Aron Rodrigue, this year’s annual Holocaust Memorial lecturer, has put to rest the widely held notion that Sephardic Jews living in the Balkans and other European lands during the Holocaust were not as badly affected as the Ashkenazi in Eastern Europe. The truth is they experienced the same persecution and destruction under Nazi occupation. Rodrigue will speak on campus Monday, Oct. 29.
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Five new department chairs have been named in Arts & Sciences: Mark G. Alford, PhD, Department of Physics; Mark Rollins, PhD, Performing Arts Department; John Nachbar, PhD, Department of Economics; Hillel Kieval, PhD, Department of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Peter Schmelz, PhD, Department of Music; and Timothy Moore, PhD, Department of Classics.
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?Charles E. Canter, MD, has been named the first Lois B. Tuttle and Jeanne B. Hauck Chair in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the School of Medicine. Canter is internationally renowned for his expertise in pediatric cardiology.
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In The Anchorage, his debut collection, poet Mark Wunderlich creates a central metaphor of the body as anchor for the soul. His poetry is set in New York’s summer streets, in the barren snowfields of Wisconsin and along stretches of Cape Cod’s open shoreline. On Thursday, Oct. 25, Wunderlich will read from his work.
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