Where are they now? - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Nov 30, 2005

Where are they now?

Date: Dec 1, 2005

Far Away Alum wrote:

Can anyone bring some of us up to date about some of the players we haven't heard about in a long time? How are they doing?

Susan Siltanen- Returned to her former position in USM graduate office.

Tim Hudson - President of University of Houston/Victoria.

Jack Hanbury -

Frank Glamser - Teaching at Tulane/Biloxi. (Awaiting possible Orange Bowl matchup between his two graduate alma maters, Virginia Tech and Penn State).

Gary Stringer - Senior faculty member at Texas A&M. (Go Aggies).

Noel Polk - Senior faculty member at Mississippi State. (How 'bout them Dogs?)

James Hollandsworth - Retired in Jackson doing independent historical research. (We know God likes the UNC tarheels because he painted the sky carolina blue).

Candy Santell

James Green

The IHL member who owns the lumber yard - Still a member of the IHL. He no longer chairs that group.

Date: Dec 1, 2005

FYI wrote:

The IHL member who owns the lumber yard - Still a member of the IHL. He no longer chairs that group.

-- and apparently doesn't feel compelled to attend the meetings.

Date: Dec 1, 2005

James Green - Head Coach, Mississippi Valley State University

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Anybody heard that Joan Exline's husband and Angie Dvorak's husband, the former Mark Dvorak, Esq. (ex?) are in business together, some type of Handy Man fix it business?

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Curious George wrote:

Anybody heard that Joan Exline's husband and Angie Dvorak's husband, the former Mark Dvorak, Esq. (ex?) are in business together, some type of Handy Man fix it business?

Two Men and a Hammer?

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Jeff is a nice guy and has been in that business as I long as I've known him. Why include him in board ugliness.

Date: Dec 2, 2005

I didn't perceive Curious George's comment as negative about either Mr. Exline or Mr. Dvorak, but agree that what faculty/staff spouses do for a living is not germane to the board. I took the comment as more about Mr. Dvorak, although what he does these days is of no particular interest unless it involves USM in some way.

Date: Dec 2, 2005

If Mr. Dvorak is indeed working for Mr. Exline, what is interesting (and does in no way reflect negatively on Exline at all) is that it is more evidence that Mr. Dvorak should never had been the director of HR here at USM.

Amy Young

Date: Dec 2, 2005

I resent Third Witch's insinuation that I am bored with the board. Boards have always been important in my life, and I believe it was precisely my expertise with boards that led to my selection as Board Chairman. Being on that Board presented a host of knotty problems that I woodn't wish on anyone. Everytime I lumbered into that room (which was never clean, by the way: I saw dust everywhere), I would say to myself, "Self, they're barkin' up the wrong tree if that think that they're gonna get ole Roy to agree to this shared governance crap" (pardon my French). All that stuff just went against my grain. But I promise you, you ain't seen the last of ole Roy!

Date: Dec 2, 2005

I'm surprised nobody has added that Jack Hanbury occasionally has his letters to the editor in the Hattiesburg American! Every time I read one I have to wonder if he's not thinking of running for political office!

Amy Young

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Talked to someone who had talked to friends of the Stringers who had seen them recently. They are fine. A new volume of Gary's Donne edition was released recently. Texas A&M is hosting a Donne symposium in the spring.

Date: Dec 2, 2005

R. Klumb wrote:

I resent Third Witch's insinuation that I am bored with the board. Boards have always been important in my life, and I believe it was precisely my expertise with boards that led to my selection as Board Chairman. Being on that Board presented a host of knotty problems that I woodn't wish on anyone. Everytime I lumbered into that room (which was never clean, by the way: I saw dust everywhere), I would say to myself, "Self, they're barkin' up the wrong tree if that think that they're gonna get ole Roy to agree to this shared governance crap" (pardon my French). All that stuff just went against my grain. But I promise you, you ain't seen the last of ole Roy!

Oh Roy (boy) is that you? Love spoofs when I see them.

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Amy Young wrote:

I'm surprised nobody has added that Jack Hanbury occasionally has his letters to the editor in the Hattiesburg American! Every time I read one I have to wonder if he's not thinking of running for political office! Amy Young

The man has left town, not that it matters to many who don't keep up with the current boogie men. Personal attacks beyond one's employment beyond the university are dangerous, each of us has our ISP (or even more personal, our MAC address for wireless customers) recorded while making a post and when one leaves government service one can sue those who put out dirt. All should tread carefully when posting what could be considered as slander against a lawyer who knows what "posting" and e-records mean.

