<div dir="ltr">I first met Walter MacGinitie in the late 1950s at a conference for graduate students held at Northwestern. He represented Teachers College. I represented Harvard. Another person
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at the conference was Gordon Bower, then a grad student at Yale. My first job was at New York University. We saw Walter and Ruth a couple of times in New York and I saw him at conferences in subsequent years. With the passing of Walter and other giants in the field, it seems we are at the end of an era. Or maybe just the end of my era.<div><br></div><div>Dick<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Richard C Anderson</div><div>University Scholar and Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois</div><div>Member, National Academy of Education<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:53 PM Leu, Donald <<a href="mailto:donald.leu@uconn.edu">donald.leu@uconn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Sadly, I report that another member, Walter MacGinitie, has passed. I never knew Walter personally, only his important work, but word travels among members of the environmental communities concerned about the San Juan Islands of Washington. Walter lived on
San Juan Island and he and his wife, Ruth, hadgifted 13 acres of important land to the San Juan Preservation Trust, an organization that my wife and I, as boaters who enjoy the islands, contribute to. A tribute recently appeared in the SJPT newsletter:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sjpt.org/remembering-walter-macginitie/__;!!DZ3fjg!uaQMx0MjECCG-H9dbMd8mJz9YP89SfkKyjksfaPQBvoVAsBA_a_1YG6sVnuNLOFe$" target="_blank">https://sjpt.org/remembering-walter-macginitie/</a>
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<div>Be well.
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