Chapter 27: John Lounsbury: The Heart and Soul of Middle Level Education
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Published:2021
Nancy Ruppert, 2021. "John Lounsbury: The Heart and Soul of Middle Level Education", As He Saw It: Contributions, Memories and Reflections of John H. Lounsbury, Steven B. Mertens, Micki M. Caskey
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Thinking of him.
Thinking of you.
Thinking of all of us, the collective middle grades “us”: teachers, principals, parents, counselors, professors, students, organizations, writers …
Thinking of the passion of lives who touched so many.
A gift really. Our gift. Your gift.
Thank you for your gifts … a lifetime of words, music, art, of drive, of passion.
Thinking of you and Connie and John.
Lifting a toast to them. (April 2020)
John Lounsbury was instrumental in helping launch the National Middle School Association (NMSA) in the 1970s, renamed the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) in 2011, and he helped launch the National Professors of Middle Level Education (NAPOMLE) in the 1990s. He believed both organizations were essential to elevating the impact of middle level education (see Figure 27.1). Across the decades, presidents of each of these organizations collaborated with John, sought his counsel, and referred to him as mentor, colleague, and friend. He was always a phone call, a letter, a video call, or a personal visit away.
