FUENTES o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-22 published
FLAMENCO,
Ana
Julia
Died suddenly at her residence on Sunday, March 20, 2005 at the
age of 69 years. Beloved mother of Maria Elena
JUAREZ and Pastor
FUENTES. Cherished grandmother of Jimmy
FUENTES
(Amanda,)
David
FUENTES (Wendy), Ana Helen and great-granddaughter, Selina
FUENTES.
Friends will be received at the Needham Funeral Service, 520
Dundas Street (434-9141) on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 from 7-9
p.m. Funeral service will be held in the funeral home Chapel
on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 10 a.m. Interment to follow at
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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FUENTES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-19 published
FUENTES,
Ana
Peacefully at home with her family by her side on Thursday November
17, 2005. She is survived by her children Brenda, Victor, Franklin,
daughter-in-law Gabriela and grandchildren Claudia, Lia, Valentina,
Kristina and great grandchild Violeta. She will be dearly missed
by her surviving siblings and extended family in Chile, Australia
and Sweden. Friends will be received at the Eglinton Chapel of
McDougall and Brown, 1812 Eglinton Avenue West on Sunday November
20 from 5 p.m. until time of Service at 7 pm. In lieu of flowers,
donations will be accepted by the family at the funeral home
to her favorite cause.
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FUERST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-09 published
FUERST,
Clarence▼
Ronald▼
At Mount Sinai Hospital on March 7, 2005 in his 77th year, as
a result of complications due to Parkinson's Disease. Cherished
husband of 52 years of Katherine. Loved and loving father of
Michelle (David
WATT,)
Linda▼
(Michael▼
KUCAN,) and Darren (Lorena.)
Proud▼ grandfather of Ryan and John
KUCAN,
Elsa▼
FUERST, Katie
(Trevor) WALLACE, and Lindsay
WATT.
Brother▼ of Gordon (Joyce)
FUERST of Edmonton. Predeceased by his parents William and Ella
FUERST of Bashaw, Alberta. Born and raised on the family farm
in Alberta, he became the first member of his rural community
to attend university. He excelled academically, receiving both
a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from the
University of Alberta, and a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University
of California at Berkeley. Following the completion of his doctorate,
he was awarded a Fellowship to the Pasteur Institute at Paris,
France, where he worked from 1955 to 1957. He remained ever grateful
to the Canadian academic community for the scholarship funds
that had permitted him to pursue his education, and so, on the
completion of his Fellowship, he elected to return to Canada.
He worked as a Molecular Geneticist at the Ontario Cancer Institute
(Princess Margaret Hospital) and became a Professor in the Departments
of Medical Genetics and Medical Biophysics at the University
of Toronto. Honesty, integrity and the pursuit of excellence
were the values that guided his life. At his request, a private
family service will take place, followed by cremation. In lieu
of flowers, donations to The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
- Cancer Research Fund would be appreciated by the family.
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FUERST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-04-11 published
Clarence FUERST,
Biochemist: 1928-2005
'The perfect scientist' is credited with laying the foundation
of the genetics department at the University of Toronto
By Allison
LAWLOR,
Monday,
April 11, 2005, Page S9
As a Canadian scientist who began his career in the pioneering
days of molecular biology, Clarence
FUERST never lost his belief
in the value of pursuing science purely for the love of science.
Credited for having played a key role in building the Ontario
Cancer Institute and the Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology
at the University of Toronto, Dr.
FUERST spent two formative
years in Paris in the mid-1950s, working in what was then widely
considered the best lab in Europe.
After completing his PhD in biochemistry at the University of
California, Berkeley, he was awarded a fellowship at the renowned
Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1955. While at the institute, Dr.
FUERST worked under the supervision of François Jacob, who would
go onto win the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine with colleagues
André Lwoff and Jacques Monod for their groundbreaking discoveries
concerning the genetic regulation of enzyme and virus synthesis.
"It was the early era of microbiology," said Lou
SIMINOVITCH,
who is often called the father of Canadian genetics. "It was
an exciting time."
Dr. SIMINOVITCH, who was at the Pasteur Institute around the
same time, recalled how small the field of microbiology was in
the early 1950s. He remembered attending a conference held near
Paris, which drew all the scientists around the world working
in the field at the time. About 80 people were in attendance,
he said.
When Dr. FUERST's fellowship ended, in 1957, he chose to return
to Canada instead of heading to the United States, where large
pharmaceutical companies were luring scientists working in his
field. He felt he owed a debt to the country that had helped
him pursue his dream.
"Had it not been for the Canadian scholarships [he received],
he wouldn't have been able to pursue his education," his daughter
Michelle FUERST said.
Dr. SIMINOVITCH had also returned to Canada and was working in
Toronto at the Cancer Institute of Ontario, located at the Princess
Margaret Hospital. He was starting a microbiology lab and recruited
Dr. FUERST to work with him. At the institute, Dr.
