GOETHE NEWS and NOTES XXIV.1, Spring 2004

GOETHE NEWS AND NOTES XXIV.1, Spring 2004

———————— Burkhard Henke, Editor www.goethesociety.org Davidson College

FROM THE EDITOR Directors-at-Large: Jonathan Hess (Chapel Hill) In this newsletter you will hear from our Catriona MacLeod (Penn) new President, Meredith Lee, welcoming the newly elected officers Dan Wilson, Congratulations to all three! Jonathan Hess and Catriona MacLeod, thanking the outgoing President, Hans Vaget, and the Directors-at-Large, Ellis *** Dye and Waltraud Maierhofer, for their dedicated service to the Society, and inviting nominations for the position of PRESIDENT’S COLUMN Executive Secretary. You will be asked by our Secretary-Treasurer to pay your At the 2003 MLA in San Diego we 2004 dues; notices about the Yearbook acknowledged with gratitude the and scholarly meetings will remind you leadership of three officers of the GSNA of the importance of doing so. Last but whose elected years of service ended in not least, you will hear from Gail Hart December: President Hans Rudolf Vaget who remembers Jill Kowalik as a friend, and Directors-at-Large Ellis Dye and scholar, and longtime member of this Waltraud Maierhofer. It is a pleasure to society. Those who were unable to thank them once again for their many attend the memorial service may contributions to the society and the appreciate the opportunity to listen to energy they have brought to its multiple Ursula Mahlendorf’s and Ted Bahr’s programs and activities. eulogies at www.goethesociety.org. It is appropriate here to introduce the Burkhard Henke newly elected officers who joined the Davidson College board in January and who will be directing the GSNA for the next three *** years: Vice President Dan Wilson and Directors-at-Large Jonathan Hess and ELECTION RESULTS Catriona MacLeod. Angela Borchert is continuing in her role as Secretary- Vice President: Treasurer, as are Yearbook Editor Simon W. Daniel Wilson (Berkeley) Richter, Book Review Editor Martha

Helfer, and Webmaster and Goethe and greater understanding of his life and News and Notes Editor Burkhard Henke. times.

The Executive Secretary of our society is Cordially, also continuing in his essential leadership role, but only for one more Meredith Lee year. Clark Muenzer has informed the University of California, Irvine Board that he does not intend to seek renewal of his appointment when his term expires at the end of 2004. Clark *** has served capably and enthusiastically for over six years in this critical role and we are all greatly in his debt. We look NOMINATIONS INVITED— forward to acknowledging his service EXECUTIVE SECRETARY when we meet in Philadelphia this coming December. The Board of the Goethe Society of North America invites nominations for In the meantime, the Board needs to turn the position of Executive Secretary. The its attention to identifying an appropriate Executive Secretary provides successor to Clark. An announcement of administrative and programmatic the position is posted on the next page leadership for the GSNA and serves as and also on our website. Please give the an ex-officio member of the Board of office some thought, considering Directors. An appointment will be made whether you know someone ideally by the Board for a renewable three-year suited to serve in this capacity or term, beginning January 2005. whether you yourself might enjoy assuming new (and largely pleasant) The position is responsible for sustaining responsibilities. The Executive Secretary GSNA programs and programmatic links is the programmatic and administrative with our affiliate organizations: the mainstay of the GSNA. Those of you Modern Language Association, the who have had the pleasure of working American Society for Eighteenth- with Clark will recognize some of the Century Studies, and the German Studies obvious traits we will be seeking: fair- Association. The Executive Secretary mindedness, reliability, and a steady identifies GSNA members to organize willingness to do the work. In Clark we the society’s panels at the annual have had the bonus of kindness and a meetings of these organizations and warm and lively sense of humor. The keeps track of programs. From time to rewards include contact with a time, other administrative matters, such wonderful group of people and a as the periodic MLA recertification, sustained opportunity for setting and require exceptional attention and timely guiding scholarly programming. response. Attendance at the annual MLA meeting in December is mandatory, as I look forward to serving as president of the MLA also hosts the annual executive the GSNA in the next three years and board and business meeting of the working together with the new Board to society, for which the Executive promote scholarly inquiry about Goethe Secretary drafts the agenda in close

