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Video Recordings*

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Family Caregivers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
Featured Speaker: Shawn Herz, MSG, LMFT
Director of Program Development
Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center
USC Andrus Gerontology Center
January 30, 2008
Family Caregivers Video

Ten (or More) Tips for Living an Informed Financial Life
Featured Speaker: Dagmar Halamka, Esq., Attorney at Law
Clinical Professor of Law
USC Marshall School of Business
October 9, 2007
Informed Financial Life Video

Click here to download materials (in PDF) referred to during this presentation.
[Thirty-eight pages, 12.8 MB.  Adobe Reader® is required.]

The outline handed out at the session is also available (in PDF; 4 pages).

Andrus Gerontology Center: A Wealth of Resources and Research
Moderator: Dr. Gerald C. Davison
Dean, USC Davis School of Gerontology
Executive Director, USC Andrus Gerontology Center
June 19, 2007
Wealth of Resources and Research Video

NOTE: To see a list of panelists and topics, click here.

Obesity: A Leading Cause of Diabetes and Heart Disease
Featured Speaker: Robert Penny, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics, and
Retired Professor of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
April 4, 2007
Obesity Video

NOTE: Video recording only; no PowerPoint slides accompany this video.  However, the entire PowerPoint presentation may be viewed independently in PDF.  [Twenty-six slides, 774 KB.  Adobe Reader® is required.]

Identify Theft Seminar I
Featured speaker: Mike Magro, Chief Information Officer, USC Federal Credit Union.
Co-sponsored by the USC Emeriti Center and the USC Federal Credit Union.
February 21, 2007
Identity Theft Seminar Video

Medicare Part D Workshop
Co-sponsored by the USC Emeriti Center, the USC Staff Retirement Association (SRA) and the USC Retired Faculty Association.
Featuring representatives from the USC Office of Benefits Administration,
the Center for Health Care Rights, and USC Senior Care.
October 24, 2006
Medicare Part D Workshop Video

You may also read the report of the results of the joint USC Staff Retirement Association/Retired Faculty Association survey that was discussed at the October 24, 2006, presentation: SRA/RFA Medicare Part D Survey Results (in PDF)

Dona Munker: " 'Imagining a Life' in Biography"
The USC Emeriti Center offered the opportunity to hear writer Dona Munker talk about the writer’s imagination in biography on April 3, 2007.  Dona illustrated with key passages from Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution, which Dona wrote and co-authored with Sattareh Farman Farmaian, a graduate of the USC School of Social Work, and which was re-issued in June 2006 by Crown/Random House in a new paperback edition.  You can watch a video recording of the entire presentation (1 hour, 10 minutes) by clicking here.

Dona, who is a former trade book editor in New York and who has an M.A. in fiction writing and a Ph.D. in English literature, also discussed her current work in progress, Sara and Erskine: An American Romance, the biography of Sara Bard Field, a World War One-era Baptist minister’s wife who became a California poet and a nationally famous suffragist through her love affair with a married attorney and philosophical anarchist, Charles Erskine Scott Wood.  Dona is reconstructing their affair in detail and her protagonist's evolution into a modern woman through sources that include thousands of letters between the couple at the Huntington Library.  You can read more about Dona and her work, including an excerpt from Sara and Erskine, on her website, www.storydriven.net, which she maintains as a resource for biographers and prospective biographers.

Dona Munker is the daughter of USC School of Social Work Professor Emerita Frances Lomas Feldman and the late Al Feldman, former Deputy Director of the Andrus Gerontology Center who designed and played a major role in establishing the Davis School of Gerontology.  Dona, a USC theatre graduate, first learned of Sattareh Farman Farmaian's dramatic—and now especially timely—personal story through her mother.