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 1. A Painful Case (apologies to JJoyce)



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Date:  Tue, 28 Dec 1993 13:04:42 -0800

From:  "Thomas L. Clark" <tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU>

Subject: A Painful Case (apologies to JJoyce)



  For you holiday reading pleasure or dismay, I proffer the following

longish missive from Fritz Juengling, currently of the U of Minnesota.

Most of us are aware of the shabby and despicable treatment given to

linguistics and language study at U of MN (linguistics dept murdered

two yrs ago, Scandinavian Dept goes to the gallows July 1, Harold Allen's

worked generally dissed).

  Mr Jeungling wrote to me after hearing from another of our dwindling

precious few. My dept has an infant Ph.D. program in lit, but our

library - and perhaps my colleagues, would not meet the needs of

Mr. Jeungling. He appears to have excellent credentials and interest that

match much of the readership of ADS-L folk. With his permission, I

broadcast his condition to the net in hopes that somewhere there may be

a "place." Please respond to Mr Juengling at his e-mail address AND

send a copy to me that I might keep track of developments.

Cheers,

Tom Clark

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu

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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1993 10:31:24 -0600 (CST)

From: Charles F Juengling-2 <juen0001[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gold.tc.umn.edu>

To: Tom Clark <tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]redrock.nevada.edu>

cc: Fritz Juengling <juen0001[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gold.tc.umn.edu>



Dear Professor Clark,

    Your name and address were given me by Joan Hall at the U of WI.

She said that you had done some fieldwork for DARE and might be able to

help me. I am in the Germanic Philology at the U of MN. My primary

interests are phonetics, historical linguistics, and dialectolgy (esp.

Modern English dialects). I am looking around for another program, as the

one here at the U of MN cannot really accommodate my interests. For

example, for my dissertation, I plan to do some fieldwork in my native

state of Oregon. (In addition, I am writing the settlement history for

the Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Northwest). However, this sort of

dissertation would not be acceptable to my advisor. Supposedly, students

in this program are to limit themselves to topics before 1500 A.D. and

preferably to a German one. So, you can see that I'm really a duck out of

water (pun intended--being an Oregonian). Therefore, I am looking around

for a school where I can be in a program in whichI can do the kind of

research in which I am most interested. Professor Hall said that since

you had been a DARE worker, you might be interested in overseeing a

dissertation such as mine.

    To give you some idea of my background, I will briefly summarize

what sorts of courses I've had-- Old English (5 courses), Old Norse,

Gothic, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Old High German, Histories of the

English, German, Dutch, and Scan. languages, phonetics, several courses in

historical linguistics, and a course in American English. In addition, I

have been teaching German at the U of MN for several years and I have very

basic skills in Norwegian and Dutch.

    If you would take a few moments from your busy schedule to let me

know what the possibilities might be, I would be very grateful. Of

course, the question of financial support is one which always looms large

over the heads of students. I thank you for your time and look forward to

your reply.



        Merry Christmas and happy New Year,



        Fritz Juengling











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