” and his giving of his sandwiches is legendary. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Frank instilled in his young children a love of the arts, and specifically, the theatre. Many a weekend was spent on the train going into Chicago to see one of the children’s shows at the Goodman Theatre and later The Theatre School- DePaul University. Lisa and Gil carry on that love of the arts and the theatre in their jobs as music teachers, pit orchestra directors, and drama directors.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">After his retirement, Frank and Susan could be found antiquing, always bringing home that “new” antique tool or another book or piece of china. Frank volunteered with Preservation Partners of Fox Valley, helping to restore some of the old machinery and giving tool talks to weekend visitors. Frank spent time with his adult children, helping Lisa to build scenery for her school and helping Gil to rebuild his old barn. Frank enjoyed visiting the farm animals with his granddaughter, Ava, and talking Legos with his grandson, Grant.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Frank leaves behind his wife, Susan, his children, Lisa (Chris) Wukitsch and Gil (Danielle),Wukitsch, his grandchildren, Ava Wukitsch and Grant Wukitsch, his brothers, Tom (Margaret) Wukitsch and Bob (Barbara) Wukitsch, his sister, Lori (Nick) D’Asta, many cousins, numerous nieces and nephews, many friends, and countless students.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Frank is preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Dorothy Wukitsch, and his stepmother, Grace Wukitsch (nee LeBanco).</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">All services will be private.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">In honor of Frank, please consider a donation to <a href="https://ppfv.z2systems.com/np/clients/ppfv/donation.jsp" style="border: 0px; color: #151c5a; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Preservation Partners of Fox Valley</a> or <a href="https://secure.alumni.depaul.edu/s/1906/19/interior.aspx?sid=1906&gid=2&pgid=954&cid=2837&dids=783" target="_blank"><span style="color: #151c5a;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Theatre School- DePaul University (Wukitsch Spare Sandwich) Scholarship Fund</span></span> </a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Arrangements entrusted to Moss Family Funeral Home St. Charles 630-584-2000 or www.mossfuneral.com</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Source: <a href="http://www.mossfuneral.com/obituaries/details/2883/">Moss Funeral Home</a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">, accessed April 20, 2021</span></span></p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-42752135810314498052021-04-18T15:02:00.004-05:002021-04-19T09:54:36.730-05:00Book Club, April 7<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Opinions were divided during our discussion of Ann
Patchett’s <i>The Dutch House.</i> Some readers responded enthusiastically to
the rich characterizations and family dynamics in the novel, while others found
the characters’ obsessions with the house itself a puzzle or a limitation. Our conversation started with an observation that the novel is narrated
entirely by Danny Conroy, yet it is dominated by women and their concerns. We considered the relationship of sister and brother, Maeve
and Danny. Maeve’s insistence that Danny attend medical
school, to spend down the inheritance that would otherwise go to the children of Andrea, their stepmother, seems an elaborate kind of vengeance. While the banishment
of Maeve and Danny by their stepmother from the house (and Maeve’s response) seemed rather unconvincing to many of us, others saw
it as one of many borrowings in the novel from fairy tales; at various points,
the novel seems to echo tales of wicked stepmothers, children left to find
their way in the forest, and magical castles. </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Dutch House itself evoked a range of reflections and
comments. The role of the large front
windows, both architecturally and as an ironic “transparence,” led to
observations about actual Dutch houses and the odd presence of the original
Dutch inhabitants through their portraits and possessions. The servants who seem almost part of the
furnishings, starting with Fluffy, were all richly drawn and interesting in
themselves. Andrea’s obsession with the
house, and Maeve’s persistent return to watch the house from outside, suggested
its power. Only when a party given by the new owner, Danny's daughter, celebrates new beginnings, does the house appear to have found its rightful owner. The family, despite Maeve’s death, also
appears more coherent in those final scenes, though the novel’s ending remains
ambiguous.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV7RF-j09gwMXXqwm6JxLwLbBo6yHH5yV2IVzXqH4ENxNTTTPIGHYD4rzxTNfOBcEHAtQkY0ZzSFluuLOetLDewoDv-Q_zRr3lYRFnfNf7ziUIG1XSGz1zUx-Jr80bty4cio524mU4xMM/s275/greater.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV7RF-j09gwMXXqwm6JxLwLbBo6yHH5yV2IVzXqH4ENxNTTTPIGHYD4rzxTNfOBcEHAtQkY0ZzSFluuLOetLDewoDv-Q_zRr3lYRFnfNf7ziUIG1XSGz1zUx-Jr80bty4cio524mU4xMM/s0/greater.jpg" /></a></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our next book will be<i> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/books/review/book-review-the-greater-journey-americans-in-paris-by-david-mccullough.html" target="_blank">The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris</a></i> by David Mccullough. We will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, June 2. Meeting starts at 11 am Chicago time. However, the Zoom link will be open at 10:30, to make sure everyone can establish a good connection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff </a>or <a href="mailto:hmarlbor@gmail.com" target="_blank">Helen Marlborough</a> if you have any questions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We enjoy catching up with our former colleagues and enjoy welcoming new members to the group. Zoom meetings have provided a great way for colleagues not in the immediate vicinity of the Lincoln Park Campus to participate. </span></p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-30476757574739135352021-02-23T14:32:00.000-06:002021-02-23T14:32:27.661-06:00In Memoriam - John Kordek<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL_LJnxo5-mEIQQt0lnUTK5I0PDXHpng8QtzUa8LZi2qVSOTwlo5oxhv-np5WLvMdi16wS69UkgspDg5ar_Dmz7u9GbZcu8u8lpVD7Mw6sGziRPMo1W0t-Q-6ARL5jlSVSLvKyMs8uI-Vy/s811/Kordek%252C+John+obit+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="692" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL_LJnxo5-mEIQQt0lnUTK5I0PDXHpng8QtzUa8LZi2qVSOTwlo5oxhv-np5WLvMdi16wS69UkgspDg5ar_Dmz7u9GbZcu8u8lpVD7Mw6sGziRPMo1W0t-Q-6ARL5jlSVSLvKyMs8uI-Vy/s320/Kordek%252C+John+obit+photo.jpg" /></a></div>A<span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">mbassador John F. Kordek (Ret.) o</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">f Arlington Heights</span><p></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Retired U.S. Ambassador John F. Kordek was born on June 9, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, to John and Harriet (nee Rogalski) Kordek. He died Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at home with his loving wife by his side.