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GLABB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-11 published
JUBA,
Mathew▼
Michael
A resident of Chatham, passed away at the London Health Science
Centre, Victoria Campus on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at the
age of 55. Born in Windsor,
son of Mathew and Agnes
HILLER)
JUBA of Emeryville, Ontario. Beloved husband of Mary Elizabeth
(Betty) KUCHTA. Dear father of Angela, John and Michael
JUBA
of Chatham. Brother of Pamela and Wyatt
HOWICK of LaSalle, Karen
JUBA-
JELUSIC and Boris
JELUSIC of Chatham, Randy and Vicki
JUBA
of Scarborough and Linda and Bill
GLABB of Edmonton. Son-in-law
of Mary KUCHTA of Chatham. Brother-in-law of Alex
KUCHTA and
Marie STARR of Mississauga. Also surviving are 8 nieces and nephews.
Matt was a well know and respected lawyer in Chatham. Family
will receive Friends at the McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair
Street, Chatham on Friday 2: 00-4:30 p.m. and 7:00-9:00 p.m. Funeral
Service will be held at the Funeral Home on Saturday, January 13,
2007 at 11: 00 a.m. with Doctor Gordon
SIMMONS of Sarnia officiating.
Donation, made by cheque, to Canadian Diabetes Association or
L.H.S.C., Victoria Campus Adult Oncology Floor appreciated. Online
condolences may be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com
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GLABB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-12 published
JUBA,
Mathew▲
M.
Of Chatham, Ontario passed away peacefully early on the morning
of January 10th, 2007 with his family by his side at Victoria
Campus, London Health Sciences Centre. Mathew, 55, was born in
Windsor, Ontario. He was a well-known and well-respected lawyer
in Chatham, a spectacular father and an avid golfer and traveler.
He is survived by his beloved wife and best friend, Betty
KUCHTA,
and their three children, Angela, John and Michael. He is also
survived by his parents, Agnes and Matt
JUBA of Emeryville; his
grandmother, Katie
JUBA of Angusville, Manitoba; his sister Pamela
and husband Wyatt
HOWICK of Lasalle; his sister Karen
JUBA-
JELUSIC
and husband Boris
JELUSIC of Chatham; his brother Randy and wife
Vicki JUBA of Scarborough; his sister Linda and husband Bill
GLABB of Edmonton; eight well-loved nieces and nephews; as well
as loving aunts and uncles, including Theresa
HILLER of Windsor.
Son-in-law of Mary
KUCHTA of Chatham, and brother-in-law of Alex
KUCHTA and wife
Marie
STARR of Mississauga. Beloved friend to
many. Past President of the Chatham Minor Hockey Association,
Past President of the Kent Law Association, Lifetime member of
the Macaulay Club of Chatham, Member of the Maple City Golf and
Country Club and the Kent Club, Chaperone on many ESPC student
trips. Thank you to the fabulous nursing team in the stem-cell
transplant unit at London Health Sciences Centre. Family will
receive Friends at the McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair Street,
Chatham on Friday, January 12, 2006 from 2: 00-4:30 p.m. and 7:00-9:00 p.m.
A Funeral Service will be held at 11: 00 a.m., at the funeral
home, on Saturday, January 13, 2006 with Doctor Gordon
SIMMONS officiating.
Donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association or the London
Health Sciences Centre Victoria Campus Adult Oncology Floor would
be appreciated. 70% of individuals in need of bone marrow transplants
do not have a related donor - call 1-888-236-6283 (Canadian Blood
Services) to join the registry and donate to someone in need.
Online condolences may be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com
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GLADDERS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-08-20 published
Hamilton police chase ends in double fatality
By Canadian Press, Mon., August 20, 2007
Toronto -- Two men who were killed when their car slammed into
a Hamilton house during a police pursuit have been identified
as Sheldon
GLADDERS and Matthew
LOYER, both 20 years old.
The province's Special Investigations Unit is reviewing the circumstances
surrounding the police response and the collision, and is appealing
for witnesses: to come forward.
Officials say a Hamilton police officer spotted a black Mercedes
speeding eastbound on Main Street early Saturday morning.
The officer pursued the car for a short distance until it left
the road near Cochrane and Lawrence roads and struck a house.
The Special Investigations Unit says a third man was taken to
hospital with a broken leg.
The Special Investigations Unit is a civilian agency that investigates
incidents involving police and civilians that result in serious
injury, sexual assault or death.
