KEMP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-04 published
MARTIN,
Anne
V. (née
KEMP)
On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at home peacefully of cancer surrounded
by her loving family in her 67th year. Tended with skill by her
loving sister Sheila
RITCHEY, husband Dr. Ronald
MARTIN and daughter
Susan KENT who never left her side in the closing days. Also
by her side sons David and Stephen and Russ
KENT whose help was
so much appreciated. She will be sadly missed by five grandchildren,
four nieces, Colleen
MARTIN and many Friends and acquaintances.
The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home
- A. W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton
Avenue East), from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5th.
Service in the chapel Thursday, March 6th at one o'clock. Interment
of cremated remains Saint John's Norway Cemetery. In memory of
Anne, donations to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada,
250 Bloor Street East, Suite 1000, Toronto, M4W 3P9 would be
appreciated.
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KEMP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-06 published
His passion was coaching
He worked at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children for 40 years,
but his spare time was devoted to training athletes
By Allison
LAWLOR
Tuesday,
May 6, 2003 - Page R7
An era has ended in Canadian track-and-field athletics. Don
MILLS,
coach, administrator and volunteer, died in Windsor, Ontario,
last month. He was 75.
The folklore surrounding Mr.
MILLS, who was most recently an
assistant coach with the University of Toronto's track-and-field
and cross-country teams, was that he never missed a meet, often
attending more than one on a weekend.
Mr. MILLS was at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships
assisting with the university's Varsity Blues team when he died
peacefully in his sleep.
"For Don, track-and-field coaching and working with young people
was his passion, said Carl
GEORGEVSKI, head coach of Varsity
Blues track and field.
Mr. MILLS's involvement in track and field began in 1963 when
he co-founded the Toronto Striders Track Club. He went on to
form Track West, in the city's west end, in the 1970s and was
a club coach there until the end of the 2002 season. One of his
highlights as a coach was the 1978 World Cross Country Championships.
Three of the six Canadian junior men there were from Track West.
They took home a silver medal.
"If [a runner] didn't have a coach and needed one they would
saddle over to Don, said Ian
ANDERSON, a friend and fellow
coach at Track West and at the University of Toronto.
Known for devoting hours of his spare time to typing out the
results of athletes' workouts, giving nutritional advice, supervising
workouts and attending what seemed like every track-and-field
and cross-country race in the country, Mr.
MILLS made each of
the athletes feel they were the most important.
"You thought you were his only athlete, said Paul
KEMP, a runner
who trained with Mr.
MILLS at both Track West and at the University
of Toronto. But Mr.
KEMP soon realized that the same time and
individual attention Mr.
MILLS gave to him, he also gave to 20
other athletes.
Jerry KOOYMANS, who ran with Track West in the late 1970s and
early 1980s, remembers Mr.
MILLS dropping by his hotel room the
night before a big race to discuss race strategy. Mr.
MILLS would
pull out the list of opponents and discuss their strengths and
weaknesses and how to beat them.
"By the time I got to the starting line, I felt like I was the
best-prepared runner in the race, Mr.
KOOYMANS said in a written
tribute to his old coach.
When he wasn't busy coaching, Mr.
MILLS, who lived in Oakville,
Ontario, west of Toronto, was volunteering with the Ontario Track
and Field Association as an official or meet director. His meticulous
administrative skills and painstaking attention to detail are
widely remembered. It was not uncommon for Mr.
MILLS to travel
across the city on a Sunday night to drop off race results to
an athlete or fellow coach. He received the government of Ontario's
special achievement award for his work as a volunteer administrator.
Mr. MILLS joined the Varsity Blues staff in 1999, where he focused
on men's middle-distance running. But his connections with the
University of Toronto go back to the early 1960s, when he spent
time coaching the men's boxing team. One of the young men he
is reported to have coached was former Ontario premier David
PETERSON.
Outside of coaching, Mr.
MILLS worked at Toronto's Hospital for
Sick Children for 40 years. He started out in biochemistry research
in 1954 and later transferred to occupational health and safety
where he was involved in purchasing radioactive materials. He
routinely ate breakfast at the hospital cafeteria and, even after
he retired, continued to visit the hospital daily and spend time
in its library.
Don MILLS was born on August 29, 1927, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
He lived a quiet life, never marrying or having children of his
own. He acted as a father figure to many athletes and maintained
connections with them. Over the holidays, he would often spend
time with the families of former athletes. Not one to talk about
himself, his athletes and colleagues knew little about him. Not
much is known about his own athletic achievements except that
he is said to have played hockey in his younger years. Mr.
MILLS,
however, remained fit throughout his life.
"He was very quiet, Mr.
ANDERSON said. "He was never the centre
of attention."
While his workouts could be tough, Mr.
MILLS knew when an athlete
had endured enough, Mr.
KEMP said. He was not one to yell or
scream.
"He was patient, he was dedicated. He was committed, Mr.
GEORGEVSKI
said.
Renowned for never owning a car, Mr.
MILLS mastered bus and train
routes from coast to coast. Being without a vehicle didn't deter
him from getting to a track meet or practice session, no matter
where it was held. He became legendary for his uncanny ability
to get to meets without driving.
In recent years he refused to fly. Even so, that didn't stop
him from attending a National Cross Country Championship in British
Columbia.
In order to be with his team, Mr.
MILLS left Ontario a week ahead
of schedule to travel across the country by train. Two years
ago, Mr. KEMP flew to Edmonton to attend a tournament only to
be met by Mr.
MILLS, who had arrived earlier by bus.
"He was an individual who cared deeply about all his athletes,
" whether it was a young, struggling runner or one who was performing
among the top at the national level, Mr.
GEORGEVSKI.
A track scholarship has been established in Mr.
MILLS's name
at the University of Toronto. He died on March 16.
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KEMPT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-20 published
Died
This
Day -- Sir James
KEMPT, 1854
Saturday, December 20, 2003 - Page F9
Soldier and colonial administrator born at Edinburgh, Scotland,
in 1764; 1807, veteran of Battle of Waterloo promoted to lieutenant-colonel
and made quartermaster-general of British North America; 1820,
became lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia; 1828, appointed administrator
of government of Canada; 1830, recalled to London; credited with
easing tension between Governor Dalhousie and the parti Patriote
led by Louis-Joseph
PAPINEAU.
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