2 consultation with the President, other 2003 of the metastatic breast cancer that officers, and board members. It is also she had fought heroically for the last highly desirable for the Executive fourteen years. She is survived by her Secretary to be present at the ASECS husband, Bill Kowalik, by her father, meeting in March/ April or the GSA siblings, nephews, and her German host meeting in October. family, the Bertholds, with whom she never lost touch. Jill was an active The Executive Secretary facilitates member of the GSNA right up to the communication among and between the end, working as a member of this past society’s officers, the executive board, year's Nominating Committee. She is and the members and responds to queries well-known to the membership for her and requests from outside organizations. excellent contributions to the Goethe Communications with the Webmaster Yearbook, including an article in the and the Secretary-Treasurer, who upcoming volume; for her presentations oversee the dissemination of society on Society panels and at the annual news and its financial/ legal matters business meeting; for her organizing of respectively, are especially important, as sessions; and for her learned and lucid are the ability and willingness to contributions to discussion at these facilitate conversations from a distance sessions. She had a superior mind, a about matters pertinent to the wicked sense of humor, and uncommon organization’s mission. energy that never flagged despite more than a decade of drastic and painful Before May 1, please send letters of medical therapy, including a wide inquiry or nomination to: variety of chemo regimens and two bone-marrow transplants. She lived fast Professor Meredith Lee and fully and she leaves a legacy of fine President, GSNA scholarship, as well as significant Division of Undergraduate Education 256 Administration accomplishments in the field of University of California, Irvine environmental preservation. Irvine, CA 92697-5675 [email protected]. Jill's scholarly work, though it included pieces on Thomas Mann and Nietzsche, Inquiries about the position can also be centered on issues of mourning and grief addressed to the current Executive in the eighteenth century. Her last Secretary Clark Muenzer at project was a major book on the [email protected]. discourse of grief and mourning in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and historical documents, *** including the Leichenpredigt. She worked long hours in her last two years to finish this important volume, but once IN MEMORIAM the cancer appeared in her brain, she JILL KOWALIK 1949-2003 reluctantly stopped writing and devoted herself to her environmental work. She Jill Kowalik, Associate Professor of left a large amount of material behind German at UCLA, died on October 30th and some of this will appear in journals

3 over the next few years. Negotiations are also underway for a book that will FROM THE summarize the project and include some BOOK REVIEW EDITOR of her finished chapters.

Please send books for review and Friends, acquaintances, colleagues, suggestions for books for review to: readers, and students of Jill's know how serious a loss we have suffered. We can Professor Martha B. Helfer no longer consult her and tap her Department of Languages and Literature wisdom, or meet her for drinks and hear 255 S. Central Campus Dr., Room 1400 her biting analyses of current University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 scholarship, or listen to her jokes and [email protected] laugh with her. In typical fashion, she planned her own memorial service, which took place on November 8th, 2003, and she expressed the wish that *** donations be sent to her environmentalist organization, "Hills for Everyone," at www.hillsforeveryone.org. FROM THE Gail Hart SECRETARY-TREASURER University of California, Irvine

Minutes of the Business Meeting

28 December 2003

*** President Hans Rudolf Vaget called the

annual business meeting to order on

Sunday, December 28, at 3:30 pm at the

MLA Convention in San Diego. FROM THE President Vaget welcomed the members YEARBOOK EDITOR and delivered the following President’s Report. Volume XII of the Yearbook, the one honoring Tom Saine, will be mailed this I. Elections summer. Contributions to Volume XIV are now being accepted. The Yearbook President Hans Rudolf Vaget was continues to be open to papers on any pleased to report that Daniel Wilson, aspect or author of the Goethezeit, not University of California, Berkley, was just on Goethe. In contrast to many other elected as the new Vice President. He publications, there is no stringent limit takes office January 1, 2004, and will on the length of papers that can be assume the Presidency on January 1, considered. Please refer to the style sheet 2005. The new Directors- at- Large are available at www.goethesociety.org. Catriona MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania and Jonathan Hess, Simon Richter University of North Carolina. University of Pennsylvania Congratulations!

