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

Barbara Taylor bmtaylor8386 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 19:57:43 GMT 2020


I, too, am sorry to hear of Jay's passing.  He was a supportive colleague,
friendly to all, and fascinating to talk with. I will always have fond
memories of Jay.

Barbara Taylor

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:19 PM mgraves University of Minnesota <
mgraves at umn.edu> wrote:

> I too am very sorry to hear of Jay’s passing. As well as being a major
> contributor to the field, Jay was a good friend and colleague at the
> University of Minnesota for over 30 years. He was also, as Jerry Johns
> points out, an extremely active person. I would often see him jogging up
> and down the stairs at the football stadium, although I did not join him in
> doing so. I will certainly miss him, as I know will many in our field.
>
> Mike Graves
>
> On Dec 12, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Jerry Johns <jjohns at niu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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> wrote:
>
>> RIP
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Williams, Joanna <
>> 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>
>>> 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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