Estimados colegas: Recibí la triste noticia de
abajo de parte del estimado colega Edward
Friedman el 30 de agosto. Sólo hoy, después de
dos semanas fuera del país, he podido leerla y
ahora mandarla a los colegas. Mi trato con la
amable colega Charlotte Stern fue sólo por correo
electrónico. Aun así pude apreciar su
profesionalismo y benevolente cortesía,
cualidades que Ed menciona en su apreciada nota. ARL
>From: Edward Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Lauer, A Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:16:30 -0500
>Subject: Charlotte Stern
>
>
>Dear Robert,
>
>One of my Vanderbilt colleagues, who serves on
>the board of trustees at Randolph College,
>formerly Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in
>Lynchburg, VA, informed me that our respected
>colleague and dear friend Charlotte Stern passed
>away earlier this week. I have pasted below the
>obituary that appeared today in the Lynchburg
>paper. Not only was Charlotte a superb scholar
>and teacher, but she was a generous mentor to
>younger scholars in the field. I remember the
>kindness that she and her husband Carl showed me
>when I attended my first Comediantes banquet
>over thirty years ago. Her work and her good
>deeds will certainly live on. I feel honored to have known her.
>
>Prof. Carl Stern’s mailing address in Maine is
>
>P.O. Box 323
>Oquossoc, ME 04964
>
>Thanks, and best,
>Ed
>
>Edward Friedman
>
>
>
>CHARLOTTE DANIELS STERN
>
>Charlotte Stern, a professor of Spanish at
>Randolph College for nearly three decades, died
>Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008, at a Hospice facility in Auburn, Maine.
>
>She was 78 and had been suffering from advanced-stage abdominal cancer.
>
>Stern was an authority on medieval Spanish
>theater and the author of numerous articles on
>the subject in professional journals. Her book,
>"The Medieval Theater in Castile," was published
>in 1996, and she was a major contributor to "A
>Companion to the Medieval Theatre," an encyclopedic volume published in 1989.
>
>She was a longtime member of the First Unitarian Church of Lynchburg.
>
>For the past 50 years, she spent her summers at
>Mooselookmeguntic Lake, near Oquossoc, Maine, with her family.
>
>Charlotte Carolyn Daniels was born Dec. 22,
>1929, in Philadelphia, Pa., the daughter of
>Charles and Julia (Bridenbach) Daniels. She
>attended public schools in the Olney section of
>Philadelphia and graduated first in her class at
>Temple University in 1951. She went on to earn
>her master's degree and doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.
>
>She married Carl Stern, an economics professor
>at Randolph-Macon, in 1952, and the couple
>celebrated their 55th anniversary last October.
>The Sterns had met as graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania.
>
>Mrs. Stern first taught at Randolph-Macon in
>1961 and received a permanent faculty
>appointment in 1968. She also taught at
>Lynchburg College from 1954 to 1968. In 1980,
>she was named the Charles A. Dana professor of
>romance languages at Randolph-Macon, where she
>gained a reputation for generously giving her
>time and encouragement to students and colleagues.
>
>In 1990, she received the college's Katherine
>Graves Davidson Award, given annually to an
>outstanding faculty member. She and her husband
>retired from Randolph-Macon in 1992.
>
>Stern's prolific scholarship included dozens of
>journal articles, book reviews and papers
>presented to the Modern Language Association and
>other professional organizations and
>conferences. She was the book review editor for
>the Bulletin of the Comediantes and served on
>the editorial boards of the Journal of Hispanic
>Philology and Ulula: Graduate Studies in Romance Languages.
>
>She was a member of the Modern Language
>Association of America, the Renaissance Society
>of America, the Medieval Academy of America, the
>Comediantes, the Cervantes Society of America,
>the American Society for Theatre Research, the
>Society of the Cantigueiros de Santa Maria and
>the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater.
>
>In 1982, she was elected an alumna member of Phi
>Beta Kappa at Temple University.
>
>Stern was a lifelong advocate of human rights.
>She was a supporter of civil rights from the
>time she arrived in the South in the 1950s, and
>she actively opposed a 2006 referendum that
>amended the Virginia constitution to ban gay marriage.
>
>After her retirement, Stern became especially
>active in the local Unitarian congregation,
>helping to establish a church library that
>opened in 2003. The collection, which now
>includes more than 1,500 volumes, emphasizes
>religious and social issues. A substantial
>number of the books were donated by Stern herself.
>
>She also was active in the church's Social
>Justice Committee, which among many other
>activities erected a peace pole in front of the
>church's fellowship hall. She wrote the scripts
>for several plays that were staged as Sunday
>services at the church, including one that
>focused on women in the early history of the Unitarian Church.
>
>Stern was an accomplished knitter, chef,
>seamstress and painter and a devoted fan of the
>Boston Red Sox and the Duke University basketball team.
>
>She is survived by her husband, Carl; son, Chris
>of Orange, Calif.; daughter, Jenny and
>son-in-law, Fred Daley; and grandson, Isaac Daley, all of Granville, N.Y.
>
>A memorial service is planned for later this
>year, at a time and place to be announced.
>
>In lieu of flowers, donations in Stern's memory
>may be made to the First Unitarian Church of
>Lynchburg or to the charitable organization of one's choice.
>
>Arrangements are under the care of Funeral
>Alternatives Group, 25 Tampa St. Lewiston, ME 04240.
>
>
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