4 II. Prizes graduate students join our society and would like to ask for the support of all Meredith Lee, University of California, members, particularly those teaching in Irvine, chaired the Prize Committee for graduate departments, to make students the Gloria Flaherty Prize and the Essay aware of the Society. Prize. The committee members were Waltraud Maierhofer, University of IV. Yearbook Iowa, and Ellis Dye, Macalester College. Simon Richter, the Yearbook Editor, Victoria Harms, University of reported that Volume 12, a Festschrift Washington, won the Gloria Flaherty for Tom Saine, first founding editor of Prize. She will be presenting a paper Yearbook, will be sent out in the course entitled “The Military and its Role of this summer. Volume 13, with which within Society in Egmont” at the Thirty- the Yearbook begins an annual Fifth Annual Meeting of the American publication schedule, is complete and Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, half of the contributions for Volume 14 in Boston at the end of March. are accepted. The Yearbook has had a healthy number of submissions from all The Essay Prize was awarded to Horst over the world. Lange, University of Nevada, Reno, for his essays “Wolves, Sheep, and the V. Launching a Series of Shepherd: Legality, Legitimacy, and Monographs? Hobbesian Political Theory in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen.” Goethe The Board is looking into the feasibility Yearbook 10 (2001): 1-30. and of launching a series of monographs to “Weislingen: Goethe's Politics of the provide particularly younger members of Ego.” Goethe Yearbook 11 (2002): 177- the profession with the opportunity to 196. publish on the “Goethezeit.” In the current crisis, university presses seem to Both prizes are advertised at becoming more and more reluctant to www.goethesociety.org and in the publish these monographs and the newsletter. society wishes to further scholarship on Goethe. Suggestions and considerations III. Finances of this idea should be sent to Clark Muenzer, Executive Secretary. The finances of the Goethe Society are healthy. The Society has a current VI. Archive for the Goethe Society membership of approximately 225 members, of which 21 members joined Christa Sammons, Beinecke Library has last year. We need to continue our suggested that the archive of the Society membership drive. Brochures, that our might be incorporated in the W.A. Speck webmaster Burkhard Henke, Davidson Collection of Goetheana at Yale College designed are available from him University. As a nucleus, the archive or from Angela Borchert, University of might include the business Western Ontario. We also need to be correspondence of the presidents. The keenly aware how important it is, that Board is considering the suggestion.

5 VII. Thank you UPCOMING MEETINGS

President Vaget thanked all members, GSA in Washington, DC, 6-10 October especially Clark Muenzer, for the 2004 pleasurable experience of being President of such a lively society. He AATG-ACTFL in Chicago, IL, 19-21 was delighted to pass on the office to November 2003 Meredith Lee, a member of the original “Gang of Four”, which included Tom MLA in Philadelphia, PA, 27-30 Saine and Ted Bahr, both UC. Clark December 2004 Muenzer took the opportune moment to thank President Vaget for his six years ASECS in Las Vegas, NV, 31 March-3 of active, intelligent, dedicated and at April 2005 times provocative service to the Society. He presented a Goethe Medal as a token of appreciation to Hans Vaget. ***

VIII. Remembering Special GSNA Session In memory of the members of the at the GSA in Washington society who passed away this year, including Peter Boerner, Hugo Müller, Organized by Claire Baldwin, Colgate Peter Pütz and Jill Kowalik, the Society University observed a minute of silence. Special mention went to Peter Pütz, Professor Goethe in Comparison Ordinarius at the University of Bonn, who was not only a member, but also a Moderator: Claire Baldwin, Colgate friend of the society. Hans Vaget University remembered how they sat by the side of a pool in Santa Ana, discussing the 1. “Communication and Control: construction of the GSNA. In memory of Goethe, Translation and Literature in an Jill Kowalik (UCLA), Gail Hart (UCI), Age of Mass Media” (Andrew Piper, read a eulogy, written by her friend, Columbia University) mentor and confidante, Ursula

Mahlendorf (UCSB). 2. “Memorable Encounters: Napoleon,

Dumas and Goethe” (Karin Barton, IX. Paper University of Toronto)

Horst Lange, University of Nevada, 3. “Goethe's Affinities / Sebald's Reno, presented “The Birth of Goethe’s Coincidences” (Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Classicism from the Spirit of Self- University of Cincinnati) Censorship”. A spirited discussion ensued. Commentator: Gesa Dane, Universität

