Organist and composer Paul Manz died Wednesday. As a musician who’s spent a little time behind the organ, I had the great privilege to play some of Mr. Manz’s works.
Paul Manz was a church organist who took the liberty of being creative at the keyboard. He liked to introduce hymns that the congregation at Minneapolis’ Mount Olive Lutheran Church would sing with improvisations. Church members loved them, and word about his compositions eventually led to Manz playing at hymn festivals nationwide.
For 37 years, he led music at Mount Olive at 3045 Chicago Av. S., where his music will be played and prayer services will be held from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to mourn and honor him. He died Wednesday in St. Paul following a long illness. He was 90. [source]
Now, he’s with the company of Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, Mozart, and the entire company of saints. He will be missed but his music lives on.
[source: City of Phoenix/Deborah Sedillo Dugan] PHX 11 is airing a special about retiring Phoenix City Manager Frank Fairbanks that will air at various times through Nov. 5, including at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. The 10-minute program, “The Life and Times of Frank Fairbanks,” is narrated by award-winning journalist Kent Dana, who recently retired from Channel 5 (KPHO) after more than 30 years in broadcasting.
“It’s appropriate that this program brings together two retiring Valley icons,” said the city’s acting Public Information Office Director Deborah Sedillo Dugan.
The program features testimonials by professional sports magnate and civic leader Jerry Colangelo; C.A. Howlett, US Airways senior vice president of public affairs; Bill Post, Pinnacle West Capital chief executive officer; Ioanna Morfessis, president of IO.INC, a national economic-development consulting firm; Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox; former City Councilman Calvin C. Goode; former Deputy City Manager Jack Tevlin; and Lionel Lyons, director of the city’s Equal Opportunity Department.
The Fairbanks family shared many personal photos for the program, which depicts Phoenix’s growth and development under Fairbanks’ leadership.
The 63-year-old Phoenix native, whose last day is Thursday, Nov. 5, was appointed city manager in 1990. He has held the position longer than any previous manager. Under his leadership, Phoenix earned major accomplishments and grew to the fifth-largest city in the country.
PHX 11 is the city’s award-winning news and information station broadcast on Cox Cable and accessible on the city’s Internet site, phoenix.gov. Viewers also can follow PHX 11 on Twitter: twitter.com/watchphx11.
As preface, here is an editorial from today’s edition of the State Press, the University’s daily student-run newspaper:
A graduate student walked into a professor’s office in the College of Design South building and shot himself in front of the professor Monday morning.
That image is horrifically shocking. It is so out of the realm of normalcy and so beyond what we would ever want to imagine happening so close to us.
We come to school thinking it is a safe place to be, a safe place to learn. When an incident like this occurs, it shakes and scares us.
But it brings to light the chilling statistics surrounding depression and suicide at ASU. According to a study released in 2006 by ASU Health and Wellness Promotion, 11 percent of ASU students seriously considered attempting suicide last school year and 1 percent made an attempt. With a student body of more than 60,000 at the time, those percentages translate to 6,600 and 600 students. [read more]
While this incident is truly disturbing and we are all saddened by the loss of a contemporary and grieving with the professor, this is a wake-up call for everyone – students, staff, and faculty alike – to know that resources exist if you are stressed out.
ASU has excellent crisis counseling resources. From their website:
ASU counseling centers provide crisis intervention for students who are experiencing a mental health crisis. During normal working hours, students may contact any ASU counseling center to request a same day appointment to discuss urgent situations.
While we’ll probably never know what caused that graduate student to take his own life, this I do know: if you’re stressed out, talk to someone. Talk to family or a dear friend. Talk to your professors. Talk to your academic advisor. Talk to an ASU counselor. Just please talk to someone. Don’t let things multiply inside you just because you don’t think it’s that significant to someone else.
[source: City of Phoenix/Deborah Sedillo Dugan] David Cavazos was named today as the new Phoenix city manager and will begin his new responsibilities Friday, Nov. 6.
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and the City Council met today at Phoenix City Hall in an executive session to consider the selection of, and interview finalists for, the position of city manager.
Cavazos, 49, is the first Hispanic to hold the job. He joined the city in 1987 as a management intern and was economic-development manager from 1991 to 1997. From 1998 to 2000, he served as deputy director of the Aviation Department and later the assistant Aviation director from 2001 to 2003. Cavazos served as acting Aviation director from 2004 to 2005, with his most recent position as deputy city manager.
In that position, he oversees the Development Services, Information Technology, Planning and Water Services departments; ASU Downtown; water strategy; and Westside Revitalization.
“David will lead a great team that over the next 20 years will take this rising Phoenix and make it soar,” Gordon said. “We got it right, but it would have been hard to get it wrong.”
“This is a historic day in Phoenix,” Vice Mayor Tom Simplot said. “David Cavazos is a true professional and will lead Phoenix into the next decade.”
Cavazos earned a master’s degree in management and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Western Illinois University.
The other candidates interviewed were Phoenix deputy city managers David Krietor, Rick Naimark and Ed Zuercher.
Frank Fairbanks, current city manager, will retire Nov. 5 after serving in this capacity for 19 years. The 63-year-old Phoenix native has held the city manager’s position longer than any previous manager, ending a 37-year career with the city.
[source: City of Phoenix/Deborah Sedillo Dugan] The Phoenix mayor and City Council will hold a public meeting at 3 p.m. Monday, Oct.26, in Phoenix City Hall, assembly rooms, 200 W. Washington St., regarding the selection of a new city manager. The public is invited to comment.
This meeting will follow the 9 a.m. executive session where the mayor and city council will meet to consider the selection of, and interview the finalists for, the position of city manager.
