[Dialogue] Fred Hess Dies
Janice Ulangca
aulangca at stny.rr.com
Mon Jan 30 18:12:37 EST 2006
Thank you, Doris (and Pam Bergdall) for this word about an admired colleague, and for the Tribune tribute. I understand why - but still I rebel at the reality that it's so hard to take anything like the measure of a life before its completion. Maybe we need to spend more time to thank folks in depth on special birthdays, or something! I rejoice at what Fred accomplished for education in Chicago. I never knew this, though I do remember him. Somehow wish I might have thanked him for it sooner. Such a significant contribution. Prayers for his family.
Janice Ulangca
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles or Doris Hahn
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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:53 PM
Subject: [Dialogue] Fred Hess Dies
>From Doris Hahn-
This came to me via Pam Bergdall. Fred died of
pancreatic cancer Friday, January 27, one day after
his 68th birthday. The following tribute was in the
Chicago Tribune.
G. Alfred Hess Jr.
--------------------
1938-2006
Educator challenged inequity of resources in Chicago
schools
By Jon Yates
Tribune staff reporter
January 30, 2006
G. Alfred Hess Jr. was ordained as a Methodist
minister but couldn't
stop thinking he could help more people if he left his
small
congregation in Shelburne Falls, Mass.
So Mr. Hess resigned from his church and moved his
family to Chicago in
1966. In the years that followed, he left an indelible
imprint on the
city's educational system.
A social activist, devoted family man and skilled
researcher, Mr. Hess
directed the Chicago Panel on School Policy for 13
years and was one of
the architects of the Chicago School Reform Act of
1988. Much of his
research was used to champion the cause of the city's
poorest
children--students who, he showed, were not being
properly served.
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