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Amen to Anne's comment. I wish I could be there, but will make a point to remember him specially on Saturday. Susanne On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Like me, many of us can be there in spirit only, but thanks, Sean--and > thanks to Rachel too. I remember him so fondly . . . Anne. > > On Oct 6, 2013, at 7:48 PM, Sean Henry wrote: > > Rachel Hile (who, for some reason, isn't on the list) asked me to pass > along news she found about a memorial service for Paul Alpers at UC > Berkeley: > > > http://english.berkeley.edu/ > > "Memorial Service for Paul J. Alpers > > A memorial service for Paul J. Alpers, Emeritus Professor of English, will > be held on Saturday, October 12th, at 2 P.M. in the Maude Fife Room, 315 > Wheeler Hall, with a reception to follow in the department lounge room 330. > > Paul Alpers died on May 19, 2013, at the age of 80. He served as a member > of the English Department for 38 years, retiring in 2002. He was the > founding director of UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities, a > former chair of the English Department, a winner of the Distinguished > Teaching Award, holder of the Class of 1942 Professorship, and a founding > editor of the journal Representations. > > The academic community is invited to join in celebrating his life and > career at the October 12th service, which is co-hosted by the UC Berkeley > Department of English and by his widow, Carol Christ." > > > Rachel rightly thought such news would be of interest to us all. > > Yours, > > Sean Henry. > > > ------------------------------------------------- > Sean Henry, B.A., M.A., PhD. > Lecturer, Department of English > University of Victoria, B.C., Canada > [log in to unmask] > > >