[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Walter MacGinitie

[Camille Blachowicz]

He was a lovely man and so courteous to young researchers, responding to inquiries with personal and detailed letters and later emails.
A true gentleman and scholar.
Camille Blachowicz

From: <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of "Leu, Donald" <donald.leu at uconn.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 2:53 PM
To: reading hall of fame <Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Walter MacGinitie

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Sadly, I report that another member, Walter MacGinitie, has passed.  I never knew Walter personally, only his important work, but word travels among members of the environmental communities concerned about the San Juan Islands of Washington. Walter lived on San Juan Island and he and his wife, Ruth, hadgifted 13 acres of important land to the San Juan Preservation Trust, an organization that my wife and I, as boaters who enjoy the islands, contribute to.    A tribute recently appeared in the SJPT newsletter:  https://sjpt.org/remembering-walter-macginitie/

Be well.

Don

—
Donald J. Leu, Ph.D.
"Every  one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is.  If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.”
  -- Geraldine  Ferraro.
     Acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic Party National  Convention.







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