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William Henry
HUGHES
By Michael
RUSE,
Thursday,
October 23, 2003 - Page A24
Husband, father, singer, instrument repair expert, teacher, philosopher.
Born October 22, 1936, in Sarnia, Ontario Died August 19, in
New Denver, British Columbia, of cancer, aged 66.
Bill HUGHES was a student at Victoria College, University of
Toronto, and then did graduate work in England, receiving a master's
degree from the London School of Economics, and a doctorate from
University College London. On returning to Canada in 1965, Bill
got a job at the brand new University of Guelph, and he was one
of the founding members of its philosophy department. He taught
there until he retired in 1997.
Bill and Daphne (his wife of 42 years) have four children, and
the family has always been united around a deep love of music.
Bill sang in various choirs, including the Guelph Chamber Choir
and, most recently in his new home in New Denver, British Columbia,
as a member of the Valhalla Choral Society.
He was also an enthusiastic amateur on the double bass, and for
several years ran a string instrument repair shop to serve students
of the Suzuki String School of Guelph. One of his proudest memories,
however, was singing in a barbershop quartet, along with Gordon
LIGHTFOOT, when in high school.
Bill HUGHES's philosophical interest and expertise were in social
and ethical philosophy. In more recent years, he had become interested
in techniques for teaching informal logic, and wrote course material,
especially for distance education, turning his work eventually
into a textbook. This is now going into its fourth edition. Bill
served as department chair, and if there was a university committee
on which Bill did not at some time sit, it has not yet been discovered.
He was one of those people known to everyone on campus, and to
whom all had at one point or another turned for advice or help.
For this was the main point about Bill
HUGHES. At one level,
he was a rather ordinary man. At another level, he was a most
extraordinary man, the rare example of someone who is truly good.
His whole life was given to others -- to his family, to his students,
to his colleagues, and to anyone else whom he met. Quakers speak
of the "inner light," or "that of God in every person."
Although he had no religious beliefs, Bill saw worth in everyone
he knew, and gave unstintingly of his time and effort to all,
whether this was a student late in the afternoon who needed some
guidance on a project, or a colleague who needed help with an
idea or a class, or a child whose cello was not sounding quite
right and perhaps needed a new string or bridge.
Bill was not perfect. He made mistakes. But, although Bill may
not have believed in heaven, if such there be, he has certainly
earned his place. I am sure that God has already nabbed Bill
for several important committees. ("Criteria for promotion up
the order of angels.") At the end of the day, Bill will be sitting
in the divine faculty club, Jeremy Bentham, Doubting Thomas (the
patron saint of philosophers), and one or two other slightly
non-respectable folk around him, pints of Wellington County --
the nectar of the gods -- in hand.
And now for a good natter: "Tell me, is the ontological argument
really valid?"
Michael RUSE was Bill's colleague for nearly 40 years.
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DUNSMUIR,
James
Smith
Jimmy DUNSMUIR, on Saturday, February 15, at Hamilton General
Hospital after a lengthy battle. Born in Kilmarnock, Scotland
on January 17, 1918. Jim was married to Nancy
WILSON of Ballyclare,
Northern Ireland, who predeceased him in 1985. Survived by his
daughter Mollie (Michael
CLELAND) of Ottawa; his companion of
15 years, Mary Ann
HENDRICKS of Hamilton; his brother David (Ermie)
of Toronto; his sister Betty (Hodge) of Buffalo, New York; his
nieces Judy of Toronto and Marcia of Illinois; his nephews, Derek
of North Carolina, David of Vancouver, and Jim, Harry, Douglas,
Bruce and Kevin all of Toronto. Predeceased on January 24, 2003,
by Michael's mother Sheila of Vancouver; two families joined
in sadness. Jim, who always described himself as ''a lover, not
a fighter'', fought his way, with some reluctance but considerable
success, from Dunkirk through North Africa. Sicily and Italy,
from 1939-1945, for a war he thought was worth fighting. Thanks
to the staff of the Hamilton General, in particular Kevin and
Anna, and Ann
RUSH. In lieu of donations, please consider when
you make your next charitable gift, adding a little something
in memory of Jim. Arrangements entrusted to Canadian Cremation
Services, 80 Ottawa Street, North, Hamilton 905-545-8889.
