One of the leading educational publishers in the United States has contributed to a scholarship endowment to honor Betty Roe, a prolific writer and co-writer of textbooks who recently retired from our Curriculum and Instruction faculty.

Betty Roe, a collection of her numerous textbooks, and Darrell Garber.

Houghton Mifflin, which published several of Roe’s textbooks on reading, literacy and other elementary education subjects, has pledged $2,000 to the fund-raising campaign.

“Our alumni have donated more than $4,700 to date to the endowment, which will be used to support doctoral students in our literacy program, but we need $10,000 for the endowment to be funded and to begin to operate,” says Darrell Garber, dean of Education.

Roe touched the lives and influenced the careers of many teachers as a member of the faculty for 30 years and one of the key founders of our doctoral program in literacy, as well as its first director.

“What most impresses me about her prolific publishing history is that she wrote and co-wrote so many of these textbooks while also teaching full-time,” says Garber. "We consider this campaign to be a real uniting front for all teachers who are TTU graduates. We think it’s something our alumni can really appreciate and relate to."

Campaign organizers hope to secure $1 million by 2007. For more information, call Bill Cole, assistant development director, at 6418.