In Memoriam

November 15th 2024

Sad News about Dr. Martha May Tevis
MMT
Martha May Tevis
 
Dr. Martha May Tevis, longtime professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and founding member of the International Society for Educational Biography passed away on September 26, 2024. A memorial service is set for November 16, 2024, in Pharr, Texas at Trinity Episcopal Church.
 
Throughout her five-decades-long tenure at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley , she held several roles including secondary program coordinator for undergraduate and graduate programs, graduate coordinator, and chair of the department of curriculum and secondary instruction.  To read more about her illustrious career, please see her obituary - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/themonitor/name/martha-tevis-obituary?id=56738094
 
Please consider honoring her service and memory with a contribution to the Martha May Tevis Endowed Scholarship through ISEB. For your convenience, you may visit our PayPal link (https://tinyurl.com/ISEBmemoriam) or contact our treasurer, Prairie Endres Parnell (prairie.endres.parnell@gmail.com). 
 
Miss Martha will be dearly missed.


Linda Morice shares the following:

We have received the sad news that Von Pittman died December 3, 2019, at age 74. He was President of ISEB, a member of the Vitae Scholasticae Editorial Advisory Board, and a contributor to the journal. In 2011 Von received the Elizabeth Powell Award for his VS article titled, "Correspondence Study and the Crime of the Century: Helen Williams, Nathan Leopold, and the Stateville Correspondence School." The award, given by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), recognizes the year's best publication on distance learning. Von and his wife Joyce lived in Columbia, Missouri, where he previously served as Director of Distance and Independent Study at the University of Missouri.



Long time ISEB member Professor Emeritus Lou Smith passed away at the end of January, 2020. He was often presenter at ISEB meetings and a frequent contributor to Vitae Scholasticae. He was Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of the "Biographical Method" chapter in Denzin and Lincoln's Handbook of Qualitative Research (1994). The University of South Carolina Museum of Education selected Smith and Geoffrey's The Complexities of an Urban Classroom (1968) as a "Book of the Century." Lou was 90 at the time of his death.

If you wish to remember Von or Lou and their contribution to ISEB, consider making a donation or providing a graduate student scholarship to this year's conference.