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THOMASSON,
Edna (née
RUSHTON)
Edna THOMASSON, beloved wife of the late Frank James
THOMASSON,
died peacefully in her sleep, at home, on November 16, 2003.
Edna will be fondly remembered by her children and their spouses:
Linda STEVENSON and John
STEVENSON,
Clive
THOMASSON and Deborah
ZWICKER,
Andrew
THOMASSON and Amanda
RICKETT; and by her grandchildren
Julia, Pippa, Simon, Freya and Sian.
Edna was born in 1928 in Bolton, England, the oldest child of
Thomas and Linda
RUSHTON and sister of Jim, Leonard, Arnold and
Tom. Following an early career in business, she trained as a
teacher and continued to further her education, pursuing studies
at Wilfred Laurier University while, at the same time, raising
her family. In retirement from teaching business studies at Thistletown
Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Edna continued to pursue her
love of traveling, spending her time between her brothers in
England, her grandchildren in Australia and always returning
home to her family in Canada.
Edna's family will receive Friends in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Chapel from 10: 30 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, November 21, 2003.
A short ceremony will be held at 11: 30 at the graveside.
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RUSK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-20 published
Ex-politician and war hero
FLYNN dies
Was chairman of Metropolitan Toronto
By James RUSK Municipal Affairs Reporter Wednesday, August 20,
2003 - Page A17
Dennis FLYNN, a war hero who parachuted into France on D-Day
and eventually rose to be chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, died
yesterday morning as he was preparing to observe an army reserve
exercise at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
Mr. FLYNN, 79, who had been in poor health in recent years, collapsed,
apparently of a heart attack, at his hotel in Pembroke, and was
pronounced dead at Pembroke General Hospital, the Canadian Armed
Forces said in a statement.
Mr. FLYNN was mayor of Etobicoke from 1972 to 1984, the longest-serving
mayor of the Toronto suburb, and was chairman of Metropolitan
Toronto from 1984 to 1988. He continued to serve on Metro Council
until the 1997 amalgamation that created the new City of Toronto.
He served on the Toronto Police Services Board and was awarded
the Order of Canada in 2001.
Major Tim LOURIE, public-relations director of the exercise,
said Mr. FLYNN travelled to Pembroke on Monday to observe a reserve
exercise in which the Toronto Scottish Regiment (the Queen Mother's
Own,) of which Mr.
FLYNN was the honorary lieutenant-colonel,
was participating.
"Unfortunately, he didn't even get out to see us here," Major
LOURIE said. The regiment received the call that he had collapsed
in the hotel just before a group of honorary colonels was heading
out to observe the exercise.
Mr. FLYNN, was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1923. When he
was two years old he migrated with his family to the Kensington
section of Toronto, long a melting pot for immigrants.
In 1938, at age 15, he joined the Toronto Scottish and volunteered
for active service at the outbreak of the Second World War. In
1942, he joined the joint Canadian-American unit that came to
be known as the Devil's Brigade, and in 1943, he transferred
to the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment.
He jumped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, where he was
wounded by German fire. After recovery, he rejoined the regiment,
jumped into Germany on March 24, 1945, in Operation Varsity,
the crossing of the Rhine River, and was wounded again when part
of his leg was shattered by machine-gun fire as he escorted two
German prisoners across the Rhine.
As a result of the wound, Mr.
FLYNN walked with a cane for the
rest of his life. "One of his most self-deprecating comments,
when talking to young soldiers, was that he had made only three
jumps. One was for practice, one was on D-Day, and the third
and last was across the Rhine," commented Lieutenant-Colonel
Mike TRAYNER, commanding officer of the Toronto Scottish.
After the war, he joined the City of Toronto's clerk's department,
and rose to be protocol officer. He failed in his first run for
mayor of Etobicoke in 1969, but upset the incumbent, Doug
LACEY,
in 1972.
In 1984, he was elected chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, replacing
Paul GODFREY, now president of the Toronto Blue Jays, who was
then leaving Toronto politics to become publisher of the Toronto
Sun. His career as Metro chairman ended in 1988, when he lost
to Alan TONKS, now a member of parliament.
