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Jack McCLURE
By Carol BERNEY
Thursday,▼
March▼ 6, 2003 - Page A22
Painter, tennis player, friend, Perth County Conspirator. Born
July 26, 1936, in Troy, New York Died February 13 in Stratford,
Ontario, of heart failure, aged 66.
Jack McCLURE never made much money. He lived a simple life, say
his Friends, who describe him as a "secular monk." After serving
in the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami in the early 60s, Jack attended
the University of Miami, played tennis, and hung out at The Flick
coffee house, where he met actor/musician Cedric
SMITH. In the
late sixties Jack accompanied Cedric to Canada, and ended up
working in the kitchen of the Black Swan coffee house in Stratford
and living at "Puddlewalk, " the communal farm home of the Perth
County Conspiracy, a swirling, ever-changing family of draft
dodgers, artists, actors, musicians, and local hippies.
Jack was a passionate scholar and creative thinker. Obsessed
with Marshall
McLUHAN,
Jack▼ thought he saw a flaw in
McLUHAN's
theory, and actually went to Toronto to meet
McLUHAN.
Unfortunately,▼
McLUHAN brushed him off and Jack came home crushed. For a short
while, Jack lived at the (in)famous Rochdale College in Toronto.
Jack said he lived on the 14th floor, and would look down and
see cop cars converging on the building, but the residents had
rigged the elevators to run so slowly that there was always plenty
of time to clean up before the police arrived, and people rarely
got busted. The other people on his floor were very nice, serious
artists and intellectuals, but there were some wilder characters
on some of the lower floors, and riding the elevator could be
quite an adventure.
Back in Stratford, Jack lived in a caboose on a friend's farm
for awhile, and then moved into town to share an apartment with
another friend, Harry
FINLAY.
Jack▼ then worked at the Gentle
Rain natural foods store for, essentially, the rest of his life.
He also sold paintings to his Friends, and gave tennis lessons.
Among▼ his patrons and students was musician Loreena
McKENNITT,
who said Jack was a very good teacher. His paintings were mostly
in a realistically impressionist style, with tiny touches of
absurdity and/or social protest. He would add a discarded Coke
can to an otherwise idyllic river scene, or paint a nuclear-waste
hazard sign on the side of a railroad car or at the back of a
cave. One of his paintings was a portrait of Albert Einstein,
while another, titled Church of the Muses, depicted Einstein
playing the violin, with James Joyce playing piano and Bertrand
Russell reciting.
In the last few years, Jack became close Friends with Michelle
DENNIS, a co-worker at the Gentle Rain. On the back of a painting
Jack gave to Michelle's family he called her two young daughters
his "surrogate grandchildren."
This past summer, Jack was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent
chemotherapy and radiation therapy and was in remission when
he suffered a fatal heart attack during a badminton game. Jack
left instructions to be cremated, with no service. However, as
his long-term friend and employer Eric
EBERHART remarked, that
didn't mean we couldn't have a party. So the Sunday after Jack's
death, many of his Friends and co-workers gathered at his house.
We brought food, drink, photographs, and his paintings, and we
had an impromptu showing of Jack's work to pay homage to his
life and his spirit. His paintings are being archived, and in
the spring there may be a showing at one of the Stratford galleries.
In Jack's room, on his work bench, was a quotation from Einstein:
"The years of anxious searching in the dark, the intense longing,
the alternations of confidence and exhaustion and then -- the
final emergence into the light -- only someone who has so struggled
and endured could understand." This describes the Jack we knew
and loved.
Carol BERNEY is a friend of Jack
McCLURE.
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Died
This
Day -- Harold
INNIS, 1952
Thursday, November 20, 2003 - Page R11
Professor, political economist and communications theorist born
in Otterville, Ontario, on November 5, 1894; 1920, joined faculty
at University of Toronto; interpretations of economic history
first to separate from U.S.; produced The Fur Trade in Canada
(1930), The Cod Fisheries (1940), and Empire and Communications
(1950;) greatly influenced Marshall
McLUHAN.
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Died
This
Day -- Nellie
McCLUNG, 1951
Monday, September 1, 2003 - Page R5
Suffragist, reformer and author born Nellie Letitia
MOONEY at
Chatsworth, Ontario, on October 20, 1873; raised on homestead
in Souris Valley, Manitoba; did not attend school until 10; at
16, received teaching certificate and taught school; 1896, married
Robert Wesley
McCLUNG, a druggist in Manitou, Manitoba; she became
prominent in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; 1908, published
first novel, the bestseller Sowing Seeds in Danny.
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Jack McCLURE
By Carol BERNEY
Thursday,▲
March▲ 6, 2003 - Page A22
Painter, tennis player, friend, Perth County Conspirator. Born
July 26, 1936, in Troy, New York Died February 13 in Stratford,
Ontario, of heart failure, aged 66.
