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I will miss her
brighter-than-a-sunset smile and deep, percussion laugh
and the good times that evoked both. I appreciate your sending
the sad news of Ann's death. I retrieved your e-mail from
my office where I have been sitting stunned for the last
hour. Elise and I have lost a dear friend and the calm
reassurance we've had since we graduated from UH almost
forty years ago: that a good soul was looking out after
democracy and education in Hawaii'i, and speaking out
whenever these essential goods were threatened by the many
or denied to the few. She was a startlingly good teacher and
the assumption of democracy and the promise of education
were the starting points (not the conclusions) of her work.
Ann was genuinely interested
in her students' ideas, accomplishments, and lives. She
artfully invited us into think more carefully and
inclusively. She was the genuine article, a teacher through
and through -- and a scholar, mentor, taskmaster, nudge,
gadfly, catalyst, activist, character, and, above all of
that, a warm and loving friend. What will we do without
her? Rod and Elise
Webb p.s. And I will miss those
quick e-mails she'd fire off when distressed by the latest
malfeasance . (She was one of two people I have known whose
typing could be illegible!) But more than that, I will miss
her brighter-than-a-sunset smile and deep, percussion laugh
and the good times that evoked both. -- Rod Webb Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs Box 117040, 140 Norman
Hall College of Education
University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL 32611 (352) 392-0728 Ext. 200 FAX:
(352) 392-6930
Gainesville,
Florida