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Following graduation from Weber H.S., he joined the U.S. Air Force and served four years on active duty with the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 818th Air Division of the 8th U.S. Air Force.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">When he completed his active military service, he graduated from DePaul University with a PhB in 1964. Kordek is also a graduate of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. The Ambassador also studied at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and graduated from three languages (Serbo-Croat, Polish, and Spanish) and area studies programs from the State Department's U.S. Foreign Service Institute.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Recruited while a college senior at DePaul for the U.S. Foreign Service. He worked for 26 years with the USIA, ICA, and the U.S. State Department, attaining the rank of Career Minister and then U.S. Ambassador.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Kordek served in Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Venezuela, Botswana, and Washington D.C. He also worked in numerous other countries as part of official U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy delegations. One of his first jobs in the Foreign Service in 1965 was to escort Louis Armstrong, who was visiting the former Yugoslavia as part of the U.S. State Department Cultural program overseas.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Ambassador Kordek held many senior positions in the U.S. Foreign Service, including Acting Deputy Ambassador DCM) at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw during the rise to power of the Solidarity movement and the visits of Pope John Paul II to Poland.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">During President Reagan's presidency, Kordek was the USIA Director of European Affairs and then the Counselor of the Agency, the highest career official in USIA.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">He participated in the Geneva and Reykjavik summit meetings between President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev and numerous international negotiations, including those with the Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, and other countries.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">President Reagan nominated Kordek as a U.S. Ambassador in 1988, and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed him. During the Reagan Administration, he briefed senior officials, including Vice President Bush, and participated in several key National Security Council meetings at the White House chaired by the president.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">During his foreign service career, Kordek was nominated for diplomatic positions by every American president, from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Clinton.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Following his retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service, Kordek joined DePaul University, where he worked for 15 years as Associate Vice President and taught courses on WWII and the Holocaust. He also lectured at many universities and organizations.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">President Clinton, in 1995, appointed Kordek to two five-year terms to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council in Washington, which oversees the operations of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Kordek served on the Council's Executive Committee and the Committee on Conscience, which monitors genocide worldwide.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Clinton also selected Ambassador Kordek to be a member of the U.S. presidential delegations to commemorate the 50th anniversaries of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau NAZI death camps. He traveled with, among others, on these delegations with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Kordek is the recipient of many honors, including a presidential award from President Reagan for "..., sustained superior conduct of U.S. foreign policy"; Distinguished and Superior Honor Awards from the State Department, ICA, and USIA.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">The Ambassador is also the recipient of the "Via Sapientiae Award," DePaul University's highest faculty-staff honor. It was awarded to Kordek for his work to educate generations of students and faculty "....about the horrors of bigotry and the promotion of the value of dignity and respect for all people."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Ambassador Kordek served on several boards of directors when he returned home to Illinois, including the Illinois Humanities Council and the Chicago International Visitors Center. He chaired the Chicago-Warsaw Sister Cities program and was co-chair of the National Polish American - Jewish American National Council.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Kordek is a world traveler. His foreign service assignments took him to the four corners of the world. In retirement, he and his wife continued their travels visiting all the earth's continents. He loved opera, classical music, and jazz. And was a voracious reader of world history.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">John is survived by his spouse of 56 years, Alice (nee Kleczynski); son Andrew (Elizabeth) Kordek; daughter Catherine (Lynn) Stover; grandchildren Joshua Kordek, Henry Stover, and Will Stover; brother Phillip (Theresa) Kordek and sister Judy (Chester) Pasowicz.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">A Memorial Service for John will be held at a later date.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">In lieu of flowers, a memorial may be given to </span><a class="Box-sc-5gsflb-0 Link-we4j6d-0 cXrRaa" color="blue" href="https://www.stjude.org/donate/legacy.html?frequency_selected=2&legacypid=197820899&memoryFirstName=John&memoryLastName=Kordek" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" text-decoration="underline">St. Jude Children's Research Hospital</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Funeral Information and condolences can be given at </span><a class="Box-sc-5gsflb-0 Link-we4j6d-0 cXrRaa" color="blue" href="http://www.glueckertfuneralhome.com/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" text-decoration="underline">www.GlueckertFuneralHome.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"> or (847) 253-0168.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><center style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><img class="Box-sc-5gsflb-0 Image-sc-15i6sb4-0 jLWbET" src="https://cache.legacy.net/legacy/images/cobrands/chicagotribune/logos/6890642_logo1_cropped.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 16px; max-width: 100%;" /></center>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-71104143966000852032021-02-21T12:54:00.007-06:002021-02-21T13:02:34.289-06:00Book Club February 3<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We had a lively discussion of <i>Caste. </i>Many found the work powerful and compelling, but less informative than Wilkerson's earlier <i>The Warmth of Other Suns.