For my dad, in passing

Artist: Oziur
Title: Catch Me
Album: Black Promisses
Lyrics and vocals by o0o™
Music by A. Riuz
Videoproductions o0o™
Photography by Hegel

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The song by Djev feels appropriate for me as I come to this task, for my father.
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Samuel Ball (born 7/1/1935, Sydney, Australia, died 9/12/09, Melbourne Australia) was employed by ETS (Educational Testing Service) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he conducted research in educational testing measurement, authoring many books over his career.

Pictured at the wedding to his first wife. Cliff Turney is best man

Born to Joseph Ball and Sarine Young, the youngest of three.

Joseph Ball's war record in WW2

Sylvia (3rd from left) pictured at her daughter's house in Jannalli in her late seventies

His brother Jack and Sister Joan survive him. The depression years lead into World War 2, and Sam was raised in the turmoil of the times. His father was a soldier and a gambler who involved the family in debt to organized crime. His mother fled, taking his sister and an inheritance from his grandfather to rebuild their lives. While his older brother struggled to become one of Australia's leading businessmen of his generation, Samuel pursued Education.

Ball family heraldry

Education
His early education included time spent at Canterbury High School. Other celebrated luminaries include Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Cricket great Bob Simpson.
His initial qualification for teaching came from Balmain's Teachers College. Early in his career, he taught in a primary school in Sydney, before finishing his Sydney University Arts degree at night, and leaving for the US for further study. Completed his Ph.D. at University of Iowa, and went to New York, where he worked at Teacher's College, Columbia University. Was employed with Jim Henson in 1968 to consult on educational issue in Sesame Street and The Electric Company for Children's Television Workshop.

Ball family shield

Career
Consultancy work was completed for the UN in Africa and the Philippines.
Professor Samuel Ball FAPA - Chair of Academic Board and Pro-Vice Chancellor Sydney University 1991 - 93,
Professor of Education at Sydney University 1978 - 93,
Professorial Fellow Melbourne University 2000-3,
Chief Executive Victorian Board of Studies 1993 - 99.
Original adjudicator for Sale of the Century as it aired for the first time in Australia in 1980. He would write the questions. Producers would pick questions they liked, and card them for airing. In close decisions, Tony Barber would ask 'Professor Sam' to adjudicate.

Ball Family shield
Published works
Motivation in Education, published by Academic Press, march 1977 ISBN 012077450X
BOGATZ, GERRY A., and BALL, SAMUEL. 1971. The Second Year of Sesame Street: A Continuing Evaluation. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
Sesame Street summative research: some implications for education and child development ERIC Document Reproduction Service (1972) ASIN: B0006W2LS6 by Samuel Ball
Research on Sesame Street: Some implications for compensatory education, Educational Resources Information Center (1972) ASIN: B0006W0VDS by Samuel Ball
Encyclopedia of Educational Evaluation: Concepts and Techniques for Evaluating Education and Training Programs by Scarvia B. Anderson, Samuel Ball, Richard T. Murphy Review author[s]: Daniel L. Stufflebeam The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 47, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1976), pp. 741–745 doi:10.2307/1979133
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He died of a heart attack at a good age. He had gone to play bridge, (a game he adored) at a club. He was sick in his later years, but he always retained his quick intelligence, his humor to the very end.
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A lovely song, the lyric composed by a 13 yo boy, known as revive, and the music made by an extraordinary muso named Euphoria.
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Signing off one last time