[ATTW-L] Ty Herrington

Wed Jul 31 14:11:51 UTC 2019

These tributes to Ty Herrington reminded me of the photo I have of her on the hike at the CPTSC in Logan, UT, in 2002, which proves Kathy’s point about the mountain goat. I dug it up and attach it here. 

Carolyn Miller

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>   1. Re: Ty Herrington - a year later (Northcut, Kathryn)
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> From: "Northcut, Kathryn" <northcut at mst.edu <mailto:northcut at mst.edu>>
> Subject: Re: [ATTW-L] Ty Herrington - a year later
> Date: 31 July 2019 at 9:56:29 AM EDT
> To: "Dragga, Sam" <Sam.Dragga at ttu.edu <mailto:Sam.Dragga at ttu.edu>>
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> Thanks, Sam. 
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> Ty was vivacious, smart, and generous. I would have loved to be a student in her class, any class. Before I met her, I heard that she was a mountain goat of a hiker, and I was sorry I’d missed that hike. 
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> Years later, I ran into her at an airport in Canada (I think) and during a long chat she told me that she refused to use the electric hand dryers because for all that wasted energy, you still have to wipe your wet hands on your pants. Every time I wash my hands and face down one of those machines, I think of her. 
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> Kathy Northcut
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> On Jul 31, 2019, at 5:36 AM, Dragga, Sam <Sam.Dragga at ttu.edu <mailto:Sam.Dragga at ttu.edu>> wrote:
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>> Ty Herrington died a year ago today.  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.  
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>> 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.
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>> 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.  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.
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>> She deserved more time, and she would claim we all do (with obvious exceptions).
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>> 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.  She would be envious.
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>> Sam <>
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>> Sam Dragga
>> Professor Emeritus
>> Texas Tech University
>> Editor, Technical Communication
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