Those are key names for me too. I met them all at the deer-in-a-bottle
conference in Fredericton early on : was it 1992?
Russ Hunt not only helped start things happening in the 1980s, but also
kept them going through the next decades. One good idea he put into
action was the Inkshed listserv. For years, it was a lifeline for me and
others scattered across the country. He also created and maintained the
Inkshed website until 2011. Russ, I miss seeing you at conferences!
And speaking of Jim Reither, Louise Wetherbee Phelps does just that in
the newest book from Inkshed Publishing, /Cross-Border Networks in
Writing Studies/. Her chapter focusses on Reither as one of the "Four
Scholars, Four Genres" central to the development of discourse and
writing studies in Canada through his editorship of the Inkshed
newsletter. "This humble genre, the organizational newsletter," as she
calls it, has a lot to account for.
Margaret
On 4/10/2017 5:27 PM, Paré, Anthony wrote:
> Sorry to jump in here again, but it would be horribly remiss of us not to
> mention the central role of Russ Hunt and Jim Reither, especially, and
> Doug Vipond and Thom Parkhill as well, in the founding of Inkshed.
>
> They are responsible for helping to set in motion a million good ideas.
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
> On 2017-04-10, 2:11 PM, "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of
> Language and Learning (Inkshed) on behalf of Russell Hunt"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> As someone who goes all the way back with Inkshed, I too would like to
>> thank all the people over the years who've pushed my thinking and writing
>> -- and reading -- and made a profound difference to my teaching, and my
>> life.
>>
>> I imagine some people will remember that I've been saying, off and on,
>> since about Inkshed 25, that it seemed to me about time to recognize
>> that, as Anthony says, all things, etc. I do sort of wish we'd found a
>> way to put it in a longboat and set it out to sea aflame. You can't
>> always get what you want.
>>
>> But if you try sometimes you can get what you need, and Inkshed was, for
>> most of my professional life, what I needed. My gratitude will last as
>> long as I do.
>>
>> -- Russ
>>
>> (May I add that I agree with Brock and the Board -- and, I expect,
>> everybody else-- that keeping as much of the record archived as we can
>> would be a good thing. When the CASLL-L list is shut down, I'd be happy
>> to do whatever I can to help make sure all these conversations over the
>> decades are accessible to posterity.)
>>
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