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Contributor Biographies

Charles Brownson

Charles Brownson joined the Emeritus College in 2006 as Librarian Emeritus, having retired in 2005 as Director of the ASU Polytechnic Campus Library. He earned his B.A. degree at South Dakota State University, an MFA from the University of Oregon and an MLS from the University of California, Berkeley. At ASU he worked as an academic librarian in collection development and in special collections. Since retirement he has been a full-time writer and book artist, has taught creative writing, and has been active in the Emeritus College writing programs.

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Gus Edwards

Gus Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Film and Theater, joined the ASU faculty in 1988 after having served as Playwright-in-Residence for two years. He taught Film Theory and Cultural Diversity in Theater & Film. His plays have been produced both in the U.S. and abroad. He retired in 2010 and continues to write in various styles and genres.

Billie Enz

Billie Enz is Professor Emerita at ASU, where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. She received her PhD in Elementary Education from ASU, and 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, having coauthored three textbooks in this area. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens 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.

Contributor Biographies

Contributor Biographies Beatrice Gordon

Beatrice (Babs) Gordon grew up in Chicago and began her journey through higher education at Vassar College. Returning home, she became a certified Medical Technologist (ASCP) at Augustana Hospital. Babs attended Northwestern University and then moved to California with her husband, who was stationed there with the Navy. The family came to the Phoenix area in 1962. She returned to her education after the last child started to college. She received a Bachelor of Arts and two Master of Art degrees from Arizona State University (English Literature; Applied Ethics and the Professions). She taught in the English Department for sixteen years. She is Instructor Emerita and an active member of the Emeritus College.

Aleksandra Gruzinska

Aleksandra grew up in Poznan, Poland, and studied in Barcelona, Spain, before immigrating to the United States in 1951. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in French from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her PhD from Pennsylvania State University in 1973. She joined ASU that year as an assistant professor of French, served intermittently as director of the graduate program in French and as head of French before retiring in 2016.

Paul Jackson

Paul 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 PhD in English. He taught in South Dakota before returning to Arizona, where he enjoys landscape painting, especially in the desert.

David Kader

David Kader taught in the areas of criminal procedure, torts, state constitutional law and religion and the Constitution. He obtained his LL.M. 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. He became emeritus in the summer of 2015, after completing 36 years on the law faculty of ASU and 41 years as a law professor.

Christine Marin

Christine received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. She served as the Archivist and Historian of the Chicano/a Research Collection and the Arizona Collection in the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Hayden Library at ASU, for over 35 years. She is currently researching the history and stories of African American women in Globe and Miami, Arizona.

M. Scott Norton

M. Scott Norton has served as a classroom teacher, coordinator of curriculum, associate superintendent and superintendent of schools. He served as a professor and vice chairman of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and chairman of the Department of Administration and Policy Studies at Arizona State University where he is currently professor Emeritus.

Contributor Biographies

Contributor Biographies Shannon E. Perry

After retiring as Professor Emerita from San Francisco State University School of Nursing, Shannon Perry has switched from publishing in professional journals and textbooks to writing memoir, travel, and anecdotal essays. Recently she has tried her hand at poetry and discovered pantoum. Pantoum originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth century. Written in quatrains, the poem can be any length, but each line must be repeated.

Doris Marie Provine

Doris Marie Provine is Professor Emerita of Justice Studies in the School of Social Transformation and continues to work and publish in her field. She is also a musician, a gardener, a lover of cats and all small animals and, is a gifted artist.

Zach Sitton

Zach Sitton, MD, was born and raised in Chandler, Arizona. He studied Exercise Science at Brigham Young University and received his MD at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He is an avid sports fan and loves both playing and watching football, basketball, and baseball. His favorite activity, however, is going to the park and playing with his three children.

Harvey A. Smith

Harvey Smith is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and holds degrees in engineering, physics and mathematics from Lehigh University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a staff member or consultant to many industrial concerns and government or quasi-governmental agencies.

Ernest L. (Ernie) Stech

Ernest L. (Ernie) Stech received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver and taught for fifteen years at Western Michigan University. He is the author or co–author of five books and chapters in several other books. Ernie formerly taught in the OSHER Lifelong Learning programs in Sun City Grand and Sun City Festival as well as at ASU West Campus.

Linda Stryker

Linda Stryker’s creative writing has been published in Highlights for Children, New Millennium Writings, The Speculative Edge, Self–Realization Magazine, Emeritus Voices and other venues. In addition, she has published professional articles and chapters in astrophysical journals. She holds degrees in music, physics and astronomy.

Charles Tichy

Charles is an ASU alumnus, earning his BA and MA in German in 1963 and 1967, resp. His PhD was obtained from the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. He was Professor of Russian and German at Slippery Rock University, PA, for 45 years.

JoAnn Yeoman Tongret

JoAnn Yeoman Tongret, Professor Emerita 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. JoAnn is a member of the Dramatists Guild and resides in Tucson with her husband, author/playwright Alan Tongret.

Contributor Biographies

Contributor Biographies Eric VanSonnenberg

Eric vanSonnenberg, MD, is an Associate Member of the Emeritus College and an editor emeritus of Emeritus Voices. A diagnostic and interventional Radiologist who graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, he is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiology. He holds or has held Professorships at UCSD, UCLA, University of Texas, University of Arizona, and Harvard medical schools. He has chaired the Department of Radiology at the University Texas Medical Branch, and been Chief of Radiology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, where he also was the Harvard Medical School Student Research Mentor awardee. He is a former competitive hardball baseball player, and a basketball and tennis player and plays bluegrass banjo.

Harold B. White

Hal White joined the ASU Department of Management in 1966 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1993. In addition to teaching and publications, he was a labor-management arbitrator. He served on numerous committees on campus and in the community and was President of both the Faculty Senate and the ASU Retirees Association and is a member of the Business Faculty Hall of Fame.

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