<div dir="ltr">Like others who've responded, I have the greatest respect for Bernard Spolsky<div>as a person and for his significant work. He will be greatly missed.<div>I had the good fortune to cross paths with him early in my career, only 2 years</div><div>out from my Master's degree. </div><div><br></div><div>I was with the US Office Education (now Dept of Education), as a bilingual specialist </div><div>in the early days of the ESEA Title VII Bilingual Education Act. Dr. Spolsky was on faculty</div><div>at the Linguistics Department, University of New Mexico. He was also an evaluator for </div><div>a bilingual education project I had been assigned to. </div><div><br></div><div>We were all working to develop the shape of the new federally funded bilingual education </div><div>programs. I realized early on that we were fortunate to have someone of Dr. Spolsky's </div><div>language and cultural perspective to be a part of that process, both for general input and </div><div>specifically developing program evaluations. </div><div><br></div><div>And I quickly realized how fortunate I was personally and professionally to learn from and </div><div>work with him. I then followed his continued contributions to educational linguistics and his </div><div>advocating importantly for the role of culture.</div></div><div>Margaret van Naerssen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 6:05 PM Bessie Dendrinos <<a href="mailto:vdendrin@enl.uoa.gr">vdendrin@enl.uoa.gr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-msg-3633884179538042714"><div lang="en-GR" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-3633884179538042714WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt">Such immensely sad news for our academic community. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt">I had the pleasure of being inspired by his work and it was a privilege to have had a paper of mine included in the book he co-edited in honour of Elana Shohamy, on occasion of her retirement from her university post. I’m referring to the collection he edited with Ofra Inbar-Lourie and Michal Tannenbaum, published by <span style="color:black">Routledge in 2015: <i>Challenges for Language Education and Policy: Making Space for People</i>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;letter-spacing:-0.4pt">May he rest in peace</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bessie<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">Bessie Dendrinos, Professor Emerita, <a href="http://scholar.uoa.gr/vdendrin" target="_blank">http:/<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"> </span>/scholar.uoa.gr/vdendrin</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">National and Kapodistrian University of Athens<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">Faculty of English, School of philosophy </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black"><a href="http://en.enl.uoa.gr/" target="_blank">http://en.enl.uoa.gr</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">RCeL Director <a href="http://www.rcel.enl.uoa.gr" target="_blank">http://www.rcel.enl.uoa.gr</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">Head of Centre for Excellence for Multilingualism and Language Policy, </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt"><a href="https://cem.uoa.gr/" target="_blank">https://cem.uoa.gr/</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">President of the KPG Examination Board, <a href="https://rcel2.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/en_index.htm" target="_blank">https://rcel2.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/en_index.htm</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">President of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism, <a href="http://ecspm.org" target="_blank">http://ecspm.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">Communication</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">E: vdendrin[at]<a href="http://enl.uoa.gr" target="_blank">enl.uoa.gr</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">M: +30 6944 905954</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Edling <<a href="mailto:edling-bounces@lists.mail.umbc.edu" target="_blank">edling-bounces@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>> on behalf of "Francis M. Hult via Edling" <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu" target="_blank">edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>><br><b>Reply to: </b>Educational Linguistics List <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu" target="_blank">edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Sunday, 21 August 2022 - 19:15<br><b>To: </b><<a href="mailto:lgpolicy@lists.mail.umbc.edu" target="_blank">lgpolicy@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>>, Educational Linguistics List <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu" target="_blank">edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"Francis M. Hult" <<a href="mailto:fmhult@umbc.edu" target="_blank">fmhult@umbc.edu</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[Edling] Share Your Memories of Bernard Spolsky<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Professor Bernard Spolsky meant so much to many of us as a scholar, friend, and mentor. He founded the field of educational linguistics, and he was a pioneer in the field of language policy. As moderator of the Edling and Lgpolicy listservs, I invite list members to share their favorite memories of Bernard as a tribute to him. I am cross-posting for those who are not on both lists.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Best,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Francis<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">--<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">Francis M. 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