KAUFMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-14 published
PAISLEY,
Margaret
C.
Marnie was born in Berlin, Ontario November 1, 1906, and died
in Waterloo on June 11, 2003.
She was the daughter of Talmon and Martha
RIEDER
(ANTHES) both
of whom predeceased her, as did her dear sister Helen
HENDERSON,
her brother Edward, and her brother Paul. She was also predeceased
by her husband Elmer and her great-granddaughter, Victoria Paisley
D'AGOSTINO.
Marnie's life was anchored by a deep faith which carried her
through adversity but also inspired her to remarkable accomplishment.
She graduated with an arts degree from the University of Toronto
in 1929. Following her graduation she joined Emma
KAUFMAN in
Japan where she spent a year helping to build the Young Women's
Christian Association in that country. Her travels through the
far east had a lasting impact on her life thereafter.
She was always active in the United Church, sometimes as a Sunday
School teacher, or as a summer camp director, or as a Canadian
Girls In Training leader. Later, after the family moved to Toronto,
she led a Family Life Education program which pioneered a nursery
school for working mothers.
She was a fine athlete, who played women's ice hockey at the
University of Toronto. She was an inspiring teacher. She taught
high school Guidance and English at Kitchener Collegiate Institute
and at Waterloo Collegiate between 1955 and 1969 where her warmth
and generous spirit fostered lasting Friendships, and her devotion
to young people was an inspiration.
Her compassion, integrity and wisdom made her a good listener
and counsellor even into the last days of her life. She shared
her knowledge of wild flowers, trees and astronomy, just as she
shared herself with all who needed help, or love, or an arm to
lean on. Caring for others came as natural as breathing itself.
Her last breath is gone but her memory will continue to shape
the lives of her Friends and family. She has surely joined the
fellowship of the Saints.
She is lovingly remembered by her children Penny
HOBSON and her
husband Richard of Baden, and Ian and his wife Linda of Aurora,
and by her grandchildren Gregory, Martha, Aaron, Matthew, Jill
and Margaret. She also leaves six adoring great-grandchildren
and many loving nieces and nephews, especially Bonnie
PASSMORE
and Beth HENDERSON who found a nurturing substitute mother in
Aunt Marnie after the death of their own mother when they were
very young.
Marnie's family will receive Friends at the Edward R. Good Funeral
Home, 171 King Street South, in Waterloo, from 2 to 4 p.m. on
Sunday, June 22, 2003. A service to celebrate her life will be
held in the chapel of the funeral home on Monday, June 23, 2003,
at 11 a.m., with Reverend Harold
STEAD officiating. Following cremation,
a family committal service will be held at Mount Hope Cemetery,
Kitchener.
Following the service, Friends and relatives are invited to the
Reception Room of the funeral home for refreshments and a time
to visit with the family.
Those wishing to make memorial donations are encouraged to consider
the Kitchener-Waterloo Young Women's Christian Association, or
the Victoria D'Agostino Children's Fund at the K-W Community
Foundation. Donations can be arranged through the funeral home,
phone (519) 745-8445 or www.edwardrgood.com
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KAUFMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-10 published
Toronto's musical Mr. Chips
Headmaster of private Crescent School took over a rundown building
and fixed its wiring, plumbing and even its furnace until a newer
structure could be found
By James McCREADY
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, July
10, 2003 - Page R5
He was the first Canadian-born principal of a Toronto boys' school
that for its first 50 years had hired only British headmasters.
Bill BURRIDGE, who has died at the age of 79, remained at Toronto's
Crescent School until 1986.
The boys at the school both respected him and feared him. The
father of one former head boy remembers "Mr.
BURRIDGE" as a man
who could "cut through the BS. The boys knew they couldn't get
away with anything with him. But he was a wonderful teacher."
Mr. BURRIDGE was an unlikely Mr. Chips. If you looked back at
his early school career, no one would have picked him for the
job as a headmaster at a private school.
William BURRIDGE was a working class boy who was born in Toronto
on August 16, 1923. His father, an English immigrant, was a painter
for Imperial Oil. Young Bill went to Western Technical-Commercial
School to become an electrician.
But like many of his generation, the Second World War wrought
changes in his life.
He went into the Royal Canadian Air Force as an electrician.
One of his first postings was to Dorval Airport in Montreal,
a military field during the war, where one of his fellow electricians,
Phil JONES, remembered they worked on odd planes for the Royal
Canadian Air Force, odd because they were not the standard aircraft
flown by Bomber Command. They were American planes, twin-engined
B-25 bombers and the long range four engine B-24 Liberators.
