remembering Barbara Alexander Pan

[Paola Uccelli]

Dear all,
For all of you who knew Barbara, it is with infinite sadness that I share the 
news of her passing and of the memorial planned for today. 
Below, please find Kathy McCartney's obituary for Barbara. A memorial service 
will be held today, Saturday, February 19 at 2:00p.m. in the Eliot-Lyman Room at 
HGSE. All are invited
You can find a brief article and post comments in the following HGSE link:
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/blog/news_features_releases/2011/02/hgse-remembers-barbara-pan.html

We will miss her deeply...
paola.

Paola Uccelli
Assistant Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education

***

Dear colleagues,
 
It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the passing of our dear 
colleague, Barbara Alexander Pan. Barbara died peacefully yesterday, following a 
lengthy illness, at the age of 60.
 
Barbara touched so many lives during her 23 years at the Ed School. She began 
her career at HGSE as a research coordinator in September 1988 and was appointed 
a faculty member in 1994. Barbara taught courses in language and literacy and 
conducted research on language development among children living in poverty and 
children growing up bilingually. She was well-known in the HGSE community for 
her tremendous dedication to her students. In 2008, Barbara earned the 
Morningstar Family Teaching Award, which recognizes outstanding teaching and 
mentorship. In nominating Barbara, one student wrote, “she has the rare ability 
to inspire in students the knowledge that she cares for them personally, while 
also providing them with careful, thoughtful, and critical feedback on their 
ideas and their work.” Even after her retirement in July 2009, Barbara continued 
to work closely with her doctoral students.
 
Barbara received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1988 from Boston 
University, having completed a thesis on children learning English and Chinese 
in Chinese immigrant families. She was an active participant in training 
researchers in the use of CHAT and CLAN when those facilities were introduced in 
the 1980s. She was a participant in the Early Head Start Research Consortium, 
which carried out a 17-site longitudinal study of the long-term effects of early 
intervention with poor families. In 1994, Barbara and eight other families 
established The Chinese Language School in Lexington, MA. She was the first 
curriculum director.
 
A memorial service will be held this Saturday, February 19 at 2:00p.m. in the 
Eliot-Lyman Room at HGSE. All are invited.
 
Please join me in extending deepest condolences to Barbara’s husband, 
Tai-sheng Pan; her son, Noah Pan, of Cambridge; and her sisters Linda Myers of 
Mill Valley, CA, Diane Vinson of Laurinburg, NC, and Martha Fletcher of Raleigh, 
NC. The dean’s office will be pleased to forward any messages of sympathy to the 
family. 
 
Best,
Kathy
____________________
Kathleen McCartney
Dean
Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development
Harvard Graduate School of Education


      

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