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

[Judith Green]

Dear David

Just posting what you sent.  Bob was my advisor. And the person who was also the one who took a chance on me because I did not look typical.  It was bad forgot me and interdisciplinary admission in 1972 Berkeley’s doctoral program which was itself in a disciplinary perspective. It was also Bob gave me access to history in which teachers 16 it all worked in their local school to create new models of reading comprehension with the language base. In the early 1970s he was a groundbreaker who brought video data as a base for looking at common teaching processes with the same book at different periods of the program.  This work was instrumental in providing a multi sided process I’m looking at how teachers involved in developing reading comprehension in their classes engage in common task and planned for Reading in conceptual be grounded Ways.  I have leader ship and I are in NCTE also instrumental In creating new waves Of knowledge for teachers. Who is an amazing mentor who could see beneath the surface and support innovations and work interdisciplinarily.

I carry Bob’s thinking forward every day and I work I do and it was because of his taking a chance on me that I was able to learn from him John Gumperz, Millie Almy and Paul Ammon. He’s on my intellectual roots And I sure do my work today. As I am a collective biography, I will carry Bob’s Burgers forward as I have since I completed my dissertation in the 1970s. Honoring the roots of our work is truly important and tracing those routes is something we need to do today.

I share this Johanna Bob and all those And all of you who have created truly remarkable possibilities for literacy in action as action And for action.

Please celebrate Bob’s contributions as I am doing.

Judith

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 21, 2021, at 3:24 PM, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> 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.  
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>> David
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>> 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
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