One big B-24 was unique. It was named Commando and its bomb racks
had been stripped out to make it into a passenger plane, with
two private bunks for Winston Churchill, the wartime British
Prime Minister and his doctor. The plane was parked at Dorval
a lot of the time, from where it could easily head out to Bermuda,
West Africa or to Cairo, or across the Atlantic to Britain. The
aircraft was serviced by Royal Canadian Air Force electricians,
including Mr.
BURRIDGE.
The posting provided interesting stories
for him to tell in later life.
Mr. BURRIDGE and the other electricians were sent to different
bases, including one just outside Vancouver. While there they
used to pick up extra money on their leave by hitchhiking across
the border to Seattle to work as drivers and warehousemen at
a fruit-packing plant. The war meant a shortage of men and the
Canadian airmen were given weekend work, no questions asked.
A professional musician on the double bass since the age of 17,
through the war Mr.
BURRIDGE played in pickup bands and
an Royal
Canadian Air Force band, along with Mr. Jones and others.
When Mr. BURRIDGE came home from the war he kept playing. During
the late forties he played at dances at the Young Men's Christian
Association and at clubs such as the Rex. In the fifties he played
in the Benny Lewis Orchestra at places such as the Casa Loma
and the Palace Pier, then a dance hall, now a family of condos
on Lake Ontario. He played with the jazz great Moe
KAUFMAN and
did some session work with the jazz singers Peggy
LEE and Pearl
BAILEY.
Mr. BURRIDGE also played during the summers at resorts in the
Muskokas. To get there he had to book an extra seat on the lake
steamer Segwun for his big bass.
A short time after the war Mr.
BURRIDGE decided to take advantage
of the free education earned by his wartime service. He went
to the University of Toronto and graduated in 1950 in arts and
sciences. He worked as a salesman for General Foods for a year
and then started teaching school, first in Coppercliff in northern
Ontario and then in Scarborough near Toronto.
By the late fifties he was a principal in Whitby, just outside
Toronto. But a car accident on the way to school influenced his
view of things. His car slipped on ice and broadsided a telephone
pole. Although unhurt, the crash made him ready for a change.
One day he was on jury duty at a courtroom in downtown Toronto
and spotted an ad in the Globe and Mail for a grade 5 teacher
at Crescent School. He applied and got the job.
Crescent School was then on the old Massey estate on Dawes Road
at Victoria Park. When he started there were only nine teachers,
100 students and the school went from kindergarten to grade 8.
Mr. BURRIDGE introduced music to the curriculum and became a
popular teacher. When the headmaster was ill he took over on
a part-time basis, becoming headmaster on his predecessor's death
in 1966.
At the time, Crescent School was a mess. The building was falling
apart and the headmaster was called on to fix the electrical
work, the plumbing and even the furnace. He helped in the search
for a new building and in 1972 the school moved to the old Garfield
Weston Estate at Bayview Avenue and Post Road.
Over the years Crescent School changed and dropped the lower
grades and expanded as far as the last grade of high school.
Mr. BURRIDGE remained headmaster until 1971 and stayed on teaching
and as assistant director of the Lower School until his retirement
in 1986.
In private, Mr.
BURRIDGE was also a Mr. Fixit. He helped keep
up some family rental properties and often workered on his old
Buicks or his house in suburban Ajax, Ontario, on a lot of almost
half an acre. His other hobby was keeping bees.
Bill BURRIDGE leaves his wife
Faith, to whom he was married for
54 years, and his three children, Reid, Rob and Hope.
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KAUFMANN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-17 published
Elliott McCAUGHEY
By Cyril DABYDEEN, page A20
Doctor, cancer researcher, husband, father. Born May 21, 1927,
in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Died May 26, in Ottawa, of Parkinson's
disease, aged 76.
He could have been a lawyer, he said: but combatting diseases
became his lifelong discipline, until Dr. Elliott
McCAUGHEY succumbed
to Parkinson's. Grace, charm, and commitment to work characterized
his life, in his uniquely Anglo-Irish way. But it was in Canada
that he perhaps made his greatest contribution: In Ottawa, he
was chief of laboratory medicine at the Civic Hospital and clinical
professor of pathology at the University of Ottawa in a 14-year
period; he also served as director of the Canadian Tumour Reference
Centre.
"Everyone loved him," said staff at St. Vincent's Hospital in
Ottawa, where Dr.
