[KB] Your papers

[Edward C Appel]

Herb,

That March, 1984, Conference on Discourse Analysis, under the aegis of Temple University, was held at the Bellevue Stratford, top floor as I recall. It was a wonderful event, with feisty Burke standing up and interrupting Lance Bennett with a blistering tirade in the middle of Bennett's presentation. Powerful plenary lectures and excellent seminars. I recall, too, postprandial addresses by both Jamieson and---forgive me, I'm an old guy, the Burke scholar at Colorado, his name now escapes me.

The superb panel speeches last year at East Stroudsburg involving the young'uns bodes well for the future of Burke studies.

You and Trevor did a great job on that gathering, and on the book that ensued



Ed    
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On Mon, 11/12/18, HERBERT W. Simons <hsimons at temple.edu> wrote:

 Subject: [KB] Your papers
 To: "Robert Craig" <Robert.Craig at colorado.edu>, "David C. Williams" <dcwill at fau.edu>
 Cc: p.mass at verizon.net, kb at kbjournal.org, "Fahy" <cdfahy at gmail.com>, "Kathleen Hall Jamieson" <kjamieson at asc.upenn.edu>, "elanah naftali" <elanah.naftali at gmail.com>
 Date: Monday, November 12, 2018, 8:44 AM
 
 Dear colleagues,I'd like to have e-mailed
 copies of your papers.
  At the Burke "parlor"
 meeting 10-12 young people as well as Roundtree and Thames
 convened to discuss matters Burkean. I played the old man
 and regaled them with memories of that first Burke
 conference: e.g., the charlatan "doctor" who
 attached himself to KB at the Williams conference,  moved
 in with him, and helped him navigate steps. We registered
 him and didn't charge him the entry fee, at his
 request.  
 It turned out that he was a
 collector of important people,  as our friend, Chris Fahy,
 revealed to me.
 KB's daughter, Eleanor Leacock
 (sp?) was furious at me for entrusting  KB to this
 imposter. When asked whether he'd like the pseudo-doc to
 be moved from his room, he said yes for the man's sake
 since he had work to do.
 I'd forgotten how many in our
 field attended that first conference and participated in
 it's small group seminars as well as it's plenaries,
 at which a recurrent question was about "not vicious
 but mistaken" and the issue of warrantable
 outrage.
 Note: I've got a book in
 production called Rhetoric in Action, which will be made
 available at no cost. Several of its essays are on my
 website, which can be found by googllng my name.
 Psychologist Ken Gergen superintended the project.
 Richard Thames recalled that it was
 held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Phila but  I
 recall that it was the Barclay, an older hotel.In deference to KB with his
 drinking problem we served grape juice at the banquet. 
 Kathleen Jamieson's toast:
 "Language may do our thinking
 for us but it cannot do our drinking for us." As for
 the "doc", he spent the night in a bathtub,
 compliments of the organizers. On the last night of the
 conference, when the KB Society was formed. he approached
 Harry Chapin's wife with a hug and she reciprocated 
 diplomatically, not knowing what else to do.
 I can't say enough about the
 young scholars who participated in the NCA convention's
 "Burke Parlor." For those concerned about the
 future of Burke studies, rest assured, this next generation
 is highly competent and motivated.
 Note: I've got a book in
 production called Rhetoric in Action, which will be made
 available at no cost. Several of its essays are on my
 website, which can be found by googllng my name.
 Psychologist Ken Gergen superintended the project.  
 
 -- 
 Herbert
 W. Simons, Ph.D.
 Emeritus Professor of Communication
 Dep't of  Strategic Communication, Weiss Hall 215
 Temple University, Philadelphia 19122
 Home phone: 215 844 5969
 http://astro.temple.edu/~hsimons
 Academic Fellow, Center for Transformative Strategic
 Initiatives (CTSI)
 
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