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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wiggies in Memoriam Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries Description An account of the resource Members of Women in German who've passed away, but in their big and small ways have helped to make our organization what it is today. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In Memory of Dinah Dodds Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries; College teachers; Women--Societies and clubs Description An account of the resource Dr. Dinah Jane Dodds May 29, 1943-Sept. 12, 2019 Professor Emerita of German Studies Dinah Dodds, a pinnacle of the Lewis & Clark community, passed away after a three-year battle with cancer at the age of 76. Dodds was beloved by generations of students and faculty alike. Beginning her career at LC in 1972, Dodds taught German language and literature for three and a half decades. She also acted as world languages department chair and as divisional dean of arts and humanities. Professor of Hispanic Studies and Spanish Section Head Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo spoke on Dodds transforming the role of the world languages department on campus. “She pushed for us to be better represented at the campus level,” Toledano Redondo said. “She stressed language as key to a liberal arts education, not just a graduation requirement.” Associate Professor of German Language and Literature Katharina Altpeter-Jones fondly remembered the compassion of her mentor. “When I came for my on-campus interview, I got a real sense of Dinah’s kindness, and her warmth and her joyful nature,” Altpeter-Jones said. “She was a wonderful mentor with a great deal of optimism.” Altpeter-Jones stressed that Dodds’ compassion was felt by students just as much as faculty. “She was a firm believer in every single individual student,” Altpeter-Jones said. “She was so dedicated to her students. Her door was always open.” The Dinah Dodds Endowment for International Education was established by Missy Vaux Hall in honor of Dodds to provide funding for LC students of any discipline to expand on research they start while studying abroad. Alum Marissa Burke ’15 received the Dinah Dodds endowment. She reflected on how the endowment impacted her overseas experience in Strasbourg. “The Dinah Dodds scholarship allowed me to research my favorite poet, and I am very grateful to have learned about him and his history,” Burke said via email. “Without the scholarship, my research wouldn’t have been possible, and I wouldn’t have been able to follow that curiosity while I was surrounded by all the resources to explore it.” Annika Clunk ’20 shared similar sentiments about how receiving the endowment greatly influenced her abroad experience after a year in Munich. “(With the scholarship) I was allowed to go to an EU Commission conference,” Clunk said. The conference, held in Brussels, served as inspiration for her thesis. Dodds’ impact on the community reached far beyond the department in which she taught. She had a love for music and sang in the Oregon Repertory Singers for over 40 years. In 2011, she returned to campus to chair the music department for two years. Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities Katherine FitzGibbon spoke fondly of Dodds as her long-time mentor. “I’d ask her questions and advice, much as I would have had she been on campus,” FitzGibbon said. “She was always incredibly supportive and incredibly wise, and would give the best advice.” On the Resonance Ensemble website, FitzGibbon wrote, “There are few words to express the enormity of this loss. Dinah was simply a remarkable human being — a vibrant and passionate leader who devoted her life to the pursuit of knowledge and public service to the arts.” During her retirement, Dodds continued to be an active singer, a board member for the Resonance Ensemble and Portland Experimental Ensemble Theater, and a promoter of the international research endowment and continued to have an active presence on campus. In honor of her investment in the LC community, Dodds was the recipient of the first David Savage award in 2007 for her service and commitment to the college. “I can’t imagine a human who better epitomizes generous service to others,” FitzGibbon said. “It’s pretty remarkable to think (of) the thousands of us that are carrying a little piece of Dinah forward forever, and that her legacy is going to be never-ending.” Dinah’s memorial service will be held on Nov. 3 in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wiggies in Memoriam Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries Description An account of the resource Members of Women in German who've passed away, but in their big and small ways have helped to make our organization what it is today. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In Memory of Julie Klassen Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries; College teachers; Women--Societies and clubs Description An account of the resource Julie was a longtime active and activist member of Women in German who frequently attended the annual meetings (and helped script the Cabaret!), took care of printing and mailing the Newsletter for several years, co-organized the 1990 annual meeting, and served as president from 2006-2008. She was a supportive and enthusiastic mentor to many younger Wiggies over the decades of her engagement with the organization. We recall Julie’s work and presence at WiG with fondness and admiration. While we are sad to know that we will no longer see her there, we will celebrate her life and her contributions to our profession. We remember and will remain inspired by her sharp intellect, her generosity, her care for and support of junior faculty, her humour, her commitment to feminism, her work as an activist, and her deep love for literature. Northfield—Julie Anne Klassen, age 74, of Northfield, passed away peacefully with family at her side on Saturday, January 13, 2018, at Northfield Hospital. Julie was born May 17, 1943, in Nederland, Colorado, the daughter of Donald and Margaret Grover. When Julie was six the family moved to Glendale, California, where she graduated from Glendale High School in 1961. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in German from the University of California – Santa Barbara and received her Masters and Ph.D. in German Literature from Stanford University. Julie moved to Northfield in 1968. She spent two years as assistant Professor of German at St. Olaf College and seven fulfilling years working at the Northfield Daycare Centre, before joining Carleton College in 1978. Julie retired in 2009 as a tenured Professor of German Studies. Julie married Hanno Klassen on August 6, 1971. The couple made their homes in Northfield and the idyllic island of Manitoulin, Ontario. Hanno died December 2, 2004. Julie met Will Kershaw in 2012. Their loving companionship, travels and adventures in nature enriched them both in the last six years of Julie's life. Julie was a lifelong student, startlingly intelligent, a wonderful storyteller, a loyal and generous friend. She loved literature and culture, natural history, bird watching and cooking. Her professional passions were teaching German and environmental studies, and accompanying her students to Germany. Julie is survived by her partner Will Kershaw, her stepson Christopher (Amanda) Klassen of Kaslo, British Columbia; stepdaughter Renata Klassen of Kaslo; and two brothers: Philip (Susan) Grover of Concord, CA, and Scott (Cecilia) Grover of Walnut, CA. She was predeceased by her husband and her parents. Memorial service will be held at Skinner Memorial Chapel on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Minnesota Land Trust or a favorite environmental organization. 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Title A name given to the resource In Memory of Linda Kraus Worley Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries; College teachers; Women--Societies and clubs Description An account of the resource Dr. Linda Kraus Worley Sept. 5, 1950 – Aug. 15, 2021 Dr. Linda Kraus Worley, professor of German Studies and Folklore/Myth in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures and Classics, died after 13-month-long battle with a rare leukemia on Aug. 15, 2021. She died under UK hospice care and with loving friends at her bedside. Linda was born in Cleveland to German immigrants Hans and Elizabeth Kraus, who modeled the importance of hard work and dedication to family and friends. Hans was employed at a heating and air conditioning company for nearly 50 years, and Betty worked in the Borromeo College library and as a homemaker. Linda's parents encouraged her to read at an early age and she easily came to love words and stories. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English literature at Miami University in Ohio. Her interest shifted to German literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she earned a master's degree in 1975. In part because she wanted to support and spend time with her German grandmother, who lived in Hassfurt, West Germany, Linda took a job with the University of Maryland's European Division, where she taught German classes to members of the U.S. military. In 1977, teaching German 101 at an education center in Nuremberg, she met Jeff Worley, who was teaching a University of Maryland poetry class in the adjoining room. After their classes, they began to meet at a local pizzeria and began a relationship that spanned 44 years. They got married a few years later in Jeff's parents' home in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Linda was eager to finish her Ph.D. work with the University of Cincinnati, so they moved back to the United States in 1983, encouraged by Linda's mentor and favorite German professor Jerry Glenn. She earned a Ph.D. in German literature in 1985. Linda was hired the following year by the University of Kentucky German Department, where for 34 years she taught German literature and a popular course in European fairy tales and folklore. Linda was a star attraction for undergraduate and graduate students, who loved her energetic and innovative teaching style. She won The Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 1991. Of her many accomplishments and awards and stellar teaching evaluations, one colleague said that Linda seemed to be everywhere at once. She took a genuine interest in her students and after two class sessions knew the name of every student. Even in her larger classes such as European Fairy Tales, she made it a point to learn the names of every student. The UK class rosters provided students' names and their pictures, so Linda was able to personally interact with students even in a class of 200. "Linda's