Göttingen Angela Borchert

Secretary-Treasurer

6 Special GSNA Session In this paper, I would like to reexamine at the MLA in Philadelphia the mythos of the romantic—the erotic and the melancholic—in Roland Organized by Waltraud Maierhofer, Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and Julia University of Iowa Kristeva’s Black Sun as applied to the self-parody of the early Goethe. In one Goethe and Schiller Revisited sense, I am looking for the missing link between Rabelais / Montaigne and Moderator: Waltraud Maierhofer Werther / Satyros in Goethe’s parody of (University of Iowa) himself as proto-Romantic. In another sense, I am after a refutation of myths of 1. “The Impact of Natural Science on the feminine parody in recent work by Work of Friedrich Schiller: A Critical David Wellbery and Benjamin Bennett. Reappraisal of the Letter of August 23, 1794 to Goethe” (Steven Martinson, Throughout his pre-1781 work, Goethe University of Arizona) resorts to parody to resolve issues of polymorphous identity and sexuality. 2. “’Personal Offense’ and German From Eridon in Die Laune des Evolution: The Political Program of the Verliebten to Oronoro in Triumph der Xenien” (Jeffrey L. High, California Empfindsamkeit, Goethe has a habit of State University): gutting and disemboweling the very romantic heroes he creates or inherits by 3. “’Geistesantipoden’? Goethe & way of literary influence. For this paper, Schiller, or: The Importance of Being I would like to focus on two works, a Different” (Werner Frick, Georg- playlet and a mock-epic poemlet, August-Universität Göttingen) Satyros and “Lilis Park,” in order to analyze radical “voice changes” within such microscopic contexts. In Barthes’ *** or Kristeva’s terms, one might say we are dealing with manifestations of temper, temperament, and distemper as forms of parody that mask melancholy. PAST MEETINGS In Wellbery’s and Bennett’s terms, one

might say that we are dealing with Parody: Re-Visioning Goethe parody as disfigurements of the

feminine. It’s voices that one more often Abstracts from the special GSNA identifies with Heine than Goethe. My session at the 2003 MLA, organized and paper suggests that Goethe uses parody chaired by Angela Borchert, University to work out issues of gender, identity, of Western Ontario and sexuality that remain polymorphous

without the intervention of that parody.

1. “A Lover’s Self-Parody: Discrediting

Romanticism while Creating Its Mythos” 2. “Constructive Parodies of Goethe’s (Erich Denton, Wheaton College, Deconstructed Hero: Egmont, Prinz Norton) Friedrich von Homburg, and Dantons

7 Tod” (Raleigh Whitinger, University of dream scene—but emphasizes Alberta, Edmonton) throughout that willfully read dream’s distance from the complexities of reality Close consideration of how the theme of (“Ein Traum! was sonst?”). The Danton artistic activity imparts to Egmont drama opens with a title-figure already (1788) a dimension of ironic reflection cynically aware of the seductive lie of on its own idealistic visions of heroic the heroic persona (“Man möchte sich in and poetic triumph is the point of die Lüge verlieben”). Yet closer departure for approaching a more consideration of the way appearances of differentiated grasp of the allusions and heroic and poetic triumph are ironically echoes with which Heinrich von Kleist’s subverted in all three plays suggests Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1810) something other than a black-white and Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod contrast between Goethe’s idealism and (1835) evoke Goethe’s play—and thus the cynical irony of Kleist or the for locating those dramas in the field of nihilism that many see in Büchner’s modern parody with its combination of pessimistic view of history—and thus homage and critique, with its the more complex nature of the parodic acknowledgement and rethinking of an relationship involved, the later two plays earlier work’s ideals (Hutcheon, not so much parodying the idealism of Tynjanov). Goethe’s drama as paying homage to its pervasive irony. Essential to this Specific allusions in the two later plays consideration is the irony with which suggest that Goethe and his Egmont are Goethe’s drama treats its own visions of part of the idealistic tradition that both heroic and poetic mastery—its every Kleist and Büchner take up to ponder move towards closing visions of triumph and question. These evocations draw paired with subversive signals about the attention to further similarities and efficacy of its protagonist’s identity and parallels—highlighting above all the visions. In addition, the Kleist and way the later two plays echo the basic Büchner dramas, as they take up and plot line of Goethe’s drama, with the one intensify this critical dialogue with the prominent result being their parodically illusory artfulness behind the appearance ironic, even subversive reflection on the of heroic and poetic triumph—his ironic idealistic vision of hero and poetry that deconstruction of the resurrected hero— dominates the foreground of Goethe’s pay constructive homage as well to play. Like Egmont, each depicts its Goethe’s intimations of the positive creatively gifted title-figure, though potentials that exist apart from the incarcerated and doomed in his collision discourse of heroism, each later play too with historical and political reality, a monument to the poetic capacity of indomitable in his struggle to find words hero and poet alike to capture, in the and visions to resurrect a heroic image face of downfall, the moments of beauty and mission that transcend his death. Yet in life’s eternal stream. Thus with their the Kleist and Büchner plays complexly parodic re-thinking of increasingly twist and subvert the heroic Egmont, Homburg and Danton too and poetic ideals so prominent in express essentials of the modern German Goethe’s play. The Homburg drama drama’s first century of development begins where Egmont leaves off—with a from Goethe to Nietzsche: their

