Butch Wilson
1950-2018
Please join us
Mom and I would like to invite you to please join us for an afternoon of remembrance. Come to laugh and talk, eat and drink in memory of an amazing father, husband, friend, colleague, educator, and musician. He is so greatly missed and we would like to spend time with the people that knew him and loved him.
June 9th, 2018 2pm
Guests are welcome to visit before and after this time
Place The Garden House at Cedar Knoll Farm, Lexington, VA 24450
A map is included at the bottom of the page
Contact Please RSVP if you are planning to attend
Barbara Bryant cedarknollflowers@gmail.com
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-Kaitlin and Barbara
I took a lot of really wonderful photographs of my dad and Mia in the years since she was born. His aesthetic influence in my work will always be a huge part of how I see the world: http://www.kaitlinbotts.com/dad
My Home series of photographs is a direct descendant of the photographs he took when I was a child - www.kaitlinbotts.com/home/
Our dear friend Kim Niewolny wrote this about dad and I wanted to share it here as well:
Dear colleagues,
It is with a very heavy heart that I share the sad news of Arthur L. “Butch” Wilson’s passing. Butch unexpectedly crossed over last week due to recent health complications. He was surrounded by his family and close friends. Butch and his wife, Barbara, were enjoying retirement in Lexington, Virgnia, for the last few years. He was exceptionally proud of his daughter, Kaitlin Botts, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Kaitlin and her husband, Chris, have a young daughter, Mia. Being a grandparent was one of Butch’s dearest joys.
Butch’s scholarly contributions to the theory and practice of adult education has been deeply influential. Before retirement, Butch was chair and professor of adult education in the Department of Education at Cornell University. With standards held high, he was dedicated to his students and to the historical and philosophical foundations of adult education. Butch’s research on adult learning and program planning notably centered on the role of power and ethics in adult education. He and Ron Cervero produced a number of works on adult education program planning and the politics of adult education, including: Planning Responsibly for Adult Education: A Guide to Negotiating Power and Interests (1994), What Really Matters in Adult Education Program Planning: Lessons in Negotiating Power and Interests (1996), Power and Practice: The Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society (2001), and Working the Planning Table: Negotiating Democratically for Adult, Continuing, and Workplace Education (2006). Throughout his career, Butch also took on several editorial roles. He was honored to serve as coeditor of the Adult Education Quarterly and coeditor of the Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (2000), both with Elisabeth Hayes. These are just a few reminders of the impact Butch has had on the field.
Most importantly, Butch was our colleague, teacher, and friend. I will be forever grateful for his mentorship and enduring friendship. If you knew Butch well, you would know that he would prefer these words be sincere yet brief. To that end, I will raise a glass and play a song in his honor. -
In solidarity,
Kim Niewolny
The Garden House at Cedar Knoll is located at
619 Collierstown Rd
Lexington, VA 24450
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