Melodies & memories highlight April program Retired Faculty Association

Vol. XI, No. 1
R et i red Fa c ul t y
Association
Newsletter
University of Colorado
Melodies & memories
highlight April program
A nostalgic
perspective of the
four University
campuses combines with dynamic musical guests
to entertain
CURFA members
and spouses at the
annual Spring
Meeting and luncheon of the CU
Retired Faculty
Association on
Thursday, April
20.
The meeting
marks the 50th
anniversary of the
organization’s
founding.
The event will
be held in Room
235 in the University Memorial Center
on the Boulder campus. The business
meeting will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m.,
followed by a mixer in the lobby. Participants return to UMC 235 for the luncheon buffet at 12:15 (see page 3 for the
menu).
Among the items on tap for the
business meeting are a report from Stuart Schneck on University Benefits
Advisory Board activities and his
update on the federal prescriptions program. Updates will be provided on the
Retirement Handbook project and the
Graduate Scholarship & Endowment
program, along with reports from Association officers.
Following the luncheon, the Associ-
Spring 2006
In this issue
Departments
President’s Corner
page 2
Staying in Touch
pages 4-6
Features
Annual luncheon
pages 1 & 3
ation will honor its former presidents
and their spouses. Special music, some
of it arranged and composed by CURFA
members, will be performed by the Colorado Sax Quartet. Also, a panel of distinguished representatives from the CU
campuses will present their highlights,
serious and humorous, of the past
decades.
The meeting room of the UMC is
most easily accessed from the main
entrance on Euclid Avenue. Parking permits for participants who reserved them
will be available at CURFA’s registration desk outside Room 235.
All retired faculty and their spouses
are welcome to attend, whether or not
they are members of the RFA.
www.colorado.edu/RetiredFaculty
Call for volunteers
page 3
Faculty Council
page 7
Retirement guide
page 7
Tea Time Talk
page 8
Graduate award
page 8
303-735-1732
Pres i
dent’s Corner
CURFA officers
President
Charles Howe
303-444-0079
Charles.Howe@
colorado.edu
Vice President
Johann Stoyva
303-443-5592
johannstoyva@
comcast.net
Secretary
Richard Roth
303-442-1847
[email protected]
Membership Secretary
Stewart Strickler
303-444-0610
Stewart.Strickler@
colorado.edu
Treasurer
Position vacant.
Past President
Carl Kisslinger
303-494-1834
[email protected]
Ombudsperson
Bob Fink
303-494-8958
Robert.Fink@
colorado.edu
Assoc. Ombudsperson
Jack Kelso
303-499-1859
[email protected]
The year 2006 marks the 50th anniver- each semester, the business meeting/lunsary of the founding of the CU Retired
cheon and the Tea Time Talks, provide
Faculty Association (CURFA), known ear- opportunities for maintaining and renewlier as the Senior Faculty Associates or
ing friendships, while addressing issues
Association. The Association will celeimportant to the University and to the
brate this milestone at the April 20 spring
retired faculty community. CURFA
business meeting and luncheon
increasingly provides a bridge
with a lively program of special
among retired faculty across all of
music and reminiscences from
the University campuses.
the four campuses. A special feaWhile CURFA has served its
ture will be the honoring of all
purposes well, there is a real need
former presidents and their
to involve more of the membership
spouses to recognize their conin its existing activities and in the
tributions to the success of
creation of new ones. It has proven
CURFA. These honorees will be
difficult to recruit members for
guests of the Association and
Association offices and representawill occupy the head table of
tive positions to University comhonor at the luncheon.
mittees.
Chuck Howe
During the past 50 years,
These positions turn over from
CURFA has acted on behalf of
time to time and must be filled
faculty retirees and their spouses for the
with enthusiastic volunteers. The newsletprotection and expansion of retiree beneter and Web site contain an appeal to
fits and the continued participation of
Association members to submit their
retirees in the life of the University. Sucnames to a volunteer list so they can be
cesses of recent years include the Graducalled when positions become vacant or
when new activities are proposed. Your
ate Student Award program that provides
input will be satisfying to you and will
scholarships to outstanding graduate stustrengthen CURFA. Contact Presidentdents at the several campuses. These
scholarships are funded largely from an
Elect Johann Stoyva at 303-443-5592 or by
endowment established by contributions
email at [email protected].
