<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you, Sam. That was so beautiful.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Karen Schriver<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 31, 2019, at 6:34 AM, Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu" class="">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Ty Herrington died a year ago today.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">She lived a vigorous life. She was curious, inventive, audacious. She was my PhD student and among the earliest PhD graduates in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University. She was always firing on all cylinders (a metaphor she would have appreciated as a racing enthusiast). She delivered to us incisive books and articles about intellectual property, ethics, social justice, and fair use. </span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Given a diagnosis of cancer, she hiked El Camino de Santiago and took up surfing in Costa Rica. She was a world traveler and a world teacher, putting together students in Atlanta, Georgia, and St. Petersburg, Russia, as easily as she put together a syllabus.</span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">She was ready at any time for a conversation about almost anything—a conversation that would be as instructive as it was amusing, that would leave you wiser as well as smiling. She was untiring as a colleague and a friend.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Her preparation for academic conferences included finding the most interesting restaurants (Proof in Louisville, The Grey in Savannah) as sites for energetic discussions about food, nutrition, sustainability, design, culture, politics, teaching, and rhetoric.</span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">She deserved more time, and she would claim we all do (with obvious exceptions).</span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">In memory of Ty, treat yourself today to a splendid dessert, take the stairs instead of the elevator, admire the architecture of your city, or strike up a conversation with people you don’t already know.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>She would be envious.</span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a name="_MailAutoSig" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Sam<o:p class=""></o:p></span></a></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Sam Dragga<o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Professor Emeritus<o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Texas Tech University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Editor,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Technical Communication</i><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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