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Re: death of Stan Luce

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:45:37 -0500
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I trust Rick will arrange something in honor of stan, perhaps for the first day of the convention. W J M.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:03 pm
Subject: Re: death of Stan Luce
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>


> 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 - 17:45:45 IDT

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