REVESZ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-31 published
HOFFMAN,
Lawrence
Mark
Larry died on January 28, 2008, after a valiant, nearly three-year
struggle with cancer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, he
was the beloved partner of Evelyn
SOMMERS, cherished father of
Toni, dear friend to Adam
REVESZ and Lauren
SHUSTER.
Predeceased
by his parents Sam and Mildred
HOFFMAN and brother Michael. A graduate
of Brooklyn College and the University of Toronto, his early
training in left-leaning politics took place at the knee of his
maternal grandmother who marched as a suffragette in New York
City. Reading was the passion he turned into a career that included
a vice presidency at Coles Books and the creation of his literary
agency, Authors' Marketing Services. Full of energy and always
outspoken, he loved travel, movies, bicycling, baseball, music
and dancing. He will be remembered for his witty and incisive
comments, keen intelligence and his direct, outgoing nature.
Friends are invited to an informal gathering in memory of Larry
at The Village Playhouse, 2190 E Bloor St. W., Toronto, on Saturday,
February 2nd from 1-4 p.m. Donations in Larry's memory can be
made to the Healing Journey at Princess Margaret Hospital, www.healingjourney.ca
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REVETT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-11 published
FOX-
REVETT,
Mary
Joan
Joan died peacefully, at home in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 9,
2008, in her 84th year. She was the beloved wife and friend for
53 years of Stephen, who predeceased her in February of 2005.
Dear mother of David (Margaret), Julia, Richard (Melissa), Diana
(Chris SYMONDS.)
She was the cherished grandma of Emily, Jamie,
Lindsay, Audrey, Michael, Elizabeth, Cameron, Jeremy, Amanda,
William and Thomas. Joan was the devoted sister of Cynthia
DINSMORE
and husband John. At the time of her death she was still actively
involved in Muskoka, going for her last swim last Sunday. An
ardent supporter of The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto Symphony,
Christ Church Deer Park, The York Club, Muskoka Lakes Golf and
Country Club and Belmont House. Mum was known for her impeccable
style and grace, she loved to travel and was always the last
to leave a party. She was a truly great hostess, and loved to
enjoy time with Friends and family. Mum always showed a deep
love and demonstrated real support to all of her family. She
will be missed by all. The family will receive Friends at the
Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue
(south of Eglinton Avenue East) from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m.
on Sunday, July 13. The funeral will be held in Christ Church
Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street (Heath and Yonge) on Monday, July 14
at 11 o'clock. A celebration in the church hall will follow.
In Joan's memory, donations to The National Ballet of Canada,
c/o the Walter Carsen Centre for The National Ballet of Canada,
470 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5V 3K4 or Christ Church Deer Park
(M4T 1Z8) would be appreciated. Condolences and memories may
be for warded through www.humphreymiles.com
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REVINGTON o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-04-09 published
LOBSINGER,
Jean
Ella
(REVINGTON)
On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, Jean Ella
(REVINGTON)
LOBSINGER, age
96, went home to be with her Lord. Beloved wife of 64 years of
the late Doctor Leonard
LOBSINGER. A wonderful and loving mother
to Joe LOBSINGER and his wife
Anne,
Sarnia and Marie and her
husband Doctor William
DAFOE,
Edmonton. Dear grandmother of Stephanie,
Karoline, Kristen, Allan and Joanna. Great-grandmother of Madeline,
Annabelle, Cameron and Anders. Sister of Kathleen (Kay)
LANKIN,
Lucan.
Predeceased by granddaughter Heather
DAFOE, brothers Wesley
and Sheridan and by sisters Marie, Gayle and Eva. Mom was born
in Lucan, Ontario and graduated in 1933 in Nursing at the Sarnia
General Hospital. For over 50 years, she managed a loving home
and supervised Dad's Animal Hospital practice at their Davis
St. home. She was a life long member of Saint_Joseph's Catholic
Women's League and served as a volunteer for the Children's Aid
Society. A special thank you to Marilyn, Rhoda and all the special
angels who made it possible for Mom to stay in her own home.
Much appreciation to the staff at Trillium Villa Nursing and
especially Rhoda for their wonderful care in the last 2 years.
Visitation at the McKenzie and Blundy Funeral Home and Cremation
Centre, 431 Christina St. N., Sarnia, on Thursday from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. where prayers will be offered at 3: 30 p.m. Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated by Fr. Matthew
BEDARD at Saint_Joseph's
Church on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery.
As an expression of sympathy, Friends who wish may send memorial
donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, 714 Lite Street, Point
Edward, N7V 1A6. Mother had abounding faith in God. A prayer
that she said often was "Dear Lord, There Is Nothing That Will
Happen Today That You and I Can't Handle Together." We thank God
for giving us such a lovely mother. Messages of condolence and
memories may be left at www.mckenzieblundy.com A tree will be
planted in memory of Jean
LOBSINGER in the McKenzie and Blundy
Memorial Forest. Dedication service Sunday, September 21st, 2008
at 2: 00 p.m. at the Wawanosh Wetlands Conservation Area.
