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| From the writer's collection - Baby Russ c. 1923 |
Tomorrow is Father's Day and I've been thinking about my Dad - Gordon Russell Brooks. When I was a kid I seem to remember him talking about writing a column under the title Babbling Brooks. So I'm using that name for my blog. There are a few other blogs under that name out there but the name means something to me so I'm using it anyway. So there.
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| From the writer's collection - my Dad the musician c. 1966 |
So where did my dad write his column? He attended the University of Toronto and completed a Mus Bac (bachelor of music) degree in 1950. He was lucky enough to study under Sir Ernest MacMillan and had talented classmates like Elmer Iseler (Mendelssohn Choir) According to the Torontonensis (U of T year book)he wrote a column for the Varsity, the university's newspaper.
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| Ancestry.ca - Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1908-2010, Torontonensis, 1950, page 179 |
Two weeks ago I attended the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference: Genealogy on the Cutting Edge. I sat in on an excellent session on how to use Evernote by Thomas MacEntee. I used my new skills to find the Varsity on line and clip and save my dad's columns. I found two from 1949:
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| The Varsity, September 22, 1949 - March 24, 1950 - November 7th 1949, page 4 Archive.org |
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