JEROME BRUNER

Dr. Bruner has influenced not only my work as an educator, but my way of looking at and embracing life. I still regret not having had the opportunity to have that chat over a cup of coffee. His passing just a short time before our intended meet up in June 2016, He wrote: "Thank you for that lovely note, Angela. I'd love to see you when you're over here visiting your mother in June. We've much to talk about! Let me hear more about your plans. All best wishes. Jerome Bruner" (May 3, 2016). He...

Jerry Bruner was on my PhD committee at Harvard in 1973.
I appreciated his wilingness to be on it since it was fairly
deeply involved in linguistic theory and acquisition. My conversatons with him were delightful because he did not really worry about consistency or contradicting hmself. Tom Roeper

This past May, while struggling with writing my final exam paper in pedagogical studies I watched an interview with Dr. Bruner. It inspired me to write him an email. Which to my amazement and utter joy he replied - and with an invitation.

"Thank you for that lovely note, Angela. I'd love to see you when you're over here visitingyour mother in June. We've much to talk about! Let me hear more about your plans. All best wishes. Jerome Bruner" (May 3, 2016)

I am so deeply sadden...

I can't say how much working with Jerry in the 1980s and 1990s influenced my own work on narrative. I was his research assistant for five years on the Spencer Foundation project, in which he exhibited his boundless curiosity and capacity for amazingly flexible thought. In the last years we reconnected, and he was a warm friend to the last. I last visited him months before his 100th birthday, and he was still a fascinating person to talk to and as warm as ever.