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

Mon Mar 22 17:05:10 GMT 2021

Thanks for the remembrance, MaryEllen.  I especially love the hooding
story.
Keep us informed if you hear anything about a memorial service.
David

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:57 AM MaryEllen Vogt <mevogt1 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Thanks, David, for sharing your thoughts about Bob.  I, too, shared my
> remembrance on the family website:
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> The day that I received a letter from Bob Ruddell, saying that I had been
> admitted into the doctoral program in Language and Literacy at UC Berkeley,
> changed my life forever. To be Bob's advisee, was the best of all worlds as
> a graduate student.  He seemed to know everyone in the reading world and
> pushed me to know them all, too, whether introducing me to NRC (now LRA),
> supporting and mentoring me through my qualitative dissertation (in a
> university of mostly quantitative studies), or nudging me along so I could
> finish in a timely manner.  He jovial approach to life, his friendship, and
> his unwavering belief that all kids can learn to read, have molded me into
> the reading teacher I am today. Perhaps most memorable for me, was his
> generosity in allowing my father (former Dean of the Graduate School at
> Colorado State University), to hood me, alongside my advisor.  It meant the
> world to my father.  Amy and Bobby (Rob), I first met you as very small
> children. I mourn the loss of your father. Sandy, all the good times we
> shared at IRA/ILA  bring a happy smile. Thanks for loving and caring for
> Bob over the years---he was a very good man.     MaryEllen Vogt
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> Pearson
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> *To:* reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Another passing: Robert Ruddell
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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
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> Sandy, Amy, and Rob,
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> 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.
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> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:53 PM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> 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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Graduate School of Education
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