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A message from Frank Glamser's daughter
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Frank Glamser's daughter asked me to post this message for her.


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Dear Fire Shelby,     


I want to again thank you for your website. I greatly appreciate that a forum is available for an exchange of ideas on the issues of the USM administration. Rather than post this myself directly onto your board, I would prefer it if you would please post it. That way there is no question of whether it is "really me", as you can verify through my e- mail.    


I do not expect people to understand what it is like for my mother, sister, and me to have to read untruths and horrible accusations about Dad in the press.  It was especially hurtful to hear my dad called a criminal and have his "masculinity" questioned. It is painful to see someone on television full of venom speaking ill of your father. Among the four of us, there is no telling how many tears have been shed and how many hours of peaceful sleep have been lost. I wish it were appropriate for me to use the past tense, but because of the public statements made by the administration in the papers today, I feel right back in the wringer.     


I understand that many people who were once staunch supporters of my dad and Dr. Stringer are now angry and/or feel betrayed. I am truly sorry that they feel that way. During what I had expected to be a weekend of celebration and relief, my family and I find ourselves feeling the sting of painful words from both the usual sources as well as some unexpected ones. I view the resolution as meeting our objective, in that the hearing was about avoiding termination. The "DEFENSE" fund was just as its name implies. It was not an "OFFENSE" fund to get Dr. Shelby Thames fired. It was a fund to be used to defend Dad and Dr. Stringer from being fired.  Please remember, Dr. Glamser and Dr. Stringer were not terminated. They are employed by USM for two additional years.     


Thank you so much for all of your diligent work in helping Dad and Dr. Stringer throughout this ordeal. If it weren't for the attention your website and all the supporters helped bring to this situation, I truly believe that the termination procedures would not have been dropped.  


Sincerely,
Kate Glamser Simm



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foot soldier

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Dear Kate,

You have all of our support. We respect your Dad and he has done all that anybody humanly could. There are lots of people still ready to fight his battle for him now. I apologize on behalf of those persons who spoke hastily after the settlement. Know that we are all deeply grateful for Frank and respect him and his family for what they have endured.

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To Kate Glamser Simm,

Your father Frank Glamser and his colleague Gary Stringer are heroes and honorable men worthy of immense admiration. Both will be long remembered for their courage in quite rightly challenging the most corrupt of administrations.

Those of us who contributed to the legal defense fund, took part in protests, and worked in less visible ways on behalf of your father and Dr. Stringer and never for a moment doubted their innocence of any wrongdoing naturally would have preferred to see full reinstatement with all faculty rights and privileges restored. The fact that this did not happen ought not in the least diminish our respect for these two unjustly accused men who, along with their families, have endured unimaginable anguish and are now entitled to see an end to this.

Obviously many of us also had unrealistic hopes of seeing the accuser torn to shreds in cross-examination during the hearings, and we may feel disappointment that this did not happen. But that was not the purpose of the hearings. The goal of the hearings for us, as for you, was to see termination proceedings halted. That goal was achieved, albeit with some sacrifices. In agreeing to a settlement, the two professors have betrayed no one; anyone who believes otherwise ought instead to be hopeful that he or she will never have to face such a situation.

Thanks to your father and Dr. Stringer, the campaign to bring the accuser's despicable fascist regime to a swift end is stronger and more determined than ever. I have been deeply involved in this campaign and will remain involved to whatever extent possible after I leave USM.

Respectfully,

A tenured faculty member who is
leaving very soon

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educator

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They started the fire that will continue to burn until S & Co. and other abject cronies leave an institution that I happen to continue to love. We didn't start the fire ,. . .. . ..

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Jameela Lares

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Dear Kate,


Thank you so much for your post to this list.  I can only dimly imagine what you and your family have gone through.  My parents once took a principled public stand on a matter dear to them, and at the last minute their friends failed to support them.  It was a shattering experience; I had to watch. 


I understand during the Vietnam war, the POWs held in a terrible prison in Hanoi all banded together for support.  They were harassed, mocked, and demoralized, but they found a way to communicate with each other.  The resistance of one helped the resistance of all.  I'm particularly reminded of a terrible torture room into which one by one they would be consigned.  Since there was only one such room, they were each urged by the others to stay in as long as they possibly could, because that meant the others were relatively safe for the moment.  The longest stay possible was perhaps a month, and it was a month bought dearly, but it protected the rest. 


Similarly, we all felt safer when the spotlight was on your father and my own dear colleague Gary Stringer.  We knew that for the moment the USM administration did not dare publicly attack another faculty member who spoke out against the intolerable situation here.  They took our place in the torture chamber. We were of course hoping the chamber would be destroyed before any of the rest of us had to visit it, but I think we should still be very grateful for their long fortitude.  And I don't think we can really say what else might have happened to them--and by extension to all of us--if they didn't choose to leave when the door to the torture chamber was opened for them.


Your father and Gary have set the bar pretty high for the rest of us.  I am very grateful. 


Sincerely,


Jameela Lares, Department of English



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Tiger

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I know it must be hard for you and your family. Just know that people on this board like alum are the minority.

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truth4usm/AH

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Kate:


My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.  My support has not wavered for your dad and Gary, and it never will.  Their bravery and willingness to go to battle for academic freedom have set a high standard for us all.  Know that what they did was not in vain.


Andrea Hewitt



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