DARE News & Newsletters

If you are one of DARE's eighty-plus Fieldworkers from the 1965-70 period, or one of the people who helped in DARE's home office or on the reading project, please get in touch with us. We'd love to have you add to our Fieldworker Reminiscences in the Newsletter, or update us on what you have been doing. Thanks!

Read the latest articles on DARE: at myfoxdc.com or madison.com. Chief Editor Joan Houston Hall was interviewed for the AP, March 2009.  Hear an interview with Hall on Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know radio program of June 13; go to Part A, minute 9.  From NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, June14, hear/read another interview with Hall.

In DARE's latest newsletter, read about the trials and tribulations of  Fieldworker August Rubrecht making recordings of our informants back in 1965-70.  In DARE's Winter 2009 Newsletter, read about Stephanie Hysmith's use of DARE in her classrom in "Appalachian Ohio," getting her students involved in interviewing similar to that done by DARE Fieldworkers, and learn a few words and expressions from this part of Ohio.

Volume 12.2/3, Spring/Summer 2009

• Ones That Got Away August Rubrecht
• Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
• Coming in Volume V. . . in Photos
• Two DARE Editors Retire Joan Houston Hall
• Where Are They Now?: John Heasley
• “Whad’Ya Know?” “Not Much, You?”
• Dictionary Society Honors DARE Editors

Vol. 12.1, Winter 2009

• Tne Heart of Ohio Stephanie Hysmith
• Letter Z Chosen to Honor Fred Cassidy
• Contributors to DARE in 2008
• Coming in Volume V
• DARE in the Limelight in Europe
  
• Where Are They Now?: Berit Givens
  

Vol. 11.4, Fall 2008

• Using DARE in the Systematic Study of Regional Variation Ed Finegan
• Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
  
• Coming in Volume V
• Staff Member Profile: Nathan Carlson
  
• Where Are They Now?: Erin Meyer
  
• DARE Editor Attends Methods XII Conference

Vol. 11.2/3, Spring/Summer 2008

• Satisfied Customers Have Their Say Joan Houston Hall
• Coming in Volume V
• DARE Editors Part of Wisconsin Englishes Project
  
• Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
  
• DARE Editor Attends Conference
• Volunteer Profile: Alyssa Severn
• DARE Staff Changes
  

  Vol. 11.1, Winter 2008

• How Much of a Good Thing Is Too Much? Joan Houston Hall
• DARE in the Early Seventies Michael M.T. Henderson
• DARE Editor Steps Down as Dictionary Society Exec
• Contributors to DARE in 2007
• Students Search the Internet for DARE
• DARE’s Loss Is Lansing’s Gain
• DARE Editors Attend Conference
• Word Mavens Fête DARE

Vol. 10.4, Fall 2007

• On the Road in South Carolina Ray O’Cain
• DARE Celebrates Fred Cassidy’s Centennial
• In Memoriam: Audrey R. Duckert
• Staff Member Profile: Julie Schnebly
• Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson

Vol. 10.2/3, Spring/Summer 2007

• Home-State Advantage Ray O'Cain
• From the Chief Editor’s Desk Joan Houston Hall
• Cassidy Honored by Colleague
• In Memoriam: Mary Ann Pels
• Volunteer Profile: Lee York
• Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
• DARE Editor Again Honors Students
• Coming in Volume V

Vol. 10.1, Winter 2007

• Words, Words, Words Greg Alfus
• From the Chief Editor’s Desk Joan Houston Hall
• DARE Staff News and Notes
• DARE Board Member Receives Honor
• Contributors to DARE in 2006
• Volunteer Profile: Irene Sadowski
• Where Are They Now?: Lisa Nielsen Agnew

Vol. 9.4, Fall 2006

• The Mythical Hedgehogs of North Carolina: A Note on Lexicographical Method Jeffrey Hirshberg
• In Memoriam: Karen Krause
• Coming in Volume V
• Students Assist DARE Research
• DARE in Podcasts
• Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
• Staff Member Profile: Janet Monk
• DARE Staff Photos