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CHIUSOLO,
Louis
Passed away peacefully at Sunnybrook Hospital on Thursday, January 4,
2007. Survived by his wife
Agnes
CHIUSOLO, his step-daughter
Judy HENDLER, son-in-law Douglas
HENDLER, and granddaughter Tracey
HENDLER. A private family service will be held. In lieu of flowers,
the family would be honoured by a donation to the North York
General
Hospital
Foundation, honouring Doctor Richard
GLADSTONE,
(416) 756-6944 or by a donation to the Louis Chiusolo Brain Tumour
Fund at Sunnybrook Hospital, (416) 480-4483.
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GLADSTONE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-05 published
GLADSTONE,
Mia (née Miriam
SIVAK)
On Saturday, November 3, 2007 at Sunnybrook Hospital. Mia
GLADSTONE
beloved wife of Alex. Loving mother and mother-in-law of David,
Judy
(Patrick,)
Doctor Gila (Dr. Jeff
MARTOW,) and Doctor Sara (Abba
LUSTGARTEN.) Dear sister and sister-in-law of Doctor Jacob
SIVAK
(Dr. Barbara). Devoted Bubbie of Ella, Eden, Evan, Josh, Mitch,
Jennie, Mattan, Lior, and Ayelet. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (three lights west of Dufferin)
for service on Monday, November 5, 2007 at 2: 30 p.m. Shiva 70 Coldwater
Court, Thornhill. Memorial donations may be made to Camp Shomria,
Mia Gladstone Arts Program, 416-736-1339 (mail@campshomria.ca).
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GLADWIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-06 published
'Brilliant teacher' and professor explained politics to Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation viewers
Political scientist triumphed not only as a scholar but also
as a commentator. He could explain even the most erudite concepts
succinctly and without condescension, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page▼ S8
In the great triumvirate of scholarship, administration and teaching,
by which academics tend to be graded, political scientist Paul
FOX's contribution lay in all three areas - but above all in
the classroom.
"He was the most popular teacher in a very big department, one
that prided itself on teaching," said his former colleague, the
political scientist J.T. McLeod (who writes fiction under the
name Jack MacLeod). "He had a wonderful ironic wit and he could
make the study of politics very lively, and about people, not
just about laws and constitutions. He was a brilliant teacher."
Beginning in 1962, Prof.
FOX was the lead editor of Politics:
Canada, a collection of readings that went through eight editions
and which for many years was the most widely used undergraduate
textbook in the subject.
Prof. FOX "was one of those remarkable academic administrators
who's a true gentleman," said philosopher Paul
GOOCH, president
of Victoria College in the University of Toronto. "He was a man
of unfailing courtesy. That was my initial and lasting impression,"
he said of the man who served two terms as principal of Erindale
College (from 1976-1986) on the Mississauga Campus of the University
of Toronto and then sat on the Board of Regents at Victoria,
after he retired from teaching.
The opposite of an ivory tower academic, Prof.
FOX gave his discipline
a public face through his accessibility to journalists - eager
for sound bites and pithy comments - and his many appearances
as a political commentator on radio and television and in print,
especially during political campaigns and election-night coverage.
Rail thin, with a glint of humour in his eyes, he could explain
even the most erudite concepts succinctly and without condescension.
"He was humane, and he brought the world of politics to you in
a way which made you feel that you could not only understand
it, but participate in it," former governor-general Adrienne
Clarkson said. The two met in 1965 when Ms. Clarkson was co-host
of Take Thirty on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television.
Prof. FOX, who shared in the "entertain-and-learn-along-the-way
philosophy" of the program was a regular guest on Take Thirty
for a decade. "I have not high enough words of praise for this
man," Ms. Clarkson said.
Paul Wesley
FOX was born in 1921, the younger of two sons of
Paul Hazelton and Ida (née
MEREDITH)
FOX. On his father's side,
his family pre-dated the United Empire Loyalists, having emigrated
from the American Colonies to what is now Nova Scotia in the
early 1760s. His mother's family heritage was English and Welsh.
His father worked for the Canadian National Railway as an assistant
superintendent of operations for several branch lines in eastern
Ontario, and his mother was a homemaker.
Paul and his older brother Arthur were born in Orillia, Ontario,
their mother's home town, probably because his father was at
that time posted in northern Ontario. The family moved to Ottawa
when Mr. FOX was transferred there by the Canadian National Railway.
Paul went to First Avenue School, then Glebe Collegiate and finished
high school in Barrie, after his father was transferred there.
He went to Victoria College in the University of Toronto in 1940 and
volunteered in the Canadian officers Training Corps. An excellent
student, Mr.