The Graduate Student Award profrom the membership.
gram continues with awards this year to
Other accomplishments include the
continuation of email for surviving spous- two students at the Health Sciences Center, Elizabeth Redente in the toxicology
es and the extension of bus EcoPasses to
Ph.D. program and Lisa Williams in the
retirees who qualify as “active” on cammicrobiology Ph.D. program. We hope to
pus (see the Web site for particulars).
learn of their research at the Spring meetRetiree representation on the University
ing of 2007. The awardee at the Colorado
Benefits Advisory Board has spoken for
Springs campus has not yet been selected.
retiree health coverage and has provided
valuable information on health coverage
Cheers!
options in the newsletter and at each busiChuck Howe, President, 2005-2006
ness meeting. CURFA’s two gatherings
CURFA news from the campuses
UCCS: Richard Blade
[email protected]
After a discussion of a draft constitution and bylaws for the UCCS Retired FacThe Retired Faculty
ulty and Staff Association at the last lunAssociation Newsletter is
cheon/business meeting Oct 25, pro tem
published twice a year by
officers and volunteers Richard Blade, Silthe Retired Faculty Assovia Nolte, Carol Pierce, Marge Patterson,
ciation, Alan Kirkpatrick,
Editor, University of Coland Mary Lou Bailey have been fine-tuning
orado, 80 UCB, Boulder,
those documents, establishing a Web site
CO 80309-0080.
and preparing a slate of officer candidates
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in preparation for the official startup at the
next luncheon/business meeting April 13.
The speaker for that semiannual luncheon, paid for by the UCCS Foundation
and the Chancellor's Office, will be Sara
Qualls, head of the UCCS Gerontology
Center, associated with the Ph.D. gerontology program in the psychology department. Campus staff support for the new
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Annual Spring Meeting
Thursday, April 20
University Memorial Center, Room 235
Business meeting
10-11:30 a.m.
• mixed green salad
• egg roll
• cashew chicken
• vegetable stir fry
Social
11:30 a.m.
- MENU -
Luncheon
12:15 p.m.
• vegetarian lo-mein noodles
• steamed rice
• chocolate-dipped fortune cookies
• coffee, tea, lemonade
- ENTERTAINMENT -
The Colorado Sax Quartet is organized by Pete Lewis with
Tom Myer (UCB Music), Kurtis Adams and Dan Kaplan.
Selections will be:
- "Just One of Those Things" arranged by Wayne Scott
- "Bach Redux" composed by Franz Roehmann
- "'Round Midnight" by T. Monk,
- "Yuppieville Rodeo" by Mike Mower
- "Silent Site" by Roger Peterson
- "Wapango" by Paquito d'Rivera
- "Folly" by Mike Mower
Are you interested in doing some
volunteer work for the Retired Faculty
Association? In the next few months,
several important positions will be opening up, including elected officer positions, committee assignments and as representatives of CURFA to various University and UBC policy groups.
Retired faculty members represent a
truly formidable body of expertise. In
view of this untapped potential, we
would like to create a pool of CURFA
members interested in taking on one of a
variety of jobs for the Association. Time
requirements vary widely among the
positions.
Participation in the work of the RFA
has several advantages: (a) you get to
work with friends from various disciplines and form new friendships; (b) you
keep in closer touch with what's going
on at the university; and (c) you get to
support worthwhile projects benefiting
our faculty retirees.
If you would like to become part of
the volunteer pool or find out more
about it, please contact President-Elect
Johann Stoyva at JohannStoyva@
comcast.net or 303-443-5592.
sons-Read, chair of the UCD-UCHSC faculty assembly.
Questions regarding funding of the proposal are currently being studied.
