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<font size=4>Thanks for letting us know, Clarke.<br><br>
I remember Jane Blankenship's Burke scholarship as both insightful and
useful, especially
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>"Kenneth Burke on
Ecology" in James Chesebro's collection,<br><br>
</font>At 07:57 AM 4/29/2015, Clarke Rountree wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear Burkelers--<br><br>
I'm sad to repost the news that Professor Jane Blankenship died a few
days ago. Jane was a Burke scholar from very early days. I recall her at
the 1984 Kenneth Burke Conference--I think she led one of the seminars.
She published the first pentadic criticism applied to nonverbal
communication (a study of Reagan in the 1980 GOP debates--Actor as
Scene). Below is the obituary published on CRTNET.<br><br>
Clarke,<br><br>
NCA National Office (submitter),Â
<a href="mailto:inbox@natcom.org">inbox@natcom.org</a><br><br>
Obituary, Jane Blankenship<br><br>
Dr. Jane Blankenship, the 64th President of the National
Communication<br>
Association (1978), passed away on April 24, 2015. Born in 1934 and
a<br>
native of Huntington, West Virginia, Professor Blankenship was a<br>
graduate of the University of Akron and received her Ph.D. in 1961
from<br>
the University of Illinois. Her mentor was Marie Hochmuth Nichols,
NCA's<br>
55th President. She was also mentored by NCA's 72nd President, Wayne<br>
Brockriede, when she served as an assistant for his debate program.
Dr.<br>
Blankenship served on the faculty of Mount Holyoke College's
Rhetoric<br>
and Composition program before moving to the Department of
Communication<br>
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During her tenure there
as<br>
Director of Graduate Studies, the university established a
Communication<br>
Ph.D. program. Dr. Blankenship retired as a professor in 1997. Active
in<br>
several of the discipline's associations, she also served as
President<br>
of the Eastern Communication Association.<br><br>
Dr. Blankenship received numerous prestigious awards throughout her<br>
career, including many from NCA - the Golden Anniversary Monograph
Award<br>
(1975); the Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award (1988); the Douglas
Ehninger<br>
Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award (1992); the NCA Feminist and<br>
Women's Studies Division Spotlight Scholar (1994); the Wallace Bacon<br>
Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award (1997); and the NCA Women's
Caucus<br>
Francine Merritt Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of<br>
Women in the Field of Communication (2002).<br>
As part of an NCA initiative to capture the stories of women who
have<br>
been prominent in NCA and beyond, Dr. Blankenship joined other women<br>
leaders in sharing her personal and professional experiences in an
essay<br>
that is posted to the NCA website
(<a href="http://bit.ly/1QAF10U">http://bit.ly/1QAF10U</a>).<br>
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-- <br>
Dr. Clarke Rountree<br>
Chair and Professor of Communication Arts<br>
342 Morton Hall<br>
University of Alabama in Huntsville<br>
Huntsville, ALÂ 35899<br>
256-824-6646<br>
<a href="mailto:clarke.rountree@uah.edu">clarke.rountree@uah.edu</a><br>
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