{"id":2466,"date":"2025-07-08T20:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:55:41","slug":"in-memoriam-vadim-khazin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/in-memoriam-vadim-khazin\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Vadim Khazin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry to inform you that my friend and colleague Vadim Khazin, an ATA member and former EN-RU and EN-UA grader, passed away June 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Vadim was born April 1, 1937, in Kyiv. (Vadim and I were classmates; we had been friends since 1947).<\/p>\n<p>He immigrated to the U.S. in 1992, and became an ATA member the following year. Vadim was instrumental in creating the English into Ukrainian Certification, and was the first EN-UA Language Chair. He also made presentations at ATA conferences. Colleagues remember him as erudite, witty, never mean-spirited, always pleasant to be with.<\/p>\n<p>Those who attended SLD Dinners at ATA conferences remember the humorous bouts-rimes Vadim was writing while we had been eating and drinking. Each of us suggested two rhyming words \u2013 in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish or Spanish, and in a few minutes, Vadim was creating a poem that actually made sense!<\/p>\n<p>Vadim will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Silversteyn,<\/p>\n<p>SLD Leadership Council<\/p>\n<p><em>As a tribute to Vadim, Larry Bogoslaw has proposed composing a final bout-rim\u00e9 in his honor. You are invited to contribute rhyming pairs of words, which will then be made into a poem about our dear colleague. Please offer your suggestions in response to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/g\/ata-sld-forum\/c\/NM-tB_2-kz0\"><em>this post on the SLD\u2019s Google Group<\/em><\/a><em>, and we welcome your collaboration in writing the poem.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry to inform you that my friend and colleague Vadim Khazin, an ATA member and former EN-RU and EN-UA grader, passed away June 25, 2025. Vadim was born April 1, 1937, in Kyiv. (Vadim and I were classmates; we had been friends since 1947). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1992, and became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[53],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8HJOu-DM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/SLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}