[KB] Your papers

[tompkinp at colorado.edu]

Yes, I was the Master of Anecdotes.  I collected them in advance of the conference from scholars who knew KB and his work.  I sat next to him during the lunch and observed his reactions as I read each anecdote aloud.  
Phil Tompkins

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Subject: Re: [KB] Your papers

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.  
 
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 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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