Dear Alums,
Sometimes it’s difficult for me to keep up with the workload. Stockton celebrated its 40th anniversary two Septembers ago. I attended the celebrations; wrote about the LITT/LANG program for the book Ken Tompkins and Rob Gregg put together; and thought swanky thoughts about Stockton all year round. But I didn’t get around to asking you to join in celebrating 40 years of Literature at Stockton.
Well, I’m getting to it now. I have been tasked with writing the next issue of our newsletter, the Irregular Littonian, and I have decided that we should celebrate 42 years of Literature at Stockton!
To that end, I need your help. I am asking for submissions of the following sorts (see further details and submission deadline below):
- Brief, sweet or meaningful anecdotes about the Literature faculty or your time within the program;
- Pictures of you during your time at Stockton or of LITT faculty or of LITT related events or of Stockton that you don’t mind having published in pdf format for all the world to see;
- A gnomic or epigrammatic statement that describes the impact of literature upon your life.
I don’t want this email to go long (“You have already gone past short, Tom”), but remember the stories that some of the LITT faculty told about their own professors way back when? For example, if you were in my classes you probably heard tell of Bob Gross teaching me how to use the semicolon in 17 seconds. Or Paul Fussell telling me, much to my chagrin, to “Think Smarter, Write Better!” Those are the sort of moments – about LITT faculty – that you might want to share. But any memory is fine. As for the gnomic description, I’ll provide a silly example: “Literature introduced me to good books, the world, and late-night snacking.”
Thanks for reading this far. I hope you are all warm and happy,
Tom Kinsella
Teaching Literature at Stockton (since ’89)
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DETAILS
I won’t put a word limit on your memories, and feel free to submit more than one, but strive for compression in your prose (as I am currently telling the students in Shakespeare).
Please tell me the name you want used as attribution below your memory or picture, and please let me know your year of graduation. If you want to submit memories, pics, or gnomic wisdom anonymously or without years appended, just let me know that and I shall honor the request.
I may not be able to use all pics (but I will try). As long as the memories are not slanderous (and I hope they will not be) I will use them all; same with any epigrammatica.
I am looking for numerous submissions from early, middle, and recent grads, so I hope you all wade in. I’d love to have anecdotes about every LITT professor ever, but we’ll see what we get.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
Monday, November 25, 2013. I’ll stitch this together over the Thanksgiving break.
Please send text and pics to me, Tom Kinsella, at Kinsella@earthlink.net.
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