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ZILBERBERG
ZIMMERMAN
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ZIEGLER o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-08-27 published
Helena Viola
{McGREGOR}
TOOLEY
In loving memory of Helena Viola
{McGREGOR}
TOOLEY,
May 7, 1920 to August 13, 2003.
Beloved wife of George Bruce
TOOLEY of Steinbach Manitoba.
Loving mother of Brucette
WATERSON (Doug), Theodore (Betty),
Juanita BROWN (Buster), Andre (Gail). Predeceased by sons
Douglas and James. Loving grandmother of Crystal (Mark), Michael
(Nancy), Jennifer (Paul), Jason, Sonny, Evelyn (Corey), Justin
(Brandy), Jesse (Crystal), Lynette, Shawee, Teri, predeceased by Sean
(Brucette), Bruce (Andre). Great Grandmother of Fern, Miah,
Natashia, Alexandra, Brooklyn, Riley, Cameron, Tristen and Trinity.
Sister of Rose (Harold)
DOOLEY and Geraldine (Carl)
ZIEGLER of Little
Current, Oscar
McGREGOR,
Godfrey
(Ann) and Jean-Mary Jane (Lawrence)
ANDREWS of Birch Island. Predeceased by parents Dave and Louise
McGREGOR, Theresa, Blanche, Theodore, Gordon (Rebecca), and Evelyn.
Sister-in-law of Roy (Bernice), Jim (Betty), Fred (Dianne) and Velma
(predeceased). Special Aunt to many nieces and nephews. Visitation
was held on Sunday, August 17, 2003 at the Birch Island Community
Centre. Funeral service was held on August 19, 2003 at St. Gabriel
Lalement Roman Catholic Church. Interment in Birch Island Cemetery,
Birch
Island,
Ontario. Reverend Michael
STOGRE officiating.
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ZILBERBERG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-07 published
Michael EDELSTEIN
By Leah KESHET
Friday,
February 7, 2003, Page A20
Mathematician, husband, father, grandfather. Born March 21, 1917,
in Mlawa, Poland. Died January 27 in Vancouver, British Columbia,
of natural causes, aged 85.
Michael EDELSTEIN was born to a respected, well-to-do, traditional
Jewish family: His grandfather, Zisha
ZILBERBERG, owned a large
brick tenement building and a grocery store; his father, Baruch,
prospered in the leather trade.
As a young child, Michael received a Jewish education. During
his impressionable teen years, Michael discovered a copy of Darwin's
Origin of Species abandoned in his grandfather's attic by a fleeing
soldier. The discovery led him toward a life of science, and
away from religion. As an adolescent, he excelled in mathematics
and physics. He was an avid reader, astute in current events,
and a scholar of history, who retained detailed knowledge of
turbulent events of the two centuries spanned by his life.
Rising anti-Semitism in Poland of the 1920s and 1930s blocked
higher education for Jews (via "Numerus Clausus" -- the quota
system). His sister Sarenka persuaded Michael to study abroad
at the fledgling Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in then-Palestine).
He arrived alone in that bewildering land in 1937. There he struggled
with the language and culture, and was beset by loneliness and
homesickness. Ultimately, this dislocation spared his life. The
firestorm that erupted over Europe in 1939 was to consume his
family in the Holocaust.
On the Mt. Scopus campus of Hebrew U., conditions were rough,
stipends meagre, and hunger and deprivation were rampant. War
interrupted his studies: With the onset of the Second World War,
Michael enlisted in the British Army, serving in Italy and Egypt.
He later fought in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, and
participated in defense research.
The 1950s were years of happiness and rejuvenation. He was reunited,
in Israel, with his sister, the single family member who had
survived Auschwitz. In 1951, Michael married a warm, caring,
beautiful native bride, Tikvah
SEGAL; two years later, their
only daughter was born. The couple struggled to make ends meet
while completing higher degrees, Michael a mathematics D.Sc and
Tikvah a botany Ph.D.
In 1962, the family undertook a journey, through Ithaca, New
York, and Michigan, which eventually led them, in 1964, to a
new home in Canada. Michael was recruited as a mathematics professor
at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where he became a founder
of the mathematics graduate and research program. He inspired
colleagues, trained students, carried out research, and taught
there for more than two decades before his retirement and relocation
to British Columbia.
