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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Sent on behalf of Academic Senate Chair Sang-Hee Lee</span></i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">With a sad heart, I share the news that William W. Megenney, Professor Emeritus of Spanish & Portuguese, passed away on November 5, 2023. </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Bill had an extraordinary career as a scholar and a mentor at UCR. Here is a tribute from the Department of Hispanic Studies:</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">William W. Megenney was a long-serving faculty member of the UC Riverside community. He taught in the Hispanic Studies
department for more than forty years. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">A prolific researcher, his books included, among others,
<i>A Bahian Heritage An Ethnolinguistic Study of African Influences on Bahian Portuguese</i>,
<i>Aspectos del lenguaje afronegroide en Venezuela</i>, <i>Africa en Santo Domingo : su herencia lingüística</i>,
<i>"Lengua" en la literatura neoafronegroide : Cuba y Brasil</i>, <i>Prolegomenos a Um Estudo Da Lingua Brasileira Nos Terreiros De Origem Africana</i>.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">This important body of work in ethnolinguistics focused on the African influences on Brazilian Portuguese and Venezuelan and Caribbean Spanish, which continues
to be influential for scholars today. Bill was beloved by his colleagues, staff, and students; he will always be remembered for his sense of humor and his characteristic and contagious laughter.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Please join me in our remembrance and celebration of Bill’s legacy. </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">In your service,</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Sang-Hee Lee</span></i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Chair of the Academic Senate</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#F1AB00;mso-ligatures:none">____________________________</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD;mso-ligatures:none">Cherysa Cortez for Sang-Hee Lee</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD;mso-ligatures:none">Executive Director, Academic Senate</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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