#1220
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:32:55 -0600
From: Debra Lafler <deblafler@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: physical education graduate school programs
HEDIRites,
A fellow colleague is looking for graduate school suggestions for a Masters in Physical Education (Teaching K-12 PE specialization). Please let me know if you can suggest any specific programs.
Thank you!
Debra Lafler
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#1221
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:48:02 -0600
From: Mark Kittleson <kittle@SIU.EDU>
Subject: Call for Nominations
Greetings….
It’s that time of the year…the annual call for nominations of the AAHE/HEDIR Technology Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize a health educator, or a group, who has made exceptional contributions or who has transformed the profession of health education through technology. The award was created by Mark Kittleson, owner of the HEDIR in 1997. The American Association for Health Education (AAHE) is a partner with HEDIR on this Award. The recipients will be honored at a luncheon and given an opportunity to present at the 2010 AAHE Conference in Indianapolis.
If you know of somebody who is deserving, please consider nominating them. Go to http://www.hedir.org/2009award.htm for more information.
Mark
Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB
Professor & Graduate Director, Public Health Education
Southern Illinois University
Phone: 618-453-1841
FAX: 618-453-1829
Skype: mark.j.kittleson
Graduate Programs Website: www.siu-salukis-hed.com
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#1222
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:43:18 -0800
From: Pat Hanson <Pat_Hanson@CSUMB.EDU>
Subject: Virtual Christmas Giving
In the interests of the holidays .... I'd love instructions as to how to post this to the HEDIR blog .... I tried but am woefully behind the times here. Thanks, PAT
VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS GIVING
Pat Hanson
HEALTH MATTERS
1823 Wedemeyer Ct.
Marina, CA 93933
Cell:831-601-9195
I prefer Halloween to Christmas. You can dress up any way you'd like, pretend and have an excuse for putting on a mask. As soon as retailers start luring us with Christmas decorations and television repeats all those soppy movies, I get depressed. Some Christmases are more difficult than others, but one that could have been a catastrophe, transformed forever how our family celebrates December 25th.
In 1996, the day before the office Christmas party, my boss called me in to his office and gave me 30 days notice. Since summer, I'd been the sole support of my husband and teenage stepson after his plumbing business tanked. Credit cards at their limit, stretched by one income instead of two to cover the expenses of three; weÌd done no Christmas shopping and hadnÌt even bought a tree. I didnÌt know how I would be able to numb myself with holiday cheer and forget the reality of my financial situation. On the way home tears ran down my cheek as the announcer proclaimed six shopping days left and the shrill voices of the Chipmunks sang Christmas, Christmas time is here, time to sing, time for cheer.
Somehow that week, out of the depths of my despair, I got an idea. WeÌd have a ÏVirtual Christmas.Ó WeÌd each find and wrap up pictures of gifts we would have been thoughtful and generous enough to buy, had there been money to put into circulation! Three days before Christmas I hid the stockings and decorated our ficus plant with lights. We each looked through catalogues, magazines and our hearts to choose five replica presents for one another, and place them under the 'tree.'We agreed one of the virtual gifts had to be intangible, like a quality within youÌd like the other to have.
In addition to the gifts of not only the car, the driverÌs license, the baggy sweatshirt and pants, and guitar lessons I'd give to Bobby; was a fifth gift of "confidence in his own talent" that I wrote on a certificate for a course in entrepreneurship for teenagers, so he could market the artistic skill so evident in his cartoons.
Our teenager really got into it. He gave me concert tickets to Sting and Gloria Estefan, a color printer for my computer, and some Laurel Burch earrings all wrapped in comics from the Sunday paper. This teenagerÌs conceptual gift to his stepmom was a sign that said 'No Speed Limit!'
Besides a white Porsche, Larry gifted me with a vacation in Hawaii, a new PowerBook, a set of Cutco knives, and a stud from the pages of Playgirl (for the few times our batteries are out of synch, he wrote). His conceptual gift to me on a 3x5 card: I give you the magic sword to conquer your Boogie Man, permission to be gentle with yourself, and license to proceed full steam ahead with realization of your writing dreams!
For my beloved, I wrapped up the picture of a nose-hair tweezers from the Hammecker Schlemmer catalogue. He'd get a car too, a Dodge Viper like the one we saw the weekend we met, plus a leather jacket, more memory for his computer and a video camera so he could practice at his dream career: film maker. For his virtual gift I inscribed words that mirrored utter and absolute belief in himself and the unlimited power of his creativity on a magnifying glass. On Christmas morning, looking at his face as he stared out at the sunrise with tears in his eyes, I silently sent him that missing one percent of faith that would help us all actualize our dreams.
