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William Urban: Presidents I have known: Duncan Gordon Wimpress
By William Urban
One of the few advantages of being retired during a pandemic is that there is time to reflect on people one has known and on events worth remembering. I still get out in the car (the dog wants a ride every day, even if it’s only to make a newspaper swap). Each time I go down East Euclid past the darkened fraternity buildings, a memory flashes of President Duncan Wimpress taking me on a campus tour. It was a nice gesture on his part, because he didn’t have to do it, but he might have sensed that I hadn’t planned to stay long historians being in demand, my dissertation advisor was urging me to apply for university jobs. In any case, it was 1966 or soon thereafter, and his new library (the Hewes Library) and science building (Haldeman-Thiessen) were still in the planning stages, but the fraternity complex was there.
William Urban: Surprises in the basement
By William Urban
When we moved to our new home four years ago we were unable to downsize properly before packing up. Instead, we did what almost everyone does we carefully packed up essential clothing, books, computers, photo albums, and such, so as to have them ready once the furniture was in the new house, then threw everything else into boxes which went into the basement of the new place.
That worked OK for a while, but, as happens when one originally has two workshops, multiple bedrooms, and acquisitions from parents and grandparents we had two or three of everything; then, as we gave up looking for whatever we wanted, we replaced it. As for framed photos, quilts, and heirlooms of no monetary value but too filled with memories to throw away, they went into boxes.
William Urban: A short history of Germany
By William Urban
Every Christmas I exchange books with a German friend. He is very good at picking interesting reads. This year’s was “Wie wir wurden, was wir sind” (How we became what we are), with the subtitle and the foreword promising that it would be a short history. Short is not something that German authors excel at, but Heinrich August Winker did his best. He also had a pleasing style, especially in the early chapters, which could be read by anyone who knows German. By the end the words became longer and the sentences more complex, reflecting the need to explain current issues in the language that politicians and journalists use today. (Germany is where modern scholarly style and jargon originated.)
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