Vito Perrone

Vito was a great mentor!

Dr. Perrone is one person I will be forever thankful to. His teaching, mentoring, and referral were the basis for a long and successful career in education and in industry.

Vito was my colleague at Harvard in the Teacher Education Program. He provided stellar leadership and inspiration to all those intent on preparing new teachers for the rigors of the classroom. He and I frequently debated the most relevant experiences and coursework the program could provide. One could always depend on Vito for the most sensitive and insightful views that profoundly changed how I thought about the needs of teachers and of their students. I could never match the time and energy...

September 14, 2011

Vito was truly a philosopher, not only of education but of living. I met him when I was a pain in the neck in St. Paul, Minnesota. I was a junior high school administrator, and I thought that I had all the answers. Then I was invited to become a member of the North Dakota Study Group, and my professional and personal lives changed forever. I came to Boston before Vito. I was the Head Master of South Boston High School in the late 1970s and all of the 1980s....

Dear Vito,

May you rest in peace!

No words can describe the loss of our greatest educator of the world, but your wisdom and compassion will never die. You will be always in our heart and mind.

Your former doctoral students

Remembered with much affection by 1950 Graduation Classmates.

Vito grew up at 1301 Vermont in Lansing, I grew up at 1301 Taft in Lansing, one block from Vito's parents' house. He was ten years older than I. He taught the social studies class I was a student in in '59 or '60. I remember him and his brother, Jack, and his parents. His mother had one eye permanently closed due to being struck by debris from a school explosion in Bath, Michigan. Her disposition, and that of her husband and children nevertheless, was always sunny. I never remember...

Vito was my faculty adviser, dissertation chair, and my friend. It was he who first gave me courage and confidence to apply to the doctoral program at HGSE. He always took time to listen and give gentle advice. And what a voice of reason he was. Even in the midst of the absurd and frivolous, he somehow made one feel respected; that what you had to say mattered; that you could make a difference. He was able to do all this because he truly cared and was there to help in whatever way. One...

we are so sorry for your loss. we are members of the aphasia grp. he was a wonderful man. sincerely rich and debbie arsenault