MANCHEE
MANCINI
MANDAMIN
MANDEL
MANDELA
MANDIGO
MANESE
MANITOWABI
MANN
MANNINEN
MANNING
MANNIS
MANSEAU
MANUEL
MANULA
MANUS
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Melva MANCHEE
By Janice MANCHEE, page A16
Wife, mother, folk music supporter, fundraiser. Born January
15, 1921, in Montreal. Died May 15 in Ottawa, of cancer, aged
Melva MANCHEE had a wonderful, wry sense of humour. Even as cancer
wore her away, she invited the neighbourhood children to move
in if their parents bothered them too much. When her doctor visited,
she'd warn him to stay healthy for his most important patient
and she never forgot to remind her children that the cat inherited
everything on her death. She had the eyes of a thinker, but then
there was that quirky, humorous mouth.
Melva was born in Montreal. Early pictures show her on her toes
pirouetting across the lawn, and in cross-country skiing gear
boldly setting out across Montreal parkland. When Melva was 14,
her family moved to Toronto, where her father, Joe
LAING became
plant manager for Canada Malting Co. She left behind two large,
extended families for life in a strange city, with only her younger
brother for company. In Toronto, Melva entered Havergal College,
a private girls' school, as a day student.
During her Havergal years, Melva began to date Eric
MANCHEE.
They continued dating while she attended Trinity College at University
of Toronto, where she specialized in household sciences. The
Second World War only temporarily delayed their marriage until
1945. The couple's first two children, Rod and Ellen, were born
in Toronto and the small family moved west to Edmonton where
Eric took a job with the oil industry. A third child, Janice,
was born shortly after the move.
Melva was not a big fan of either the West or the oil industry
he said the wind was always blowing out there, but it was the
Americanization of the West by the oil industry that really upset
her. And she didn't hesitate to let her views be known.
The couple became involved in the small folk music community
in Edmonton and played host to Peggy
SEEGER,
Pete's sister and
the woman for whom the song Black is the Colour of My True Love's
Hair was written. This interest in folk music and concern for
Canadian culture was not particularly popular in Alberta and
Melva was happy when Eric took a job with the federal government
in Ottawa in the early 1960s.
This began as a period of relative tranquility for Melva, but
the late 1960s changed all that. Melva patiently and lovingly
supported her children as they protested for peace and against
war; her daughters became "liberated women" and generally pushed
the envelope, as baby boomers then did.
Melva's concern for the children of the sixties went beyond her
own. At that time, medical institutions, in particular hospitals,
were not providing sensitive or supportive care for young people
experimenting with street drugs. As a result, young people organized
to assist each other with medical problems and one of their initiatives
in Ottawa was to set up a street clinic. Melva worked on findraising
and providing nutritional information and resources to street
kids through the diet dispensary project. Since that begining,
the clinic has developed into Ottawa's Centretown Community Health
Centre, a large, forward-thinking and well-respected community
health service.
Melva loved words. She was one of those rare non-visual crossword
players. She could sit back in her chair, close her eyes, hear
the clue and the space configuration and simply give you the
answer. She was an avid reader and collector of Canadian fiction.
Robertson Davies and Timothy Pindlay were two of her favourite
authors.
When Melva was told she had terminal cancer, she gathered and
considered all the information. Then she made her decision: let
nature take its course. But while nature was doing its thing,
she did hers. She toured Ottawa's museums and art galleries one
more time and waited for the spring flowers. In April, they came.
Janice MANCHEE is Melva's daughter.
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MANCINI,
Frank
Of Toronto died peacefully November 10, 2003 at the age of 83.
Beloved husband of Luisa, devoted father of John and Susan, loving
grandfather of Kimberly, Stephanie, David, Michael and Justin
and adored father-in-law of Alexandra and Paul. His memory will
be cherished by all. Visitation at Heritage Funeral Centre, 50
Overlea Blvd. (416) 423-1000 will begin Tuesday, November 11
from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday November 12 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9
p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at Holy Cross Church (Donlands
and Cosburn) on Thursday November 13 at 10: 00 a.m. followed by
entombment at Holy Cross Cemetery. If desired, donations to the
Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Canadian National Institute
for the Blind would be appreciated by the family.
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Theodore▼ "
Ted▼"
Ernest▼
MANITOWABI
Theodore▼ "
Ted▼"
Ernest▼
MANITOWABI of Wikwemikong passed away
peacefully at the Manitoulin Health Centre, Little Current surrounded
by his family on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003 in his 71st year.
Beloved▼ husband of Yvonne (née
PANGOWISH) at home.
Loving father of Calvin (wife Gloria) of Lansing, Michigan, Marlene
(friend Gary) of Spanish, Yvette, Benita, Barbara (husband Eugene
PELTIER,)
Patricia▼ (husband Mark
TRUDEAU,) Mavis (friend Chuck) all of Wikwemikong.
Will be sadly missed by 13 grandchildren, Stevie Rae, Calvin Jr.,
James, Jacqueline, Beedahbin, Nawautin, Jewel, Elliot, Tracy, Mark
Jr., Trisha, Harley and Jayden and his special pal "Otis".
son of the late Samuel and Isabelle (née
TRUDEAU)
MANITOWABI and stepson
of the late Harriet (née
TRUDEAU)
MANITOWABI.
Son-in-law▼ of the late Joachim and Nancy (née
ROY)
PANGOWISH.
Dear▼
brother-in-law of Wayne and Verna
OSAWAMICK.
Dear brother of Nancy
RECOLLET,
Rene,▼
Julian▼ and Louie G.
MANITOWABI,
Connie and Marina
PITAWANAKWAT,
Tina▼ and Caroline
MANDAMIN, Elizabeth
ABEL,
Mary WEMIGWANS,
Frances▼
SHAWANDA and the late Wildred and Gertrude
MANITOWABI.
Dear uncle and great uncle of many nieces and nephews. Godfather to Veda
(née MANITOWABI)
TRUDEAU and Louie
AGOUNIE.
Ted provided for his family and worked for many years with Algoma
Steel, Inco and as a self employed logger. He enjoyed life to the
fullest with his children and grandchildren after retiring. He loved
gardening, camping, fishing, baseball, curling and hockey. He
especially enjoyed watching his son and grandchildren play the game of
hockey he loved so much and just being with all his grandchildren as
he watched with pride, always smiling.
Rested at the Holy Cross Mission Roman Catholic Church, Wikwemikong
on Thursday, September 4th from 2: 00 p.m. Funeral Mass from the Holy
Cross Mission Church was on Saturday, September 6th at 11: 00 a.m.
with Father D. McCarthy officiating. Interment in the Wikwemikong Cemetery.
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MANDEL,
Robert
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A scholar and a gentle man
'Fine example of a great Canadian' who founded Ontario's Brock
University was once private secretary to prime minister Mackenzie
KING
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, November
26, 2003 - Page R9
In an almost Zen-like fashion, James
GIBSON knew the value of
not acting. In the late 1960s, when a group of student radicals
seized part of Brock University, hoping to be dragged away kicking
and screaming, Dr.
GIBSON, who had helped found the institution
a few years earlier, reacted in a way no other university president
did when faced with the same problem: He did nothing. The protesters,
he reasoned, may have had legitimate grievances, but their unseemly
actions offended his firm sense of propriety. In time, the students
simply went away.
It was an effective, though uncharacteristic, action for a man
who embodied Brock's Latin motto: "Surgite," freely translated
as "push on." That he did, through some 65 rich years of advancing
higher education and in public service, most notably as a private
secretary to former prime minister Mackenzie
KING, whose penchant
for soothsaying and assorted eccentricities Dr.
GIBSON kept mainly
to himself until later in life.
