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Ms. Mentor's birth was attended by many midwives whose contributions of biting anecdotes, sharp ideas, raucous laughter, and delicious gossip should be lauded. Some prefer to remain demurely anonymous, but the first supporter Ms. Mentor can celebrate publicly is Joan Hartman, the editor of Concerns, who has never sought to change a comma of Ms. Mentor's, even at her most ranting. Ellen Cronan Rose and Ellen Messer-Davidow, Emily Toth's predecessor and successor as president of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, also egged on the creation of “Ms. Mentor.”
In the wider field of academia and its environs, Annette Kolodny, Susan Koppelman, Robin Roberts, and Martha Ward deserve special commendation. They are Ms. Mentor's dearest chums, yentas, nudges, listening posts, and coconspirators.
Others whose ideas have especially enhanced Ms. Mentor's include Marleen Barr, Emily Batinski, Marilyn Bonnell, Stephanie Bressler, Mary Lynn Broe, Ellen Cantarow, Jane Caputi, Mary Wilson Carpenter, Sabrina Chapman, Barbara Davidson, Cathy N. Davidson, Carmen del Rio, Barbara E well, Cynthia Fisher, Elizabeth Fisher, Daniel Mark Fogel, Molly Freier, Linda Gardiner, Carol Gelderman, Lynne Goodstein, Suzanne Green, Mary Hamilton, Elizabeth Hampsten, Suzette Henke, Barbara Hillyer, Dominique Homberger, Florence Howe, Dorothy Jenkins, Leola Johnson, Rosan Jordan, Mike Judge, Andrea Lapin, Nancy Love, John Lowe, Wahneema Lubiano, Mary Jane Lupton, Deborah Martin, Michelle Massé, Carol Mattingly, Kenneth McMillin, Sally Mitchell, Janet Palmer Mullaney, Dana Nelson, Margaret Parker, Mary Perpich, Annis Pratt, Susan Radis, Gerri Reaves, Angelita Reyes, Lillian Robinson, Audrey Rodgers, Sue V. Rosser, Hal Ruddick, Adelaide Russo, Nina Schulman, Kimberly Clarke Simmons, Dale Spender, Susan Swartzlander, Bette Tallen, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Barbara Wittkopf.
The Women's and Gender Studies faculty of Louisiana State University should be cited for their energy and aplomb. The Economic and Social Justice Research Group of Baton Rouge NOW and the Women's Studies Consortium of Louisiana have contributed ideas and indignation.
The late Dorothy Ginsberg Fitzgibbons, Emily Toth's mother, was her first mentor. Emily Toth also owes much to other family members, including Sara Ruffner, Theresa Toth, Dennis Fitzgibbons, Ellen Boyle, and the late John Fitzgibbons. She further acknowledges that all her academic mentors were men, and fine ones: Philip Klass, Richard Macksey, Daniel Waiden, Stanley Weintraub, and Philip Young.
Pat Browne and Arlene Caney duly scheduled a Ms. Mentor session every year for half a dozen years at the annual American and Popular Culture Association convention.
Beauregard and Bunkie Toth contributed feline self-assurance: they mentor or maul every human they meet.
As a role model, living legend, and goddess of etiquette, Miss Manners, Judith Martin, is without peer. (Ms. Mentor has never met her, but worships her from afar.)
Patricia Reynolds Smith, the sagest of editors, jumped at the chance to aim Ms. Mentor at a wider audience, through the good offices of the University of Pennsylvania Press. She has been the perfect editor for Ms. Mentor's quirky humor and crotchety ways. Mindy Brown, Jennifer Malloy, Kym Silvasy, and Carol Gaines ably midwifed Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia into print. Eric Halpern wisely directs the Press.
Nicole Hollander, artist extraordinaire, created a cover drawing worthy of a goddess—or Ms. Mentor.
Finally, Bruce Toth has lived with Ms. Mentor's teeth gnashing and phrasemongering for some five years, and Emily Toth's for nearly thirty years. He finds them both witty and wise, which is the best sign of his own good taste.