David Kader taught in the areas of criminal procedure, torts, state constitutional law and religion and the Constitution. He obtained his Master of Laws from University College London in England, and served as associate dean of ASU’s law school from 1980–83. He also taught in the Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies summer abroad program at Cambridge University and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute for Advanced Legal Studies.

John M. Johnson received his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. He taught at ASU 1972–2012. In retirement, he has been an active member of the local chapter of Veterans for Peace.

Richard (Dick) Jacob earned his doctorate at the University of Utah and joined the Department of Physics faculty at ASU in 1963. He retired in 2001. He is Founding Dean of the Emeritus College and was Founding President of the University Club. He and his wife, Jackie, have four children, all ASU grads, and 14 grandchildren.

Paul E. Jackson grew up in Phoenix, when his family moved there after World War II. He graduated from ASU in 1959 with a degree in journalism. After five years of working in that field, he returned to ASU to earn a doctorate in English. He taught in South Dakota before returning to Arizona, where he enjoys landscape painting, especially in the desert.

Llewellyn D. Howell earned his doctorate at Syracuse University and, most recently, taught at the ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management. He has also taught at the American University in Washington, D.C., and at the University of Hawaii. He has been a Peace Corps volunteer and has worked for the U. S. State Department and the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of Defense, in addition to work for the Malaysian Prime Minister's Office and for Singapore Technologies. He lives in Glendale with his wife, Suzy.

Nicole Herbots was born in Watermael, a small municipality near Brussels, Belgium. In 1991, she was appointed to the Department of Physics faculty at ASU. She specializes in condensed matter physics, but wears many hats. She is a physicist, engineer, researcher, mentor, inventor, entrepreneur, wife, mother, grandmother and catechist.

Randel McGraw Helms retired from the Department of English at ASU in 2007. He taught courses on the Romantic poets and on The Bible as literature. He is the author of five books of literary criticism including “Tolkien’s World,” “Gospel Fictions,” and “The Bible Against Itself.” Making poems has been his lifelong secret vice.

John Stuart Hall is Emeritus Professor of public affairs and Emeritus co-director of the Resilience Solutions Group at ASU. He has written extensively about local public policy and is particularly interested in community resilience. Most recently he co-edited the “Handbook of Adult Resilience” (Guilford Press, 2012).

J. Richard Haefer is Emeritus Professor of music at ASU. His areas of study are musicology and ethnomusicology, in which he has researched Colonial music in Mexico and Colombia.

Don Haberman is Emeritus Professor of English literature. His books include “The Plays of Thornton Wilder” and several works about G. B. Shaw.

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