Obscure Ceremonies

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Carolyn Quintero wrote:
> Ken Hale was the first  East Coast linguist who was enthusiastic about my
> working on Osage, years ago in Massachusetts.  I was very grateful for his
> guidance.  "It's not that you should do it, Carolyn, it's that you HAVE to
> do it,"  he said.

That's such a wonderful thing to have said!  I believe Ken Hale encouraged
a great many students to do descriptive linguistics, with equal emphasis
on descriptive and linguistics, from what I've seen.  This might be a good
moment to remember Josie White Eagle, too:  also unfortunately no longer
with us.  She was one of Ken's students and another fellow Siouanist.