[NIFL-FAMILY:144] Sad news about a dear colleague

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 From Emily Hacker, NIFL-Tech moderator (with a few additions):
David Rosen, a dear friend of the adult literacy community, active
contributor to all the NIFL-sponsored discussion lists, creator and
moderator of the NLA list and
Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute (ALRI) has suffered a
terrible loss. While I am torn about sharing personal information in such a
public forum, I realize that many of us on this list care for David and
would want to send our support.

This week David lost his son Jeffrey in a car crash.  A message from Maria
Elena Gonzales from the Adult Literacy Resource Institute staff is pasted in
below, with information about where to send condolences.

>From Maria Elena:

Dear colleagues,

Just fifteen minutes ago I learned the unbelievably sad news that David
Rosen's only son, Jeffrey, has died in a head-on collision in Arizona.  I
can't think of a more horrible thing to happen to a parent and I am shocked
and extremely saddened for David.  He is going to need our understanding
and support and dare I say, love, for some of us who have known and worked
with him through the years have grown to care for him deeply.  We are in
mourning.

Jeffrey was a very young man, perhaps just 20 years old.  He was a
talented, brilliant young man, a senior at NYU - this past year he had
taken a year off to work as an intern for NPR in Washington D.C.  He was
musical and interested in the arts - I remember when he was ten years old
and was convinced he was going to be a cartoon artist.  Some of you knew
him even younger and probably have other stories to tell.

If you want to send personal messages to David and his wife Rita, their
address is:  7 Newsome Park, Jamaica Plain, MA  02130.

Maria Elena Gonzalez\
on behalf of the ALRI staff



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