Lectures, Courses and Workshops

Richard (Dick) Jacob was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received his BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Utah. He joined the faculty at Arizona State in 1963 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2001. During his tenure, he served a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He was also Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Program, 1976 – 1978, and served a term as president of the independent Faculty Association. He was also the first president of the University Club Board of Directors. In 2004, he became Founding Dean of the Emeritus College at ASU.

Jacob taught physics at all levels and in most areas, emphasizing quantum physics, relativity, electrodynamics and mathematical physics. His research is in theoretical elementary particle physics. His avocational interests are music – he plays saxophone and clarinet – reading history and historical fiction, baseball and writing.

He and his wife, Jackie nee Snell, have four children, all of whom have ASU degrees, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jackie is a retired elementary school teacher. They continue to reside in Tempe, appreciating the close proximity to Sky Harbor and, therefore, their family members.

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International.

He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Richard (Dick) Jacob was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received his BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Utah. He joined the faculty at Arizona State in 1963 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2001. During his tenure, he served a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He was also Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Program, 1976 – 1978, and served a term as president of the independent Faculty Association. He was also the first president of the University Club Board of Directors. In 2004, he became Founding Dean of the Emeritus College at ASU.

Jacob taught physics at all levels and in most areas, emphasizing quantum physics, relativity, electrodynamics and mathematical physics. His research is in theoretical elementary particle physics. His avocational interests are music – he plays saxophone and clarinet – reading history and historical fiction, baseball and writing.

He and his wife, Jackie nee Snell, have four children, all of whom have ASU degrees, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jackie is a retired elementary school teacher. They continue to reside in Tempe, appreciating the close proximity to Sky Harbor and, therefore, their family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Richard (Dick) Jacob was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received his BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Utah. He joined the faculty at Arizona State in 1963 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2001. During his tenure, he served a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He was also Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Program, 1976 – 1978, and served a term as president of the independent Faculty Association. He was also the first president of the University Club Board of Directors. In 2004, he became Founding Dean of the Emeritus College at ASU.

Jacob taught physics at all levels and in most areas, emphasizing quantum physics, relativity, electrodynamics and mathematical physics. His research is in theoretical elementary particle physics. His avocational interests are music – he plays saxophone and clarinet – reading history and historical fiction, baseball and writing.

He and his wife, Jackie nee Snell, have four children, all of whom have ASU degrees, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jackie is a retired elementary school teacher. They continue to reside in Tempe, appreciating the close proximity to Sky Harbor and, therefore, their family members.

Charles earned a BA and MA in German Language and Culture from Arizona State University.  He holds a second MA from The Ohio State University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh.  He served 25 years as chair of the Modern Languages and Cultures Department at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He has published and lectured nationally and internationally on globalization interpretation, international teleconferencing, the Crimean Peninsula and interactive television methodology. Charles also conducted numerous study programs in Russia, Germany and Baltic countries.

He is a world traveler and lecturer having traveled extensively throughout Europe and all countries from the previous Soviet Union.  He has visited 40 countries including the Middle East, Far East, Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Latin American.  Professor Tichy still researches globalization.  He is currently an Associate Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where has taught the course “Crimean Crisis: Literature, Identity and Fate” in the Barrett Honors College. He also serves on the ASU Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean’s Council and the Advisory Board of the ASU Melikian Center.  His interests include reading world literature, studying world cultures, collecting wood carvings, listening to classical music and enjoying international cuisine.

Narciso (“Ciso”) Macia received a BSME and MSME degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in EE from Arizona State University.

After several years of working in industry as a self-employed engineer, he started his teaching career at ASU Tempe, and then moved to ASU Polytechnic when it opened in 1995.

In retirement, he continues to teach one class per year, and serves as a faculty sponsor to one of the clubs at ASU Poly. In addition, he serves as a deacon in his local church.

