{"id":334592,"date":"2018-08-23T18:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=334592"},"modified":"2018-10-06T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T18:53:38","slug":"paul-burgett-university-dean-vice-president-and-ambassador-remembered-334592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/paul-burgett-university-dean-vice-president-and-ambassador-remembered-334592\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Burgett, University dean, vice president, and ambassador, remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the University community\u2019s most recognized citizens dies at age 72.<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Burgett\u2014musician, scholar, teacher, and University leader for over half a century\u2014 has died after a brief illness. He was 72.<\/p>\n

Burgett, who arrived at the University\u2019s Eastman School of Music in 1964 from St. Louis as a first-year student, became one of Rochester\u2019s most prominent and beloved figures.<\/p>\n

During a University career that spanned 54 years, he served in an extraordinary number of key roles: student body president at Eastman, faculty member in the Department of Music, dean of students at Eastman and for the University, advisor to four University presidents, a University vice president, and general secretary to the University\u2019s Board of Trustees. Along the way, he steeped himself in the history of the University, becoming the leading storyteller of the institution.<\/p>\n

To generations of students, alumni, parents, and friends, he was the face of Rochester. Known almost universally as Dean Burgett, he was widely admired for his rapport with students and community constituencies, his unabashed affection for the University and the influence the institution and its people had on his own life, and for his unflagging commitment to holding Rochester and the members of its community to the ideals of its motto, Meliora.<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>University President Richard Feldman, who worked often with Burgett on academic and administrative initiatives, said Burgett had been enormously influential in helping shape the University as an outward-looking, community-oriented, multicultural institution, where students and faculty were expected to learn from one another and to value the perspectives and experiences of others.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who worked with Paul was deeply impressed by his commitment to each and every individual in our community,\u201d said Feldman. \u201cWhile he had a masterful grasp of the institution, its place in higher education, and its history, he remembered almost every student he ever met by name.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd his genuine, heartfelt, and gracious interest in the success of every student, faculty and staff member, and administrator drove every decision he made as a University leader and every initiative he championed at the University. To say he will be missed doesn\u2019t do justice to his lasting impact on the University community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The eldest of six children born to an African-American father and an Italian-American mother who had to cross the border into Illinois in order to be married, Burgett grew up in 1950s Missouri, knowing that he and his family were different. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have the word \u2018biracial\u2019 back then,\u201d he told Rochester Review<\/em> in a 2015 profile, and he acknowledged that \u201cthe veil,\u201d which W.E.B. Dubois described in The Souls of Black Folk<\/em>, also described how he and his siblings would be looked at by many white Americans, and was never wholly lifted.<\/p>\n

Supported by his musician parents (his mother an organist, his father a concert baritone), Burgett earned recognition as a young violinist, coming to the attention of family friend Edward Ormond, then a violist with the St. Louis Symphony. Burgett auditioned for Eastman while in St. Louis and began his studies in the fall of 1964 as a member of the Class of 1968.<\/p>\n

In April 1968, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, then senior Burgett was asked to address a convocation held in Kilbourn Hall to memorialize King.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite clear that Dr. King recognized the social ills of this nation\u2014ills which were manifest through the convenient tools of racial injustice,\u201d Burgett said in his remarks. \u201cBut ills which in fact lay much deeper than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cause is branded with the misnomer of the Negro problem,\u201d Burgett said. \u201cIt is branded with the name of the white problem, it is branded with all sorts of names, trying to find and attach a label to what amounts to, basically and without question, a human problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

After graduating in 1968, Burgett was offered a fellowship to work on his doctorate but postponed his studies to join the US Army Reserves, where he played the tuba in a military band. He returned to his studies at Eastman after serving as executive director of the Hochstein School of Music and Drama. He taught music half-time in the Greece Central School District while he earned his Ph.D., and became an associate professor of music at Nazareth College of Rochester after graduation.<\/p>\n

