Fwd: Faye Vaughn-Cooke passed away today

[Arnold Zwicky]

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> From: John Rickford <rickford at stanford.edu>
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:55:56 -0700
> To: Sonja Lanehart <sonja.lanehart at utsa.edu>
> Cc: Walt Wolfram <walt_wolfram at ncsu.edu>, Robert Bayley <rjbayley at ucdavis.edu>, Lucas <CeilLucas at aol.com>
> Subject: Faye Vaughn-Cooke passed away today
> 
> Please pass on to the list, Sonja.  I just heard from my good friend Ewart Thomas that Faye Vaughn Cooke passed away today.  One of her most recent publications was "Lessons Learned from the Ebonics Controversy:  Implications for Language Assessment" (in the Sociolinguistic Variation volume edited by Bayley and Lucas, 2007, in honor of Walt Wolfram).  And from the contributors'  section of that volume, here is the blurb on her: 
> 
> A. FAY VAUGHN-COOKE is Professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). She was the Vice President for Academic Affairs at UMES, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Florida A&M University, and Chairperson of the Department of Languages and Communication Disorders at the University of the District of Columbia. She has received numerous grants from Federal agencies to support her research and projects in sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and language.
> 
> She will be missed, both by her family and close friends, and by those of us who work on AAVE and related issues.
> 
> John

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