</i> We applauded her use of compelling personal stories and analogies that lent force to her analysis. Her comparison of the problem of caste as the weak foundation of the house of American society helped highlight the need to confront and understand systemic racism. And the account of the black schoolboy denied the use of the local swimming pool brought home the thoughtless cruelty of racist culture. Some noted problems with the parallels drawn between the Nazi "final solution",<i> </i>the Indian caste system, and American racism, seeing critical differences between these three systems. Others noted that the term "caste" could equally apply to ethnic distinctions and was used too broadly here. We identified some instances of superficial source material, but agreed that the younger readers could read and learn from <i>Caste. </i>We agreed that all readers could take away valuable lessons and new awareness from this work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlwXVDMH9OPGfWUzP7hV19IHXNp7xjUmTFsSaVHu6_K4UZALNJMi0D3WE8TN3lKKcxIxBZAGxBupxWXM7Lip7RvW4LYzl5xV1mluqiEJDa6xd1WORsSOQUhDMsM3e-y6YXJ12ur8L3iH4/s266/dutchhouse.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlwXVDMH9OPGfWUzP7hV19IHXNp7xjUmTFsSaVHu6_K4UZALNJMi0D3WE8TN3lKKcxIxBZAGxBupxWXM7Lip7RvW4LYzl5xV1mluqiEJDa6xd1WORsSOQUhDMsM3e-y6YXJ12ur8L3iH4/s0/dutchhouse.webp" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our next book will be<i> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/books/review/ann-patchett-dutch-house.html" target="_blank">The Dutch House</a> </i>by Ann Patchett. We will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, April 7. Meeting starts at 11 am. However, the Zoom link will be open at 10:30, to make sure everyone can establish a good connection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff </a>or <a href="hmarlbor@gmail,.com" target="_blank">Helen Marlborough</a> if you have any questions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We enjoy catching up with our former colleagues and enjoy welcoming new members to the group. Zoom meetings have provided a great way for colleagues not in the immediate vicinity of the Lincoln Park Campus to participate. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-13677462339923669352021-02-14T18:39:00.000-06:002021-02-14T18:39:02.362-06:00In Memoriam - Donald Banik<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #444444;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlM5tnlTpJJXgd_bUfnUmpSqZpQG0eWjL7PyXHH6PNel6M_immDTlkPf32L6YxNG5l1QXUWb0ErgAksfwWDTicGnzLe7MedRrnnamHIqh2j-hHplaFtVlP-4T7DCnlnSiuOU4dN3lTLTUT/s389/Banik%252C+Donald+obit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlM5tnlTpJJXgd_bUfnUmpSqZpQG0eWjL7PyXHH6PNel6M_immDTlkPf32L6YxNG5l1QXUWb0ErgAksfwWDTicGnzLe7MedRrnnamHIqh2j-hHplaFtVlP-4T7DCnlnSiuOU4dN3lTLTUT/s320/Banik%252C+Donald+obit.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Don Banik worked in Security at the Lewis Center. He always had a smile on his face. Rest in peace, Don.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #444444;">Donald J. Banik, US Army Veteran, at rest February 10th at age of 86; Beloved husband and best friend of Mary Ann, nee Wowczuk for over 54 years; Loving dad of Michelle (Ed) Snorewicz, Dawn (Jim) Cooke, Maribeth (Nicole) Conway, Donald (Collen) Rost Banik and David Banik; Cherished grandpa of Emily, Jacob, Matthew, John and Danny; Fond brother of Dolores (late Stanley) Koslowski; Dear brother-in-law of Collette (late Robert) Kampendahl; also survived by many nieces, nephews, cousins, extended family and friends. Visitation Monday, February 15th from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Curley Funeral Home, (Kubina-Tybor Directors), 6116 W. 111th Street, Chicago Ridge. Family and friends will gather on Tuesday, February 16th at St. Linus Church, 10300 S. Lawler, Oak Lawn for 11:00 a.m. Mass. Private interment at Good Shepherd Cemetery. Due to Covid concerns social distancing rules will be observed and masks are required. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate considering a memorial donation in Don’s name to St. Linus’ St. Vincent de Paul Society preferred. For Funeral info 708-422-2700, or </span><a href="http://www.curleyfuneralhome.com/" style="background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #53b4dc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">www.curleyfuneralhome.com</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To send a message to the Banik family or share condolences: <a href="https://www.curleyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Donald-J-Banik?obId=19964765">https://www.curleyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Donald-J-Banik?obId=19964765</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Source: Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2021, page 33</span></p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-2945102709832936042020-12-16T21:10:00.000-06:002020-12-16T21:10:05.582-06:00In Memoriam - John R. Watts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_ipTylJ62MoKsFea6DpW5kAKIvCkBfh20lqtdQVaeoCu7kFLppFDMq4h1itb_-XkWCMLgZ0iHbSr-qiFgJ_k6VoosjeijN0g98jvb3wl9OMVc8uRK0keBooh5dwyJUveCaaRPY9g1JBh/s374/Watts%252C+John+Reskin+Theatre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"></span></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_ipTylJ62MoKsFea6DpW5kAKIvCkBfh20lqtdQVaeoCu7kFLppFDMq4h1itb_-XkWCMLgZ0iHbSr-qiFgJ_k6VoosjeijN0g98jvb3wl9OMVc8uRK0keBooh5dwyJUveCaaRPY9g1JBh/s374/Watts%252C+John+Reskin+Theatre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBX-8lJuPJuClKLl01AcLnSxxoMlh7U2Pr0zyCUQ8LxPHQn1RSALOGWw8USpADzLNe-xDo89v9c4_3e8wkUUiEspq_-KYlu4QlnfmTs6XrczQgJJTg77bYYjsxSKALSRkiJZjT_lfSZRE/s374/Watts%252C+John+Reskin+Theatre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBX-8lJuPJuClKLl01AcLnSxxoMlh7U2Pr0zyCUQ8LxPHQn1RSALOGWw8USpADzLNe-xDo89v9c4_3e8wkUUiEspq_-KYlu4QlnfmTs6XrczQgJJTg77bYYjsxSKALSRkiJZjT_lfSZRE/s320/Watts%252C+John+Reskin+Theatre.jpg" /></a></div><br />Dr. John Ransford Watts Passes at Age 90 </div><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2d621549-7fff-6fd0-298f-db5c5c74990b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.444000244140625pt; margin-right: 11.29833984375pt; margin-top: 0.9959716796875pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.0359954833984375pt; text-indent: -0.0359954833984375pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: -0.0359955pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Former dean of The Theatre School was instrumental in move of Goodman School of Drama to DePaul University </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5279998779296875pt; margin-right: 23.74755859375pt; margin-top: 5.5009765625pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.45599365234375pt; text-indent: -0.45599365234375pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHICAGO — Dr. John Ransford Watts, dean of The Theatre School at DePaul University from 1979 to 1999, died December 14 in Mundelein, IL. He was 90 years old. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.15599822998046875pt; margin-right: 9.13226318359375pt; margin-top: 15.5009765625pt; text-indent: 0.167999267578125pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watts, a teacher, designer, director, and scholar, was recruited as dean and charged with reestablishing the famed Goodman School of Drama after its move to DePaul University from the department of drama at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. Over the next 20 years, Watts reshaped The Theatre School at DePaul into one of the premiere conservatory theatre training programs in the country. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494997024536132; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.18000030517578125pt; margin-right: 15.84649658203125pt; margin-top: 15.50091552734375pt; text-indent: 0.5759963989257812pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Watts’ work to secure the position of the school within DePaul, attract high-quality staff and faculty, and develop a sophisticated curriculum made top 10 conservatory rankings, our new facilities, and amazing alumni accomplishments possible,” explained current Theatre School Dean John Culbert. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.27599334716796875pt; margin-right: 11.1168212890625pt; margin-top: 15.501007080078125pt; text-indent: 0.6960067749023438pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many of the programs and activities Watts put in place have become traditions at The Theatre School: regional auditions, annual touring graduate showcases, and discussions with visiting artists. He also started the Annual Awards for Excellence in the Arts gala in 1989, which has generated more than $7 million for scholarships to date. In 1988, Watts was instrumental in orchestrating DePaul’s acquisition of the historic Blackstone Theatre, now known as the Merle Reskin Theatre, in Chicago’s South Loop. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2495004177093505; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.167999267578125pt; margin-right: 0.533935546875pt; margin-top: 15.501007080078125pt; text-indent: 0.15599822998046875pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watts maintained a distinguished and productive association with the performing arts, humanities, and higher education in Massachusetts, California, and Illinois. He earned an undergraduate degree and a Master of Education degree from Boston College, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, and a doctorate from Union Graduate College. He completed post-graduate work at Harvard, UCLA, and Oxford. For 15 years he served on the faculty of the School for the Arts at Boston University as Professor of Theatre, and for five years as associate dean. He was appointed as the founding chairman of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, serving in that position for four years. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.167999267578125pt; margin-right: 6.1922607421875pt; margin-top: 15.500991821289062pt; text-indent: 0.8040008544921875pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1974, he accepted a one-year guest artist appointment to the faculty of the School of Fine Arts at California State University, Long Beach, which led to his becoming a tenured professor, associate dean, and then dean of the school. While in California he helped found and served as director and vice president of the Public Corporation for the Arts. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494984149932862; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5279998779296875pt; margin-right: 1.06488037109375pt; margin-top: 15.500999450683594pt; text-indent: 0.444000244140625pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2000, John Watts received a lifetime achievement award from the Joseph Jefferson Committee “for development and support of theatre artists and the Chicago theatre community during his almost two decades as Dean of the Theatre School/DePaul University.” That same </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.167999267578125pt; margin-right: 10.9676513671875pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.01200103759765625pt; text-indent: -0.01200103759765625pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">year, he also received the Via Sapientiae Award from DePaul University, its highest recognition for excellent service and accomplishment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15.5009765625pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John and Joyce Watts were recognized in June 2018 in a naming ceremony of the Dr. John R. and Joyce L. Watts Theatre, a 250-seat thrust theatre located on the first floor of The Theatre School’s artistic home on the Lincoln Park campus. The Watts’ family also generously endowed a scholarship supporting students in the playwriting program in 2006. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2494999885559082; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.7559967041015625pt; margin-right: 4.5194091796875pt; margin-top: 15.5009765625pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.108001708984375pt; text-indent: -0.108001708984375pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“John Watts’ inspired leadership for the first two decades of The Theatre School’s life at DePaul University built the foundation upon which all that we now do rests,” said John Culbert. “His legacy will live on through the students, faculty, and staff who would not be here today without his vision for the school.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15.5009765625pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John is survived by his wife of 45 years, Joyce L. Watts, and his son, David Watts. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15.5009765625pt;">Source: Joyce Watts, December 16, 2020</p><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-26369300979082358792020-12-13T15:54:00.006-06:002020-12-15T17:04:03.848-06:00Book Club December 2<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Our discussion of <i>Pachinko</i></span> <span>covered several topics, following the saga of a Korean family from the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910 through 1989.</span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">We got a sense of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the lives of Koreans under Japanese rule in their own land as well as their place as second class citizens in Japan to this day. The story is that of a struggle for survival, but includes issues of</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">caste, racial prejudice, survival during war, and the role chance has in individual lives. While covering these and other topics, the story centers on Sunja and her extended family and the relationships which both support and destroy individual survival.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Sunja and her sister-in-law use their skills as cooks and their limited resources to survive by selling food. Sunja’s secret, the identity of her son Noa, becomes both a resource and a burden. Noa’s suicide centers on his struggle to accept his Korean identity in a Japanese world. The game of pachinko is both a thematic motif evoking chance and hope, as well as a means of employment and survival for Koreans in Japan. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">We enjoyed our wide-ranging discussion of </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Pachinko</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, and ended before we had managed to cover everything the book brought up.