FOX graduated in 1944 with the Ames gold medal in
political economy and the Men's Senior Stick (an award given
by the student body to the student they feel has made the greatest
contribution) at Victoria College. He immediately was posted
for officer training at an army camp in Brockville, Ontario,
and then, with the rank of lieutenant, to what was then called
Camp Utopia, near Gagetown, New Brunswick The war ended before
he could be shipped overseas.
He went back to the University of Toronto in the fall of 1945 to
undertake studies for a masters degree in political science,
which he completed in 1947, while working in the department as
a research associate. He won a British Council Scholarship and
probably completed the residency requirements for his doctorate
at the London School of Economics the following year, before
interrupting his education to teach at what was then called Carleton
College in Ottawa from 1948 to 1954. That's where he met Joan
GLADWIN.
They were married on June 20, 1951, and eventually had
three sons, Rowley, Bruce and Nicholas.
The family moved to Toronto in 1954 after Mr.
FOX accepted an
appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto
in what was then called the Department of Economics and Political
Economy. At the same time, he continued work on his doctoral
thesis and received his doctorate from the University of London
in 1959.
Prof. McLeod arrived at the University of Toronto from Saskatchewan
in October, 1955 to begin his doctorate in political science
and almost immediately met Prof.
FOX. "He and his wife had me
to dinner, the day we met, and I thought 'isn't Toronto such
a friendly place,' and I never got invited any place else for
about five years," Prof. McLeod said with a chuckle.
"He was a pleasure to work with and a privilege to know. Thoughtful,
helpful co-operative and always ready to give sensible advice&hellip
and a good man. I never heard anybody say anything critical of
him."
Political scientist David
COOK, now the principal of Victoria
College, still remembers being in Prof.
FOX's
Politics 100 class
when he was an undergraduate in the mid-sixties. The textbook
was the second edition of Politics: Canada, edited by Prof.
FOX.
"He was a tremendous teacher with a wonderful sense of humour
who knew many stories about political figures and could weave
them into his teaching of the elementary aspects of Canadian
government," according to Prof.
COOK.
"He was able to establish an intimacy with the class" even in
a large lecture hall. "You liked the man immediately."
Besides
Politics:
Canada, Prof.
FOX was also the senior Canadian
editor of The World Almanac from 1972-78, the general editor
of the 24-book series, Politics, co-editor of the Canadian Journal
of Political Science from 1974-77 and president of the Canadian
Political Science Association from 1979-80. He also served on
the Advisory Committee on Research for the Royal Commission on
Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1964-68, the Ontario Advisory
Committee on Confederation from 1965-71, and as chair of the
Ontario Council on University Affairs from 1987-88.
He was a mentor to younger academic colleagues and a very successful
principal of Erindale College, according to Prof.
COOK, who spent
many years in the central administration of the university and
had many opportunities to observe Prof.
FOX in action. "He had
an amazing ability to make relationships work and he transformed
Erindale's relationship with the community in Mississauga," Prof.
COOK
said. "He delegated well and he gave the college a sense of itself."
After teaching at the University of Toronto for more than 30 years,
Prof. FOX officially retired in 1987 and was named an emeritus
professor. He returned to the college where he had spent his
undergraduate years and served as Senior Research Associate from
1988-2004 and on the board of Regents, including a term as chair.
About three years ago, Prof.
FOX developed pulmonary fibrosis,
a progressive disease in which the air sacs of the lungs become
replaced by fibrotic tissue, making it very difficult for the
lungs to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. He managed with
supplementary oxygen but declined in the last year and went into
palliative care at Grace Hospital in Toronto just after Thanksgiving.
Paul Wesley
FOX, O.C., was born in Orillia, Ont, on September 22,
1921 and died in Toronto on October 18, 2007, of complications
from pulmonary fibrosis. He was 86. He is survived by his wife
Joan, his three sons, two grand_sons, his older brother Arthur
and his extended family.
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GLANVILLE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-07-22 published
Manhunt in Huron County
Ontario Provincial Police swarm a rural Huron County township
seeking Jesse
IMESON, 22, right, wanted in a Windsor killing.
By Kate DUBINSKI and April
KEMICK, Sun Media, Sun., July 22,
Const. Charlie
RAE of the Huron Ontario Provincial Police stands
watch over the perimeter of a cordoned area just south of Crediton,
where police continued their hunt last night for a suspect in
the slaying of a Windsor man. (Susan
BRADNAM,
Sun
Media)
Police officers and dogs combed a rural area of Huron County
yesterday as they searched for an "armed and dangerous" suspect
in a Windsor homicide.
Dozens of Ontario Provincial Police officers and dogs scoured
a five-kilometre-wide stretch of land in Stephen Township --
from Ausable Line to Parr Line north of Mount Carmel Drive --
in search of Jesse Norman
IMESON, 22.
