Carolyn Quintero

[Rankin, Robert L]

I would hope that she (and any academic researcher) would have appointed a literary executor in her will.  I'm sure some sort of arrangements must have been made, since I know she wanted both linguists and the Osage people to have access to the information she collected.  
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU on behalf of Rory M Larson
Sent: Sat 6/7/2008 9:39 AM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: RE: Carolyn Quintero



> I was expecting to see her in Joplin.  I knew she had been fighting 
> cancer for some time and didn't tell people because she didn't want 
> them fretting over her, but the last I heard, about 9 mo. ago, she 
> was improving.  Something must have gone wrong rather quickly.  I 
> hope her Osage dictionary has gone to press.  If it has not, then 
> we should take steps to make sure it appears as planned.  It and 
> the grammar will be lasting monuments to her scholarship.

I agree.  The last thing she said about it on the list is from April 27, and that she was "just finishing [it] up": 

> Catherine, 
> I would be happy to participate in this roundtable. As some of you know, I'm
> just finishing up an Osage Dictionary, to be published soon.
> Thanks,
> Carolyn

Also, I wonder about her notes.  She was *the* person for Osage, and she must have a great deal of unpublished primordial material that would be invaluable to preserve. 

Rory