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DR. LILLIE POPE
DR. MARTIN POPE
DR. DEBORAH POPE
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Dr. Lillie Pope
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Dr. Pope's professional career has focused on working with children with special needs. After many years as a Master Teacher in the public schools, she was Founding Director of the internationally acclaimed Learning and Reading Disabilities Program at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn. As Director of Psycho-Educational Services at Coney Island Hospital, Lillie Pope developed a learning and reading program that focused on prevention and remediation for children whom demonstrated learning and behavioral problems in school. Her program served as a model for many succeeding programs with similar goals.
Prior to this she was Director of Education and Training at JOIN, a New York City Agency designed to offer educational opportunities to school drop-outs. At this agency, she set up and directed a successful citywide program of remedial education, employing the talents of a large staff, which included trained teachers as well as volunteers with no prior teaching experience.
Dr. Lillie Pope was an Adjunct Professor at New York University and Brooklyn College. She has lectured widely and published numerous papers in the field of mental health and special education. She has produced films and workshops for thousands of professional and laymen in this country and in Canada, where she was granted the Mary Hornby Award for her work in this field.
Since 1983, she has served as Educational Director and Vice-President of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, where she has designed and facilitated all of the Foundation programs that encourage literacy, creativity, and joy in learning in public schools and libraries in the 50 states.
She has written and published seven books and two tests. Her books include:
TEACH ANYONE TO READ: THE NO-NONSENSE GUIDE
WORD PLAY: A DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS
SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL ANSWERS (co-authored with Deborah Edel and Abraham Haklay) A Resource of Reproducible Exercises and Activities for Special Education and Early Childhood Programs.
Out of print; worth searching for a used copy on the web.
For more information visit Dr. Lillie Pope's Wikipedia entry.
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Dr. Martin Pope
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Martin Pope and Ezra Jack Keats met and became friends during junior high school, when they had to attend summer school together after having failed algebra. Ezra had trouble with algebra and Martin had had trouble with the teacher, but this particular failure proved fortuitous. Martin tutored Ezra through algebra and thus began their life-long friendship.
As a college student at CCNY, Martin Pope assisted in nuclear experiments at Columbia University and met Fermi, Schwinger, Dunning and other key figures in the development of nuclear fission. After graduation, he served as a 1st Lt. in the Army Air Force in the Pacific during World War II.
He was discharged from military service in May 1946, and was married that June to Lillie Bellin, who was then a teacher. Martin reports that this was, without doubt, the most brilliant decision he has ever made. Lillie became his confidante, adviser, and gave unwavering support. She cleared the way for him to pursue science and to enjoy the regenerative experiences of life, such as children, art, music and the great outdoors.
He received his Ph.D. in 1950 from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, now Polytechnic University of New York. In 1947 and in the early 1950s, Martin worked for Balco Research Laboratories, where he received two patents for thin film inventions. He joined New York University (NYU) in 1956, and retired as the Director of its Radiation and Solid State Physics Lab in 1988.
Martin Pope, now Professor Emeritus of New York University, is one of the founding fathers of the field of electronic properties of organic crystals. He is internationally known for his pioneering work in electroluminescence and for inventing many of the experimental techniques used to study organic materials. Martin Pope is still active in research and has published over 100 papers, his most recent being in 2003 and 2004.
In 2006 Pope was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society of Great Britain for his outstanding work and contributions to his field. Prior winners of this award include Marie and Pierre Curie, and Linus Pauling.
Ezra entrusted Martin with carrying on his mission: of respect for all people, fostering creativity in children, and encouraging literacy, joy in reading and learning. Martin and Lillie have made this the mission of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.
In his spare time, Martin Pope collects rocks and minerals, builds wooden toys for his grandchildren and does magic tricks for the little children in his extended family.
For more information on Dr. Martin Pope and his scientific contributions you can visit his New York University pages or Wikipedia.
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Dr. Deborah Pope
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Deborah Pope has served as Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation since 1999 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1983. Dr. Pope came to the Foundation after working extensively in the field of arts in education. She joined the Board during her tenure as Founding Artistic Director of The New Theatre of Brooklyn (TNT) a not-for-profit regional theatre in an underserved section of New York City. At TNT Dr. Pope pioneered the development and implementation of an arts-in-education program providing in-depth and extended exposure to theatre for middle school students. This, in addition, to her extensive experience in administration, literature, and graphic arts has provided a solid base for her work with the Foundation.
Dr. Pope has served on granting panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York Drama League. After receiving her Bachelors degree from the State University of New York at Purchase, Dr. Pope went on to complete her Ph.D. at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
Dr. Pope has worked on the staff of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Kingsborough Community College, Hunter College, Lincoln Center, and as an Arts-in-Education consultant for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Education. She served for ten years on the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (ART/NY), and was a member of the Roundtable Coalition of Arts-in-Education Providers.
As the Executive Director of the EJK Foundation, she has collaborated on the introduction of innovative programs and served as a creative force in developing and extending the mission of the Foundation.
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