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SENIOR SCHOLARS
ONLINE
OPPORTUNITIES
Cancellation of Friday
Meetings through May 29
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Dear Members,
Hoping this message finds you well and coping with this time of uncertainty.
Through an email vote, our Senior Scholars Board has canceled Friday morning meetings beyond the initial cancellation date of April 10 and extended the cancellation through May 29 to comply with recommendations and precautionary health mandates for group meetings in order to prevent the spread of Coronavirus/COVID-19. The Board will hold ZOOM online board meetings on April 8 and May 13 rather than holding a physical group meeting.
Currently Providence United Methodist Church is in a lockdown status and has not announced a date when normal activities will resume.
May 29 would have been the last Friday meeting of the first half of the 2020 calendar - summer break would have begun after that Friday meeting. Meetings are set to resume on September 11 (the second Friday of September), and the 2020 year concludes with a meeting on November 20.
We have had conversations with our spring speakers and they have agreed with the cancellation policy for the first half of 2020. In fact, they have welcomed the policy and some have suggested that they were about to regretfully cancel their presentations.
Our curriculum committee chairs Don Campbell and Ken Brown (GDS) are in touch with speakers for September, October and November. Over the summer we will continue to communicate with those speakers as we monitor federal, state and local guidelines relating to a safe time to resume group meetings. We will update you as time goes on.
We will also continue to consult with Dr. Kevin Soden for his trusted expertise. You will find his informative video, recorded several days ago, on our senior scholars web site.
I am looking forward to a Friday morning when I can once again say, "Good Morning. Welcome to Senior Scholars." It will be a pleasure to see you all again.
I wish you well - my hope is that we can all find some meaningful moments during these unsettling times and continue to count our blessings along the way. Please stay well.
My respect,
Walt Romano
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Virtual Presentations at Queens University-- |
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Thursday, May 14th at 4pm
Connecting Through Poetry
Queens faculty members Julie Funderburk,
Morri Creech, and Shawn Bowers share poems that speak to comfort, uncertainty, and the challenge of the moment.
Registration Required
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May 21st -- 4 to 5 pm
Food for Thought:
BUILDING A PERSONAL
STRATEGY IN TURBULENT TIMES
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Beth Schneider in a "Happy Hour Edition" of Food For Thought as she leads a discussion on using your personal mission and vision as the foundation and pathway to your new normal. This session will touch on means for assessing the principles of your personal strategy to create a more purpose-driven response to uncertainty and chaos.
Dr. Beth Schneider teaches strategy in the McColl School of Business undergraduate and MBA programs. Prior to her work at Queens, she served as a management instructor and program director at George Mason University and James Madison University. She also has owned and operated several small businesses and provides consulting services to entrepreneurs.
Dr. Schneider’s research focuses on strategic implementation of leadership tactics, strategic IQ and the strategic process of emerging market firms. She has published several articles and is the co-author of a national and international textbook,
Interpersonal Skills in Organizations,
Fifth Edition published by McGraw Hill. Her book introduces a new leadership model for improving decision making.
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June 2nd -- 12 to 1 p.m.
Food for Thought:
Navigating Decision Making Biases in Virtual Meetings and Communication
Registration Required |
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Dr. Greg Berka will lead a discussion about our communication and behaviors in virtual meetings in conjunction with the decisions made during the meetings. He will examine virtual meeting dynamics and consider a variety of biases that may influence your individual and group decisions.
Dr. Berka is a professor of management in the McColl School of Business undergraduate, MBA, and MS in Organization Development programs. He teaches courses in creativity and innovation, organizational behavior, and organization development. His research interests focus on understanding how employees experience feelings of inclusion and exclusion and how organizations can help foster creativity and intellectual curiosity for all employees.
He spent two years in public accounting, as a CPA, for McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, worked in real estate sales, investment and property management, and spent nine years in an array of finance roles at Wells Fargo, Wachovia and First Union before earning his Ph.D. to pursue his passion for teaching.
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Missed a meeting?
What to hear a presentation again?
Friday presentations are available in
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A new coronavirus called COVID-19 is infecting the world. What do we know about it? Who is at greatest risk? How is it transmitted? What can I do to reduce my chances of getting this virus? These are just some of the questions that I will address in my presentation to help us all stay informed and avoid panic.
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Dr. Kevin Soden, an Emmy, Telly, and International Freddie Award-winning medical journalist for more than 20 years, can now be seen each day as the host of Healthline, a daily half-hour medical show on the Retirement Living Network. He was a National Medical Reporter for NBC News Channel and has also appeared regularly on NBC's Today Show. He is also been a regular on the nationally-syndicated golf show, "Par for the Course." Dr. Kevin Soden has been a medical journalist for more than 20 years and can now be seen each day as the host of Healthline and Whole Body Health on Retirement Living Television. He was a national medical reporter for NBC News and has appeared regularly on NBC's "Today Show." He has also been a regular guest on the nationally-syndicated golf show "Par For The Course."
Kevin currently serves as the worldwide Medical Director for Texas Instruments and the Cardinal Health Corporation and teaches as a courtesy Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine. His other awards include the 2001 National Award for Excellence in Medical Reporting from the National Association of Medical Communicators, a finalist for the International Freddie Awards in 2001, and as the Executive Producer for "Rush of the Palms" received the 2003 International Film Critics award for short films. He served 23 years as an ER physician and was also the founder of the oldest, largest, physician-owned managed care organization in the Carolinas.
In 2003, Kevin published "The Art of Medicine: What Every Doctor and Patient Should Know", a critically acclaimed book focusing on doctor-patient communications and how to improve the doctor-patient relationship. He is also the primary author of a consumer medical book "Special Treatment: How to Get the High-Quality Care Your Doctor Gets" published in September, 2003. He is also a contributing author to the recently published "A Practical Approach to Occupational and Environmental Medicine" and to "Physician Leaders: Who, How and Why Now?" He is soon to publish his third book, "Women, Stress and Happiness: 10 Steps to Having It All and Saving Your Life."
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