office door was always open for students, faculty and staff who needed her advice or simply a shoulder to lean on," said her German department colleague and lifelong friend Jeannine Blackwell. Her students regarded her as a great teacher and role model. "Her students over the years regarded Linda as a transformative teacher and mentor who filled the room with intellectual verve and witty humor," said Vanessa Plumly, a former student who is now an assistant professor of German at Lawrence University. "She always radiated kindness and compassion and treated students as family." In addition to teaching, she wrote and published articles on German and Austrian writers. One of the privileges of her life, she stated, was to be part of a group of feminist scholars researching the work of such disregarded women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries, as Louise von Francois and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Linda became director of Graduate Studies in the department, presented professional papers at conferences in the United States and in Germany, led close to 100 workshops and gave talks to various organizations about teaching and learning styles. She was proudest of her work with Professor Lou Swift, co-founding and developing the UK Teaching and Learning Center. As its first director, she and her staff helped dozens of faculty and graduate students hone their teaching and leadership skills. Linda also loved traveling to other countries and experiencing new people and cultures. In their eight years together living in Nuremberg and teaching with Maryland's European Division, Jeff and Linda visited many European countries. The Greek island of Samos was a favorite vacation spot; she and Jeff enjoyed spending time with friends Chuck and Ruth Vergara and Craig and Monika Anderson in the village of Kokkari. Linda also loved swimming, snorkeling and hiking in the woods. In 2004 she bought a cabin near Cave Run Lake, where they enjoyed making a new set of friends and spending time with Jack and Nancy Furlong, another Lexington couple, whose cabin was downhill from the Worleys'. Nearing retirement, Linda got word that Lexington was now home to a group of Rwandan women refugees who were eager to learn English. Although she didn't know one word of their native language (Kinyarwanda), she managed to teach them some basic English by using pictures and by "acting out," as she called it. After eight months with this group, she took them on a field trip to Lexington's Farmer's Market, where the women were able to buy fruits and vegetable s— in English. One consistency in Linda's life was taking a genuine interest in everyone she met, from famous scholars to workers at local businesses to neighbors in the Mentelle area of Lexington, where she and Jeff lived. Linda is survived by her husband, Jeff, of Lexington; her brother, John, of Atlanta; two brothers-in-law — Michael Worley of Lexington and Steve Worley of Wichita; a sister-in-law, Joyce Rogers of Tampa; and her beloved and spoiled cats, Annie and Worley. A celebration of Linda's life will take place this fall at Lexington's Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. In lieu of flowers, people may consider donating to the International Book Project, The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning or a local pet shelter. 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Title A name given to the resource Wiggies in Memoriam Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries Description An account of the resource Members of Women in German who've passed away, but in their big and small ways have helped to make our organization what it is today. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In Memory of Liselotte ("Lisa") Gumpel Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries; College teachers; Women--Societies and clubs Description An account of the resource Born in Berlin, January 31, 1926, Lisa’s comfortable childhood was disrupted by the Nazis coming to power in Germany. In June, 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, her mother was able to send her and her two sisters from Nazi-occupied Europe to London, by way of one of the Kindertransport trains organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. Sadly, this was the last time the girls saw their mother, who perished in the Holocaust during deportation to the Lodz Ghetto. Their father had escaped to London and the girls were re-united with him there. Although they were not able to live with him, they remained close until his death in 1946. In England Lisa lived with foster parents and was fortunate to be sent to a good boarding school, Stoatley Rough School in Haslemere, England. As Lisa achieved excellent exam results, she was encouraged to train as an x-ray technician at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Her sister Laura married and settled in London, but Lisa and her other sister, Rosemarie, who was a school teacher, decided to seek a new life in the US in the early 1950s. Lisa found positions as an x-ray technician, first in New York and then in San Francisco, before deciding to attend university in another field. After obtaining a bachelor’s at San Francisco State University, she earned a master’s degree and then earned a doctorate in German at Stanford University. Her chosen focus on German language and linguistics