<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I just posted this remembrance for his family on the website for which I sent the URL a while ago. Wanted to share it with RHF colleagues<div><br></div><div><div>Sandy, Amy, and Rob,</div><div>I was saddened to learn of Bob's death. Though we have not kept in touch over the last 20 years, I thought of him often, remembering how much influence he had on my career. He was a good friend of my advisor, John Manning, so I was introduced to him while I was still working on my doctorate with John at Minnesota. I also heard him talk at IRA in 1969, and I was inspired because he was firmly committed to, as I aspired to be committed to, studying the language foundations of reading. So he fast became a second mentor to me, always willing to discuss research, practice, and just about any other topic. And over time, we became friends, especially during discussions of reading research and policy and life at our post-party late evening get-togethers at what was then NRC. </div><div> In 1973, my wife Mary Alyce, along with my 2 year old son Matthew, sublet the grand Ruddell house on Spruce Street in Berkeley while the family was on a holiday trip (back east I imagine). What a treat to spend 2 months in that grand 5-7 bedroom house. </div><div> He has left a great legacy to the study of reading, not only through his scholarship, but also through his many books for teachers, his leadership in the International Reading Association, and--perhaps most of all--his intellectually rigorous and interpersonally generous mentoring of the next generation of PhD students at Berkeley. When the topic of Language and Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley comes up, Robert Ruddell is the first name that comes to my mind.</div><div> I wanted you, his family, to know that will be greatly missed but long remembered and always admired--by me and hundreds of colleagues in the profession of those who study language and reading.</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:53 PM P Pearson <<a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu">ppearson@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I just received this link from a colleague. Another person that I was influential in my career AND the careers of so many others. <div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=bob-ruddell&pid=198066050&utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ObitShare_PowerInbox_Neustar&utm_content=ViewObituary&sfmc_id=161534051&env=db41447c77739dc84e4bf964653fb794469fcc78" target="_blank">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=bob-ruddell&pid=198066050&utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ObitShare_PowerInbox_Neustar&utm_content=ViewObituary&sfmc_id=161534051&env=db41447c77739dc84e4bf964653fb794469fcc78</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Cambria;border-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:12px;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:13px">"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - </span><b style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:13px">Henri Matisse</b><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div>P. David Pearson</div><div>Evelyn Lois Corey <b>Emeritus</b> Professor of Instructional Science</div><div>Graduate School of Education</div><div>University of California, Berkeley</div><div><br></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ppearson@berkeley.edu</a></div><div>other e-mail: <a href="mailto:pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com</a></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline">website for publications</span>: <a href="http://www.pdavidpearson.org" target="_blank">www.pdavidpearson.org</a></div><div></div><div>*******************</div><div><b><font color="#674ea7">Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses</font></b></div><div>Home: 851 Euclid Ave</div><div>Berkeley, CA 94708 -1305</div><div>iPhone: 510 543 6508</div><div>****************************************</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Cambria;border-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:12px;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:13px">"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - </span><b style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:13px">Henri Matisse</b><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div>P. David Pearson</div><div>Evelyn Lois Corey <b>Emeritus</b> Professor of Instructional Science</div><div>Graduate School of Education</div><div>University of California, Berkeley</div><div><br></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ppearson@berkeley.edu</a></div><div>other e-mail: <a href="mailto:pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com</a></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline">website for publications</span>: <a href="http://www.pdavidpearson.org" target="_blank">www.pdavidpearson.org</a></div><div></div><div>*******************</div><div><b><font color="#674ea7">Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses</font></b></div><div>Home: 851 Euclid Ave</div><div>Berkeley, CA 94708 -1305</div><div>iPhone: 510 543 6508</div><div>****************************************</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>