FUERST continued
what would become his lifelong work studying bacterial viruses
or bacteriophages, which have been important in the development
of our understanding of all types of viruses. At that time, there
were very few scientists in Canada working in this area.
"He was a lab scientist," Dr.
SIMINOVITCH said, adding that it
wasn't uncommon for his colleague to spend up to 15 hours a day
there. "When he did an experiment, it was always very accurate."
Clarence Ronald
FUERST was born on the family farm in rural Bashaw,
Alberta. He was the eldest of the two sons of Bill and Ella
FUERST.
He grew up through both the Depression and the Second World War,
when the FUERST family, like other prairie farm families, lived
through tough times. In his early years, there was no electricity
or running water in the farmhouse. With little money for hired
help, Dr. FUERST and his brother always had chores to do. At
one point, the young Dr.
FUERST feared that he wouldn't be able
to finish high school because he had to devote so much time to
the farm during the harvesting and planting seasons.
It was in high school where Dr.
FUERST discovered he had an aptitude
for science and decided to go onto study agriculture at the University
of Alberta. Initially, his family was not happy, as he was expected
to return home and take over the family farm. He excelled academically
and was awarded scholarships to complete his master of science
degree. Any prospect that he would return to the farm vanished.
Before leaving Alberta for California, where he was going to
pursue his PhD, he met a young registered nurse named Katherine
PAWLOWSKI on a blind date. In 1952, the couple married in California.
They later had three children.
"He loved discovery for its own sake," said Paul
SADOWSKI, a
former colleague in the Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology
at the University of Toronto. "He didn't care if he got credit
for his discoveries."
Sadly, much of his work lies hidden in notebooks, Dr.
SADOWSKI
said. He had difficulty knowing when to stop his rigorous research
in order to write down his discoveries and have them published.
In addition to his scientific research at the Ontario Cancer
Institute, he became a full professor in 1968 in the departments
of Medical Genetics and Microbiology and Medical Biophysics at
the University of Toronto.
"From him I learned not only how to think about experiments,
how to question one's reasoning all the time, but also how to
keep one's humanity in a sometimes not-too-friendly world," a
former student, Helios
MURIALDO, wrote in a speech he delivered
when Dr. FUERST retired from the university in 1993. "From him
I learned that one can never be critical enough of one's own
hypothesis."
Although Dr.
FUERST formally retired at the age of 65, he continued
to teach part-time at the university for a number of years. He
also continued to participate in examining doctoral candidates.
"He was so principled," Dr.
SADOWSKI said. "He was the moral
compass for the department."
Between work and family, there was little time for anything else.
Often he brought work home with him and, fuelled by black coffee
and cigarettes, toiled into the early morning hours at the kitchen
table with slide ruler in hand. "He was a quiet man," Michelle
FUERST said. "The perfect scientist."
Clarence FUERST was born on May 9, 1928, in Bashaw, Alberta.,
and died in Toronto on March 7, 2005. Dr.
FUERST died at Mount
Sinai Hospital in Toronto on March 7 from complications due to
Parkinson's disease. He was 76. He leaves his wife Katherine
children Michelle, Linda and Darren; brother Gordon and grandchildren
Ryan, John, Elsa, Katie and Lindsay.
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FUERST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-09 published
FUERST,
Clarence▲
Ronald▲
At Mount Sinai Hospital on March 7, 2005 in his 77th year, as
a result of complications due to Parkinson's Disease. Cherished
husband of 52 years of Katherine. Loved and loving father of
Michelle (David
WATT,)
Linda▲
(Michael▲
KUCAN,) and Darren (Lorena.)
Proud▲ grandfather of Ryan and John
KUCAN,
Elsa▲
FUERST, Katie
(Trevor) WALLACE, and Lindsay
WATT.
Brother▲ of Gordon (Joyce)
FUERST of Edmonton. Predeceased by his parents William and Ella
FUERST of Bashaw, Alberta. Born and raised on the family farm
in Alberta, he became the first member of his rural community
to attend university. He excelled academically, receiving both
a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from the
University of Alberta, and a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University
of California at Berkeley. Following the completion of his doctorate,
he was awarded a Fellowship to the Pasteur Institute at Paris,
France, where he worked from 1955 to 1957. He remained ever grateful
to the Canadian academic community for the scholarship funds
that had permitted him to pursue his education, and so, on the
completion of his Fellowship, he elected to return to Canada.
He worked as a Molecular Geneticist at the Ontario Cancer Institute
(Princess Margaret Hospital) and became a Professor in the Departments
of Medical Genetics and Medical Biophysics at the University
of Toronto. Honesty, integrity and the pursuit of excellence
were the values that guided his life. At his request, a private
family service will take place, followed by cremation. In lieu
of flowers, donations to The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
- Cancer Research Fund would be appreciated by the family.
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