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Anne, thank you for this. When I saw the header, I thought it was going to be an obit -- so glad to learn otherwise. Will send a card for sure! Germaine On 2015-08-25 1:56 PM, Anne Prescott wrote: > This from Arthur Kinney about our own Carol Kaske. I am woefully > behind in writing her and will take this as a deserved nudge. Best to > all of her friends, Anne. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> *From: *Arthur Kinney <[log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >> *Date: *August 25, 2015 12:51:04 PM EDT >> *To: *anne prescott <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >> *Subject: **can you forward?* >> >> Anne, >> >> Since as a life member I am not privy to the Spenser Society list, >> could you forward the following? >> >> Dear Spenserians, >> >> Yesterday I had the good fortune to visit Carol Kaske in her >> retirement home on the Cornell campus. She is living in a beautiful >> old manor house built of stone in 1905. We met for a couple of hours >> on the porch so I did not see her quarters but the house is full dark >> mahogany trimmings and Tiffany lamps. She seemed quite content, >> smiling often when she thought about her Kathleen Williams Lecture, >> Kalamazoo generally, and some Spenserians individually. At the same >> time her thoughts could become confused or drift off and she then had >> troiuble speaking but she seemed at easy to say repeatedly, "Well, >> it's gone now." Sheis there with other former Cornell people, now >> retired, and is happy with that. The service and attention she is >> getting are superb. She is not ambulatory on her own. >> >> When I asked her what she would like me to say to Spenserians, she >> loudly said, "Write!" She is clearly lonely; only her son >> occasionally,comes with his girlfriend and one faculty member not in >> English--"They say I am dead" -- stop by. A card now and then might >> be nice. >> >> Arthur >> >> Professor Carol Kaske >> Bridges at Cornell Heights >> 403 Wycoff Avenue >> Ithaca, New York >> 1-607-257-5777 > -- *********************************************************************** Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of Toronto [log in to unmask] http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/germainew/ "There has never been a great age of science and technology without a corresponding flourishing of the arts and humanities." -- Cathy N. Davidson ***********************************************************************