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Gary Houston posted a condolence
Monday, November 4, 2019
I never met him, but in May of 1968 he drove from Oberlin to Wooster to review Friedrich Duerrenmatt's "The Visit" in the student newspaper whose editorship I had just departed. It was odd seeing myself covered in an above-the-banner notice whose layout I'd suddenly and no longer had anything to do with, written by an English professor who knew this play inside and out (he wrote that he had taught it) and to be gently spared the grief that comes to the young actor trying to play "age." It was the first review to make me feel that perhaps there was a future for me in the theater, and for that I am humbly indebted to then Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College, Charles B. Teske.
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Angelo Trinchere posted a condolence
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Our condolences from Centennial Elementary School & Easton High School Class of 1950. He was loved by anyone who knew him.
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Meg (Margaret) Hunt posted a condolence
Sunday, August 18, 2019
"No one ever wrote a word." This saying of Charlie's has stayed with me and inspired me for years and, I believe, sums up his prodigious contribution to scholarship at Evergreen. Despite the fact that he was deeply conversant with the Western literary and classical music traditions, he reminded us that the ink on paper is not the poem, just as the paper score is not a symphony. The old sagas and songs were learned and passed down from person to person without benefit of written text; so it is with jazz, at which Charlie was a master, and with my discipline, dance.
I had the privilege of teaching with Charlie, but I was as much his student as his colleague. He was of course a perfect gentleman, but I felt that I also got from him respect—sometimes rare in academe—for my expertise as a dancer, because while he did not know a lot about the art form, he understood and respected its intrinsic nature—an art learned and passed down from person to person, without a paper text. I am forever grateful to Charlie for his honoring of oral tradition.
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Melissa London Posted Sep 23, 2022 at 2:30 PM
IOral tradition was the emphasis of a program of study I took with Charlie in the late '80s. We also had a dance teacher and a music teacher. The course, and Charlie in particular, contributed greatly to who I am today (and for decades now) -- a writer and a storyteller. I'm eternally grateful for the lessons and sad that he's gone.
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Allen T Miller posted a condolence
Friday, August 16, 2019
Charlie was a great man. I enjoyed hearing him play the trumpet with the Johnny Lewis Band during the Inaugural Balls at the State Capitol Campus. He was a great supporter of the local Gilbert and Sullivan and other concerts of the Olympia Light Opera Society that Lilo and I were involved in. He was also a great father to Julian who I worked with when I was on the Olympia School Board. Love and prayers to Lilo, Julian, and all of Charlie's family and friends at this time.
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Dan Ralph posted a condolence
Monday, August 12, 2019
Charlie was a remarkable person in many ways, but the thing that always made an impression on me was his spectacular memory. He could restart a conversation from exactly where it had left off no matter how long ago the original conversation had taken place. He had a laser sharp focus and deep love for language that translated into passionate, performative teaching, and he never stopped trying to teach you something, long after his responsibility for your learning had ended. He left a legacy at Evergreen that will not be easily matched. My sincerest condolences to those who were closest to this remarkable man.
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Friday, July 5, 2019
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