[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Dolores Durkin

[Baumann, James F.]

Dear Norm,

Thanks for sharing this sad news. We have lost another leader in our field. I remember discussing her RRQ 1977-78 observational study of comprehension instruction (or the paucity of it) as a doctoral student at UW-Madison at our monthly meeting of our informal “Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading” doctoral study group. This study influenced me greatly then and as the years passed in grounding the importance of teaching students how to better understand texts, and the essential nature of instructing teachers how to teach comprehension processes effectively. I also recall reading as a doc student her 1960s book-form research,  “Children Who Read Early,” which ended up being one of several empirical efforts that provided a foundation for our subsequent theories of emergent literacy (other influences were, of course, Clay, Ferreiro/Teberosky, Strickland/Taylor, Y Goodman, Holdaway, and others). Her works on word identification also affected my own teaching and research. I remember hosting a panel of leaders in our field at the IRA meeting in 1989 with Dolores, Jeanne Chall, Ken Goodman, Dorothy Strickland, and Ira Aaron. Regrettably, we have lost not only Dolores but also Ken and Dorothy this past year. 😔

James F Baumann
Chancellor’s Chair for Excellence in Literacy Education, Emeritus
University of Missouri
RHOF webpage<http://www.readinghalloffame.org/james-f-baumann-2014-inductee>




On Jul 10, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Norman Stahl <flowercjs at AOL.COM<mailto:flowercjs at AOL.COM>> wrote:

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Dolores Durkin, Professor Emerita of Education from the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, passed away on Monday, July 6, 2020.  She was known for her books including Children Who Read Early, Teaching Young Children to Read, Teaching Them to Read, and her landmark research “What classroom observations reveal about comprehension instruction” in volume 14 of Reading Research Quarterlyamong many other articles, chapters, tests, technical reports, and books.

Her obituary can be found at [https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=mary-dolores-durkin&pid=196469249].

Dr. Durkin’s homepage as a member of the Reading Hall of Fame is [https://www.readinghalloffame.org/dolores_durkin}.

Condolences can be sent to her niece.
Mary Ann Savage
4815 Creek Drive
Western Springs, IL 60558

Dolores expressed wishes that any donations or contributions in her honor be made to Catholic Charities of Chicago.


Norman Stahl
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