In Memoriam: W. W. Abbot (1922–2009), Making Something Of Life,
2010
University of Virginia
In Memoriam: W. W. Abbot (1922–2009), Making Something Of Life, Philander D. Chase
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
George Washington, Bill Abbot wrote in his 1989 essay “An Uncommon Awareness of Self,” “saw life as something a person must make something of.” Several years of patiently editing Washington’s pre-Revolutionary papers had left Bill “with the impression of a man driven to master every aspect of his life and to make the most of what life offered.” Anyone who had the privilege of working with Bill Abbot, particularly during his long and distinguished documentary editing career spanning the last third of his life, is left with a similar impression of Bill himself.
Life Service Award Presented To Rich Leffler,
2010
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Life Service Award Presented To Rich Leffler, John P. Kaminski
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
I have known Rich Leffler for more than forty years. We both came to the University of Wisconsin in 1967 as graduate students in the Department of History. He came from New York and I from Chicago. Rich started to work informally with the Ratification project in 1969–70, when he went to Raleigh, North Carolina, to do research on his dissertation. He searched libraries for the Ratification project, the First Federal Elections project, and the First Federal Congress project. Officially, Rich started to work full time on the project in 1973, first as a researcher, then as assistant editor, associate …