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organization is headed by Jaime McMullen Garcia of
the UCCS Foundation, 719-536-4480.
UCD: Franz Roehmann
[email protected]
Late last spring, the Retired Faculty Association’s
Executive Board discussed the need for an ombudsperson on the UCD campus for faculty members going
through the retirement process – especially during
their two years prior to retirement and the year after it.
During that time, many people have questions they
don’t necessarily want to take to their dean or department chair.
An ombudsperson, such as the one currently available to faculty retirees on the Boulder campus, would
be able to talk about retirement matters in a setting
where no records are kept and discussions are confidential and non-judgmental. The Boulder CURFA
ombudsman, Bob Fink, reports an increasing number
of current and recently retired faculty members are
seeking his services.
Mary Rudolph Chavez, head of ombudsperson
office that serves UCD and the UCHSC, told RFA representatives that she was very interested in the concept
and wanted to take it forward. Additionally, Besty
Rodriguez and Cheryl Espinoza of UCD-UCHSC
human resources were in favor, as was Mary Cous-
Call for volunteers!
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UCHSC: Bill Marine
[email protected]
Thanks to the Colorado Supreme Court, which
decided not to hear the case that had held up the Certificates of Participation for the HSC, we can at last
after a three-year delay proceed with the construction
of the educational buildings at the Fitzsimons site. A
groundbreaking ceremony for this important construction will be in mid-April. This will allow for completion so that the entire HSC can move to Fitzsimons by
2008!
The following are the scheduled meetings for
May and September that will be held in the Shivers
Conference Room on the eighth floor of the BRB on the
corner of Ninth and Colorado. Each meeting starts
with a social time from 1 to 1:30 p.m., a business meeting from 1:30 to 2 p.m., followed by a speaker from 2
to 3:
• Tuesday, May 9, 2 p.m. Speaker: Bruce Schroffel,
new president of University of Colorado Hospital.
Members of the CURFA are especially invited.
• Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2 p.m. Speaker: Curt Freed,
MD professor of medicine and director, Division of
Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, will speak on
the latest developments in stem cell research.
S t a y i n g i n To u c h
“It was a long
shot because
these recordings
had to be
extracted
from the
labyrinthine
archives of the
Romanian
Broadcasting
Corporation in
Budapest, and
because I was
venturing into
unknown
territory, away
from my
professional
activity.”
GLENN D. APPELT (Pharmaceutical
Sciences, UCHSC) wrote: “We’re fine on
our part of the Gulf Coast. Hurricane
Katrina was meaner to our home than
Hurricane Ivan last year. We’re leaning
but still standing! Best wishes to all.”
DAVID F. BARTLETT (Physics, UCB) is
writing a book on non-Newtonian gravity.
[email protected]
REX BURNS (English, UCD) will have a
short story, “Shadow People,” published
in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery magazine.
[email protected]
JAMES BUSEY (Political Science, UCCS)
writes that he is “holding and coping.”
NANCY A. BUTLER (Pediatrics,
CUHSC) retired last year. She is a medical science liaison for Tercica Inc.
[email protected]
MARY BONNEVILLE (MCD Biology,
UCB) in January moved from Louisville,
where she lived since 1978, to an apartment in Frasier Meadows Manor. “I
always enjoy seeing and visiting with
friends from CURFA,” she wrote.
[email protected]
GUY DUCKWORTH (Music, UCB) is to
attend the Music Teachers National Conference in March in Houston. He will
present a session on “The Person First
and Together: A Different Kind of Teaching. ” A television production with the
same title produced by The Denver Center for the Performing Arts documented
his internationally acclaimed graduate
degree programs entitled “Piano Performance, Literature and Pedagogy: The
Process of Group Environments.” The
conference session covers the application
of philosophical, psychological and sociological foundations to the understanding of learning in groups through the
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experience of a piano lesson with music
by Samuel Barber and art by Pablo Picasso and others.
MIRCEA FOTINO (MCDB, UCB)
reported the release last June by the English label Pearl of a CD: “The Art of
Maria Fotino.” It was “groundbreaking,”
according to International Piano magazine, and the result of a nine-year effort.
