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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for sending, Clarke. I certainly recall Phyllis at conferences and am, of course, reminded of dear Bernie Brock again, as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Elvera</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Elvera B. Berry, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chair, Communication Department<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Roberts Wesleyan College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2301 Westside Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rochester, NY 14624<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <a href="mailto:berrye@roberts.edu">berrye@roberts.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> 585.594.6333<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kb-bounces@kbjournal.org [mailto:kb-bounces@kbjournal.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Clarke Rountree<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 10, 2014 2:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> kb@kbjournal.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [KB] Death of Phyllis Japp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Burkelers:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I just saw this sad news on CRTNET (see below). Phyllis used to attend KB Conferences. Her most notable Burke publication is perhaps this one:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"‘Can This Marriage Be Saved?’: Reclaiming Burke for Feminist Scholarship." <em>Kenneth Burke and the 21<sup>st</sup></em><i> <em>Century.</em></i> Ed. Bernard L. Brock. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. 113-30.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Clarke<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>---------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dawn O. Braithwaite, </span><a href="mailto:dbraithwaite@unl.edu"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>dbraithwaite@unl.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>The passing of Dr. Phyllis Japp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<br><br>From: Dr. Debra Japp, St. Cloud State University, of behalf of her<br>family:<br><br>Dr. Phyllis Japp died on Monday, December 2, in St. Cloud, MN, following<br>a sudden illness. She was surrounded by her family. Dr. Japp, or<br>Phyllis, as she was lovingly called by both her colleagues and students,<br>was a mentor, teacher, and scholar who retired recently from the<br>Department of Communication Studies at the University of<br>Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Phyllis earned her BA (German) and MA (American<br>History) from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and her PhD<br>(Communication Studies) in 1986 from UNL. She was hired by her alma<br>mater, where she served as an assistant and associate professor, and<br>director of graduate studies. Her scholarship focused on discourse<br>related to health, healing, and the environment, and on communication<br>ethics and rhetorical and feminist cultural theory. Phyllis collaborated<br>on a number of books and published chapters and critical essays in<br>several scholarly anthologies and journals. She received the Central<br>States Communication Association's Outstanding Teacher Award and<br>Distinguished Book Awards from both the Health Communication and Applied<br>Communication Divisions of the National Communication Association.<br>Phyllis believed her students were her most significant contributions to<br>the discipline. She encouraged excellence from them and was supportive<br>and proud of their achievements. Her students, in turn, admired her<br>intellect, wit, and professionalism. Phyllis embodied the virtues of a<br>scholarly life. She believed that teaching well and writing well were<br>profound obligations. She valued intellectual diversity and advised her<br>students to "not hurry," "read good stuff," and to "think before you<br>write." She was beloved for her capacity to create safe conversational<br>spaces for students and simultaneously to push them beyond their comfort<br>zones. Her professional legacy will be former students who continue to<br>take risks, challenge established ideas, pose socially relevant<br>questions, and pursue thoughtful answers.<br><br>While a faculty member at UNL, Phyllis's students and colleagues would<br>often find her at The Mill, a coffee house in Lincoln. Phyllis loved<br>conversation so she gladly postponed her reading and writing to listen<br>and to chat, usually in that order. She listened respectfully, and when<br>she did speak her insights were tempered with humility and humor. She<br>preferred the thought-provoking question to the statement of her own<br>opinion.<br><br>Phyllis is survived by her husband, Lyle, two children--Debra of St.<br>Cloud, MN, and John (Janet) of Knoxville, TN--two grandchildren, two<br>great-grandchildren, and five siblings. She adored her family and spent<br>much of her last two years collaborating professionally with Debra, a<br>Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at St. Cloud State<br>University. Phyllis and Debra co-authored several scholarly works and<br>shared a wonderful mother-daughter-colleague-best friend relationship.<br>Her family and friends will remember her for her love of reading, joy of<br>learning, and an appreciation of nature. She lived a life of integrity,<br>quiet dignity, and deep faith. We miss her, but are better for having<br>had her in our lives.<br><br>Those who wish to honor Phyllis may do so by donating to the "Phyllis<br>Japp Scholars Fund" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which<br>supports student research. Donations may be made at<br></span><a href="https://nufoundation.org/-/unl-college-of-arts-sciences-phyllis-japp-student-development-fund-01100710" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>https://nufoundation.org/-/unl-college-of-arts-sciences-phyllis-japp-stu<br>dent-development-fund-01100710</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, or by check to the NU Foundation at 1010<br>Lincoln Mall, Lincoln NE 68508. Indicate "Phyllis Japp fund" on the memo<br>line. For assistance, contact Victor Martinez at </span><a href="tel:402-458-1185"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>402-458-1185</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Dr. Clarke Rountree<br>Chair and Professor of Communication Arts<br>342 Morton Hall<br>University of Alabama in Huntsville<br>Huntsville, AL 35899<br>256-824-6646<br><a href="mailto:clarke.rountree@uah.edu" target="_blank">clarke.rountree@uah.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>