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

[Cathy Roller]

I too was sad to hear of Jays passing. I took his course. And it was the
first time ever a teacher or professor didn't call on me to answer
questions. Sometimes I would give him a right answer and he would
interrupt what I said and decide I was wrong. It actually was a good
experience. I got to know Jay better and he too gave me good advice on a
paper I was having trouble with. He  also told me I should never run with a
fever because he lost his sense of smell that way. I wish I had had a
chance to work with him and know him the way some of you did! Oh, by the
end of the class he called on me 😊. He was a brilliant man and he lived an
impressive life.

Cathy

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:43 AM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Douglas Ray Reutzel <Ray.Reutzel at uwyo.edu>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, December 13, 2020 7:59 AM
>> *To:* Ray Reutzel <ray.reutzel at usu.edu>
>> *Subject:* [EXT] Fwd: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: I just got this message
>> this instant
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *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
>> instant*
>>
>> 
>>
>> ◆ This message was sent from a non-UWYO address. Please exercise caution
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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
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
>> reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of P
>> Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:43 AM
>> *To:* reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] I just got this message this instant
>>
>> [EXTERNAL SENDER - PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY]
>>
>> 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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>> University of California, Berkeley
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