Presenter: Kristin Valentine, Professor Emerita of Communication
Presenter: Mark Lussier, Professor Emeritus of English
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Joseph Wytko is an Emeritus Professor of music, an artist-clinician with Selmer Paris–Conn Selmer USA, and a founding member of the trio Ascendo3. He has received major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Senior Scholar Grant from the International Research and Exchange Board in Washington, D.C. His recordings have been featured on United Airlines and U.S. Airways in-flight entertainment programs.
Marilyn Wurzburger retired in 2009 after 48 years of service to ASU Libraries. As the head of Special Collections. She helped build collections such as the William S. Burroughs Collection, the Alan Dean Foster papers and the Doris and Marc Patten Collection of Herbals and Early Gardening Books, a rare assemblage of books about botany and herbals during the 15th century.
David Williams has been teaching sociology at ASU for 36 years, and still teaches two SOC 101 courses each semester at the Downtown Phoenix campus. He has taught more than 20 different classes, but his favorite is SOC 101 because it takes in and examines all of life. He tells people that he would never have come to ASU except “that he was and is a failed operatic tenor, and has it on good authority that God is also a tenor.”
Harold "Hal" White joined the Department of Management at ASU in 1966 and retired as an Emeritus Professor in 1993 when he was elected to the College Hall of Fame at ASU. He served on more than 100 committees across the college and university. He was also a faculty advisor and was active in college honorary and professional organizations, and he was founding co-chair of the Staff/Faculty ASU/Arizona Legislative Committee. Upon retirement, he became active in the ASU Retirees Association, serving as treasurer, vice president and, in 1998–99, as president.
Louis Weschler (1933–2016) earned his bachelor’s degree at Cal State, Long Beach and his master’s degree and doctorate at University of California, Los Angeles. During the 1980s and 90s, he served as dean of the then College of Public Programs at ASU and helped organize the then School of Architecture. He was later a loaned executive to the City of Phoenix.
Santos C. Vega was born in Miami, Arizona, earned an MEd from the University of Arizona, a PhD from Arizona State University, and a Master’s in Theology from the University of San Francisco. He published a novel, The Worm in My Tomato, in 2007. Arcadia published two of his books: Mexicans in Tempe and Around Miami (Arizona)
Kristin Bervig Valentine received her doctorate from the University of Utah. She has been adjunct professor of gender and women's studies at Victoria University at Wellington in New Zealand. Her research focuses on performance studies, specifically on fieldwork-based ethnographies of cultural performances in Arizona, Spain and New Zealand, and communication for and with incarcerated women.
Gene Valentine received his graduate training in linguistics and literature at Utah State University, the University of Utah and ASU. In 1966, he completed the certification requirements of the ASU Scholarly Publishing Program. Besides teaching linguistics and English as a foreign language at ASU, he has taught at Anatolia College in Greece and at the University of Santiago in Spain. At ASU, he has also taught history of the book and collected mechanical books (known generally as pop-ups), 800 of which he donated to a special collection at Hayden Library.
JoAnn Y. Tongret, Emeritus Professor of music, is a recipient of the George C. Wolfe Fellowship from the Society of Directors and Choreographers. She is proud to be a contributor to Emeritus Voices as well as to the Actors Equity Magazine. Tongret is a member of the Dramatists Guild and resides in Tucson with her husband, author and playwright Alan Tongret.