FUERST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-07 published
FUERST,
Clarence
Ronald
In loving memory of a dear husband, father and grandfather who
passed away three years ago on March 7, 2005. Always remembered
by wife Kay, children Michelle and David, Linda and Michael,
and Darren and Lorena and grandchildren.
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FUERSTENBERG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-01 published
KLING,
Sidney
Professor emeritus, teacher, author, mentor, husband, father,
grandfather, Renaissance man. Born November 14, 1922, in Toronto.
Died April 14 in Toronto of heart failure, aged 85.
By Adam FUERSTENBERG,
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Sid KLING had many passions, two especially: He loved teaching
and Florida. He merged these passions at Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute when, in addition to teaching courses in urban studies
and geography, he became an authority in retirement studies.
He had studied with Max Kaplan, renowned director of leisure
studies at the University of South Florida, and became a Canadian
pioneer in this field.
At Ryerson, Sid developed and taught a course on vacationing
and retiring in Florida. It became one of the most popular evening
courses because of his witty illustrations and hard-nosed advice
about the pitfalls of investing in Florida. The course's popularity
led him to publish two bestselling books on the subject, which
also appeared in French.
Co-operatives were another of Sid's passions, in particular co-operative
housing as a solution to constant rent inflation before rent
control in Toronto. He became a consulted authority on the subject
and lived in and helped to run one of the best such co-op apartments.
Sidney, born near the "Ward," the predominantly Jewish area of
pre-First World War Toronto, was the
son of immigrants from Galicia,
which is now part of Poland. His father, Oscar, had learned watchmaking
in London, and
in Toronto he and his wife, Anna, opened a jewellery
store at Yonge and Gerrard streets.
Sid graduated from Oakwood Collegiate in 1941 and enlisted. After
military service during the Second World War, where he had done
some mapping, he decided to attend the University of Toronto
and became a geographer. As part of his graduate studies, Sid
spent more than a year in the early 1950s doing research and
studying in Havana at the same university attended then by the
young Fidel Castro. It was this sojourn in Cuba that resulted
in Sid's lifelong attraction to the Caribbean and his love of
Cuban cigars. Students and colleagues used to joke that you could
find Prof.
KLING by following the cigar smoke.
After his father's passing, Sid tried to manage the jewellery
store, then converted it into a camera store, photography and
cameras being another of his interests. However, his real talent
was teaching. He first taught at the University of Toronto in
Scarborough, then joined the new geography department at Ryerson.
A multifaceted man, Sid learned - during one of his longer stays
in Florida - how to build and play the dulcimer, and he was also
a skillful gourmet cook. Most of all, he was always good company.
Married a second time in 1974, he leaves behind Elvereene, his
wife and best friend, his son Waynne, four grandchildren and
generations of appreciative students.
Adam FUERSTENBERG is Sidney's friend.
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