Don Hardy (’85 M.A.), Reno, Nev. :: published Because I’d Hate to Just Disappear: My Cancer, My Self, Our Story (University of Nevada Press), a semi-biographical story of his two-year struggle with leukemia that he wrote with his wife Heather Hardy, who was a professor of English at UNT from 1981 to 1993. Don taught linguistics at UNT, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Nevada at Reno. Both are now retired.