[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.
  - snip-
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