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

Mon Dec 14 16:43:29 GMT 2020

Thanks, Ray!!!  Good to hear all of these comments about Jay.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:21 AM Ray Reutzel <ray.reutzel at usu.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> I have fond memories of visits with Jay and presenting with him several
> times on the same programs.  He had a keen intellect and a deep desire to
> provide the opportunities that literacy affords to everyone.  He was
> passionate about his own work, the work of others, and was a generous
> colleague.  I appreciated his comments about several of the research
> articles I published on fluency and we had some wonderful in person and via
> email conversations about fluency and the role of the eye in reading.  His
> profound contributions will live on in our field as will the memory of his
> many encouraging and kind comments to lift and recognize the work of others.
>
> Best,
>
> Ray
>
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> *From:* Douglas Ray Reutzel <Ray.Reutzel at uwyo.edu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 13, 2020 7:59 AM
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> *Subject:* [EXT] Fwd: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: I just got this message
> this instant
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> *From:* Greg Brooks <g.brooks at sheffield.ac.uk>
> *Date:* December 13, 2020 at 4:20:27 AM MST
> *To:* P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
> *Cc:* reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* *[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: I just got this message this
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> David
> Thank you for sending this sad news on.
> Though I never met Jay, an aspect of my thinking was influenced by his and
> Laberge's schema portraying the role of attention in reading. Importantly,
> they showed it as a single spotlight, in marked contrast to the four
> 'searchlights' in the 'searchlights model' advocated in the National
> Literacy Strategy in England from 1998 to 2006. One of the best-established
> findings from the earliest days of experimental psychology is how difficult
> it is to divide attention, or even to switch it constantly between one
> focus and another, let alone try to operate more than one focus of
> attention at a time. I concluded, and wrote in various places, that in this
> respect the searchlights model was conceptually flawed and incoherent.
> Whether this had any influence in its abandonment I leave to history.
> Stay safe (I recommend from within self-isolation)
> Greg Brooks
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 11:00, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Great story, Donna!
> pdp
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 8:56 PM Donna E Alvermann <dalverma at uga.edu>
> wrote:
>
> David, I am saddened to learn of Jay's passing. I still have a letter that
> he wrote to me when I was a new assistant professor at UGA. He said he had
> read an article of mine and that he just wanted to encourage me to keep
> writing. It arrived out of the blue (meaning I had not interacted with Jay
> previously). Perhaps that's why his encouragement has remained with me
> through these many years. I was able to share my gratitude with him one
> evening when we were seated next to each other at a conference that Deborah
> Dillon had organized in the Minneapolis area.
>
> It's the little things that matter...
>
> Respectfully,
> Donna
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> Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:43 AM
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> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] I just got this message this instant
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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.
>
> David
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Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley

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