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

Sun Mar 21 23:59:28 GMT 2021

So many times, Judith, I have heard you tell fond stories of Bob's
mentoring.  Thanks for sharing.
David

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 4:06 PM Judith Green <judithlgreen at me.com> wrote:

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

email:  ppearson at berkeley.edu
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