[KB] Sad News

[Clarke Rountree]

I was shocked and saddened to hear of Ed Appel's passing. I was emailing
with him last week about joining a panel at the upcoming Triennial. We had
a terrific back and forth, including having him send me a completed paper
for possible presentation. He was active, as always, to the end. But,
ultimately, he declined to join the panel because he was worried about his
health.

Ed was extraordinarily helpful as a reviewer when I co-edited KBJ. I once
sent him a manuscript that a reviewer had neglected to respond to and he
returned it overnight! He also read my 500-page book draft (using the
pentad to analyze Bush v. Gore). He was a gadfly--always asking pesky and
important questions about any subject. I like to think he was something of
a surrogate KB after our eponymous founder died.

The conference will be decidedly different without Ed's presence.

Clarke

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:08 AM David Blakesley <david.blakesley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Burkelers:
>
> I just learned this morning that Ed Appel passed away earlier this week.
> Ed's daughter, Beth, contacted Rochelle Gregory (*KB Journal *associate
> editor) to let us know. You can read Ed's obituary here:
>
>
> https://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/dr-edward-c-appel/article_62c9faf0-2d13-5426-90dc-2735c1f471e1.html
>
> There was no one more passionate about KB and the Kenneth Burke Society
> than Ed, as so many of you know. He published more articles in *KB
> Journal* than anyone, the most recent just this past fall: "Biological
> Adumbrations of Drama: Deacon, Burke, Action/Motion, and the Bridge to the
> 'Symbolic Species'” <http://kbjournal.org/appel-biological-adumbrations> Ed
> served on the editorial board of *KB Journal* in one capacity or another
> since its beginnings. In 2017, the KB Society recognized Ed's contributions
> with its Distinguished Service Award.
> <http://kbjournal.org/appel-biological-adumbrations>
>
> Ed was incredibly smart, always thoughtful, cantankerous, with a big heart
> and the astounding memory of an elephant. His spirit will live on in this
> list and his legacy in Burke and communication studies more generally will
> never be forgotten. Here is in 2002 in New Orleans:
>
> [image: Ed Appel 2002.jpg]
>
> Holla! Ed!
>
> Warmly,
> Dave Blakesley
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-- 
Dr. Clarke Rountree
Professor of Communication Arts
212D CTC
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL  35899
256-824-6646
clarke.rountree at uah.edu
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