[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Fitting Post on Twitter

Sat Mar 28 14:48:11 GMT 2015

Thank you, Judith. She was a wonderful person. Also, thanks to Richard, Kylene and Tim and others who helped untangle the derivations of her name and remind us of all she did. I knew her for 38 years, always as Bea. So the history has been wonderful for me to learn.

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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Fitting Post on Twitter

Hi All,

I thought that you might want to see the Obituary written by Publishers Weekly.

Obituary: Bernice Cullinan
Feb 19, 2015

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Bernice Cullinan.

Noted professor, author, editor, and children's literacy advocate Bernice "Bee" Cullinan died on February 5. She was 88.

Cullinan was born on October 12, 1926 in Hamilton, Ohio. She began her career as an elementary school teacher as she pursued her undergraduate and graduate studies at Ohio State University. Cullinan received her Ph.D. in 1964, the first doctoral student to study under children's literature expert Charlotte Huck, who grew to be an influential mentor. In the 1970s, Huck, a former president of NCTE, was instrumental in establishing the NCTE poetry award for children to honor Cullinan's son Jonathan, who was killed in 1975 in a bicycle accident.

Cullinan was an instructor and assistant professor at Ohio State from 1959 to 1967 before moving to an associate professor position at New York University in 1967, where she became a professor of reading and taught for 30 years, retiring as professor emeritus of reading and children's literature. Outside of the classroom, Cullinan was president of the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association) from 1979 to 1984. Additionally, she served on numerous boards relating to children's literature and education, and was on the Caldecott Award selection committee in 1982-83. She received many accolades for her teaching and advocacy work, including induction into the IRA's Reading Hall of Fame in 1989.

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Cullinan has stated that her roles of teacher - both to young children, and to other teachers - and parent to her three children drew her to the world of children's books. Within that arena, her great passion was children's poetry. In 1990, Cullinan was named editor-in-chief of Wordsong, the newly created poetry imprint at Boyds Mills Press, a position she held until 2008.

Throughout her career, Cullinan wrote or edited more than 40 books, a combination of reference, teaching instruction, and children's titles. One of her widely known academic works, Children's Literature in the Reading Program (IRA), was first published in 1987. A fourth edition of that book,Children's Literature in the Reading Program: Engaging Young Minds in the 21st Century, written with Cullinan's friend and mentee Deborah Wooten, was released in Feb. 2015. According to Cullinan's husband, publisher and author Kenneth Seeman Giniger, she had just received copies of the book on the day she died. A ninth edition of her basic text Literature and the Child (Wadsworth) is currently in the works.

In recent years Cullinan put her efforts into creating a children's library at her church, the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, in New York City. A memorial for her will be held at the church on Saturday, March 7 at 11 a.m. The family has suggested that funds to continue the church library be sent to the Bernice Cullinan Library Fund at the church's address. Memorial donations may also be made to the Bernice Cullinan Scholarship Fund Highlights Foundation at 814 Court Street, Honesdale, PA 18431.
On Mar 26, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Timothy Shanahan <shanahan at uic.edu<mailto:shanahan at uic.edu>> wrote:

Except she wasn't "Beatrice"-she was "Bernice". Like David, I've seen it many different ways-many of her students and teachers write about "Bea". In her NY Times obituary she is noted prominently as "Bee" and that's how I remember her. She once sent me a very touching note and it was signed "Bee"- in quotations just like that. She told me she'd been Bee since she was a little girl. Someone important to her (an aunt, a teacher?) used to call her "her little Bee" which she loved it and it stuck. The quotations make me wonder if she was consistent about it herself.

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From: Richard Vacca <rvacca at kent.edu<mailto:rvacca at kent.edu>>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 7:11 AM
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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Fitting Post on Twitter

Dave--I'm pretty sure it's "Bea" for Beatrice.

On Thursday, March 26, 2015, P. David Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu<mailto:ppearson at berkeley.edu>> wrote:

Kylene Beers posted a link to this amazing synthesis on independent reading by our recently departed RHOF colleague, Bernice Cullinan, on Twitter.  Thought I would share it with RHOF as a way of celebrating her legacy to Reading.

http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/slr/vol3/SLMR_IndependentReading_V3.pdf

David

ps:  I notice that a lot of folks spelled her name, Bee, but I always remember it as Bea.  Anyone know for sure?

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