A Sense of Community
Virtual /Instructor Zoom | Registration opens 5/18/2026 12:00 AM MST (Arizona)
A Sense of Community in Our Lives: We live and work and recreate in communities. Most definitions of community mention that members have something in common, often common interests or locations. Some communities feel more like communities than others do. We feel more comfortable in some than we do in others. Some community members invest substantial time and effort in their communities. We will discuss the residential, professional, special-interest, and other kinds of communities that have been parts of our lives.
Duane Roen
Roen, Duane - has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children and other family members. Combining his professional and personal interests, Duane worked with colleagues to establish courses on writing and recording family history at Arizona State University. He also is founding coordinator of the Project for Writing and Recording Family History in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU.