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

[Taffy Raphael]

So very sad reading about Jay’s passing, and so frustrated to feel it was a life shortened because of Covid.

I started thinking about how much he influenced my early career when I started my doctoral work at U of MN. Though I had little background in educational psychology at the time, I served as his TA in the same course David Reinking described.  My job was to attend the lectures and then support a group of about 25 undergraduates between lectures.  I remember Jay meeting with his TAs, walking through key points, and being ready to help if we ran into something beyond what we knew (or at least what I knew).  It was through this experience — repeating his course a few times so I knew the content, meeting with him, and then leading the related sections that I built my understanding of educational psychology and the questions at the time the field was working to address.

He was always so gracious, interesting, and often funny — a very special person.

Taffy



Taffy E Raphael, Ph.D.
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> On Dec 12, 2020, at 11:43 AM, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> 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.
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