Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Publication Information

58 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 5 (2001)

Abstract

Uncas picked up a five-letter name when he was a boarding school student in Orange, Virginia. By now, it is the way his friends and colleagues, his students and his clients, his wife and his children and his neighbors, identify him. It works throughout the United States and in Canada. I would not be surprised to see it work in, say, the offices of the European Union in Salzburg or in the former Soviet Union. (It occurs to me that this universal name for Andrew W. McThenia, Jr., a name his boarding-school classmates borrowed from James Fenimore Cooper, shares brevity with such two-syllable, five-letter names as Moses and Jesus. The comparison has some promise, but I desist in order not to embarrass my retiring friend.)

Comments

This article was originally published as Thomas L. Shaffer, A Tribute to Andrew W. McThenia, Jr., 58 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 5 (2001), and has been reproduced with permission.

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