PERSONAL PAGE OF BARRY D. FRIEDMAN . . .

Table of Contents:
     » Introduction
     » About Barry Friedman's Publications
     » About Barry's Honor-Society Affiliations
     » About Moody Blue
     » Barry Friedman's Favorite Affiliations


INTRODUCTION

Since relocating to the State of Georgia in the late summer of 1987, I have had the great fortune of establishing a very rewarding career in two institutions of the University System of Georgia--Valdosta State University and North Georgia College & State University (NGCSU).  At NGCSU in Dahlonega (http://www.northgeorgia.edu), I coordinate the Master of Public Administration Program, which we established in March 1996.  Visit my NGCSU home page (http://faculty.northgeorgia.edu/bfriedman/bfried/Barry.shtml).  My colleagues and students are the best with whom anyone could hope to be associated.  Members of the faculty, staff, and student body like to refer to North Georgia College & State University as "the best kept secret in Georgia."  It is a senior military college recognized by the United States Army and attracts motivated, talented, and industrious students.  The university is located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains--an incredibly beautiful area.  Dahlonega was the site of the first significant gold rush in U. S. history, and the NGCSU campus includes the site of a gold rush-era U. S. Mint.  Come to visit Northeast Georgia!  You will probably not want to leave.

About Barry Friedman's Publications
Here are some of Barry's publications:
  • "Utilizing Technology to Revitalize and Modernize Pi Gamma Mu," in Studies in the Social Sciences (January 2002):  65-76.
  • "Afterword," in Harvey Rosenfeld, Richmond Pearson Hobson:  Naval Hero from Magnolia Grove (Las Cruces, N. M.:  Yucca Tree Press, ©2000), pp. 249-251.
  • "Cracking Down on Red Cross Volunteers:  How American Red Cross Officials Crushed an Insurrection by Agitated, Mistreated Volunteers in Northeast Georgia," presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, February 21, 1997.
  • "Futility of Reform Justifies Constitutional Convention," PA Times, September 1, 1996, p. 12.

  • Regulation in the Reagan-Bush Era:  The Eruption of Presidential Influence (Pittsburgh, Penn.:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).

 
 About Barry's Honor-Society Affiliations

Barry has been involved in the organization and management of honor societies since 1975, when he was elected secretary of Kappa Mu, the local engineering honor society at the University of Hartford, and promptly set about the task of reorganizing it, hosting a gala banquet to commemorate the society's 35th anniversary, and compiling a comprehensive directory of as many members as could be identified since the society was founded.  Since then, he has been president of Valdosta State College's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi (interdisciplinary), founding secretary-treasurer of NGCSU's chapter of Pi Gamma Mu (social sciences), and an officer of NGCSU's chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha (political science).  Barry was the founding executive director of the NGCSU Council of Honor Societies, which currently has 21 affiliated honor societies.  Each year from 1995 to 2008, Barry coordinated NGCSU's Honor Societies' Initiation Banquet.  Barry is Pi Gamma Mu's international president and a member of the international Board of Trustees, and encourages inquiries about chartering new chapters of this marvelous international social-science honor society.  Barry is also a former member of Pi Sigma Alpha's national Executive Council, and encourages inquiries about chartering new chapters of this honor society, which is the largest discipline-specific honor society in the world.
About Moody Blue ♥
Moody Blue, my adorable pet kitty cat, was born in (or around) 1984.  I met Moody in 1990.  At that time, I knew very little about cats, and, out of inexperience and ignorance, I was inconsiderate toward Moody and her kindhearted stepbrother, Kitty Moe, and played with them rather roughly.  Moody, for her own good reasons, decided to respond to my foolishness with gentleness and affection.  It took a year or two, but she succeeded in reaching me, and in training me to be nice to kitty cats--especially her.  What followed was the most wonderful, loving relationship that lasted for 16 years.  Our favorite thing to do together involved me lying on the sofa and Moody lying on my legs; we would relax that way for hours at a time.  I am quite sure that Divine Providence sent Moody to watch over me and make sure that I was doing OK.  How many experiences in life are as enjoyable and fulfilling as coming home and finding a kitty cat who thinks that your arrival is the most exciting development of the entire day?  Moody Blue was my pride and joy.  She was sweet, gentle, and very loving--as well as very spirited.  On January 1, 2007, we joyfully celebrated Moody's 23d birthday.  Two days later, her condition of chronic kidney failure suddenly sent her into a rapid decline that ended when she died peacefully on the morning of January 11, 2007.  In the photograph, Moody sits on the kitchen table during Hanukah and admires the menorah.  She made every holiday and event sweeter and more colorful.  Moody gave me an enduring appreciation for animals, the inestimable value of their companionship, and their unequivocal right to be happy and cared about.  I am a life member and past treasurer of the TLC Humane Society of Dahlonega, Ga.  I am also a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the American Horse Defense Fund.  I do what I do for animals in memory of Moody Blue and because Moody taught me to be proactive in protecting animals from harm.  Moody:  Today--on January 11, 2013--I remember how you enhanced the quality of my life when we were together, and how that quality plunged when the span of your incredible journey on earth came to an end 6 years ago.  While I will never recover from my sense of loss, I will also never rescind my gratitude for the joy that I experienced for so many years because of you.  I await the occasion when I will be reunited with you, and we can play together again.  You are my best friend, and I miss you terribly.  May G•d bless your sweet and sacred memory. -- Love, Barry

Barry Friedman's Favorite Affiliations
These are some of Barry's favorite organizations:
  • American Friends of Magen David Adom (formerly American Red Magen David for Israel), which supports the work of Magen David Adom, Israel's Red Cross service.  Barry is an international life member of American Friends of MDA, through the Ahava - Richard Freedman Chapter of South Florida, and a chapter life member of the Atlanta Chapter and the former Shomer Chapter of West Hartford, Conn. (of which he served as president).  (See also Barry's Web page at http://faculty.northgeorgia.edu/bfriedman/bfried/MDA.htm).
  • International and American Society for Yad Vashem, the prominent Holocaust commemoration organizations.
  • American Society for Public Administration (life member).  Barry held offices in the Georgia Chapter for 17 years.  As editor of the chapter newsletter, The Georgia Public Administrator, Barry brought the Division III Chapter Newsletter Award to the Georgia Chapter.
  • American Mensa, Ltd.
  • University of Connecticut Alumni Association (Barry is a life member); University of Hartford Alumni Association; North Georgia College & State University Alumni Association (Barry is an associate life member)
  • RAVEN - Research on Abusive Volunteer Exploitation by Nonprofits (ask Barry for a photocopy of his 1997 paper, "Cracking Down on Red Cross Volunteers:  How American Red Cross Officials Crushed an Insurrection by Agitated, Mistreated Volunteers in Northeast Georgia")
  • TLC Humane Society of Dahlonega/Lumpkin County, Ga.
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.  Click here to see a Web page about being nice to your pet kitty cat.
  • Barry supports the Lumpkin County Historical Society's Dr. Ray C. Rensi History Award.

 

 

If you find any of the organizations with which Barry is affiliated to be of interest, write to him at bfriedman@northgeorgia.edu .  He'll be glad to tell you more about these fine associations.

 

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Last updated on January 22, 2013, by Barry D. Friedman.

 

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