I'm sharing an extraordinary farewell letter from my colleague Vic Strandberg who taught in Duke's English Department for 60 years. He's touched the lives of over 10k students, which is unreal. Also, he shared Duke's salary for asst. prof in English in 1962: $9500
english.duke.edu/news/farewel...
You could call this my last will and testament. I will begin with the testament, based on my institutional memory going back sixty years. After earning my PhD at Brown in 1962, I taught at the Univers...
