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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I<FONT face="Times New Roman"> regret to pass on the
news on Sally Jacoby died</FONT></FONT> on July 27th, following a stroke a
few days earlier - her cancer gave her a tendency to clotting. </DIV>
<DIV>A friend/colleague of hers, Tim McNamara (Melbourne), passed this on to me.
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<DIV>She wrote her own obituary --she told Tim, 'I'm a control
freak'. It is attached below.</DIV>
<DIV>Margaret van Naerssen<BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>**********</FONT><BR>Sunday, July 29, 2007 Sally Jacoby<BR><BR>DOVER, NH,
Sally (Westerman) Jacoby, 58, died on Friday, July 27, 2007, <BR>after a
courageous battle with lung cancer.<BR><BR>A resident of Dover, Sally was an
associate professor of interpersonal<BR>communication at the University of New
Hampshire in Durham from 1996 to<BR>2007.<BR><BR>Sally was born on April 6,
1949, in Paterson, N.J., to Sigmund and<BR>Frances (Hochman) Westerman and grew
up in Fair Lawn, N.J. She holds a<BR>Bachelor's of Science degree in Theatre
from Northwestern University, a<BR>Bachelor's of Arts degree in English with a
minor in Linguistics from <BR>Tel Aviv University, a Masters of Arts degree in
Applied English<BR>Linguistics from the University of Birmingham (U.K.), and a
doctorate<BR>degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of California,
Los<BR>Angeles. <BR><BR>From 1971 to 1988, she lived and worked in Tel Aviv,
Israel. Sally's<BR>first career was in the theater as an actress onstage, in
films, and in<BR>voice overs, and as an assistant director production manager
and stage <BR>manager at the Habima National Theatre of Israel and The Bat
Sheva<BR>Modern Dance Company of Israel. Her second career was as a teacher
of<BR>English as a second language, from K-12 through the
university-level,<BR>and as a Hebrew to English translator of museum exhibits
and research <BR>essays. Her third career was as an academic, teaching and
researching<BR>the detailed management of talk and interaction in everyday
and<BR>institutional settings, conversation analysis, issues
surrounding<BR>formal evaluation criteria for testing communication competence,
and <BR>advance levels of professional apprenticeship such as on
physics<BR>research groups.<BR><BR>A member of Temple Israel in Portsmouth,
Sally has also been active in<BR>the Seacoast as a dedicated Spanish Flamenco
dance student at Ballet <BR>New England and as a voice student of Angelynne
Hinson. Sally appeared<BR>in the Music Hall of Portsmouth production of "The
Mikado," has worked<BR>as a film projectionist at the Music Hall, and
volunteered for the <BR>Music Hall, Maine Public Broadcasting Citizens Advisory
Board, and the<BR>Garrison Players.<BR><BR>Sally is survived her parents; a
sister, Laura Brody of Ridgewood,<BR>N.J.; a niece, Dena Brody and nephew, Evan
Brody, both of Ridgewood, <BR>N.J.; an aunt, Ella Ettinger of New York City; an
uncle, Richard<BR>Hochman of Stewart, Fla.; and numerous cousins.<BR><BR>Sally
has been especially grateful for the strong support of her many<BR>friends and
colleagues on the Seacoast, across the country and around <BR>the
world.<BR><BR>A funeral service will be held on Monday, July 30, 2007, at 11
a.m. at<BR>Temple Israel, 200 State St., Portsmouth, N.H. Interment will follow
at<BR>Temple Israel Cemetery, Banfield Road, Portsmouth. In lieu of flowers,
<BR>memorial contributions may be made to the Seacoast Cancer Center
at<BR>Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 789 Central Ave., Dover, NH 03820; or
to<BR>Temple Israel in Portsmouth. Arrangements are under the direction
of<BR>the J. Verne Wood Funeral Home, Portsmouth,
N.H.<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>