[KB] Your papers

[Clarke Rountree]

That would be Phil Tompkins, Ed.

Clarke

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:57 PM Edward C Appel <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
wrote:

> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
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>  Initiatives (CTSI)
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Dr. Clarke Rountree
Professor of Communication Arts
Associate Dean for Recruitment and Outreach for the College of Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences
212D CTC
University of Alabama in Huntsville
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