Dr. Mayer’s Defending a more Modern Feminist position.

Bio: Dr. Ozzie Mayers has been employed in the English department at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University since 1979 after getting his PhD with a concentration in American Literature at the University of Oregon. Before enrolling at the U of O, he taught English as a Second Language in Peace Corps for two years (Dr. Mayers was stationed in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa). He got his master’s at the U of Arkansas. He is originally from southwest Louisiana, a full-fledged Cajun, that wonders how he ended up in the frozen tundra of MN! At CSB/SJU, he has served as Chair of the English department, directed a major FIPSE grant entitled Gender and the Curriculum, was appointed as Professor of Gender Ed and Development, and now teaches English and Gender and Women Studies’ courses. Dr. Mayers thought One course the AOTM might be interested in knowing about is, Introduction to Gender Studies, which focuses on men and masculinities. Dr. Mayers states, “We are one of the very few schools of higher education which addresses issues of men and masculinities along with issues of women and feminism.”

Dr. David Pence Defending a traditional feminine role as seen by the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Bio: Dr David Pence was born in 1946. He attended Benilde High school when it was all male and Nazareth Hall Seminary when it was steeped in Latin, Greek , the classics and a beautiful liturgical life of communal prayer and Eucharist. He was a civil rights activist in the sixties as well as an antiwar draft resister in the same era. He is proud of his work in the civil rights movement and ashamed of his part in the antiwar disgrace. He was imprisoned for a year in sandstone Federal Prison during that time and believes he deserved every day and more for his sins. After rehabilitation, Dr Pence received a BA from the University of Minnesota in physiology and a MD from the Uof M medical school. He did his residency in radiation oncology at the Uof M and has worked as a physician treating cancer for 20 years. In 2007 ,while working part time as a physician he enrolled at Minnesota State University in Mankato where he received his secondary teaching license with specialties in Earth and Space Sciences and the Life Sciences. He works in the summer and vacations as a doctor but is now a full time science teacher in Chemistry, Ecology, and Physical Science at Loyola Catholic School in Mankato. Dr Pence is also the science teacher in Biology and Physical Science for the IVE minor seminary at his parish St Peter and Paul In Mankato. Dr Pence was the editor of a magazine on Minneapolis History and Politics called City Fathers. He has written several pamphlets on priestly reform and masculine fraternity in the Archdiocese in St Paul and the University of St Thomas. Those writings are at the website docsociety.org. He has written a book Religion Sex and Politics: for men only which is available on Amazon.com. Dr Pence is married with eight children and in Mankato is considered a respectable citizen.

AOTM Menu for Feb. 9^th

The AOTM Coronary Kitchen will be serving up a little taste of New Orleans. All AOTM Forums are served buffet style as and all you can eat.

• Apetizer: AOTM Louisiana Hot Wings for starters and yes celery for those girly men who are watching their girlish figure. But for the real man who want taste, we have Blue Cheese dressing to stick that celery in.
• Dinner: Jambalaya This spicy Cajun dish is just fantastic. My own Cajun sausage is fire roasted and then combined with an outlandish tomato Creole sauce. It overflows with onions, bell peppers, black beans and flavor.
• Desert: The dessert is a delicious white cake with strawberry filling and vanilla frosting.