Just five days before his death in Ottawa on October 23 at the
age of 91, Dr.
GIBSON was doing what he loved: Watching a new
group of graduates receive their diplomas at the fall convocation
of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, the school he
had launched as founding president in 1963.
At a recent memorial service at Brock, David
ATKINSON, the university's
president and vice-chancellor, recalled a man whose attributes
a strong moral fibre, clarity of thought and a general uprightness,
all tempered by a warm and gentle touch -- harkened to a quaint,
bygone era. "It's unlikely we will meet anyone like him again,"
Dr. ATKINSON said.
In the House of Commons on October 27, Dr.
GIBSON was praised
by St. Catharines Liberal member of parliament Walt
LASTEWKA
as "a fine example of a great Canadian."
Dr. GIBSON, whose knowledge of Canadian history and government
were legend, was in the news this past summer as the oldest of
over 1,000 Rhodes Scholars who flew to England for a five-day
bash honouring the centenary of the trust. With his brother William,
also a Rhodes Scholar, Dr.
GIBSON dedicated a re-leaded stained-glass
window at the chapel of Oxford's New College.
A normally discreet man, he had sharp words for former prime
minister Brian
MULRONEY, not an Oxford graduate, who surprised
guests at the alumni dinner -- and raised a few eyebrows -- when
he took a seat on the podium alongside Oxonians Bill
CLINTON
and Tony BLAIR, and guest Nelson
MANDELA.
Many alumni, Dr.
GIBSON
included, felt that Mr.
MULRONEY, who had been invited by The
Independent newspaper chain, had no business being there. Though
upset, Dr.
GIBSON retained his dignity, saying simply, "I was
offended."
James Alexander
GIBSON was born in Ottawa, in 1912, to Canadian-born
parents of Irish-Scottish stock with strong Methodist and Quaker
leanings. Raised in Victoria, he graduated with a B.A. in history
from the University of British Columbia at age 18. Less than
a year later, he was one of the youngest boys at Oxford.
"That was the real dividing line in my life," he told The Globe
and Mail last July. "The economic depression was beginning to
take over and some of the graduates in my year at University
of British Columbia ended up digging ditches, but I had a guaranteed
income for three years."
The annual stipend was only £400 but it enabled Dr.
GIBSON to
live comfortably and travel to the rest of Europe when he wasn't
studying modern history, debating in the Oxford Union Society
and keeping wicket for the New College cricket squad, the Nomads.
Back in Ottawa and armed with a doctorate in history, he joined
the Department of External Affairs. On his second day on the
job, he was whisked to the prime minister's office for a six-month
secondment that lasted nine years. Mr.
KING, who was also External
Affairs minister, blocked Dr.
GIBSON's promotions to postings
abroad three times because "he told me I stopped him getting
into trouble."
The prime minister was a notorious taskmaster, calling on his
assistant to work most evenings and weekends to draft letters
and speeches. Throughout, "Dad never complained about anything,"
said his daughter Julia
MATTHEWS. "
But as he got older, he loosened
up a little."
According to his daughter, he came to describe the famously erratic
leader as "a very grumpy man and a very lonely man, insensitive,
and quite damaging to work for."
Ultimately, it occurred to the clan that perhaps the unmarried
prime minister was simply jealous of Dr.
GIBSON's status as a
beloved family man and father of three children. "Whenever we
went on a family holiday, Dad always got called back," remembered
Ms. MATTHEWS.
But a high point came in the spring of 1945, when Dr.
GIBSON
accompanied Mr.
KING and 380 other delegates to San Francisco
and the founding of the United Nations. During the historic two-month
conference, Dr.
GIBSON got personal glimpses of such leaders
as the Soviet Union's Andrei
GROMYKO and Britain's Anthony
EDEN,
but the task at hand, he later recalled, was to keep the Canadian
prime minister "on the rails."
Fearing he would never advance in the public service, Dr.
GIBSON
resigned in 1947 and took a teaching post at Ottawa's Carleton
University, where he later served as the first dean of arts and
science and deputy to the president. By the early 1960s, he was
courted by a group of community leaders in the Niagara peninsula
to establish Brock University. When he began as founding president,
the school had seven faculty (known as "the magnificent seven"),
29 students and a "library" consisting of a shelf of books. Today,
it boasts more than 15,000 students and 47,000 alumni.
His first order of business at Brock was the creation of a library.
Now housed in the campus's Schmon Tower, it has become something
of a landmark on the Niagara Escarpment. Dr.
GIBSON, fondly known
by faculty as "James A.," remained as Brock's president until
1974. He was named to the Order of Canada in 1992, and the library
was named after him in 1996.
He was also a leading figure in the Unitarian faith, serving
for a time as chaplain of the Unitarian Congregation of Niagara.
Asked what dinner-table conversation was like at home, Ms.
MATTHEWS
sighed good-naturedly. "Oh, God. There was a lot of current events.
He had all the answers. He was always lecturing, but he could
be really charming." Even after his vision started to fail, he
travelled, read and wrote. "He never felt old."
After moving from his beloved St. Catharines to an Ottawa retirement
home, Dr. GIBSON lectured residents on "governors-general I have
known."
Dr. GIBSON was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Caroline
(née STEIN,) and leaves three children, seven grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren, his brother, and a sister, Isobel
SEARLS.
His final days were summed up poetically by Josephine
MEEKER,
a former professor at Brock. After attending the university's
convocation last month, Dr.
GIBSON "went for a long walk, returned
to his residence, went into the lounge area, took off his coat
and folded it up, put it on the back of his chair, sat down,
folded his hands in his lap, closed his eyes, and died."
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Betty Jane
VANHORN (née
HOWARD)
In loving memory of Betty Jane
VANHORN (née Howard,) October 28, 1935 to
October 26, 2003. Suddenly at Mindemoya Hospital on Sunday, October 26, 2003
at the age of 67 years.
Dear wife of John
VANHORN of Tehkummah. Loving mother of Hector (Marilyn)
of Ice Lake, Jacqueline (Ted) of Cambridge, Becky (Marvin) of Manitowaning,
predeceased by Barry (1981), Gilbert (1979). Special grandmother of Tammy,
D.J., Tobi (Andy), B.J., Ariana, Tyler, Benjamin, Mikala and two great
grandchildren Angelica and Logan John. Will be remembered by siblings,
Eleanor (Len)
BOND, Tina (Roy)
MANDIGO, Dorothy
ALLARD, Reta (Charlie)
PARKINSON, Lawrence
HOWARD, Marie (John)
CARRADONNA, Len (Ilene)
HOWARD, Tom
(Florence)
HOWARD.
Visitation was held on Tuesday, October 28, 2003.
Funeral Service at 2: 00 pm Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at Island Funeral
Home. Burial in Elmview Cemetery.
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MANESE,
William
Gerald
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Donald Gregor
McGREGOR
In loving memory of Donald Gregor
McGREGOR,
December 17, 1931 to December 20, 2002.
Donald Gregor
McGREGOR
Senior of Whitefish River First Nation, Birch
Island who passed on to the Spirit World on Friday, December 20, 2002
at the Manitoulin Health Centre at the age of 71 years. Known for
his gentle spirit and kind sense of humour, he enjoyed spending time
with his family, fishing, hunting, bingo and home projects. He
worked for E. B. Eddy for 20 years before retiring in 1996. He also
served several terms as Band Councillor on the Whitefish River Band
Council and was President of St. Gabriel's Parish Council for many
years. He was honoured as an Elder and Eagle Staff Carrier of
Whitefish River First Nation. He was of the Eagle Clan and his
Ojibway name he proudly carried was Ogimas, given to him by his
father when he was a young lad. He played many years with the
Sheguiandah Bears and was an avid supporter of minor hockey. Much
beloved husband of 41 years and best friend of Mary Grace (nee
MANITOWABI.)
