>>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:21:55 -0500
>>>From: "Fisch, Sholly" <Sholly.Fisch who-is-at CTW.ORG>
>>>To: CHI-KIDS who-is-at ACM.ORG
>>>Subject: Jan Hawkins
>>>
>>>For those who knew her and may not have heard yet: Jan Hawkins died today.
>>>Apparently, she'd had breast cancer for a while and thought she had beat it.
>>>However, she suffered a recurrence recently and things happened pretty
>>>quickly after that.
>>>
>>>For those who didn't know her, I can't do her justice in a few words here,
>>>but here's a few of the basics: Jan served for many years as the head of the
>>>Center for Children and Technology, which was housed at the Bank Street
>>>College of Education until it broke off to become the New York branch of
>>>EDC. Jan stepped down as director several months ago to spend part-time at
>>>EDC in Boston and, in the remainder of her time, set up a new educational
>>>technology program at Harvard. She was a major figure in using technology
>>>to help children learn, and an extremely nice person besides.
>>>Unfortunately, she died far too young.