[ATTW-L] Ty Herrington - a year later
Steve Thompson
steven.thompson at faculty.umuc.edu
Wed Jul 31 13:30:32 UTC 2019
Will take your wise advice, Sam, and promise to toast Ty's lasting life
and legacy tonight at The Grey with people I don't already know.
Peace.
Steve
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Steven John Thompson, PhD
http://steve.ws
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On 7/31/19 6:34 AM, Dragga, Sam wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> She deserved more time, and she would claim we all do (with obvious
> exceptions).
>
> 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.
>
> Sam
>
> Sam Dragga
>
> Professor Emeritus
>
> Texas Tech University
>
> Editor, /Technical Communication/
>
> sam.dragga at ttu.edu <mailto:sam.dragga at ttu.edu>
>
> 1-806-543-6099
>
>
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