Emeriti Connection

SPECIAL SUMMER ISSUE

Year in Review

Issue No. 25 - July 2023

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Inside This Issue:

*Upcoming Events

*Welcome

New Emeriti, New Officers

New Board Members

*Year in Review

Photo Gallery of 2022-23 Activities

Upcoming Events

Celebrate the Renewal of the

University of Cincinnati’s Affiliation

with Maple Knoll Village

Monday, July 17, 2023

2 pm in the MKV Auditorium

11100 Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45246

The Maple Knoll Village Retirement Community is a partner with the Emeriti Association in developing our Age-Friendly University initiative and has collaborated with the University for over 30 years, working together in nursing, medical, and pharmacy education and practice.

The formal affiliation encompasses research projects that benefit the retirement community and experiential education opportunities for students in engineering, nursing and medicine.

In addition to intergenerational relationships, opportunities to age in place and telehealth services, students pursue innovative research that directly affects older adults and healthcare as a whole. To date, over 3500 students and 750 residents have been positively impacted by the partnership.

Phooey On Everything! Tomorrow’s Saturday!

Next P.O.E.T.S. Gathering:

Friday, July 28, 2023

5:00 pm

Mt. Carmel Brewing Company

4362 Mt. Carmel Tobasco Road

Cincinnati, OH 45244

(off the route 125 exit of I-275)

Mt. Carmel Brewing is one of the most scenic breweries in the area. Nice outside seating. Voted Best of the East by Cincinnati Magazine in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Happy Hour Tuesday-Friday from 3-6 pm, enjoy $5 beers and seltzers, $2 off wine

Gen-1 Early Arrival Program

Workshop

2 - 2:45 pm

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Gen-1’s new cohort of first-year students (about 30 students) moves into the residence hall a week before classes start (this year that is August 13) to participate in the Early Arrival Program.

The Emeriti Association has been asked to facilitate a 45-minute workshop that introduces academic expectations and key techniques for interacting with college faculty (composing an email, preparing to attend office hours, requesting a letter of recommendation, inquiring about research opportunities, discussing a grade, etc.) and gives students a chance to work in groups and/or role play around these tasks.

We could use a few more emeriti to join in planning and implementing this workshop.

Can you help with this program?

Please contact Joanna Mitro (mitroj@ucmail.uc.edu) with questions or to sign on.

NOTE: This is the group we do the cooking programs with.

AUGUST LUNCHEON SPEAKER SERIES EVENT

Asian American Identity in Modern Politics

Aftab Pureval (JD, UC 2008)

Mayor of the City of Cincinnati

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Lite Lunch Served at 11:30 am

Presentation from 12:00 - 1:00 pm

In-Person Venue:

Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Multipurpose Room 1220/1225

Virtual Venue: Zoom

https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/91907751003pwd=aWVBa1l1ajBSaUpQQ2NZWmxFdHBIUT09

Meeting ID: 919 0775 1003

Passcode: 349265

Please Join Us in Person or Virtually

To attend in person, please RSVP to emeriti@uc.edu by Monday, August 21

Aftab Pureval is the 70^th Mayor of Cincinnati. He was born and raised in southwest Ohio, the son of first-generation Americans. He is making history as Cincinnati’s first Asian American Mayor. Prior to his term as Mayor, he served as Hamilton County Clerk of Courts from 2016 to 2021 and was the first Democrat to hold this office in over 100 years.

Welcome New Emeriti

Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD - Professor Emerita, CoM, Dermatology

Beth Ash, PhD - Associate Professor Emerita, A&S English

Orson Austin, MD - Professor of Clinical Emeritus, CoM, Family & Community Medicine

Janet Boyle, MD - Professor of Clinical Emerita, CoM, Internal Medicine

Steven Buchberger, PhD - Professor Emeritus, CEAS, Civil & Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Divaker Choubey, PhD - Professor Emeritus, CoM, Environmental & Public Health Sciences

Darwin Church, MSEE - Professor Emeritus, UC Clermont, Mathematics, Computers, Geology & Physics

Nicholas Dunning, PhD - Professor Emeritus, A&S, Geography

Bonnie Sue Fisher, PhD - Professor Emerita, CECH, Criminal Justice

James Frank, PhD - Professor Emeritus, CECH, Criminal Justice

Evangelia Kranias, PhD - Professor Emerita, CoM, Pharmacology & Systems Physiology

Antoinette Larkin, PhD - Associate Professor Emerita, A&S, English

Lisbeth Lazaron, MD - Associate Professor of Clinical Emerita, CoM, Family & Community Medicine

Russell McMahon, MEd - Associate Professor Emeritus, CECH, Information Technology