Prof. Norman Levine was awarded his Ph.D. from New York University in 1965. His doctoral thesis was a study of 20th Century German historiography and he received a university Founders Day Award for “outstanding scholarship.” He taught at DePauw University from 1965 until 1970 and then transferred to the University of Maryland Baltimore County where he taught from 1970 to 1990 and served as Chair of the Department of History from 1987 to 1990. He is the recipient of numerous scholarships, including two Senior Fulbright Research Scholarships for study in the Federal Republic of Germany. He published 36 scholarly articles in academic journals and nine books. In terms of domestic academic organizations, he presented papers at the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association. In terms of overseas invitations, he lectured at the Universities of Frankfurt and Berlin in Germany, Cambridge University, England, The University of Paris, France, University of Toronto, Canada, Beijing University, China and Ho Chi Minh University, Vietnam. He is currently at work on his tenth book.

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International.

He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo

Eric vanSonnenberg MD is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  He went on to do a surgical internship and residency in Internal Medicine before his radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiology.  Dr. vanSonnenberg has held, or is currently, Professor at UCSD, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Texas, and Harvard Medical School.  He has authored over 300 original articles, 3 books, 50 book chapters, and 170 poster exhibits, along with numerous grants in Interventional Radiology.  He has been editor of several medical journals, as well as Emeritus Voices, the literary Journal of the Emeritus College at Arizona State University.  His national and international lectures include over 1200, predominantly, but not limited to, radiology topics.

Dr. vanSonnenberg is former President of the International Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Society and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology; he is the Cannon (Gold) Medal Award recipient from the Society of Abdominal Radiology and has been awarded Best Paper Presentation and Traveling Fellowship awards from these societies.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Australia/New Zealand Radiology, has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and the Medical Student Research Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School.  He has been a competitive hardball baseball player, basketball player, and is a banjo and mandolin (quasi-) player.

Gary Kleemann completed a BA at San Jose State University, an MS at Oregon State University, and a PhD at ASU. He served in both administrative and faculty positions at ASU Tempe and was a founding administrator and faculty member at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Gary taught graduate and undergraduate students and conducted many workshops for students, faculty and staff.

In retirement, Gary has served on several community boards, including New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning at Mesa Community College, the ASU Retirees Association, and the ASU Emeritus College’s Dean’s Council.  Travelling the world with his wife Vina and sharing the experiences is an important part of his retirement.

Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy, and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First.

Norma Faris Hubele joined the engineering faculty at Arizona State University in 1984. In her 22 years at ASU, she taught statistics to engineering students and served in various administrative positions, including the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering from 2004 to 2006.

Norma has served as an expert witness in automotive crash statistics in over 120 legal cases across the nation. Locally, she was part of Phoenix Police Officer Jay Schecterle’s team of experts – concerning the rear positioning of the gas tank in Police Interceptor vehicles. In 2018, she launched www.TheAutoProfessor.com dedicated to car safety. The primary product is a safety rating system based on the experience of people in actual crashes on our roadways. She is currently on contract to write a book entitled Car Safety: Where the Numbers Help and Where They Don’t.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy, and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First.

Charles earned a BA and MA in German Language and Culture from Arizona State University.  He holds a second MA from The Ohio State University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh.  He served 25 years as chair of the Modern Languages and Cultures Department at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He has published and lectured nationally and internationally on globalization interpretation, international teleconferencing, the Crimean Peninsula and interactive television methodology. Charles also conducted numerous study programs in Russia, Germany and Baltic countries.

He is a world traveler and lecturer having traveled extensively throughout Europe and all countries from the previous Soviet Union.  He has visited 40 countries including the Middle East, Far East, Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Latin American.  Professor Tichy still researches globalization.  He is currently an Associate Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where has taught the course “Crimean Crisis: Literature, Identity and Fate” in the Barrett Honors College. He also serves on the ASU Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean’s Council and the Advisory Board of the ASU Melikian Center.  His interests include reading world literature, studying world cultures, collecting wood carvings, listening to classical music and enjoying international cuisine.

Gary Kleemann completed a BA at San Jose State University, an MS at Oregon State University, and a PhD at ASU. He served in both administrative and faculty positions at ASU Tempe and was a founding administrator and faculty member at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Gary taught graduate and undergraduate students and conducted many workshops for students, faculty and staff.

In retirement, Gary has served on several community boards, including New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning at Mesa Community College, the ASU Retirees Association, and the ASU Emeritus College’s Dean’s Council.  Travelling the world with his wife Vina and sharing the experiences is an important part of his retirement.

