Kathleen Dale's Home Page
On May 18, 2007, I will retire after 26 years as an English
instructor and one year as Acting Assistant Director for Instruction
for the Academic Opportunity Center! During that time I have taught
over 5,000 composition, creative writing, and service-learning
students.
I started teaching English almost 40 years ago at New Trier High
School in Northfield, Illinois. I came to UWM in 1970 to begin my PhD
in English. From 1971-1976, when I received my doctorate (dissertation
on Wallace Stevens, American poet), I was a teaching assistant and
lecturer for the English department, after which I taught freshman
composition briefly at Marquette University.
As a retiree, I look forward to doing more of those things I've enjoyed
all my working life, including writing poetry. In 2006, my chapbook, Ties
that Bind, was published by Finishing Line Press in Georgetown,
Kentucky. One
of the poems in that collection, "The Apparent
Immortality of Things" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (The
chapbook is available from
me, from Schwartz Bookshop on Downer, UWM Bookstore, Woodland
Pattern Bookstore, or
Broad Vocabulary Feminist Book Store.)
I will also continue taking piano lessons at the Wisconsin Conservatory
of Music, where last year, I gave a one-hour recital of music by
contemporary American women composers. I plan to continue
perfecting my heavy-air sailing skills with the Milwaukee Sailing
Center, and may also return to UWM to audit classes in the fall (right
now I'm looking at Physics for non-majors and beginning Italian).
I'm sure our first grandson, Alden Steven Leclair, born March 13 of
this year, two days before my birthday--see blog at http://aldensstory.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html--will
seduce much of my time as well. After rearing three daughters,
I'm sure I'll find a grandson to be an interesting undertaking!
I feel very blessed for my time here at UWM. I thank all my colleagues
and students, past and present, for the many many lessons you have
taught me--many more than I've brought you.
I would welcome hearing from past students and colleagues--let me know
what you are doing now. You can write me at kdale@wi.rr.com or,
for awhile, at kdale@uwm.edu
Blessed be.
Kathleen
This web page was last updated on 5/09/07