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

Wed Mar 24 01:02:34 GMT 2021

Wonderful memory, Yetta!
David

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 5:52 PM Yetta Goodman <ygoodman at u.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> Memories.....
>
> I just told my daughters that Bob Rudell died and we recalled the summer
> of 1967, we
> (Debi, Karen, Wendy, Ken and I) were living in the Ruddell house. Ken and
> I were teaching
> a summer institute for Bob at UCLA  and sharing results from Ken's reading
> miscue research of
> eight different populations being completed in Detroit where we were
> living.
>
> I was a doctoral student and for one of my classes, I collected "play
> party games and songs" from children
> in the inner city of Detroit in schools where I was supervising preservice
> teachers which resulted in one of
> my earliest articles. Our kids (12, 10, 8 years old) were going to Detroit
> public schools participating in similar
> games and songs.
>
> We. therefore, asked our daughters to share our research by demonstrating
> from their own experiences.
> Their performance was being heard through the large open doors and soon
> there were university students
> passing by coming into the class and hand clapping along with the rest of
> us in response to the movements
> and sing alongs.
>
> Bob enjoyed recalling this experience when we met during conferences over
> the years.
> Debi, Karen, Wendy and I remember fondly the warm, knowledgeable and
> engaging Bob.
>
>        Yetta
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:41 AM Diane Lapp <lapp at sdsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> *External Email*
>> 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:
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
>>> reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> *On Behalf Of *P
>>> Pearson
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 21, 2021 3:24 PM
>>> *To:* reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Another passing: Robert Ruddell
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley

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