</span></span></div><p><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNv8rgt1CwxQLY82w8r_ACpDHVDvDOCL2SFCG5cr-j3tdPndv7Zlen5ZhW7OXR_JB_qUbx8JvJ_1SCVG7NFLkIDyYOe10BrBqE9sQPR5-I48HQjyn_RUr6TI1rK_W5jEIa4uCTl234Gwo/s218/caste.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNv8rgt1CwxQLY82w8r_ACpDHVDvDOCL2SFCG5cr-j3tdPndv7Zlen5ZhW7OXR_JB_qUbx8JvJ_1SCVG7NFLkIDyYOe10BrBqE9sQPR5-I48HQjyn_RUr6TI1rK_W5jEIa4uCTl234Gwo/s0/caste.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our next book will be<i> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/books/review-caste-isabel-wilkerson-origins-of-our-discontents.html" target="_blank">Caste</a></i> by Isabel Wilkerson. We will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, February 3. Meeting starts at 11 am. However, the Zoom link will be open at 10:30, to make sure everyone can establish a good connection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff </a>or <a href="hmarlbor@gmail,.com" target="_blank">Helen Marlborough</a> if you have any questions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We enjoy catching up with our former colleagues and enjoy welcoming new members to the group. Zoom meetings have provided a great way for colleagues not in the immediate vicinity of the Lincoln Park Campus to participate. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p> </p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-54459727421064970302020-12-12T19:16:00.002-06:002020-12-12T19:16:31.076-06:00In Memoriam - Patricia Mulligan<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAal_7iXe8nBG-zmE6zU4IKlHzaSnmGEOUPYav3qYDJc1ZGwoKVFTGqiTGTf3iAOpV4PCcoCSVJlqNLZ5GrNMS8lhG56TWrhyphenhyphenJNt0OBl_My-l0eSF8xR3-JMf7nz8mHYXlkOfotaaDUXV/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="166" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAal_7iXe8nBG-zmE6zU4IKlHzaSnmGEOUPYav3qYDJc1ZGwoKVFTGqiTGTf3iAOpV4PCcoCSVJlqNLZ5GrNMS8lhG56TWrhyphenhyphenJNt0OBl_My-l0eSF8xR3-JMf7nz8mHYXlkOfotaaDUXV/" width="167" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Patricia Mulligan <span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">(nee Farrell)--Gone to her final reward on April 19, 2020. Loving daughter of the late Lawrence and Norma Farrell; beloved wife of the late John Patrick for 56 looong and interesting years; always there for us, dear Mom to John (Retired CPD), Karen (Kevin) O'Connell, Larry (the late Michelle Porter) and the late James CPD (Sue); dear mother in law to Virginia Mulligan (RN); Christmas Cookie Making, Easter Egg Coloring Gramma to Katie, John "J.J.", Allie, Sean (Nicole), Kristin, Michael, and Patrick; great grandmother of Connor; sister and best friend of Marian Kulterman and the late Eleanor Swiatly. I love you all now, go and have a great party and be sure to dance on the bar. Arrangements by Cooney Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, donations to the </span><a class="obit-text-link" data-trackclick="yes" data-vars-event-action="clio_inline_click" data-vars-event-category="obit-amp" data-vars-event-label="clio_inline_AHA" data-vars-event-value="0" href="https://www2.heart.org/site/SPageNavigator/donatenow_legacy.html?giftFirstName=Patricia&giftLastName=Mulligan&s_src=leg" rel="nofollow, noindex" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699;" target="_blank">American Heart Association</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;"> are appreciated. For information please call 773-588-5850 or visit </span><a class="obit-text-link" href="http://www.cooneyfuneralhome.com/" rel="nofollow, noindex" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699;" target="_blank">www.cooneyfuneralhome.com</a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To write a note of condolences go to: <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=patricia-mulligan&pid=196016172&fhid=16217">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=patricia-mulligan&pid=196016172&fhid=16217</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Source: Chicago Tribune, April 21, 2020</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Photo: SES Luncheon, November, 2003</span></p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-65073567185950885102020-10-29T14:28:00.004-05:002020-12-13T15:12:01.193-06:00Book Club October 7<p><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>After Visiting Friends</i> provided many topics for discussion at our October meeting. Several members of the book club especially enjoyed Michael Hainey’s detailed portrait of Chicago in the 1950s and 60s, recalling their own childhood experiences of the city. Others praised the accounts of newspaper work, both the newsroom itself and the camaraderie of the men who staffed it, noting also that Hainey’s parents met there. Hainey’s training as a news reporter is apparent both in his determined search for the truth about his father’s death and in his direct prose style. Although some readers faulted the memoir’s style, finding it undistinguished or shapeless, others found it forceful.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As in our reading of other memoirs (such as <i>Educated</i>), we disagreed about the effectiveness and “truth” of some remembered scenes, including Hainey’s imagined recreation of past scenes from others’ hints. Thinking about memory and the past led the discussion back to Hainey’s intense need to know his father—we considered the appeal of family history in general—and the resolution of Hainey’s search in his realization of his mother’s love and courage. The narrative arc of the memoir is completed in that final recognition and tribute to Hainey’s mother.</span></div><p><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3v5S4xc1JRfoAyEwYlRv2kq-xUR8csB4Louavcp61CmEb6nQwV7rwM3O0CZR6NBUCpK5oibhkFosmQcQHAahQ1SJifocmCque_nfwZWS_GLOLXz_GOdHuv3nsVLuHoAumJXAJeoTrTI/s215/pachinko.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3v5S4xc1JRfoAyEwYlRv2kq-xUR8csB4Louavcp61CmEb6nQwV7rwM3O0CZR6NBUCpK5oibhkFosmQcQHAahQ1SJifocmCque_nfwZWS_GLOLXz_GOdHuv3nsVLuHoAumJXAJeoTrTI/s0/pachinko.jpg" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Our next book will be<i> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/books/review/pachinko-min-jin-lee.html" target="_blank">Pachinko</a></i> by Min Jin Lee. We will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, December 2. Meeting will start at 11 am, however, the Zoom link will be open at 10:30, to make sure everyone can get establish a good connection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net" target="_blank">Kathryn DeGraff </a>or <a href="hmarlbor@gmail,.com" target="_blank">Helen Marlborough</a> if you have any questions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We enjoy catching up with our former colleagues and enjoy welcoming new members to the group. Zoom meetings have provided a great way for colleagues not in the immediate vicinity of the Lincoln Park Campus to participate and renew old acquaintances!