Cherry Vang, a third year FSoS student, was chosen by the CEHD Alumni Society to receive the Family Social Science Future Scholar Award. The Future Scholar Award recognizes academic performance and potential for making a significant contribution to the field of family social science. The alumni society will honor her and other scholarship recipients and outstanding alumni at a special awards and recognition celebrations at 4 p.m.on Friday April 18th at the McNamara Alumni Center.
Cleveland.com, the on-line news provided, featured Bill Doherty in the March 3, 2008 article Goody bags gone bad-Kids today expect pricey birthday-party favors, and parents are getting sucked in.
The Minnesota Daily article Group helps Kenyans cope with violence covers the February 22nd event arranged by Liz Wieling, associate professor, and Paul Orieny, doctoral candidate: Kenyans and Friends-Let’s talk about how we are experiencing what is happening. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an opportunity to process our experiences by fostering a safe context for dialogue that generates awareness on what many of us and our families might be experiencing physically, emotionally, and relationally.
New York Times February 24th article With Open Adoption, a New Kind of Family quoted Hal Grotevant, professor, regarding the practice of open adoption.
Virginia Zuiker, an associate professor, teaches a personal and family finance class to help students gain control of their finances. She is quoted in the Minnesota Daily article Loan Refunds: Spend on spring break or rent?
Deborah Ann Hovander 1949-2008
FSoS extends deepest condolences to David Horstmann and his daughters, Eve and Camille, upon the passing of, wife and mother, Deborah Hovander on January 21st. Deborah received her master’s degree from FSoS and was a beloved therapist in private practice. Deborah, known for being a sensitive, articulate, and brilliant person, had the warmth of an understanding heart. Her presence will be sorely missed. A memorial service to celebrate her life is being planned for May 25th, the anniversary of Deborah’s birth, at 2 PM in the Festival Hall of the Minnesota Waldorf School, 70 East County Road B, Maplewood, MN. For more information contact davidhorstmann@msn.com
Dr. Gerhard (Gerry) Neubeck 1918-2008
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dear friend, colleague, and mentor Dr. Gerhard (Gerry) Neubeck. Gerry began his professional career at University of Minnesota in 1948 after already experiencing a lifetime of fortune and tumult.
As a Jewish teenager from Dortmund, Germany, Gerry nearly qualified for the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in the 3000m run. Soon after, he realized he had to leave his home country. After immigrating to the United States with his wife Ruth in the late 1930s, Gerry became one of the nation’s foremost leaders in the fields of human sexuality and marriage and family therapy (MFT). He served terms as president both of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). After graduating from Columbia University, he went on to accomplish a number of ‘firsts’ in his field. In the 1960s he taught the first college course on human sexuality.
Profiled in Look magazine, this course gained Gerry scores of attention for his work. He is credited for being the first to use group sessions for marriage therapy and also was the first to pen a book on the topic of extramarital affairs. In 1972 he joined the department of Family Social Science, where for many years he ran the marriage and family therapy program. Over the course of his tenure, Gerry was pivotal in training countless MFT experts including David Olson and Jim Maddock.
After retiring in 1986, Gerry and his wife Ruth spent much of their time keeping busy with their long-time hobbies. Gerry was a prolific writer of poetry and Ruth a potter (dubbed the “Poet and the Potter). Some of Gerry’s poetry has been published and crossed over into the academic world to appear in textbooks focusing on family relations. Since his retirement, Gerry has remained a regular around the department. He read his poetry at everything from new graduate student welcoming functions to faculty retirement parties. Gerry said during a 2004 interview: “Family social science has always stood on the strength of great faculty. Not only the talent of the faculty—including multiple NCFR and AAMFT presidents—but also the intimacy. The faculty has always been very close.” Gerry will be greatly missed.
Excerpt from Gerry’s poem, Affairs of the Heart, published in 1998:
I want to find me
that I lost long, long ago
when I was a child
in a world that was all grown up.
It would be nice indeed.
To become acquainted again
With that me, the me of my youth.
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