Memoirs, fiction fill Emeritus journal

July 06, 2009

“We chatted and spun yarns while enjoying our lunch and listening to music from a battery-powered radio. Suddenly, a voice broke into the broadcast.<separator></separator>“This is a red flag alert. The Coast Guard has released a gale warning which extends the full length of Long Island Sound. All small craft are advised to seek shelter immediately.”<separator></separator>For W. Walsh Doane, her husband Chuck and her son Tim, this was not good news as they sailed their 21-foot sailboat, the Curlew, from their home port in West Haven, Conn., to Port Jefferson, Long Island, for a Labor Day holiday.<separator></separator>Doane recounts her story of wind, waves, fright and, finally, safety, in her memoir, “Flight of the Curlew,” which is included in Issue No. 4 of Emeritus Voices, the journal of the Emeritus College.<separator></separator>Issue 4, now available from the Emeritus College, includes “Marvin,” a memoir by Elaine Katzman; fiction by JoAnn Yeoman Tongret, Mary Riege Laner, Ernie Stech, Paul Jackson and Stanley E. Smith; poems by Bettie Anne Doebler, Frances New, Lou-ellen Finter and Charles Brownson; articles by Wolfgang Preiser, Len Gordon, Finter and Nelson L. Haggerson Jr.; photography by Jerry Buley and Eric vanSonnenberg; and an editorial by Brownson.<separator></separator>Emeritus Voices is published twice a year by the Emeritus College. Brownson is editor, while von Sonnenberg is associate editor.<separator></separator>The journal may be read electronically on the Emeritus College Web site, <a href="http://emerituscollege.asu.edu">http://emerituscollege.asu.edu</a>. Printed copies are available at $20 per issue or $60 for a two-yearsubscription.<separator></separator>For more information, call (480) 965-0002.