GOYCOOLEA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-13 published
BUTTEDAHL,
Doctor
Paz
Dr. Paz BUTTEDAHL, 65, passed away peacefully on October 8, 2007.
She is predeceased by her loving husband of 25 years, Doctor Knute
BUTTEDAHL.
She is survived by her husband, John K.
PARK, daughter
Maria Beck
BUTTEDAHL (Bob
BECK), son John
BUTTEDAHL (Lisa
FERRARI),
brother Valerio
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(Rebecca
PALMA,) and sisters Sofia
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LANE) and Loreto
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aunt of Claudia
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(Mauricio
MEYER,) Alexandre
COULON
(Maureen COULON-
MENASHE,)
Oliver
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Nicholas MEYER.
She was a loving step-mother to Kim and Gary
BUTTEDAHL and proud grandmother to Caleb and Alisha
GRUNERT.
Her family wishes to join in expressing all their love and appreciation
for the extraordinary person Paz was, and for the outstanding
contributions she made to the world. Paz was born in Santiago,
Chile, and created a vast network of Friends, colleagues and
students throughout the world, garnered through a long and distinguished
career. The breadth of her experience spanned work with universities,
international development organizations and agencies, and the
Canadian military. Whatever the setting, common threads ran through
all of her work: a passion for fostering international and intercultural
understanding; a focus on sustainable development; and a belief
in the possibility of creating an equitable and socially just
world. The academic portion of Paz's career involved teaching
at several universities in Canada, the United States, and Latin
America, including a faculty position at the University of British
Columbia and most recently, at Royal Roads University. Her work
at the universities was always characterized by a passionate
commitment to her students, the injection of an international
perspective and comparative education approach to her courses,
and a desire to create international partnerships linking students
and educators from the developing world with those in Canada.
Paz was sought after as a researcher and educator specializing
in international development issues, and was a consultant with
many international agencies and organizations. These included
the Canadian International Development Agency, The United Nations
Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the U.S. Agency
for International Development, and the Organization of American
States. Paz also worked for almost a decade with the International
Development Research Centre in Ottawa. As Deputy Director of
the Fellowships and Awards Division, her focus was on the development
of human resources and the strengthening of institutions in the
developing world through the education and training of their
researchers and project staff. Paz strongly believed in learning
as a crucial component in the achievement of sustainable development.
In the early 1990s, as international development issues became
more and more intertwined with issues of security, Paz was invited
to attend the National Defense College in Kingston, Ontario,
where she also contributed as the academic advisor to the Commandant.
A subsequent posting to the Centre for National Security Studies
provided a base for her research linking issues of sustainable
development to those of human security. Paz's vast storehouse
of knowledge and experience found a home and became invested
in the creation of the Master of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding
program at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia.
As founder and program head, Paz worked tirelessly to build the
program and to ensure its sustainability and its relevance to
the international development and security issues of today's
world. The Master of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding
program was to be Paz's final contribution in a lifetime of notable
achievements. In spite of failing health during the past months,
she found strength in providing ongoing leadership to the program
and in planning for its future. Paz, with her indomitable spirit
and her vision of a world that might be, has enriched and influenced
the lives of hundreds of Friends and colleagues around the world.
Her loss will be deeply mourned. A celebration of her life will
be held on at 1 p.m. on October 21 at Royal Roads University,
2nd Floor Grant Building, 2005 Sooke Rd. Victoria, British Columbia.
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GOYETTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-15 published
O'FARRELL,
William
Friend, mentor, film producer and director. Born December 7,
1929, in Ottawa. Died September 27 in Hull, Quebec, of natural
causes, aged 77.
By Elaine O'FARRELL,
Page L6
Growing up in Ottawa's tough Irish neighbourhood, Bill
O'FARRELL
probably never dreamed he would one day bring home Canada's first
Oscar for a feature film.
Bill was the
son of an Ottawa accountant and he grew up to be
a driving force behind the Canadian film industry.
Bill joined Crawley Films in the 1940s. He got his start as a
gofer, sweeping the floor, driving the truck, hauling cans of
film. But he quickly worked his way up through the industry.
Over the years, he worked as a cinematographer, writer, director
and producer of films, eventually becoming vice-president of
Crawley
Films, launched in 1939 by Budge
CRAWLEY.
Bill led a
passionate life as a producer and director of Canadian films.
In the early years, he travelled across Canada to film Canadian
Football League games and golf tournaments. Bill was instrumental
in the success of many groundbreaking Canadian films. They include
the award-winning The Loon's Necklace, The Rowdyman, The Luck
of Ginger Coffey and Janis, a biopic about the tragic life of
singer Janis Joplin.
Over the years, Bill worked with the who's who of Canadian stage
and screen, from Christopher Plummer to Geneviève Bujold, Rich
Little, Fred Davis and Lorne Greene.
He played an important part in helping to bring home Canada's
first Academy Award for a feature film for The Man Who Skied
Down Everest. One of his proudest moments was bringing home the
gold-plated statuette to show family and Friends.
In its 50th year, Crawley Films went bankrupt. With the sheriff
banging at the door, Bill helped to preserve the cans of film
that were Crawley's legacy. The films were donated to the National
Archives of Canada.
Like his Irish father before him, Bill was a wonderful storyteller
who would entertain family and Friends at the kitchen table with
colourful tales about the past.
He loved to tell the story about how he won my mother's hand.
One night, he was challenged to a late-night poker game by her
French-Canadian grandmother, Granny
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After he won a few
games, she said he was a good man. She agreed that my mother
should accept his hand in marriage.
In his youth, he'd go to the pool hall or play a few games of
poker to win enough money to take my mom out on a date.
Although film was his first love, Bill loved a glass of wine
and settling down with a good mystery. He enjoyed golf, evening
swims and Frank Sinatra. He loved to play with Skipper, his Irish
fox terrier.
But his greatest joy was his family - his dear wife, Velma, his
three kids, Bill, Leslie and Elaine, and his six grandchildren.
Elaine O'FARRELL is Bill
O'FARRELL's daughter.
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