I am sorry to read Dennis Eddings post about the passing of Clark Griffith. I would second his evaluation of Clark's teaching abilities by saying that he was the best professor at delivering cogent lectures I ever had, and that he has been a model for my own lecturing duties. Dennis and I took a seminar on Mark Twain together from Clark many moons ago at the University of Oregon and the experience remains a living memory. He was also my dissertation director--cranky and ornery at times but a great reader. I knew that if a chapter passed muster with him, I had something worthwhile. Jim Caron