Phyllis Noerager Stern died last week. For me, the loss is personal. Our friendship was launched 40 years ago when we were grounded theory classmates at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 2007, Phyllis and I each published chapters in the Bryant and Charmaz Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory. I wasn't thinking of Phyllis as a mentor then, although my chapter was about the legacy of multiple mentors. Her chapter began with the following: "One essential quality of true grounded theory is that it makes sense; put simply, the reader will have an immediate recognition that this theory, derived from a given social situation, is about real people or objects to which they can relate."
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