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RUSSELL o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
Captain
Lynn
Gerald
FREEMAN, 1930-2003
"We all must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,
but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor"
It is with sadness and regret that we announce the passing of our
dad, Lynn Gerald
FREEMAN, after a lengthy illness, on Saturday,
January 11, 2003, with his family at his side, at the Hotel Dieu
hospital in St. Catharines. Lynn was born in Tehkummah, the son of
the late Mildred
(RUSSELL) and Ernest
FREEMAN.
Lynn is survived by: the mother of his children, Sandra
FREEMAN and
his kids, Jerry, Cindy, Mark, Angela and Kim, his grandchildren who
he loved very much: Sandra, Christa, Natacha, Mark Jr. and Jake, his
brothers and sisters: Earl (Effie,) Gelena
HOPKIN,
Lorraine
EADIE
(Ted), Marion
CASE (Harold), Dick (Lois), Betty
LAWSON, Margaret
DIBONAVENTURA, Conrad (Judy), Myrna
BEATON (Ken) and Brenda
ROBINSON.
Lynn was predeceased by his brother Larry.
Besides his family, Lynn's passion in life was sailing on the Great
Lakes. He was at home on the water and took great pride in the ships
he sailed for some 45 years. He will be remembered and missed by
those who sailed with him during those years. Until Lynn became ill
he was current with all traffic in the Welland Canal.
At Lynn's request, cremation will take place with a private family
service. A memorial service will take place on Manitoulin Island at
a later date.
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N. Peter SMITH
August 5, 1946 to October 19, 2003.
Pete went to join he heavenly Father on Sunday morning with his wife
and best friend, Esther at his bedside in the Mindemoya Hospital.
Pete had courageously fought a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.
Pete was born in Toronto and grew up in London. He returned to
Toronto to work, and begin his family, but often dreamed of leaving
for a more rural lifestyle. During the years of living in the city,
he spent his weekends and vacations with his Friends and family,
building a cottage on the Pickerel River-Le Grou lake near Arnstein.
He was eventually able to realize his dream of farming and he moved
his family to Powassan. He later enjoyed living and working in Parry
Sound. He was able to realize another dream of entrepreneurship when
he opened his gift shop "The Pickle Jar" in Port Loring. Pete chose
Manitoulin Island as his final earthly home, and felt he had almost
found paradise at his home in Gore Bay overlooking the North Channel.
Pete loved the outdoors and always believed in being a good steward
of the land, attempting to leave the environment in a better
condition. His hobbies included golfing, hunting, fishing, all terrain vehicles,
sledding, boating, and walking, as well as woodworking, collecting
antiques and many more interests. He loved to socialize and enjoyed
spending time in conversation with people.
Pete was the younger
son of Allan and Margaret
SMITH (predeceased) of
Toronto. He will be missed by his brother David (Sylvia) of
Oakville, his children, Brian of Huntsville, Scott (wife Valerie) of
Oshawa, and Wendy (Chris) of Parry Sound. Step son Jamie (Cheryl)
and granddaughter Rebecca
TAILOR/TAYLOR of Guelph. Mother and
father-in-law, Fred and Beulah
RUSSELL of Tehkummah, sisters and
brothers-in-law, Evelyn
RUSSELL
BAEHR of Kitchener, Barbara and Keith
FLAHERTY of Southampton. Nieces and nephews, a great niece and great
nephew, and many Friends.
Pete was active in the Mindemoya Missionary Church and will be missed by his church family.
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McMULLEN,
Kathleen
At the Northumberland Health Care Centre, Cobourg, Monday, March
3, 2003 at the age of 93. Kathleen (née
FITZPATRICK,) wife of
the late George Adams
McMULLEN.
Loving mother of Linda
McMULLEN
of Peterborough and Bob
McMULLEN
(Anne
Marie) of Stratford. Predeceased
by her daughter Margie
LEMON.
Mother-in-law of Morley
LEMON and
his wife Sandra. Dear Nana of William
LEMON and his wife Donna,
Kelly Anne
LEMON,
Jennifer,
Julie and Michael
McMULLEN. Great
grandmother of Meg and Ben
LEMON.
Sister of Margaret
FITZPATRICK
of Cobourg. Kathleen will also be remembered by her extended
family David
PATERSON,
Elspeth
RUSSELL and Diane
RANKIN and families.