“It was a long shot because these recordings had to be extracted from the
labyrinthine archives of the Romanian
Broadcasting Corporation in Budapest,
and because I was venturing into
unknown territory, away from my professional activity,” he wrote. The CD
contains recordings of his pianist cousin
in Romania, who died in 1996 at age 83.
Practically unknown in the West because
of Iron Curtain restrictions during the
Cold War, she was the most distinguished pianist of her generation in
Romania. Among her many studio
recordings are those of works of contemporary Roman composers, which he
indicated are “particularly precious.”
[email protected]
JAMES GERDEEN (Mechanical Engineering, UCD) teaches an online course
at Missouri State University and works
part time with Christian Leadership
Ministries in Springfield, Mo.
[email protected]
NATALIE HEDBERG (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, UCB) in
May biked around the north half of Ireland from Sligo to Down Patrick, and in
September she hiked and biked in the
national parks in Utah: Captiol Reef,
Bryce Canyon and Zion. “Much of my
inside time is spent learning to use my
digital photography equipment,” she
wrote.
[email protected]
CHUCK HOWE (Economics, IBS) and
S t a y i n g i n To u c h
his wife, JoAnne, had a Nile River tour in
Egypt from Aswan to Cairo. “The skill
and monuments of ancient Egypt are
truly awe-inspiring,” he wrote. “We
greatly enjoy our retirement home at
Frasier Meadows Retirement Community.”
[email protected]
ROBERT KEELEY (Finance, UCCS)
retired in 2004 and is spending summers
in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains and winters in Borrego
Springs, Calif. He spends his time hiking, riding trails on horseback and as a
paleontology volunteer.
[email protected]
STEVE KATZ (English, UCB) just published “Antonio’s Lion,” a novel. He
wrote that it enfolds an interest in
Antonello da Messina, the 15th century
Sicilian master, into its narrative. He will
publish a book on short fiction in the fall
of 2007. “I still don’t fish, “ he added,
“nor do I hunt.” He will be visiting New
York City and Cape Breton.
[email protected]
JOYCE LEBRA (History, UCB) moved
back to Maui in October and will be visiting Japan in April. “I’ll be back in Boulder in September & October and am
looking for a house/kitty-sitting stay for
that time, if you know any retiree leaving
Boulder then,” she wrote. Her novel of
Hawaii, “Sugar and Smoke,” was published last fall under the name “Nápua
Chapman.” “The theme of the novel: the
murder of Hawaiians seeking to recover
ancestral lands (based on actual events),”
she wrote. “I’m also revising, and hope to
get published, a novel set in a saké brewery 150 years ago, “The Scent of Saké.”
[email protected]
CONRAD L. McBRIDE (Political Science, UCB) and his wife, Rosemary, have
traveled to 30 countries, including a visit
to Boulder’s sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He was the recipient of the
Thomas Jefferson Award in 1999 and is
frequently consulted by University Communications and local journalists for
expertise on political issues, particularly
regarding the presidency and American
government. His doctoral dissertation
focused on the Colorado River Compact,
and he sat on the Colorado Municipal
League. He has been keeping a “very
respectable” vegetable garden in south
Boulder for many years. Rosemary has
retired from the CU Children’s Center.
Of their six children, all of whom attended CU, one daughter is currently working in the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs, and their other
daughter earned her masters in multicultural education and is now the graduate
program assistant in the Anthropology
Department.
[email protected]
DAVID PAULSON (Environmental
Design, UCB), with his wife, Joy,
cruised among the Hawaiian Islands
aboard the M/S Island Princess in February and had the opportunity to visit with
David’s former student, Bryce Uyehara,
a practicing architect in Honolulu. Their
Feb. 13 meeting was the first since Bryce
received his degree in environmental
design from CU-Boulder in 1979. A
brief tour of Honolulu included an elegant Japanese restaurant designed by
Bryce as well as a visit to his office to
meet his colleagues and view his current
architectural projects.