David R. Berman is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and a long-time associate with the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University where he has served as a Senior Research Fellow. He has written eleven books and over 100 published papers, book chapters, or referred articles dealing with state and local government, politics, and public policy. His work includes several books and refereed journal articles on the Populist/ Progressive period in the United States, with an emphasis on Arizona and the Mountain West. He is the author of recent biography on Arizona’s first Governor, George W.P. Hunt. His work for the Morrison includes studies on direct democracy, clean elections, top-two primaries, redistricting, dark money, and the state’s political culture.

Paul Burgess came to ASU in 1969. During his ASU career, he served as Chair of the Department of Economics and chair of the University Chair Group. He received the Excellence in Research Award from the National Foundation for Unemployment Compensation and Workers’ Compensation. Paul currently is continuing his research on economics and religion (his first book in this area is titled, “Salvation for Sale: The Early Catholic Church’s Toll Road to Salvation.”)

Norma Faris Hubele joined the engineering faculty at Arizona State University in 1984. In her 22 years at ASU, she taught statistics to engineering students and served in various administrative positions, including the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering from 2004 to 2006.

Norma has served as an expert witness in automotive crash statistics in over 120 legal cases across the nation. Locally, she was part of Phoenix Police Officer Jay Schecterle’s team of experts – concerning the rear positioning of the gas tank in Police Interceptor vehicles. In 2018, she launched www.TheAutoProfessor.com dedicated to car safety. The primary product is a safety rating system based on the experience of people in actual crashes on our roadways. She is currently on contract to write a book entitled Car Safety: Where the Numbers Help and Where They Don’t.

Paul Burgess came to ASU in 1969. During his ASU career, he served as Chair of the Department of Economics and chair of the University Chair Group. He received the Excellence in Research Award from the National Foundation for Unemployment Compensation and Workers’ Compensation. Paul currently is continuing his research on economics and religion (his first book in this area is titled, “Salvation for Sale: The Early Catholic Church’s Toll Road to Salvation.”)

David Schildkret served on the ASU faculty from 2002 to 2023. He holds the Doctor of Music and the Master of Music degrees in Choral conducting from Indiana University School of Music, where his primary teachers were Robert Porco and George Buelow. He earned the Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Rutgers University, where he studied with David Drinkwater and F. Austin Walter. While at ASU, Schildkret conducted the Choral Union and the Chamber Singers. In 2011, he founded the Barrett Choir, which conducted until his retirement in 2023. At various times, he also conducted the Concert Choir and Canticum Bassum. His teaching at ASU included conducting, score study, and a General Studies course on music and humor. At various times he taught seminars on composers, and before coming to ASU, he taught music theory, music history, and many classes in music appreciation Schildkret is the director of music ministries at Dayspring United Methodist Church in Tempe and also directs Euphony Ensemble (a group of ASU music graduates), which he founded in 2017, and the Arizona Cantilena Chorale. He has been the music director of the Mount Desert Summer Chorale in Bar Harbor, Maine, since 1999. From 2003 to 2019, he was director of music at Scottsdale United Methodist Church.

As a member of the Fulbright Senior Fellows roster, he has traveled twice to Venezuela, where he has conducted the State Orchestra of Merida, numerous choirs, and was stage director and conductor for a bilingual production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the first time this musical was presented in Venezuela. He has also taught workshops in South Korea. Prior to coming to Arizona State University, Schildkret taught at the University of Rochester, Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was dean of the School of Music. He returned to Salem as a visiting scholar during his sabbatical year in 2009–10. His articles have appeared in the newsletters of the Mozart Society of America and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, in the Choral Journal, Bach, Eighteenth-Century Life, and the NATS Bulletin. He has published reviews in the American Choral Review and has written liner notes for numerous recordings.

Paul Burgess came to ASU in 1969. During his ASU career, he served as Chair of the Department of Economics and chair of the University Chair Group. He received the Excellence in Research Award from the National Foundation for Unemployment Compensation and Workers’ Compensation. Paul currently is continuing his research on economics and religion (his first book in this area is titled, “Salvation for Sale: The Early Catholic Church’s Toll Road to Salvation.”)

