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An obituary for Norm McEwen can be found online at the Ottawa Citizen website. The obituary notes: “In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to The Special Olympics or The Salvation Army.” In the course of many years of volunteer work on behalf of people who stutter, I got to know Norm well, and […]
In my volunteer work I encounter collisions between privacy and transparency. In this regard, I am conscientious in following the rules and expectations that are in place. Decisions related to the distinction are important for many good reasons. An article in the October 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review addresses the topic with a level […]
Bob Carswell has shared a delightful comment at another post; I’m pleased to share it here as an MCHS Biography entry. I’ve worked out a tentative paragraph structure for this post, and have added links to posts from the Preserved Stories website that reference themes that Bob Carswell mentions. Great to read you message, Bob. […]
Did you attend MCHS anytime DURING THE SIXTIES ? Join us in Toronto Oct 17, 2015. If you attended MCHS in the Sixties, you are invited to attend the MCHS Sixties Reunion at Old Mill Toronto on Oct. 17, 2015. That includes students who began in the 1960s and graduated in the early 1970s. Please […]
Charles Tsiang (MCHS 1962) has shared with us a couple of comments, that I’m pleased to highlight in a separate blog post, namely the one you are now reading, to ensure that as many MCHS alumni as possible have the opportunity to read the messages. Charles Tsiang wrote: Hi Jaan, I already dropped off a […]
I have an interest in military history including the history of the British empire. My interest in the latter empire stems from the fact that Colonel Samuel Smith, who fought on the British side in the American Revolutionary War, in 1797 built a log cabin a one-minute walk from where I live in Long Branch (Toronto […]
I feel most fortunate that I came across a Twitter link dealing with an Aug. 9, 2014 New York Times article that underlines the fact that the processing capacity of conscious mind is limited, as a result of how the brain’s attentional system evolved. As I’ve noted in a previous post, the article recommends that […]
I had the good fortune to get to know students in the Grade 4 age range when I worked as a teacher with the Peel District School Board prior to my retirement in 2006. My retirement was marked with a school assembly at which I gave an eight-minute presentation. A group of students entertained the […]
The website, which I learned about from David Juliusson, for Operation War Diary: Reports from the Front can be found here. The site notes: “The story of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War is waiting to be discovered in 1.5 million pages of unit war diaries. We need your […]
In a previous post regarding the June 16, 2014 meeting in Kitchener of the organizing committee, we have discussed a number of topics related to the format for the Oct. 17, 2015 (that is, next year) Malcolm Campbell High School Sixties Reunion. Our next organizing committee meeting will be held in September 2014. In the […]