Ms. Ordaz, the recipient of the Graduate Scholarship, plans to study for a doctorate in American Studies after completing her M.A. degree in that field next year.  Jessica completed triple undergraduate majors in History, Women’s Studies, and Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she received the University Award of Distinction in 2008.   Her sensitive and insightful scholarship is illustrated in a research paper she recently delivered entitled “California Beautiful: Places of Oppression and Spaces of Resistance throughout the Early Twentieth Century” in which she reads architecture and agrarian landscapes as historical documents.   Throughout her life she has been heavily involved in social justice organizations and gender and cultural issues and she has a particular passion for teaching for which she has found outlets as a tutor in numerous situations.

Funds for the Emeriti Memorial Scholarships come from an endowment established by the Emeriti to honor deceased members.  In addition to voluntary contributions from members, a contribution to the endowment is made as a tribute to each deceased member of the Association.  In recent years the Emeriti, in addition to funding Memorial Scholarships, have made annual contributions to the Guardian Scholars Program.  The Guardian Scholars Program helps foster children continue their university education when they become emancipated at age 18.

This year Emeriti members Dorothy Heidi and Charles Frazee assisted Linda Andersen with the interview and selection process.

July 2010

Our new Emeriti officers for 2010/2011 are Nelson Woodard, President; Ernest Toy, Vice President; Sandra Sutphen, Secretary and Facilities Use Coordinator; Dorothy Heide, Treasurer; Jim Friel, Immediate Past President; Vince Buck, Representative to the Academic Senate and to CSU-ERFA; Larry de Graaf, Chair, Newsletter Committee; Lee Bellot, Chair, Special Projects Committee; Ruth Nycum, Editor, CSUF Emeriti Directory; Erika Bakken, Coordinator, Emeriti Records; Linda Andersen, Chair, Scholarship Committee; June Pollak, Coordinator, Book Sale Center; and Mark Shapiro, Webmaster.

June 2010

We have received the sad news that Anthony Schipsi, husband of Erika Bakken - Administrative Analyst/Specialist, Academic Senate Emeritus - passed away on June 20th from cancer.  Memorial services were held at Messiah Lutheran Church in Yorba Linda, CA on Friday, June 25th.  The family requests that donations in Tony's memory be made to the American Cancer Society or to the Crosson Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude Hospital in Fullerton.

"Sy" Scheinberg has prepared a tribute for Danton B. Sailor, Professor of History Emeritus, who passed away in 1999.  Visit our Emeriti Tributes page to view the tribute.

May 2010

Howard Seller has provided us with an excellent tribute to Don Austin, Professor of English Emeritus, who passed away in 2004, and Charles Frazee has prepared an excellent tribute to George Saint-Laurent, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, who passed away in 2008.   Visit our Emeriti Tributes page to view the tribute.

April 2010

Our March 5th Emeriti Luncheon was exceptionally well attended, and our speaker Professor David Bowman's talk on "Earthquake Hazards" indeed was timely following by a few weeks the great earthquake in Chile and preceding by a few more weeks the 7.2M event in Baja California that was felt widely in the area.  Pictures from the Luncheon will be posted soon.

Tributes for Raymond V. Adams, Professor of Physics Emeritus; Andrew F. Montana, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus; and Ronald J. Crowley, Professor of Physics Emeritus recently have been added to the Emeriti Book of Tributes.

Tai K. Oh, Professor of Management Emeritus, died March 29 of lung cancer.  He was 76 years old.  Oh served the university for 28 years and was an expert in human resource management and had served as a seminar leader and consultant in both the public and private sectors with such agencies as Atlantic Richfield, Epson America and Disneyland.  Oh served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review, was an international referee for Asian Pacific Journal of Management and authored articles that were published in such publications as Nation's Business, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and California Management Review.  During his tenure at Cal State Fullerton, Oh also served as a visiting professor of management at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and a visiting lecturer at Fachhochschule in Nuertingen, Germany.  He earned his doctorate in industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1970.  He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Gretchen; three children, Erica Oh Martinetti, Elizabeth Nordlund, and Emily Navarro; four grandchildren; and siblings, Tai Kyeung Kim, Min Ja Lah, and Jun Ja Kim.

Granville W. Hough, Professor of Management Emeritus, died on March 3 from Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) at the age of 87.  He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and served in the Army for 22 years with tours in South Korea, Puerto Rico and Greenland.  During his tenure in the Army, Hough completed M.S. degrees in business administration at George Washington University and mechanical engineering at USC, and his Ph.D. in public administration at the American University.  He joined the university in 1968 and served for 15 years, including a three-year term as department chair, before being awarded emeritus status.  Hough then continued to teach under the Faculty Early Retirement Program through June 1991.  He is survived by his son, David and his wife, Brenda; daughters Nancy Hough, and Bonny Miller and husband, Jerry; his brother, Donald Hough; and two grandchildren.

Levern F. Graves, Professor of Economics Emeritus, passed away on March 2nd at the age of 86 years.  Graves joined the campus in 1960 after teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Florida State University, Tallahassee.  During his 26 years of service on campus, Graves was a long-standing member of the California State University Academic Senate, serving as its chair in 1970-71 following his chairmanship of the Economics Department.  In addition to teaching economic history and theory, he served as a consultant to the State Assembly and to area business.  He earned his doctorate from UC Berkeley. He is survived by his wife, Diane.

Paul W. Kane, Professor of Secondary Education Emeritus, passed away on Jan. 29, 2010 at the age of 72.  He had been fighting heart disease, a brain tumor and Parkinson's Disease since he retired from campus in 2000.  Kane joined the university in 1968 after six years of teaching at Buena Park High School and one year at Wayne State University.  He moved up the tenure ranks, becoming a full professor in 1976, and served in a number of administrative positions, including chair of the teacher education division and acting dean of the School of Education in 1974.  He also was named acting dean of the School of Human Development and Community Service in 1978-79, and followed that with several terms as chair of the Secondary Education Department. Kane, who earned his doctorate at USC, was a member of a number of professional organizations, including the National Council for Social Studies, the California Council for Social Studies, Phi Delta Kappa and the Orange County Area Social Science Association in which he served as president, a member of the executive board and newsletter editor.  He is survived by his wife, Carol; his sons, Mark, Kevin, John and Neil; and nine grandchildren.

A celebration of Kane's life will be held 1-5 p.m., Saturday, April 17 — his birthday — at the Yorba Linda Community Center, 4501 Casa Loma Ave., Yorba Linda, CA 92886-3315. The family has requested no flowers.

March 2010

The Spring 2010 Issue of Emeritopics is now available online.

The Book of Tributes for deceased members of the Emeriti is now available online.  Colleagues who wish to prepare a tribute for a deceased member of the Emeriti should send copy as a Microsoft Word attachment or plain text email to the Emeriti Webmaster.

In Memoriam