CAREER REFLECTIONS
Career Refl ections is a free monthly series in which Willow Valley
Residents talk about their careers. Th e presenters will speak about
intriguing, humorous, or unusual career experiences. Please register
in the Cultural Center Events Book.
All sessions will be held in the Cultural Center Education Room.
Transitioning from a Hazardous Materials
Transportation Attorney to a Civil War Historian
Ed Bonekemper will talk about his transition from being the U.S. Department
of Transportation’s senior hazardous materials transportation attorney to a
retirement career as a Civil War and military historian, author, speaker, and
teacher. He will discuss his successes and failures as he zigzagged his way from
attorney to author.
Transitioning from a Hazardous Materials
Transportation Attorney to a Civil War Historian
Monday, September 24
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Ed Bonekemper, Gables Resident
Refl ections of a Medical Scientist
14 Steps Over 40 Years
Dr. Jack Aynedjian, a scientist who was on the faculty
- a GE Career
of medicine of both New York University Medical
Center and Albert Einstein Medical College, will talk
Dick Kramer will describe his 40-year
about the humorous and fascinating moments in
career and the many opportunities
teaching doctors. Receive helpful insights regarding
that enabled him to make the
cholesterol levels and the aff ects on kidney function,
transition between functions in a
blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease and more.
major corporation. He will speak
about his career at GE where he
CAREER REFLECTIONS
worked in various areas including
Refl ections of a Medical Scientist
fi nancial management, public and
Thursday, October 11
university relations, college recruit-
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ing, training and career development.
Presenter: Dr. Jack Aynedjian, Manor Resident
From Draped in a Snake to Faculty Mayhem
Kay Vandergrift has taught every grade from preschool to graduate school.
She was at Columbia during the turbulent 1960s and later moved to Rutgers
where she taught literature and technology and was a Dean of Faculty Aff airs
until her retirement. Kay has 45 years worth of funny and touching stories to
tell but promises to keep them within the hour.
14 Steps Over 40 Years
From Draped in a Snake
- a GE Career
to Faculty Mayhem
Thursday, December 13
Thursday, November 1
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Dick Kramer
Presenter: Kay Vandergrift, Spring Run Resident
North Resident
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