A memorial service will be held at the Legion Village Recreation
Hall, 111 Hibernia Street, Cobourg, on Saturday, March 8 at 2: 00
p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to the charity of your choice
would be appreciated by the family.
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RUSSELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-12 published
'He kept a little flame of geometry alive'
Superstar University of Toronto mathematician considered himself
an artist, but his seminal work inevitably found practical applications
By Siobhan
ROBERTS
Saturday,
April 12, 2003 - Page F11
Widely considered the greatest classical geometer of his time
and the man who saved his discipline from near extinction, Harold
Scott MacDonald
COXETER, who died on March 31 at 96, said of
himself, with characteristic modesty, "I am like any other artist.
It just so happens that what fills my mind is shapes and numbers."
Prof. COXETER's work focused on hyperdimensional shapes, specifically
the symmetry of regular figures and polytopes. Polytopes are
geometric shapes of any number of dimensions that cannot be constructed
in the real world and can be visualized only when the eye of
the beholder possesses the necessary insight; they are most often
described mathematically and sometimes can be represented with
hypnotically intricate fine-line drawings.
"I like things that can be seen," Prof.
COXETER once remarked.
"You have to imagine a different world where these queer things
have some kind of shape."
Known as Donald (shortened from MacDonald,) Prof.
COXETER had
such a passion for his work and unrivalled elegance in constructing
and writing proofs that he motivated countless mathematicians
to pick up the antiquated discipline of geometry long after it
had been deemed passé.
John Horton
CONWAY, the Von Neumann professor of mathematics
at Princeton University, never studied under Prof.
COXETER, but
he considers himself an honorary student because of the
COXETERian
nature of his work.
"With math, what you're doing is trying to prove something and
that can get very complicated and ugly.
COXETER always manages
to do it clearly and concisely," Prof.
CONWAY said. "He kept
a little flame of geometry alive by doing such beautiful works
himself.
"I'm reminded of a quotation from Walter Pater's book The Renaissance.
He was describing art and poetry, but he talks of a small, gem-like
flame: 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain
this ecstasy, is success in life.' "
Prof. COXETER's oeuvre included more than 250 papers and 12 books.
His Introduction to Geometry, published in 1961, is now considered
a classic -- it is still in print and this year is back on the
curriculum at McGill University. His Regular Polytopes is considered
by some as the modern-day addendum to Euclid's Elements. In 1957,
he published Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups, written
jointly with his PhD student and lifelong friend Willy
MOSER.
It is currently in its seventh edition.
Prof. COXETER's self-image as an artist was validated by his
Friendship with and influence on Dutch artist M. C.
ESCHER, who,
when working on his Circle Limit 3 drawings, used to say, "I'm
Coxetering today."
They met at the International Mathematical Congress in Amsterdam
in 1954 and then corresponded about their mutual interest in
repeating patterns and representations of infinity. In a letter
to his son, Mr.
ESCHER noted that a diagram sent to him by Prof.
COXETER that inspired his Circle Limit 3 prints "gave me quite
a shock."
He added that "
COXETER's hocus-pocus text is no use to me at
all.... I understand nothing, absolutely nothing of it."
While Mr. ESCHER claimed total ignorance of math, Prof.
COXETER
wrote numerous papers on the Dutchman's "intuitive geometry."
Though Prof.
COXETER did geometry for its own sake, his work
inevitably found practical application. Buckminster
FULLER encountered
his work in the construction of his geodesic domes. He later
dedicated a book to Prof.
COXETER: "By virtue of his extraordinary
life's work in mathematics, Prof.
COXETER is the geometer of
our bestirring twentieth century. [He is] the spontaneously acclaimed
terrestrial curator of the historical inventory of the science
of pattern analysis."
Prof. COXETER's work with icosohedral symmetries served as a
template of sorts in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the
Carbon 60 molecule. It has also proved relevant to other specialized
areas of science such as telecommunications, data mining, topology
and quasi-crystals.
In 1968, Prof.
COXETER added to his list of converts an anonymous
society of French mathematicians, the Bourbakis, who actively
and internationally sought to eradicate classical geometry from
the curriculum of math education.
"Death to Triangles, Down with Euclid!" was the Bourbaki war
cry. Prof.