Maribeth Metzler, PhD - Professor Educator Emerita, A&S, Communication

Margaret Reed, PhD - Professor Educator Emerita, LCB, Accounting

Mary Kaye Scaramucci, RDH - Professor Emerita, UC Blue Ash, Allied Health

Mary Schuster, MS - Assistant Professor Educator Emerita, A&S, Mathematics

Kim Seroogy, PhD - Professor Emeritus, CoM, Neurology & Rehab

Joan Sevy Majers, DNP - Assistant Professor of Clinical Emerita, CoN, Nursing

Kenneth Sherman, MD - Professor Emeritus, CoM, Internal Medicine

Alison Weiss, PhD - Professor Emerita, CoM, Molecular & Cell Bioscience

We welcome the above colleagues to the community of Emeriti as ratified by the UC Board of Trustees on June 27, 2023.

UC Emeriti Association

New Officers & Board

Officers newly elected for one-year terms:

President Sally Moomaw, CECH Early Childhood Education
Vice President George Babcock, CoM Surgery-Burn Research
Secretary Kathryn Lorenz, A&S Romance Language & Literature
Treasurer Tim Sale, LCB Accounting

The Executive Committee consists of the officers, immediate past president Ralph Katerberg, and our Faculty Senate representative George Babcock.

The Board of Directors consists of 21 members, serving 3-year staggered terms, with seven members elected each year.

Five returning Board members were re-elected to terms expiring in May 2026:

Lynn Davis, UCBA Mathematics
Daniel Durbin, CEAS Civ&Arch Eng
Kathryn Lorenz, A&S Romance Lang
Joan Murdock, CAHS Social Work
Geoffrey Yager, CECH Counseling

New Board members elected to terms expiring in May 2026:

Jennifer Pearce, UCBA Nursing
Craig Vogel, DAAP Design

New Board members filling unexpired terms:

Rino Munda, CoM Surgery-Transplant, May 2025
__________ , May 2024 (Vacancy - contact Sally Moomaw to apply)

Continuing Board members:

Jacqueline Collins, CoM Psychiatry
Robert Conyne, CECH Counseling
Awatef Hamed, CEAS Aerospace Engineering
Howard Jackson, A&S Physics
Jonathan Kamholtz, A&S English
Ralph Katerberg, LCB Management
Patrick Kumpf, CECH Information Technology
Joanna Mitro, A&S Mathematics
Teresa Sabourin, A&S Communication, Media

The Strength of Our Organization:

A Camaraderie of Committees

Monthly Luncheon Speaker Series

The Music & Physics of the Clarinet

Health & Wellness Committee's Lunch & Learn program on

Senior Living Options

The UC Emeriti Association, with its executive committee and board of directors, is the governance body of the community of emeriti faculty.

The UC Emeriti Center, under the direction of an Executive Director appointed by the Provost, creates programming and organizes events via our standing committees. Emeriti volunteers are the foundation of this mission.

Opportunities to socialize with colleagues, feed your intellect at our Luncheon Speaker Series, participate in activities to promote health and wellness, contribute your experience to mentoring of students and faculty, enjoy cultural and sporting events, serve the community … there's something for everyone!

One of our most ambitious undertakings, the Spring Festival of the Visual & Musical Arts, was co-sponsored by the Arts & Culture and Social Activities committees. Emeriti, students, alumni, and the community celebrated the generations-spanning nature of creativity with musical performances and artistic exhibits displayed along DAAP's Grand Staircase.

Our committees are the engines of our organization, creating the many avenues for engagement that we offer to our members. We encourage your interest in partaking of these activities and invite you to channel some of your creative energy into joining one of the committees — it’s a great way to expand your social connections as well as gaining the satisfaction of making an impact.

All our committees welcome new members:

Arts & Culture - co-sponsors new faculty bus tour, promotes attending cultural events, co-sponsors spring arts festival
Health & Wellness - walking in parks, book club, pickleball, seminars (mindfulness, CPR, etc.)
International Opportunities - coordinates emeriti teaching abroad
Luncheon Speaker Series - organizes monthly speakers at the Faculty Enrichment Center
Pre-Retirement Mentoring - emeriti mentors for pre-retirement faculty, transitions to retirement program
Undergraduate Mentoring - sponsors undergrad/emeriti research award, mentors Gen-1, PR1ZE
Oral History - Bearcat Memory Project
Recognition Dinner - coordinates annual spring event for new emeriti
Service - connects emeriti to university & community service opportunities
Social Activities - P.O.E.T.S. brewpub, fall picnic, holiday party, coffee meets, sporting events, co-sponsors spring arts festival
Age-Friendly University Working Group - collaboration of emeriti with university & community, advocates for "age-friendly" principles
Editorial & Communications Team - produces our newsletter, sends monthly calendars and updates, maintains emeriti database
Technology Team - provides support for Emeriti Association & Center activities - needs members!