In Memoriam The Alumni Association notes with sorrow the passing of the following graduates:
’30 Dora Kneen, BCom, of West Allis, WI, in November 2006 ’32 Betsy Agnes Scott, BA, ’35 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2006 ’36 Ralph Lembit Erdman, BSc(Ag), ’38 MSc, of Lethbridge, AB, in November 2006 ’37 John Edward Poole, BSc(Eng), ’87 LLB (Honorary), of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’38 Betty Eggen, Dip(Nu), of Calgary, AB, in November 2006 ’39 Cecil Zenas Monaghan, BSc(Eng), of Edmonton, AB, in November 2006 ’40 Stanley James Warshawski, BSc, ’43 MD, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’44 Veletta Myrtle Black, BSc(HEc), of Calgary, AB, in November 2006 ’45 Lola Berner (Dower), BA, of Edmonton, AB, in November 2006 Robert Roy Buckley, BSc(Eng), of Saskatoon, SK, in November 2006 Ed Patching, BSc(Ag), of Calgary, AB, in January 2007 ’46 Hilda M. Clarkston (Remington), Dip(Nu), of Smithers, BC, in December 2006 ’47 Artie Kupchenko (Artym), Dip(Nu), ’65 BSc(Nu), ’70 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in December 2006 ’48 David Taylor Ellis, BSc, ’48 (Dip)Ed, ’48 BEd, of Markham, ON, in November 2006 Patricia Ardelle Hogan, Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, AB, in May 2006 Leonard James D. Garrett, BEd, ’70 MEd, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’49 Raymond Nathan Bower, BSc(Eng), of Winnipeg, MB, in October 2006 Gan Yat Chang, DDS, of Vancouver, BC, in September 2006 Dorothy May Husband, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in November 2006 Angus Gordon MacDonald, BA, ’52 LLB, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’50 Alexander David Bull, BSc(Eng), of Willowdale, ON, in June 2006 Bruce Edgar Langridge, BA, ’51 LLB, of St. Albert, AB, in January 2007 ’51 Elsie Virginia Engman, Dip(Ed), ’65 BEd, of Calgary, AB, in October 2006 Jack Plumley, BSc(Ag), of Cochrane, AB, in October 2006 58
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’52 Keith Aldridge, BA, of Calgary, AB, in January 2007 Jack Neal, BSc(Eng), of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 Kenneth Robert Paproski, BSc, ’56 MD, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 Donald George Marion, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’54 Elaine Bjornson (Klipper), BSc(HEc), ’83 BEd, of Kelowna, BC, in October 2006 David W. J. Reid, BSc, ’56 MD, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2006 Evelyn Hage, BPE, of Vancouver, BC, in November 2006 I. Fay Dafoe (Cline), Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in December 2006 ’55 George Naoum, BSc(Eng), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2006 Margaret Anne Boggs (Gould), Dip(Ed), ’86 BEd, of Vermilion, AB, in December 2006
Randolph Hugh McKinnon, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2006 ’56 Herbert Earl Joudrie, BA, of Fenelon Falls, ON, in November 2006 G. Calvin Johnston, BSc(Eng), of Calgary, AB, in December 2006 Marjory Grace Sandeman, Dip(Ed), of Cowley, AB, in December 2006 ’57 G. Clare Findlay, BSc(Ag), of Sedgewick, AB, in March 2006 Ronald Stewart Hayes, BCom, of Calgary, AB, in July 2006 Robert Edward Ayling, BSc, of Abbotsford, BC, in August 2006 ’59 Robert Clifford McDonald, BSc(Eng), of Calgary, AB, in July 2006 Allan John Welsh, BCom, of Beaver, PA, in December 2006 ’60 Ronald Ridley Brandt, BSc, of Brooks, AB, in December 2006 Jean Etienne Putters, BSc(Eng), of Sherwood Park, AB, in December 2006
C. Patrick MacArthur, BSc(Eng), ’81 MBA, of Edmonton, AB, in December 2006 ’61 Stephen Reginald Hrynewich, BEd, of Nanton, AB, in May 2006 Laurence Maxwell Ready, PhD, of Nipawin, SK, in August 2006 Spencer William Montgomery, BSc, ’63 BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’63 Elsworth Eugene Fox, BEd, ’68 MEd, ’69 PhD, of Millet, AB, in January 2007 Branny Mark Schepanovich, BA, ’67 LLB, of Edmonton, AB, in January 2007 ’64 David Matheson Rodger, BCom, of Vancouver, BC, in November 2006 Dixon Arthur R.Thompson, BSc, of Calgary, AB, in November 2006 ’65 John Frederick Utendale, BPE, of Bellingham, WA, in August 2006
Those Were the Days As our centenary approaches, we take a look at alumni past who stand out in our 100-year tradition of excellence. rained at the University of Alberta as a lawyer, Ted Corday (formerly Cohen), ’30 LLB, might have been familiar with the theatrics of the courtroom, but he soon followed a call to a different kind of drama. Starting in the 1930s, Corday worked as a Broadway producer as well as producing radio and television shows. But he is best known for creating the popular daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, still a fan favourite after more than 40 years on television. Born in Winnipeg in 1903, Corday settled with his family in Hay Lakes, Alberta, and came to the U of A in 1926. On campus he was involved in the Law Club, CKUA Orchestra, and the Dramatic Society. After working on a University dramatic production with Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, his interest shifted firmly to theatre. Working alongside Sterling Haynes, he became an important figure in the Alberta theatre scene through the 1930s. Corday, Haynes and E.A. Corbett, ’63 LLD (Honorary), former director of the U of A’s extension department, started the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1933.
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Corday moved to the U.S. in 1934. The Edmonton Journal continued to report periodically on the Alberta boy and his work producing such daytime television dramas as The Guiding Light and As The World Turns. In 1965 he and his wife, Betty Corday (Shea), who had also produced radio dramas, created their big hit, Days of Our Lives. It launched in November, with the opening voiceover “Like sands through the hourglass ... so are the days of our lives” and a plot involving shoplifting, mistaken identity, and wedding plans. Over the years the program, set in the fictional mid-western U.S. town of Salem, came to be known for excellence in writing and storytelling and some wild plot twists. It has been nominated for numerous Emmy Awards, “Soap Opera Digest” Awards, and People’s Choice Awards. Ted Corday died in July 1966, less than a year after the show launched. His widow took over as executive producer of the show and stayed in that role until she retired in 1985. Today, their son, Ken Corday, is executive producer.
On the occasion of the taping of the 9,000th show, Ken Corday said that the show’s beloved lead characters, Tom and Alice Horton, were “much the same as my parents.” They were, said the younger Corday, World War Two people, “special people from a special time,” whose main belief that “family is our most important legacy” got them through the war. In that war Ted Corday served with the War Photography Unit overseas and in movie film production for the U.S. Army Signals Unit. Ted’s brother Eliot Corday, ’40 MD, ’91 LLD (Honorary), was a doctor at Cedars-Sinai and a professor of medicine at UCLA. He died in 1999 and is survived by his wife, Marian Corday (Lipkind), ’39 BSc, ’40 MSc. — Shelagh Kubish, ’85 BA