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Each of us leaves our ISP while posting? Pardon me? Invictus, care to comment?

(Speculating that someone might be planning to run for office hardly constitutes slander, at least not on the level of publicly calling respected professors "criminals.")

Date: Dec 2, 2005

I'm no Invictus, but I can tell you that even if ISP addresses are recorded, they can change daily depending on your computer usage (and, thus, it would be next to impossible to track posters down). The poster above is just trying to scare people from posting on this board. What a idot.

Truth

Date: Dec 2, 2005

Thanks, truth. I was pretty sure that was the case, but after 10 pm I don't have enough available brain cells awake to say anything for sure about computer stuff. In any case, I think if you're behind a router, your IP is invisible anyway (or am I thinking of something else.) So who do you imagine was trying to scare us? And I'm pretty sure we've been down this road before.

Date: Dec 3, 2005

truth4usm/AH wrote:

I'm no Invictus, but I can tell you that even if ISP addresses are recorded, they can change daily depending on your computer usage (and, thus, it would be next to impossible to track posters down). The poster above is just trying to scare people from posting on this board. What a idot. Truth

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/usenet_groups/internet_privacy.htm Other tracking: Since you have a unique number (IP address) every time you use the internet, it is possible to track usage back to you individually. Your ISP may be obligated to keep records of who used what IP addresses for what periods of time.

Web sites (as well as FTP and other sites) often log the IP addresses of computers that connect to them. Putting these two pieces of information together lets companies as well as official authorities trace activity directly to you. One way to get around this is through a Proxy Server. A proxy server is basically a computer that you connect to and forward commands to so that it does the surfing and connecting to other servers for you, and forwards the data back to you. Provided the proxy server does not keep logs of who it connects to what, your identify can be protected this way. Because you are effectively funneling bandwidth through someone else's network and servers, you typically must pay a monthly or annual fee to use a proxy server service.

http://www.libertolaw.com/1-00.html

Once the ISP has been identified, Internet attorneys will frequently file a lawsuit for defamation against the ISP, knowing full well that it cannot be held liable. The lawsuit also names an unknown co-defendant as "John Doe." Once the lawsuit is initiated, the attorneys are then permitted to make discovery demands on the identified ISP to obtain records and information that will reveal the true identity of the ISP's member who has been sending the offending e-mail. Once "John Doe" has been identified with the help of his own ISP, the ISP is usually dismissed from the lawsuit. The plaintiff then proceeds against the wrongdoer as the only defendant.

Date: Dec 3, 2005

Thanks for the clarification. However, "slander" is a serious issue. Dr. Young merely wondered if Mr. Hanbury might be considering a run for office. Period. The fact that the issue of slander was even raised was quite puzzling to me.

As best I can recall, slander and libel have to involve a malicious intent, have to demonstrably damage the slandered person, and the statements have to be false.

So, I could say that Mr. Hanbury is a lawyer from Kentucky, and even if that were a negative thing, it's true and therefore not slanderous. I could say that I wish Mr. Hanbury had stayed in Kentucky, and that is not slanderous either because it doesn't harm him in any way.
On the other hand, for the President of the IHL to appear on WLOX and state that Dr. Stringer and Dr. Glamser were guilty of criminal activity, was probably actionable, since the statements were harmful and untrue (and known by Mr. Klumb to be untrue.) Not many people have the resources nor the energy to get into lawsuits over this type of thing. It's not worth it. (If Mr. Hanbury were to sue me, for instance, he would get a three year old car and two cats. Hmm, there's an idea . . . maybe he could figure out why that dashboard light keeps coming on. Then we could settle out of court and he could take the cat that always walks back and forth in front of the monitor. )

We've had all this discussion about slander, etc. and about finding out who posters are, on several other occasions. It's just a tactic to keep people quiet. And really, the truth is so bad, who needs to make things up?

Date: Dec 3, 2005

It always seem to come up when the discussion focuses on the Kentucky cabal, whether individually or in toto.

Date: Dec 3, 2005

Speaking of Kentucky...it's always been interesting to me that a group of people who are friends/related by marriage would be hired together...stay in their jobs a relatively short time (relaltively high paying jobs, I might add)...then all leave at about the same time...and yet I've never heard anyone in the business community question these employment decisions....it's odd that a group of people, all related by friendship/busines/marriage would be hired in the first place

Date: Dec 3, 2005

It was probably not the original intent to "stay in their jobs a relatively short time".