DARE Newsletters

We regret that the Fall 2017 issue of the DARE Newsletter will be DARE’s final newsletter. Past newsletters will continue to be available here, and future announcements will be added to our home page’s “DARE News.”  Please continue to visit our site as Chief Editor George Goebel will continue to research and publish Quarterly Updates and other materials on a limited, volunteer basis. Donations are still welcome in order to support this website and other administrative costs. If you have questions, please contact dare@english.wisc.edu . 

DARE Newsletter

Volume 20.1, Fall 2017

  • The News from DARE George Goebel
  • In Memoriam: Patt VanDyke Elizabeth Gardner
  • Contributors to DARE in 2016 and 2017
  • Linguistics Symposium Photos
  • Staff Member Profile: Yuhong (Jake) Zhu
  • A Word of Thanks
  • “Words Count” Exhibition Photos

Volume 19.2, Fall 2016

  • The News from DARE George Goebel
  • DARE and Mental Floss Julie Schnebly 
  • Discount on Digital DARE
  • Want to Go Paperless?
  • In Memoriam: Donald Oresman

Volume 19.1, Winter 2016

  • The News from DARE George Goebel
  • Contributors to DARE in 2015
  • DARE Staffer Receives DSNA Award
  • A Note of Thanks

Volume 18.4, Fall 2015

  • The News from DARE George Goebel
  • Notes on Words—Some Loan Translations George Goebel
  • Discount on Digital DARE  
  • DARE Helps NEH Celebrate Fifty Years
  • Staff Member Profile—Trevor Wells Fraser 
  • DARE After Dark
  • “Words Count” Exhibition

Volume 18.2/3, Spring/Summer 2015

  • Pausing Over Pronunciation Anne Curzan
  • “Mr. Science” Retires
  • Passing the Baton Joan Houston Hall 
  • Looking Forward George Goebel
  • In Memoriam—Ivan Doig
  • Staff Member Profile—Cristopher Font-Santiago

Volume 18.1, Winter 2015

  • Epiphany in South Texas Donald M. Boyd
  • From the Chief Editor’s Desk: Sobering News Joan Houston Hall 
  • Honors for DARE Staffer 
  • The New Online Survey of Wisconsin English Julie Schnebly
  • Staff Member Profile—Joy Kwon
  • Contributors to DARE in 2014

Volume 17.4, Fall 2014

  • Georgia (Still) on My Mind (Part 2) Detlef Stark
  • Discount on Digital DARE
  • DARE Board Member Receives Honor
  • DARE Tapes and a Texas Tale
  • From the Chief Editor’s Desk Joan Houston Hall
  • Voices Installation 
  • Staff Member Profile—Vanessa Smith

Volume 17.2/3, Spring/Summer 2014

  • Georgia (Still) on My Mind (Part 1) Detlef Stark
  • Chief Editor’s Funding Update Joan Houston Hall
  • Digital DARE Quiz Winner
  • “Do You Speak Wisconsin?” Online Survey Extended
  • A Postscript on Plog(ged)
  • DARE Essay Contest Winner: “DARE to Dream” Amy Clark 
  • DARE Staff Departures

Volume 17.1, Winter 2014

  • ‘All Plogged Up’ . . .Am I All Alone?  Anne Curzan
  • Do You Speak Wisconsin?  Jenny Price and Joan Houston Hall
  • Chief Editor’s Funding Appeal Joan Houston Hall
  • DARE Essay Contest: An Invitation from Simon Winchester
  • Digital DARE Quiz: A Scavenger Hunt Julie Schnebly
  • Contributors to DARE in 2013

Volume 16.4, Fall 2013

  • Personal Reflections: Fred Cassidy as Mentor and Friend  Robert H. Moore
  • Funding Update Toni Drake
  • In Memoriam—Burr Angle
  • Upcoming Writing Contest
  • Staff Member Profile—Erica Kalnay
  • Two Honors for Chief Editor Joan Hall
  • Digital Version Has Launched!