COXETER's rebuttal: "Everyone is entitled to their
opinion. But the Bourbakis were sadly mistaken."
One member of the society, Pierre
CARTIER, met Prof.
COXETER
in Montreal and became enamoured of his work. Soon, he had persuaded
his fellow Bourbakis to include Prof.
COXETER's approach in their
annual publication. "An entire volume of Bourbaki was thoroughly
inspired by the work of
COXETER," said Prof.
CARTIER, a professor
at Denis Diderot University in Paris.
In the 1968 volume, Prof.
COXETER's name was writ large into
the lexicon of mathematics with the inauguration of the terms
"COXETER number," "
COXETER group" and
"COXETER graph."
These concepts describe symmetrical properties of shapes in multiple
dimensions and helped to bridge the old-fashioned classical geometry
with the more au courant and applied algebraic side of the discipline.
These concepts continue to pervade geometrical discourse, several
decades after being discovered by Prof.
COXETER.
Prof. COXETER became a serious mathematician at the relatively
late age of 14, though family folklore has it that, as a toddler,
he liked to stare at the columns of numbers in the financial
pages of his father's newspaper.
He was born into a Quaker family in Kensington, just west of
London, on February 9, 1907. His mother, Lucy
GEE, was a landscape
artist and portrait painter, and his father, Harold, was a manufacturer
of surgical instruments, though his great love was sculpting.
They had originally named their son MacDonald Scott
COXETER,
but a godparent suggested that the boy's father's name should
be added at the front. Another relative then pointed out that
H.M.S. COXETER made him sound like a ship of the royal fleet
so the names were switched around.
When Prof.
COXETER was 12, he created his own language -- "Amellaibian"
a cross between Latin and French, and filled a 126-page notebook
with information on the imaginary world where it was spoken.
But more than anything he fancied himself a composer, writing
several piano concertos, a string quartet and a fugue. His mother
took her son and his musical compositions to Gustav
HOLST.
His
advice: "Educate him first."
He was then sent to boarding school, where he met John Flinders
PETRIE, son of Egyptologist Sir Flinders
PETRIE.
The two were
passing time at the infirmary contemplating why there were only
five Platonic solids -- the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron
and icosahedron. They then began visualizing what these shapes
might look like in the fourth dimension. At the age of 15, Prof.
COXETER won a school prize for an English essay on how to project
these geometric shapes into higher dimensions -- he called it
"Dimensional Analogy."
Prof. COXETER's father took his son along with his essay to meet
friend and fellow pacifist Bertrand
RUSSELL.
Mr.
RUSSELL recommended
Prof. COXETER to mathematician E.H.
NEVILLE, a scout, of sorts,
for mathematics prodigies. He was impressed by Prof.
COXETER's
work but appalled by some inexcusable gaps in his mathematical
knowledge. Prof.
NEVILLE arranged for private tutelage in pursuit
of a scholarship at Cambridge. During this period, Prof.
COXETER
was forbidden from thinking in the fourth dimension, except on
Sundays.
He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1926 and was among
five students handpicked by Ludwig
WITTGENSTEIN for his philosophy
of mathematics class. During his first year at Cambridge, at
the age of 19, he discovered a new regular polyhedron that had
six hexagonal faces at each vertex.
After graduating with first-class honours in 1929, he received
his doctorate under H. F.
BAKER in 1931, winning the coveted
Smith's Prize for his thesis.
Prof. COXETER did fellowship stints back and forth between Princeton
and Cambridge for the next few years, focusing on the mathematics
of kaleidoscopes -- he had mirrors specially cut and hinged together
and carried them in velvet pouches sewn by his mother. By 1933,
he had enumerated the n-dimensional kaleidoscopes -- that is,
kaleidoscopes operating up to any number of dimensions.
The concepts that became known as
COXETER groups are the complex
algebraic equations he developed to express how many images may
be seen of any object in a kaleidoscope (he once used a paper
triangle with the word "nonsense" printed on it to track reflections).
In 1936, Prof.
COXETER was offered an assistant professorship
at the University of Toronto. He made the move shortly after
the sudden death of his father and following his marriage to
Rien BROUWER.
She was from the Netherlnds and he met her while
she was on holiday in London.
As a professor, Prof.
