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Ernie Bormman Memoriam Page

Last year the communication discipline lost one of its greatest scholars. The U of M now has a nice memoriam page on their site. In some ways, Bormann was like my academic grandfather. Ernie, the creator of Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT) and other ground-breaking group communication research was the advisor to John Cragan. I studied with John and have worked with John and Don Shields on furthering SCT. I was lucky enough to meet Bormann a few times. Ernie was also a University of Iowa Ph.D. At Iowa, Ernie roomed with Sam Becker, another giant in the communication discipline, and one of my favorite professors.

Rest in peace, Ernie.