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I cannot express enough my sadness to hear this news. I cannot provide a
simple summary of the many, many kindnesses Tom showed me over the years.
When I was alowly grad student at my first MT gathering, he insisted i call
him Tom--not Dr. Tenney. I shared hotel rooms with him and spent many hours
with him in various cities swapping stories.
I will share a story Tom repeated many times over the years. At one
convention, I overheard the joke about the student who got so tired of a
teacher talking about Yeats that he exclaimed "That guy is going to give me
a Yeats infection!" I wrote the punchline down on a sheet to remember it and
put it in my pocket. Sometime later, Tom spotted the paper and only saw the
words "Yeats infection." He started laughing and warned me I might be
alerting the world to something I might not want to signal . . . I have no
idea how many times Tom told that anecdote. For years and years . . .
Anyway, Tom's death is a loss on so many levels. We owe him so much.
Dr. Wesley Britton
www.spywise.net
Co-host, Dave White Presents
www.audioentertainment.org/dwp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Gribben" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Dr. Thomas A. Tenney
> Dr. Thomas A. Tenney (1931-2012), best known for editing the MARK TWAIN
> JOU=
> RNAL but also recognized for his assistance to younger scholars, died
> yeste=
> rday at 3:45 p.m. of heart failure after a brief stay in a Charleston
> hospi=
> tal.
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> Dr. Tenney received the John S. Tuckey Award from the Center for Mark
> Twain=
> Studies at Elmira College in 2005. He was the author of MARK TWAIN: A
> RE=
> FERENCE GUIDE (1977) and its various supplements, along with numerous
> other=
> publications.
>
> There will be a private family service at a later date, according to his
> wi=
> dow Margaret Tenney; no public funeral will be held.
>
> Before his death Dr. Tenney made arrangements for the continuation of the
> M=
> ARK TWAIN JOURNAL.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alan Gribben=
>
>
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