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

Wed Feb 17 23:13:55 GMT 2021

Amen to all that has been said so far about Walter.  The essence of
humility and generosity.  He was very kind to me when I was a brand new
professor and member of IRA--in the late 60s and early 70s.  Many talks
about assessment and why the GMRA was the way it was.

One of my favorite studies of his and (I think) Kate Maria was one in which
they took the directions from kindergarten letter and word readiness
programs, kept all the "directions" intact, such look at the first word in
the second line, and substituted geometric shape names for content words,
such as word, letter, line, etc.  The results demonstrated just how complex
the directions are in tasks even for novice readers.  RRQ in the early to
mid 70s?

I also loved his booming baritone voice and always imagined him either as
an evangelist or a light opera singer.

I really appreciated the tribute to him and Ruth about their care for our
fragile earth.

David

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:58 PM Brian Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au> wrote:

> Sad that another of our group has died.
> Although I never met Walter I felt I “ knew” him through the many things
> he wrote and published.
>  Brian Cambourne
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> On 18 Feb 2021, at 8:59 am, Baumann, James F. <baumannj at missouri.edu>
> wrote:
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> I agree, Camille. Walter was a gentle-person scholar. Jim
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> > On Feb 17, 2021, at 3:57 PM, Camille Blachowicz <CBlachowicz at nl.edu>
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> > 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
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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:
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> > Don
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> > —
> > Donald J. Leu, Ph.D.
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