Dell Hymes, 1927-2009

Kerim Friedman oxusnet at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 23 13:18:05 UTC 2009


The Newspapers are finally catching up:

NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23hymes.html

Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111904078.html

- kerim

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> From Eve Danziger at the University of Virginia:
>
> It is with sadness that we announce the death of our distinguished
> colleague
> Dell Hathaway Hymes, Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology and English
> (Emeritus) at the University of Virginia. Professor Hymes died peacefully
> on
> Friday November 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, VA. A memorial service will be
> held on Saturday November 21 at 1:00 at Peace Lutheran church, 1510 Broad
> Crossing Rd, Charlottesville, VA. A memorial gathering has also been
> organized at the upcoming meetings of the American Anthropological
> Association in Philadelphia, PA. The gathering will take place on Saturday
> December 5, 2009 from 7:30-9:30 pm in Grand Ballroom III of the Courtyard
> Marriott hotel (downtown). Condolences may be addressed to Virginia Hymes
> care of the Department of Anthropology, PO Box 400120, Charlottesville, VA,
> 22904-4120. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the
> Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice (CCPJ) or a charity of choice.
>
> Address for the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice:
>
> http://www.charlottesvillepeace.org/
>
> A short tribute from Jason Baird Jackson of Indiana University, passed on
> by
> Kerim Friedman:
>
> http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/11/16/dell-hymes-passing/
>
>
>
> Obituaries passed on by his daughter, Alison Hymes:
>
>
> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=dell-hathaway-hymes&pid=136057660
>
> http://www.leggo.it/articolo.php?id=34614
>
> --
> Leila Monaghan, PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Wyoming
> Laramie, Wyoming
>



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