Ahren Sadoff received his BS in physics from MIT and his PhD in elementary particle physics from Cornell University. He has presented numerous invited talks associated with experiments at Cornell in such places as Rome, Naples and Capri in Italy. He has also lectured in Spain, Singapore, Israel, Germany, England and France as well as in the United States.
 
Throughout his career, he has been very concerned about the public's understanding of science and the poor state of science literacy in the US.  He has been involved in many education and outreach projects. For many years he has taught a conceptual physics course aimed at non-science students.  He has written a textbook for the course entitled "Questioning the Universe".

In addition to his love of science, he has had a continuing interest in the Law, especially as it pertains to the US Constitution. He finds, that in many ways, legal and scientific reasoning are similar. It is this combined interest in both of these topics that has led him to formulate his talk on Evolution and Intelligent design.

Richard (Dick) Jacob was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received his BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Utah. He joined the faculty at Arizona State in 1963 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2001. During his tenure, he served a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He was also Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Program, 1976 – 1978, and served a term as president of the independent Faculty Association. He was also the first president of the University Club Board of Directors. In 2004, he became Founding Dean of the Emeritus College at ASU.

Jacob taught physics at all levels and in most areas, emphasizing quantum physics, relativity, electrodynamics and mathematical physics. His research is in theoretical elementary particle physics. His avocational interests are music – he plays saxophone and clarinet – reading history and historical fiction, baseball and writing.

He and his wife, Jackie nee Snell, have four children, all of whom have ASU degrees, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jackie is a retired elementary school teacher. They continue to reside in Tempe, appreciating the close proximity to Sky Harbor and, therefore, their family members.

Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones focuses on the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, and education, both in the area of education theory and in putting his ideas into practice. He has numerous articles, book chapters, and three books devoted to both theory and practice: Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life: Hermeneutics, Body, Emotion, Ethics, and Education (2012, Peter Lang), Ethics, Aesthetics and Education: a Levinasian Approach (2016, Palgrave-Pivot) and Teacher Education for the 21st Century: Creativity, Aesthetics and Ethics in Preparing Teachers for Our Future (2017, Information Age Publishing). He is presently working on a new book (2022, Springer): The Dialectics of Imagination and Freedom - A Curriculum Mosaic of Human Possibilities. He founded and directed ARTs (Arts-Based Reflective Teaching), the basis for the teacher education book, an elementary education teacher preparation program dedicated to aestheticizing the curriculum and making ethics central to both curriculum planning and teaching. He also directed and was part of the founding team of a teacher preparation program titled Teaching for a Diverse Future, focused on teacher preparation through an anthropological/multi-lingual/social justice/aesthetic set of lenses

Gary Kleemann completed a BA at San Jose State University, an MS at Oregon State University, and a PhD at ASU. He served in both administrative and faculty positions at ASU Tempe and was a founding administrator and faculty member at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Gary taught graduate and undergraduate students and conducted many workshops for students, faculty and staff.

In retirement, Gary has served on several community boards, including New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning at Mesa Community College, the ASU Retirees Association, and the ASU Emeritus College’s Dean’s Council.  Travelling the world with his wife Vina and sharing the experiences is an important part of his retirement.

Ahren Sadoff received his BS in physics from MIT and his PhD in elementary particle physics from Cornell University. He has presented numerous invited talks associated with experiments at Cornell in such places as Rome, Naples and Capri in Italy. He has also lectured in Spain, Singapore, Israel, Germany, England and France as well as in the United States.
 
Throughout his career, he has been very concerned about the public's understanding of science and the poor state of science literacy in the US.  He has been involved in many education and outreach projects. For many years he has taught a conceptual physics course aimed at non-science students.  He has written a textbook for the course entitled "Questioning the Universe".

In addition to his love of science, he has had a continuing interest in the Law, especially as it pertains to the US Constitution. He finds, that in many ways, legal and scientific reasoning are similar. It is this combined interest in both of these topics that has led him to formulate his talk on Evolution and Intelligent design.