[email protected]
FRANZ ROEHMANN (Music, UCD) is
still composing music. Most recent works
include “Sonances for Saxophone Quartet;” Sonances II for Saxophone Quartet,
String Bass and Percussion;” “Bach
Redux,” for saxophone quartet; a set of
“Excursions” for flute, oboe and bassoon,
each with piano accompaniment; and
“Excursion V” for woodwind quartet and
piano.
[email protected]
DON ROPER (Economics, UCB) continues his work in “sustainable economics.”
[email protected]
JOEL SALZBERG (English, UCD) has
been writing book reviews for the new
journal Philip Roth Studies, preparing the
paper “Jewish Literary Fathers and
Daughters” for the American Literature
Association meeting in June in San Francisco and visiting his children in the
Northeast and the Northwest.
[email protected]
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He is frequently
consulted by
University
Communica-
tions and local
journalists for
expertise on
political issues,
particularly
regarding the
presidency and
American
government.
S t a y i n g i n To u c h
“My projects
range from
teaching
workshops in
expression,
choreography
and piece-
making in
France, Ireland,
Germany and
Denmark to
performances
and creative
commissions
throughout
Europe.”
HERBERT J. SCHLESINGER (Psychiatry, CUHSC) has just had his new book,
“Ending and Termination of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis,” published by
The Analytic Press. It is a companion to
his earlier book, “The Texture of Treatment, On the Matter of Psychoanalytic
Technique.” “The earlier book has been
reviewed very favorably in national and
international journals, and I hope the
same for the new one,” he wrote. “Colleagues who taught with me in the psychiatric residency program will find
much in them that is familiar.” He is now
hard at work on a book on the psychology and psychopathology of the act of
promising: making, breaking and keeping promises, oaths and vows. He is
director of clinical psychology at New
York Presbyterian Hospital’s Columbia
Center and clinical director of the
Columbia Psychiatric Evaluation Service.
“Retirement is great fun!” he added.
[email protected]
RICHARD SCHOECK
(English/Humanities, UCB) wrote that
his wife, Megan, passed away in November.
[email protected]
NANCY SPANIER (Theatre & Dance,
UCB) since her retirement in 2003, has
been dividing her time between her
house in southwestern France and Boulder. “Thanks to some wonderful work
opportunities abroad, I have decided to
spend at least the next couple of years in
Europe,” she wrote. “My projects range
from teaching workshops in expression,
choreography and piece-making in
France, Ireland, Germany and Denmark
to performances and creative commissions throughout Europe.”
BILL WEBER (Museum, UCB) recently
has had several works published, including: “The Middle Asiatic Element in the
Southern Rocky Mountain Flora of the
Western United States” (a critical biogeographical review) in the Journal of Biogeography in 2004 and “The Valley of the
Second Sons” (letters of Theodore Dru
Alison Cockerell, a young English naturalist, writing to his sweetheart and her
brother about his life in the Wet Mountain Valley in Colorado in the late 1800s),
by Pilgrim’s Process in 2004. Also in
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2004, he edited “Colorado University,
The Austere Years” (the story of its first
quarter-century by John W. Horner). He
is also writing a book to be titled “The
Bryophytes of Colorado,” expected to be
published this year by Pilgrim’s Process.
[email protected]
WALTER A. WEERS (Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, UCB)
received a Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Colorado Water and Wastewater Facility Operators Certification
Board: “In recognition of a half-century
of outstanding volunteer service advancing the certification of professionals in
the Colorado water and wastewater
industry.” It was presented to him by
the organization in February in Colorado
Springs.
[email protected]
MICHAEL WERTHEIMER (Library,
UCB) and his wife, Marilyn, have signed
up for a barge trip on canals in Burgundy, France, this coming April. Marilyn had another successful exhibit of her
photographs in CU-Boulder’s Norlin
Library, this one entitled “Dogs, Cats and
Other Critters around the World,” last
summer. Michael’s biography of his
father, Gestalt theorist Max Wertheimer,
published by Transaction Publishers in
2005, has received a number of positive
reviews. Two more books are currently in
press: volume six of “Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology” of which he is coeditor, published by Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates and the American Psychological Association; and “Laws of Seeing” of
which he is co-translator from German,
published by MIT Press.
