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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Rhoads Murphey


> H-ASIA
> February 1, 2013
>
> Professor Rhoads Murphey (1921-2012)
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> From: "Madancy, Joyce" <madancyj@union.edu>
>
> Following up Kristin Stapleton's post of January 31:
>
> I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Rhoads Murphey. This
> is not a full obituary, but a more personal tribute. I TA'd for
> Rhoads at the University of Michigan in the late 1980s and found him
> a most congenial and generous mentor. He was, for lack of a better
> description, quite the character, as he zoomed along the streets and
> sidewalks of Ann Arbor on his ancient black bicycle, always smiling
> and always ready to chat. Like Kristen, I also have a favorite
> memory of Rhoads from those days. I was feeling overwhelmed by the
> task of pulling together my dissertation and I asked him, a man
> famous for textbooks and other publications that pulled together so
> many disparate ideas from so many cultures into a coherent narrative,
> how on earth he managed to be so organized. He laughed heartily,
> threw his arm around my shoulder and escorted me to his office, flung
> open the door to reveal an interior cluttered beyond belief and
> featuring the manual typewriter he used for all of his manuscripts,
> and said, "organization is highly overrated!!" He will be missed.
>
> Joyce Madancy
> Union College Dept of History
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