[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Bill Teale's passing

[Denny Taylor]

I read the news with great sadness.


The first proposal I wrote for IRA - as it was then - was with Bill Teale. We were both new to the field and it was an early proposal for Bill if not his first. It took us three weeks of telephone calls to write the proposal. Neither of us were quite sure what was expected and we spent as much time discussing the process of proposal writing as we did the content of the session.


The experience stood me in good stead and has stayed with me through the years --I've always remembered it when I saw Bill's name in a research publication or said hello to him at a conference. Yesterday I remembered with sadness but also gratitude --


I will think of him again today and send my condolences to his family and to all his friends and colleagues who loved and cared for him.


In kindness,


Denny


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Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 2:20:33 PM
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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Bill Teale's passing

Dear colleagues

What desperately sad news.

Bill was known, and universally admired, in Europe, for his work internationally, and for his important scholarship on Emergent Literacy that guided and inspired so many of us.

But no one who met him failed to be drawn to his engaging manner, and his warm, wise, intelligent and open interest in the work and lives of others.

As Bernadette Dwyer, of Dublin City University currently VP of ILA, and past president of the Reading Association of Ireland put it, 'He personified professionalism, exemplifying the qualities of a great leader-—decisive, insightful, calm, and fair minded.’

No one did more to build bridges- between government and educators, between organisations, and between people. Those exceptional skills are rarely found, and are irreplaceable.

His many colleagues, friends and admirers in Europe send their condolences to all those who suffer from this loss, but especially to Junko, Alyssa and Jeremy.

Colin Harrison

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