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Re: death of Stan Luce

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:36:32 -0500
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And I was honored to appear on the same title page with Stan Luce.. I hope we have at least one more of his works ready to go. Walter James Milller

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From: Peter Schulman <pschulma~at~odu.edu>
Date: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:11 am
Subject: Re: death of Stan Luce
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> Dear Colleagues,
> He will indeed be missed. I was honored to have been part of a project
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> him. He was a great scholar, translator and pioneer.
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> Dr. Peter Schulman
> Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures
> Old Dominion University
> Norfolk, VA 23529
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> Dear Vernian friends,
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> 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
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> stand forever as Stan's memorial. He will be missed.
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> Sadly,
> Art
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