Class Notes

retired from my job as executive assistant at Xerox UK in January 2014 and am enjoying the opportunity of relaxing while deciding what to do next.

Why Public Service Matters: Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy. Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America’s “compensatory state” and on the pitfalls of reformers’ focus on bureaucratic, rather than democratic, administration. The book links the nation’s ability to handle contemporary policy problems with the strategic, tactical, and normative quality of public management. In doing so, it offers newcomers a rare, concise, and accessible overview of the field. Readers will gain an appreciation for the challenges, choices, and opportunities facing public managers as they help advance a sense of common purpose informed by democratic constitutional values in twenty-first century America.

Robert F. Durant has retired as professor emeritus in public administration and policy from American University, in Washington, DC. He now resides n Marietta, Georgia, with his wife, Jennifer. His latest book, Building the Compensatory State: An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform, will be published by Routledge Press in Fall 2019.

Continues teaching music as emeritus professor at Culver-Stockton College and serves on the Boards of such arts organizations as the Canton Area Arts Council, Muddy River Opera Company, Quincy Civic Music Association, and Lewis County Playhouse. She still sings regularly, gives Opera Insight lectures, writes program notes for regional symphony orchestra and concert series performances, and directs the C-SC Opera Workshop.

retired from Nursing in 2010.

let the College know that at the end of summer he and his wife, Janna Eerenberg Tinley ’71 made two trips. The first was a sibling get together in El Paso Texas where his older sister lives. His younger sister Alice came up from Mexico City. Paul, his younger brother was up from Peru. In September they visited parts of Canada. Since Janna likes rail travel, they took the train from New York to Montreal. They then the 23 hour VIA compartment train to Halifax. Small compartment! They very much enjoyed the week of driving around Nova Scotia and Cape Brenton Island. They took the “easy way” back by flying back to Jacksonville, Florida.

lost her son Ethan last October of unknown causes. He was almost 36 at the time of his passing