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Archives for February 2015
Holocaust Survivor Gideon Frieder To Speak On Campus March 9, 2015
The UCA Department of Philosophy and Religion, UCA Department of History, UCA College of Liberal Arts, UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication, UCA Honors College, Jewish Federation of Arkansas, University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are sponsoring “An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Gideon Frieder.”
Gideon Frieder was born on September 30, 1937, in Zvolen, Slovakia. His family moved to the town of Nove Mesto in Slovakia at the beginning of the war after his father, a rabbi, was offered a position there. Slovak authorities deported Gideon’s grandparents in 1942; they died, most likely at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Gideon’s father was part of Slovakia’s underground “Working Group,” a secret Jewish rescue organization, and was responsible for its communications with Slovak authorities. His father’s life story, as well as Gideon’s, is partially documented in the book, “To Deliver Their Souls.”
In 1944, during the Slovak uprising against the pro-German regime of Josef Tiso, Gideon and his mother and sister fled Nove Mesto, making their way to Banská Bystrica, which served as the center of the uprising. Gideon’s father fled separately, fearing that anyone close to him would be killed if he were caught.
As German units approached Banská Bystrica, Gideon and his mother and sister fled to the mountains, where they were caught in a massacre at Stare Hory. His mother and sister were killed; Gideon was injured but survived.
A Jewish partisan, Henry Herzog, took Gideon to the village of Bully, where he was placed with the family of Paulina and Jozef Strycharszyk. Henry Herzog’s story, including his meeting the Frieder family and saving Gideon, are detailed in the book, “…And Heaven Shed No Tears.”
Gideon remained in Bully until 1945, when Romanian troops fighting with the Soviet Army liberated the area. Gideon’s father, who also survived the war, later found him. His father remarried but died in 1946.
After the war, Gideon and his stepmother came to Israel. He remained in Israel until 1975, when he emigrated to the United States. Today, he holds the A. James Clark Chair of Engineering and Applied Science at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and volunteers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.ushmm.org/remember/office-of-survivor-affairs/survivor-volunteer/gideon-frieder
Gideon Frieder will share his heroic story of survival in the UCA Farris Center on Monday, 9 March 2015 at 7:00 PM.
This event is open to the public with free admission.
Award-Winning Author Maggie Jackson Visits UCA As Inaugural Norb and Carol Schedler Scholar in Residence
Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (2008), has been named the first Norb and Carol Schedler Scholar in Residence. Her visit to UCA will feature a public lecture on Tuesday, March 3, at 7 pm in the College of Business Auditorium, titled “A Workmanship of Risk: The Craftsmanship of Thought in an Age of Speed.”
Jackson is a former foreign correspondent, with postings in Tokyo and London, and columnist for the Boston Globe. She has won numerous awards for her coverage of work-life issues. Her first book, What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age (2002), was called “a provocative look at work and family that challenges us to examine our lives and find our own solutions” by Library Journal. Featuring a foreward by Bill McKibben, Distracted is “an original treatment of an important subject,” according to the Christian Science Monitor. “[Jackson’s] message bears particular relevance to parents and teachers, who hold the power to help shape the attitudes of younger generations.”
Jackson becomes the first in a series of nationally-renowned speakers to be brought to campus by the Norb and Carol Schedler Scholar in Residence program, established by Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Schedler Honors College at UCA, Norb Schedler, and his wife Carol. Schedler’s passionate interest in the future of human flourishing and the changing conditions of our environment, both natural and human-built, is reflected in the choice of topic and speaker for this inaugural event.
The visit is co-sponsored by the Norbert O. Schedler Honors College, the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the Department of Psychology, the Women’s Giving Circle, and the Gender Studies Program. Jackson’s lecture is also a featured event in UCA’s celebration of Women’s History Month. After the lecture, the sponsoring organizations invite attendees to stay for a reception and book signing.
“Maggie Jackson’s talk brings together several ideas that we’ve been talking about in the Honors College over the past few years,” said Dr. Richard Scott, dean of the Schedler Honors College. “Not only is she interested in the effect of technology on human life, but her current project addresses craftsmanship, a concept rooted in the material conditions of work, which was a major focus of Challenge Week 2014 with our keynote speaker Matthew Crawford. These kinds of connections are a great example of what Norb Schedler has explored with students over the 33-year history of Honors at UCA.”
Inaugural Class Of Presidential Leadership Scholars Announced
Dr. Hunter Phillips Goodman, graduate of UCA’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Leadership, has been selected to be a member of the inaugural class of Presidential Leadership Scholars, a unique leadership development initiative that draws upon the resources of the U.S. presidential centers of Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush. These presidential centers have partnered to bring together a select group of leaders who have the desire and capacity to take their leadership strengths to a higher level in order to help their communities and our country.
Sixty scholars from a variety of sectors – private, public, non-profit, military, and academia – were invited to participate in this year’s cohort, which will begin a 6-month, executive-education series at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home, in late February. Over the course of the program, scholars will travel to each participating presidential center to learn from former presidents, key administration officials, and leading academics to learn and put into practice varying approaches to leadership, develop a network of peers, and exchange ideas with mentors and others who can help them make an impact in their communities.
The program is non-degree bearing, and entails approximately 100 hours of informative sessions and case studies, and covers expansive approaches to leadership theory, drawing upon examples from recent presidents. The curriculum draws from presidential center archives and resources related to leadership moments from each administration. It includes insights from how each president addressed pressing challenges and benefits from the participation of President George W. Bush and President William J. Clinton. It also relies upon in-depth analyses of how leaders across all sectors address similar types of challenges.
Dr. Goodman serves as the UCA Division of Advancement’s Executive Director of Development at the University of Central Arkansas. Hunter is a proud alumna of the Bonner Scholars Program, Leadership Arkansas, University of Southern Mississippi Master of Education program, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and Bayside Academy in Daphne, Alabama.
If you have any questions, please contact Hannah Abney, Director of communications at the Bush Center. Email: habney@bushcenter.org or (214)200-4328
UCA To Host 2015 Job Fair
For more information, contact Tiffany Johnson at 501-450-3134