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KUHN, Tillo E., Professor Emeritus of Economics, York University,
B.Sc. L.S.E., PhD. McGill
Born November 1, 1919 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, died July
18, 2003 in hospital in Gatineau, Quebec after a series of strokes.
He leaves to mourn him his wife Naomi, sons Roland, Oliver and
Christopher, daughter Nicola, daughters-in-law Susan and Tulimah,
son-in-law Neil, and his grandchildren Alexander and Thomas
KUHN,
Sophia and William
KUHN, and Holly and Josh
JANNA.
Tillo will
be missed also by his niece Dagmar
FORGET and nephew Hatto
FISCHER,
brothers-in-law David and John
KIRKWOOD, and cousins in Germany
and England, as well as many Friends, former colleagues and students.
He was predeceased by his beloved sister Brigitte
FISCHER and
cousin ''like my brother'' Hatto
KUHN.
From 1949 to 1954 Tillo
lived in England, where he was the first student from post-war
Germany to enter the London School of Economics. In 1954 he emigrated
to Canada to begin work in transportation economics in Montreal
and then Ottawa. The summer of 1955 found him in a cottage ''up
the Gatineau'' at Gleneagle, where he began a lifelong love affair
with that area as well as with a cottage neighbour, Naomi, whom
he married in 1956. After receiving Canadian citizenship in 1959,
Tillo accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the University
of California, Berkeley. Four years in Berkeley were the beginning
of his twin careers of university teaching and international
development assignments for the World Bank and other international
agencies. In 1966 he became a member of the new Faculty of Administrative
Studies at York University in Toronto, his employer until retirement
in 1989. Tillo was proud to have worked in 13 different countries.
Some of the longer and most exciting projects were in Honduras
1962, Dahomey (now Benin) 1967, Paraguay 1968, and Kenya 1970-72,
where he was director of a Canadian International Development
Agency team working with the Kenyan Ministry of Finance and Planning,
coupled with a training program for Kenyans at York. His favourite
country after Canada to live and work was Greece, where he spent
1964-65 in a research centre, 1980-82 working in the finance
ministry under both a conservative and a Papandreou-led government,
and 1985-87 teaching in the business school of the University
of Athens. In 1989 Tillo retired to his house Tirconna at Gleneagle
on the Gatineau River, the same site where Tillo and Naomi met
in 1955. Cremation has taken place. Memorial service, burial
of ashes and reception to celebrate Tillo's interesting life
will follow in September in Wakefield, Quebec. Date to be announced
later. Funeral arrangements c/o Hulse Playfair and McGarry, Wakefield.
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