> From: Archie Loss <akl1@psu.edu>
> Subject: Future of 60s courses: further comment
>
> I must disagree with the negative assessments of sixties courses/books
> rendered by Sandra Hollins and others in recent communiques.
I am Sandra Hollin Flowers, so if there's a "Sandra Hollins" out there
posting "negative assessments of sixties courses/books," then she will
surely speak for herself.
However, if Archie Loss' comment refers to my recent query about where the
'60s LITERATURE (for my needs, mostly fiction but inclusive of poetry and
drama) anthologies are and what my colleagues on the list FORSEE as the
future of '60s courses, I do beg to differ and clear up the record and my
name. I've been asking for information and looking for kindred spirits,
not rendering negative assessments. Contrary to the above characterization
of my remarks, I complimented Archie Loss on his book and said I regretted
I had gotten the title too late to consider it for my own '60s course.
I'm sorry to say that this may well be the last '60s course I teach. Why?
because the courses are not high priority at MY institution (I'm the only
one who teaches them), even though my students have always responded with
interest and regard for the period. Further, our faculty is being deployed
to newly emerging curricular imperatives with the result that I have less
latitude than I once did in setting my own curricular agenda. (Does anyone
else have that problem?)
So please, everyone who read the accusation against "Sandra Hollins,"
exonerate _me_! I am, have been, and will be guilty of other negativisms,
but the above is not one of them.
Sandra Flowers
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Sandra Hollin Flowers flowers_s@mercer.edu
Associate Professor of English Voice: (912) 752-2813
Mercer University Fax: (912) 757-4956
Macon, GA 31207
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