Obituary - Dr. John B. Rehder

Visitation	The family will receive friends 5 to 6:45 p.m. Friday at West Hills Baptist Church, 409 North Winston Road
Memorial	with a Memorial Service to follow at 7 p.m.
Died	April 19, 2011

Dr. John B. Rehder, Ph.D., age 68, of Knoxville passed away suddenly Tuesday afternoon, April 19, 2011.

Dr. Rehder was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather. He was a faithful member of West Hills Baptist Church where he was passionate about singing in the choir.

Dr. Rehder earned his Masters and PhD from LSU in Geography in 1969. Dr. Rehder served in the Geography Department at UT for 43 years.

He was on the Board of Directors of UT Press and also authored 2 award-winning books, Delta Sugar and Appalachian Folkways. His third book is currently being reviewed for publication.

Dr. Rehder was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, camping, boating, skiing, hiking to LeConte. In February, 2011 he proudly attended the award dinner where his daughter, Karen Rehder was recognized as the Knox County Middle School Teacher of the Year. “Opa” especially treasured time on the golf course with his son, Ken and grandson, Allen and also showering his granddaughter, Emma Caroline with stuffed animals.

Dr. Rehder was preceded in death by his parents, Burk Rehder and Laverne Rehder.

He is survived by his wife of 48 ½ years, Judy Rehder; daughter, Karen Rehder; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Ken and Angie Rehder; grandchildren, Allen and Emma Caroline Rehder; brother, Charles (Chuck) Rehder and wife, Jeannie of NC; niece, Katie Rehder of CA; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Gayle and Stu Roth of North Carolina; nephews, Chris and Kevin Roth and families of Texas; best friend and hiking buddy, Rodney Franks; many friends and church family.

The family will receive friends 5 to 6:45 pm Friday with a Memorial Service to follow at 7 pm at West Hills Baptist Church, 409 North Winston Road with Rev. John Pennington officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to West Hills Baptist Church Choir.

Click Funeral Home Farragut Chapel, 11915 Kingston Pike is serving the Rehder family.

Very sad news: Dr. Rehder passed away

 Dear Geographers,

I am very sorry to inform you that Dr. John Rehder passed away last night.  He was in good spirits during the faculty meeting, but later suffered a heart attack at home.  We do not yet know about funeral arrangements, but will forward that information when it comes. 

We are making plans today to cover  his classes for the remainder of the semester--we'll follow the plans he made for his courses.

If, like many of us, there was more you wish you had said to Dr. Rehder, or if you would like to share thoughts about him with his family, we encourage you to write a note--to him or to his family--and put it in the box.  We have set up a note-writing place and put a box in the 3rd floor commons area. We will then (next week) put these in a notebook for the family.  As they cope with his unexpected death, our fond memories and anecdotes are likely to be the greatest help we can offer.

Sincerely,

Carol Harden

Carol Harden

Professor and Interim Head

Department of Geography

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN 37996-0925

Tsunami video

Here is a link to 5 minute or so video of the Japan tsunami moving onshore. It shows the destructive nature of a wall of water and is awesome in the true meaning of the word. The footage was shot from a helicopter most likely by a Japan news agency and broadcast by a New Zealand station.

http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.swf?file=http://flash.vx.roo.com/streamingVX/63056/1458/20110311_japan_wave_successions_sky_1000k.mp4&autostart=true

Enjoy,
Ned G.

The educational potential of mobile computing in the field

You might find this article, entitled “The educational potential of mobile computing in the field”, interesting and relevant:

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/TheEducationalPotentialofMobil/225863

Shih-Lung Shaw, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Geography

Geography undergraduate students win EUReCA awards

Four Geography undergraduate students entered three posters in this year's EUReCA poster competition. All four students won a prize. The winners are, from left to right: Sarah Jones, Sean Baskin, Scott Basford, David White. Congratulations!

Congratulations to our Geography Undergraduates!

At this year's Exhibition for Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA) at the University of Tennessee, Geography was well represented with not one, not two, but three poster presentations! Congratulations to David White for his presentation titled "The Creative Metropolis in America":

to Scott Basford for his presentation titled "Putting Their Eggs in India's Basket: Church's Chicken in India": and to Sean Baskin and Sarah Jones for their presentation titled "Spatial Dynamics of Climatic Response in Ponderosa Pines (Pinus ponderosa), El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A.":

Guest Speaker - April 7 colloquium

I want to extend a special invitation to students (this includes undergraduates and non-majors) who are considering a career in GIS to attend the April 7 colloquium. The speaker that day will be Kenneth Bennett who received his MS degree and is now the Information Technology Manager for Los Angeles. Kenneth came rather late to GIS, having earned his BA degree in English and World Literature at UCLA.  At Tennessee he heard his MS specializing in GIS and Transportation.  His talk will focus on how he moved from his MS degree to GIS consultant, to GIS manager for Los Angeles’ Registrar and Recorder, to his current position as Information Technology Manager.  If you are at all interested in a career in GIS, I encourage you to attend.  In addition, Kenneth will meet with students on Friday, April 8 at 9 AM. I will bribe your attendance with some goodies from Panera!  Here is the official blurb for Kenneth’s presentation:

Geography Colloquium

Programming, Projects, and People:  The Journey of a GIS Professional from Geography Student to Information Technology Manager

Mr. Kenneth Bennett

Information Technology Manager, Los Angeles, CA

April 7 at 3:40 PM

Lindsey Young Auditorium in Hodges Library

Speaker Bio. Mr. Bennett graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with an M.S. in Geography in 1998, where he concentrated on a range of topics, including transportation planning and modeling, business transportation and logistics, computer programming, and GIS application development.  The degree and experience he gained at UTK landed him a position at the GIS consulting firm, GIS/Trans, Ltd.  As a consultant from 1998 until 2004, Mr. Bennett worked on numerous GIS-Transportation projects in California, Arizona, and in Chile and Bolivia.  Those projects involved not only GIS design and development, but also strategic implementation planning for enterprise GIS.  A contract with Los Angeles County to develop an innovative GIS for precincting and redistricting led to being hired by the County’s Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in 2004 to be their GIS Section Head, in which capacity he headed a multi-departmental effort to build an award-winning GIS-based Countywide Address Management System.  Success in GIS project management led to a promotion to the position of Information Technology Manager, which places him in charge over numerous election-critical systems, including district mapping, precinct consolidation, ballot layout, ballot tabulation, elect results mapping and reporting, and tally audit.  Mr. Bennett also holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in English and World Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bruce Ralston
Professor Emeritus
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
Phone: 865-974-6043
FAX: 865-974-6025