[EDLING:356] Sally Jacoby, ethnoling, conversation analysis

[M van Naerssen]

I regret to pass on the news on Sally Jacoby died on July 27th, following a stroke a few days earlier - her cancer gave her a tendency to clotting. 
A friend/colleague of hers, Tim McNamara (Melbourne), passed this on to me. 

She wrote her own obituary --she told Tim,  'I'm a control freak'.  It is attached below.
Margaret van Naerssen
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 Sally Jacoby

DOVER, NH,  Sally (Westerman) Jacoby, 58, died on Friday, July 27, 2007, 
after a courageous battle with lung cancer.

A resident of Dover, Sally was an associate professor of interpersonal
communication at the University of New Hampshire in Durham from 1996 to
2007.

Sally was born on April 6, 1949, in Paterson, N.J., to Sigmund and
Frances (Hochman) Westerman and grew up in Fair Lawn, N.J. She holds a
Bachelor's of Science degree in Theatre from Northwestern University, a
Bachelor's of Arts degree in English with a minor in Linguistics from 
Tel Aviv University, a Masters of Arts degree in Applied English
Linguistics from the University of Birmingham (U.K.), and a doctorate
degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of California, Los
Angeles. 

>>From 1971 to 1988, she lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sally's
first career was in the theater as an actress onstage, in films, and in
voice overs, and as an assistant director production manager and stage 
manager at the Habima National Theatre of Israel and The Bat Sheva
Modern Dance Company of Israel. Her second career was as a teacher of
English as a second language, from K-12 through the university-level,
and as a Hebrew to English translator of museum exhibits and research 
essays. Her third career was as an academic, teaching and researching
the detailed management of talk and interaction in everyday and
institutional settings, conversation analysis, issues surrounding
formal evaluation criteria for testing communication competence, and 
advance levels of professional apprenticeship such as on physics
research groups.

A member of Temple Israel in Portsmouth, Sally has also been active in
the Seacoast as a dedicated Spanish Flamenco dance student at Ballet 
New England and as a voice student of Angelynne Hinson. Sally appeared
in the Music Hall of Portsmouth production of "The Mikado," has worked
as a film projectionist at the Music Hall, and volunteered for the 
Music Hall, Maine Public Broadcasting Citizens Advisory Board, and the
Garrison Players.

Sally is survived her parents; a sister, Laura Brody of Ridgewood,
N.J.; a niece, Dena Brody and nephew, Evan Brody, both of Ridgewood, 
N.J.; an aunt, Ella Ettinger of New York City; an uncle, Richard
Hochman of Stewart, Fla.; and numerous cousins.

Sally has been especially grateful for the strong support of her many
friends and colleagues on the Seacoast, across the country and around 
the world.

A funeral service will be held on Monday, July 30, 2007, at 11 a.m. at
Temple Israel, 200 State St., Portsmouth, N.H. Interment will follow at
Temple Israel Cemetery, Banfield Road, Portsmouth. In lieu of flowers, 
memorial contributions may be made to the Seacoast Cancer Center at
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 789 Central Ave., Dover, NH 03820; or to
Temple Israel in Portsmouth. Arrangements are under the direction of
the J. Verne Wood Funeral Home, Portsmouth, N.H.

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