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English dept. humoris
answers unusual letters
By Franne Robertson
It doesn't happen often, but universities get
letters that just aren't routine correspondence.
like the poet who wrote to UN-L, asking the
university to give him proof that he existed.
The inquiry was thrown to the English
department, where it landed on Assoc. Professor
Charles Stubblefield's desk.
Stubblefield had been singled out by his
colleagues before to answer such letters, he said,
as part of his duties in the department.
He also helped make selections for the literary
magazine, "Prairie Scooner" and he bowls on the
department's bowling team. Named the "Upper
Hudson and Catskill Mountain Keggers" or "The
Big Rips", they have won the Faculty Bowling
League tournament three times in five years.
Edits newsletter
Stubblefield also edits the English department
newsletter, which yearly names a winner of the
Estelle Sebastion T.S. award.
The award is supposedly named for a
mink-coated woman who was blown off the
upper deck of the U.S.S. Constitution. Due to
the difficulty of turning the 190 foot ship
around, the captain decided Estelle would freeze
before they could reach her.
So the captain allegedly' picked up a
megaphone and shouted, "Tough S , Estelle
Sebastion." Hence tin Estelle Sebastion IS.
award.
Stubblefield said last year's .winner of the
Estelle Sebastion T.S. award was a Colorado
man, who, after much planning, had the felling
of a huge cottonwood tree in his backyard
worked out to a science so that it would not fall
anywhere near the house. To his dismay, by
some quirk of fate of error, the tree fell in the
middle of the house, crushing the roof. '
TaQ Texan
A tall, tanned Texan, with many interests,
Stubblefield is writing a novel called Lulu, the
story of an iron-willed Texan woman who lived
during the Civil War.
He plans to finish Lulu on Bastille Day, 1976.
He chose that deadline, he said jokingly, because
he feels "the Bicentennial year would be so
exciting" that July 4 would be about 10 days too
early. So, realistically, he chose July 14.
Stubblefield's varied background includes
stints as a professional Texas basketball player, a
high school sports coach and a pilot and
instruments instructor in the Air Force. He held
jobs working for a Dallas cotton marketing firm,
for the Texas Department of Agriculture and as a
clerk in an all-night drive-in grocery store. Eleven
years after he was graduated with a master's
degree in education, he moved to Denver and
earned his master's and PhD. in English at the
University of Denver.
Humor noted
Students and faculty have noted
Stubblefield's humor. One student in his fiction
writing class, Nancy McCleery, described his style
as Faulknerian.
Humor comes in handy when it comes to
answering letters, like the one from the Queens,
New York man, who, having sent manuscripts
out for publication for years, never recieved any
response.
Stubblefield sent a four-page reply telling the
poet, that he, MX. Kulikowski, did exist.
This bit of advice was included for the
budding poet: "Perhaps for its distribution in the
Midwest you had better consider another title for
your Poems to Read on the Subway. You see, we
have to place to read it. Even Notes from the
Underground has not sold well in Lincoln and
Omaha since 1945 when the sod house came into
general disuse."
Student's project awarded
A- senior student in the
College of Dentistry at UN-L,
William Ursick, has earned
national recognition for
development of a project
entitled "The Role of the
Dentist in Hypertension
Detection."
His project was awarded
second place in the 1975
Student Merit Award for
GuUioiiuiiig ACiucYcuiciu in
Community Dentistry
competition, sponsored by the
American Association of Public
Health Dentists (AAPHD).
Ursick, whose home is
Pueblo, Colo., developed the
project as part of a field
education in community health
and dentistry course during the
junior year. He incorporated
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and other comprehensive
physical examination
procedures into a dental
screening program at a Lincoln
public health clinic.
His prize, a recognition
plaque and subscription to
Journal of Public Health
Dentistry, will be presented
during the AAPIID's annual
convention in Chicago during
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