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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