You are cordially invited to our seventh annual Humanities Honors Reunion. This year we will meet once again at the beginning of the SJSU Homecoming week on 8 October, at 1:30PM, Clark Hall, fourth floor foyer. We are expecting emeritus faculty from past years of the program to be joining us, as well as current students, and student alumni from several decades of Humanities Honors.
We will have beverages, dessert delicacies of all varieties, good conversation, and wonderful entertainment. Our featured presenters this year will be Ms. Ernestine Balisi, vocalist, with Mr. Jomar Martinez, guitarist; Professor Ken Peter, Humanities Honors professor of political science who will speak about the motivations for the founding of the UC and CSU systems in California, and a visual odyssey prepared by the Humanities Honors students who were the Salzburg Global Seminar Scholars this summer. Please join us for this entertaining honors community event.
On April 7th 2011, the Dean of the College of Humanities, Karl Toepfer, and the Humanities Honors Program honored Mrs. Maxine Fink for her generous gift to Humanities Honors. Among the guests who attended this event were President Don Kassing, Provost Gerry Selter, the current and emeriti professors from the Humanities Honors Program and current students and recent alumni. Students and faculty who were able to attend felt privileged to be able to meet Mrs. Fink.
The Dr. Jack E. and Mrs. Maxine Hunt Fink Distinguished Scholar in Humanities Endowment comes at a time when public higher education in California is facing economic adversity. We are grateful for Mrs. Fink’s support, which will help the Humanities Honors Program continue to thrive at San Jose State. Her gift will enable future generations of students to receive the unique and challenging general education curriculum that Professor Jack Fink and his colleagues who created the program envisioned. It means that the foundation of knowledge that this curriculum builds will continue to enhance the lives of San José State University students. From the bottom of our hearts we thank Mrs. Fink for her friendship to and belief in the Humanities Honors Program.
Here are some pictures from the celebration:
Mrs. Fink standing in front of the Humanities Honors Program lecture classroom in Washington Square Hall. Behind her is the plaque commemorating the pioneers of the Humanities Honors Program and their wives.
At the celebration we presented Mrs. Fink with a card signed by the current Humanities Honors classes!
Mrs. Fink- From all of us at Humanities Honors, we thank you!
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