</span></p><p> </p>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-77104422335610335882020-10-25T12:34:00.003-05:002020-10-25T12:35:48.979-05:00In Memoriam - Dmitry Paperno<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtODZORjkqVL9-cVudiJ64yH-iR_Jn7-i1hVdTlyA-X6H4iuvUt6kuqrXUgtLykJn_DPUN_JyQlEwziQUSTf8GpL-0fRF118sgiHLtbynl4W49buNOwhxWx96n8U35FELIWdjZ5rSyltsZ/s509/Paperno%252C+Dmitry+album+cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtODZORjkqVL9-cVudiJ64yH-iR_Jn7-i1hVdTlyA-X6H4iuvUt6kuqrXUgtLykJn_DPUN_JyQlEwziQUSTf8GpL-0fRF118sgiHLtbynl4W49buNOwhxWx96n8U35FELIWdjZ5rSyltsZ/s320/Paperno%252C+Dmitry+album+cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />It is with sadness we recently learned of the passing of Dmitry Paperno. May he rest in peace.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">Dmitry Paperno, concert pianist, writer, beloved teacher, husband, father, and grandfather died on October 12, 2020 at the age of 91. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Lyudmila; his daughters Anna (Bruce) Radzin and Maria (Boris) Tsipris; and his grandchildren, Alexandra and Samuel Radzin, and Olivia (Jason) Wilson and Eugene Tsipris. Loving caregiver Hatuna helped brighten his last years as well. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">Our heartfelt thanks to NorthShore Hospice. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">He received his musical training under Alexander Goldenweiser at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, receiving a Master's Degree with Honors in 1951 and an Aspirant Diploma in 1955. A prize winner at the Fifth International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and the First International Enescu Competition in Bucharest in 1958, Paperno proceeded to perform extensively throughout Russia and Eastern Europe as well as in England, Cuba, and Belgium (as soloist with the U.S.S.R. State Orchestra at EXPO in Brussels in 1958). He also made numerous recordings for Melodiya, the record label of the Soviet Union. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">In 1967 Mr. Paperno began teaching at the Gnessin Moscow State Institute. After emigrating to the United States in 1976, Paperno continued to concertize widely throughout the U.S. and Western Europe. A Professor at Chicago's DePaul University since 1977 (now Emeritus), Paperno has been on the jury panel for many international piano competitions. He has also given master classes at the Moscow Conservatory as well as in Belgium, Finland, Portugal, and the United States, including classes at Oberlin and the Manhattan School of Music. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">Mr. Paperno is the author of several essays on music and pianism and the books Notes of a Moscow Pianist (Amadeus Press) and Postscriptum. His recordings on Cedille Records include Dmitry Paperno: Uncommon Encores, Paperno Plays Chopin, and Paperno Live. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">Services are private and plans will be announced for a future memorial. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the DePaul University School of Music. Notes of condolence may be sent to 1831 Mission Hills Rd., Apt. 508, Northbrook, IL 60062 For information or to leave condolences, Shalom Memorial Funeral Home, (847) 255-3520 or </span><a class="obit-text-link" href="http://www.shalom2.com/" rel="nofollow, noindex" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">www.shalom2.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">.</span></p><p>Source: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=dmitry-paperno&pid=196951424&fhid=4243</p>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-56944617055721631742020-08-20T15:22:00.000-05:002020-08-20T15:22:00.313-05:00Book Club August 5<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We came away from our discussion of <i>The Night Watchman</i> with new awareness of and respect for Native American lives. We noted Louise</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Erdrich’s ability to capture and convey Native American beliefs and the realities of reservation life—its family bonds, its poverty, the government schools. Her vivid treatment of magic and folklore, and its suggestion that what we might call “superstition” depends a good deal on one’s perspective was reflected as well through the comic illustration of cultural assumptions by Mormon missionaries about what’s real. Erdrich wove together several story lines in different modes—the Night Watchman’s verbal battle with the U.S. government, Pixie’s surreal experiences in the “nightmare” city as she searches for Vera, the story of Wood Mountain’s boxing and his changing feelings, expertly. But she always kept the central focus on the novel on the actual story of her grandfather and his struggle to maintain Indian lands and identity granted by federal law against the 1953 congressional act that would “terminate” them.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3xqjQZquGQ_UJGpgoq4q0cCL7vxJWv-dyfaz6JboIYrzRwTCzgIBJ9mZIe0HQlP8NZw-R3fdpL6FLkMqMTc6dtlkfNfORNMXc4WvuWITHzxXB9jYyEaBWHBw2DDw_Bs4837qPsggCGU/s499/after2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3xqjQZquGQ_UJGpgoq4q0cCL7vxJWv-dyfaz6JboIYrzRwTCzgIBJ9mZIe0HQlP8NZw-R3fdpL6FLkMqMTc6dtlkfNfORNMXc4WvuWITHzxXB9jYyEaBWHBw2DDw_Bs4837qPsggCGU/w133-h204/after2.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></p>Our next book will be <i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/books/after-visiting-friends-by-michael-hainey.html">After Visiting Friends</a> </i> by Chicagoan Michael Hainey. We will meet via Zoom at 11:00 am on Wednesday, October 7. Please contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net">Kathryn DeGraff </a>or <a href="mailto:hmarlbor@gmail,.com">Helen Marlborough</a> if you have any questions.<p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We enjoy catching up with our former colleagues and enjoy welcoming new members to the group. Zoom meetings have provided a great way for colleagues not in the immediate vicinity of the Lincoln Park Campus to participate and renew old acquaintances!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-37563614442304193382020-06-21T16:56:00.002-05:002020-06-21T16:59:06.776-05:00In Memoriam - Alex Devience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We enjoyed our Zoom discussion of <i>The Library Book</i>, which we had to postpone from our scheduled April meeting. Susan Orlean begins with the fire that devastated the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 and her curiosity about that event, the accused arsonist, and the role of the library and librarians. She uses the event and her skillful writing to weave a multilayered saga. Her story includes the history and development of that library and the role of the librarians who built the collections and the place of the library in the civic life of Los Angeles. She includes her memories of libraries, analysis of the work librarians do, a true crime tale, and anecdotes of books and their users. The session helped restore our sense of connection to our fellow DePaul retirees through this time of social isolation. </div>
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Our next book will be </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>The Night Watchman </i>by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/books/review/night-watchman-louise-erdrich.html?auth=login-email&login=email">Louise Erdrich</a>. W</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" style="font-size: 13.2px;">e will meet Wednesday, August 5, through a zoom link to be emailed to all, at our usual time, 11 am. </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":""}" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> For further information contact <a href="mailto:kdegraff2@comcast.net">Kathryn DeGraff</a> or <a href="mailto:hmarlbor@gmail.com">Helen Marlborough</a>,</span></div>
