Second Annual HUSBAY New Year’s Party
A sizeable group of HUSBAY members met at at the Center for Arts and Humanities to celebrate the New Year. We were entertained by the guitar stylngs of Dominick (Donny) LaPonte, who just kept on strumming. Donny also provides tech support at our lecture meetings. Claudia Holmes and Garret Cantrell provided the goodies, to whom we extend our […]
Jim Chastain
Jim Chastain passed away on his 92nd birthday. To learn more, please click on this link. He spent his working career as a professor of finance, specializing in risk management and insurance. He taught at universities in Mississippi, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska and was Dean of the American Institute for Property and Liability Insurance , in Pennsylvania. In […]
Noel Wilson Smith
NOEL WILSON SMITH received his AB degree from Indiana University, his MA from University of Colorado, and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He was Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Courtesy Professor at the University of Florida, Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and has held offices in the American Association […]
Robert Magill
After Rutgers Business School I launched into the business world by starting a fishing camp in Ship Bottom, NJ. So much for higher ed. Later as part of the Cool Jazz era I played stand -up bass with various groups around the country. I quit life on the road just in time to meet and marry […]
Karen Koenig
Karen R. Koenig, and her husband, Keith Loring moved to Sarasota from Boston in 2005 and were delighted to find HUSBAY members so warm and welcoming. Semi-retired, she continues to love her work as a licensed psychotherapist specializing in overeating and binge-eating, writing books (she’s written eight), articles, and blogs. Private practice and doing volunteer […]
Les Downing
Les Downing had been a member of HUSBAY for over 4 years, was a full professor in the SUNY system in the college at Oneonta, New York. As a social psychologist, he taught a variety of courses in social influence, group dynamics, and especially the processes underlying the power of religious cults to induce conversion and […]
Barry Zack
When Barry and his wife Joanne first moved to Sarasota in the spring of 2009, he was concerned that he would be unable to find people like the friends at the Ethical Culture Society in Maplewood, N.J. he lost in his move south. It wasn’t long before he discovered the HUSBAY luncheon, which happened to […]
Dr. Jack Wayne
Jack Wayne was born during the Great Depression, just one of the depressions from which his family suffered. He spent his childhood in Windsor, Ontario and, after four years at the University of Toronto and two more at the University of Michigan, plunged into the world of work. His employment as a rehabilitation worker for a […]
Dr. Emanuel (Bud) Klein
MY METAMORPHOSIS FROM GOD FEARING JEW TO A GODLESS SECULAR HUMANIST. DISCLOSURE: What follows is a very scant recounting that has been abstracted from my book ”On My Way: my journey to Secular Humanism”, which is now being prepared for printing by Publisher Jack Wayne, (one of Husbay’s own) at his Firm, “Memoir Publications” a subsidiary of “Three O’clock […]
J. Darwin Soder
Darwin was born in Wichita, KS and moved to Sarasota in 1979. He earned two M.A. degrees and taught Economics and Business at Southwestern College and at Wichita State University in Kansas. During 1962-63, “Jdar” served as a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico instructing young men in wilderness camping skills. In 1971 Jdar […]
