>Content-return: allowed >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:32:43 -0700 >From: Barbara Guzzetti <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: FW: Jeanne Chall >Sender: NRCEMAIL <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Reply-to: NRCEMAIL <[log in to unmask]> >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >X-UIDL: S%Le9j(>e9L!\d9W],!! > >I have been asked to post this sad annoucement to nrcemail: >-----Original Message----- >From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 11:23 AM >To: Barbara Guzzetti >Subject: Jeanne Chall > > >Barbara: > >Please post the following message on the NRC email list. > >I have just received news that Jeanne Chall passed away on Saturday morning. >I have been in touch with her office at Harvard and will be receiving >information about plans for a memorial service as soon as they are >finalized. Professor Chall passed away of congestive heart failure. Her >family in conductng a private burial service in New York. Information and a >more formal announcement will be forthcoming and I will forward it on to all >of you as soon as I have it. Suffice it to say, our profession has lost a >key figure. Professor Chall was a long time supporter of the International >Reading Association in particular and the reading profession and the >learners it serves and she will be missed. > >Alan E. Farstrup >IRA > > ********************************* Norman A. Stahl, Acting Chair Department of Literacy, Intercultural and Language Education GH 223c Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 Telephone: (815) 753-9032 {office} (815) 753-8563 (FAX) Email: [log in to unmask]