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

Mon Mar 22 17:41:18 GMT 2021

Thank you all for sharing these beautiful memories of Bob. Jim Flood and I always looked forward to our visits with Bob. The literacy light is dimmed with his passing but what he contributed to our understandings shines brilliantly.   In the last year we have lost so many of our giants. What they have each taught us still cements my foundational understandings of literacy learning. 
Diane

> On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:05 AM, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks for the remembrance, MaryEllen.  I especially love the hooding story.  
> Keep us informed if you hear anything about a memorial service.
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> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:57 AM MaryEllen Vogt <mevogt1 at outlook.com <mailto: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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> 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.  
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>   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. 
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>     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.
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>      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 <mailto: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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