IMESON is wanted by police in connection with the slaying of
Carlos RIVERA, 26, of Lasalle.
The search for
IMESON -- which earlier had police scouring Grand
Bend, after investigators found the slain man's car there --
began when
RIVERA's
Friends reported him missing to Windsor police
on Wednesday.
He was last seen at 6 a.m. that day.
Investigators tracing
RIVERA's movements went to the Tap, a gay
strip club in Windsor where he tended bar.
RIVERA didn't show
up for his Wednesday night shift, which wasn't like him, Friends
said.
RIVERA was last seen in his silver two-door Honda Civic, which
was being driven by
IMESON, police said.
Police went to
IMESON's
Erie
Street apartment in Windsor Thursday
night and found
RIVERA's "decomposing" body, said Windsor police
Staff
Sgt.
William
DONNELLY.
Police then found
RIVERA's car in Grand Bend early Friday.
There, investigators obtained video of
IMESON and another man
at Gables, a Main Street bar.
The surveillance images were taken sometime between Wednesday
and Friday, police said.
Police fear the man in the video with
IMESON might be in danger,
and searched the town for clues to their whereabouts.
"We've been doing door-to-door searches, going to businesses
and asking them if they recognize anyone," Lambton Ontario Provincial
Police
Const.
Todd
MONAGHAN said yesterday.
"We're hoping the public knows something, or perhaps Mr.
IMESON
can put an end to this and come speak to us."
The man with
IMESON has collar-length hair and was wearing a
dark ball cap and white shirt, police said.
IMESON is six-foot-one, 200 pounds with short, almost shaved
brown hair, brown eyes and numerous tattoos on his arms.
Windsor police said
IMESON is known to police.
Last night, an Ontario Provincial Police helicopter joined the
manhunt for
IMESON in Huron County.
As night fell, marked and unmarked cruisers -- along with armed
officers -- lined a perimeter in Stephen Township that framed
corn fields, wooded areas and the Ausable River.
Passing motorists were warned not to pick up hitchhikers, and
area homeowners were told to keep vehicles and homes locked.
"I've got my doors locked and I'm staying inside, because you
just don't know," said one woman, who didn't want her name used.
Wayne GLANVILLE, whose property borders the search area, said
it's rare to see such a police presence in the quiet countryside.
"It makes me a little nervous," he said of the suspect on the
loose.
The Stephen Township area is full of nooks and crannies where
a suspect could hide, said Huron Ontario Provincial Police Const. Jeff
WALRAVEN.
"There's so many different avenues -- trees, bushes, holes,"
he said.
But scouring for suspects is "something the Ontario Provincial
Police excels at," he added.
WALRAVEN wouldn't comment as to how long police would remain
on the perimeter.
RIVERA was a "nice guy" who always had a smile for everyone,
said one Tap employee who didn't want to be named.
"It's really scary. I'm hoping the police can find who did this."
An autopsy on
RIVERA was slated for yesterday in London. No results
have been released.
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GLANVILLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-24 published
DARBYSHIRE,
Ann
Comfortably at Garry J. Armstrong Nursing Home, Ottawa on November 22,
2007 at the age of 81. Beloved wife of the late James Edward
DARBYSHIRE.
Loving mother of Stephen (Christine,) Katherine (Werner,)
Jean (Jesse) and William (Anca). Cherished grandmother to Anthony,
Duncan and Nicholas. Predeceased by 1 brother John
GLANVILLE.
Friends are invited to visit at the Central Chapel of Hulse,
Playfair and McGarry, 315 McLeod Street, Ottawa on Monday, November 26,
2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to the
Alzheimer Society would be appreciated.
Condolences/donations/tributes at www.mcgarryfamily.ca
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Czech wartime refugee became one of Canada's greatest composers
Originally a pianist, he forced himself to write a fugue a week
until he had mastered composition. He rejected avant-garde electronic
and 12-tone techniques in favour of laments and tributes that
probably drew inspiration from his memories of Europe, writes
Sandra MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page▲ S9
A Czech refugee from Nazism, Oskar
MORAWETZ was 23 when he arrived
in Toronto, but he remained a European in his sensibilities and
his musicianship throughout his long and prolific career as one
of Canada's best known and most frequently performed composers.
Known for his deep emotion, lyricism and melodic line, Prof.
MORAWETZ
wrote more than 100 orchestral and chamber works, including Carnival
Overture, Piano Concerto No. 1, Memorial to Martin Luther King
and From the Diary of Anne Frank. His music, both vocal and instrumental,
was performed by such musicians as Glenn
GOULD,
Maureen
Forrester,
Ben Heppner, Anton Kuerti, Yo-Yo Ma, Lois Marshall and Zubin
Mehta.
