<div dir="ltr">That would be Phil Tompkins, Ed.<div><br></div><div>Clarke</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:57 PM Edward C Appel <<a href="mailto:edwardcappel@frontier.com">edwardcappel@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Herb,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
The superb panel speeches last year at East Stroudsburg involving the young'uns bodes well for the future of Burke studies.<br>
<br>
You and Trevor did a great job on that gathering, and on the book that ensued<br>
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Ed <br>
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On Mon, 11/12/18, HERBERT W. Simons <<a href="mailto:hsimons@temple.edu" target="_blank">hsimons@temple.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: [KB] Your papers<br>
To: "Robert Craig" <<a href="mailto:Robert.Craig@colorado.edu" target="_blank">Robert.Craig@colorado.edu</a>>, "David C. Williams" <<a href="mailto:dcwill@fau.edu" target="_blank">dcwill@fau.edu</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:p.mass@verizon.net" target="_blank">p.mass@verizon.net</a>, <a href="mailto:kb@kbjournal.org" target="_blank">kb@kbjournal.org</a>, "Fahy" <<a href="mailto:cdfahy@gmail.com" target="_blank">cdfahy@gmail.com</a>>, "Kathleen Hall Jamieson" <<a href="mailto:kjamieson@asc.upenn.edu" target="_blank">kjamieson@asc.upenn.edu</a>>, "elanah naftali" <<a href="mailto:elanah.naftali@gmail.com" target="_blank">elanah.naftali@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Monday, November 12, 2018, 8:44 AM<br>
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Dear colleagues,I'd like to have e-mailed<br>
copies of your papers.<br>
At the Burke "parlor"<br>
meeting 10-12 young people as well as Roundtree and Thames<br>
convened to discuss matters Burkean. I played the old man<br>
and regaled them with memories of that first Burke<br>
conference: e.g., the charlatan "doctor" who<br>
attached himself to KB at the Williams conference, moved<br>
in with him, and helped him navigate steps. We registered<br>
him and didn't charge him the entry fee, at his<br>
request. <br>
It turned out that he was a<br>
collector of important people, as our friend, Chris Fahy,<br>
revealed to me.<br>
KB's daughter, Eleanor Leacock<br>
(sp?) was furious at me for entrusting KB to this<br>
imposter. When asked whether he'd like the pseudo-doc to<br>
be moved from his room, he said yes for the man's sake<br>
since he had work to do.<br>
I'd forgotten how many in our<br>
field attended that first conference and participated in<br>
it's small group seminars as well as it's plenaries,<br>
at which a recurrent question was about "not vicious<br>
but mistaken" and the issue of warrantable<br>
outrage.<br>
Note: I've got a book in<br>
production called Rhetoric in Action, which will be made<br>
available at no cost. Several of its essays are on my<br>
website, which can be found by googllng my name.<br>
Psychologist Ken Gergen superintended the project.<br>
Richard Thames recalled that it was<br>
held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Phila but I<br>
recall that it was the Barclay, an older hotel.In deference to KB with his<br>
drinking problem we served grape juice at the banquet. <br>
Kathleen Jamieson's toast:<br>
"Language may do our thinking<br>
for us but it cannot do our drinking for us." As for<br>
the "doc", he spent the night in a bathtub,<br>
compliments of the organizers. On the last night of the<br>
conference, when the KB Society was formed. he approached<br>
Harry Chapin's wife with a hug and she reciprocated <br>
diplomatically, not knowing what else to do.<br>
I can't say enough about the<br>
young scholars who participated in the NCA convention's<br>
"Burke Parlor." For those concerned about the<br>
future of Burke studies, rest assured, this next generation<br>
is highly competent and motivated.<br>
Note: I've got a book in<br>
production called Rhetoric in Action, which will be made<br>
available at no cost. Several of its essays are on my<br>
website, which can be found by googllng my name.<br>
Psychologist Ken Gergen superintended the project. <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Herbert<br>
W. Simons, Ph.D.<br>
Emeritus Professor of Communication<br>
Dep't of Strategic Communication, Weiss Hall 215<br>
Temple University, Philadelphia 19122<br>
Home phone: 215 844 5969<br>
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