For his doctorate in 1976, Burgett explored the aesthetic theories developed by black scholars and the implications of their work on the development of educational curricula at all levels of education, a subject that until that point had not been much chronicled but one that his advisor, Paul Lehman, enthusiastically supported. His finished dissertation was titled \u201cAesthetics of the Music of Black Americans: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of Selected Black Scholars with the Implications for Black Music Studies and for Music Education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advocating for the history and creativity of black classical musicians and composers was never far from Burgett\u2019s heart. He championed the Gateways Music Festival, a multiday series of concerts, performances, and other events designed to provide classical musicians of African descent a performance showcase of their own. The biennial festival was brought by an Eastman faculty member to Rochester in 1995. Burgett helped nurture and strengthen its ties to the Eastman School of Music; at the time of his death he was chair of the Gateways Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

Burgett was named dean of students at Eastman in 1981 and drew on his own experience to improve student programs, including planning for Eastman\u2019s Student Living Center.<\/p>\n

At Eastman, he first began giving his signature presentation, now known as \u201cThe Fiery Furnace.\u201d In the address, which he continued to present to first-year students and was scheduled to deliver again this fall, he describes a University education as a journey that students embark on, one in which they will have to confront ideas and perspectives, challenges and opportunities that will mold their character. Education is, he noted, much like a furnace, a prospect that can seem terrifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you will step out of that furnace strong, tempered like steel,\u201d he told students, also promising \u201cWe will not abandon you. We will never abandon you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the speech, he articulated what became something of a mantra as he helped students find their path in life. \u201cPassion and ability drive ambition,\u201d he often said, noting that picking a major is not nearly as important as caring deeply about a topic so much that you tap into and develop your abilities to find success.<\/p>\n

After seven years at Eastman, he was named University dean of students, a move that established his home base at Wilson Commons on the River Campus but allowed him to keep a hand in the life of his beloved Eastman School.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul is special in so many ways.\u00a0As a proud alumnus, he was indefatigable in his support of Eastman, as well as the University as a whole,\u201d said Jamal Rossi \u201987E (DMA), the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music.\u00a0\u201cHe was a larger than life figure with a gregarious and outgoing personality, who simultaneously was among the most thoughtful and sensitive individuals in any group when thinking about the needs of others. He will be deeply missed as a leader, a colleague, and especially, as a dear friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

As dean of students, Burgett often described his role as gaining access to the \u201cbackstage\u201d of students\u2019 lives, getting to know them in ways that allowed him, student services staff, and other faculty to offer better support and advice to orient cocurricular programs to better correspond to the needs of students. His gregarious personality and deft ability to read the emotions of others made him particularly successful at advising students.<\/p>\n

In a nod to his own upbringing, in which his father and mother encouraged his ambitions as a musician and educator, Burgett often referred to the students he got to know as \u201cDoctor\u201d in reference to their aspirations as scholars and professionals.<\/p>\n

As University dean of students, he\u2019s credited by peers and students alike with improving programs at Wilson Commons, University Health Service, the University Counseling Center, Residential Life, Interfaith Chapel, Athletics and Recreation, and several other programs.<\/p>\n

In 2001, Burgett became University vice president, general secretary to the Board of Trustees, and senior advisor to the president. In these roles, he worked closely with Presidents Thomas Jackson and Joel Seligman. He stepped down as general secretary in 2011, and continued to serve as vice president and presidential advisor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my privilege to have participated with Paul in his many interactions with the Board of Trustees and in many of his community activities over more than 30 years,\u201d said G. Robert Witmer Jr. \u201959, \u00a0Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees. \u201cPaul was a positive and unforgettable influence on more people than anyone I have known.\u00a0 He was, and remains, the epitome of what the URochester is, and works to become.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burgett took on a high-profile assignment in 2015, when he and Feldman, then the dean of the College, co-chaired the President\u2019s Commission on Race and Diversity. The 20-member, University-wide committee recommended ways to improve Rochester\u2019s programs for increasing diversity among students, faculty, and staff, and for creating a campus environment that values diversity in its many forms.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Eastman awarded Burgett a Distinguished Alumni Award and asked him to address the graduating class.<\/p>\n