The candidates being considered include Phoenix deputy city managers David Cavazos, David Krietor, Rick Naimark and Ed Zuercher.
ASU now has three Nobel Laureates on its faculty! The 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (or, formally: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was awarded to Dr. Elinor Ostrom, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and a research professor. In addition, Dr. Ostrom is the first female laureate of the award.
From ASU President Michael Crow:
I am very pleased to share the great news that ASU Research Professor Elinor Ostrom has won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Professor Ostrom is the founding director of ASU’s Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and is widely recognized for her specialized study of institutions. She is now one of three Nobel Prize-winning ASU faculty members and the second in economics.
ASU is proud and honored to count Professor Ostrom as a distinguished member of its excellent faculty and I hope you will join me in congratulating her on this outstanding achievement.
Barrett, The Honors College, is proud to announce a new Barrett signature event highlighting two of our four Barrett campuses and including students from all campuses. Beginning at the new Barrett Tempe campus complex at 5:45pm, students will mix and mingle then eat dinner in the Refectory. Following dinner, students travel to Downtown Phoenix via METRO light rail for dessert and exploration of the vibrant Downtown Phoenix campus. The event will conclude at 10:00pm and students will return to their home campus onboard the light rail or intercampus shuttle bus.
Tempe campus students: the event begins at the Barrett complex at 5:45pm. When departing from the Downtown Phoenix campus, METRO light rail trains depart from the Van Buren/1st Avenue at 10:02pm and every 20 minutes thereafter until 2:22am.
Downtown Phoenix campus students: plan to meet in the lobby of University Center at 4:40pm to travel together to the Tempe campus onboard the light rail.
West campus students: plan to depart the West campus at 4:00pm on the intercampus shuttle and get off at the Downtown Phoenix campus to travel with the Barrett Downtown group onboard the light rail. At 10:00pm, you can board the intercampus shuttle back to the West campus.
Polytechnic campus students: click here for shuttle information.
Commuter students: Take advantage of the free park-and-ride lots along the light rail line! If you wish to park closer to the Downtown Phoenix campus (where the event concludes), there is a $5 surface lot situated a couple blocks north of the Downtown Phoenix campus at Central & Fillmore. We then encourage you to join the Downtown Phoenix and West campus group that is traveling to the Tempe campus together—please plan to arrive at University Center, 411 N. Central Ave., at 4:40pm.
Light Rail Pass information: If you do not have a U-Pass or other light rail pass, plan to buy your all-day pass ($3.50) in advance to save time. Passes can be purchased in advance at a fare vending machine at all of the light rail stations (click to learn more) and in-person at Central Station in Downtown Phoenix or the Tempe Transportation Center. On October 23, the day of the event, be sure to activate your pass at a fare vending machine. If you want more information about purchasing the U-Pass, good for unlimited travel on Valley Metro light rail and bus, click here.
Dinner information:
Students with a Barrett Tempe Meal Plan can use a meal swipe
Students with a non-Tempe Meal Plan can use a swipe plus $4 in M&G
Students without a meal plan can pay cash ($12.50)
A limited number of free and subsidized meals for commuter and non-Tempe students will be available, so…
This event is co-sponsored and co-planned by the Barrett Leadership and Service Team (BLAST) and the Barrett Leadership and Service Team at the Downtown Phoenix campus (BLAST’D). If you are interested in helping out with this event, please talk to your campus’s BLAST representative. For Tempe, this is Sean Nonnenmacher (sean.nonnenmacher@asu.edu). For the Downtown Phoenix campus, it is Janessa Hilliard (janessa.hilliard@asu.edu). Polytechnic and West campus students, please contact Edward Jensen (echj@asu.edu).
Enjoy a special evening of fabulous Southern European refreshments, live organ music by visiting organist Gary Quamme, a short talk on the history of Romanian Glass icons by Dr Diana Hulick, and live surprise entertainment.
A suggested donation of $20 will be collected at the door. All proceeds will support the November exhibit of Glass Icons by Tudor Scripor & workshops on mural painting and painting on glass. Tudor is an internationally exhibited artist whose work represents Romania in the Vatican collections.
For more info, please call Aiste Parmasto at 602.821.8507 or e-mail aiste@trinityCCA.org.
So every city, it seems, has a place where one can buy trinkets of the usual touristy traps there. New York City’s visitors are inundated with tchotchkes of the Empire State Building or snowglobes with the Manhattan skyline. London’s tourists find models of what most people call Big Ben (but what’s technically called the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster) or those fuzzy hats that the Buckingham Palace guards wear. Toronto visitors can buy models of the CN Tower, this hemisphere’s tallest free-standing structure.
Preface given. Back a couple of weeks in the Dean’s Office of the College of Public Programs, friend and colleague Lonni Summers were discussing this same thing. Where’s the METRO light rail gift shop? Where can I buy a bumper sticker that says, “My other car is METRO light rail”? Or what about a keychain with a model of the trains?
The Phoenix METRO’s success isn’t really hinged on how many people ride it during the week. A recent New York Times article posited that it was the weekend users that make our light rail a success. My point here is that Phoenicians do it differently.
Why just limit this to the light rail? Who wouldn’t want a little replica of Her Secret is Patience (the art installation hanging over the Civic Space park) sitting on their desk? (I do!) Yes, the Grand Canyon might be the most clichéd and tourist-exploited place here in Arizona, but what about for urbanistas?
The economy is bad. Cities need to be creative in generating new revenue. So why not start here? And I really want my light rail tchotchkes.
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Organist and composer Paul Manz died Wednesday. As a musician who’s spent a little time behind the organ, I had the great privilege to play some of Mr. Manz’s works.
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