<div dir="ltr">Apologies - hadn't meant to send yet.<div>So Dick and I met at a History of Reading SIG session. I'd given a paper; on 'The diagram-makers and their theories of reading, 1871-2021', including showing several overhead transparencies (remember them?). Afterwards, Dick told me that his 17th-century English namesake, Richard Hodges, had such a diagram in one of his books - some day (it had better be soon or it won't happen) I shall follow that up.</div><div>Best wishes to all</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 at 14:03, Greg Brooks <<a href="mailto:g.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk">g.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk</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">Friends<div>Here's my tiny reminiscence of Dick.</div><div>We only met once, at an IRA Convention in New Orleans. (1984?)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 at 05:47, P David Pearson, Emeritus <<a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ppearson@berkeley.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"><div dir="ltr">The rest of the IRA Pre-con story... I am not sure whether it was 1970 or 1971. But it was definitely Anaheim.<div>I will never forget the line-up of presenters, mostly living footnotes that I was meeting for the first time in my life.</div><div>Ken Goodman</div><div>Frank Smith (he was wearing dark glasses for his address--claimed a recent eye operation)</div><div>Dick Venezky</div><div>Dick Hodges</div><div>Hugh Rudorf</div><div>Bob Ruddell</div><div>Jim Fleming</div><div>Constance McCullough (maybe--I met her that year, but maybe not at the pre-con)</div><div>maybe H Alan Robinson (immediate connection because of first initial virus)</div><div><br></div><div>Among the audience members, along with me, was Becky Barr. </div><div>A student of Ken's--Paul David Allen? Immediate name connection. </div><div>Yetta, you must have been there, right. </div><div>And, I think, Bill Page. </div><div>Maybe Dorsey Hammond. .</div><div><br></div><div>Ended up late that night in a hotel bar with Frank Smith, Becky Barr, and someone else (can't recall). How cool was that--in a bar? With Frank Smith (in shades still), listening to Jazz! And wearing bell-bottom trousers!</div><div><br></div><div>That's all I can remember (or misremember as the case may be--reading the past IS a constructive process).</div><div><br></div><div>Changed my life!</div><div><br></div><div>So I started out my professional relationship with Dick Hodges in a life-changing experience. Forever grateful for his collegiality.</div><div><br></div><div>Please forgive the mostly male cast. It is no excuse, but it was the nature of those times. We were blind.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 4:46 PM P David Pearson, Emeritus <<a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ppearson@berkeley.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"><div dir="ltr">I just received this from Dixie Massey. Dick was a wonderful scholar and individual. I meant him when I was a BRAND NEW PhD at a preconvention institute at IRA in Anaheim (Disneyland) sponsored by the Psycholinguistics and Reading Committee of IRA in 1970 or 71. More about that meeting later. <div><br></div><div>Suffice it to say that one of my annual treats in attending meetings of that committee (and later RHf meetings, for which Dick was treasurer for what seemed like forever) was being able to say hello to Dick and Lois. One of sweetest and kindest and most empathetic individuals I have EVER met.<div><br></div><div>I am seconding Dixie's suggestion that we add a new word to our working vocabulary in Dick's honor.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Massey, Dixie</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:masseyd@spu.edu" target="_blank">masseyd@spu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 3:50 PM<br>Subject: Passing of Dick Hodges<br>To: Massey, Dixie <<a href="mailto:masseyd@spu.edu" target="_blank">masseyd@spu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Mountlake Terrace, Washington - Richard E. Hodges, an emeritus professor at the University of Puget Sound, died peacefully at age 92 after years of declining health. Born in Los Angeles to Charles and Helen Hodges, Dick was an only child.</font></div>
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Fresh out of high school, he served in the Army's 1st Cavalry Division in Occupied Japan. Upon discharge, Dick was hired as a copy boy at the L.A. Examiner, where his duties included running errands for William Randolph Hearst. Dick entered college on the GI
Bill, first studying forestry, then switching to education. After earning joint degrees from Oregon College of Education and Oregon State, he worked as an elementary school teacher and principal near Salem. There he met and married Lois Sorensen. In 1962,
the newlyweds moved to Menlo Park, CA and Dick undertook doctoral work at Stanford. Under the supervision of his mentor, Paul Hanna, and with Lois as a research assistant, Dick conducted one of the first computerized analyses of English sound/spelling patterns,
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After earning his Ed.D. in 1964, Dick headed to the University of Chicago, where he was an Associate Professor of Education until 1975 when he joined the UPS faculty as Dean of the School of Education. He and Lois, with their two children, settled in Fircrest,
where they would live for 37 years. At UPS, Dick helped establish the M.A.T. program while continuing to publish influential work in his field. With colleague Ted Harris, he edited The Literacy Dictionary: The Vocabulary of Reading and Writing for the International
Literacy Association (ILA). Dick cherished his friends and colleagues at UPS and found great fulfillment in mentoring preservice teachers. Upon retirement in 1994, he was inducted into the ILA's Reading Hall of Fame.</font></div>
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As retirees, Dick and Lois traveled extensively overseas and throughout the US, and Dick embarked on a passion project: researching the life and times of London schoolmaster Richard Hodges, author of The English Primrose (1644), one of the earliest guides to
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Dick will be sorely missed by his family and friends. A voracious reader and compulsive punster, he adored baseball, fly-fishing, British roadsters (when they were running), jazz, and vanilla ice cream. Above all, he loved his family. Our Dear Old Dad was a
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Dick is survived by his wife of 58 years, Lois; daughter, Susan; son, Charles (Melanie); and grandchildren, Hayley Hodges and Jacob, Liz, and Colin Mallory. To honor Dick, add a new word to your vocabulary. Condolences can be sent to the Neptune Society,<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:dashed">4320
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