FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Alice Rossi

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: November 9, 2009 12:51:07 AM CST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> Today's papers carry obituaries of this important feminist and
> sociologist.
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>         http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/us/08rossi.html?scp=1&sq=rossi&st=cse
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> Personal: This is especially sad for me since two close friends -- and
> mentors -- now exist only in memory (Peter having preceded Alice in
> death). Peter headed the National Opinion Research Center at the
> University of Chicago when I was developing the survey questionnaire
> for US and Canadian Unitarian Universalists in 1966. We garnered
> 12,000+ lengthy returns from a careful sample -- then the largest
> existing denominational survey. Alice was a continual adviser --
> especially on the sexuality and gender questions. She developed the
> still-used scale of justification items for abortions that we
> pioneered. The published results (with some scanning errors) can be
> found on my website.
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> http://web.me.com/rtapp4/Main/Unitarian_Universalist_files/Goals-all%20copy.pdf
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> Bob