VIPOND o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-21 published
JENNER, "
Ida"
Ruth (née
CALHOUN)
(Ida) Ruth of Charing Cross passed away at Meadow Park Nursing
Home in Chatham on Monday, June 20, 2005, in her 96th year. She
was the daughter of the late William
CALHOUN and Mary
GRIFFIN.
Ruth was the beloved wife of the late Ralph
JENNER (1966.) Loving
mother of Marion
VIPOND of Victoria, British Columbia, Reverend Harold
and wife Nancy
JENNER of Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Eleanor
and husband Lyle
LITTLE of Exeter, Carl and wife
Trijntje
JENNER
of Chatham, and Sylvia and husband Bill
VANDERWEL of Sarnia.
Fondly remembered by twenty-three grandchildren and forty-four
great-grandchildren. Predeceased by son Allan (1942), daughter
Viola HEUSTON (1999) and her husband Roy
HEUSTON (1990) and by
granddaughters Mary
HEUSTON (1958,) Sandra
VANDERWEL (1963,)
Laura JENNER (1985) and one greatgranddaughter Robin
HEUSTON
(1982.) Also predeceased by two brothers, Jim and Harry
CALHOUN.
As a life long resident of Raleigh Township, Ruth was a faithful
member of Charing Cross United Church and was organist there
for twenty-five years. She served twenty-five years on the Kent
Presbytery and was a past chairperson. She was also a licensed
piano teacher and a first-rate scrabble player. Resting at the
J.L. Ford Funeral Home in Blenheim for visitation on Tuesday
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A funeral service will be held at the Charing
Cross United Church on Wednesday at 1: 00 p.m. Interment will
take place in Pardoville Union Cemetery. Friends planning an
expression of remembrance are asked to consider the Charing Cross
United Church Building Fund.
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VIPOND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-18 published
I Remember -- Scott
YOUNG
By Gerry FRYER,
Saturday,
June 18, 2005. Page S9
Thornhill, Ontario -- Scott
YOUNG's obituary appeared on June
The passing of Scott
YOUNG this week brought back for me memories
of September, 1964, and the conversion of Toronto's
CJBC into
a French radio station. I came to Toronto at the time to work
as an announcer on the newly converted station.
There was some hostility in the newspapers regarding the conversion,
as CJBC was popular with the English-speaking audience. But we
found an unexpected friend in the most unexpected place: Scott
YOUNG, a columnist for The Globe and Mail who had written several
columns supporting a French
CJBC.
On October 1, 1964, our first day on air in French, we had wanted
to interview Mr.
YOUNG.
When we phoned him for an appointment,
we found out he did not speak French. But we agreed to meet anyway.
We met at his Rosedale home and, for the next two hours, painstakingly,
we put together a good minute and a half of Scott
YOUNG in French.
Word by word, Mr.
YOUNG repeated each word of a prepared French
text several times until he had reached a perfect pronunciation
for each one. Back at
CJBC, it was my job to edit Mr.
YOUNG's
voice. It took me a good three hours of minute splicing of quarter-inch
audiotape. But, at the end, we had Mr.
YOUNG wishing the best
for the new
CJBC in a more than passable French.
This was my first interview with a member of our new Toronto
audience. I could not have had a better introduction to this
city than the one I got with this most civilized and broadminded
Torontonian.
Vive Scott
YOUNG!
Jacques GAUTHIER,
Toronto
On learning of Scott
YOUNG's passing, I was immediately taken
back to the early 1960s in Winnipeg. Then, most schoolboys played
hockey year-round, watched Hockey Night in Canada every Saturday
and read every book that could be found about the greatest team
sport in history and "the world's fastest game."
At the time, many of us still thought we had a legitimate shot
at playing professional hockey, despite the nearly insurmountable
odds against that prospect. Mr.
YOUNG's scintillating trilogy
Scrubs on Skates, Boy on Defence and Boy at the Leafs' Camp
was the cornerstones of most of our rather limited personal
libraries.
I ripped through the pages of Scrubs on Skates so many times
that the book nearly disintegrated. Somehow, Santa knew to put
another copy under the tree that year.
Mr. YOUNG's books were the first works of fiction that ever set
my heart racing while broadening my horizons to consider some
of life's possibilities. For many, it was the closest we ever
got to the training camp of a professional hockey team, and we
can all thank Scott
YOUNG for that opportunity. His power with
the pen could thrill and excite while magically transporting
you to the world of your dreams.
Roy MacGREGOR notes that Canadians now have "no Scott
YOUNG to
connect the national game to the national culture" (This Country
June 15). Fortunately for many of us, he already has and his
legacy will live on for generations to come.
Jeffrey PECKITT,
Oakville,
Ontario
About 45 years ago, during my first (and only) year in Ryerson's
journalism program, I decided -- in my desire to become Canada's
greatest sportswriter -- that I should write about my school's
teams for The Globe and Mail.