8 intensification of Goethe’s irony narrative of the Bildungsprojekt breaks compels us to say of the heroic ideal “Es down into a fragmented polyphony of ist ein Traum!”; their ongoing homage to narrative voices, indicating that Strauß the indomitability of the poetic impulse not only is using parody to criticise invites us to exclaim “Ich will ihn weiter contemporary society, but is also träumen!” mocking the totalising aspirations of the discourse of Bildung. In this context my paper also examines Austerlitz, which 3. “Parodies, Pastiches or Deconstructive can be read as a(n) (anti-)Bildungsroman Plays? Botho Strauß’ Der junge Mann in reverse. Here, the protagonist returns and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz as to his city of origin and his first educator homages to Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in an attempt to heal the division that the (Helen Finch, Trinity College, Dublin) Holocaust and exile have created in him, yet fails to establish an “authentic” Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre has identity. In a melancholy and traumatic spawned a tradition of interpretation that play on the discourse of the autonomous idealises it as a perfect model for a select subject, Sebald plays the plot of Wilhelm and élitist literary genre known as the Meister backwards, and calls into Bildungsroman, which in turn spawned a question the reductive tradition that German discourse of Bildung. My paper would interpret Goethe’s novel in terms will analyse the ways in which Strauß’ of an ahistorical ideal of aesthetic Der junge Mann and Sebald’s Austerlitz education. As in Der junge Mann, the play on this discourse, and how they tragic events of German history and the relate to the hypotext of Wilhelm culture of late capitalism make it Meister. My paper reads this relationship impossible for a unitary subjectivity to by exploiting the definition of parody be rescued. Austerlitz is far removed suggested by Linda Hutcheon, according from the satirical or humorous aspects of to which parody occupies an uneasy parody, but it is informed by a space between polemic and respectful melancholy irony, thus opening up new imitation that adds to, rather than possibilities for a mourning parody detracts from, the status of the hypotext. which addresses the profound ruptures in Der junge Mann is easily recognisable as the German inheritance of its Goethe- a parody of Goethe’s novel; its naive saturated canon. My paper will examine protagonist tries to realise himself as an the extent to which these anti-Bildung aesthetic subject as a theatre director, but narratives can be seen as a direct parody fails miserably due both to lack of talent of Goethe’s novel, in the sense and to the historical condition of West suggested by Simon Dentith when he Germany in the 1980s. Here, parody speaks of the parodies of a culture that serves a culturally critical function, feels itself to be belated. Such parodies, using the hypotext to turn satire according to Dentith, approach their outwards on contemporary society. hypotext in a way that adds to its aura Thus, the Tower of Goethe’s idealised rather than diminishing it. As Wilhelm Turmgesellschaft becomes for Strauß a Meister is in itself a dialogic, unstable dystopian supermarket of banal and metafiction which, according to threatening German identities. However, Margaret Rose’s concept of parody as in Der junge Mann the putatively linear critical metafiction, is thus in a sense

