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

Fri Jul 10 22:50:31 BST 2020

Thanks for the personal responses to Delores' work and it's important
influences on the field.
I find your memories helped me recall my memories of the kinds of issues
and ideas we were grappling with at that time.  Yetta

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 1:15 PM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

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> Let me echo Brian's thanks to Jim Baumann for sharing his thoughts about
> Dolores' work.  Dolores had a real knack for doing important studies of
> questions that most of us never asked because we assumed we already knew
> the answer.  It was a kind of "the emperor has no clothes" sensitivity.
> And they were always memorable, with a lasting impact on the field.
>
> Besides her classic studies of children who learn to read early and the
> nature of comprehension studies, two other CSR classics were a detailed
> analysis of basal instruction of reading comprehension.  and a set of case
> studies of young Black children who learn to read early.  Her short book on
> Phonics and the Teaching of Reading was a classic mix of scholarship and
> eminently good common sense.
>
> She was a private person. She was faithful to the Center for the Study of
> Reading.  Attended all of our professional but few of our social events.
> So I never got to know her beyond her work.
>
> Emblematic of her private self, when she left the U of I in the early 90s,
> I asked her how it felt to be retired. She replied, "I did not RETIRE!  I
> RESIGNED".
>
> A classic in our field. A legacy that is still alive and well. And clearly
> one of a kind.  If ever the Shakesperian saying, "We shall not see the like
> of her again," ever fit a colleague, it surely fits Dolores.
>
> pdp
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:30 PM Brian Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this message Norm. Thanks for your memories James.
>> I never met Dr Durkin but was an ardent admirer of her research.
>> Brian Cambourne
>>
>> On 11 Jul 2020, at 1:53 am, Baumann, James F. <baumannj at missouri.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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> 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 Quarterly*among 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.
>>
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>> flowercjs at aol.com
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