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Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

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Open book Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

Title Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n.d., 1956-1989

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Indiana State College
Terre Haute, Indiana
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
March 3, 1963
Dear Jack + Gladys:
The most important news here (for us anyway) is that I was recently given a Fulbright grant for teaching in England. I don't know yet what University I'll be teaching at, though I suspect it won't be either Oxford or Cambridge. I'm pretty sure though that I'll be teaching courses in "The American Novel," and according to the grant I should have considerable time for research. I am looking forward to the year, and I hope to have the chance to squeeze in some travel in Europe. I sure would like to be cosmopolitan, though I despair that well-known Conroy savoir fairé.
I'll be glad to get away for another reason: because we recently hired a new Vice President at ISC and he has some weird ideas about administration. One of his recent desires is to keep our students in college, and to do this he is advocating that we lower our grading standards (a student failed is a teacher failure). I haven't bumped into him yet (thank Heaven I was on sabbatical last term) but he's been trying to terrify some of our non-tenured staff. I'm afraid there's going to be a real mess eventually (because that's just one of his ideas; another is that an administrator should administer and the faculty should tremble) and I'd just as soon not be here when the explosion erupts. I'm also grateful that I'm still relatively mobile (probably the only full professor here that is) and that I can go elsewhere if need be. (Though I doubt if I will be offered again any of the chairmanships I've turned down recently.)
I'm teaching a graduate seminar this term in Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, as well as the Am. Lit. Survey, and the course in "The American Novel." I had planned to use a really fine book called "The Disinherited," but the publishers inform me that it is still not available. When will it be? I shan't be teaching the novel course this

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 17 Folder 901

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Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

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