[Lgpolicy] Reminder: AAAL 2024 Retirement celebration for Dr. Nancy H. Hornberger this Sunday

Fri Mar 22 18:13:10 UTC 2024

I don’t think I responded last year, but wanted to join Marilyn Schiffman in congratulating Nancy Hornberger upon her retirement, and to comment on how fortunate students of both Nancy and Hal Schiffman must have been to receive such sharing and mentoring.

Last year I wanted to share with the list serve the very special nature of the 80th birthday celebration at Penn in 2006 that honored Joshua Fishman. Nancy, Hal, and I were the local planning committee. A few highlights: I chaired a session at which Hal recollected Fishman’s influence on him. I was right next to the podium and Hal had to repeatedly stop and wipe his tears because he was so overwhelmed by emotion, relating Fishman’s love for one’s language to making this a better world. I remember thinking what a gift Hal was giving us and his students by being able to cry in our presence. Another moment that brought me to tears was Nancy Hornberger’s performance at lunch of two Yiddish songs she prepared in honor of Fishman. Here was a scholar, and also a trained and performing singer, sharing with us her love of music and of Fishman. I am toasting and congratulating Hal Schiffman of blessed memory and Nancy Hornberger, may she have long years of good health.
There were several other high points for me at that conference, but I will just mention that Frances, the convenor of our list-serve, continuing Hal’s innovation and sustaining effort, was at the conference then, presenting his graduate research, as a student of Nancy.
Rakhmiel Peltz
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On Mar 18, 2024, at 4:15 AM, Marilyn Schiffman via Lgpolicy <lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:

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I am sending this Retirement Blessing Message for you, Nancy, on behalf of my husband, Hal (aka Dr. Harold) Schiffman who was promoted to Heaven in December 2022. I know Hal would want to be included in your celebration. During his active years at UPenn with the Penn Language Center and other parts of the University he loved working with you, Nancy. You were a true partner in his passion for the promotion of bilingual education and the support of language minorities. He was always excited to talk about his meetings with you and plans for his teaching in your programs. Thank you for embracing his shared vision even though he was not officially part of the  Graduate School of Education. I know you will be continuing to guide the love of learning and language in whatever ways you can. I know that Hal is presenting a toast to you from Heaven in the several hundred languages you both love the most... Fondly, Marilyn Schiffman

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 8:28 AM jamie l. schissel via Lgpolicy <lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu<mailto:lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu>> wrote:
We are delighted to celebrate the retirement of Dr. Nancy H. Hornberger on Sunday, March 17th from 7-9:00pm during AAAL 2024 in Houston, TX. The event will be held in the Regency Room on the second floor of the conference hotel.

Please share this invitation and flyer with anyone who may be interested.

This special event is to celebrate the retirement of Dr. Nancy H. Hornberger. Nancy is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a long-time member of AAAL and is internationally known for her work in bilingualism and biliteracy, ethnography and language policy, and Indigenous language revitalization. In this public event, we invite people to come together to honor her tremendous legacy and we will showcase the impact of her scholarship through presentations by scholars that are featured in recent special issues on Indigenous language revitalization and the Continua of Biliteracy. Following the presentations, our celebration will showcase the sharing of photos and messages from the larger community about their relationships with Nancy. Nancy will have the opportunity to address everyone, and then we will transition into a social gathering, where we invite attendees to share their well wishes.
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Thank you and take care,
Frances Kvietok and Jamie Schissel

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