provided the basis for her academic career. Appointed assistant professor of German language and literature at the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1968, Lisa became a full professor in 1980, where she remained until she retired as professor emerita in 1997. During her distinguished career, Lisa published many academic papers and two books, Concrete Poetry from East and West Germany in 1976, and Metaphor re-examined: a non-Aristotelian Perspective in 1984. The latter was nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize in 1986. Participation in academic conferences and invitations to lecture took her too many places around the world, including South Africa, Australia and various parts of Asia and Europe. During 1977-78 she spent a year at Girton College, University of Cambridge, as the Helen Cam fellow. During her stay she was privileged to meet The Queen Mother. Lisa Gumpel influenced generations of University of Minnesota, Morris students and was never happier than when teaching or writing. A 1987 tribute to her achievements reads: “Professor Gumpel’s students are strongly motivated by her enthusiastic embrace of life and work. They appreciate her interest in their personal fulfilment.” Lisa established a University of Minnesota, Morris scholarship in her name for students interested in foreign languages or classical studies. A reception honoring her career and her donation of six watercolours by the 20th century artist Katerina Wilczynski was held at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis in 2008. Lisa Gumpel died peacefully after a lingering illness on October 22, 2015 at Parkshore Senior Campus in St. Louis Park. She was preceded in death by her parents, Karl and Margarete (Philipps) Gumpel; brother, Rolf; sister, Hannelore (Walter) “Laura” Selo. She is survived by her sister, Rosemarie Gumpel; her nephew, David (Ruth) Selo; two grandnephews and one grandniece. 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Title A name given to the resource Wiggies in Memoriam Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries Description An account of the resource Members of Women in German who've passed away, but in their big and small ways have helped to make our organization what it is today. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In Memory of Martha Wallach Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries; College teachers; Women--Societies and clubs Description An account of the resource We fondly remember one of our early Women in German members, Martha Kaarsberg Wallach, Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at Central Connecticut State University, who died a year ago, on February 28, 2017, at the age of 85. She was a wonderful, outgoing person, with a great sense of humor and curiosity. No surprise that she excelled in hilarious performances as a member oft the WIG cabaret. Her talent as a natural story teller was legendary, and her tales were often very funny, even when speaking of hardships, or tragedy—for instance, the flight of her family from wartime Poland, the death of her husband and her eldest son, her serious illnesses. She saw the world critically but also in a positive light. Her life centered on meaningful activity and purpose. Thus, she completed her Ph.D. while raising three children as a single mother after divorcing her first husband. She became a full professor, as well as Chair of Modern Languagaes at Central Connecticut State University and was honored as the first female recipient with the distinguished Central Connecticut State Professorship in October 1998. Her students meant the world to her. She was deeply involved in research projects, in establishing scholarly exchanges with Germany, and she was active in many professional organizations. As topics for her publications she favoured women’s studies subjects. Even years after retiring from her position at the university she worked on a book that was published in the year 2000. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived WiG Newsletter Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Helga W. Kraft Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource png Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helga W. Kraft Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Type The nature or genre of the resource still image https://wig-herstory.com/files/original/127ef056efacda01a8e52d1127e8bdae.jpg b1a6aef4de8e559a2b73cc490f82ab3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In Memory of Sara Friedrichsmeyer Subject The topic of the resource Obituaries; College teachers; Women--Societies and clubs Description An account of the resource Sara Friedrichsmeyer (1943-2021, in memoriam) Wiggies were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Sara Friedrichsmeyer at the end of August 2021. Sara was a committed and dynamic member of Women in German who contributed greatly to the field of feminist German studies and to our profession as a whole. She was also an inspiring and kind professor who made a great impact on the many individuals who studied and worked with her. Sara received her A.B. in German from the University of North Dakota and her M.A. in German literature from the University of Cincinnati in 1972. She earned her Ph.D. with the title “The Androgynous Ideal and Its Resurgence in the Works of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel” from