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Ruth Herndon
Toledo, Ohio
 

she was a model for me of how to really CARE about students -- the whole student, not just the intellect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for letting me know about Ann. I am glad she died peacefully and quickly, but there's no way this is welcome news. I had hoped to see her soon. She was my major advisor when I did graduate work in education at the University of Hawaii over twenty years ago, and she has been a close friend ever since.

From our first meeting, she was a model for me of how to really CARE about students -- the whole student, not just the intellect. I have a treasured photograph of the two of us; we are wearing huge grins and head leis that we made from tea leaves and bougainvillea picked in her yard.

When I received a teaching award at my university a few years back, she sent me a beautiful haku lei to wear; it had bougainvillea in it.

I am missing her.

Ruth Herndon
rherndo@utoledo.edu

 

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