JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, Volume 21, Number 4, Spring 2001 Page: 737
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In Memory
but only the men and women fighting for progressive politics, fair
economies, and social justice-and against cultural stereotypes of the
repressive "natural order"-can ensure that the powerful stop dumping
garbage in the backyard of the powerless. Our very survival rides on our
courage to risk personal loss for the common good. You, my friend, had
the courage of conviction that few possess, and you tapped into it without
stint. Sometimes men and women are like two ships passing in the night;
I'm grateful our ships have made close, extended contact.
Chris Teutsch, West Chester University
One image of Al comes constantly to mind: his face, the first time I met
him, across the table from me when I visited West Chester for the first
time during my campus interview. In my memory, Al's face is open,
encouraging, warm. There was something about his eyes, their liveliness
and kindness as he listened with the other faculty members to my
stumbling answers, that was tremendously reassuring to an anxious
candidate. I have learned since that time that it is a common search
committee practice for members to maintain a stance of reserve during an
interview. Not so with Al. Apart from any assumptions of how he
measured my candidacy, I was clear on his persona at the table. It was one
of welcoming.
Having spent my first eight years at West Chester as Al's colleague
and friend, I feel now that my first impression fairly well captures a
certain quality that I have loved and will miss most about him: his
inclusiveness. Al was always about welcoming others to the table, and
never about finding ways to calculate that the table was one chair short.
Within our department in general and as a respected leader during a time
of rapid and tremendous change within our composition program, Al's
has always been the voice of tolerance, the eye of most generous measure,
the one who was quite singular in terms of his national accomplishments
as a scholar, and yet so very ordinary in the way he blended into our group
and functioned as a conciliator among individuals who can be quite
fractious at times. It seems to me that Al held us together, a steady and at
times overlooked binding presence.
Anne Herzog, West Chester UniversityC-19.
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