The virtual Christmas presents worked. It's amazing how a concept once put in the mind, can manifest. One year later, we'd moved and my stepson was registered for a course on Art Presentation at the local community college. My husband was finishing the college degree heÌd left 31 years prior. His belief in himself prompted a mid-life career shift to multi-media instructional technology. I'd successfully hoisted that sword to my writing fears, was studying screenwriting and had published some freelance non-fiction.
May our model for Virtual Christmas Giving help your family as it did ours, focus on the abundance and potential we all do have, rather than allowing fear pervade this glorious season. It is the power of positive intention that counts. Make your Holidays this season 'virtual' and they can still be 'merry' !
Epilogue 2008:
Imagine: if more American families practiced Virtual Christmas perhaps the travesty that trampled, killed and injured innocent Wal-Mart employees this past 'Black Friday' might have been prevented. With the mortgage debacle, spiking unemployment, major plant and retail closings, stock market crashing, gas prices out of control, escalating credit card debt, increasing bankruptcies and foreclosures; it is time for more of us to let go of the commercialism that underlies this holiday season.
The conceptual gift I'd give everyone right now, would be a perspective that helps him/her see the bigger picture. Guilt, the gift that keeps on giving, be gone! We need eyes that can see things in a way that helps us transcend our struggles to survive, heads held high. Our individual consumer debt is but a small mirror of the twelve trillion dollar debt our own government amassed in the past seven years, a large part of it for a war most of the world agreed shouldnÌt have happened. We in dire financial straights, need to realize this is not all about us. I would virtually gift us a view of the human condition that goes beyond one's worth being determined by work, your j-o-b. I'd bless us with divine insight as to how the preciousness of each moment must be cherished. How love and forgiveness matters, and little else does. How hugs are more important than deadlines. How breathing deeply and sitting still is more essential than driving fast or shopping or even eating a lot.
Make your Holidays this season virtual, and they can still be merry!
Remember good happens!
Pat Hanson
HEALTH MATTERS
1823 Wedemeyer Ct.
Marina, CA 93933
831-883-4482
Cell:831-601-9195
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#1223
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:15:41 -0500
From: Linda Miller Shapess <lshapess@OCMBOCES.ORG>
Subject: Call for Nominations
Donna - is what
Christine Widdall is doing enough to qualify her for this award?
Linda
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#1224
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:05:01 -0500
From: "Michaela Conley, MA" <michaela@HPCAREER.NET>
Subject: Lowest Interest Rates in History
wow!
The fed just announced that they've lowered the prime interest rate to .25%, wow
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/16/news/economy/fed_decision/index.htm?postversion=2008121614
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#1225
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:52:09 -0500
From: Becky Smith <BSmith@AAHPERD.ORG>
Subject: More about Health Education Pioneers among us
Greetings
Two months ago I sent out a “good news” email about Dr. Marian Hamburg approaching her 90th birthday and her contributions to the profession. A number of individuals indicated that they appreciated the “good news” email and so I thought I might take the opportunity to share about other outstanding health educators that are still among us from time to time.
Today I would like to share with you information about Dr. Wallace Ann Wesley (Wally). Today – December 16th is actually her 95th Birthday!
In recent months many health educators have commented upon AMA recently adding Health Education to their list of allied health professions – but the AMA has supported health education in many ways for decades. Wally Wesley was the Director of the Health Education Division of the AMA for 22 years, primarily in the 1950s and ‘60s. (She was followed by Dr. William Carlyon in that position). She had both Fred Hein and Robert Kaplan among a number of others on her staff – yes AMA had a whole “staff” of health educators. Many of you may know Robert Kaplan for having subsequently been a professor of health education at Ohio State University until his retirement.
While at AMA Wally Wesley provided central leadership for the health education Division and was also a part of the AMA/NEA Joint Committee on Health Problems in Education (which was begun in 1912 – and ended in 1975.) Wally is also a WW II veteran – in the medical corps and has written a very interesting paper on her time in the service at the front.
I know many of you do not know Wally – however she is one of our “pioneers” and if you would like to drop her a note I am certain she would appreciate hearing from you. I had the opportunity of seeing her not too long ago and although she is in somewhat fragile physical condition (very petite) her mind is very sharp and she is a wonderful conversationalist.
Her address is :
Dr. Wallace Ann Wesley
Westminster Village, Apt 1110
2025 Lincoln Avenue
Bloomington, IL 61701
Best wishes to you all,
Becky J. Smith
Becky J. Smith, PhD, CHES, CAE
Executive Director
American Association for Health Education
1900 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191
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