Loving and cherished father of Lucy Ann (husband Donald
TRUDEAU) of Blind River, Patty (husband Leon
LIGHTNING) of Hobbema,
Alberta, Donald (wife
Sandrah
RECOLLET) and Kiki (husband Stephen
PELLETIER) of Birch Island and Christopher
WAHSQUONAIKEZHIK (wife
Carol) of Sudbury. Proud and very loving grandfather of Donnelley,
Kigen, Akeshia, Paskwawmotosis, Donald, Assinyawasis, Anthony,
Kihiwawasis, Kianna Rae, Waasnode, Christina, Charles and
Christopher. Survived by sisters Lillian
McGREGOR of Toronto,
Shirley McGREGOR of Birch Island and brother Peter
McGREGOR of Nova
Scotia and brother-in-law Roman
BILASH.
Also survived by
brothers-in-law David (Linda), Ron (Nikki), Dominic (Brenda), and
sisters-in-law Veronica (Andrew,) Rosie
GAUVREAU
(Gordon) and
Medora(Don). Predeceased by parents Augustine and Victoria and
in-laws David and Agatha
MANITOWABI.
Also predeceased by brothers
Robert E. McGREGOR, Allan A.
McGREGOR, and sister, Mary
JACKO,
Colleen FONT, Estelle
CYWINK, Violet
BONADIO and Olive
McGREGOR and
sister-in-law Shirley
MANITOWABI
McKAY. He was also a special uncle
to 67 nieces and nephews.
Rested at the Whitefish River Community Centre. Funeral Mass was
held at St. Gabriel's Lalamant Church, Birch Island on Tuesday,
December 24, 2002 with Father Mike
STROGRE officiating. Arrangements
entrusted to the Lougheed Funeral Home.
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MANITOWABI
-In memory of our dad and grandpa, Vincent, who passed away February 24, 1996.
There is a bridge of memories
From here to heaven above
That keeps you very close to us
It's called a bridge of love
As time goes on without you
and days turn into years,
They hold a million memories
And a thousand silent tears.
To us you were very special
What more is there to say,
Except to wish with all our hearts
That you were here today.
-Sadly missed by Daniel, Maxie, Richard, Mary Agnes, Veda, Mabel, Darline, Elizabeth and grandchildren
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Theodore▲ "
Ted▲"
Ernest▲
MANITOWABI
Theodore▲ "
Ted▲"
Ernest▲
MANITOWABI of Wikwemikong passed away
peacefully at the Manitoulin Health Centre, Little Current surrounded
by his family on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003 in his 71st year.
Beloved▲ husband of Yvonne (née
PANGOWISH) at home.
Loving father of Calvin (wife Gloria) of Lansing, Michigan, Marlene
(friend Gary) of Spanish, Yvette, Benita, Barbara (husband Eugene
PELTIER,)
Patricia▲ (husband Mark
TRUDEAU,) Mavis (friend Chuck) all of Wikwemikong.
Will be sadly missed by 13 grandchildren, Stevie Rae, Calvin Jr.,
James, Jacqueline, Beedahbin, Nawautin, Jewel, Elliot, Tracy, Mark
Jr., Trisha, Harley and Jayden and his special pal "Otis".
son of the late Samuel and Isabelle (née
TRUDEAU)
MANITOWABI and stepson
of the late Harriet (née
TRUDEAU)
MANITOWABI.
Son-in-law▲ of the late Joachim and Nancy (née
ROY)
PANGOWISH.
Dear▲
brother-in-law of Wayne and Verna
OSAWAMICK.
Dear brother of Nancy
RECOLLET,
Rene,▲
Julian▲ and Louie G.
MANITOWABI,
Connie and Marina
PITAWANAKWAT,
Tina▲ and Caroline
MANDAMIN, Elizabeth
ABEL,
Mary WEMIGWANS,
Frances▲
SHAWANDA and the late Wildred and Gertrude
MANITOWABI.
Dear uncle and great uncle of many nieces and nephews. Godfather to Veda
(née MANITOWABI)
TRUDEAU and Louie
AGOUNIE.
Ted provided for his family and worked for many years with Algoma
Steel, Inco and as a self employed logger. He enjoyed life to the
fullest with his children and grandchildren after retiring. He loved
gardening, camping, fishing, baseball, curling and hockey. He
especially enjoyed watching his son and grandchildren play the game of
hockey he loved so much and just being with all his grandchildren as
he watched with pride, always smiling.
Rested at the Holy Cross Mission Roman Catholic Church, Wikwemikong
on Thursday, September 4th from 2: 00 p.m. Funeral Mass from the Holy
Cross Mission Church was on Saturday, September 6th at 11: 00 a.m.
with Father D. McCarthy officiating. Interment in the Wikwemikong Cemetery.
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Josephine "Joyce"
RENAUD
In loving memory of Josephine "Joyce"
RENAUD who passed away peacefully on
Friday, October 24, 2003 at Manitoulin Health Centre at the age of 74 years.
Daughter of Michael Sr. and Sophie
MANITOWABI (predeceased.) Predeceased by
dear friend Wesley
GORDON "
Bud" from Sault. Ste. Marie, Michigan. Loved
sister of Margaret
JACKSON
(Robert predeceased) of Manitowaning, Michael
MANITOWABI (predeceased 1986,) Alphonse
MANITOWABI of Toronto, and Betty
CRACK
(Mervyn) of Little Current. Joyce was like a mother to her friend
Mickie GUERRA and family of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Will be remembered
forever by many nieces, nephews, cousins and Friends.
Visitation was held on Sunday, October 26, 2003. Funeral service was held
on Monday, October 27, 2003 at Buzwah Church. Burial in Buzwah Cemetery. Island Funeral Home.
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STEEL, V.R.J. (Vin)
Born Durban South Africa April 23, 1926, died Toronto, February
19, 2003. Survived by daughters, Melissa and Joanne and son Graeme
and brothers John and Cecil. Fondly remembered by Suzanne
CURTIS,
Marlene and Tin
THOMAS,
Rosemary
MANN, Margaret and Phillip
WADE
and the OSTROMS.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter
-silvered wings.
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ACLAND,
Virginia (née
CONKLIN) 1920-2003
After a full and rich life died Friday, September 19. Ginny will
be terribly missed by her immediate family - son Laurence, daughter-in-law
Anne, and grandchildren Wesley and Erinn - her great buddies/sisters
Barbara KENSILL and Doris
MANN and their families and her many
Friends and admirers. Many thanks to the caring staff at St.
Michael's Hospital.
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The 'godfather' of Ottawa's retail auto industry
After more than three decades of hard work, he went on to become
the first full-time executive director of the Ottawa New Car
Dealers Association
By Randy RAY,
Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, October
14, 2003 - Page R7
Ottawa -- During a career in the auto industry that spanned more
than 50 years, Don
MANN was tagged with his share of complimentary
nicknames. As a Datsun dealer in Ottawa in the 1960s, 70s and
80s, he was known as "Don Mann, your Datsun Mann," a phrase used
in his dealership's advertising.
Later, as executive director of the Ottawa New Car Dealers Association,
he was often referred to as the "godfather" of the city's retail
auto industry and an "ambassador" for Ottawa's new-car dealers.
When he first started in the automotive business, working with
Industrial Acceptance Corporation to help dealers finance their
inventory of vehicles, he had a reputation as hard-working, honest
and friendly. Mr.
MANN died in Ottawa on August 12. He was 76.
Born in Toronto on October 16, 1926, he spent about 15 years
working for Industrial Acceptance Corporation in Sudbury, Sarnia,
London and Ottawa before deciding to go into the car business
for himself. In 1969, he opened Don Mann Datsun Limited in Ottawa.