COXETER was known to flout set curriculum.
Ed BARBEAU, now a professor at the U of T, recalled that at the
start of his classes, Prof.
COXETER would spread out a manuscript
on the desks at the front of the room. During his lecture, he
would often pause for minutes at a time to make notes when a
student offered something that might be relevant to his work
in progress. When the work was later published, students were
pleasantly surprised to find that their suggestions had been
duly credited.
Prof. COXETER was also known to show up to class carrying a pineapple,
or a giant sunflower from his garden, demonstrating the existence
of geometric principles in nature. And he was notorious for leaping
over details, expecting students to fill in the rest.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's resident intellectual, Lister
SINCLAIR, was one of
Prof. COXETER's earliest students. He once recounted that Prof.
COXETER would "write an expression on the board and you could
see it talking to him. It was like Michelangelo walking around
a block of marble and seeing what's in there."
Asia Ivic WEISS, a professor at York University, Prof.
COXETER's
last PhD student and the only woman so honoured, describes an
incident that perfectly exemplifies Prof.
COXETER's math myopia.
Going into labour with her first child, she called him to cancel
their weekly meeting. Prof.
COXETER, who never acknowledged her
pregnancy, said not to worry, he would send over a stack of research
to keep her busy when she got home from the hospital.
Despite several offers from other universities, Prof.
COXETER
stayed at University of Toronto throughout his career.
Like his father, he was a pacifist. In 1997, he was among those
who marched a petition to the university president's office to
protest against an honorary degree being conferred on George
BUSH Sr. Prof.
COXETER recalled with disdain Robert
PRITCHARD's
telling him, "Donald, I have more important things to worry about."
After his official retirement in 1977, Prof.
COXETER continued
as a professor emeritus, making weekly visits to his office.
These subsided only in the past several months. On the weekend
before his death, he finished revisions on his final paper, which
he had delivered the previous summer in Budapest.
In his last five years, he survived a heart attack, a broken
hip (he sprung himself from the hospital early to drive to a
geometry conference in Wisconsin) and, most recently, prostate
cancer.
Considering his 96 years of vegetarianism and a strict exercise
regime, he felt betrayed by his body. "I feel like the man of
Thermopylae who doesn't do anything properly," he commented
recently after an awkward evening out, quoting nonsense poet
Edward LEAR.
Prof. COXETER died in his home, with three long last breaths,
just before bed on the last day of March.
His brain is now undergoing study at McMaster University, along
with that of Albert
EINSTEIN.
Neuroscientist
Sandra
WITELSON
is tryng to determine whether his brain's extraordinary capacities
are associated with its structure.
Prof. COXETER met with her at the beginning of March and learned
that the atypical elements of Einstein's brain, compared with
an average brain, were symmetrical on both right and left sides.
Prof. WITELSON said she wondered whether there might be similar
findings with Prof.
COXETER's brain. "Isn't that nice," he said.
"I suppose that would indicate all my interest in symmetry was
well founded."
Prof. COXETER leaves his daughter Susan and son Edgar. His wife
died in 1999.
Siobhan ROBERTS is a Toronto writer whose biography of Donald
COXETER will be published by Penguin in 2005.
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STANBURY, Amadita Diana Oland Halifax (née
OLAND)
Died peacefully at her family home on August 9, 2003 after a
long and courageous battle with breast cancer. Born a twin on
Easter Sunday, 1918 in Guildford, England, she was the only daughter
of the late Colonel Sidney C.
OLAND and Herlinda deBedia
OLAND.
Following World War 1, she lived in Havana, Cuba, Halifax and
later in Hollywood, where both her parents were in motion pictures.
Upon her return to Nova Scotia, she attended the Convent of the
Sacred Heart and then Mount Saint Vincent Academy and has enjoyed
her affiliations with both schools ever since. She was also educated
abroad in Lausanne, Paris and London. One of her passions was
riding horses, where she excelled and won various awards both
in Halifax. Still remembered as a significant social event, her
marriage to Norman
STANBURY in July 1938 took place on the first
sunny day following six weeks of rain. On its front page, above
a wedding photo, the Halifax Herald ran a huge banner ''Happy
the Bride the Sun Shines On''. The sun continued to shine for
over 50 years of marriage.