Vol. 9.2/3, Spring/Summer 2006

• Excerpts from a Fieldworker’s Journal August Rubrecht
• Coming in Volume V
• Newsletter Now Available Online
• From the Chief Editor’s Desk Joan Houston Hall
• DARE Editor Honors Students
• Staff Member Profile: Ginny Bormann
• DARE Staff News and Notes
• Sorenson Joins DARE Team

Vol. 9.1, Winter 2006

• On the Road in Kentucky Sharon Huizenga
• Funding Update David Simon
• Contributors to DARE in 2005
• Staff Member Profile: Scot LaFaive
• DARE Newsletter Now Available Online

Vol. 8.4, Fall 2005

• Postcards from Florida: A Fieldworker Reminiscence Ruth Porter
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• DARE Showcased in Chicago
• Staff Member Profile: David Nunnery
• DARE Staff Changes

Vol. 8.2/3, Spring/Summer 2005

• On the Road in Virginia Sharon Huizenga
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• Where Are They Now?: Tamara Milbourn
• Coming in Volume V
• Staff Member Profile: Sheila Y. Kolstad
• DARE Staff Photo
• DARE Showcased at International Meeting

Vol. 8.1, Winter 2005

• Listening to America Joan Houston Hall
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume V
• Notes and Quotes
• Contributors to DARE in 2004
• Staff Member Profile: Sally J. Jacobs
• Where Are They Now?: Kate Peterson, John F. Clark
• DARE Editor Heads Dialect Society
• Do You Speak American?

Vol. 7.4, Fall 2004

• A Last Lecture Frederic G. Cassidy
• Funding Update David Simon
• The Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
• Notes and Quotes
• Where Are They Now?:Rebecca Roeder
• More Notes and Quotes
• Coming in Volume V
• Staff Member Profile: Erin Meyer-Blasing
• DARE Audiotapes to Be Digitized

Vol. 7.2/3, Spring/Summer 2004

• DARE Fieldwork: The Adventure Begins Reino Maki
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume V
• Notes and Quotes
• Longtime Staff Member Retires: Karen Krause
• Staff Member Profile: Barbara G. Wolfe

Vol. 7.1, Winter 2004

• Bobbasheely Joan Houston Hall
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume V
• Notes and Quotes
• Contributors to DARE in 2003
• Volunteer Profile: Marjory McMickle
• DARE on Capitol Hill
• Where Are They Now?: Jason Sweet

Vol. 6.4, Fall 2003

• DARE and the Louisiana Purchase Connie Eble
• Funding Update David Simon
• “We the People”
• Fred Cassidy on Wall of Fame Joan H. Hall
• Notes and Quotes
• Volunteer Profile: Judith A. Taylor
• Coming in Volume V

Vol. 6.2/3, Spring/Summer 2003

• Discovering Dialect Diversity Richard Davis
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• Where Are They Now?: Sarah Thomas
• DARE Goes to the Czech Republic
• Staff Member Profile: Jill Priluck
• DARE Receives Federal Grants
• Coming in Volume V

Vol. 6.1, Winter 2003

• A Scientific Portrait Roland L. Berns
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• Contributors to DARE in 2002
• Staff Member Profile: Kate Peterson
• DARE Editor Wins Award: Luanne von Schneidemesser
• Celebrating Volume IV

Vol. 5.4, Fall 2002

• Memories of Frederic G. Cassidy Claire M. Cassidy
• Funding Update David Simon
• Volume IV DARE Quiz
• Staff Member Profile: Audrey Duckert
• Notes and Quotes
• Longtime Editor Retires: Craig M. Carver

Vol. 5.2/3, Spring/Summer 2002

• From DARE to Henry David Thoreau Elizabeth H. Witherell
• Volume IV Is in Press!
• Funding Update David Simon
• Volume IV DARE Quiz
• Ask a Fieldworker
• Notes and Quotes

Vol. 5.1, Winter 2002

• DARE Helps Out on Broadway Joan Hall
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• Ask a Fieldworker
• Coming in Volume IV
• Contributors to DARE in 2001
• Staff Member Profile: Margaret Pearson Kailhofer

