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Introduction

About the DePaul Emeritus Society

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

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

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

Book Club



2021


Angle of Repose.  Wallace Stegner
The Ghost Map. Steven Johnson
The Vanishing Half. Britt Bennett
The Greater Journey  David McCullough
The Dutch House. Ann Patchett
Caste. Isabel Wilkerson

2020

Pachinko. Min Jin Lee
After Visiting Friends. Michael Hainey
The Night Watchman. Louise Erdrich
The Library Book. Susan Orlean
The Great Believers. Rebecca Makkai


2019


Educated. Tara Westover
The Art Forger. B. A. Shapiro
Born a Crime.  Trevor Noah
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. Kathleen Rooney
The Third Coast. Thomas Dyja
The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien


2018


Just Mercy. Bryan Stevenson
100 Years of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor TowlesThe Book of Ages. Jill Lepore
The Remains of the Day  Kazuro Ishiguro

2017

At the Existentialist Cafe    Sarah Bakewell

The Leopard    Guiseppe De Lampedusa 
Lab Girl    Hope Jahrens
Midnight's Children    Salman Rushdie

2016

The Hare with Amber Eyes  Edmund de Waal
On Beauty   Zadie Smith
Howard's End   E.M Forster
A God in Ruins   Kate Atkinson
Being Mortal  Atul Gawande
Lawrence in Arabia   Scott Anderson


2015

Bel Canto   Ann Patchett
The Bookman's Tale   Charlie Lovett
The Sixth Extinction   Elizabeth Colbert
The World of Yesterday   Stefan Zweig


2014

Behold a Pale Horse   Peter Tremayne
The Man He Became   James Tobin
The Goldfinch   Donna Tartt


Book Club selects The Goldfinch
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • June 4th
  • Discussion starts at 1:30 pm
  • Richardson Library, Room 115
We are excited to announce our first book for discussion, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
At the meeting on April 1 we discussed the schedule and what we would choose for the first book.  After sharing some of our current reading as well our experiences (or not) with book clubs, we selected this title.  The Goldfinch is on several Best Books of 2013 lists.  For those not familiar with the book, you might want to read this review in the New York Times.
It is available in hardcover or electronically, but not yet as a paperback.

We decided to meet the first Wednesday of every other month, with the next meeting on June 4. Discussion will begin at 1:30 pm.  For anyone who would like to brown bag lunch prior to the discussion, the room will be available so we can eat and socialize before our book conversation.  The Richardson Library, Room 115, has been scheduled for all remaining meetings in 2014.

Those of us who met on April 1 considered other titles, among them Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings and Anna Quindlen's Still Life with Breadcrumbs as possible future books.  You may be interested
in reading those books, or have other suggestions.  Join us whenever your schedule permits for conversations about books and reading.  If you have any questions, please get in touch with Helen Marlborough or Kathryn DeGraff.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014


DES Book Club Established



CALLING ALL READERS EMERITI:


The DePaul Emeritus Society is establishing a BOOK CLUB for all members who would be interested in meeting to discuss shared readings.  The book club members will choose the readings and decide the format and frequency of club meetings.  Kathryn DeGraff has generously agreed to convene and chair the first meeting of the DES Book Club.

This meeting will be held on April 1, 2014, from 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Richardson Library 115 on the Lincoln Park Campus. 

SAVE THE DATE!
  
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Helen Marlborough, hmarlbor@depaul.edu (or 773-472-4669) with your contact information.  If you cannot attend but wish to be notified of future meetings, please indicate this in your response and be sure to provide an email address.  Thank you!



We hope to see you at the Inaugural Meeting of the DES BOOK CLUB on TUESDAY, APRIL 1, AT 1:30 in Richardson 115.  

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