Date: August
25, 2015 12:51:04 PM EDT
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
