Barbara Horn Buhrer graduated from 麻豆传媒在线 with an English degree in 1943 and worked as a librarian for many years in Livingston.\u00a0 She met her husband Edward Buhrer \u201948 \u201952 MA at a sophomore dance in the Administration Building, now known as College Hall.\u00a0 They were married for 67 years before his passing in 2010.\u00a0 They are the parents of Edward \u201971 \u201983 MA, a retired educator.\u00a0 Mrs. Buhrer\u2019s brother, George Horn \u201940, also graduated from 麻豆传媒在线 and taught in High Bridge until he entered the U.S. Army.\u00a0 Sadly, he was killed in action.\u00a0\u00a0 His name is listed on a plaque displayed in Life Hall along with the names of the other 麻豆传媒在线 men killed in World War II.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Buhrer is an avid reader and continues to review books for myshelf.com.\u00a0 She recently established the Edward and Barbara Buhrer Endowed Scholarship at 麻豆传媒在线.\u00a0 It will fund a scholarship for a full-time undergraduate student or graduate student majoring in social studies or English pursuing teacher certification.\u00a0 Mrs. Buhrer now lives in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Buhrer has contributed a review of the 麻豆传媒在线 Book 2011, The Geography of Bliss<\/em> by Eric Weiner.<\/p>\n The Geography of Bliss<\/em> reviewed by Barbara Horn Buhrer ’43<\/strong><\/p>\n How many of us have pondered the meaning of happiness and what influenced it?<\/p>\n Eric Weiner, a long time foreign correspondent for National Public Radio who has gone to many obscure places to report bad news or terrible tragedies, has undertaken to explore this subject in \u201cThe Geography of Bliss.\u201d\u00a0 Weiner makes a year long quest to visit nine diverse countries which includes Iceland, Bhutan, Moldavia, Dakar to explore what defines an individual’s happiness Observations: He concludes that what makes people happy is basically the same everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0 You can be happy wherever you are, whoever you are.\u00a0 But there are physical, social, political, geographic, climates and individuals which may also play a major role in the life situation and therefore affect our moments of happiness.<\/p>\n But really doesn’t happiness depend ultimately on the individual and how he adjusts to life around him?<\/p>\n This is a humorous travel memoir.\u00a0 It is not a travel book per se, but it does give the reader an in depth and insightful look at the geography, people and customs of various countries discussed. The book is well written, easy to read with some witty parts, which will bring a laugh to the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHis first visit is to the Netherlands to the World Database of Happiness where social scientists try to qualify and rank countries.\u00a0 Some profound statements are:\u00a0 \u201cWealthy people are happier that poor people, but only lightly so” and \u201cPeople are least happy when they are commuting to work.”<\/p>\n
\nSwitzerland:\u00a0 contentment means lives are improved when people have real power over their lives and choices
\nIceland: drink brings merriment; is very homogenous but very happy
\nMoldavia: derives pleasure from their neighbors’ failures
\nQuatar: is very wealthy but depressing<\/p>\n