I must shout AMEN.

At 11:48 AM 4/16/99 -0400, Bill Stacy wrote:
>Dear Jane, Tim, Susan, and Verbie,
>
>All of us here join to thank you and your colleagues, Susan Robinson and
>Rhoda Ruffner, for your considerable work in maintaining the university as
>a significant host to the Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature.
>We are grateful to join with the Arts and Education Council in welcoming
>back to Chattanooga the tenth Conference.  You and Doris Betts, Chancellor
>of Southern Writers, have assembled a world-class collection of writers
>again in our city.  From the first few presentations, it is clear that an
>unparalled opportunity to reflect on ideas, the work of writers, the body
>of Southern Literature, and to fall in love again with reading is being
>wonderfully presented to us all. Arlie Herron must have known years ago
>that this would be the case.
>
>We are grateful for this wonderful opportunity and for its reflection on
>UTC as a place of ideas, of style, and substance.  Your authors are so
>gracious.  It is a feast for our minds.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Bill Stacy
>
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