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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2924  Monday, 31 December 2001

From:           Hardy M. Cook <hcook@bowiestate.edu>
Date:           Monday, December 31, 2001
Subject:        End of the Year and Best Wishes for the New Year

Dear SHAKSPEReans,

This will be the last digest from SHAKSPER for 2001. This has been a
very good year for this academic listserv. First, we have finally
established the SHAKSPER web site, which is highly successful and which
continues to receive a truly remarkable number of “hits” a day. Second,
we have once again exceeded the number of posts for the previous year,
establishing yet another record.

Although SHAKSPER was founded in June of 1990 by Kenneth Steele, volume
numbers begin with each new year, so your first digest of 2002 will be
13.0001. I plan to take a few more days of rest, so do not expect any
messages tomorrow or Wednesday either.

On a personal note, 2001 has not been the greatest year in my life. For
the past six years, I have served as chair of my department. During
those years, my scholarship has suffered even though I have managed to
continue with very few hitches my work with SHAKSPER. I have resigned as
chair effective July 1, 2002, and I have applied for a sabbatical for
next academic year in large part to catch up with some of the
scholarship I have neglected and to continue, of course, to deliver
SHAKSPER to its loyal members. However, granted a sabbatical or not, I
have serious doubts I shall be able to continue in my current position.
For this and other reasons, I shall very shortly, I hope, be moving the
SHAKSPER server from my office to my home, where I have commercial DSL
service. What then follows for me to paraphrase Henslowe from
*Shakespeare in Love* “is a mystery.”

I am sure that in the year to come the discussions on SHAKSPER will
continue to be engaging and lively.

In the spirit of the season, I wish you all my best wishes for 2002. I
also humbly thank you all for making SHAKSPER the joy it is for me to
bring to you.

Happy New Year,
Hardy

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