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REVINGTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-02 published
Toronto modernist's projects married pragmatism, poetic sensibility
Award-winning university collaboration conjures an architecture
both sustainable and beautiful
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S11
An architect who was ahead of the curve in thinking how sustainable
design can be integrated in elegant architectural solutions,
Adrian DICASTRI brought his love of music and culture along with
his analytical skills to the art and practice of his profession.
"What a lot of people didn't realize about Adrian was his poetic
sensibility," said his friend Dereck
REVINGTON, another architect
who described Mr.
DICASTRI's major buildings as "full of colour
and light and a subtle dancing rhythm."
Pragmatism had to be satisfied first, but what characterized
Mr. DICASTRI's work was a luminous and lyrical modernism, Mr.
REVINGTON
said. "His definition of sustainability was much more complex
than simply creating ecologically friendly buildings. He spoke
continuously about the importance of cultural, environmental
and aesthetic sustainability."
Adrian John
DICASTRI was born in Victoria, the second of five
sons and one daughter of architect John
DICASTRI (obituary September 22,
2005) and his wife
Florence
Margaret
(GREENWOOD,) who was always
called Paddy. The family lived first in the Rockland area of
Victoria - in a house his father had designed - and then in a
rambling former seniors' residence close to the ocean in Oak
Bay that the senior Mr.
DICASTRI renovated to accommodate his
large and rambunctious family.
As a boy, Adrian was the only child who showed any ability at
sketching and drawing, according to his younger brother Julian.
He also swam "like a porpoise" and loved being in the water,
a passion he would later sustain in "landlocked Toronto" by designing
and building a family cottage on Georgian Bay.
He attended St. Patrick's Elementary School and then Oak Bay
junior and senior high schools, graduating in 1969. He worked
in his father's architectural office for a couple of years and
then, at 19, went travelling in Europe for six months.
After returning, he resumed his Friendship with Susan
McDONALD,
who had been a year or so behind him in high school, and entered
the University of Victoria, where he studied English literature
in a general arts program. A ferocious reader, he was torn in
those early years between teaching and architecture. He left
after two years and went travelling again, this time to Mexico
and Central America. By the time he returned, he had affirmed
his decision on a career in architecture. He won a place in the
University of Waterloo's co-op degree program in January, 1976.
After completing nearly three years of his degree, he and Ms.
McDONALD
(by then his wife) moved to Toronto, where he enrolled in the
architecture program at the University of Toronto. Larry
RICHARDS,
former dean of the faculty of architecture, remembers him as
"an outstanding, leading student" who was also a very nice guy.
Mr. DICASTRI graduated with a bachelor of architecture degree
in 1982. son Nicholas was born in 1983 and daughter Julia in
As a young architect, Mr.
DICASTRI worked at Diamond and Schmitt
architects in Toronto. "He was an extraordinarily focused and
smart guy who was a really great critic on projects in development,"
said Don SCHMITT, a principal in the firm. "He was a real modernist,
and rigorous in his focus on rational solutions and elegant but
spare design." Mr.
SCHMITT also remembered him as being relaxed
and possessing a dry sense of humour, qualities that "are very
important in the culture of an office."
Architect John
VAN
NOSTRAND hired Mr.
DICASTRI in 1984. "He was
interested in working in a smaller firm where he could have more
direct influence," Mr.
VAN
NOSTRAND said. The two eventually
became partners, working on some major social housing projects
until government support for that market dried up in the early
1990s. They also did a number of university projects, including
the revitalization of St. George Street on the University of
Toronto campus.
"He was a brilliant designer and he got brilliant buildings done,
but he did it in a very pragmatic way," said Mr.
VAN
NOSTRAND.
"He had real stamina for sticking with long projects and making
sure that they were finished off as well as they were started.
And he was a good leader. People who worked for him respected
him and wanted to make good buildings for him."
In the mid 1990s, their firm went after the contract for the
Computer Science and Engineering Building at York University.
Mr. DICASTRI, fascinated by the idea of creating sustainable
buildings, was superb at forging connections and put together
a collaboration that included Vancouver architect Peter Busby,
a noted green designer.
"That building is really a reflection of Peter Busby and his
West
Coast thinking and Adrian
DICASTRI and his practical, plain
thinking and his understanding of the complexity of York University
and where it could go," said architect Peter
CLEWES.
The building, which has operable windows, uses "passive strategies"
to maximize natural light and ventilation and decrease the need
for air-conditioning. It won several awards, including the Royal
Architectural Institute of Canada Governor-General's Medal in
Architecture. Mr.
CLEWES said it demonstrates that "it is not
only the spaces within buildings that are important, but the
spaces they create outside of themselves." A complex and seminal
building in Mr.
