[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: I just got this message this instant

Jerry Johns jjohns at niu.edu
Sat Dec 12 19:11:07 GMT 2020


I am sorry to learn of the passing of Jay Samuels. I followed and used a number of his contributions over the years. His theory of automaticity influenced the field.

One summer, both Jay and I were visiting professors at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He often used roller blades to get around. He was in extremely active person.

I am sad, but grateful for his many contributions to literacy. RIP, Jay.

Jerry

On Dec 12, 2020, at 12:58 PM, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:


Good to hear from both Joanna and Phil.  Thanks for remembering.
David

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:44 AM Philip Gough <goughpb at gmail.com<mailto:goughpb at gmail.com>> wrote:
RIP

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Williams, Joanna <jwilliams at exchange.tc.columbia.edu<mailto:jwilliams at exchange.tc.columbia.edu>> wrote:
I am very much saddened to hear of Jay Samuels' death. Jay and I were good colleagues. Over the years we regularly found ourselves at the same meetings, speaking in the same sessions. In the 1960s we paired up to debate Ken Goodman and Frank Smith. In the late 1990s we were both on the National Reading Panel . We became fast friends.  Jay was a great scholar and an excellent teacher. His enthusiasm was inspiring. I will miss him.
     Joanna Williams


On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:44 PM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu<mailto:ppearson at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
From Jay Blanchard, who lives in the Phoenix area and has visited Jay with some regularity].

Jay Samuels passed this AM of COVID.
I am saddened by this development, especially with COVID as the proximal cause. As many of you know, Jay, along with RHF members Bob Dykstra and John Manning, was an influential mentor for me when I was at Minnesota as a grad student and a new professor.  I have such vivid memories of so many things Jay did and said.

Haunting (in both an eerie and a very sweet sense) that Jay died on the very day when many are memorializing the contributions of Ken Goodman.  Although Jay and Ken help what many of us thought were diametrically opposing views of early reading development and pedagogy, the two shared an alma mater (both got their doctorates at UCLA) and an abiding respect for the contributions of the other to the study of reading processes and pedagogies.

David
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