Mary Stokrocki is Distinguished Emerita Professor of Art, Arizona State University.  In 2018-20 she served as Co-President of Women’s Caucus, Taiwan Fulbright Scholar (2012), World Bank Consultant to Turkey (1995-1997), former Vice-President and World Counselor of the International Society for Education Through Art [8 years] and President of the United States Society for Education through Art and its Webmaster. Her research interest is mostly qualitative, documenting art teaching internationally and on virtual worlds.

Mary Stokrocki is Distinguished Emerita Professor of Art, Arizona State University.  In 2018-20 she served as Co-President of Women’s Caucus, Taiwan Fulbright Scholar (2012), World Bank Consultant to Turkey (1995-1997), former Vice-President and World Counselor of the International Society for Education Through Art [8 years] and President of the United States Society for Education through Art and its Webmaster. Her research interest is mostly qualitative, documenting art teaching internationally and on virtual worlds.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Gary Kleemann completed a BA at San Jose State University, an MS at Oregon State University, and a PhD at ASU. He served in both administrative and faculty positions at ASU Tempe and was a founding administrator and faculty member at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Gary taught graduate and undergraduate students and conducted many workshops for students, faculty and staff.

In retirement, Gary has served on several community boards, including New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning at Mesa Community College, the ASU Retirees Association, and the ASU Emeritus College’s Dean’s Council.  Travelling the world with his wife Vina and sharing the experiences is an important part of his retirement.

Dr. Larry Edmonds has taught and been a practitioner of Leadership, Gender Fluidity, Human Communication (Intercultural/Cross-cultural), Conflict and Negotiation, as well as Training and Development at ASU. He has been honored with two Outstanding Faculty/Teaching Awards and is a Robert B. Rutherford, Jr. Memorial Fellow for his work directly with learners with behavioral/learning issues and a Dessie E. Larsen Fellow for Communication/ Chautauqua/Living History Performances as the late Carl T. Hayden (D-AZ) and other historic Arizona figures. Edmonds served as Director, Education Leadership Innovation for the Global Listening Centre (2016-2019) and currently serves on the Advisory Board, Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, the Scottsdale Historic Preservation Commission, and is the Vice President/President-elect of the ASU Retirees Association.

Stephen Siek, PhD, is a Faculty Associate at ASU, a member of the Emeritus College, and currently serves on the advisory board for Emeritus Voices. A professor emeritus at Wittenberg University in Ohio, he served for many years as a professor of piano and musicology and has published widely in the field of American music. In addition, he has received recognition as a pianist, and his recording of The Philadelphia Sonatas by American composer Alexander Reinagle (c.1750-1809) has been widely praised. He is the author of a highly acclaimed reference work, A Dictionary for the Modern Pianist (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and the second edition of his definitive biography of Britain’s greatest piano teacher, England’s Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay, was published by the H. L. Marston Press in December of 2020.  In May of 2019, at a ceremony at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was made an Honorary Associate of the RAM.  

Stephen Siek, PhD, is a Faculty Associate at ASU, a member of the Emeritus College, and currently serves on the advisory board for Emeritus Voices. A professor emeritus at Wittenberg University in Ohio, he served for many years as a professor of piano and musicology and has published widely in the field of American music. In addition, he has received recognition as a pianist, and his recording of The Philadelphia Sonatas by American composer Alexander Reinagle (c.1750-1809) has been widely praised. He is the author of a highly acclaimed reference work, A Dictionary for the Modern Pianist (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and the second edition of his definitive biography of Britain’s greatest piano teacher, England’s Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay, was published by the H. L. Marston Press in December of 2020.  In May of 2019, at a ceremony at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was made an Honorary Associate of the RAM.  

Ahren Sadoff received his BS in physics from MIT and his PhD in elementary particle physics from Cornell University. He has presented numerous invited talks associated with experiments at Cornell in such places as Rome, Naples and Capri in Italy. He has also lectured in Spain, Singapore, Israel, Germany, England and France as well as in the United States.
 
Throughout his career, he has been very concerned about the public's understanding of science and the poor state of science literacy in the US.  He has been involved in many education and outreach projects. For many years he has taught a conceptual physics course aimed at non-science students.  He has written a textbook for the course entitled "Questioning the Universe".