Michael saw his own life as a series of personal losses: of his
beloved mother Ester-Leah (when he was 6), of his young wife
(at age 51), his sister in later life, and many others. By age
85, he had outlived an entire generation of kin. He struggled
with internal demons in personal interactions, often leaving
Friends and loved ones grieving over sudden, inexplicable estrangements.
A miraculous reunion in recent years, with his once-estranged
daughter who had followed his footsteps to become a mathematician,
led to a close bond. It remained unbroken until his dying day,
January 27, 2003, in Vancouver.
Michael was an exceptional chess player (gaining the title of
International Master in Correspondence Chess in the 1990s), but
mathematics was his first love and lifelong passion; he never
tired of transmitting that passion to students and even to casual
acquaintances. While infirm with Parkinson's disease at an advanced
age, he took pleasure in his mathematics books, and braved some
of the most notoriously challenging problems in mathematics.
Leah KESHET is Michael's daughter.
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ZIMMERMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-14 published
Audrey ZIMMERMAN
Friday, February 14, 2003, Page A22
Wife, mother, civil servant, scuba diver. Born January 14, 1921,
in Halifax. Died December 7, 2002, in Toronto, of a stroke, aged
Audrey ZIMMERMAN (née
TOBIN) had God on her side. By all accounts,
it was a good deal for both of them. Audrey got the impenetrable
protection of her faith. God got a follower of infinite optimism
and deepest commitment.
She was often bothered by the sex and violence in movies and
on television -- so much so that I never knew her to even watch
a newscast. Audrey's oldest and dearest friend, retired University
of Toronto professor Margaret
DOOLAN, says she'd take special
care when picking movies to attend with Audrey. It was just part
of the protective filter that people felt they needed to build
around her.
Audrey was the second youngest in a family of seven children
and, from her earliest days, she radiated an innocence that made
people want to help and protect her. She rarely needed the assistance
but, because it seemed to make others happy, she accepted it
with grace and genuine appreciation. Throughout her life, she
maintained an innocent enthusiasm that ran to the naive. How
much of that naiveté was real and how much she put on for her
own convenience, we never figured out. In some 70 years of Friendship,
Marg DOOLAN can only recall once when Audrey seemed mad at someone
and then because that person had been rude to her husband.
Audrey left Halifax in the late 1950s. She was working in the
insurance industry and her boss was transferred to Toronto. He
asked her to come along. Shortly after arriving in Toronto, Audrey
met an active and outgoing man. Matthew
ZIMMERMAN was a widower
with three children. Audrey and Matt were married in the spring
of 1959. The marriage sent a wave of concern through her family.
How would little Audrey manage with a new husband and the instant
pressure of three kids ranging in age from 3 to 15? Very well,
as it turned out, and
in January, 1960, Audrey and Matt added
a new son, David.
The pregnancy was troubling. Audrey was diagnosed with severe
diabetes in her 20s and pregnancy, especially at that time and
at her age (then 39) was considered very risky; something that
Audrey would have never even considered.
Diabetes dogged Audrey throughout her adult life and there were
many scary incidents of adverse insulin reactions. More than
once, some member of the family would arrive home to find Audrey
unconscious on the floor, with no idea how long she'd been there
the ambulance would be called and revival procedures started.
At the end of it all, Audrey's standard response was "It's okay.
I'm fine."
There were emotional challenges too. Audrey outlived all but
one of her siblings. In 1972, her husband, Matthew, died of cancer.
A few years later, she lost a granddaughter to leukemia and,
in 1997, her step-daughter, Darlene, also died.
Audrey was small but strong. She never let her diabetes or her
age interfere with her ambitions. After Matt died, she went back
to work and was with the Ontario Ministry of Health until she
retired in the late 1980s. Audrey was an avid tennis player and
downhill skier. At the age of 60, she took up scuba diving. That
led to another close call. Once, while diving at Tobermory, Ontario,
Audrey ran out of air. She was able to signal her diving buddy
but he was so much larger than she was, she couldn't share his
regulator. Fortunately, their emergency ascent worked and Audrey
continued to dive for several more years. About the only ambition
she didn't fulfill was skydiving.
Audrey placed her life in God's hands and that was all the protection
she needed. Her son, David, often said his mother didn't have
a guardian angel, she had a team of them. And they took their
job very seriously.
