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· A4_· 5   William Lamar Herrin ’63 AS is the author of "Romancing Spain, " an
J .5   elegant account of a man falling in love with a Spanish woman he mar- U
if ried 30 years ago. In his remembrance, Herrin opens his heart, his natu— /—\, { l i
ti ral skepticism and an American’s awe of history to a complex nation F4 0 wi A ri c z N s ° yy ;> A 1 N
that is both rich in tradition and astoundingly foreign. It is a quixotic K J
  ml love story set in an exotic locale. Perhaps best of all, it has a happy end-
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ii The book tells two stories side—by-side. In one, a 30—year—old Herrin,   I _ ~-»-
  fresh from a broken marriage, sails to Spain and meets a woman who ·‘      
ig takes his breath away. Three decades later in contemporary times,   ° af
  Herrin and that same woman —his wife,Amparo— tour all of Spain   in ` '  . A
if looking for the perfect pueblo in which to spend their declining years.   `   j it
it Portraying himself as a quixote in love with romance, Herrin struggles  Y   t ~.. ~
, to win the woman who will finally open her arms to him in a world  .
  where the church and bureaucracy resist.  ,_ A
T Herrin is the author of six previous books. His short stories have ap-   .  
e peared in The New Yorker Paris Re iemg and Epoch. Herrin also is the  · V.
recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and was A g  ·*"“”' 
a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature at Cornell  ;_ ,
University.  
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i Bernadette Barton ’94 AS is the au- Ron Pelfrey ’66 ’72 ’82 ED has Thomas E. Stephens ’88 CIS has writ-
  thor of "Strippea'.· Inside the Li es of written " The Mathematics Program ten "First Cats:Amazing Origins ofthe
§ Exotic Dancers" about a controversial Impro ement Re iew:A Compre- UK Sports Dadition, " which
i trade that focuses on a philosophical hensi e E aluation Process for K—l2 chronicles the birth of an athletic pro-
g clash between old and new school Schools " which discusses how to gram that has captured the imagina-
f feminism: Are strippers exploited or evaluate mathematics programs tion of ever—loyal Kentuckians and, at
empowered? while addressing l0 key program times, even the nation and the world.
New York University Press °OmP°“""“S· Oakleaf Publishing rm.
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i Curriculum Development
i Robert W. Olson, professor of Middle www.ascd.org Mary Levi Smith ’64 ’80 ED is the
i East politics at UK, has written "T/ie author of "ln Spire ofthe Odds: Using
i Goat and the Butcher: Nationalism and Bruce Rector ’87 ED, ’90 LAW is Roadblocks; Potholes; and Hurdles as
I State—formation in Kura'istan-Iraq since the author of "Monrlay Morning Stepping Stones to Success; " a memoir
_ the Iraqi Wai; " which analyzes the com- Messages" containing stories de- of her life in higher education as presi-
. petition and struggle between nation- signed to be read every Monday dent of Kentucky State University
Q alism (the goat), capitalism (the throughout the year for learning, in- and the path that took her there.
H butcher), and ethnonationalism (the spiration, and motivation and with Goose Creek Publishers hm
jj Kurds), and the processes of state for- 52 leadership principles to encour- WwwgoosecreekpubIishersxom
i mation using Kurd1stan—lraq as a case age business, government. and com-
. study. munity leaders to achieve.
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