Volume 7, No. 4 
October 2003

 
 


 
 
Front Page  
 
 
Select one of the previous 25 issues.

 

 From the Editor
Theory and Practice

 
Index 1997-2003

 
  Translator Profiles
Overcoming Stage Fright: from Ballet to Interpretation
by Izumi Suzuki

 
  The Profession
The Bottom Line
by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
Collection
by Andrei Gerasimov
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
by Danilo Nogueira

 
Translators Around the World
The Situation of Turkish Literature in the German Polysystem
by Serpil Türk Hotaman

 
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: William P. Keasbey


 
  Translation Nuts and Bolts
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
by Verónica Albin

 
  Literary Translation
Language and Choice for Learning/Translating English
by Ibrahim Saad, Ph.D.
La traducción al español de las referencias culturales en Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? de Edward Albee
Mario Juan Serrano

 
  Translator Education
Corpus-based Teaching: The Use of Original and Translated Texts in the training of legal translators
Esther Monzó, Ph.D.

 
  Advertising Translation
Loss and Gain of Textual Meaning in Advertising Translation: A case study
by Liu Zequan

   
  Translators' Tools
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
Ignacio García, Ph.D.
Translators’ Emporium

 
  Caught in the Web
Web Surfing for Fun and Profit
by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
Translators’ On-Line Resources
by Gabe Bokor

 
Translators’ Events

 
Call for Papers and Editorial Policies
  Translation Journal



 
 

In Memoriam: William P. Keasbey

1929 - 2003

 

illiam (Bill) Keasby, died of an apparent heart attack Aug. 29 at a hospital in Eugene, Ore., after collapsing while playing tennis. Bill will be especially remembered by all of us not only for the many years of valuable service he provided to the translation profession, but especially as a friend and mentor to many.

Bill loved languages, nature, singing, and judging from his performance on the dance floor, dancing. He had a great appreciation of humor of all kinds.

William P. Keasbey, 74, a Foreign Service officer, was a native of Chicago and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he also received a master's degree in economics. He served in the Army in Germany. was posted to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Helsinki, Moscow and Duesseldorf, Germany. He moved from Bethesda to Eugene last year.

He began his Foreign Service career in 1957 and was assigned largely as an economic officer. After he retired in the late 1970s, he was a freelance translator of Russian, Finnish and German for such clients as corporations, government agencies and individuals.

Mr. Keasbey sang in the State Department Choir and a Russian choir in the Washington area, and played clarinet with musical groups that included the Kings Park Band. He volunteered as a hike leader with the Sierra Club and was a member of the American Translators Association, Canoe Cruisers, the Christian Science Church in Chevy Chase and the Audubon Society. His other interests included chess.

Mr. Keasbey was an active member of the German Language, Slavic Languages, and Nordic Languages divisions of the ATA. He was Language Chair of ATA's Russian-English accreditation program. He was featured as the Translator Profile in the July, 1993 issue of the Sci-Tech Translation Journal.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Doramay Keasbey of Eugene; two children, Tamara Porreca of Westmont, N.J., and James Keasbey of Pflugerville, Tex.; two sisters; a brother; and six grandchildren. Our most heartfelt sympathy goes out to his family and our thoughts and prayers will be with them at this time of sorrow.