9 already a parody of itself. My paper Berlichingen.” Goethe Yearbook 10 examines how the modern texts play on (2001): 1-30; and “Weislingen: Goethe's this autoparodic hypotext and to what Politics of the Ego.” Goethe Yearbook extent they are thereby doubly parodic, 11 (2002): 177-196. engaging with Wilhelm Meister’s internal tensions to examine the pervasive ideologies of aesthetic *** subjectivity, ahistorical ideals of education, and of the pedagogical function of the hypotext. GLORIA FLAHERTY SCHOLARSHIP

The Society offers a scholarship in honor *** of the late Gloria Flaherty, the accomplished scholar and founding member of the Goethe Society, "to ESSAY PRIZE provide financial aid to worthy undergraduate and/or graduate students The Society seeks nominations or self- who wish to further their education in nominations for its annual essay prize, areas related to the interests promoted by which carries an award of $250. Please the society." submit four copies of your choice for the best essay published in the year 2003 on Guidelines Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures Several years ago, the GSNA Board of Directors drafted guidelines for the by October 15, 2004 to: Gloria Flaherty Scholarship and appointed the Directors-at-Large as the Professor W. Daniel Wilson scholarship committee. One or two Department of German University of California prizes of up to $500 each in travel funds Berkeley, CA 94720-3243 will be given annually to students Tel.: (510) 642-2973 working on Goethe and/or the Age of Fax: (510) 642-3243 Goethe. There are two categories for the [email protected] competition: 1) Money for travel required by a research project on Goethe and/or the Age of Goethe; 2) Money for travel to present a paper on Goethe Congratulations! and/or his Age. The Society is not bound to present a prize in either category in Horst Lange, University of Nevada at any given year. "Age of Goethe" has its Reno, was named the 2003 recipient of normal, relatively narrow range of the GSNA Essay Prize for his two essays meaning. It refers not merely to a on Götz von Berlichingen. “Wolves, specific period of historical time, but Sheep, and the Shepherd: Legality, also to the existence of reasonably clear Legitimacy, and Hobbesian Political paths of association with Goethe's Theory in Goethe's Götz von person, works, interest, or activities.

10 Students who will either deliver a paper Congratulations! or complete a research project before receiving a doctoral degree are eligible. Viktoria Harms, a graduate student in the Department of Germanics, Application procedure University of Washington, was named the 2003 recipient of the Gloria Flaherty The applicant seeking travel money to Scholarship. The Scholarship will be deliver a paper should send: 1) a copy of used to support her travel costs to the the paper to be read, or of the most annual meeting of the American Society complete available draft; 2) evidence for Eighteenth-Century Studies to read a that the paper has been accepted for paper on "The Military and Its Role presentation by a reputable scholarly Within Society in Egmont." organization or institution. The applicant seeking travel money for research should send: 1) a detailed description of the *** research project, including a reasonable selection of supporting materials. If the DUES project description exceeds two pages (ca. 600 words) in length, it must be Please send your 2004 dues to the accompanied by a synopsis or summary Secretary-Treasurer, Angela Borchert. not exceeding that length; 2) One letter Dues are payable in each calendar year, of recommendation from a scholar who see the schedule below. The GYB is sent is familiar with the applicant's earlier only once this obligation is met.. work in either courses or research. active member $25 N.B. One letter of recommendation senior member $35 means "only one." No letters of patron $100 recommendation should accompany emeritus $10 applications for money to present a student $10 paper. Letters of recommendation should institution $40 be sent by the recommenders directly to the committee. Any materials that the candidate wishes to have returned must *** be accompanied by postage and an appropriate and pre-addressed mailing container. Send completed application GSNA OFFICERS

by October 15, 2004 to: President

Professor W. Daniel Wilson Professor Meredith Lee Department of German Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education University of California 256 Administration Berkeley, CA 94720-3243 University of California, Irvine Tel.: (510) 642-2973 Irvine, CA 92697-5675 Fax: (510) 642-3243 Tel/fax: (949) 824-7761 [email protected] [email protected]

11 Vice-President Executive Secretary

Professor W. Daniel Wilson Professor Clark S. Muenzer Department of German Dept. of Germanic Lang. and Literature University of California 1409 Cathedral of Learning Berkeley, CA 94720-3243 University of Pittsburgh Telephone: (510) 642-2973 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Fax: (510) 642-3243 Telephone: (412) 624-5840 (o) [email protected] (412) 361-1220 (h) Fax: (412) 624-6318 [email protected] Secretary-Treasurer

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