<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Re: PS: </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>And many cheers to our fearless leader Chuck, for always having our backs.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On 5/14/08 8:56 AM, &quot;D Charles Whitney&quot; &lt;chuck.whitney@ucr.edu&gt; wrote:<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>PS:  Thanks to everyone who wrote in Susan's behalf:  As you can tell from the proclamation, those letters made a difference.<BR>
<BR>
&nbsp;Susan Straight has won the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award for 2007-2008!<BR>
<BR>
The proclamation, to be read at the UCR Senate Assembly meeting next Tuesday, will embarrass her.  You can read it here:  <FONT COLOR="#1F3DFF"><a href="http://senate.ucr.edu/agenda/080520/Committee%20on%20Distinguished%20Teaching%20Final%20Report.pdf">http://senate.ucr.edu/agenda/080520/Committee%20on%20Distinguished%20Teaching%20Final%20Report.pdf</a><BR>
</FONT><BR>
Congratulations, Susan -- a richly deserved,  yea overdue, honor.<BR>
<BR>
&nbsp;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:8.5pt'><B><I>D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair<BR>
Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS<BR>
U of California, Riverside CA 92521<BR>
951.827.6076    FAX 951.827.3619<BR>
</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
</BODY>
</HTML>