<div dir="ltr">Tom<div>You are brilliant, as always. I could not recall the exact circumstances, so huge thanks for bolstering my improving forgettery.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 17:27, Thomas Sticht <<a href="mailto:tgsticht@gmail.com">tgsticht@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr">Gregg: I remember well that evening on the Seine in Paris following meetings of the World Symposium on Family Literacy (a term and concept coined by our fellow HoF member Denny Taylor). Anyone wanting to take a look at the final report of the Symposium can find a copy online at: <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000117073?posInSet=2&queryId=2d2f796f-e210-4d2d-a71e-1cf6d7d0750b" target="_blank">https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000117073?posInSet=2&queryId=2d2f796f-e210-4d2d-a71e-1cf6d7d0750b</a></span><br><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Tom Sticht</span></div></div><div id="gmail-m_3054324345558852126DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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