Jack McCLURE never made much money. He lived a simple life, say
his Friends, who describe him as a "secular monk." After serving
in the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami in the early 60s, Jack attended
the University of Miami, played tennis, and hung out at The Flick
coffee house, where he met actor/musician Cedric
SMITH. In the
late sixties Jack accompanied Cedric to Canada, and ended up
working in the kitchen of the Black Swan coffee house in Stratford
and living at "Puddlewalk, " the communal farm home of the Perth
County Conspiracy, a swirling, ever-changing family of draft
dodgers, artists, actors, musicians, and local hippies.
Jack was a passionate scholar and creative thinker. Obsessed
with Marshall
McLUHAN,
Jack▲ thought he saw a flaw in
McLUHAN's
theory, and actually went to Toronto to meet
McLUHAN.
Unfortunately,▲
McLUHAN brushed him off and Jack came home crushed. For a short
while, Jack lived at the (in)famous Rochdale College in Toronto.
Jack said he lived on the 14th floor, and would look down and
see cop cars converging on the building, but the residents had
rigged the elevators to run so slowly that there was always plenty
of time to clean up before the police arrived, and people rarely
got busted. The other people on his floor were very nice, serious
artists and intellectuals, but there were some wilder characters
on some of the lower floors, and riding the elevator could be
quite an adventure.
Back in Stratford, Jack lived in a caboose on a friend's farm
for awhile, and then moved into town to share an apartment with
another friend, Harry
FINLAY.
Jack▲ then worked at the Gentle
Rain natural foods store for, essentially, the rest of his life.
He also sold paintings to his Friends, and gave tennis lessons.
Among▲ his patrons and students was musician Loreena
McKENNITT,
who said Jack was a very good teacher. His paintings were mostly
in a realistically impressionist style, with tiny touches of
absurdity and/or social protest. He would add a discarded Coke
can to an otherwise idyllic river scene, or paint a nuclear-waste
hazard sign on the side of a railroad car or at the back of a
cave. One of his paintings was a portrait of Albert Einstein,
while another, titled Church of the Muses, depicted Einstein
playing the violin, with James Joyce playing piano and Bertrand
Russell reciting.
In the last few years, Jack became close Friends with Michelle
DENNIS, a co-worker at the Gentle Rain. On the back of a painting
Jack gave to Michelle's family he called her two young daughters
his "surrogate grandchildren."
This past summer, Jack was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent
chemotherapy and radiation therapy and was in remission when
he suffered a fatal heart attack during a badminton game. Jack
left instructions to be cremated, with no service. However, as
his long-term friend and employer Eric
EBERHART remarked, that
didn't mean we couldn't have a party. So the Sunday after Jack's
death, many of his Friends and co-workers gathered at his house.
We brought food, drink, photographs, and his paintings, and we
had an impromptu showing of Jack's work to pay homage to his
life and his spirit. His paintings are being archived, and in
the spring there may be a showing at one of the Stratford galleries.
In Jack's room, on his work bench, was a quotation from Einstein:
"The years of anxious searching in the dark, the intense longing,
the alternations of confidence and exhaustion and then -- the
final emergence into the light -- only someone who has so struggled
and endured could understand." This describes the Jack we knew
and loved.
Carol BERNEY is a friend of Jack
McCLURE.
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A trailblazer in women's hockey
As a coach, he saw people first, athletes second and so took
Canadian women's hockey to the pinnacle of the sport
By Ron CSILLAG
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, March
12, 2003 - Page R7
Toronto -- Think "hockey coach, " and you may be forgiven for
conjuring images of a bug-eyed, borderline rage-oholic working
a small wad of gum while berating his bench and screaming instructions
to the ice.
That wasn't Dave
McMASTER.
A fixture in Canadian women's hockey for 35 years, Mr.
McMASTER
was the polar opposite: A calm and calming influence who taught
his players respect for their abilities and those of their opponents
who saw people first and athletes second; who radiated a sheer
love of the game; who hugged his players and meant it.
A trailblazer who boosted woman's hockey in this country before
it was popular, or even seemly, Mr.
McMASTER guided the Canadian
women's team to a gold medal at the first women's world hockey
championship in 1990 in Ottawa. Over one-million television viewers
watched as Canada beat the U.S. 5-2 in the final. He also coached
Team Canada at the first unofficial women's world tournament
in 1987.
Through 22 seasons coaching the University of Toronto's Varsity
(Lady)
Blues,
Mr.
McMASTER won 12 Ontario university titles and
compiled a record of 212-38-22.
"Everywhere there was hockey, Dave was there, said Fran
RIDER,
executive director of the Ontario Women's Hockey Association.
"He was the lifeblood of women's hockey, very dedicated, not
only to the game but to life skills. He cared about every player
on every team. His enthusiasm and love of the game was catching."
At the time of his unexpected death of a heart attack this month
in Toronto at the age of 62, he was still coaching three girls'
teams, despite being officially retired as a schoolteacher and
coach. One of them, the squad at Bishop Strachan School, had
to leave for a tournament in Newfoundland just days after Mr.
McMASTER died. Their coach's influence obviously sunk in: Despite
being distraught at the news of his death, which sent shock waves
through the world of women's hockey, the team won all seven of
its games. That was after Bishop Strachan captured the Foster
Hewitt Memorial Cup for the fifth consecutive year at the Air
Canada
Centre just three weeks before Mr.
McMASTER's death.
"He gave players a sense of responsibility for their actions.
He taught us to respect ourselves and others, but most important,
he let us have fun, recalled Team Canada head coach Karen
HUGHES,
who also took over from Mr.
McMASTER as coach at U of T, where
she had played for him. "With Dave, it wasn't about winning and
losing, but a love of the game and sharing and Friends. He encouraged
players to go beyond their limits."
Some 800 Friends, loved ones and jersey-clad players crowded
Grace Church-on-the-Hill in Toronto on Valentine's Day to celebrate
a life that touched so many others.
David Carson
McMASTER was born in Toronto to a homemaker and
a lawyer who wanted a legal career for his son. At St. Andrew's
College, the young Mr.
McMASTER played football, cricket and
hockey, and later, at Dalhousie University, "he was a born goaltender,
remembered his lifelong best friend, Douglas
ROWAN. "
Mix,
as he came to be called (as in Mixmaster), was not known as a
particularly graceful player, as his many stitches and at least
seven broken noses attested. He was an early proponent of face
masks for goalies and after donning one, he ducked out of the
way of a puck, only to be hit in the head. More stitches followed.
It was at Dalhousie that he coached his first women's team, in
1965. "He acquired a girlfriend he could yell at on the ice,
Mr. ROWAN quipped. "It didn't last." But the coaching bug did.
Armed with a history degree, Mr.
McMASTER returned to Toronto
to study law. That lasted less than a year, and he graduated
from the University of Toronto's teachers' college instead. He
joined the small staff of Toronto's Royal St. George's College
in 1969 and spent nearly 30 years teaching geography, history
and guidance.
Mr. McMASTER began coaching the women's hockey team at University
of Toronto while still a student there. In 22 seasons (1967-69
and 1975-93), he won an enviable 82 per cent of games. There,
as with Team Canada, he would don his trademark track suit and
black bike helmet to preside over practices, with cries of "Regroup!"
"Shoot your passes!" and "Two laps." Coughing up the puck in
the neutral zone was "a never."
In 1972, he married Norma
McCLURE, who'd been his waitress at
the Muskoka Golf and Country Club. The couple had a son, Scott,
and a daughter, Anne, before divorcing in 1991. Mr.
McMASTER
never remarried.
He was a focused, demanding coach, but not obsessive, said his
daughter. "I don't even have any idea how to skate. But Dad never
pushed me. That was testament to his patience and love. He never
raised his voice." At Toronto Maple Leaf games, "he was always
coaching. He would cheer a good play by the other team."
He displayed his gold medal, said Anne, but not as prominently
as a letter from a young girl saying Mr.
McMASTER had changed
her perspective on life.
He wasn't without a mischievous sense of humour. Vicki
SUNOHARA,
who played for Mr.
McMASTER for two years, recalled how Team
Canada once thrashed Japan 13-0. Ms.
SUNOHARA, who is of Japanese
extraction, scored several goals and was named player of the
game. She recalled how Mr.
McMASTER told her after the game,
in mock horror, "These Japanese girls love you and look up to
you. How could you do this to them?"
Mr. McMASTER went on to Bishop Strachan School in 1998 to coach
hockey and teach geography and history. He was inducted into
the University of Toronto's Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. He retired
in 2001, but couldn't stop a simple desire to expose young people
to Canada's game.
Asked whether it was the passion, cleaner play or some other
mysterious quality that drew Mr.
McMASTER to women's hockey as
opposed to men's, his daughter smiled. "He used to say girls
asked a lot more questions. I think he liked that."
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McCLURG,
William
David
Died peacefully, on May 28, 2003, in White Rock, British Columbia,
after a long struggle with Alzheimers. Born in Toronto, April
16, 1917, Bill spent 38 years as a locomotive engineer with the
Canadian National Railway, running steam engines, diesel locomotives,
Go Trains, and the Turbo, retiring in 1979. A Navy bandsman in
World War 2, Bill's love of music continued until the end. He
leaves his wife of nearly 55 years, Florence Ruth, son David
(Alison), daughter Diane (Drew), and grandchildren Caitlin, Benjamin,
Meaghan, Patrick and Gillian, of Calgary, Alberta. We loved him
and he loved us.
''Clear Track Ahead''
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