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We continue to review the titles on our list for consideration for upcoming discussions. Please let Kathryn, Helen, or anyone else in the group, know if you have a favorite book you would like to share with your DES colleagues. As you can tell from the posts, we are interested in a wide range of fiction and non fiction. We enjoy our sessions thoroughly and always have room for more people and more insights.</div>
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kdegraffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418194473412366719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-23666090769653759772020-06-04T21:11:00.001-05:002020-06-04T21:11:29.992-05:00In Memoriam - Jack Reisman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSZAHJ0mNr1vVa5T4ULlpMLW9lwoNDTtQUa1kWz11_jdeA8eUW29c0dE4-fwA9SqZGvqyFy3oA1TS1J9cBeSykumex3wiiCaYXkWucgpEz7C_79WwTM0LsD803qohwH_uFBJxwEKLPsVw/s555/Reisman%252C+Jack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="436" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSZAHJ0mNr1vVa5T4ULlpMLW9lwoNDTtQUa1kWz11_jdeA8eUW29c0dE4-fwA9SqZGvqyFy3oA1TS1J9cBeSykumex3wiiCaYXkWucgpEz7C_79WwTM0LsD803qohwH_uFBJxwEKLPsVw/s320/Reisman%252C+Jack.jpg" /></a></div><div class="obituary-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="obituary-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">Dr. John M. Reisman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at DePaul, died May 19, three days before his 90th birthday. He received his B.S. at Rutgers and his doctorate at Michigan State. During the Korean War, he served as an officer on the USS Wisconsin. He was predeceased by Margo, his beloved wife of 62 years, and will be sorely missed by his loving children, Hope (Jeffrey) Sheffield, David (Caroline), Carl (Robin), and Andrew (Polina), and by his 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Dr. Reisman published eight psychology books, numerous articles, and two mystery novels. He loved old movies, traveling, good food, and a well-organized routine. His family will miss his wit, prodigious memory, intelligence, and devotion.</div><div class="obituary-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div class="obituary-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Published in Chicago Tribune on May 22, 2020.</span></div>Elaine McIntyre Beaudoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08954477776680496307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940697146396521193.post-29682791596713933052020-05-05T14:10:00.002-05:002020-05-05T14:11:07.637-05:00New Dean, College of Science and Health - Stephanie Dance-Barnes<h1 style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: proxima-nova-condensed, -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.1rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin: -0.5rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.85rem;">
DePaul University names cancer researcher, higher education leader as dean of the College of Science and Health</h1>
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Stephanie Dance-Barnes joins DePaul July 1</h4>
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CHICAGO — An expert in cancer biology and leader in higher education will serve as the next dean for DePaul University’s College of Science and Health. Interim Provost Salma Ghanem announced April 29 that Stephanie Dance-Barnes will join the DePaul community July 1.</div>
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Dance-Barnes currently serves as interim associate provost and dean of the University College of Lifelong Learning at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina, where she also is an associate professor of cell and molecular biology.</div>
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“Dr. Dance-Barnes is a champion for the liberal education approach to learning,” Ghanem said. “She recognizes the importance for students to not only be engaged in dynamic learning experiences, but also the need to be equipped with critical thinking skills that go beyond the classroom. Her extensive administrative and teaching experience combined with her passion for innovative scientific research will be a tremendous benefit for our diverse students at DePaul.”</div>
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Originally from the small town of Weeksville, North Carolina, Dance-Barnes first pursued a scientific path at Elizabeth City State University, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and pre-medicine. She completed a master’s degree in biology at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. She is the first African American female to receive her doctorate from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the area of cancer biology and toxicology.</div>
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In her current role as interim associate provost and dean, she oversees an academic unit that provides WSSU students with tools they need to succeed, including advising, TRiO student support services, STEM Learning Center, Testing and Assessment Center, as well as the first-year writing program. As a member of the provost’s senior team, she provides administrative leadership, direction and evaluation for all academic activities and faculty affairs at the university. She also has served as an active member of WSSU’s strategic planning leadership team.</div>
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Prior to becoming interim associate provost and dean in 2018, Dance-Barnes was co-chair of WSSU’s Department of Biological Sciences. During her tenure, she spearheaded the redesign of the department’s curriculum, introducing new concentrations that include cell biology, microbiology, pre-health professional, biotechnology and neuroscience. She has led a basic cancer research lab at WSSU since 2010, where she has mentored more than 30 student researchers.</div>
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“I am devoted to promoting student success,” Dance-Barnes said. “I feel very blessed to work with so many diverse students who go on to graduate and excel in professional and graduate programs.”</div>
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Dance-Barnes joined the faculty at WSSU in 2010, after completing her postdoctoral work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focuses on characterizing the biodiversity of tumors using genomics, molecular genetics and cell biology. She has worked collaboratively with researchers at Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center to secure funding from the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health to support underrepresented undergraduate students in cancer research. She also secured a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a program for underserved students in third through fifth grade to promote STEM careers.</div>
