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

Cunningham, James William jwcunnin at email.unc.edu
Wed Dec 16 15:57:12 GMT 2020 

Pat and I spent the summer of 1978 in Minneapolis thanks to P. David's invitation for us to teach at the university. We sublet a townhouse in the same complex where John Manning lived. I had read LaBerge & Samuels as a doc student and Jay's early work on repeated readings as a young assistant prof. Pat and I invited Jay to dinner at our townhouse and he came. It was a delightful evening of storytelling and shop talking. That is when we got to know him as the brilliant, funny, humble, nice person he was.
Jay had a lasting impact on my thinking. I definitely drank his automaticity Kool-Aid. My 1979 RT article, "Automatic Pilot for Decoding," was inspired by his work. And just so you know, automaticity (with its synonyms) is still a construct I believe our best quantitative research supports, so his work has had a great effect on me.
As for crazy Jay stories, I only remember one and it vaguely. Maybe someone can help me out. We are around the pool at the Don Cesar on a lovely day during NRC and Jay ends up in the pool, clothes and all, wallet and all. I can still see him walking back to his room to change with his wet wallet in his hand. What I don't remember is whether he was thrown in and, if so, by whom, or if he decided for some weird reason to jump in. Am I the only one who still remembers this?
Jim
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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: [EXT] Re: I just got this message this instant

For those of you who want to contact Jay's widow. Nancy Schermer, by snail mail, here's the address:
P. O. Box 20531, Fountain Hills, AZ 85269

This is Nancy's email address:
silkroadcamel at hotmail.com<mailto:silkroadcamel at hotmail.com>

You can also continue to add comments to this RHF strand.  I will gather them together on Wednesday morning and package them in an integrated response to her.  Deadline:  Noon on December 16 to be guaranteed that I can get them organized for delivery to Nancy.

David





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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:20 AM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu<mailto:ppearson at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
I will ask Jay Blanchard if he has an address for Nancy Schermer, Jay's widow.. There will be an outdoor  burial service for Jay on Wednesday Dec 16 at 2PM at Mt Sinai Cemetery in north Scottsdale.  Nancy did share this thought in a text exchange with me.
"We do plan to use some crazy Jay stories for part of it. Anything you collect could be helpful." So if you want to submit any to me, I'll forward.
Jay Blanchard, who is attending and has been visiting Jay regularly since his stroke a few years ago, has agreed to read this short tribute on my behalf.

S. Jay Samuels: A Tribute

  *   Jay was my mentor.  He lived the values and warrants of rigorous and responsible scholarship and teaching.  He supported my entry into the field, connected me to other scholars and communities, and brokered friendships that have lasted a lifetime.
  *   Jay was my colleague. After I passed through the veil from student to peer, he accepted me as he continued to mentor me. We wrote together, presented together, edited together, and thought together.
  *   Jay was my comrade. We worked hard and played hard.  We ran the gamut from serious scholarly review and writing to delightfully frivolous escapades around the nation and even the world.
  *   Jay was my friend.  I will miss him but always remember him. I will honor his legacy to our understanding of this remarkable activity called reading and always keep a place in my heart to share a smile about the times we shared.

P. David Pearson
Berkeley CA
December 2020



On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:55 AM Yetta Goodman <ygoodman at u.arizona.edu<mailto:ygoodman at u.arizona.edu>> wrote:

I'm so sorry to hear of Jay's passing.  I wonder if there is a family address where we/I can send condolences?

The reading/literacy community has lost members this year who all leave important historical legacies for our field
to add to the rich literature on literacy learning and teaching.

Yetta Goodman

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:58 AM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu<mailto:ppearson at berkeley.edu>> wrote:

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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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They can't stop learning because they can't stop growing.
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