He sold out to an Ottawa General Motors dealer in 1983 and after
a brief retirement, joined the Ottawa New Car Dealers Association,
becoming the first full-time executive director of the group,
which was formed in 1957 with about 25 dealers and now has more
than 60 members.
"He was a great ambassador for new car dealers in Ottawa," said
Pat McGURN, president of Surgenor Pontiac Buick
GMC. "He was
the guy who lobbied with a local college to establish training
programs for our employees when there was a shortage of qualified
people." Over the years, he secured more than $250,000 in dealership
training dollars from government, said Mr.
McGURN.
"I determine a need, find a trainer, agree upon a program, then
I go to the dealers," Mr.
MANN once told an interviewer, adding
that dealers pay for the programs because there's less training
money available from government.
In his capacity as executive director of the car-dealers association,
Mr. MANN also worked with the Workplace Safety and Insurance
Board to ensure dealers provided healthy and safe working conditions.
He worked closely with Algonquin College in Ottawa and Georgian
College in Barrie, Ontario, to set up financial awards for top
graduates. In 2002, a local apprenticeship committee established
a Don Mann Award, given yearly to a major contributor to Ottawa's
apprenticeship program.
"Don was the glue that kept things together," said Mr.
McGURN.
"He made decisions that have made dealers in Ottawa stronger
and made things better for consumers." Mr.
MANN, who worked as
a police officer in Toronto for six years before switching to
the automobile business, helped launch the Ottawa-Hull International
Auto Show about 20 years ago and over the past two decades built
its profile to the point that it now attracts 35,000 visitors.
Money raised through the show helps fund training programs, said
Mr. McGURN.
Mr. MANN was known for his solid grasp of issues that affect
the auto industry at the dealers' level and at the legislative
level where laws are constantly changing, said Mr.
McGURN, who
notes that Mr.
MANN's leadership and organizational skills kept
local dealers working as a coherent group.
Ever the diplomat, at one point he convinced Ottawa's fiercely
competitive car dealers to close on Saturdays during summer long
weekends so staff could enjoy a holiday like everyone else. It
was also his job to keep dealers current on legislation and guidelines
dealing with used-car sales, consumer protection and advertising.
"His forte as executive director of the Car Dealers Association
was his access to politicians, and on the education side, his
contact with car dealers," said his son Brian of Ottawa. "He
knew little about cars when he first started... It took long
hours of hard work to build that knowledge.
"He was a great one for the job, he saw his role as an ambassador."
Mr. MANN was also known as someone who could bring people together
to get a job done, said his son, whether it was organizing dealers
to speak with one voice to governments, or to pull together a
golf tournament at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.
Fellow club member Gordon
EDWARDS remembers Mr.
MANN as an adept
snooker player and golfer with great patience.
"He was able to concentrate well, ... he was deliberate and careful,
always calculating each shot to make sure he got it right," said
Mr. EDWARDS, who played in Mr.
MANN's foursome for 17 years.
Mr. MANN leaves wife
Verna and children Maureen, Brian and Bruce.
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The dean of Canadian sociology
The first chair of a new University of Toronto department trained
a generation of scholars
By Carol COOPER,
Special▼ to the Globe and Mail Friday, October
31, 2003 - Page R13
In 1938, with a doctorate in political science and anxious to
achieve his dream of becoming a professor, Samuel Delbert
CLARK
reluctantly took the only position available to him at the University
of Toronto, as its first full-time lecturer in sociology.
In doing so, S.D.
CLARK became one of the country's early anglophone
sociologists. During his career, his immense intellect, painstaking
scholarship and prolific writing brought credibility and respect
to the fledgling discipline. At a time when Canadian universities
had few sociology departments, Prof.
CLARK trained a generation
of sociologists who spread out across the country, establishing
sociology departments in other centres. And as an administrator
at U of T, Prof.
CLARK brought leading sociologists to the school.
The first sociologist born, raised and trained here, Prof. S.
D. CLARK has died at the age of 93.
Incorporating the staples theory of his mentor, leading Canadian
political economist Harold
INNIS, the work of American historian
F. J. TURNER, and sociologists Carl
DAWSON and E. C.
HUGHES of
McGill University, among others, Prof.
CLARK developed his own
approach.
He studied social change on Canada's economic frontiers such
as the fur trade, Western wheat farming, and the lumber and mining
industries. He traced the development of those communities as
the residents there, far from the cultural and financial institutions
that controlled their lives and contending with distance and
poverty, took their communities through a period of simultaneous
disorganization and reorganization. From the struggle emerged
new organizations and religious sects, such as the Co-operative
Commonwealth Federation and the Social Credit Party.
Reflecting his university training in history, sociology and
political science, Prof.
CLARK brought a multifaceted approach
to his research.
"He looked at things that were happening in Canada almost uniquely
and tried to understand them and not to reduce it to some simplistic
international generalization," said William
MICHELSON, the S.
D. Clark professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
"He really wanted to look into a multiplicity of factors."
Not everyone liked Prof.
CLARK's approach to sociology, but nor
did Prof. CLARK favour the Chicago School approach then taught
at McGill University. Although he later altered his research
methods, Prof.
CLARK at first viewed the American approach dimly,
seeing it as one of doorbell-ringing in order to ask stupid questions,
one that scientifically quantified what happened in the present
without exploring the past. Instead, he pored over archival material,
studying the development of Canadian society from a historical
perspective.
Books by Prof.
CLARK, such as The Social Development of Canada,
drew fire from historians, who challenged his theory and said
sociology and history were incompatible. But the publications
brought attention to the new discipline.
Born to a farming family on February 24, 1910, in Lloydminster,
Alberta.,
Samuel
Delbert
CLARK was the second of five children.
The family of Northern Irish descent had been established in
Ontario since 1840 until it moved West in 1905.
Showing an early aptitude for school and a strong interest in
history, Prof.
CLARK graduated from the University of Saskatchewan
with an honours B.A. in history and political science and an
M.A. in history. Brushing aside suggestions that he become a
high-school teacher and politician, Prof.
CLARK aimed instead
for a university position.
He entered University of Toronto in 1931 to do a doctorate in
political science and economic history. While the studies proved
dry and disappointing, it was there that he first met Harold
INNIS, read the works of Marx, Engels and North American left-wingers,
and attended meetings of the radical League for Social Reconstruction.
Disillusioned with his studies and short of funds, Prof.
CLARK
accepted a Saskatchewan Imperial Order of the Daughters of the
Empire scholarship and headed for the London School of Economics
in 1932. At the school, he received his first exposure to sociology,
including the works of Prof.
DAWSON at McGill.
After leaving London in 1933, Prof.
CLARK arrived in Montreal,
again strapped for cash. Hoping to collect a debt from a friend,
who was then studying at McGill, Prof.
CLARK stopped by his house.
With the friend not home, Prof.
CLARK then visited Prof.
DAWSON,
who offered him a research fellowship. After working on a project
studying Canadian-American relations for two years and receiving
an M.A. in sociology, Prof.
CLARK returned to Toronto to continue
his doctorate in political science.
In 1937 he accepted an appointment to teach political science
and sociology at the University of Manitoba and stayed a year
before returning once again to University of Toronto to complete
his thesis and begin his career there.
As a proponent of a more British style of sociology, Prof.
CLARK
was favoured for the job over another Chicago-trained candidate,
setting the academic direction for the school. Sociology was
then run as a section under the department of anthropology, to
be transferred a year later to the department of political economy.
Except for occasional leaves, Prof.
CLARK remained a fixture
on campus, impeccably dressed in a woollen suit and sporting
a pipe, until his retirement in 1976.
