Memoirs of an Obscure Professor

Acknowledgments

Acknowlegments I WOULD like to thank former students David Broiles. David Carlson, Paul and Karen Faler, Marilyn Hill, George and Elaine Hopkins, Lee Milazzo, Peggy Nash, Diane Orr, Douglas Sloan, Marshall Terry, and Patricia Wallace for helping me get my facts straight in my reminiscences about Southern Methodist University in the years I taught there. A nod, too, to former SMU colleagues, Gene Benton and Larry Perrine, for helping me with my memories. I'm enormously grateful as well to the following people for writing me, sometimes at great length, about the life and work of the Japanese Language Officers UlOs) at Boulder, Colorado. and in the Pacific Ocean area during what Studs Tcrkel called "the Good War": Harry Allen, Carl Bartz, Wendell Furnas. Carl Nelson. Roger Pineau. Griff Way. and Ed Whan. TCU Press direcwr Judy Alter and ediwr Tracy Row were a pleasure to work with and I appreciate their helpful suggestions for improving the manuscript. TCU professor of history Donald L. Worcester deserves special mention. Not only was he the first to encourage me to write this manuscript for the TCU Press; he also read the first draft and helped me make crucial decisions about what to vii MemoIrs of an Obscure P,oI...or Ylil include and what to leave out. Don is an emeritus professor, but he is as busy as he ever was, teaching and writing, though never too busy to help students, friends, and colleagues in their own research and writing. Don honors the academic profession. ...