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“As leaders in higher education, it is imperative that we employ efforts to create positive STEM learning environments that empower students with the skills to be competitive in a global arena,” Dance-Barnes said. “One existing barrier is the number of K-12 schools experiencing a shortage of teachers, particularly in science. Developing partnerships between universities and K-12 schools is a major initiative for me.”</div>
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Dedicated to student success and inclusive excellence, Dance-Barnes created the Women in Science Program at WSSU in 2011. The program, which provides mentoring and research opportunities for women in STEM, received the 2018 Inspiring Programs in STEM award from Insight into Diversity magazine. Dance-Barnes also received the Inspiring Leaders in STEM award from Insight into Diversity magazine in 2017.</div>
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“My core values align with DePaul’s mission,” Dance-Barnes said. “I look forward to working with the faculty and staff in the College of Science and Health to continue to promote DePaul’s growth, development, innovative transformation and successes.”</div>
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DePaul’s College of Science and Health is currently led by professor Dorothy Kozlowski, an expert in traumatic brain injury, who has served as interim dean since 2018.</div>
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“I am incredibly grateful to Dr. Kozlowski for the dedication she has consistently demonstrated to the university’s mission and CSH students throughout her tenure as interim dean,” Ghanem said. “Her leadership leaves CSH poised for continued success and ready to advance science for the good of public health.”</div>
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DePaul University names Tatum Thomas dean of School of Continuing and Professional Studies</h1>
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Leader in nontraditional learning to join DePaul July 1</h4>
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CHICAGO — For more than 15 years, Tatum Thomas has committed herself to preparing adult and nontraditional learners for the next stage in their careers. Effective July 1, she will serve as dean for DePaul University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.</div>
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“Leading and designing emerging schools of professional studies is an area of expertise for Dr. Thomas," said Interim Provost Salma Ghanem. “Her deep understanding of nontraditional, urban education will strengthen DePaul's longstanding commitment to serve diverse learners. As a collaborative and innovative leader, Dr. Thomas will continue to advance SCPS, further supporting the success of our adult and nontraditional students."</div>
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In her current role at Columbia University, Thomas oversees strategic initiatives to increase quality, retention and student outcomes in the School of Professional Studies. A leader in diversity and inclusion, she managed a first-of-its kind Columbia University HBCU Fellowship program. This successful program invites high-achieving undergraduate seniors to pursue master's degrees, enhancing student readiness with a robust mix of support services and career development opportunities.</div>
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“Nontraditional education has been a natural part of my being," said Thomas. “I was an inner-city, first-generation student and the product of multiple institutions that cater to non-traditional learners. I completed my bachelor's degree at night, while holding full-time and part-time positions and raising a small child. I know first-hand that affordability, flexibility, practicality and immediate returns on the investment are essential to adult learners."</div>
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DePaul officially launched SCPS in 2019. The school builds upon the work of its predecessors, the School for New Learning and the Office of Continuing and Professional Education. Aligned with the university's strategic plan, SCPS offers nontraditional students a range of lifelong learning opportunities, including credit-hour based, market-responsive professional studies degrees and credentials.</div>
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“DePaul's SCPS fulfills the mission of higher education," Thomas says. “We create a place of opportunity and deliver an excellent education without disrupting lives. I appreciate the caliber of DePaul's faculty and their highly visible commitment to lifelong learning and scholarship. I'm privileged to serve in this community."</div>
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During her tenure at Columbia University, Thomas launched multiple student service units. She opened the School of Professional Studies' first lifelong learning career center to provide resources for degree and non-degree students, in addition to alumni. The success of the pilot launch led to the opening of a second center in San Francisco. Relationships she has fostered with civic and corporate partners include Morgan Stanley, Turner Construction, the Mellon Foundation, Firelight Media and the Harlem YMCA of Greater New York.</div>
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“Dr. Thomas embodies the mission, values and professional impact represented by innovative schools of continuing education,” says Dr. Jason Wingard, dean and professor of Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. “She has served as an invaluable partner to me at Columbia - contributing to the preparation of global students for the future of work.”</div>
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At NYU's School of Professional Studies, she led key initiatives and programs. Her teams administered graduate degree programs, undergraduate degree programs, and continuing education programs and interacted with accrediting bodies for curriculum administration. As part of this work, she collaborated with department chairs and faculty to manage academic portfolios and launch new programs. Thomas also established a one-stop holistic counseling unit, as well as a judiciary committee to oversee academic integrity at the Division of Programs in Business.</div>
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Thomas holds a bachelor's in psychology from Marymount Manhattan College and a master's in higher education administration from Baruch College, City University of New York. She has a doctorate in organizational leadership from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She also earned a certificate of management excellence from the Harvard Business School. She plans to relocate to Chicago in June.</div>
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Don Opitz, an alumnus and adult education scholar, has served as interim dean for DePaul's SCPS since July 2018. “Don has led SCPS through a critical time of transition," Ghanem says. “Professional education is a strategic priority for DePaul, and thanks to his expertise, the school will continue on its positive trajectory. I am very grateful for all Don has done for the faculty, staff and students of SCPS."</div>
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