[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Another passing: Robert Ruddell

[P Pearson]

I just posted this remembrance for his family on the website for which I
sent the URL a while ago.  Wanted to share it with RHF colleagues

Sandy, Amy, and Rob,
I was saddened to learn of Bob's death.  Though we have not kept in touch
over the last 20 years, I thought of him often, remembering how much
influence he had on my career.  He was a good friend of my advisor, John
Manning, so I was introduced to him while I was still working on my
doctorate with John at Minnesota.  I also heard him talk at IRA in 1969,
and I was inspired because he was firmly committed to, as I aspired to be
committed to, studying the language foundations of reading.  So he fast
became a second mentor to me, always willing to discuss research, practice,
and just about any other topic.  And over time, we became friends,
especially during discussions of reading research and policy and life at
our post-party late evening get-togethers at what was then NRC.
  In 1973, my wife Mary Alyce, along with my 2 year old son Matthew, sublet
the grand Ruddell house on Spruce Street in Berkeley while the family was
on a holiday trip (back east I imagine).  What a treat to spend 2 months in
that grand 5-7 bedroom house.
    He has left a great legacy to the study of reading, not only through
his scholarship, but also through his many books for teachers, his
leadership in the International Reading Association, and--perhaps most of
all--his intellectually rigorous and interpersonally generous mentoring of
the next generation of PhD students at Berkeley. When the topic of Language
and Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley comes up,
Robert Ruddell is the first name that comes to my mind.
     I wanted you, his family, to know that will be greatly missed but long
remembered and always admired--by me and hundreds of colleagues in the
profession of those who study language and reading.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:53 PM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I just received this link from a colleague. Another person that I was
> influential in my career AND the careers of so many others.
>
> David
>
>
> https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=bob-ruddell&pid=198066050&utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ObitShare_PowerInbox_Neustar&utm_content=ViewObituary&sfmc_id=161534051&env=db41447c77739dc84e4bf964653fb794469fcc78
>
>
> --
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." -
> *Henri Matisse*
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> P. David Pearson
> Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science
> Graduate School of Education
> University of California, Berkeley
>
> email:  ppearson at berkeley.edu
> other e-mail:  pdavidpearsondean at gmail.com
> website for publications:  www.pdavidpearson.org
> *******************
> *Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses*
> Home:  851 Euclid Ave
> Berkeley, CA  94708 -1305
> iPhone:  510 543 6508
> ****************************************
>
>

-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - *Henri Matisse*
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
P. David Pearson
Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley

email:  ppearson at berkeley.edu
other e-mail:  pdavidpearsondean at gmail.com
website for publications:  www.pdavidpearson.org
*******************
*Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses*
Home:  851 Euclid Ave
Berkeley, CA  94708 -1305
iPhone:  510 543 6508
****************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/reading-hall-of-fame/attachments/20210321/da065d97/attachment-0001.html>