In addition to his love of science, he has had a continuing interest in the Law, especially as it pertains to the US Constitution. He finds, that in many ways, legal and scientific reasoning are similar. It is this combined interest in both of these topics that has led him to formulate his talk on Evolution and Intelligent design.

Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy, and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First.

David R. Berman is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and a long-time associate with the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University where he has served as a Senior Research Fellow. He has written eleven books and over 100 published papers, book chapters, or referred articles dealing with state and local government, politics, and public policy. His work includes several books and refereed journal articles on the Populist/ Progressive period in the United States, with an emphasis on Arizona and the Mountain West. He is the author of recent biography on Arizona’s first Governor, George W.P. Hunt. His work for the Morrison includes studies on direct democracy, clean elections, top-two primaries, redistricting, dark money, and the state’s political culture.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International.

He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo

Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy, and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Eric vanSonnenberg MD is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  He went on to do a surgical internship and residency in Internal Medicine before his radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiology.  Dr. vanSonnenberg has held, or is currently, Professor at UCSD, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Texas, and Harvard Medical School.  He has authored over 300 original articles, 3 books, 50 book chapters, and 170 poster exhibits, along with numerous grants in Interventional Radiology.  He has been editor of several medical journals, as well as Emeritus Voices, the literary Journal of the Emeritus College at Arizona State University.  His national and international lectures include over 1200, predominantly, but not limited to, radiology topics.

Dr. vanSonnenberg is former President of the International Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Society and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology; he is the Cannon (Gold) Medal Award recipient from the Society of Abdominal Radiology and has been awarded Best Paper Presentation and Traveling Fellowship awards from these societies.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Australia/New Zealand Radiology, has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and the Medical Student Research Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School.  He has been a competitive hardball baseball player, basketball player, and is a banjo and mandolin (quasi-) player.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Dr. Larry Edmonds has taught and been a practitioner of Leadership, Gender Fluidity, Human Communication (Intercultural/Cross-cultural), Conflict and Negotiation, as well as Training and Development at ASU. He has been honored with two Outstanding Faculty/Teaching Awards and is a Robert B. Rutherford, Jr. Memorial Fellow for his work directly with learners with behavioral/learning issues and a Dessie E. Larsen Fellow for Communication/ Chautauqua/Living History Performances as the late Carl T. Hayden (D-AZ) and other historic Arizona figures. Edmonds served as Director, Education Leadership Innovation for the Global Listening Centre (2016-2019) and currently serves on the Advisory Board, Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, the Scottsdale Historic Preservation Commission, and is the Vice President/President-elect of the ASU Retirees Association.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy, and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International.

He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo

W. Dirk Raat, Ph.D. received his doctorate from the University of Utah in 1967.  He taught Mexican and Latin American history for 34 years at the University of Utah, Moorhead State College in Minnesota, the State University of New York in Fredonia, and at Arizona State University and ASU West.  Professor Raat has authored over thirty-plus articles in referred journals and encyclopedias on Mexican history, U.S. Mexican relations, historical geography, and instructional technology.  Most recently he is the author of an essay on the American Southwest as Mesoamerica’s northern frontier that appears as the lead article in Transnational Indians in the North American West, edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, and Laura Tuennerman (College Station, Tx.: Texas A&M University Press, 2015).  In addition, Professor Raat has published eight books on the history of Mexico and Mexico-U.S. relations.  His latest book is a study he did with photographer George Janeĉek entitled Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1996).

Raat has a new book, entitled Lost Worlds of 1863 to be published by Wiley Blackwell in Fall 2021 with Navajo artist Steven Yazzie on the nineteenth century experiences of several Native American groups in the Greater American Southwest.  He is a SUNY Fredonia Emeritus Professor and ASU Emeritus.  He is also an adjunct professor at ASU West where he teaches a non-credit course on the history and culture of Native Americans in the Southwest.   Raat was until recently a docent for the Heard Museum in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.   He lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife, and has children and grandchildren in San Francisco and Santa Fe.

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International.

He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International.

He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo

Eric vanSonnenberg MD is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  He went on to do a surgical internship and residency in Internal Medicine before his radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiology.  Dr. vanSonnenberg has held, or is currently, Professor at UCSD, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Texas, and Harvard Medical School.  He has authored over 300 original articles, 3 books, 50 book chapters, and 170 poster exhibits, along with numerous grants in Interventional Radiology.  He has been editor of several medical journals, as well as Emeritus Voices, the literary Journal of the Emeritus College at Arizona State University.  His national and international lectures include over 1200, predominantly, but not limited to, radiology topics.