[email protected]
PAUL W. WINSTON (Environmental,
Population and Organismic Biology,
UCB) traveled to Maine in July for a
coastal cruise and to Alaska in September
to view Denali, take a cruise up the
inland passage and see glaciers. “Some
political activity, wish I could do more,”
he wrote. “Some serious birding, but also
not enough.”
[email protected]
CURFA guide will reduce
perplexity of retirement
Faculty and exempt professionals who are contemplating
retirement find it difficult to get
information on the many aspects
of this important career step. This
became evident to the CURFA
executive board during the past
few years from inquiries received.
Even though much of the information sought is available on the several Web sites supported by the
Payroll and Benefits Office (PBS)
and from the faculty affairs offices
on the campuses, many prospective retirees are unaware of these
sources or how to access them.
Significantly, many do not realize
the desirability, if not necessity, of
taking some actions many months
in advance of their chosen retirement date.
After discussion, the executive
board approved a proposal for
CURFA to undertake the preparation of a guide to retirement. The
purpose of the guide is to be a
concise presentation of the policies, retirement options, procedures and benefits relevant to
retirement.
It will provide advice on
where to go for help but not on
specific actions involving financial
or medical benefits issues. In addition, based on the experiences of
its members, CURFA will offer
insights into life after retirement.
In July 2005, past-president Carl
Kisslinger met with the University’s Human Resources Policy
Group, chaired by Associate Vice
President Anne Costain. The
group of campus administrators
was unanimous in recognizing the
need for such a guide and offered
its strong endorsement.
University administrative
policies and rules of the Regents
provide the broad framework and
many detailed elements governing
faculty retirement. However, some
aspects of procedures and benefits
are specific to each campus. Therefore, a writing group experienced
in retirement issues and representative of the University system and
of all of the campuses was formed.
The group consists of Bob Fink
(UCB), Richard Blade (UCCS),
Franz Roehmann (UCDHSC-Denver) and Stuart Schneck
(UCDHSC-HSC), with Carl
Kisslinger serving as group coordinator. Anne Costain has agreed to
provide the essential link for the
group to the university administration.
The parts of the guide are in
various stages of completion, with
a goal of having a complete text,
reviewed and approved for accuracy and completeness by appropriate offices, by the end of this
academic year. The exposition of
retirement policies and options has
turned out to be a moving target,
as proposed revisions to current
policies are in various stages of
review and ultimate approval.
Because these processes may take
a long time, the group has proceeded, on administrative advice,
to prepare the guide based on current practices. Thus, the guide,
which will contain information on
where to look for possible
updates, can be the framework for
future revisions.
The recently amended Circulation Policy Manual of University of
Colorado at Boulder Libraries
states:
Spouses, surviving spouses and
domestic partners of Boulder faculty and staff may apply for a public
patron card at no charge. Application must be made at the Norlin
Circulation Desk by filling out the
appropriate form. Library privileges will be the same as those of
public patrons.
Library use extended to surviving spouses
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Report on Faculty
Council meetings
By Oliver Ellsworth
• Nov. 1
Faculty Council Chair Rod
Muth presented the Faculty Council
Administrator of the Year Award to
Steve McNally, associate vice president for system operations. During
the Faculty Senate Meeting, President Hank Brown held a questionand-answer session and briefed the
Senate on the financial future of the
University. He noted that often the
small state colleges get a larger
share of state funds and that hopefully this situation could be reversed
by better lobbying.
I briefed the Council on the status of our Graduate Student Endowment Fund, the draft of a constitution for the Colorado Springs Retirement Association and our concerns
for finding a new treasurer and
reducing the costs of our newsletter.
