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Letter from Tim Fehler

13 December 2001

Dear Dr. SoRelle,

I hope that your term has ended well. I greatly enjoyed getting to talk to you during our short trip through Waco in August. That was our first visit back to the campus since graduation--actually we have driven through a couple of times on weekend evenings but have not gotten a chance to talk to anyone. I truly treasure my experiences at Baylor, and the history department has had a tremendous impact on my life.

At that time I had given Dr. Vardaman a copy of the teaching award that had been given to me last spring. There has just been a write-up about the award in the Fall issue of the Furman alumni magazine, and I am enclosing a copy for you and for the history dept. with my great thanks for the marvelous example that sent me to grad school & still inspires me. (It was Vardaman's courses that triggered my intellectual "awakening"--but I had great experiences in every history course I took.)

My sabbatical in Germany has been thus far wonderful--although the time is flying! We feel at home in Emden and will probably have difficulty returning next summer.

I hope that your Christmas & New Year holidays are nice, and I send along my heartiest greetings! All best,

Tim Fehler

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