Shy and quiet, Prof.
CLARK constantly cleared his throat and
jingled the change in his pocket while lecturing.
"He never cracked a joke.... It was serious scholarship. You
had to ask serious questions," recalled retired York University
sociology professor Edward
MANN, an early undergraduate student
and later a doctoral student of Prof.
CLARK. "
Their [
INNIS and
CLARK] religion was scholarship."
In that vein, Prof.
CLARK never talked to the press about daily
issues, saying it cheapened the discipline. And he practised
rigorous scholarship.
"He had a tremendous amount of integrity," said Lorne
TEPPERMAN,
a University of Toronto sociology professor and former student
of Prof. CLARK. "
This was a guy who knew what he stood for, what
he believed in. He was uncompromising. He had very high standards
for himself and other people."
During the fifties, Prof.
CLARK, an admirer of Lester
PEARSON,
exchanged his membership in the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation
for that of the Liberal Party, the one endorsed by his wife,
Rosemary. A graduate in economics from Columbia University, she
edited all his works. By the sixties, Prof.
CLARK had begun to
study social change and urbanization, writing The Suburban Society
and later, The New Urban Poor. Despite altering his research
methods, dropping his historical research and adopting the American
style of conducting questionnaires to collect data, he stopped
short of tabulating them, arguing in The Suburban Society that
"to lay claim to scientific precision... would be to falsify
the competence of sociology."
And the man who studied social change became buffeted by it.
While the sociology section had remained small during the forties
and fifties, it ballooned during the sixties, becoming an independent
department in 1963 with Prof.
CLARK as its appointed head.
A capable administrator, Prof.
CLARK brought feistiness to the
job. "He was a very honest man," said Prof.
TEPPERMAN. "He wasn't
afraid on an argument, he wasn't afraid of a fight. If he liked
you, he really liked you and if he didn't like you, he really
didn't like you."
With the huge increase in sociology-department enrolment but
small number of sociology graduates, Prof.
CLARK looked outside
the country to fill teaching positions. Most either came from
the United States, or had been trained there.
While some scholars hailed Prof.
CLARK for having eschewed American-style
sociology and maintaining a Canadian approach, the young and
sometimes radical newcomers with a markedly different approach
regarded him as an oddball and an anachronism. And as an older,
white, staunch Liberal Party-supporting male at the centre of
an old-boy network, he represented everything they were fighting
against. Accustomed to a more democratic academic culture at
other schools, the new staff agitated for a greater say in the
running of the department. When Prof.
CLARK resisted, he was
pushed out, and the chair became an elected position. He remained
at the university until his retirement in 1976.
Outside of the university, throughout his career, Prof.
CLARK
served as an editor of The Canadian Journal of Economics and
Political Science, and as president of the Royal Society of Canada.
In addition, he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Canada.
Despite the recognition he received, Prof.
CLARK always felt
that his older brother who took over the farm was the family
success, according to his son, Edmund. And he enjoyed such simple
pleasures as hockey. Once, while attending a dinner party at
Claude BISSELL's house, then the president of U of T, Prof.
CLARK
asked where the television was and sat down to watch the hockey
game. When questioned later, Prof.
CLARK replied, "Anyone stupid
enough to hold a party on a hockey night deserved to have the
guests watch television in the den."
S.D. CLARK died on September 18. He leaves his wife, Rosemary,
sons Edmund and Samuel, nine grandchildren and a sister, Grace.
His daughter Ellen predeceased him.
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TERDIK, Joseph (Superintendent, Peel Regional Police, Ret'd)
Joe died December 9th, with dignity, in the warmth of his family's
love. He was most proud of his service to the community of Mississauga/Peel
the officers he commanded and his warm Friendship with Hazel.
An Federal Bureau of Investigation Graduate (Pres. Fit. Award),
Medal of Bravery (Miss. Disaster, Personnel Deployment) Exemplary
Service Award, Exec. Officer to the Chief, Cmdr. 11 Div., Cmdr.
Spec. Services, Crim. Intel. Bureau, Cdn Police College Lecturer,
Author: Mgmt. Audit Manual, founding Pres. Sr. Officers Assoc.
Born Windsor, March 1943, resident in Peel till 1997, adoring
husband of Barbara
DOWDALL-
TERDIK, father of Robert (Jessica,
Meaghan, Ashley); Jodey (Paul)
LITTLE (Caleb, Taelor); Susan
CORNWELL;
Proud
son of John (dec.) and Irene
TERDIK, brother
of Bill (Karen;) John (Donna) Irene (Aimo)
MANNINEN.
Cherished
brother-in-law to David (Paul); Susan (Shane); Peggy (Don, Tom,
Mimi) Catherine (Rob, Graeme, Iain, Allison, Colleen) and special
Joanna DOWDALL.
Friends will be received at the C. Stuart Sykes
Funeral Home, 91 Division St. S., Kingsville from 2: 00 to 4:00
p.m. and 7: 00 to 9:00 p.m., Friday. Funeral service from the
funeral home Saturday, December 13th at 11: 00 a.m. Remembrances:
Palliative Care, Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital, 1030 Ouellette Ave.,
Windsor, Ontario N9A 1E1
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Mary Catharine
JONES (née
STALEY)
Died 3 August 2003
Peacefully, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, at home surrounded by
her loving family.
She gave unending, unconditional love and encouragement to her
children and their spouses: Sharon
GLOVER
(Douglas
WILKINS) of
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia; Christopher
JONES (Susan)
of Dartmouth; and also to her deeply beloved grandchildren: Jason
(Alessandra) of L'Aquila, Italy; Nicholas (Erin); and Jennifer
of Dartmouth.
Mum was predeceased by her loving and beloved husband Owen in
She is survived by her dearest sister Barbara
MANNING of Ottawa.
She leaves us a rich legacy: love, courage, common sense, acceptance
and a zest for life that was never-ending. She is deeply cherished
by all of us who loved her, and she will be held in our hearts
and minds forever.
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Manager editor of Guelph Mercury
Guelph Mercury Saturday, November 29, 2003 - Page F11
Guelph, Ontario -- Bonnie
EWEN, managing editor of the Guelph
Mercury, died Monday night after suffering a brain aneurysm last
weekend. She was 44.
Ms. EWEN was taken to Guelph General Hospital Saturday afternoon
after suffering severe head pain and then transferred to Mississauga's
Trillium Health Centre, where she soon lapsed into a coma.
She had been maintained on life-support systems until arrangements
could be made for her organs to be donated, in keeping with her
wishes, said her sister, Brenda
EWEN.
Bonnie EWEN began working at the Mercury 24 years ago as a clerical
assistant, but it was clear from the start she had her sights
set on loftier positions. "It took some time, but I managed to
force editors to throw me a story or two," she said in a 1999
interview after being appointed managing editor.
"I'd wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a child, and
I was like a kid in a candy store when the paper finally hired
me as a reporter. I spent a great 10 years on assignment before
taking a desk here as a junior editor."
Bob RUTTER, a former regional editor at the Mercury, was given
the task of teaching Ms.
EWEN, who had no formal training in
journalism, the basics of the job. "This came about after months
of pestering, and an almost daily inquisition about why she could
not be given a reporting assignment," Mr.
RUTTER said.
Gary MANNING, a former Mercury managing editor who hired Ms.
EWEN in 1980, said he gave her the job "because she showed a
lot of self-confidence and interest in the news business."
But becoming a reporter was just a step toward where Ms.
EWEN
really wanted to be -- the managing editor's office.
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His voice resonated on airwaves
Veteran read news, hosted shows on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio and television for four decades
By Allison
LAWLOR
Tuesday,
February 18, 2003 - Page R7
Harry MANNIS, a popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announcer
and host whose warm, deep voice graced the country's airwaves
for four decades, died last month in Toronto. He was 82.
Mr. MANNIS started his career with the Canadian Broadcasting
Corp. in Halifax at the end of the Second World War. He was known
across the country, not only for reading the radio news, but
hosting a number of programs including Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation radio's Themes and Variations and Anthology. His
voice was also often heard on the Project, Stage and Fourth Estate.
"He had that great resonance that I envied, " said his long-time
friend and former radio personality Max
FERGUSON. "As an announcer
I have always considered him the best."
Mr. MANNIS preferred radio but also ventured into television,
reading the Toronto metro news and hosting What's New?, a news
magazine geared toward youth, which was launched in 1972.
In radio, he said, you had the option of sitting at the microphone
in an old T-shirt (although Mr.
MANNIS himself was most often
smartly dressed in a turtleneck sweater and dress coat). He also
found it less stressful than television. "It's easier on the
nerves. Only one thing can be a problem -- reading, " he said
in an interview in 1975.
A modest, unassuming man, who stood at just over six-feet tall,
Mr. MANNIS admitted to still having a bout of nerves after almost
three decades in the business.
"Even after 29 years I haven't been able to conquer this feeling,
" he said in 1975.
"When I was doing the Toronto metro television news, I had a
recurring nightmare that when I'd go on the air, all the pages
of the news would be mixed up. It's never happened, but you never
know, " he said.
It was that same fear that prompted him to meticulously check
his work before sitting down in front of the microphone. If he
didn't know a word, or its proper pronunciation, instead of guessing
and taking the risk of being wrong on-air he would head right
to the public broadcaster's man in charge of language and make
sure he got it right.
"Harry never mispronounced a word, Mr.
FERGUSON said.
But like any new radio broadcaster, Mr.
MANNIS, who didn't lack
a wry humour, had a couple of small announcing mishaps in the
early years. One day in Halifax, the city experienced a power
failure. The show still having to go on, Mr.
MANNIS was forced
to read the news from the master control room with someone holding
a flashlight over his shoulder.
Another time, when his microphone was switched on for a station
call he happened to be looking at a drama producer whose last
name was Appleby. Before he knew it, the words coming out of
his mouth were: "This is
CBH,
Applefax."
"Relax for a minute and it's fatal, Mr.
MANNIS said in the
1975 interview. "The minute a mike is turned on, I visualize
a million pairs of ears glued to their radios or television sets,
all eagerly awaiting to pounce on my slightest mispronunciation.
Is it any wonder the tongue cleaves to the palate, the eyes become
glazed, the hand holding the script trembles like a leaf in a
gale?"
Harry MANNIS was born in Toronto on April 11, 1920. He was the
youngest of three children born to Jessie and Benjamin
MANNIS,
who owned a furrier shop. Harry attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute
and met his wife Elizabeth when she moved in two doors down.
The couple married in 1942 and later had a daughter.
"He was like any nice young man, Elizabeth
MANNIS said. "He
was private. He wasn't flamboyant."
After high school, Mr.
MANNIS briefly attended the University
of Toronto before leaving to join the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Stationed in England during the war, he returned home to Canada
in 1946. Uncertain about what to do next, he decided to enroll
in a radio-announcing course at Toronto's Ryerson Institute of
Technology (now Ryerson University).
"We all liked the way he read things at home, " said Elizabeth
MANNIS, who was one of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's first female announcers.
Impressed with his voice quality and enunciation (which was untrained),
they told him not to bother with school and sent him to Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation for an audition. He was hired the next
day for an announcing job in Halifax. Within two weeks of his
audition, he was reading the radio news on the East Coast.
"I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,
Mr. MANNIS said of his quick entry into the radio world.
He had had a brush with the airwaves before the war. After learning
to play the piano, violin and clarinet by ear as a child, he
decided to try his hand at singing, fancying himself a pop star
one day.
When he was 17, he appeared on an amateur radio hour show singing
a pop song. He thought he had found the key to his success until,
as he put it, "the pianist refused to play slowly, and I refused
to sing fast, and the result was pandemonium."
"Music came naturally to him, " Elizabeth said. "The same with
announcing, he didn't have to struggle with it."
Mr. MANNIS remained with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
until his retirement in the mid-1980s. He was widely liked and
respected by his colleagues, who called him a "class act." Judy
MADDREN, host of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio's World
Report, wrote in a condolence note to his family that Mr.
MANNIS
was a "true gentleman" who always treated her with respect and
without condescension.
An animal lover, Mr.
MANNIS and his wife took in stray animals
and supported a local organization called the Toronto Wildlife
Centre, which helps rehabilitate injured wildlife.
Mr. MANNIS died of cancer on January 2 in a Toronto hospital.
Besides his wife, he leaves daughter Kate and two grandchildren.
Harry MANNIS, born in Toronto on April 11, 1920; died in Toronto
on January 2, 2003.
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Singer was hit on Hit Parade
Canadian-born performer played violin with Jack Benny and posed
as wife of Sid Caesar
By James McCREADY
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, September
13, 2003 - Page F11
She was called "Canada's First Lady of Song." In the late 1940s,
singer Gisele
MacKENZIE was so popular on Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation radio that she was known just by her first name.
When she was 23, she headed off to Hollywood, where she became
one of the main singers on Your Hit Parade, a popular American
network television show in the 1950s. By the time television
started in Canada in 1952, she was already a star in the United
States, appearing on programs with Jack Benny and later with
Sid Caesar, the hottest comedian of his day.
Gisele MacKENZIE, who has died at the age of 76, was not always
known by that name. On the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
she was known simply as Gisele, though a 1950 Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation press release did call her by her proper name --
Gisele LAFLECHE. As soon as she moved to CBS in 1951, she adopted
the stage name Gisele
MacKENZIE.
The reason, she told a New York
reporter in 1955, was that the name Gisele
LAFLECHE "sounded
too much like a striptease artist's." The real explanation was
an American audience would have trouble with so French a name.
It was the television network that ordered the name change.
Marie
Marguerite
Louise Gisele
LAFLECHE was born on January 10,
1927, in Winnipeg. The name
MacKENZIE was from her paternal grandmother.
Her father, Georges, was a doctor, who played the violin, and
her mother, Marietta
MANSEAU, was a concert pianist and singer
as a young woman. Ms.
MacKENZIE started playing the violin seriously
when she was 7. She made her first public performance at the
Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg at the age of 12.
When she was 14, her family sent her to the Royal Conservatory
of Music in Toronto. She studied the violin and the piano, and
planned on being a concert violinist. Later in life, a story
circulated that she never took voice lessons, but Jim
GUTHRO,
who was at the conservatory at the same time, remembered a voice
teacher who took an interest in her. He also remembered that
she attended at the same time as Robert
GOULET and they would
sing together.
When she first came to Toronto, she stayed at Rosary Hall, a
residence for Catholic girls on Bloor Street at the top of Jarvis
Street. Tess
MALLOY, who was there at the same time, remembered
her. "She lived right across the hall from me. She and her girlfriend
used to drive us nuts practising the violin."
Ms. MALLOY didn't remember her singing at the residence, but
somewhere along the way someone discovered Ms.
MacKENZIE could
sing. It was close to the end of the war and she started to perform
for groups of servicemen. It was then that she was discovered
by musician Bob
SHUTTLEWORTH, a lieutenant who led a band for
the Royal Canadian Navy.
Right after the war, she started singing with Mr.
SHUTTLEWORTH's
band at the Glenmount Hotel on the Lake of Bays, north of Toronto.
Mr. SHUTTLEWORTH, who later became her manager and her husband,
took her to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which then
broadcast live popular music over the radio.
"Bob SHUTTLEWORTH called me at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
and said, 'Get a studio, a piano and a vocal mike. I have someone
I want you to hear,' recalled Jackie
RAE, then a music producer
at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, later leader of his
own band (and, incidentally, the uncle of former Ontario premier
Bob RAE.) "I remember her wonderful voice and how fresh she was.
We hired her straight away to do three programs a week."
The program was Meet Gisele, and it ran for 15 minutes on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The program started on October 8, 1946,
and lasted for four years. She was so popular the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation used her in other programs with names such as The
Girl Next Door or The Song Pluggers.
In 1951, Ms.
MacKENZIE was spotted by Bing
CROSBY's son, and
went to work in the United States for Bob
CROSBY's
Club 15, bumping
the Andrews Sisters from their regular slot. The pay was $20,000
(U.S.) a year, worth $150,000 in today's money. She was 23.
The money was something Canada could never match. Mr.
GUTHRO,
later head of Variety at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
guesses she was making $200 a week for her radio programs.
"Gisele Leaves for Hollywood. Canada's Loss," read a headline
in one Toronto paper. The article guessed at the pay package,
and it was right.
Ms. MacKENZIE was about to have her best decade ever in show
business. After a short stint on Club 15, she worked on the Mario
Lanza Show, before landing her full-time job at Your Hit Parade.
The idea behind the NBC program was to take the top seven songs
on the hit parade that week and have them done by the regular
singers in the Your Hit Parade troupe. The half-hour program
was a huge success in the United States and in late 1953 the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation picked it up for a while.
Ms. MacKENZIE was the only regular singer on the program to have
her own hit record, Hard to Get, in 1955.
Though none of her family shared her success, all were musical.
There were her parents, both of whom were serious amateur musicians
two of her sisters sang and played, and a brother played the
cello. Along with Gisele, two of them had what is called perfect
pitch.
"It's rare and she had it," Mr.
RAE said. "You would play four
notes on the piano and she could match them. Perfect pitch isn't
always a great thing, but in her case it was."
Ms. MacKENZIE's training as a classical violinist came in handy
on the Jack Benny program, on which she first appeared in 1955.
The droll comedian always made a thing of how he couldn't play
the violin. One vaudeville-type act they would do on his show
involved her patiently showing him what to do with a violin after
he made some awful screeching noise with his bow.
She was Jack Benny's protégé, and he helped land her own television
program in 1958. Called the Gisele
MacKENZIE
Show, it lasted
only six months.
But she remained famous. At one stage, she was the subject of
This is Your Life, which involved linking up with old Friends
and relatives. She was a regular on game shows that featured
minor celebrities, such as Hollywood Squares.
In 1963, she was cast as Sid Caesar's television wife and made
regular trips to New York City, where the program was done. Like
other television programs of that era, it was live, since videotape
was only just being introduced.
Ms. MacKENZIE also acted and sang in live musicals in the United
States, things such as Annie Get Your Gun and South Pacific.
Over the years, she also worked in Las Vegas, performing in night
clubs there. She returned to Canada for the occasional concert
and television special, including one on the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation in late 1960. It was about "her story book career"
and included the yarn, always told by her publicists, of how
she decided to take up singing after she lost her $3,000 violin.
By the end of the 1960s, the big work started to dry up and Canadian
newspapers were running the occasional "Where Are They Now" articles.
She was in a sprawling ranch house in suburban Encino, Calif.
She also owned property in Palmdale and Marin County, Calif.,
as well as a house on Lake Manitoba back home.
All that detail came up in a nasty divorce from Mr.
SHUTTLEWORTH
in 1968. Because he was also her manager, he kept 10 per cent
of her gross income for the next three years. She later married
a banker, Robert
KLEIN, but that also ended in divorce.
During the rest of her career, Ms.
MacKENZIE kept working in
regional theatre and made guest appearances on television series,
including MacGyver and Murder, She Wrote, as well as singing
stints on programs such as the Dean Martin Show. She also did
television commercials in the United States and Canada.
Ms. MacKENZIE had some odd hobbies. She collected and mixed exotic
perfumes and in the 1950s she took up target shooting, becoming
an expert shot. She and her first husband had a large collection
of pistols, rifles and shotguns. In her later years, like many
Hollywood stars, she was involved with Scientology.
Ms. MacKENZIE, who died in Burbank, Calif., on September 5, had
two children with Mr.
SHUTTLEWORTH, a son Mac and a daughter
Gigi (short for Gisele)
DOWNS.
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SANTOS,
Felicidade
Peacefully at home on Saturday, March 1, 2003 in her 80th year.
Beloved wife of the late Joao. Loving mother of Joao
LUIS,
Jose
MANUEL, Fernando, Maria
FELICIDADE, Maria
GORETE and Tony. Dear
grandmother of sixteen and great-grandmother of one. Friends
may call at the Turner and Porter 'Peel' Chapel, 2180 Hurontario
Street, Mississauga, (Hwy. 10 north of Q.E.W.), from 2-4 and
6-9 p.m. on Tuesday. Parish Prayers at 7: 30 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral
Mass at S. Salvador do Mundo Church, 1225 Melton Dr., Mississauga
on Wednesday March 5 at 10 a.m. Interment Saint Mary's Cemetery.
If desired, donations may be made to the Trillium Health Centre-Mississauga
(Oncology).
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MANULA,
William
(Bill)
Died unexpectedly, yet peacefully March 10, 2003. Bill will be
sadly missed by his dearest Friends; Ron
WILKIE,
Rosemary
JEFFREY,
Niece Lynda (Peter and family), Nephews; Gordie (Cindy and family)
and Robbie (Lori and family). Bill is predeceased by loving mother
Alma and sister Helen. Memorial Service Tuesday, March 18, 2003
@ 1: 30 p.m., Glebe Road United Church, 20 Glebe Road, Toronto.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Kidney Foundation
or Toronto General Hospital.
Genuine kindness is never forgotten
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Leafs trusted their doctor
Talented M.D. specialized in hand surgery. 'He had a unique technical
approach. That's what made him different from other surgeons.'
By Carol COOPER
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 3,
2003 - Page F10
Nothing about Jim
MURRAY's hands indicated that he was a surgeon.
Large and gnarled with undulating fingernails, those hands played
bagpipes, patched up Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada players
and restored form and function to other hands.
Dr. MURRAY, a plastic surgeon who was the first Canadian doctor
to devote his practice to hand surgery, died last month at the
age of 82.
"His hands looked more like those of a prize fighter than a surgeon.
His fingers were bent, "said Robert
McFARLANE, a retired plastic
surgeon with a special interest in hands and a close friend of
Dr. MURRAY. "It didn't seem to make a difference. He had tremendous
skill."
In 1983, Dr.
MURRAY brought together plastic and orthopedic surgeons
to form a hand unit at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre,
the city's first. "His concept was to pull together the expertise
of different surgeons, "said Paul
BINHAMMER, once a student
of Dr. MURRAY and now a plastic surgeon at the hospital, now
part of the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. MURRAY assembled a highly skilled team. Among them were orthopedic
surgeon Robert
McMURTRY, who went on to become dean of medicine
at the University of Western Ontario, and plastic surgeon and
nerve expert Susan
MacKINNON, who is now a professor in the United
States.
But before rising to prominence in the field of hand surgery,
Dr. MURRAY gained fame in hockey circles. Serving as one of the
Toronto Maple Leafs team doctors from 1948 to 1964, he was greatly
trusted by players. When cut during games on the road, they left
their wounds unstitched until he could tend to them at home.
"He'd come at you with those fingers and they were just so big,
you'd wonder how he was ever able to stitch as neat as he did,"
said former Leaf defenceman Bobby
BAUN, who played professional
hockey for 17 years.
Mr. BAUN estimates that Dr.
MURRAY put in half of his 143 career
stitches.
Under instructions from Leaf owner Conn
SMYTHE, injured players
were not to be rushed back into the lineup, according to Hugh
SMYTHE, another Leaf doctor and Mr.
SMYTHE's son. "This was a
heavy and not always popular role, "he said.
During the 1964 Stanley Cup finals, it became especially challenging.
Entering Game 6, the Detroit Red Wings led the series against
the Leafs 3-2. Playing in Detroit on April 23, with the scored
tied at 3-3 in the third period, Mr.
BAUN first was hit on his
right leg by a slapshot from Gordie
HOWE and then, after a faceoff,
spun on the leg, which gave way.
X-rays delayed at Mr.
BAUN's insistence showed a small broken
bone, just above the ankle. He spent six weeks in a cast.
But that came after the series ended. During its sixth game,
Mr. BAUN was tended to by Dr.
MURRAY and other team doctors.
After being carried off the ice, he asked Dr.
MURRAY if he could
hurt his leg any more. The doctor replied no. "Having someone
like Jim tell me that, I could believe him, "Mr.
BAUN said.
With his leg taped and frozen, Mr.
BAUN continued playing. Within
the first two minutes of the first overtime period, he scored
the winning goal and kept the Leafs in the series.
Mr. BAUN didn't miss a shift during Game 7, and neither did teammate
Red KELLY, who had torn knee ligaments during the previous game.
The Leafs won the seventh game 4-0 and the Stanley Cup, their
third in a row and their fifth during Dr.
MURRAY's time with
the team.
That year, Dr.
MURRAY resigned and 20 years later joked to The
Toronto Star that it was he who had led them to the five Stanley
Cups.
If he took the connection between his presence and the Leafs'
wins lightly, Punch
IMLACH, then the team's coach, did not. Mr.
IMLACH had become convinced that Dr.
MURRAY brought the team
good luck, the doctor told the Star in a 1972 story.
The newspaper was interviewing Dr.
MURRAY about his appointment
as a doctor to Team Canada for the Canada-Russia hockey series.
In the article headlined "Good luck charm for Team Canada, "
he recalled how during the 1967 Stanley Cup playoffs, Mr.
IMLACH
invited him to a Leaf game in Chicago, believing that he would
bring the team good luck.
"If it had been anybody else but Punch, I'd have dismissed it
as a joke. But he really needed to win and he honestly believed
my presence would make a difference, "Dr.
MURRAY was quoted
as saying.
The
Leafs won not only that game, but, with Dr.
MURRAY in attendance
for the remainder of the series, the Stanley Cup. The Leafs haven't
won a Stanley Cup since.
And the Star's headline proved prophetic. Team Canada won the
Canada-Russia series when Paul
HENDERSON scored with 34 seconds
left in the eighth game.
Born in Toronto on May 14, 1920, James Findlay
MURRAY was the
youngest of three children. His father ran a store at Yonge and
Queen Streets in downtown Toronto and died before the birth of
his third child.
Dr. MURRAY attributed his curvy fingernails to his mother's malnutrition
when she was pregnant with him, said his youngest son Hugh. Within
a few years, she had remarried, and his stepfather helped to
raise him.
An avid athlete, Dr.
MURRAY played football during his high school
and university days, so much so that once, when forbidden by
his mother to play for his high-school team because he had had
pneumonia, he practised and played in secret.
That lasted until his picture appeared in the Star running for
a touchdown. He was immediately placed on the disabled list.
Awarded the George Biggs trophy for sportsmanship, leadership
and scholarship, Dr.
MURRAY graduated from medical school in
1943 and spent two years in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps,
finishing as a captain.
After a year of general practice in Belleville, Ontario, he trained
in plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
with A. W.
FARMER, whom many consider to be the father of Canadian
hand surgery.
A humble man, who drove less-than-fancy cars, Dr.
MURRAY was
known for his ability to relate to everyone. "He was a doctor
and an esteemed member of society, but it didn't matter to him,"
Hugh MURRAY said. "He considered himself an everyday person.
He was as comfortable, if not more comfortable, dealing with
just working guys."
In 1953, Dr.
MURRAY joined the Toronto East General and Orthopedic
Hospital as head of plastic surgery and organized a specialized
hand clinic, according to Bernd
NEU, another former student of
Dr. MURRAY and now a plastic surgeon at North York General Hospital.
"It's because the hand is such an important part of the body,
not just physically, but aesthetically, "Dr.
MURRAY, a specialist
in soft tissue and the reconstruction of flexor tendons, said
in 1984 to explain the dedication of hand surgeons.
In 1983, Dr.
MURRAY left Toronto East General, where he had been
surgeon-in-chief since 1976, to head the hand unit at Sunnybrook
Medical Centre, taking a cut in pay to do so.
At the time, plastic surgeons could earn $2,000 for a face-lift
and $106.50 for a carpal-tunnel release.
Dr. MURRAY derived great satisfaction from the help his hands
gave others. Once in a clinic at Toronto East General, he and
Dr. NEU came upon a patient with only a thumb and little finger
on one hand.
"This is a wonderful hand, "he told Dr.
NEU. "
Look at how dirty
and callused it is."
After several surgeries, Dr.
MURRAY had restored the worker's
hand to the point where the man could use it once again to earn
a living.
"What to other people would look like a devastating loss, to
Dr. MURRAY and the patient, this was a hand to be proud of,
Dr. NEU said.
As a hand consultant beginning in 1974 at the Downsview Rehabilitation
Centre of the Workers' Compensation Board, Dr.
MURRAY treated
those injured in industrial accidents, often surmounting language
barriers to do so.
"He could speak to them [the patients] in basic English, so they
could understand how seriously he took their problems, and how
everything was being done that could be done for them, "Dr.
NEU said.
In a 1996 letter to Dr.
MURRAY, another of his former residents
recalled how once on rounds, the doctor lifted the sheets to
examine a paraplegic patient, only to find the man soiled. Instead
of calling for hospital staff to clean the man, Dr.
MURRAY performed
the task himself.
"That little lesson reminded me that being a doctor is not just
being a cutter, "the physician wrote.
Not only did he have a natural way with people, Dr.
MURRAY was
a gifted surgeon.
"He was a talented person with original ways of doing things,"
Dr. McFARLANE said. "He had a unique technical approach. That's
what made him different from other surgeons."
Appointed a lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1953, Dr.
MURRAY was first an assistant and associate professor, becoming
a full professor in 1979. He developed the first hand surgery
fellowship training program in Canada in 1981, Dr.
NEU said.
As well as teaching at the university, Dr.
MURRAY trained surgeons
during two trips to Southeast Asia as a volunteer with Cooperative
for American Relief Everywhere, Inc. Medico and led a group of
hand surgeons to study techniques in micro-surgery in China during
the late 1970s.
At the medical meetings Dr.
MURRAY often attended, he impressed
Dr. McFARLANE with his ability to discuss surgery. "He had a
very common-sense approach to a surgical problem, and when everyone
had something to say about a problem, he would get up and clarify
it very nicely, "Dr.
McFARLANE said.
A founder of
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Canada, a society of hand surgeons, once a
president of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and the
American
Society for Surgery of the Hand, Dr.
MURRAY was honoured
by the U.S. society at "Murray Day" in 1990 with tributes from
past presidents.
Stricken with Alzheimer's disease toward the end of his life,
Dr. MURRAY died in Collingwood, Ontario, on April 4. He leaves
his wife of 57 years, Shirley, and his children, John, Bill,
Claire and Hugh.
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