Passings: Margaret Sinclair taught mathematics to future teachers

York Professor Margaret Sinclair, co-director of the York/Seneca Institute for Math, Science & Technology Education and a professor in York’s Faculty of Education, died of cancer Feb. 21 at her home in Toronto. She was 62. For 15 years, prior to earning her doctorate, Prof. Sinclair worked as a teacher and vice-principal with the Toronto Catholic District School Board. During […]

Passings: Theatre scholar Lisa Wolford Wylam was a specialist in contemporary performance

York is mourning the loss of Professor Lisa Wolford Wylam, who died suddenly on Sunday, Oct. 9 while visiting family in Knoxville, Tennessee. The University flag will fly at half-mast in her honour from 9am today until 1pm on tomorrow. Left: Lisa Wolford Wylam Prof. Wylam came to York from Bowling Green State University in 2006, […]

Passings: Film professor Douglas Davidson learned his craft at CBC and NFB

Douglas Drysdale Davidson, a film editor, television producer and director who taught film at York for 30 years, died April 3 at his home in Toronto. He was 82. A memorial service will be held today in the A.W. Miles Chapel at the Humphrey Funeral Home, 1403 Bayview Ave., at 11am. York has lowered the flag […]

Passings: Professor John Saywell, a pioneering figure at York, dies at 82

University Professor Emeritus John Tupper (Jack) Saywell, noted Canadian historian and a member of the Founders Society of York University, has died. Prof. Saywell, or "Jack" as most knew him, died on April 20 in Toronto. He was 82. Known as the "kid from Cowichan Lake, British Columbia", Prof. Saywell arrived at the University of […]

Passings: Memorial for Professor David Noble to be held Saturday, March 26

A memorial for York University Professor David Franklin Noble, who died in Toronto on Dec. 27 following complications of pneumonia, will be held on Saturday. Prof. Noble was 65. The memorial will take place March 26, at 4pm, at the Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil St., in Toronto. The York University flag will be lowered to half-mast Friday afternoon […]

Passings: Historian Richard Storr was briefly acting president of York University

Professor Emeritus Richard Storr, a historian who was briefly York's acting president, died earlier this week at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto following a brief illness. Prof. Storr was born and educated in the United States, receiving a PhD from Harvard University in 1949. After teaching at various American colleges, he accepted a position at the […]

Passings: Professor Delmar McCormack Smyth was former dean of Atkinson

Professor Emeritus Delmar McCormack Smyth, dean of Atkinson College from 1963 to 1969 and past director of the Centre for Continuing Education at York University, died peacefully at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton on Feb. 21. He was 88. Prof. McCormack Smyth, or simply “Mac” as he was known to his family, colleagues and friends, was […]

Passings: Professor David Noble was a noted academic and critical historian

York University Professor David Franklin Noble has died following complications of pneumonia. Prof. Noble died on Monday, Dec. 27 in Toronto. He was 65. A critical historian of technology, science and education, Prof. Noble was perhaps best known for his book Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. Most recently, he published Beyond the Promised […]

York remembers Professor Harold Kaplan: Former arts dean and student supporter

Harold Kaplan, professor emeritus of political science and former dean of York’s Faculty of Arts, died on June 22 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie. He was 74. Kaplan joined the University in 1962 and served as acting chair of political science at the Glendon campus from 1964 to 1965. After his first sabbatical […]

Passings: Professor Gina Feldberg led the York Centre for Health Studies

Professor Gina Feldberg, a faculty member in the Health & Society Program in the Department of Social Science in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, died on Saturday, July 10, after a long illness. She was 54 years old. Prof. Feldberg made a significant mark at York University. She spent a decade at Harvard, first as […]