From dkamen at u.washington.edu Tue Aug 12 12:08:38 2008 From: dkamen at u.washington.edu (Deborah Kamen) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:08:38 -0700 Subject: [LCC] Iris, summer 2008 Message-ID: <1BC2A0BB-7D5B-43B3-961E-DF8AAD2E87FA@u.washington.edu> Hi all, The current issue of Iris, the newsletter of the LCC, is now available! Check it out at http://lambdacc.org/iris/20088.pdf . As always, let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas for future issues! Thanks, Deb (Newsletter Editor, Iris) Deborah Kamen Assistant Professor Department of Classics University of Washington 218 Denny Hall, Box 353110 Seattle WA 98195 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lambdacc.org/pipermail/members_lambdacc.org/attachments/20080812/54f7df74/attachment.html From lockyert at mweb.co.za Wed Aug 13 09:06:18 2008 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:06:18 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Query: list bounces? Message-ID: <003a01c8fd5e$933a8c20$697bfea9@olorin> I am sorry to have to do this on-list; however, when I try to send to the associated "webmaster" address I receive a delivery failure notification. I should be grateful if the list manager could let me know if the list is producing bounces for the e-mail address from which I am sending this mail (that is, lockyert [at] mweb [dot] co [dot] za (I don't want to type the address in standard format, as this post will go into a public archive). TIA, Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From lockyert at mweb.co.za Wed Aug 20 04:49:02 2008 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:02 +0200 Subject: [LCC] PA: Leo Abse Message-ID: <000b01c902ba$bf861d60$697bfea9@olorin> According to a brief Press Association report being carried by Yahoo, Leo Abse, the former Labour MP from Wales who helped pilot through the British House of Commons the legislation that decriminalized male homosexual intercourse in England and Wales in 1967, and who was also involved with the 1969 Divorce Law Reform Act, died on Tuesday night (19/08/2008) at Charing Cross Hospital in London, aged 91. Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From lockyert at mweb.co.za Wed Aug 20 05:07:22 2008 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:07:22 +0200 Subject: [LCC] BBC: More on Leo Abse Message-ID: <001d01c902bd$4f5ed7e0$697bfea9@olorin> Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7572163.stm BBC NEWS Gay rights champion Leo Abse dies * Gay rights champion and former MP Leo Abse has died at the age of 91, according to a family friend. * The former Labour MP for Pontypool and then Torfaen died at Charing Cross Hospital, west London, on Tuesday night after a short illness. Mr Abse guided a Private Member's Bill through Parliament in 1967 that legalised sex between men. He was also credited with helping to liberalise divorce laws through the 1969 Divorce Reform Act. Mr Abse, who was in the Commons for nearly 30 years, is survived by his second wife Ania. On his website, Mr Abse, who was born in Cardiff in 1917 and lived in Chiswick, west London, was described being politically active from an early age. In 1944, while serving with the RAF in the Middle East, he was arrested for political activities in Cairo, Egypt. On returning to Britain he became a solicitor and founded his practice Leo Abse and Cohen, based in south Wales, in 1951. It now employs around 150 people and has offices in Swansea and Newport as well as Cardiff, where it is one of the city's biggest solicitor firms. He became an an MP in a by-election in Pontypool in 1958 and remained until his retirement at 70 in 1987. He remained in parliament for 29 years, holding the seat for Pontypool from 1958 to 1983 and then Torfaen from 1983 - 1987. Having inspired nine Private Member's Acts, he was noted as one of Britain's top social reformers and was well known for his flamboyant style. Torfaen Council leader Bob Wellington said Mr Abse was a "great politician" who "was never scared to start debates on subjects which other MPs avoided". "Leo Abse was small in stature but he was an intellectual giant," he said. "He was a great parliamentarian who championed the rights of his constituents for nearly 30 years with a passion and tenacity that left its mark on the borough and right across the UK through significant legal reform. "Leo spoke regularly on national issues in Parliament but never forgot his main priority, the people of Torfaen. "He will be sorely missed and can rightly be termed Britain's top reformer of the century." Mr Abse was the son of Rudolf Abse, a Jewish solicitor and cinema owner who lived in Cardiff. His younger brother is Dannie Abse, a renowned poet. He attended Howard Gardens High School in Cardiff followed by the London School of Economics where he studied law. In 1955 he married Marjorie Davies, an artist with a national reputation for her fabrique collage work and head of the pedagogic department at Cardiff College of Art. They had two children: Tobias, a lecturer in European History, and Bathsheba, one-time curator of the Keats Museum in Rome and now married to an Italian diplomat. After Marjorie's death in 1996, he re-married Ania Czepulkowska, a young Polish artist holding a Royal College Masters degree, in 2000. Since his retirement he has written political books based on his interest in psychoanalysis. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/wales/7572163.stm Published: 2008/08/20 11:49:21 GMT ? BBC MMVIII -- Posted to LambdaCC by Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa