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. > > <http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html>