L. R. Micklesen

[Charles E. Townsend]

I'm also saddened to hear of Lew Micklesen's death.  He was a fine teacher, mentor and scholar.  For me he has a special significance, because he was one of the first Americans to get interested in Colloquial Czech.  We had many pleasant encounters.  I also extend my deep sympathy to his family, colleagues and friends.

Charles Townsend
On Jul 21, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Flier, Michael wrote:

> Dear Ms. Westen:
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> I was very sorry to  hear about Lew Micklesen's passing and want to extend my deep condolences to all members of the University of Washington Slavic Department and to his family and friends.  
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> I first met Lew in the late 1960s when I joined the Slavic Department faculty at UCLA and had the good fortune to see him on a number of occasions at conferences and public lectures over the years.  I will always think of him as a hard-working colleague, a very supportive mentor for his students, and a true gentleman in every social encounter.
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> Sincerely,
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> Michael Flier  
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> PROF. MICHAEL S. FLIER 
> Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology          
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> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 
> Harvard University 
> Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street 
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> On 7/17/12 3:34 PM, "Susanna J Westen" <shoshw at UW.EDU> wrote:
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>> The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Washington grieves the passing of Professor Emeritus Lew Reid Micklesen on June 21, 2012 at age 91.  After earning a BS from the University of Minnesota?s College of Pharmacy in 1942, he began graduate study in pharmaceutical and organic chemistry.  In the winter of 1944, after being refused further deferments by the draft board, he applied to the Navy for foreign language study in Boulder, Colorado and was assigned to study Russian.  He eventually ended up at the Naval Academy, where he taught Russian and Spanish from March 1945 to July 1946.  After the war he entered graduate school at Harvard, earning a PhD in comparative philology in 1951.  After teaching elsewhere for a couple of years, he began his UW teaching career in 1953, as an Assistant Professor of Far Eastern and Slavic Languages and Literature; he retired
>> in 1991.  Most of Professor Micklesen?s scholarly work was in the area of Indo-European accentology; he spent a number of years investigating the accentual systems of the Slavic and Baltic languages, later applying the results of his investigations to Ancient Greek.  Following retirement he remained active with his interests in philately, rock gardening, attending Medical Grand Rounds at the UW Medical Center, adding new languages to his repertoire and continuing to conduct research until a stroke in March of this year.
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>> Professor Micklesen is survived by wife Jane, whom he married in 1950, as well as three children, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
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>> Susanna J. ("Shosh") Westen
>> Administrator / Graduate Program Advisor
>> University of Washington
>> Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
>> Box 353580
>> Seattle, WA  98195-3580
>> 206-543-6848 / 206-543-6009 (FAX)
>> http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb
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