His knowledge of the great European composers was encyclopedic,
which made him a valuable teacher and mentor. In his own work,
he eschewed his colleagues' embrace of avant-garde electronic
and 12-tone techniques in favour of deeply felt emotional laments
and tributes that probably drew their inspiration from his memories
of Czechoslovakia, as it was before Hitler occupied the country,
and the trauma both of his own escape and the horrific fate of
many of his Friends and extended family members.
Pianist
Mr.
Kuerti remembered Prof.
MORAWETZ as a composer "whose
eclectic style was reminiscent of music written 50 to 75 years
earlier, as were, among others, Bach and Brahms in their time.
"He was in no way experimental or avant-garde, during a time
when radical innovation and destruction of tradition were highly
prized by the critics and other would-be oracles, if not by the
general public. For this he earned considerable disdain. But
his music is absolutely sincere, just as his personality was,
and it was extremely well crafted and has a distinct aroma of
its own.
"He had an uncanny memory for a great deal of music from the
past, and from his acquaintance with it he knew thoroughly all
about balance, form, orchestration and sound colours. Had he
been a visual artist, one would admire how wonderfully he could
draw, rather than just splash paint on a canvas. I think some
of his best works should continue to keep a foothold in the repertoire."
As well as two Juno awards, three senior fellowships from the
Canada Council and a Golden Jubilee Medal, Prof.
MORAWETZ was
awarded the Orders of Ontario and Canada. Although he could speak
several languages, he never lost his heavy Czech accent.
Oskar MORAWETZ was born January 17, 1917, in Svetla nad Sazavou,
Czechoslovakia, the second
son of four children of a secular
Jewish couple, Richard and Frida
(GLASER)
MORAWETZ.
His father
made his living running jute factories that had been founded
by his grandfather. When Oskar was 3, the family moved to Upice,
a mill town in the foothills of the Sudeten mountains in western
Czechoslovakia, where Mr.
MORAWETZ and his older brother owned
a jute factory, although they continued to spend their summers
at the ancestral family estate in Svetla. As a child, Oskar loved
building blocks, playing the piano and listening to music. When
he was 10, his father moved the family to Prague so that the
children could attend high school. They lived in a large apartment
in the centre of Prague close to theatres and coffee houses and
enjoyed an affluent, cultured lifestyle, complete with skiing
vacations at Christmas and Easter.
By 1932, Mr.
MORAWETZ was president of the International Cotton
Congress, and Oskar was studying piano and theory at the Prague
conservatoire under Karel Hoffmeister and Jaroslav Kricka, in
addition to his academic classes. Fascinated by music, Oskar
was barely interested in other subjects and did poorly in school
despite extra tutoring. He graduated in 1935 and then suffered
such a severe nervous breakdown (exacerbated by a fear that his
fingers would lose the ability to play the piano) that his parents
took him to Vienna to see a psychiatrist, who treated him for
several weeks before the overwhelming sadness lifted.
Oskar had such an acutely developed ability to sight-read orchestral
scores that George Szell recommended him for a position as assistant
conductor of the Prague Opera. Despite his longing to become
a musician, he never questioned his father's wish that he take
forestry at university. In 1937, two years after he began studying
forestry, he finally won his father's permission to move to Vienna
to study piano. A year later, after he watched Adolf Hitler parade
through the streets of Vienna, the anti-Semitism he had already
endured increased dramatically and, following a run-in with the
Gestapo, he headed home to Prague.
That September, England and France signed the Munich Agreement,
giving Germany the Sudetenland, the sections of Czechoslovakia
that were heavily populated with Germans and contained most of
the country's fortifications. Mr.
MORAWETZ sent Oskar to Paris,
ostensibly to study music, but really to get him out of the country,
and sent his son John and daughter Sonja to England. On March 15,
1939, Hitler marched his troops into Prague, slept in the Royal
Castle and boasted that Czechoslovakia had ceased to exist. Mr.
MORAWETZ
was doubly marked because of his Friendship with political leaders
Jan Masaryk and Edward Benes. Nevertheless, he managed to acquire
exit permits for himself and his wife and fled to England, then
sailed for Canada, arriving in September of 1939.
Oskar, thinking he was safe in Paris, where he was enjoying his
musical life immensely, had declined to accompany his parents.
But he was treated like an enemy alien and his bank account was
frozen. After a series of harrowing near-arrests, he acquired
an exit visit that took him from France to Italy by way of Switzerland,
where he was helped by a former business associate of his father.