She joined the Junior League and loved her work in the Well Baby
Clinic, During her lifetime of dedication to raising her family,
she was active in her support of the Arts including the Canadian
Opera Company, the London Theatre Company, the Kiwanis Music
Festival and numerous local theatre companies including Neptune
Theatre She was knowledgeable about and gained great pleasure
from her study of antiques.
As a alumna of Mount Saint Vincent, she was Chair of their Project
One-Futures for Women fund raising campaign and was among the
first to receive the University Alumnae Award of Distinction.
She is survived by her six children - Penelope (Barry
RUSSELL,)
Michael, and Lindita (Charles
WALKER) all of Halifax; Bruce and
Christopher (Asifa
BHATIA) of Vancouver, Norman, Toronto; also
eight grandchildren-Charles (Loraine
TOBIA,)
Paul
(Dawna
BEARISTO)
and Dick RUSSELL,
Susannah and Katherine
STANBURY, Roland
STANBURY
and Diana and Charles
WALKER; three great-grandchildren and two
and two step great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her
twin brother, Bruce S.
OLAND,
Halifax, and many cousins, nieces
and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Norman, and
two brothers, Victor deBedia and Don Jamie.
Visitation will be at Snows Funeral Home from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
on Tuesday. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated by Reverend Gordon
MacLEAN at Canadian Martyrs Church, 5900 Inglis Street, Halifax
at 11: 00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 13. A private family burial
service will be held later at Santa Maria del Pilar Chapel, Sackville,
Nova Scotia. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Breast Cancer Society or
the charity of your choice. On line condolences snow@funeralscanada.com
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Father figure to the Canadian stage
British-trained Stratford character actor never craved starring
roles
By Allison
LAWLOR,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Thursday, October
16, 2003 - Page R11
For
Mervyn "
Butch"
BLAKE, entering a theatre was a magical experience,
something he never tired of during an acting career that spanned
close to three-quarters of a century. Mr.
BLAKE, one of the most
loved members of the Stratford Festival Company, died on October
9 at a Toronto nursing home after a long illness. He was 95.
"Theatre seems to give me life," Mr.
BLAKE said in 1994. "I just
feel marvellous when I enter the theatre... it's one of the things
which keeps me going."
Over his long stage life that included 42 consecutive seasons
with the Stratford Festival of Canada, Mr.
BLAKE "had the distinction
of playing in every single play of Shakespeare's," said Richard
MONETTE,
Stratford's artistic director.
"He had a great life in the theatre," Mr.
MONETTE said.
Adored by both audiences and fellow actors, the veteran actor
was known across Canada for his enormous talent and generosity
of spirit. When he wasn't working at Stratford, he acted on the
country's major stages and in television and film.
For seven seasons, he toured with the Canadian Players, bringing
professional theatre to smaller towns. And in 1987, he won a
Dora Mavor Moore Award for best performance in a featured role
in a production of Saturday, Sunday, Monday at what was then
called CentreStage (now CanStage).
"Everyone loved Butch without exception," said John
NEVILLE,
a former Stratford's artistic director.
Mervyn BLAKE was born on November 30, 1907, in Dehra Dun, India,
where his father was a railway executive.
His father wanted him to become an engineer but after falling
in love with the theatre, Mr.
BLAKE was able to persuade his
father to allow him to study at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art. In 1932, he graduated and soon made his professional stage
debut at the Embassy Theatre in London
During the Second World War, he served in the British Army as
a driver. It was during the war years that he is said to have
got his nickname Butch. A witness to the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, Mr.
BLAKE was present at the liberation of
the camp by British troops. It was an experience that haunted
him for the rest of his life.
At the war's end, he returned to England and to the stage. He
married actress Christine
BENNETT and spent the years between
1952 and 1955 at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
There he worked with many of the great British actors such as
Sir Laurence
OLIVIER, Sir Michael
REDGRAVE and Dame Peggy
ASHCROFT.
Despite his success on the British stage, he decided to join
the Stratford Festival of Canada, then in its fifth season. With
his family in tow, Mr.
BLAKE moved to Canada and in 1957 appeared
in a production of Hamlet with Christopher
PLUMMER in the title
role.
"He wasn't a leading actor," said actor and director Douglas
CAMPBELL. "He was a supporting player. As a supporting player
you couldn't get better."
