June 1, 2001

["Katharine N. Wang" <wangkn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

EE-NEWS @NAAEE
June 1, 2001

The semi-monthly email bulletin provided by the North American Association
for Environmental Education (NAAEE), with funding from the Environmental
Education and Training Partnership (EETAP).*


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DR. WILLIAM STAPP (1930-2001)

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A Leader and Visionary

Dr. Bill Stapp, a founder of environmental education internationally, passed
away on May 21st in Ann Arbor, Michigan following an illness. He was honored
at a memorial service on Friday May 24th, at Westminster Presbyterian
Church.

Stapp, 71, was Professor Emeritus at the School of Natural Resources &
Environment at the University of Michigan, where he founded and chaired the
Environmental Education program from 1970 to 1993. His former students,
affectionately known as "Stapplings," now work in many influential EE
positions throughout the world.

Stapp was the first Director of the International Environmental Education
Program at UNESCO and helped organize UNESCO's environmental education
conference in Tblisi Georgia where the field of environmental education was
first defined. In the mid 1970s he became active in NAAEE, serving on the
board from 1977-81 and again in 1982-83, and as president in 1983-84. Stapp
won the Outstanding Service to Environmental Education by an Individual
Award in 1978 and the Walter Jeske Award in 1987. Stapp is credited with
taking the National Association for Environmental Education from a small,
U.S.- focused organization to a North American association with an
international vision in 1983. He organized the first international NAAEE
conference at Lake Louise Alberta in 1984, which was the organization's
first international gathering. "Our horizons expanded at that point,"
recalls John Disinger, of Ohio State University, another early NAAEE leader.

In 1989, Stapp founded the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
(GREEN) to bring diverse groups of people together to investigate and
protect river water quality. GREEN spread to 135 countries and merged with
Earth Force in 1999. With GREEN Stapp published a number of books on
multicultural cooperation, environmental education, and water quality
monitoring. He has also published many books and journal articles. He has
been recognized with numerous national and international awards and was
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Stapp was born in Shaker Heights, OH and raised in Ann Arbor, MI and
Coronado, CA, He received his B.S., M.S. and PhD from the University of
Michigan. He taught at Cranbrook School for Boys, Audubon Camps of Maine and
Dayton. He created the Outdoor program and was the Conservation Coordinator
with the Ann Arbor public schools before becoming a professor at University
of Michigan where he taught until retirement in 1993. Stapp is survived by
his wife of 46 years, Gloria; sons David and Richard; daughter Deborah;
daughters-in-laws Lauren Stapp and Linda Goldman; son-in-law Terry Webster;
and grandchildren, Ryan Amundsen, Emma and Hannah Stapp, and Charlotte
Webster.

Recognized as an inspirational leader and a visionary, who motivated
hundreds of students and colleagues around the world, Stapp is credited with
changing the lives of many of the people who associated with him. In the
early 1970s he imbued Environmental Education with values that have remained
profound and fresh into the 21st Century.

To honor his leadership role in the field of environmental education, NAAEE
will establish a scholarship fund in Bill Stapp's name to help students
attend NAAEE conferences. If you would like to contribute, please send your
contribution to:

The Bill Stapp Scholarship Fund
NAAEE
410 Tarvin Road
Rock Spring GA 30739

NAAEE will send acknowledgments of all contributions to the Stapp family.
The family has requested that Bill be remembered by contributions to
environmental organizations in lieu of flowers.

If you would like to share your memories of Bill, please send your thoughts
to wangkn@xxxxxxxxxx and they will be posted on the NAAEE web site at:

http://www.naaee.org/html/stappreflections.html




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