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AAUP Named in Bequest
By Martin D. Snyder
Mathematician and longtime AAUP loyalist Wilfred Kaplan has maintained his close ties to the Association and to his chapter since retiring from the University of Michigan. Kaplan recently announced his intent to leave a $10,000 bequest to the AAUP in support of the Association’s capital campaign, the Campaign for the Common Good. His announcement is an important part of a larger drive by the University of Michigan AAUP chapter to raise $25,000 toward the capital campaign’s goal.
The generous bequest, however, is not the only means Kaplan has settled on to support the Association. He has been writing a story about his life with his late wife, based on their exchange of letters. He has now completed a manuscript telling the first part of their story. The book describes how Kaplan and his wife met in Switzerland and fell deeply in love but then had to endure two years of separation before they could finally get married and settle in America. Her parents were bitterly opposed to the marriage, and it took skillful diplomacy to win them over. The privately published book provides a glimpse into not only the Kaplans’ storybook romance but also into academic life in Switzerland and at Harvard University on the eve of World War II. The cost of the book is $40.
Kaplan has agreed to turn over to the AAUP a significant portion of the receipts from book sales to readers of Academe. Copies of the book may be ordered by e-mail at verenapress@msn.com. Purchasers should add a note to their orders indicating that they heard about the book in Academe.
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