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Ruth Stuart Starratt and Robert Jerome "Jerry" Starratt
We created a GatheringUs memorial to celebrate the lives of Ruth Stuart Starratt and Robert Jerome "Jerry" Starratt. Collecting your stories and memories here will offer us great comfort. Click on the heart to let us know you were here and to receive email updates. Thank you for contributing to this... see moreWe created a GatheringUs memorial to celebrate the lives of Ruth Stuart Starratt and Robert Jerome "Jerry" Starratt. Collecting your stories and memories here will offer us great comfort. Click on the heart to let us know you were here and to receive email updates. Thank you for contributing to this lasting memorial.
OBITUARY
Ruth and Jerry (a.k.a. G-Ma and G-Pa) were married almost thirty-five years ago and dedicated their lives together to education. It brought them to places all over the globe, and it allowed them to develop relationships with people every day. Jerry wrote numerous books and other publications that focused on ethical leadership in academia. Click Here to watch an interview with Jerry in 2011 on his book Refocusing School Leadership:... see moreRuth and Jerry (a.k.a. G-Ma and G-Pa) were married almost thirty-five years ago and dedicated their lives together to education. It brought them to places all over the globe, and it allowed them to develop relationships with people every day.
Jerry wrote numerous books and other publications that focused on ethical leadership in academia. Click Here to watch an interview with Jerry in 2011 on his book Refocusing School Leadership: Foregrounding Human Development Throughout the Work of the School. Before meeting Ruth, Jerry served as a Jesuit.
Ruth won several awards for her performance in education, including the Art Educator of the Year in 2014 for the Massachusetts Art Education Association and the Art Educator of the Year in 2015 for the National Art Education Region. In addition to education, Ruth was an extraordinary artist who had an innate gift for quilting, botanical paintings, and, of course, her famous penmanship.
In addition to their profound careers, Ruth and Jerry were amazing grandparents that were truly unlike any others. Ruth hand-painted murals on the bedroom walls, built a one-of-a-kind doll-house, and created beautiful quilts that decorated the bedrooms of small children years ago. Their beach house in Ogunquit, Maine hosted many summer vacations filled with sandy bathtubs, lobster-trap furniture, and a fridge magnet of the statue of David. They were always supportive, no matter what the challenge or task was.
They were deeply loved and will be dearly missed by all who had the honor of knowing them.
A virtual memorial service was held on May 11th to honor Ruth and Jerry. The link to the memorial is HERE. Use Passcode: Ayd?x2+3
I was heartbroken to hear about the passing of both Ruth and Jerry Starratt.
In the past 21 years, Ruth have gone way past being my program supervisor at Boston University ... she and Jerry became a part of my life. I called her my travel mom as we... moreI was heartbroken to hear about the passing of both Ruth and Jerry Starratt.
In the past 21 years, Ruth have gone way past being my program supervisor at Boston University ... she and Jerry became a part of my life. I called her my travel mom as we began attending NAEA conference together, presenting and having fun. I fondly remember riding the waterslides outside the hotel in Miami in 2002 with Jerry. Jerry forever became known as "Waterslide Jerry" after that.
Ruth was the one who encouraged me to apply for the Fulbright Program in Japan. That experience in 2005 changed the course of my artwork and caused me to look at everything differently. She worked with my student teachers the way she had worked with me and was one of the kindest and most generous people. I kept in touch with her throughout the years, sharing my travels with "travel mom" and "Waterslide Jerry". She would always reply to me as her "travel daughter".
In 2015, when my husband, Jay and I were married, she pulled out this paper-mache sculpture of a blue cow (related to a funny story about how Jay and I first met) that she made when we started dating. She dusted it off and fixed it up for us as a gift. That sculpture has been waiting in her basement for 13 years before Jay and I got married and she kept it the entire time!
Ruth and Jerry both happily attended our wedding as an honorary part of the family, but not before Ruth folded paper cranes for everyone that attended my wedding in beautiful Japanese origami papers. Each crane was beautiful, with meticulous details both in the folding and the embellishments with a variety of glass beads sewn into them. Everything she did, she did with her entire heart.
We need to honor her in the way that she honored us and do something wholehearted. I would like to welcome those that knew Ruth to make a paper crane in her honor. Instead of attaching a name and table number, Please attach a story or a memory of Ruth.
Much like Sadako and the thousand paper cranes, legend has it that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes will be granted a gift from the gods. I am sure that she folded thousands of cranes and I surely hope her wishes have been granted. I also know many of her wishes were not for herself, but for all of us...
In folding cranes in her honor, we can now give back to her. I hope that once we get a good flock of birds that I can install them somewhere at Boston University in her honor. I look forward to giving Dr. Ruth Starratt the recognition that she deserves.
Please mail your stories and paper cranes to Cranes For Ruth, P.O. Box # 560036, Medford, MA 02156 and follow along on our page titled Cranes for Ruth on Facebook or if you are not on Facebook, you can follow our progress on Blogger at CranesforRuth.blogspot.com. less