Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:54:48 -0500
From: "Howard Straker" <npahos@gwumc.edu>
To: <vjs@unc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [mscalumnet] Annual Minority Health Conference advisory
committee?
Vic,
Thanks for getting us to stay in touch. I like both ideas, naming a lecture and/or scholarship award for Dr. Hatch.
Brief history
When Dr.Hatch was retiring a small group of us Sheryl Taylor and myself included got the development folks to start a HEBE scholarship in Dr. Hatch's name. Dr. Hatch would only allow the scholarship if it also honored Howard Barnhill's name. Thus we began the Barnhill-Hatch Scholarship.
Another piece of history -1996 The conference was two days and included two keynote speakers.
The Wiki idea would help preserve the history.
Howard
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>>> "Victor J. Schoenbach" <vjs@unc.edu> 11/07/09 6:02 PM >>>
Hi, Tony -
Great to hear from you. Your idea for APHA is great - perhaps a group of alumni and other friends of John might like to try to pull that off.
Let's see what happens about next February's conference. Either way, I did want to mention two things. First is the following note from Anissa Vines, who is associate director of ECHO (www.echo.unc.edu):
"I really like your thought for recognizing the prominent role of Dr. Hatch. Here is another idea. Given the School's commitment to community engaged scholarship, it would be wonderful to recognize via an award a student who exemplifies the work of Dr. Hatch. The Alumni Assoc. recently earmarked funds for an ECHO award to a deserving student. I am still trying to get all the details about that award."
Something else to consider is the Barnhill-Hatch Scholarship Award, which is an award to a HBHE student. I believe that I once heard that there was some interest in creating two separate awards, one in honor of John and the other in honor of Howard Barnhill, rather than having the two linked in one award. I don't know the history, but I assume what happened was that donors wanting to honor Howard and donors wanting to honor John pooled their donations to raise the amount needed for a scholarship (currently $20,000 for a $1,000 annual scholarship award). I don't know how much money has accumulated from subsequent donations to the fund, but the development people could let us know how much in additional donations would be needed to convert the Barnhill-Hatch Scholarship Award into two scholarship awards. Perhaps the funding that Anissa refers to could be part of that.
Take care,
Vic
https://go.unc.edu/vjs [updated, 2/12/2021]
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At 05:03 PM 11/6/2009, Tony Whitehead wrote:
>Hey Vic. I can't usually get to the Minority Health Conference, but if there is going to be some recognition of John Hatch, I will definitely try to come. John is an important friend for me, and during my 11 1/2 years in HBHE (which we called HEED in those days), played a significant role in mentoring this traditional anthropologist in how to become what I call myself today, a community health anthropologist, and the development of my own models in this area. In fact about 3 years ago, I wanted to try to organize a session in his honor for the APHA, but could not find the time to put in the work to do that. So if you all would are receptive to having an old community health anthropologist on your advisory committee, I would even try to find time to do that. Take care and have a great fall weekend. tlw.
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>On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Victor J. Schoenbach <<mailto:vjs@unc.edu>vjs@unc.edu> wrote:
>Wonderful! As a fresh past co-chair, you'll be a key player. Thank you so much for your enthusiastic response.
>
>Let me try out another idea on you! I've been wondering for years how to find a way to preserve the history of the Caucus, and it just occurred to me that perhaps we can set up a Wiki where we can fill in the history that we know or find out, as we do. Alumni can fill in the parts of the history that they experienced. This could be another MSCalumnet project. It has occurred to me recently that the national focus on health disparities has roots, at least to some extent, in the MSC. It would be great to have a genealogy of sorts with vignettes on the people who've played significant national (and international) roles and how they've helped to shape public health (e.g., Bill Darity, John Hatch, Bill Small, Bill Jenkins, and others I won't attempt to name). You don't have to say "yes" to this one, too - but I wanted to write it down lest it slip away from me.
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>Have a good weekend,
>Vic
>https://go.unc.edu/vjs [updated, 2/12/2021]
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>At 01:44 PM 11/6/2009, you wrote:
>>Vic,
>>
>>I think this is a fantastic idea and I would be happy to be on such a committee.
>>
>>best,
>>sb
>>
>>Victor J. Schoenbach wrote:
>>>Dear present and past Minority Health Conference co-chairs and MSC co-presidents:
>>>I had an idea this afternoon and thought I would share it with a subset of recent (and current) MSC officers and MINCONF co-chairs.
>>>This year the Conference organizers have considered having two major speakers, as has happened in some past years. It occurred to me that at some point the Conference may want to add a second named lecture. I'm not advocating that necessarily, but it led to the idea I offer below.
>>>By way of background, the keynote lecture was named after William T. Small, Jr. in 1999, when Bill retired from his position as Associate Dean and Senior Advisor for Multicultural Affairs. The name was conferred by Dean Roper (I'm assuming that he checked with the MSC E-board before doing that, though I don't recall specifically - since it's the MSC's conference, the authority to name a lecture presumably resides with the MSC, and I assume that Bill Roper would have been sensitive to that). The naming met with general enthusiasm, since everyone loved and appreciated Bill Small.
>>>If it is deemed desirable to have a second major lecture at the conference, even one that might not be held every year (e.g., the Society for Epidemiologic Research has a biennial lecture named after John Cassel, the Department of Epidemiology's first permanent chair), it might be good to consider naming it after another SPH/MSC luminary. An obvious choice would be John Hatch, a key person in the founding of the Caucus, a major presence in the life of the conference and the lives of minority students at the School over many years, and the other most revered figure in MSC history.
>>>In thinking about that I wondered who would make such a decision, since it transcends a particular year's conference and officers - in some ways it belongs to the tradition that the MSC has embodied. That made me wonder if there should be an Advisory Committee for the Annual Minority Health Conference that would consider "policy" and other long-term questions. The Advisory Committee would not micromanage each year's conference, but would be available as a resource to each year's co-chairs and would help to mobilize support for the conference. The Advisory Committee would be the group to provide guidance on questions that would transcend individual years, such as naming of events, lasting changes to format, and policies related to sponsorship and other matters, such as the recruitment of partner conferences. The Advisory Committee would also advise on the preservation of the history of the conference and materials from it, such as videotapes/DVDs and webcasts. I'm happy to continue to be custodian,
but guidance should come from an MSC alumni-based group.
>>>An Advisory Committee could be something that the MSCalumnet creates and manages, naming members, etc.
>>>Best regards,
>>>Vic
>>>https://go.unc.edu/vjs [updated, 2/12/2021]
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