<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Dear all,</span></div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">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. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Below, please find<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> Kathy McCartney's obituary for Barbara. <span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; ">A memorial service will be held today, Saturday, February 19 at 2:00p.m. in the Eliot-Lyman Room at HGSE. All are invited</span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; ">You can find a brief article and post comments in the following HGSE link:</span></span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><blockquote cite="mid:57B31396-EAD8-4C96-8171-0E08E4549321@gse.harvard.edu"
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Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/blog/news_features_releases/2011/02/hgse-remembers-barbara-pan.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.gse.harvard.edu/blog/news_features_releases/2011/02/hgse-remembers-barbara-pan.html</a></span></span></font></div></blockquote></span></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">We will miss her deeply...</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">paola.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paola Uccelli</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Assistant Professor</div><div
style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Harvard Graduate School of Education</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">***</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dear colleagues,<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><o p=""> </o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><o
p=""> </o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.<o
p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><o p=""> </o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><o p=""> </o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>A memorial service will be held this Saturday, February 19 at 2:00p.m. in the Eliot-Lyman Room at HGSE. All are
invited.<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><o p=""> </o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Please join me in extending deepest condolences to Barbara’s husband, Tai-<span class="SpellE">sheng</span> 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. <o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><o p=""> </o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Best,<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kathy<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>____________________<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kathleen McCartney<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dean<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development<o p=""></o></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span>Harvard Graduate School of Education<o p=""></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o p=""> </o></p></span></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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