In March of 1940, three months before the fall of France, he
flew from Rome to the Canary Islands and boarded a ship sailing
to the Dominican Republic. From there, he set off for Canada,
landing on June 17, 1940. His brother Herbert and sister Sonja
had come here in December of 1939; his brother John and his bride
Maureen arrived after the war in November of 1946. The family
was finally safely reunited in Toronto, although many of their
relatives had been murdered in concentration camps. By then,
Oskar, who had been rejected for military service because a chest
X-ray had revealed dormant tuberculosis cells, had become a naturalized
Canadian citizen.
From afar, Oskar had seen Canada as a cultural backwater, but
it actually provided him with a nurturing artistic environment.
He lived with his parents and dedicated himself to studying music.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music (1944) and a doctorate
in composition (1953) from the University of Toronto, studying
under Leo SMITH and Albert
GUERRERO -- two of his fellow piano
students were Mr.
GOULD and John Beckwith. Initially, he wanted
to be a pianist, but because he had to write an original composition
to complete the prerequisites for his bachelor's degree, he forced
himself to write a fugue a week.
"He was very frustrated at first," said his daughter Claudia,
"but after writing 40 or 50 of them, he found them easier to
do." His graduate composition was his first string quartet, Opus 1,
and it won a Composers, Authors, and Publishers Association of
Canada award. In 1946, he began teaching at the Royal Conservatory
of Music, was appointed to the faculty of the University of Toronto
as an assistant professor six years later, where he continued
to teach composition and harmony for the next three decades.
On June 7, 1958, at the age of 40, he married Ruth
SHIPMAN, a
pianist and piano teacher from London, Ontario, in a ceremony
at Bloor Street United Church in Toronto. (Mr.
GOULD played the
organ.) The
MORAWETZes settled in a house in Forest Hill, with
him occupying an upstairs room furnished with a Heintzman piano
and a large oak desk, where he composed music. There was a second
piano in the living room, a Steinway grand, that Prof.
MORAWETZ
played occasionally, but it was used much more frequently by
his wife, who gave music lessons there. Her office, aside from
the kitchen, was in the basement.
Two years after his wedding, Prof.
MORAWETZ won the first of
three Senior Arts Fellowships from the Canada Council, which
gave the young couple the opportunity to travel in Europe, attending
concerts and making connections with musicians and, coincidentally,
conceiving Claudia, their first child (now a computer scientist)
who was born in 1962. Their son Richard (an economist) followed
in 1966.
About this time, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich asked
Prof. MORAWETZ to compose a work for cello and orchestra. He
said later that he was having trouble finding the inspiration
to write a note until he watched the "slow, sad and very moving"
funeral procession for Martin Luther King in Atlanta, three days
after the civil-rights leader's assassination on April 4, 1968.
When he saw the inscription on Rev. King's gravestone, taken
from his favourite spiritual - "Free at last, thank God Almighty
I am free at last!" - he resolved to write a work dedicated to
Rev. King's memory: "I saw clearly in front of me the form, content
and orchestration of my composition." Memorial to Martin Luther
King was first performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in
Another death, long after the fact, inspired another of his memorable
musical eulogies. In a radio interview in 1990, Prof.
MORAWETZ
spoke about the inspiration for From the Diary of Anne Frank
(1970), explaining that he hadn't read the diary when it was
published in the early 1950s because it reminded him too painfully
of the fate of so many of his Friends and family members. When
he read it in 1968, he was haunted by the entry in which Anne
writes about her friend Hanneli Goslar ("Lies Goosens" in the
published diary), who was arrested and sent to a concentration
camp while the Frank family was in hiding in Amsterdam. The two
girls met up again briefly in Bergen-Belsen in the last months
of the war. "I still think it's the most moving passage of the
whole book… [it] is nothing else but a prayer for the survival
of her friend Lies," Prof.
MORAWETZ once said. Soprano Lois Marshall
premiered the work with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in May
of 1970.
Prof. MORAWETZ's marriage was not a harmonious one. The couple
separated in 1982 and divorced two years later. At 67, Prof.
MORAWETZ
found himself not only divorced, but retired from his teaching
job at the U of T. After some initial dilemmas about housekeeping,
he settled happily into a busy lifestyle of composing, giving
guest lectures and travelling for most of the next decade. He
gave his last performance as a pianist in March, 1992. Two years
later, the Elmer Iseler Singers sang one of his last major commissions,
Prayer for Freedom, at the inaugural concert in the North York
Performing Arts Centre. The work, which was commissioned by the
Canada Council, draws on two anti-slavery poems written by 19th-century
African-American writer Frances E.W. Harper, reflects Prof.
