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JACK R. SALAMANCA
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013, Jack Richard Salamanca of Potomac, MD. Author of six books: The Lost Country, Lilith and four other novels. A professor at the University of Maryland in the English department for 25 years. Beloved husband of the late Mimi Salamanca; loving father of Richard R. Salamanca; brother of the late Raoul Salamanca. Friends may call at DeVol Funeral Home, 10 East Deer Park Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 on Monday, November 4, 2013 from 9 to 11 a.m. Interment to follow at Forest Oak Cemetery. Please sign family guest book atwww.DeVolfuneralhome.com
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Wendi Berman
December 14, 2021
Rarely a word I scribble goes unchecked by Salamanca criteria. Your father was the epitome of a great artist and teacher. No one explained this (the teaching part) better than Reynolds Price:
"Some...inexplicably endowed with the sorcery that makes great teaching an unteachable art and elevates every master teacher into the guild of genuine magi-those rare magnetos who transmit vital skill, the taste for civilized joy, and the very essence of hope itself: the highest gift from one generation to the next."
I also know that he was your loving father. And that is more important than anything. I trust he taught you well. God bless.
Boris Velikovich
November 21, 2013
Very sad to hear about Prof. Salamanca's passing away. He was one of my favorite teachers at UMD.
Jackson Bryer
November 5, 2013
Rick: I was really sorry to hear of your father's passing. I remember with great positive thoughts the visit I made with Rosemary Harris out to see you both. Jack was not only a wonderful writer but a generous, kind human being who nonetheless spoke his mind. It was my pleasure to be his colleague.
November 4, 2013
Verlyn Flieger
Thomas Martin
November 4, 2013
Jack Salamanca had an enormous positive influence upon me--not only when I studied under him as an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, but also in the decades afterward when the power of his novels sank into me more and more. He is my favorite novelist, and I share your loss.
Maynard "Sandy" Mack
November 3, 2013
Jack: go in peace. I hope family and friends can celebrate a long, rich life naturally completed. I watched two fine writers, Jack and Rod Jellema, work with English Honors students for 10 years. I was awed at the abilities of both to find what was good in young writing--often very little--and steer the student towards more art, less adolescence. It is a great, rare, generous skill--three adjectives and a noun for Jack himself.
Frank Young
November 2, 2013
I took Prof. Salamanca's creative writing course at UMd. in the the late's 1960's. He was a fine teacher and encouraged young writers. I'll remember him always. My condolences to the family.
Joyce Kornblatt
November 2, 2013
When I was a fledgling fiction writer, Jack helped hire me to teach his courses at Maryland while he was on leave. I remained for 25 years, and never forgot his faith in me early on, as both a writer and a teacher. Sorry for your loss.
November 2, 2013
Richard and close friends and family, my deepest sympathies. I adored Professor Salamanca. I keep his words and admonitions with me. I am lucky to have been his pupil.
--Wendi Berman
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