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June 2008 > Events
Stern Gives Talk, Gets Tributes at POME Convocation
POME Convocation with David Stern May 2008 (video parts 1 & 2)
click images to playStern capped his distinguished teaching career in front of a large audience of colleagues and friends.
A roomful of well wishers celebrated David Stern's distinguished 32-year tenure at the School of Education on May 1, as the retiring professor delivered an address, entitled “Why Some High Schools Keep Trying to Combine Preparation for College and Careers.”
“We like to keep ourselves in two communities: the community of the university and the community of practice and the schools,” said GSE professor Dan Perlstein, who opened the POME Convocation, “and no one has done that more or better than David Stern.”
Professor Norton Grubb, who has worked with Stern since 1971 when they were both graduate students in Cambridge (Stern at MIT and Grubb at Harvard), introduced his colleague and offered some early impressions of Stern as a “nature guy” who had an “all-carrot diet” and "taught classes in 40 degree weather with the windows wide open." Grubb went on to laud Stern for his ability to “focus on one issue and pursue it… a career built around a set of coherent themes" and for "carrying out more than his fair share of public service.”
Clearly moved by the occasion, Stern thanked Grubb and his many friends in the audience, then launched into the convocation, which he joked he thought had something to do with a gathering of cardinals. The engaging and comprehensive one-hour talk focused on how high schools could be organized so that they accomplish their dual missions of preparing students for college and work and how those dual purposes fit together. Before fielding several questions from the audience, Stern put the subject at hand as well as his own endeavors in forward motion:
“The study is continuing, the crusade is continuing, CASN (the Career Academy Support Network) is continuing. I’m continuing to follow this story and be part of it. One of the nice things about the university is that even when you decide to relinquish some of your responsibilities you can retain others, so I will definitely stay involved with this story, which for me has been a captivating story and an important story that has been going on for more than 100 years and there’s no sign of it being resolved. So stay tuned.”
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