Shamelessly invoking the name of an uncle who knew him, I visited
Jim VIPOND, the Sports editor, and suggested that The Globe needed
to cover Ryerson sports -- and that I was just the man to do
it. Without missing a beat, he sent me out of his office to write
a brief autobiography to help him make a decision.
Choosing an empty chair in front of an old manual typewriter,
I almost froze when I noticed that the man pounding away next
to me was Scott
YOUNG, an icon in sports journalism and one of
my heroes. I recall no greeting or sign of acknowledgment from
my neighbour (and I certainly would not have dreamed of interrupting
him); but that brief near-encounter remains one of my fondest
memories.
Despite shaking, clammy hands, a suddenly dry throat and a blank
mind, I managed to bang out something for Mr.
VIPOND. I got the
non-paying "job" and, for a few months, wrote for the same newspaper
as Scott YOUNG at the peak of his career.
Eventually, I met my wife, Gail. She bettered my story: She and
a former boyfriend used to double-date with Scott
YOUNG's son
Neil.
Together, we still feel a certain affinity with the
YOUNGs.
Carl A. CHRISTIE,
Winnipeg
In the late 1950s, my parents purchased the full Encyclopedia
Britannica on my behalf. Being more sports mad at the time than
now, I was delighted to find an article titled Hockey -- A Nation's
Pastime in the 1960 yearbook. The article left an indelible impression
on me, and I have read it many times since.
It was built around a 1-0 game in December, 1959, between the
Maple Leafs and the Canadiens. The author, Scott
YOUNG (at that
time a Globe and Mail columnist), described the atmosphere inside
and outside Maple Leaf Gardens beforehand, including the scalpers
and the standing-room patrons, who at that time were about 15
per cent of the Gardens' ticket holders. Then came "the whole
beauty of the game" - teamwork, body checks, high skills and
reflexes, and the individuality of stars like Doug Harvey, the
Pocket Rocket, Jean Beliveau ("moving with the effortless power
of a big buck deer"), and the only goal scorer, Frank Mahovlich.
Mr. YOUNG's article soared by translating the Canadian passion
for ice hockey into poetry. He wrote, "Throughout the game the
noise of the crowd was a constant series of great Ohs," and,
at game's end, "Here I had seen something to remember -- the
Canadian equivalent of an Italian opera audience, rising as one
to shout 'Bravo.' "
That article is a time capsule of my love for the game, and also
of what the return of great hockey would mean for our country.
Thank you, Scott
YOUNG.
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VIPOND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-17 published
VIPOND,
Ruth▼
Cradock▼
(SIMPSON)
In Amherst, Nova Scotia on Friday, September 9th, as the result
of a severe stroke. A wonderful mother and friend, she is mourned
by her children, Hudson (Lise) and Susan (Morris), her grandchildren,
Maria (Fred), Christa (Todd), Marianne and Stephanie, and her
great-grandchildren Nicole, Kirsten, Lauren and Nicholas. Predeceased
by her husband Fletcher. Ruth Cradock
SIMPSON was born on June
29th, 1912, spent her early childhood in an apartment overlooking
Dominion Square, and was a dyed-in-the-wool Montrealer for 90
years of her life. She will be missed by her Friends at Orford
Lake, in the Town of Mount Royal, and
in Nova Scotia. Ruth was
a dedicated volunteer for both the Mount Royal United Church
and in particular for the Montreal General Hospital where she
received her 6,000 hour pin for service spanning over 50 years.
The funeral was in Amherst, and a memorial service was held at
Mount Royal United Church. Burial was in Hudson, Quebec.
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VIPOND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-17 published
VIPOND,
Ruth▲
Cradock▲ (née
SIMPSON)
In Amherst, Nova Scotia on Friday, September 9th, 2005 as the
result of a severe stroke. A wonderful mother and friend, she
is mourned by her children, Hudson (Lise) and Susan (Morris),
her grandchildren, Maria (Fred), Christa (Todd), Marianne and
Stephanie, and her great-grandchildren Nicole, Kirsten, Lauren
and Nicholas. Predeceased by her husband Fletcher. Ruth Cradock
SIMPSON was born on June 29th, 1912, spent her early childhood
in an apartment overlooking Dominion Square, and was a dyed-in-the-wool
Montrealer for 90 years of her life. She will be missed by her
Friends at Orford Lake, in the Town of Mount Royal, and
in Nova
Scotia. Ruth was a dedicated volunteer for both the Mount Royal
United Church and in particular for the Montreal General Hospital
where she received her 6,000 hour pin for service spanning over
50 years. The funeral was in Amherst, and a memorial service
was held at Mount Royal United Church. Burial was in Hudson,
Quebec.
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