DICASTRI's career, it speaks to how he was beginning
to think about collaboration with others and about the practicalities
of creating buildings that are both sustainable and yet beautiful
to live and work in. "That was a turning point for him."
Mr. CLEWES and Mr.
DICASTRI, who had known each other since the
1980s, often commiserated about the capriciousness of a career
in architecture - which is known as a fine vocation and a horrible
profession, especially during economic downturns. They were both
partners in architectural firms that were struggling to sustain
themselves when Mr.
DICASTRI called Mr.
CLEWES in 1998 and proposed
they merge practices. He cited the computer sciences building
at York as an example of the kinds of things they could do together.
"It came out of the blue," Mr.
CLEWES said this week - but the
more he thought about it, the more he realized that "for the
first time in about eight or nine years, [I felt] I could stick
my head up above water and look around and say, 'This could mean
something more than simply surviving.' "
The following year, Van Nostrand Dicastri and Wallman Clewes
Bergman merged to form Architects Alliance. Mr.
DICASTRI's strength
as a strategic thinker and team builder came into play on one
of the firm's significant projects, the Terrence Donnelly Centre
for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the U of T, which they
did in collaboration with Stefan Behnisch Architekten in Germany.
The completed building - elegant, intriguingly situated, ecologically
green, technologically but subtly complicated - has won popular
accolades and several design prizes, including the International
Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the
Design Excellence Award from the Ontario Association of Architects.
It was poignant that Mr.
DICASTRI, at the point when his professional
and family lives were happily and productively established, was
diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006. The next 15 months were
a relentless struggle with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation
as he fought against what proved to be an unconquerable illness.
A week ago, he received a specially designed box containing individually
written letters, poems and messages of esteem and affection from
his colleagues at Architects Alliance. He was still well enough
to read and share them with his family.
Adrian John
DICASTRI was born in Victoria on September 5, 1952.
He died at home in Toronto on January 29, 2008, of metastasized
bladder cancer. He was 55. He is survived by wife
Susan
McDONALD,
children Nicholas and Julia, five siblings and extended family.
There will be a celebration of his life Tuesday in the Great
Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto.
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REVO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-11 published
HANDS,
Esther▼
Peacefully▼ on Monday, March 10, 2008 at her home. Esther
HANDS,
beloved wife of the late Harold
HANDS.
Loving▼ mother and mother-in-law
of Sharon and Stanley
CLAVIR, and Doctor Brian and Cynthia
HANDS.
Dear sister and sister-in-law of Minna
GOODMAN,
Ethel▼
WALTON,
Beatrice and Sid
MAGDER,
Harold▼ and Linda
ZENER, Kay
ZENER, Edith
LEVY, and the late Allan (Sonny)
TURNER,
Norma▼
REVO, and David
ZENER.
Devoted grandmother of Robin
MIRSKY, Jeffrey
HANDS, Stuart
and Desiree
HANDS, and Laurie and the late David
BALICK, and
great-grandmother of Jonah, Hannah, Jacob, and Harrison. Special
thanks to Thelma, Dr.'s Les
RICHMOND and Russell
GOLDMAN for
their care, compassion and kindness. At Holy Blossom Temple,
1950 Bathurst Street, (Bathurst south of Eglinton) for service
on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 12: 30 p.m. Interment Holy Blossom
Memorial Park. Shiva 169 Dunvegan Road from 2: 00 p.m. daily evening
services at 8: 00 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Esther
Hands Memorial Fund c/o Holy Blossom Temple Foundation, 416-789-3291
extension 265.
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HANDS,
Esther▲
Peacefully▲ on Monday, March 10, 2008 at her home. Esther
HANDS,
beloved wife of the late Harold
HANDS.
Loving▲ mother and mother-in-law
of Sharon and Stanley Clavir, and Doctor Brian and Cynthia
HANDS.
Dear sister and sister-in-law of Minna
GOODMAN,
Ethel▲
WALTON,
Beatrice and Sid
MAGDER,
Harold▲ and Linda
ZENER, Kay
ZENNER,
Edith LEVY, and the late Allan (Sonny)
TURNER,
Norma▲
REVO, and
David ZENNER.
Devoted grandmother of Robin
MIRSKY, Jeffrey
HANDS,
Stuart and Desiree
HANDS, and Laurie and the late David
BALICK,
and great-grandmother of Jonah, Hannah, Jacob, and Harrison.
Special thanks to Thelma, Doctors Les
RICHMOND and Russell
GOLDMAN
for their care, compassion and kindness. At Holy Blossom Temple,
1950 Bathurst Street (Bathurst south of Eglinton) for service
on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 12: 30 p.m. Interment Holy Blossom
Memorial Park. Shiva 169 Dunvegan Road from 2: 00 p.m. daily evening
services at 8: 00 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Esther
Hands Memorial Fund c/o Holy Blossom Temple Foundation, 416-789-3291
extension 265.
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