Mr. BLAKE always saw himself as a character actor who never cared
that much about starring roles, said Audrey
ASHLEY, a former
Ottawa
Citizen theatre critic and author of Mr.
BLAKE's 1999
biography With Love from Butch.
"He was one of those actors you never had to worry about," Ms.
ASHLEY said. "You knew Butch was always going to do a good job."
Known for his unfailing good nature and even temper, he enjoyed
re-telling gaffes he had made on stage. Mr.
MONETTE remembers
one performance where Mr.
BLAKE appeared on stage as the Sea
Captain in Twelfth Night. The character Viola asks him, "What
country, Friends, is this?" And instead of responding "This is
Illyria, lady." Out of his mouth popped, "This is Orillia."
To the younger actors at Stratford, Mr.
BLAKE was a father figure.
"He was very fond of the young actors and would take them under
his wing," Ms.
ASHLEY said.
Stephen RUSSELL remembers arriving at Stratford for his first
season in the mid-1970s. He was placed in the same dressing room
as Mr. BLAKE, an experience he still holds close to his heart.
"He was one of the most generous human beings," Mr.
RUSSELL said.
One of the areas Mr.
BLAKE was most helpful in was teaching fellow
actors how to apply stage makeup. He loved makeup and on his
dressing-room table he had an old rabbit's foot that he would
use to apply his face powder, Mr.
RUSSELL said.
Aging didn't stop him from applying his own elaborate makeup.
Playing the role of old Adam in As You Like It required him to
go through the same makeup ritual when he was 70 years old as
it did when he performed the role years earlier as a much younger
man.
Aside from the stage, one of Mr.
BLAKE's passions was cricket.
During his first season in Stratford, he played on the festival's
team and was responsible for starting a friendly, annual cricket
match against the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Each season, members of the two acting companies would come together
for a civilized afternoon of cricket and tea. The Stratford team
still goes by the name of Blake's Blokes.
In honour of his talent and dedication to the theatre, Mr.
BLAKE
was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in May, 1995.
"When he entered, the stage just lit up," Mr.
RUSSELL said.
Mr. BLAKE leaves his wife
Christine
BENNETT; children Andrew
and Bridget; and stepson Tim
DAVISSON.
Details of a memorial service to be held in Stratford, Ontario,
have yet to be announced.
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RUSSELL,
Kathleen▼ - Estate of
Notice To Creditors And Others
All▼ claims against the Estate of Kathleen
RUSSELL, late of 602
Melita Crescent Toronto, Ontario, M5G 3B1, who died on or about
August 5th, 2003, must be filed with the undersigned personal
representative on or before the 30th day of January, 2004. Thereafter,
the undersigned will distribute the assets of the Estate having
regard only to the claims then filed.
Dated the 28th day of November, 2003.
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Executor▼
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MacKenzie,
Solicitors, 655 Dizon Road, Rexdale,
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Kathleen▲▼ - Estate of
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All▲▼ claims against the Estate of Kathleen
RUSSELL, late of 602
Melita Crescent Toronto, Ontario, M5G 3B1, who died on or about
August 5th, 2003, must be filed with the undersigned personal
representative on or before the 30th day of January, 2004. Thereafter,
the undersigned will distribute the assets of the Estate having
regard only to the claims then filed.
Dated the 28th day of November, 2003.
Maralyn CALE,
Executor▲▼
by McKechnie, Jurgeit and
MacKenzie,
Solicitors, 655 Dizon Road, Rexdale,
Ontario, M9W 1J4
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RUSSELL,
Kathleen▲ - Estate of
Notice To Creditors And Others
All▲ claims against the Estate of Kathleen
RUSSELL, late of 602
Melita Crescent Toronto, Ontario, M5G 3B1, who died on or about
August 5th, 2003, must be filed with the undersigned personal
representative on or before the 30th day of January, 2004. Thereafter,
the undersigned will distribute the assets of the Estate having
regard only to the claims then filed.
Dated the 28th day of November, 2003.
Maralyn CALE,
Executor▲
by McKechnie, Jurgeit and
MacKenzie,
Solicitors, 655 Dizon Road, Rexdale,
Ontario, M9W 1J4
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