McCAUGHEY spent his last years as a patient.
His elegant use of the English language and wry humour made him
"endearing and special," said Dr. John
KAUFMANN, retired neuro-pathologist
at the University of Western Ontario. "Elliott's particular use
of the intransitive verb," added Dr.
KAUFMANN, "was integral
to his style, and with his logical mind he was always pleasant
to listen to."
Dr. McCAUGHEY held many memberships in professional bodies in
Britain and North America. His more-than-100 scholarly publications
enhanced his reputation. And he was one of the first to make
the link between asbestos and cancer, appearing often in U.S.
courtrooms as an expert witness on this subject.
The McCAUGHEYs lived for generations in Belfast and Ballymena,
as far back as c.1000, having descended from the High Kings of
Ireland, according to lore. Elliott's father, William, was a
senior civil servant of the Northern Ireland Government; his
uncle Tom ELLIOT/ELLIOTT died in the Battle of the Somme in First World
War.
After graduating from Queen's University, Belfast, Elliott
McCAUGHEY
worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital, where he met nurse Amy
Kathleen PAUL from Kilrea, who became his bride; he then taught
at Queen's University, Belfast. But his intellectual energies
propelled him farther afield. in 1958, he came to Canada as assistant
director of pathology, General Hospital, Saint John's, Newfoundland.
In 1959, he worked for the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Returning to Ireland, he headed the department of pathology at
Dublin's prestigious Trinity College, serving from 1964 to 1972.
During this time he spent six months as part of a medical research
team in Nagpur, India, under the World Health Organization.
But patterns of disease in human populations and finding cures
for diseases pre-occupied him. He moved back to Canada, to the
University of Western Ontario, where he was most productive
here he also formed some of his lasting Friendships. Then, in
1976 he came to Ottawa to continue his illustrious career. He
retired after being struck by Parkinson's in 1994; around this
same time his wife Amy suffered a stroke.
Dr. McCAUGHEY was well-known for his generosity. He also read
widely: scientific material, politics, economics, belles-lettres.
He regularly visited the National Gallery, and was an ardent
listener to the short-wave radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation
mainly. A whisky connoisseur he was; and he golfed in Ireland
and elsewhere while travelling to conferences.
In the final months, as his mind teetered and his tremors increased
because of Parkinson's, he flitted back and forth to familiar
Belfast and Dublin, and to former colleagues at Queen's and Trinity:
Images interspersed with life in Canada, his family especially,
all in his ubiquitous consciousness. With his wife Amy and daughters
by his side, Dr.
McCAUGHEY showed immense courage to the end.
He left behind his wife, and children Paul, Claire and Gail
and five grandchildren.
Cyril is son-in-law to Elliott
McCAUGHEY.
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KAUMEYER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-29 published
STANFIELD,
Katherine
Margaret (née
STAIRS)
Died peacefully December 26, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born February
1, 1918, eldest of Katherine
(DRYSDALE) and Cyril W.
STAIRS,
Halifax, she attended Halifax Ladies College, Edgehill and the
Halifax Business College before working at Wm. Stairs son and Morrow.
She married Gordon (Pete)
STANFIELD in 1940. They resided in
Sydney and New Glasgow before settling in Halifax, summering
in Bedford and vacationing in Bermuda. Kay will be remembered
as a people person who made a life long contribution to her community
through her many interests and activities as a member of the
Waegwaltic and Saraguay Clubs, the Junior League, All Saints
Cathedral, Victoria Hall and the garden club. She is survived
by sisters: Phyllis
(MacDOUGALL) Toronto, Doshie
(MacKIMMIE-
KAUMEYER)
Calgary, Betty
(FREUND)
Johannesburg,
South
Africa and brother
Allan STAIRS,
Montreal: daughters Nancy and Pegi, Calgary; sons
David (Barbara) Halifax and Gordon (Kay), Dartmouth; grand_sons
Peter (Karin
SORRA), New Jersey, Michael, Vancouver, John (Julie)
Calgary, David K and Matthew, Halifax; great grand_son William,
New Jersey. She was predeceased by her husband of 55 years (1995)
and brother Arthur
STAIRS,
Halifax.
The family is most grateful
for the care and support given to Kay by the staff and Friends
at Melville Heights, her home since 1995. The family will receive
visitors at Snows Funeral Home, Windsor Street, Halifax on Monday
December 29 from 7-9: 00 p.m. The funeral service will be at All Saints Cathedral, Tuesday, December 30, 1:30 p.m.
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