In '78 or '79, when I was chair of English at the U. of Idaho in Moscow, ID, I successfully nominated Mary de Rachewiltz for an honorary doctorate. At the ceremonies, the president of UI introduced the honors recipients as representing the four major interests of the State of Idaho: the other three were the presidents of the Idaho Cattlemen's, Wheat-farming, and Potato-growing associations; Mary represented "Culture." Mary took it all with a certain degree of amusement. As the highlight of her stay, my wife and I took her out to a rough-and-tumble bar in Bovill, a town of pop. 300 about 25 miles east of the U. Idaho now does have some Kulchur. My friend the novelist Lance Olsen is creative-writing muckamuck at UI. The white supremacists live far north around Coeur d'Alene, and as far as I know, none of them has been nominated for an honorary doctorate. ==Dan Buckaroo Pearlman > >While the Idaho legislature may well be a bastion of philistinism, I would >suggest that they are not fools if they feel that an Ezra Pound birthsite >monument would attract an extremely small number of people -- probably fewer >than belong to this list. > >How about a combination James Laughlin ski appreciation/Ezra Pound >historiographic society? > >Patricia > Dan Pearlman Department of English University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 [Latest book: novel, BLACK FLAMES, White Pine Press, 1997] Tel.: (home) 401 453-3027 (office) 401 874-4659 Fax: 401 874-2580 Internet: [log in to unmask]