History in the Comic Mode:
A Symposium in Honor of Charles T. Wood
Electronic greetings on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday
Laura Blanchard
lblancha@pobox.upenn.edu
It has been a privilege to be involved in the symposium itself and in the creation of the online proceedings.
-------09/30/98 05:05:30-------Bonnie Wheeler
Congratulations, Charlie. What a wonderful and diverse group has gathered to honor you. it was a privilege to serve (with Laura) as a convenor of the Congregatio de Silvescendo.
-------09/30/98 14:54:46-------Luke Wenger
Best wishes, Charlie, and sincere thanks for your multitudinous contributions to medieval studies.
-------10/01/98 11:26:05-------Sharon Kay Penman
Dear Charlie, Best birthday wishes to my very favorite Anti-Ricardian! If all historians, scholars, and teachers had your insight and flair, the entire country would be mad for the Middle Ages.
-------10/05/98 06:43:58-------Fred Cheyette
flcheyette@amherst.edu
So the last of the electronic luddites gets his celebratory hour on the World Wide Web! How appropriate that it should be Charlie who puts the profession at the cutting edge.
-------10/06/98 11:31:08-------Vickie L. Ziegler
vlz1@psu.edu
Congratulations on surviving a career in academe with wit and courtliness intact! Best regards, Vickie
-------10/07/98 07:47:22-------R. Barton Palmer
PPalmer@Clemson.edu
Charlie, congratulations on the wonderful symposium held in your honor! Your teaching at Dartmouth for more than thirty years has enriched the lives of countless undergraduates, but it has also left a wonderful and substantial legacy of those who have chosen to follow more directly in your footsteps. What better testimony to the power of your mind and the incredible enthusiasm with which you offered us an invitation to the study of the Middle Ages.
-------10/09/98 06:47:04-------Jim Gillespie
sweis@index.com.jo
My very best wishes to you. Apart from your generous support and friendship, you are that rare scholar who can wear his learning lightly! I have temporarily sold my soul by becoming acting VPAA for the new American University in Amman. I hope to get back to the USA for Kalamazoo. Will I see you there? Jim Gillespie
-------10/11/98 03:54:32-------Gabrielle M. Spiegel
spiegel@jhunix.hcf. jhu.edu
Dear Charlie, Don't you think it's funny that at our advanced age we commemorate your outstanding accomplishments in the ether. This must presage good things to come for you, both well-deserved. Hope you enjoyed your symposium and dinner. It was fun to fete you. warmest wishes, Gabrielle
-------10/11/98 12:43:32-------Jonathan Good
good0179@tc.umn.edu
Dear Prof. Wood, Many thanks, again, for your comments on my paper, the essays you forwarded to me, and the picture of me speaking at Kalamazoo, a copy of which was sent by the Campions to my parents. You are most kind! I hope all is well in Hanover, and do pass my regards to Mrs. Wood. Jonathan Good '94.
-------10/21/98 08:04:58-------Peter and Carolyn Hammond
P/C@glosreprints.telme.com
Hello Charlie We are very pleased for this opportunity to send you many thanks for your contribution to 15th century and Ricardian studies - and for showing us all that good history doesn't have to be solemn, while still always being accurate. Peter and Carolyn Hammond
-------10/26/98 01:45:05-------Michael Ermarth
Michael.Ermarth@Dartmouth.edu
Charlie--You have been an inspiration to us all over the years--prompting us to be serious about the serious matters, and comic wherever else it could be permitted. Now is a time to be gladly serious--in the full sense of expressing our deepest thanks and appreciation for the prodigious richness of your mind and scholarship, the generosity of your spirit, and the ample but gentle force of your professional example. Congratulations--and all our best wishes and thanks, Michael Ermarth, Chair, on behalf of the Dartmouth History Department
-------10/27/98 07:37:08-------Pamela
Charles, In the best tradition of the historian, you have allowed us to live many lifetimes over newspaper and coffee in the History lounge. Here's to the most-well-rounded medievalist I know! Affectionately, Pamela
-------10/27/98 07:44:53-------Richard Kremer
richard.kremer@dartmouth.edu
Thanks, Charlie, for being such a wonderful colleague and for all those stimulating conversations about History, medieval and otherwise. Your wit and wisdom have inspired us all. Salve! Rich Kremer & Jane Carroll
-------10/27/98 08:41:28-------Jere Daniell
Congratulations. You've been an inspiration to many a potential medievalist. Now you reap the rewards. Cheers from chilly Hanover.
-------10/27/98 09:44:04-------Emilio Kourí
Felicidades, Charlie, from your colleague next door. As far as I am concerned, you left all too soon!
-------10/27/98 12:53:04-------Franz Schredl
fschredl@tech-center.com
Congrats! Very imformative.
-------10/28/98 05:12:32-------Gene Garthwaite
Happy birthday, Charlie, and many more. The best of Minnesota and Dartmouth combine in your interest and support for all of us in all of our manifestations. Congratulations, too, on your significant professional achievements; you have been a very model of a very model Historian. Gene
-------10/28/98 05:29:54-------Peter Kardon
pk@gf.org
Cheers! -- Peter
-------10/28/98 07:26:58-------Paul Hyams
prh3@cornell.edu
Dear Charlie, What a very nice way to be electro-honored! Here you are a pioneer and a leader among men (and women) as always. Many congratulations and all best wishes, Paul
-------10/28/98 08:17:23-------Gail Vernazza
gail.vernazza@dartmouth.edu
It's been a real pleasure to work with you all these many years. I truly miss your presence here in the Department. May you have a wonderful birthday celebration! Affezionatissimo, Gail & Tom
-------10/28/98 11:07:43-------Susan Reynolds
Many happy returns and lots of love, Charlie
-------10/28/98 12:56:15-------marysa navarro
Carolitos querido: It would take too long for me to explain to you how much I miss you. I just want to tell you that I cannot conceive of my professional life and especially my life at Dartmouth without you. Muchos gracias, and may Roncesvalles (not Roncevaux) and the Basques live forever! Marysa
-------10/29/98 05:53:02-------kenneth shewmaker
Dear Charlie! May the revellers celebrating YOUR SPECIAL BIRTHDAY sing the following to LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN. Wish our voices could join with theirs. Congratulations and best wishes! Ken and Liese
From this town
you know so well,
bells ring clear,
wishes swell,
greeting you,
DEAR CHARLES,
this day,
on YOUR BIRTHDAY.You we hail
with British beer,
sing your praise,
far and near.
May each day of
YOUR new year
bring you blessings.
-------10/29/98 07:01:05-------Colin G. Calloway
Very best wishes, Charlie.
-------10/29/98 11:57:16-------David Lagomarsino
Charlie -- Golden Gloves contender, pipe fitter, investment banker, composer, excellent historian and colleague -- you are indeed the Universal Man! Thank you for 25 years of pleasure listening to your lectures and profiting from your wisdom and friendship. Congratulations on your special birthday. David
-------11/06/98 11:56:05-------JimO'Donnell
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Charlie, in my last e-mail message to you I called you evil and devious and added that by this I meant high praise. I am happy to repeat my words publicly. Sto lat!
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