Kent is a friend of Audrey's son, David.
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ZIMMERMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-24 published
DOE,
Joyce
Alene
Peacefully at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre
on Friday, February 21, 2003, with her family at her side. Joyce,
dear mother of Linda, Peggy, Gail (Peter
FORLER) and Douglas
(Susan). Loving Nana of Hilary and Willa
ZIMMERMAN; Rebecca,
Jillian and Rachel
FORLER; and, Naomi and Tevis
DOE.
She is survived
by her brother Barry
McWATERS of California. A service of remembrance
will be held on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 2 o'clock at
the Armour Heights Presbyterian Church, 105 Wilson Avenue, If
desired, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, 20 Holly Street,
Suite 101, Toronto M4S 3B1, would be appreciated.
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ZIMMERMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-07 published
SONE,
Maurice
Peacefully, on Thursday, March 6, 2003, in his 95th year. Beloved
husband of the late Sonya
SONE.
Loving father of Luby
CARR and
Ian and Laurie
SONE. He will be deeply missed by his treasured
grandchildren Matthew and Paul
CARR and Judith, Eli, Abigail,
David, and Jacob
SONE. Survived by his loving sister Min
SHANKMAN,
sisters and brothers-in-law Dora
SENELNICK,
Eva
SCHOLNICK, Frida
JOLSON,
David
ZIMMERMAN and Willie
ZIMMERMAN, and his nieces
and nephews and their families. Funeral will be held at Steeles
Memorial Chapel, 350 Steeles Ave. W. (between Yonge and Bathurst)
on Friday, March 7, 2003 at 1 p.m. Interment at Mount Sinai Cemetery,
Beth Shalom Section. Memorial donations to the Baycrest Centre,
(416) 785-2875, would be greatly appreciated by the family.
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Died
This
Day -- Samuel
ZIMMERMAN, 1857
Friday, March 14, 2003 - Page R13
Businessman born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania., in 1819; as a young man,
moved to Upper Canada to seek his fortune; financed building
of Great Western Railway from Toronto and Hamilton; died with
78 passengers and locomotive crew when Burlington Heights bridge
collapsed and train fell 12 metres to the frozen Desjardins Canal.
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ZINGG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-11 published
Visionary performer waged war on trivial art
Her trademark was a experimental process that embraced dance,
music, text, mime, clown, ritual and mask
By Paula CITRON
Friday,
April 11, 2003 - Page R13
Canada has lost a powerful force in experimental theatre and
dance. Director, dancer, actor, writer and choreographer Elizabeth
SZATHMARY died last month in Toronto.
While she will be remembered as a dynamic figure, her artistic
life will remain a contradiction. At the beginning of her career,
Ms. SZATHMARY was one of the gilded darlings of Toronto's burgeoning
experimental theatre. At the end, she was seen by some as a marginalized,
religious eccentric who put on plays in church basements.
To her long-time Friends and loyalists, however, Ms.
SZATHMARY's
life was a spiritual journey in which art, religion and morality
were inextricably intertwined in a nobility of purpose.
Ms. SZATHMARY was born in New York on October 12, 1937, to Jewish-Hungarian
parents. Her mother was an unhappy former opera singer and vaudeville
performer and her father was a composer and arranger who wrote
the theme for the popular television show Get Smart and who abandoned
his family. Ms.
SZATHMARY attended New York's High School of
Performing Arts and later performed with the Metropolitan Opera
Ballet under choreographer Antony
TUDOR.
A ravishing beauty with masses of long, jet-black curls and compelling
light-coloured eyes, Ms.
SZATHMARY attracted followers throughout
her career. She was, says Toronto choreographer David
EARLE,
a powerful, mysterious presence and a charismatic performer.
Another admirer was Canadian Robert
SWERDLOW.
Mr.
TUDOR's piano
accompanist, he fell in love with the beautiful young dancer
and followed her to France where Ms.
SZATHMARY danced with such
companies as Les Ballets Classique de Monte Carlo and Les Ballets
Contemporains de Paris. He was the first of many artists to be
inspired by Ms.
SZATHMARY.
"Elizabeth was a theatre philosopher who wanted to save the world
through the beauty and truth of her art," Mr.
SWERDLOW said.
The couple relocated to Montreal in the mid-sixties where Mr.
