Re: Letters of Reccomendation -Reply

[Byron Stay <stay@msmary.edu>]

Dear Dave and Beth,

	Will you please send your dossiers and vita directly to me?  We'd
like to have our hiring decisions wrapped up by the end of the month. 
Although Mount St. Mary's salaries will not be as sumptuous as those at
your current institutuions, they will be augmented with free tires, tire
rotations, and the name of Carl's (former) bookie.

	Best of luck to you both.

	Byron

Byron L. Stay
Associate Dean of the College
Mount St. Mary's College
Emmitsburg, MD  21727
301-447-5355
STAY@MSMARY.EDU

On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Carl Glover wrote:

> Dear Dr. David Healy:
> 	You are hereby served notice that the Rev. Dr. Carl Wesley Glover,
> formerly an ordained minister in a Southern Baptist Church, now with one
> foot in Hell and the other on a banana peel, currently Director of the
> Writing Center at Mount Saint Mary's College, has filed a civil suit
> against you for defamation of character, slander, mail fraud, female
> fraud, and for removing your mattress labels.  The Rev. Dr. Glover
> requested a letter of reference in his behalf as he sought employment at
> another university.  The Rev. Dr. Glover explained to us that he had
> applied for the job of Writing Center Director at Fairfield University in
> Connecticut, the position currently held by one Elizabeth Boquet, a.k.a.
> "Beth" Boquet, a.k.a. "Chicken" Boquet (ha, ha).  The reason the Rev. Dr.
> Glover applied for Dr. Boquet's position is that she makes $42,000 per
> year in only her third year in the position.  The Rev. Dr. Glover has been
> in his positon for 8 years and is a tenured associate professor but makes
> considerably less than Dr. Boquet.  He even tried to secure a personal
> loan from Dr. Boquet, who apparently found his credit references (a
> finance company, a bookie, and two loan sharks) unsatisfactory.  Since Dr.
> Boquet failed to lend the Rev. Dr. Glover the cash he so desperately
> needed, he decided to apply for her position.  The fact that Dr. Boquet
> has no plans of leaving her position and that Fairfield University is
> pleased with her work and plans to increase her salary is irrelevant to
> this case.  Time for a new paragraph.
> 	Please be informed, Dr. Healy, that the basis for these charges
> is the publication of your letter of reference on the WCenter List.  The
> Rev. Dr. Glover does not dispute the contents of your letter.  In fact, he
> praises it and has already printed out a copy and has sent it to his
> mother.  He belives that you have presented his credentials in the best
> possible light and that your letter is the cornerstone of his dossier.
> But when you went public with this letter, it alerted certain high-ranking
> officials (like Dr. Byron Stay) at his current place of employment, and
> now his current emmployers are seeking to replace the Rev. Dr.  To
> complicate matters with a bit of irony, the two leading candidates for the
> Rev. Dr. Glover's replacement are Dr. Elizabeth Boquet and Dr. David
> Healy!  
> 	In summary and in strict legal jargon, Glover is suing you for
> screwing up his life.
> 					Yours sincerely,
>   
> 
> 					Hugh Louis Dewey
> 					Dewey, Cheatum, & Howe
> 
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> 
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