[NLA] Remembance

[Alice Cain]

Thank you, Tom, for your tribute to Liz Moore.  I got to know Liz well 
during my year in New Zealand when she "took me under her wing" and brought 
me up to speed on workplace literacy efforts in New Zealand, which included 
a wonderful secondment (internship of sorts) at Workbase for about a month.  
I visited a number of Workbase sites throughout NZ and was tremendously 
impressed by them -- particularly by Liz's ability to get employers to 
genuinely understand how important it is to invest in employees' skills.  
She made the case more persuasively than I have seen before or since that 
this is an investment that pays off not just for the individual employees 
but for their companies and the communities that they are in -- to the point 
the employers would pay for the literacy programs and in many cases allow 
employees paid leave to participate in them!  Liz was a passionate, smart, 
hard-working leader who made a tremendous difference both in the lives of 
learners and in getting literacy on the radar screen of the government in 
New Zealand.  This is a tremendous loss.

Alice Johnson Cain






>From: Thomas Sticht <tsticht at znet.com>
>Reply-To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
>To: <nla at lists.literacytent.org>
>Subject: [NLA] Remembance
>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:07:06 -0800 (PST)
>
>In Remembrance of Liz Moore
>
>On November 26, 2002, I received a telephone call from Adrienne Donne of
>Workbase, Inc. in New Zealand informing me that the field of adult
>literacy education has lost a great friend and dedicated professional. On
>this day, Liz Moore, the founder of Workbase, Inc., in Auckland, New
>Zealand, died of cancer.
>
>Under Liz’s leadership, Workbase has become the premier organization for
>the advocacy and development of policies, programs and research on
>workplace literacy in New Zealand. Additionally, her efforts had an
>international impact and contributed to the workplace literacy efforts of
>adult literacy educators in other industrialized nations.
>
>Just last November, Jan (my wife) and I had dinner with Liz in Auckland
>and she was weakened but valiantly fighting her illness. We had an
>animated and spirited discussion about numerous aspects of adult literacy
>education, in both workplace and other contexts. Through her strength and
>with the support of her family and extensive network of friends and
>colleagues, Liz managed to carry out a number of activities for an
>additional year.
>
>Liz Moore exhibited the values, competence, professionalism, dedication,
>and caring that exemplifies those who work daily, and generally under
>arduous circumstances, to advance the field of adult literacy education.
>There can be no doubt that her humor, hard work, love, and devotion to her
>staff, friends, adult learners, and many colleagues around the world, will
>be sorely missed by all who knew her.
>
>The lives of thousands of adults and their families are much better off
>today because of the life Liz Moore lived.
>
>[Note: Learn more at www.workbase.org.nz]
>
>Tom Sticht
>
>
>
>
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