Posted on May 25, 2001

Freezing in Salem

Brenda Wineapple, at work on a biography on Nathaniel Hawthorne, reports that she “froze to death” in Salem, Mass., on Monday as a guest on C-SPAN's American Writers show about the author who made Salem famous.

Wineapple, the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, was interviewed for the live, two-and-a-half-hour show outside the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, also known as the House of Seven Gables that inspired Hawthorne's classic 1851 novel.

Wineapple was seated in a garden “whipped by cold winds blowing off the sea— very New England and very Hawthorne-y,” she says. “After a break, they covered us with blankets and jackets.”

As with other shows in the C-SPAN series, the guests took questions from callers, one of whom was interested in a connection between Hawthorne and The Music Man.

The show will air again on Friday, May 25, at 8 p.m. on C-SPAN.

Posted on May 18, 2001

Alan Bowman, associate professor of management, and Josef Schmee, Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Management, are co-authors of “Pricing and Managing a Maintenance Contract for a Fleet of Aircraft Engines” in the journal Simulation (76:2, 69-77.)

Posted on May 18, 2001

Kara Doyle, assistant professor of English, recently presented a paper, “Narratizing Marie de France,” at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

Posted on May 18, 2001

Rudy Nydegger, associate professor of psychology, GMI, chaired sessions on “Advances in Pain Control,” “Therapeutic Techniques for Eating Disorders,” and “Psychological Factors in End of Life Care” at the annual meeting of the New York State Psychological Association recently. He was also a member of the convention planning committee, and presented a paper titled “Psychological Care of the Hospice Patient.”

Posted on May 18, 2001

Mark Knowles, director of the language lab, presented a paper titled “Integrating Softwares in the Teaching of Oral French” at the Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. on April 28.