Dr. vanSonnenberg is former President of the International Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Society and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology; he is the Cannon (Gold) Medal Award recipient from the Society of Abdominal Radiology and has been awarded Best Paper Presentation and Traveling Fellowship awards from these societies.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Australia/New Zealand Radiology, has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and the Medical Student Research Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School.  He has been a competitive hardball baseball player, basketball player, and is a banjo and mandolin (quasi-) player.

Eric vanSonnenberg MD is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  He went on to do a surgical internship and residency in Internal Medicine before his radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiology.  Dr. vanSonnenberg has held, or is currently, Professor at UCSD, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Texas, and Harvard Medical School.  He has authored over 300 original articles, 3 books, 50 book chapters, and 170 poster exhibits, along with numerous grants in Interventional Radiology.  He has been editor of several medical journals, as well as Emeritus Voices, the literary Journal of the Emeritus College at Arizona State University.  His national and international lectures include over 1200, predominantly, but not limited to, radiology topics.

Dr. vanSonnenberg is former President of the International Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Society and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology; he is the Cannon (Gold) Medal Award recipient from the Society of Abdominal Radiology and has been awarded Best Paper Presentation and Traveling Fellowship awards from these societies.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Australia/New Zealand Radiology, has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and the Medical Student Research Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School.  He has been a competitive hardball baseball player, basketball player, and is a banjo and mandolin (quasi-) player.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy, and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First.

Stephen Siek, PhD, is a Faculty Associate at ASU, a member of the Emeritus College, and currently serves on the advisory board for Emeritus Voices. A professor emeritus at Wittenberg University in Ohio, he served for many years as a professor of piano and musicology and has published widely in the field of American music. In addition, he has received recognition as a pianist, and his recording of The Philadelphia Sonatas by American composer Alexander Reinagle (c.1750-1809) has been widely praised. He is the author of a highly acclaimed reference work, A Dictionary for the Modern Pianist (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and the second edition of his definitive biography of Britain’s greatest piano teacher, England’s Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay, was published by the H. L. Marston Press in December of 2020.  In May of 2019, at a ceremony at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was made an Honorary Associate of the RAM.  

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Dr. Larry Edmonds has taught and been a practitioner of Leadership, Gender Fluidity, Human Communication (Intercultural/Cross-cultural), Conflict and Negotiation, as well as Training and Development at ASU. He has been honored with two Outstanding Faculty/Teaching Awards and is a Robert B. Rutherford, Jr. Memorial Fellow for his work directly with learners with behavioral/learning issues and a Dessie E. Larsen Fellow for Communication/ Chautauqua/Living History Performances as the late Carl T. Hayden (D-AZ) and other historic Arizona figures. Edmonds served as Director, Education Leadership Innovation for the Global Listening Centre (2016-2019) and currently serves on the Advisory Board, Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, the Scottsdale Historic Preservation Commission, and is the Vice President/President-elect of the ASU Retirees Association.

Richard (Dick) Jacob was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received his BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Utah. He joined the faculty at Arizona State in 1963 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2001. During his tenure, he served a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He was also Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Program, 1976 – 1978, and served a term as president of the independent Faculty Association. He was also the first president of the University Club Board of Directors. In 2004, he became Founding Dean of the Emeritus College at ASU.

Jacob taught physics at all levels and in most areas, emphasizing quantum physics, relativity, electrodynamics and mathematical physics. His research is in theoretical elementary particle physics. His avocational interests are music – he plays saxophone and clarinet – reading history and historical fiction, baseball and writing.

He and his wife, Jackie nee Snell, have four children, all of whom have ASU degrees, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jackie is a retired elementary school teacher. They continue to reside in Tempe, appreciating the close proximity to Sky Harbor and, therefore, their family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.

Duane Roen completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. At ASU, he has served in a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Dean of University College, Vice Provost of the Polytechnic campus, and Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.

Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children, grandchildren and other family members.