Dr. Dorothy Piercey Kozacik, 89, passed away August 7, 2010 in Midland, TX. She received her BA from the College of St. Francis. Upon graduation, she worked as a journalist in Florida and later became the owner, writer of a local newspaper in Indiana with her husband Carl Piercey. She earned an MA from ASU while she was teaching Journalism and was the advisor for the school paper and yearbook at Coronado High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dottie moved to Tucson to earn a PHD from the UofA in reading education, subsequently returning to teach at ASU. Dottie wrote "A Text for Thinking: Newspaper in the Classroom" published by The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette. She was promoted to Professor in 1977 and continued to teach while caring for her husband during his unsuccessful battle with cancer. She was the president of the Arizona State Reading Association and a consultant in many school districts helping teachers to learn to teach reading through the subject matter they were teaching. In 1988 she married Alfred Kozacik. Then in 1989 she retired from ASU and became an Emeritus Professor so she could travel with Al. Al preceded her in death in 2006.