SWERDLOW got a job with the National Film Board. One assignment
brought him to Toronto, and it was Ms.
SZATHMARY who persuaded
him to settle there because of the city's "happening" dance scene.
Performing under the name Elizabeth
SWERDLOW, she first worked
with Mr. EARLE and the future co-founders of Toronto Dance Theatre.
In 1969, Mr.
SWERDLOW took an unexpected windfall of $30,000
and built his wife a performing venue of her own. In this way,
Global Village Theatre emerged from a former Royal Canadian Mounted
Police stable and the couple went on to became synonymous with
a new wave of provocative, political, issue-oriented theatre.
Mr. SWERDLOW provided the words and music, and co-wrote the shows
Elizabeth co-wrote, choreographed, directed and was the featured
performer. Importantly, she was the visionary who came up with
original concepts and her trademark, multidisciplinary theatrical
process embraced dance, music, text, mime, clown, ritual and
mask.
Among their better-known collaborations was Blue.S.A., an indictment
of the "American empire," and Justine, the story of a young
girl who gains wisdom through the vicissitudes of life. A huge
hit, Justine went to New York where it won off-Broadway awards
and enjoyed a long run.
Its success meant Global Village became a stopping place for
others. Gilda
RADNER,
John
CANDY and Salome
BEY represented just
some of the talent that passed through. Later, when Ms.
SZATHMARY
founded Inner Stage Theatre, she helped propel the early careers
of Antoni CIMOLINO and Donald
CARRIER of the Stratford Festival,
Jeannette ZINGG and Marshall
PYNKOSKI of Opera Atelier and Native
American performer Raoul
TRUJILLO.
In the mid-seventies, Ms.
SZATHMARY experienced a religious conversion
and became a devout Christian.
For Mr. SWERDLOW, it was the last straw in an already turbulent
relationship. After the couple split up, Ms.
SZATHMARY founded
Inner Stage, a name that expressed her desire to produce art
that would transform and heal through spirituality. To better
strike out on her own, she also shed the
SWERDLOW name. Until
the 1990s, the main work of Inner Stage was a series of acclaimed
morality tales -- or modern fables as Ms.
SZATHMARY called them
which toured schools from coast to coast. She also explored
the storytelling power of Native American myths and turned to
such themes as the plight of street youth or to the Holocaust
from a teenager's point of view. Her final project, No Fixed
Address, attempted to air the true voice of the homeless by both
telling their stories and casting them as actors.
By all accounts, Ms.
SZATHMARY was a true eccentric who personalized
everything. Her computer, for example, was called Daisy. Her
home was a living museum dominated by a family of cats who occupied
their own stools at the dining table, held conversations and
sent out Christmas cards to the pets of Friends. Spiritual sayings,
religious art and theatre memorabilia covered every scrap of
wall and floor space. On an even more personal level, Ms.
SZATHMARY
kept a journal of religious visions and dreams written in ornate
calligraphy and illustrated in Hungarian folk-style art. What
is more, she described ecstatic events and augurisms, including
a personal affinity with bison, as if such occurrences were as
routine as the weather.
In her work, Ms.
SZATHMARY demanded perfection, which meant she
often proved impossible to work alongside. Friends and colleagues
Robert MASON,
Julia
AMES and Peter
GUGELER all talk about Ms.
SZATHMARY's middle-of-the-night phone calls -- and the fact that
she brooked no criticism or contrary opinions. All the same,
their devotion never lessened.
"She was a queen and we were her subjects," said Mr.
GUGELER.
"Elizabeth never left you once she got ahold of you."
Guerrilla theatre, grass-roots theatre, shoe-string theatre,
theatre against all odds, a "let's-make-a-show" mentality --
that was the brave, artistic world in which Ms.
SZATHMARY waged
her war against what she saw as frivolous or commercial art.
In 1989, Inner Stage lost its operating grant and from that time
on she financed her own productions. During the last year that
she was able to work, she earned a pitiful $5,000.
Ms. SZATHMARY continued to perform in all her productions, turning
more to straight acting as her dancing powers declined. Even
so, she never gave up the stage to anyone.
Elizabeth SZATHMARY died of rectal cancer in Toronto on March
28. A memorial service will be held at the Church of the Redeemer,
162 Bloor St. W., Toronto, at 3 p.m. on April 27.
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