From: kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 4:32 PM
To: Laura Hostetler <hostetle@uic.edu>
Cc: Keely Stauter-Halsted <stauterh@uic.edu>, "john_glover@redlands.edu"
Subject: Re: Sad News
To: Laura Hostetler <hostetle@uic.edu>
Cc: Keely Stauter-Halsted <stauterh@uic.edu>, "john_glover@redlands.edu"
Subject: Re: Sad News
dear laura
this is very devastating news. when jim was fulbrighter in dakar in 1989, i lived with my family a block away. we both had children: he and his wife a newborn, and a wonderful, pippy-longstocking, brilliant daughter, alison. she played with my 2 boys almost every day, and it was charming to see them skip over to the searings house, greeting the gardiens on the way. every sunday we went out to goree on the ferry to take the kids to the beach. we got the same snacks every time. we returned to the place de l'independence which, in those days, had bumper cars where the kids had to go, before returning on the bus.
they played "favorite word" games on the bus home.
jim was brilliant, the premier senegalese historian, then the young up and coming historian, his work already highly respected. we moved apart after dakar, but i saw him periodically at conferences, and he would catch me up on the family, and i did the same. he gave me a long spiel on a flight home, not that long ago, about how polish history was becoming important to his dept because of a wealthy donor, and i told him how we came to love chicago since my son moved there.
i barely got to greet him at asa last week, but he was bustling around and seemed fine.
this news is a real shock.
i hope you will convey our deepest condolences to his family, and to your colleagues. we are quite stricken
ken harrow
this is very devastating news. when jim was fulbrighter in dakar in 1989, i lived with my family a block away. we both had children: he and his wife a newborn, and a wonderful, pippy-longstocking, brilliant daughter, alison. she played with my 2 boys almost every day, and it was charming to see them skip over to the searings house, greeting the gardiens on the way. every sunday we went out to goree on the ferry to take the kids to the beach. we got the same snacks every time. we returned to the place de l'independence which, in those days, had bumper cars where the kids had to go, before returning on the bus.
they played "favorite word" games on the bus home.
jim was brilliant, the premier senegalese historian, then the young up and coming historian, his work already highly respected. we moved apart after dakar, but i saw him periodically at conferences, and he would catch me up on the family, and i did the same. he gave me a long spiel on a flight home, not that long ago, about how polish history was becoming important to his dept because of a wealthy donor, and i told him how we came to love chicago since my son moved there.
i barely got to greet him at asa last week, but he was bustling around and seemed fine.
this news is a real shock.
i hope you will convey our deepest condolences to his family, and to your colleagues. we are quite stricken
ken harrow
On 12/4/12 4:04 PM, Laura Hostetler wrote:
Dear Colleague,The Department of History is very sorry to have to inform you of the the sudden loss of our esteemed colleague, Jim Searing. A brief preliminary obituary is attached.If you would like to share a memory, read more about him, or or read memorials written by others please visit our website.
Also we do hope that one of more of you in the field of African History might see to fit to write up an obituary that would more fully address his contributions to the field.
I am sorry to have to share this very sad news with you.
Sincerely,
Laura Hostetler
Professor and Chair
Dept. of History (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
Chicago, IL 60607-7109
tel. 312-996-3141
fax. 312-996-6377
-- kenneth w. harrow faculty excellence advocate distinguished professor of english michigan state university department of english 619 red cedar road room C-614 wells hall east lansing, mi 48824 ph. 517 803 8839 harrow@msu.edu
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