A Nice Surprise

I had a very nice surprise the other day, and I just want to share it! While browsing the Internet, I found a book that had been published by one of the scholars with whom I worked at the University of Nevada, Reno. It turns out that she had mentioned me in her acknowledgments. It is so wonderful to find out that you have touched someone's life in a positive way and more than that, that the person felt compelled to tell others and acknowledge it. Thanks Greta!

This is what she wrote: "I could not have asked for better administrative support than I received from the staffs of the universities where I worked, especially those whose jobs involved dealing with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on my behalf. In addition to answering my many questions and processing paperwork, some of them had to help me out of bureaucratic tangles more than once. If I could, I would give them all huge raises. My profound thanks to Maureen Costello, Karen Ebeling, Darla Franks, Lynn Moyer, Linda Ni­hart, Judy Shawley, and Karin Weaver at the Pennsylvania State Univer­sity; Mary Farrer and Gail Shirley-Warren at the Woodson Institute; Julia Friedheim and Elizabeth Spencer at George Mason University; Debbie Hammersmith and Margaret Hellwarth at the University of Nevada, Reno; and Cheryl Gundersen and Luella Vines at the University of Wisconsin­ Parkside."

A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 Greta De Jong; University of North Carolina Press, 2002.