vio wrote:
How big is the stump?

The tree was nineteen years old and the trunk was about 10" across

It's going to take a while before a shoot can gain that diameter again,
but it should happen.

I disagree with the other posters about coppicing making your tree into
a shrub. I agree that you COULD do that if you wanted to, by leaving a
lot of shoots and cutting off anything that got large. See the
Wikipedia article about coppicing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing

Note that this technique was used to make lumber for ship building, and
there are several pictures of coppiced trees as full grown large scale
trees.

If you want to hedge your bets, air layer a few of the shoots, then cut
off all but the strongest one and let that one become a main trunk.