Throughout his tenure, he regularly taught two popular undergraduate classes\u2014 Music of Black Americans and History of Jazz \u2014 as a faculty member in the Department of Music in the School of Arts & Sciences. In a 2010 Rochester Review<\/em> article titled \u201c101 Things to Do Before You Graduate,\u201d writer Dana Hilfinger \u201910 cited Burgett\u2019s History of Jazz class as No. 12.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the University named the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center in recognition of Burgett\u2019s long service, a tenure in which\u2014as a board resolution notes\u2014he was a \u201ctireless advocate for justice and equity for all.\u201d Delighted with the honor, Burgett wrote a note of thanks in which he said he was \u201can intercultural product .\u2009.\u2009. from birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Located in Douglass Commons as part of the building\u2019s renovation into a student-focused campus hub, the center brings students together to work with and learn from those from other cultures, backgrounds, beliefs, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, and perspectives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs our namesake, Dean Burgett embodied the sentiment of inclusion,” said Jessica Guzman-Rea \u201910W (EdD), the inaugural director of the Burgett Center. “His warmth, his light, and his laughter made all who were graced with his presence feel like they were part of something better. Words cannot encompass what his loss means to the University and community at large. He will be forever loved and forever missed!\u201d<\/p>\n

As a resident of the Greater Rochester community, Burgett also threw himself into community service in the region. He served such groups as the Urban League, the Hochstein School, the Genesee Country Museum and Village, the Rochester Arts and Cultural Council, the United Way of Rochester, the George Eastman Museum, and many others.<\/p>\n

He was also a leading force behind the University\u2019s support for the Rochester Fringe Festival when the multiday performing arts festival was launched in 2012. Many of the performers for the festival have University connections and many of the events are staged at Eastman venues.<\/p>\n

At the University, he co-chaired the faculty and staff component of the Meliora Challenge, Rochester\u2019s historic $1 billion fundraising campaign.<\/p>\n

As he stepped away from his role as an administrator\u2014a label he often eschewed\u2014he turned his attention to the history of the University. He took on the role of University storyteller, often traveling to alumni gatherings around the country to make presentations about the institution that meant so much to him: \u201cWhere we came from, who our predecessors were, on whose shoulders we stand, and our responsibilities as stewards of their legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an afterword to a 2014 history of the University, Our Work Is But Begun: A History of the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ 1850\u20132005<\/em>, by Janice Bullard Pieterse (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Press), he wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow in the twilight of my professional career, I have become fascinated by the story of the University that educated and trained me; sent me out into the world as a well-prepared and confident high school and college music teacher, performer, and music administrator; and then welcomed me back 34 years ago and turned me loose on its campuses and in its halls and classrooms to join the faculty, students, and staff in the work of its auspicious and noble mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have become a serious and passionate student of our history and believe that all of us who claim an association with the University, in any form or manner, will want to learn more about the institution that affected our lives deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul read everything from the George Eastman-Rush Rhees correspondence to Annual Reports to the Campus Times<\/em>,\u201d remembers Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian. \u201cAnd in telling our story, he would highlight past examples of what he called \u2018inspired, effective, and generous leadership,\u2019 and his audiences always knew that he exemplified those qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In making his presentations, Burgett would often joke that he himself had witnessed much of that history, having been part of the University since \u201cbefore the Earth\u2019s crust began to cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The transformations that took place during Burgett\u2019s history at Rochester sometimes took even him by surprise.<\/p>\n

In the 2015 profile for Rochester Review<\/em>, he said that he found it hard to believe that he had been at Rochester for 50 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not been relevant to me,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I hang around students who never age, do they? They\u2019re always 18 to their mid-20s or so, some a little older. And when they get to the end of their studies, they leave and are replaced by newcomers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I forget how old I am, until I look in the mirror and see my father looking back at me\u2014at which point it\u2019s, well, startling, I suppose.\u201d<\/p>\n

There will be a private memorial service and a celebration of Paul\u2019s life at a later date.<\/p>\n

Messages of condolence to be shared with Paul Burgett\u2019s family can be sent to his friend and longtime assistant at the University, Kim Truebger, by email to kim.truebger@rochester.edu<\/a> or in hard copy to Box 270011, URochester, Rochester 14627-0011.<\/p>\n

Remembrances can also be shared on a special memorial website: www.rochester.edu\/news\/remembering-paul-burgett<\/a>. <\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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