Vol. 4.4, Fall 2001

• The Story of an Entry – shuck v² George Goebel
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume IV
• Where Are They Now?: Joe Marek, Jayne Marek
• Staff Member Profile: Karen Krause
• Notes and Quotes
• DARE in the News and on the Net

Vol. 4.3, Summer 2001

• DARE's Role in Linguistic Profiling Roger W. Shuy
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume IV
• Notes and Quotes
• Staff Member Profile: Conrad Treff
• Another DARE Quiz
• Voices of America

Vol. 4.2, Spring 2001

• Memories of DARE Communities Tim Frazer
• Funding Update David Simon
• DARE in the News and on the Podium
• Coming in Volume IV
• In Memoriam: Margaret Waterman
• Staff Member Profile: Leonard Zwilling
• Notes and Quotes
• DARE Awarded NEH Grant
• Ask a Fieldworker
• Where Are They Now?: Lida Wagner

Vol. 4.1, Winter 2001

• Notes from the City: An Urban Fieldworker’s Experience David Carlson
• Funding Update David Simon
• Staff Member Profile: Beth Gardner
• Contributors to DARE in 2000
• Coming in Volume IV
• Ask a Fieldworker
• Notes and Quotes

Vol. 3.4, Fall 2000

• Life in a DARE Word Wagon August Rubrecht
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• Coming in Volume IV
• DARE at the Smithsonian
• Joan Hall Appointed Chief Editor Allan Metcalf
• DARE in the News
• Staff Member Profile: Roland L. Berns
• Ask a Fieldworker

Vol. 3.2/3, Spring/Summer 2000

• Frederic G. Cassidy
• Funding Update David Simon
• Ask a Fieldworker
• Notes and Quotes
• DARE Staffers Remember Fred Cassidy Joan Houston Hall, Elizabeth R. Gardner, Leonard Zwilling, Sheila Y. Kolstad, Elizabeth Blake, Luanne von Schneidemesser, Catherine R. Attig
• A Colleague Remembers Roger W. Shuy
• Coming in Volume IV

Vol. 3.1, Winter 2000

• On the Road in the West Patt VanDyke
• Funding Update David Simon
• Where Are They Now?: Chuck McCabe, Diane Balmer
• Notes and Quotes
• Contributors to DARE in 1999
• In Volume IV - The Pigs are Coming!
• Staff Member Profile: Luanne von Schneidemesser

Vol. 2.4, Fall 1999

• Fieldwork and Racial Tension August W. Rubrecht
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• Kudos for Cassidy
• Coming in Volume IV
• Where Are They Now?: William Middleton, Kathy Dauck
• Staff Member Profile: George H. Goebel

Vol. 2.3, Summer 1999

• On the Road for the Dictionary: Notes from a Fieldworker’s Journal Barbara Myhre Vass
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume IV (Quiz)
• Notes and Quotes
• Where Are They Now?: Ted Hill, Gabriel Sanders
• Staff Member Profile: Elizabeth Blake

Vol. 2.2, Spring 1999

• In the Field David Goldberg
• Funding Update David Simon
• Coming in Volume IV
• Notes and Quotes
• An Index by Region, Usage, and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volumes I and II Luanne von Schneidemesser
• Where Are They Now?: Jennifer Ellsworth, Dave Vander Meulen
• Staff Member Profile: Catherine Attig

Vol. 2.1, Winter 1999

• From Raw Data to Final Entry Joan H. Hall
• Funding Update David Simon
• Notes and Quotes
• In Fond Memory: Goldye Mohr
• “Feeling A Little Faunchy” James J. Kilpatrick
• Coming in Volume IV
• Where Are They Now?: Jeff Hirshberg, August Rubrecht, Sonja Ritchie
• Staff Member Profile: Frederic G. Cassidy

Vol. 1.1, Fall 1998

• What’s Going On? Joan H. Hall
• Notes and Quotes
• Key to Volume IV Headwords
• Where Are They Now?: Audrey Duckert, Jim Hartman, Kathie Beckett
• Web Site
• Staff Member Profile: Joan Houston Hall

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