the University of Cincinnati in 1979. Sara served as Assistant Professor of German at Raymond Walters College of the University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at the University of Cincinnati main campus as a tenured professor. From 1996-2006, she served as Chair of the German Department at the University of Cincinnati and supervised dozens of Master and Ph.D. students during her time in the department. In addition, she successfully helped establish close relations with the Max Kade Foundation that supported the founding of the Max Kade Center at UC in 1998, including a Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor and a Max Kade Fellowship. Sara was one of the first women in the German Department at the University of Cincinnati who taught feminist theory and feminist German literature and thus helped numerous students with their dissertations and future publications. She also helped pave the way for gender and transgender studies as well as post-colonial approaches in German Studies. Sara’s research examined the concept of the androgynous in “Romanticism and the Dream of the Androgynous Perfection” in Deutsche Romantik and English Romanticism (ed. Theodore Gish and Sandra Frieden, 1984) as well as “The Subversive Androgyne” in the Women in German Yearbook in 1986. She published on 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century German authors and analyzed contemporary authors’ views on the Enlightenment legacy, such as “On Multiple Selves and Dialogics: Christa Wolf’s Challenge to the ‘Enlightened’ Faust” in Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany (ed. Dan Wilson and Rob Holub, 1993). Sara also worked on several Romantic authors and published “Romantic Nationalism: Achim von Arnim’s Gypsy Princess Isabella” in the path-breaking collection Gender and Germanness: Cultural Production of Nation (ed. Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller, 1997). In a trailblazing manner, she co-wrote essays with colleagues, a feminist practice that has become more and more common in German Studies scholarship. Moreover, she influenced today’s approaches to teaching feminist theory within German Studies departments with articles such as “Toward an American Germanics: Feminism as a Force for Change” (with Patricia Herminghouse) that was published in Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America (ed. David Benseler, Craig Nickisch, and Cora Lee Nollendorfs, 2001). In addition, her writing, research, and teaching expertise garnered interest outside of German Studies and she published “Cultural Studies and the Future of Doctoral Education” in the PMLA in 2000. From 1990-1998, Sara served as co-editor of the Women in German Yearbook and served on the journal’s editorial board. She is, after Maggie McCarthy, the longest serving editor of the Yearbook and has had an important impact on developments in gender and German studies in the 1990s. She co-edited multiple volumes, among them The Enlightenment and Its Legacy: Studies in German Literature in Honor of Helga Slessarev (with Barbara Becker-Cantarino, 1991). She co-edited the now classic volume The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and its Legacy (with Sara Lennox and Suzanne Zantop, 1998). The historian Lora Wildenthal writes in her review of the volume, “This book is the first to bring together scholars in various disciplines who work on German colonialism and postcolonial racial issues, and it is a vital contribution to German studies.” Her exemplary contribution to the field is also evident in her presence at many scholarly meetings, frequently as a speaker, as well as in the time and energy she offered to numerous administrative and research projects. She received the UC Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Distinguished Faculty Award from UC’s Association of Women Faculty, and the Ohio Foreign Language Association’s Publications Award. She served on a number of national committees for the GSA, the AATG, and WIG. After membership on the MLA’s Division of 19th- and Early 20th- Century German Literature and the MLA’s Delegate Assembly, she was a member of the MLA Publication Committee. Sara was a person of great generosity and intellectual curiosity and served as a mentor to many students and colleagues. In the outpouring of sentiments after learning of her passing, several Wiggies commented on her impact in their lives. Heike Henderson, Professor of German at Boise State University, told us, “She introduced me to WiG and brought me to my very first Women in German conference, back in 1990.” Sara Lennox, Professor Emerita of German at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recalled fondly their joint October birthdays celebrated with a cake at the 2003 WiG conference with "The Saras turn 60" written on it. She also shared the joy of how wonderful it was to work with Sara and Suzanne on The Imperialist Imagination, as well as the sad recognition that both of them are now gone. Kamakshi Murti, Professor Emerita of German at Middlebury College shared, “She was so very supportive of my own research on German orientalism. We’ve lost a pioneer in her!” She will be greatly missed by her family, friends, and former students and colleagues. She is survived by her two daughters, Sara and Jennifer, as well as four grandchildren. 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