• Dec. 1
The Council passed a resolution
calling upon the Board of Regents to
reaffirm its commitment to shared
governance in the wake of the
appointment of President Brown
and expressing its desire to join with
the Board of Regents and others in
the University community to build a
mutual vision for the University.
• Feb. 16
The Council passed a resolution
condemning recent incidents of
racism, urging appropriate campus
bodies to pursue vigorously the perpetrators of racist and other acts of
aggression, and encouraging each
campus to redouble efforts to ensure
the safety, security and comfort of
every member of the University
community. The Council also passed
a motion endorsing revisions to the
Regents Policy on Classified
Research.
I briefed the Council on several
items regarding CURFA activities: 1)
the celebration planned for our
April 20 meeting to commemorate
our 50th anniversary; 2) our successful establishment of Graduate Scholarship Endowment with the CU
Foundation; and 3) the progress of
our prospective retirement handbook.
CURFA’s Ashby is
Richtmyer winner
Tea Time Talk
in March dwells
on early cave art
Neil Ashby, an emeritus physics
professor at CU-Boulder, in January
was presented with the 2006 Richtmyer Memorial Award, given annually by the American Association of
Physics Teachers. The award was
presented in Anchorage, Alaska, at
the association’s annual winter meeting.
An affiliate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Ashby is also a mentor to about 30
graduate students and post-docs
who work at NIST and are CU
employees. He currently volunteers
to maintain the CURFA Web site.
Previous recipients include 2001
Nobel laureate and CU physics professor Carl E. Wieman, planetary
astronomer and CU professor Larry
Esposito, Sir Fred Hoyle, James A.
Van Allen, Enrico Fermi and J.R.
Oppenheimer.
Top: Distinguished Professor
Henry Claman of the CU Health
Sciences Center shows examples
of the oldest cave paintings and
explains their importance for
human history during the March
15 CURFA-sponsored Tea Time
Talk at The Academy Chapel in
Boulder. An internist, allergist
and immunologist, he also has
long worked in the field of art
history.
Bottom: Former RFA presidents
Bob Fink and Mary Bonneville
chat before Claman’s presentation. Tea Time Talk presentations are held twice annually.
Photos by Carl Kisslinger
RFA Scholarship Committee focuses on awards and fund-raising
The CU Retired Faculty Association has named Sandra Moriarty, CU-Boulder Journalism and Mass Communication faculty emerita, as chair of the
Graduate Student Award program. Moriarty is in the process of establishing a more formal committee to help with both the award program and the fundraising effort that supports the grants. Chuck Howe, president of the RFA, and past president Carl Kisslinger, who has directed the award program since
its beginning in 2001, are helping Moriarty as ad hoc committee members. Bill Marine is representing UCHSC and will help mobilize a fund-raising effort
on that campus.
Each spring the RFA awards grants to two of the four CU campuses (for the purpose of these awards, we continue to treat HSC and the downtown
Denver campus as separate). The awards rotate with a $1,000 grant to the Health Sciences Center and a $500 grant to the Colorado Springs campus one
year and a $1,000 grant to the Boulder campus and $500 to the downtown Denver campus in the following year. This year the two awards will be
offered to the Health Sciences Center and the Colorado Springs campuses, and the group is eliciting nominations for those awards from the two campuses.
The fund-raising effort to support this grant program will continue under the direction of this new committee. The minimum amount for an
endowed fund through the CU Foundation is $25,000, a goal that RFA reached late last year when it formally established the fund with a balance of
$28,700. However, in order to fully support the annual grants of $1,500 from the interest, the association needs an endowment of $50,000. The committee is considering a number of fund-raising options to continue the momentum toward this goal agreed to by the membership when the campaign
was authorized.
If you are interested in supporting this effort, please use the form below to make your contribution. If you are interested in joining the Scholarship
Committee, please contact the chair at: [email protected].
CURFA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Name
Mailing Address
Contribution: ___ $50
___ $100
___ $500
___ $1,000
$__________ OTHER
Mail your check and this form to the CU Foundation at P.O. Box 1140, Boulder CO 80306-2240. Thank you
for your support of this important CURFA program.
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