Ann Brown :-(.....
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 15:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Colleagues,
Yesterday evening, Ann Brown, long time colleague and friend of
LCHC and many of the members of this list, died of complications from a
series of infections. She left behind her husband and colleague,
Joe Campione, and her son Richard and his family, as well as
many sad students and colleagues around the world.
Ann is probably best known to you as a result of her work
with Ann Marie Palincsar on reciprocal reading and her multi-year
involvement in creating design experiments she referred to as
communities of learners. She and Joe are known to us from a multi-
year collaboration that began before LCHC moved to California and
continued here through work on learning disabled children in the
1980's and ongoing discussions about methodologies of intervention
experiments that will be continued with Joe and others in the years
to come.
We missed her often because she was so overwhelmingly
busy working as a socially engaged intellectual that conversations
all too often seemed to stop in mid stream. We will miss her even
more now that the stream has diminished to a trickle in our memories
and the written record.
mike