MORAWETZ's
thematic commitment to human rights and social justice.
The following year, in May of 1995, he went back to Prague, the
city he had fled nearly 60 years earlier. He fell into a depression
that was compounded by his failing eyesight and the arthritis
that stiffened his fingers and made it difficult for him to play
the piano. The breakdown may have been a reverberation of the
severe depression he suffered as a teenager, with both episodes
linked by a fear of being cut off from his music. He was never
able to compose music again.
Six years later, he fell and hit his head, suffering brain damage
that severely affected his memory and his ability to express
himself. In 2002, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's syndrome,
he moved into a retirement home in Toronto. Several symphony
orchestras in Canadian cities, including Toronto, Edmonton and
Ottawa played concerts of his works in January to celebrate his
90th birthday, and the University of Toronto music faculty organized
a tribute to the man and the musician.
Oskar MORAWETZ was born on January 17, 1917, in Svetla nad Sazavou,
Czechoslovakia. He died in his sleep at Leaside Retirement Residence
in Toronto on June 13, 2007, of complications from Parkinson's
syndrome. He was 90. He is survived by two children, two grandchildren
and extended family. There will be a memorial service on June 28
at 7 p.m. in Walter Hall at the U of T's Edward Johnson building.
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GONYOU,
Fred
Winfield
Of Dresden and formerly of Wallaceburg and longtime resident
of Sombra Township, passed away peacefully surrounded by his
family on Sunday, January 7, 2007 in his 85th year. Fred is the
beloved husband of Phillis May (née
KERR.)
Loving father of Elaine
and Louis GATT of Wallaceburg, Doug and Carolyn of Bramalea,
Harold and Chris of Saskatoon and Jane and the late Stan
HETHERINGTON
of Dresden. Dear grandfather of 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Brother of Pearl
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT, Florene
GLASGOW, Edwin and Gordon
GONYOU,
Ella MICKEL,
Norma
MELOCHE and the late Kenneth, Calvin, Lloyd
and Hazel. Friends may call at the Haycock-Cavanagh Funeral Home,
409 Nelson Street in Wallaceburg from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday. The
funeral services will be conducted by Reverend George
FLEMING/FLEMMING
at the funeral home on Wednesday, January 10 at 1 p.m. The interment
will follow at Riverview Cemetery. If desired, remembrances to
Charlemont Free Methodist Church or the charity of your choice
may be left at the funeral home 519-627-3231
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GLASIER,
Sheila
Isobel (née
SNEATH)
(April 7, 1929-Sept. 17, 2000)
A beautiful gracious lady. Loved and, to this day, fondly remembered
by all who knew her. We, Sarah, Evan, Sheila, Arch and I are
thankful for the 51 years, in whole and part, we shared love,
life and happiness. Love, Jack
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ZUZEK,
Henry "
Hank"
Suddenly, on August 8, 2007 in his 75th year. Beloved husband
of Janet (Jan)
ZUZEK.
Predeceased by Ivanka
ZUZEK. Loving father
of Mike and Anna
ZUZEK of Toronto, Lynn and Kevin
McKELLAR of
Kitchener and Marie
ZUZEK of Toronto. Loving grandfather of Michael
ZUZEK and Hank
McKELLAR. Dear brother of Ivan (Sue,) Robert (Lorrie,)
Mary SOLTES and Josie
GLASS
(Richard.)
Stepfather to Greg, David
(Mary) and Eric (Gail)
TUFFORD. Dear brother-in-law of John
STARK
(Sylvia). Step-grandfather to Harlan, Ethan, Bianca, Keegan and
Erica TUFFORD.
Favourite uncle to many nieces and nephews and
working buddy Beaver the cat. Hank was passionately involved
in the Slovenian communities, the British Sports Car Club, the
St. Catharines Old Car Club, Chairman of the Building Committee
of St. Helen's Church, playing the button box accordian and countless
projects at his cherished home, Bluebird Ridge. Mr.
ZUZEK is
at the Vineland Chapel of the Tallman Funeral HomeS, 3277 King
Street, Vineland where the family will receive Friends on Saturday
7-8: 30 and Sunday 2-4 and 7-8:30 with Vigil on Sunday at 3:30.
The funeral mass will be celebrated at Saint_Joseph's Church, 135 Lingston
Ave., Grimsby on Monday, August 13 at 10: 30 a.m. with Rite of
Committal to follow in Mount Osborne Cemetery, Beamsville. If
desired, donation to St. Helen's Church building Fund would be
appreciated by the family.
