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Re: death of Stan Luce

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm saddened to learn of Stan's passing. I remember finding a xerox of
his dissertation in the JV collection at Cal State Long Beach back in the
1980s when I lived on the west coast, and previously unaware of it, and
intrigued by its content and early date, promptly made a copy for my own
library. I realized just what a pioneer Stan was for his dissertation
when researching my opening chapter in the JV Encyclopedia. Hence it was
a special pleasure to meet him for the first time at the NAJVS
Fredericksburg meeting, and learn that not only had his interest in JV
persisted, but that he was undertaking fresh projects in his retirement
years. Stan made real contributions, from the time when JV study in the
academy must have been truly a difficult subject to tackle (given the
relative lack of precedent), right through our own time of advancing
interest and finishing the final untranslated texts.

Readers, and especially those of us in the NAJVS, owe Stan a tremendous
debt. We will remember him.

Brian Taves

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Arthur B. Evans wrote:

> Dear Vernian friends,
>
> It is with great sorrow that I announce to you the death of Stanford L.
> Luce, professor emeritus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a
> life-long Verne enthusiast. Stan was the translator of several new Verne
> translations published by Wesleyan University Press: THE MIGHTY ORINOCO
> (2002), THE BEGUM'S MILLIONS (2005), and THE KIP BROTHERS (2007). This
> latter title has just been published byWesleyan and is now available for
> purchase via their website at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ . Stan was
> the author of the very first Ph.D. thesis on Jules Verne--"Jules Verne:
> Moralist, Writer, Scientist" (Yale University, 1953)--and was also a scholar
> of Céline.
> I have conveyed my deepest sympathies to his wife, Luanne, on behalf of
> Wesleyan and the entire Vernian community. These 3 Verne translations will
> stand forever as Stan's memorial. He will be missed.
>
> Sadly,
> Art
Received on Fri 20 Apr 2007 - 05:00:12 IDT

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