regrets and thoughts

[John P. Boyle]

Hi All,

Bob was very good about sending me stuff for The Siouan Archive. This was
all material that he thought was in good enough shape to share with us,
although several unpublished manuscripts he didn't want distributed past a
small group (there are only 2 or 3 of these type of documents). In all, I
have 15 single authored published papers and 25 singled authored unpublished
papers, including his translation of the Dorsey texts. This is a total of 40
singled authored papers and articles. I have another 4 coauthored published
papers and 4 coauthored unpublished papers, including the Comparative Siouan
Dictionary. Some (about 3 or 4) of the unpublished papers became published
papers, so there is some redundancy. Bob was always very explicated with me
in that he wanted his material to be available for people to use and if
anyone found errors in any of it, he wanted to know so that it could be
corrected (the only corrections I know of were from older sources that Bob
used as he didn't personally do field work on every language (e.g. Riggs'
Dakota material or Kennard's Mandan material). I am missing some of his
presentations for several Siouan conferences, but that is because he didn't
feel they were good enough to share or they got folded into additional work
at a later date. Take as a whole, this is a tremendous legacy of Siouan
linguistics spanning research from 1974 to 2012.

If there is anything I can do to help compile, sort or edit his material,
just let me know.

All the best,

John


From:  Randy Graczyk <rgraczyk at AOL.COM>
Reply-To:  Siouan Linguistics <SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu>
Date:  Friday, April 11, 2014 3:37 PM
To:  <SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu>
Subject:  Re: regrets and thoughts

I just looked through my files, and I have 26 papers by Bob Rankin.  There
are undoubtedly some that I don't have.   I know some of these have been
published (often in out-of-the-way journals), but many have not.  All of
them are worth passing on to future generations of Siouanists.

Randy


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary C Marino <mary.marino at USASK.CA>
To: SIOUAN <SIOUAN at LISTSERV.UNL.EDU>
Sent: Fri, Apr 11, 2014 2:20 pm
Subject: Re: regrets and thoughts

    
 
It happens;  a will does not necessarily make things any easier for the
survivors.  Could the university provide you with some space for storage of
the materials, where you (and maybe others) could work on them?
 
 Mary
 
 On 11/04/2014 1:36 PM, David Kaufman wrote:
 
 
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> Mary, 
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> It's my understanding that Bob did not leave a will.
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> Dave
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> David Kaufman
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> Linguistic Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Kansas
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>  Director, Kaw Nation Language Program
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Mary C Marino <mary.marino at usask.ca> wrote:
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>> Did Bob leave any instructions about these matters in his Will?
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>>  On 11/04/2014 12:12 PM, David Kaufman wrote:
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>>> Hi David and all,
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>>> Sorry to hear David that you won't be able to make it to the SCLC this year.
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>>> I know we have talked about doing a Festschrift in Bob's honor, and this is
>>> certainly something we can discuss at the meeting.  Hopefully our organizers
>>> can set aside some time on the schedule so we can all participate in this
>>> discussion.
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>>> As for the CSD, I think it's a great idea to have it finalized and published
>>> in some form, either electronically or in print, or both.
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>>> As concerns Bob's unpublished papers and computer files, Carolyn, Bob's
>>> wife, and I have been in touch fairly regularly.  Even before Bob's death,
>>> she said that she and Bob had discussed it and thought it would be best that
>>> I come up to their house and "clean out" his garage full of files, books,
>>> etc.  Also, I plan to take a USB drive and download as much of his computer
>>> files as possible, at least some of which I know pertain to Kaw.  I'll be
>>> happy to distribute whatever I find pertaining to other Siouan languages to
>>> those of you who want it.  I'm hoping to go up and do this in the next
>>> couple of months, possibly in early June or so before it gets too hot.  I
>>> know Carolyn is thinking about selling the house and moving up to be with
>>> family in Wisconsin, so this cleaning out will have to be done fairly soon
>>> anyway.  
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>>> Anyway, I'll keep everyone posted as plans for these things become more
>>> concrete.  Things are a bit crazy for me right now as I work full-time for
>>> the Kaw Nation and try to finish my dissertation without yet having another
>>> committee member to substitute for Bob.  I hope to defend in May, but I'm
>>> still awaiting final word on a new committee member and date from my
>>> advisor.  
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>>> Dave
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>>> David Kaufman
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>>> Linguistic Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Kansas
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>>>  Director, Kaw Nation Language Program
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>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:27 PM, ROOD DAVID S <david.rood at colorado.edu>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>  Hi, everyone,
>>>>          My family schedule for at least part of the summer has finally
>>>> settled down, and I regret that it precludes me from attending the SCLC
>>>> again this year.  The earliest I could get to Madison would be
>>>> mid-afternoon on Saturday, hardly the appropriate time for participating in
>>>> the meeting.
>>>>  
>>>>          I am very much interested in what is decided about honoring Bob
>>>> Rankin, however, and in what might be done to make his huge contribution to
>>>> the history of Siouan and the structure of Dhegiah part of a permanent
>>>> record.  I know he has many papers that have never been published, as well
>>>> as many that are published here and there in places we don't always know
>>>> about.  As early as 1984, at the workshop that launched the Comparative
>>>> Dictionary project, I proposed a "collection of papers" volume that would
>>>> be a place for his work (and others), but that has never materialized.
>>>>          Moreover, for the last few years Bob was the major player in the
>>>> evolution of the Comparative Dictionary.  As most of you know, Iren
>>>> Hartmann at the MPI-Leipzig is working on creating a usable digital verson
>>>> of the CSD.  Of the original 5 participants (John Koontz, Wes Jones, Dick
>>>> Carter, Rankin and me) in the project, I guess I'm the only one who is
>>>> still interested and available, so I'm going to work with Iren to see if
>>>> that can't be finalized and formalized.  There is quite a bit of urgency
>>>> here, because as many of you know, the structure of the MPI in Leipzig will
>>>> change dramatically in May of 2015, and they will likely no longer be
>>>> interested in supporting Iren's work.
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>>>>          If any of you have any thoughts on how best to move forward with
>>>> either Bob's legacy or the CSD, please discuss them at the meeting and keep
>>>> me informed.  I don't feel like I know Carolyn well enough to approach her
>>>> about any of this; perhaps one of you would be willing to help with that.
>>>>  
>>>>          Best wishes to all for a fruitful and fun meeting.
>>>>  
>>>>          David
>>>>  
>>>>  David S. Rood
>>>>  Dept. of Linguistics
>>>>  Univ. of Colorado
>>>>  295 UCB
>>>>  Boulder, CO 80309-0295
>>>>  USA
>>>>  rood at colorado.edu
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