<div dir="ltr">Thanks.<div><br></div><div>Not many of that generation left; like a lot of us, I was fortunate to have some of them as mentors early in my career: John Mitchell, J.R. Gould, David Carson, John Harris.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 5:22 PM Ann Blakeslee <<a href="mailto:ablakesle@emich.edu">ablakesle@emich.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Constantia,serif;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear ATTW Members,</span><div><span id="gmail-m_2410239111371187313gmail-docs-internal-guid-d4d6d7ec-7fff-d602-fa5a-762a6372a936"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are writing to share with you news of the passing of John C. Mathes, known to everyone as JC, who died on June 5, 2021, at the age of 90. JC was an ATTW Fellow, elected in 1992. His career was spent in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, first in the Department of Humanities and then in the Program in Technical Communication. He is best known as co-author with Dwight W. Stevenson of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Designing Technical Reports: Writing for Audiences in Organizations</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a book that helped transform the teaching of writing to engineering and other technical students. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">JC and Dwight organized and hosted a summer conference on Teaching Technical and Professional Writing for several years, starting in 1975.  This conference was formative in the development of many of the teachers in the expansion wave of technical communication courses and programs in the late 1970s and 1980s. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In addition, it was JC who brought to the attention of technical writing instructors the nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island as a teaching example, based on documentation revealed by the Presidential Commission that investigated the accident. JC's analysis of a series of internal memos demonstrated that the accident resulted, in part, from “inefficient management communication procedures [that] impeded timely decision-making.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A full obituary is available here: </span><a href="https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/john-mathes-obituary?pid=198974681" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/john-mathes-obituary?pid=198974681</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></span><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="Constantia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">And attached is the full tribute with remembrances from several ATTW Fellows who had the opportunity to know and work with JC. Please feel free to share this tribute with others who may have known and/or admired JC and his many contributions to our field.</span></font></div><div><font face="Constantia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Constantia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">All the best,</span></font></div><div><font face="Constantia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Ann Blakeslee and Carolyn Miller, ATTW Fellows</span></font></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ann M. Blakeslee, Ph.D. (she/hers)</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Professor of English<br>Director of Campus & Community Writing </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Co-Founder of YpsiWrites<br>Eastern Michigan University<br>Ypsilanti, MI 48197<br><a href="mailto:ablakesle@emich.edu" target="_blank">ablakesle@emich.edu</a><br>(734)502-1270</font></div></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.ypsiwrites.com" target="_blank">www.ypsiwrites.com</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1lzcnH_YYrbXP72MJLy2YHpMrR0P72Z7Q&revid=0BxR9Kk4ddKFmWUFZNzFEV2M3Tkp3UU9yb0NoYmJKYy9yUGtBPQ" width="96" height="59"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Kd-IG1qYAJQiYd3VnCsNivHer32ld116&revid=0BxR9Kk4ddKFmYkpmcGN5bTJubmwyWXpXUzBJbmZja1FTT0lnPQ" width="96" height="57"><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1lQo9Xkafjm8IWM7XK1kusxeMfEEubkUi&revid=0BxR9Kk4ddKFmVkI2TnB4QkdJY1BYMVlKM2dTOVl0eEJSdHljPQ" width="96" height="24"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
ATTW-L mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:ATTW-L@attw.org" target="_blank">ATTW-L@attw.org</a><br>
<a href="http://attw.org/mailman/listinfo/attw-l_attw.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://attw.org/mailman/listinfo/attw-l_attw.org</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>
<font size="2"><div>Charles H. Sides, PhD<br>
Internship Director and Professor<br>
Department of Communications Media<br>
Fitchburg State University<br>Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technical Writing & Communication</div><div>Co-Editor: SUNY Series, Studies in Technical Communication</div></font>
</div></div></div></div>