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GLASSER o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-10-24 published
McCULLOCH,
Mabel
Elizabeth
(HALL)
At Elgin Abbey, Chesley on Monday, October 22nd, 2007 at the
age of 92 years, the former Mabel
HALL of Chesley and formerly
of Port Elgin. Dear wife of Ian
McCULLOCH of Port Elgin. Mother
of Jim and his wife
Karen of Paisley, and Marilyn
GLASSER of
Kitchener, and step-mother of Joyce
REINHART of Port Elgin. She
is also survived by thirteen grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren.
Sister of Mary
GRAHLMAN, Ruby
HOLDAWAY, Edna
HEWITSON, and Carl,
Lloyd, and Wilbur
HALL.
She is predeceased by her husband Cecil
McCULLOUGH, daughter Sheila
WALSH, three brothers, one stepson,
and two sons-in-law. Friends may call at the W. Kent Milroy Port
Elgin Chapel, 510 Mill Street, Port Elgin, (Town of Saugeen Shores)
from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 25th,
2007.. Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel on Friday
at 11: 00 a.m. with the Rev. Ken
MacDONALD and the Rev. Wendell
GRAHLMAN officiating. Interment Hillcrest Cemetery, Tara. Memorial
contributions to the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated as
expressions of sympathy. Memorial online at www.milroyfuneralhomes.com
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NEWMAN,
Jay, PhD, F.R.S.C.
After a short battle with cancer, Jay Newman passed away peacefully
in the early morning of June 17th at Guelph General Hospital.
Services were held at Beth Isaiah Synagogue in Guelph, Ontario
where he was a member. Jay was predeceased by his beloved mother
Kitty and father Lou
NEWMAN, and is survived by his cousin Stephen
GLASSER of New York. He was born in Brooklyn, New York February 28,
1948. Jay earned his B.A. at Brooklyn College in 1968, M.A. at
Brown University, 1969, and Phd, from York University in 1971,
and was a popular professor of philosophy at the University of
Guelph where he spent his entire teaching career starting in
1971. Jay was the author of 11 books specializing in the areas
of religion, family, technology and mass culture. He had visiting
professorships at a number of universities including the University
of Calgary, the University of Birmingham, Polytechnic University
(New York) and Ryerson University. He was made Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada in 1995 and was past president of the
Canadian Theological Society. He received a Distinguished Alumnus
Award of Honor from Brooklyn College in 1988 and was recipient
of the 2001 University of Guelph's President's Distinguished
Professor Award. Jay will be missed by his family, many Friends
and colleagues and the thousands of students he has taught over
the years.
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GLAZIER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-01-05 published
SSAINTOI,
Jess
Russell
In loving memory of Jess Russell
SSAINTOI, a wonderful spirit
who touched the lives of many. Jess passed away peacefully on
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007. Jess will be greatly missed by his
loving devoted wife, Sonja Sophie and family; daughter, Anne
Alexandra SSAINTOI; son-in-law, Mark
GLAZIER and nephew Russell
Lloyd SSAINTOI.
Jess was a devoted husband and best friend to
his loving wife, Sonja. He was born on January 31st, 1924 in
Cranbrook, British Columbia, where as a young man he excelled
at many sports, including boxing and swimming. At the age of
sixteen he hopped a freight train and made his way to Vancouver
where he soon became a plumbing apprentice to support his family
through the great depression. On March 29th, 1943 he became a
member of the United Association of Plumbing and Pipefitting
Industry of the United States and Canada (UA), Local 170, where
he fought for worker rights and pioneered pension, health and
welfare plans for members and their families. In 1967, he became
the Canadian organizer for the UA General Office where unselfishly
spent his life dedicated to improving the lives of working, their
families and their communities throughout Canada. From his successful
efforts he rose to become the UA's first Director of Canadian
Affairs in 1972 and Vice-President in 1976. He retired on March 29th,
1993 to enjoy his retirement with his beautiful wife, Sonja.
In March 2005, Jess suffered a series of small strokes and would
not have survived without Sonja's constant love and care. Visitation
will be held from 6: 30-8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 10th,
2007 at Forest Lawn Funeral Home. A celebration of life will
be held at 2: 00 p.m., Thursday, January 11th, 2007 in the Chapel
of Forest Lawn Funeral Home, 3789 Royal Oak Avenue, Burnaby,
British Columbia. Memorial donations may be forwarded to J. Russell
St. Eloi, UA Local 170 Scholarship Fund, attention: Alex MacDonald,
Suite 201-3876 Norland Ave. Burnaby, British Columbia V5G 4T9.
'Jess Russell
SSAINTOI's legacy will forever be remembered' Forest
Lawn 604-299-7720
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