Canadian composer, teacher, trombonist and conductor Malcolm Forsyth was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on December 8, 1936. Came to Canada in 1968. Died in Edmonton, Alberta on July 5, 2011. Biographical information available in Encyclopedia of music in Canada. 2nd ed., p. 488-489.
Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond was born in Piet Retief, South Africa, November 8th 1932. He received his Bachelor of Architecture, with distinction, at the University of Capetown in 1956, where he was awarded the Thornton White Prize for design, an Italian State Bursary and the Marley Scholarship. Diamond holds a Master's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, completed in 1958. In 1962, with the help of a Graham Foundation Scholarship, he completed a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied with Louis Kahn. In 1964, Diamond immigrated to Canada to become the founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto, a position he held until 1970. He has held full professor rank at York University and the University of Texas, and has taught as a visiting scholar at Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and University of California Berkeley. Diamond was made a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1980, was named an Honourary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1994, was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1995, and received a RAIC gold medal in 2001. Jack Diamond established his practice as A.J Diamond Architect in 1965. In 1969 Barton Myers joined the firm and the two practiced together as Diamond and Myers until 1975. A.J Diamond and Associates was formed when Diamond established his own firm in 1975.
American composer and instrumentalist Robert Guyn McBride was born in Tucson, Arizona, on February 20, 1911. Biographical information available in New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd. ed., v.15, p. 447.
English administrator, composer, translator, editor, poet and author, Eric Walter White was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, on September 10, 1905. Died September 13, 1985. Biographical information available in Contemporary authors, perm. ser., v. 1, p. 669.
Dr. Fred Terentiuk was born in Coalhurst Alberta 12 December 1927. He received his B.Sc in Physics from the University of Alberta in 1948 and his M.A. Physics (1949) and Ph.D. Physics (1953) from the University of British Columbia. Upon graduation, he worked as a Research Officer for the National Research Council in Ottawa before transferring to the University of Calgary in 1958 as the 2nd full-time faculty member of Department of Physics.| Throughout his career at the University, Terentiuk held a variety of academic and administrative positions. He was appointed the first Director of the newly created Division of Continuing Education in April 1965; the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts in March 1968; Acting Director of the School of Nursing in November 1972 and the Provost of University College in April 1976. In May 1982 Terentiuk was appointed Chief University Olympic Programme Coordinator, the lead coordinator for all the University’s involvement with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. He resigned from the University in 1985.|Terentiuk was active in a number of professional organizations relating to his academic appointments: the Alberta Association for Continuing Education, Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA), and the Alberta Educational Communication Corporation (ACCESS). He was also active as a committee member and trustee of the Calgary Zoo.|He died 23 February 2013 in Maui, Hawaii.
American mathematician, author and educator David A. Klarner was born October 10, 1940, in Fort Bragg, California, and spent his childhood in Napa. He knew he wanted to be a mathematician in grade school and attended Humboldt State College as an undergraduate. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was then a post-doctoral fellow at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; the Technological University in Eindhoven, The Netherlands; University of Reading, Reading, England; and a visiting professor of computer science at Stanford University. He was a professor at the State University of New York, Binghampton, and a visiting professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. He was distinguished visiting professor at Humboldt State College in 1979-1980 and spent sabbatical research years in The Netherlands in 1980-81 and 1991-92 and presented a lecture series at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. He finished his career at the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, where he was a professor of computer science for 15 years. He retired in 1996 to Eureka, California, where he died on March 20, 1999, of complications from diabetes. Dr. Klarner had a strong interest in discrete and recreational mathematics. He published a seminal article on polyominoes in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory in 1969 and continued to make important and original contributions to the literature of combinatorial enumeration, polyominoes and box-packing. He won many awards and fellowships and was published widely in various mathematical journals and books throughout his distinguished career. He was a good friend and frequent correspondent of Martin Gardner and edited The Mathematical Gardner containing contributions from many of the best mathematics popularizers of the last several decades of the twentieth century. Dr. Klarner was a member of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, Fibonacci Association and the Association of Computing Machinery.