A character in David Copperfield named Mrs. Gummidge for some reason tickled my father enormously. Dad taught me to repeat that line when I was four years old. He ought to know. Huffman's SPU career was followed by graduate study in history at Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute, UCLA and the universities of Regensburg and Cologne. I am particularly fascinated by the modern stereotypes of the Middle Ages and how they reveal more about ourselves than about the actual medieval world.
History is like a mirror.
Look into it long enough and you will see yourself. In this vision, Cologne is more conceptually 'east' . . . Margaret Smith '80 Margaret Smith knew as a student at SPU that she wanted to co-author a book of poetry with English professor Rose Reynoldson. The desire was mutual and the book published by Inchbird Press in 1982 was titled The Rose and the Pearl . Rose saw to that.