{"id":801,"date":"2016-07-18T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=801"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:21:52","slug":"monday-missive-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/monday-missive-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – July 18, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Isaac<\/a><\/p>\n

Standing on Shoulders<\/b> —\u00a0 In 1676 Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”\u00a0 <\/i>Since then the phrase “standing on the shoulders of giants” has taken on a life of its own.\u00a0 It is now used to acknowledge and appreciate the work of of those who came before us.\u00a0 I often think of this phrase when I reflect on my role in the history of our English Department.\u00a0 When I arrived at UNC Charlotte in August 1984, many of the department’s early faculty members were still teaching.\u00a0 I feel fortunate that I got to know most of the faculty members who built the English Department from its beginnings in the mid-1960s through the pivotal years of the 1970s and early ’80s.\u00a0 I truly believe that the current strengths of the English Department can be traced back to the hard work and visionary thinking of the people who came before us.<\/p>\n

For the aforementioned reasons, I am very pleased to announce that Alan Rauch has completely updated the “Emeritus Faculty” section of our department website.\u00a0 He has located photographs of nearly all of these faculty members.\u00a0 I urge everyone to take a look at this section of our website, and I thank Alan for taking the time to locate and post photographs of these former faculty members.\u00a0 Here is the link:\u00a0 http:\/\/english.uncc.edu\/people\/emeritus-faculty<\/a><\/p>\n

Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Sir Isaac Newton was not an early member of the English Department, but he was a professor.\u00a0 Does anybody know the name of the university where Newton taught mathematics?<\/p>\n

Last week’s answer: Dream a Little Dream of Me<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The title of Bryn Chancellor’s debut novel is Sycamore. This title reminds me of the following line from a song recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong:\u00a0 “Birds singing in a sycamore tree.”\u00a0 Does anybody know the name of this classic song? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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