Members of the Emeriti Association are welcome and encouraged to submit a paragraph of their recent activities and interests, to keep their EA colleagues up to date. Send your "Class Notes" paragraph to EMERITUS@HARTFORD.EDU

August 2009 Notes:

Watson Morrison (Hartt)  will be presenting an All-Chopin recital in observance of the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth on Sunday, November 15 in Lincoln Theater. The recital begins at 3:00 p.m.
and there is no admission charge.
     The program consists of: 4 Ballades, Funeral March Sonata, 2 Mazurkas and the Polonaise in A-Flat Major.

Bernard Friedlander (A&S)  ("BZ"), U of H Psychology Department 1970-1995, is amused to report that he's getting amost as much pleasure from one of his current projects as he ever gained from his work at 
U H teaching developmental psychology and conducting research projects on language acquisition with young children, physical skills for the developmentally challenged, violence on television, and gerontology.
     By a peculiar chain of circumstances, he is serviing as a consultant for the top management of the public television authority in one of the Mid-West states, helping to develop an alternative model of fund
raising designed to replace the weary old national phenomenon of Pledge week. Bernard says that nothing would please him more than to go down in history as the man who shot Pledge Week through the heart
and replaced it with pledge breaks that public TV viewers find entertaining, informative - and effective at raising money in dark times.
     It's too early to tell if this innovation will suit the doubters, cut the mustard, and do the job - but it seems well worth trying. Early action seems hopeful.

Mal Stevens (A&S) My latest publishing venture is a novel. Entitled Evan’s War, the story concerns a young Welsh coalminer who enlists in the army at the onset of the First World War and is sent to fight 
the Turks at Gallipoli, where he becomes immersed in the culture of the enemy as he takes refuge in a village populated by Turks and Armenians. A web site provides more information. 
(www.xlibris.com/EvansWar.html) This is my fifth book, the others being two in chemistry and two in history coauthored with my wife, Marcia.  Marcia and I visited Argentina last year, but health concerns 
have put the brakes on our annual foreign travel.

March 2009 Notes:

Linda Solow Blotner (Hartt) has been recognized for her distinguished service to music librarianship by the Music Library Association at their annual meeting in February, 2009. The citation she 
was awarded praises her lifetime achievements as an author, editor, reviewer and indexer. Her contributions locally, nationally and internationally, both her own and for encouraging others in the profession 
"to innovate, to experiment, and to work at the highest levels of professionalism" were the basis for this honor. Linda remains active in the MLA and the Interrnational Association of Music Libraries, Archives
and Documentation Centres, chairing and serving on their committees. She recently compiled the index to Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills, (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009). 
A UNotes article about this award may be found here.

October 2008 Notes:

Virginia Hale (A&S) has finished her biography of Beatrice Fox Auerbach, a Hartford "Woman in Business" who was a great benefactor of the University of Hartford. On October 2, Virginia made a 
presentation at the Emeriti Association Fall Meeting. She still teaches courses in the All-University Program and in A&S, and is Co-Chair of the Emeriti Association. 
To learn more about the book, click the link below:

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April 2008 Notes:

Ed Sullivan (A&S) reports that he is deeply involved with the Centerville Historical Society as a volunteer curator and archivist. Never thought I'd be using my 
professional skills again. I recently installed an exhibit called "Hellbent for the White House"; excellent local coverage all over the Cape in the "C.C. Times" and radio 
stations. I am also similarly involved with the Academy for LIfe Long Learning, an over-60 program for senior retirees. The Cape is loaded with retired professionals 
of all sorts and we are all volunteers in ALL. The variety and quality of courses offered is incredible: literature, history, engineering (e.g. building of the Cape Cod Canal 
and the bridges), geology, history etc, etc., Whatever one wants to teach is free to do so. Very exciting and of considerably high quality. I will be teaching a course 
next spring based upon one of my books. Great fun.  Update: In February, 2009 Ed will be speaking on Lincoln at the Federal Hall National Memorial in
Manhattan.

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November 2007 Notes:

Bernard Friedlander ("B Z"), U of H Psychology Department 1970-1995, reports that he is rather startled to discover that he is still called upon occasionally for professional assignments.  He has recently been appointed Visiting Research Professor of Psychology in a graduate program jointly conducted by Antioch University-Seattle and the University of Washington.  His role in the program is to serve as a resource person to graduate students developing independent research projects and to lecture from time to time. As a gesture to modernity, his principal contact with the students is via phone & e-mail.  His talk scheduled for December 7, 2007 is "How People and Psychologists Get The Way They Are."  This talk is based on an update of the same continuously evolving conceptual structure he used in his human development courses throughout his years at U of H.  Bernard lived in Seattle 1995-2002 and now resides principally in Madison, WI.

Wally Banzhaf, College of Engineering, Technology, & Architecture ’77-‘06, is hoping that he can be rehired as a professor so he’ll get some rest. Now Executive Secretary, Treasurer and “webmaster” of the Emeriti Association, he is also treasurer of his volunteer fire company, under contract to write a book on basic electronics, and doing web design for the University. In late November 2007 he expects to become, for the first time, a grandfather, a title for which he is not ready because “grandpas are old people”. He and spouse Mattie just came back from a month in Japan, where they toured with son Jeremy who lives in Tokyo. Every week he batters his aging knees with several games of racquetball, and finishes the torture with a mile or so in the UH Sports Center pool.