Volume 16.2/3, Spring/Summer 2013

  • Back and Forth with DARE  Ivan Doig
  • DARE Weathers Financial Crisis Joan Houston Hall
  • Meet Toni Drake
  • Volume VI DARE Quiz Key Julie Schnebly
  • DARE Wins Dartmouth Medal

Volume 16.1, Winter 2013

  • Words of America: A Field Guide (Part 2)  Michael Adams
  • Beta Testers Needed for “DARE Digital
  • DARE Editors Celebrate with HUP Colleague
  • DARE Editor Addresses Dialect Society
  • Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
  • Longtime DARE Staffers Retire
  • Volume VI DARE Quiz
  • Contributors to DARE in 2012

Volume 15.4, Fall 2012

  • Words of America: A Field Guide (Part 1)  Michael Adams
  • Volume VI Preview 
  • Staff Member Profile—Trini Stickle
  • Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson

Volume 15.2/3, Spring/Summer 2012

  • What a Spring!
  • Funding Update  Jon E. Sorenson 
  • The DARE Shindy (Photo spread)
  • Volume VI
  • New DARE Website
  • In Memoriam: Robert Easton

Volume 15.1, Winter 2012

  • Let DARE Help You Get the Most out of Placebos  August Rubrecht
  • Contributors to DARE in 2011
  • Staff Member Profile: Erin Leary
  • DARE Represented at ADS Meeting
  • Volume V DARE Quiz Key
  • Volume VI Is in Press! 

Volume 14.4, Fall 2011

  • DARE: The View from the Letter Z (Part 2)  Joan Houston Hall
  • Funding Update  Jon E. Sorenson
  • The DARE Bibliography: A Preview
  • Staff Member Profile: Esther Hong
  • DARE in Humanities
  • Volume V DARE Quiz
  • Volume V of DARE Available for Pre-Order

Volume 14.2/3, Spring/Summer 2011

  • DARE: The View from the Letter Z  Joan Houston Hall
  • DARE Receives Regents Award
  • Names and Professor Cassidy  Burr Angle and Dolores Kester
  • In Memoriam:  Richard W. Bailey
  • DARE in the Twitterverse and the Blogosphere

Volume 14.1, Winter 2011

  • From the Chief Editor’s Desk  Joan Houston Hall 
  • DARE Was There: The 1940s  Landon Risteen
  • Contributors to DARE in 2010

Volume 13.4, Fall 2010

  • Two word-lovers with some of their favorite books
  • DARE in the News  Joan Houston Hall   
  • DARE to Be FinishedMaybe Next Year  Dale Buss
  •  Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
  • Coming in Volume V
  • How to Speak American  Joan Houston Hall 
  • DARE Board at the Department of the Interior
  • Where Are They Now?:  Scot LaFaive
  • In Memoriam: James J. Kilpatrick
  • Snapshots and Schnibbles
  • DARE on Twitter

Volume 13.2/3, Spring/Summer 2010

  • Mean Enough to Push a Widder Woman’s Dog in the Well  Roland L. Berns
  • Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
  • At the Newberry Library
  •  DARE in Germany and England
  • Where Are They Now?: Carrie Estill
  • Erratum
  • Coming in Volume V . . . in Photos

Volume 13.1, Winter 2010 

  • On the Road Again in Virginia Sharon Huizenga
  • From the Chief Editor’s Desk  Joan Houston Hall
  • Coming in Volume V
  • Contributors to DARE in 2009 
  • Where Are They Now?: Sally Jacobs
  • UW Grad Wins Honor for Work with DARE

Volume 12.4, Fall 2009 

  • A Few More That Got Away August Rubrecht
  • Coming in Volume V
  • “Arthur the Rat” Online
  • Video Lecture on DARE Available Online
  • Funding Update Jon E. Sorenson
  • Looking It Up Paul Baker
  • In Memoriam: William Safire

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 

  • The 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