Gerald Fitzgerald graduated from the University of St. Joseph with a B.A. in 1935 and a M.A. in 1937. In 1943 he received his Ph.D. from Ottawa. He served as a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization judicial board (1946-1952) and later as Senior Legal Officer. He lectured on aviation law, hijacking and ICAO in the Faculty of Law's Institute of Air and Space Law 1959-62, 1964-1980s.
Judith Fitzgerald was a Canadian poet and journalist, born in Toronto in 1952. She earned a BA and MA York University and did her doctoral work at the University of Toronto. She authored over 20 books of poetry as well as biographies of musician Sarah McLachlan and of Marshall McLuhan.
Judith Ariana Fitzgerald, a Canadian poet, critic, journalist, blogger, and editor, was born in Toronto, Ontario on November 11, 1952. She attended York University where she earned a BA and MA. She then pursued a doctoral degree at the University of Toronto. She had a broad range of interests, which included culture, media, and music, among others. Fitzgerald passed away from a heart attack on November 25, 2015 in her home of Port Loring, at the age of 63.
Fitzgerald had a difficult upbringing. She never had a father figure. Her mother, whom she recalls working as a prostitute, had many children from different men who were constantly being taken away by child services. Fitzgerald lived with her sister Maggie and her brother Robert for a short while. She reports that the three siblings were often neglected, even beaten and starved, forcing her brother Robert to go scavenge for food. Her sister Maggie passed away at the age of 29. It is through the help of her school teachers that Judith was moved to foster care at the age of 13.
A rough life followed her even rougher childhood. Fitzgerald was forced to survive on income support, welfare, loans, government grants, and even money from friends. In addition, she had a plethora of health problems, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome, celiac disease, cervical cancer, and osteoporosis.
Despite her difficult upbringing, Fitzgerald became a prolific poet and journalist, making a name for herself in Canadian poetry and journalism. She published over 20 works of poetry, notably Octave (1970), Rapturous Chronicles (1991), Habit of Blues: Rapturous Chronicles II (1992), Given Names: New and Selected Poems (1985), to River (1995), and finally The Adagios Quartet which includes Iphigenia’s song (2003), Oreste’s Lament (2004), Electra’s Benison (2006), and O Clytemnestra! (2007). Many of her works were shortlisted for reputable literary awards, such as the Governor General’s Literary Award (for Rapturous Chronicles), The Pat Lowther Memorial Award (for Given Names: New and Selected Poems) and The Chalmers Arts Fellowship in 2003. Her works of prose include biographies of Sarah McLachlan (Sarah McLachlan: Building a Mystery, 2000) and Marshall McLuhan (Marshall McLuhan: Wise Guy, 2001), of whom she was very fond.
Fitzgerald became a critic for the Globe and Mail in the early 1980s, publishing countless commentaries on art, media, music, sports, and culture. She wrote blogs for the Globe and Mail’s “In Other Words” column, music and poetry columns for the Toronto Star, and even a sports column for Canada’s Baseball Magazine.
Finally, Judith Fitzgerald made countless contributions and editions to literary journals and collections, such as The Oxford Book of Poetry by Canadian Women and Canadian Poetry Now, editing Canadian literary volumes like Un Dozen: Thirteen Canadian Poets (1982), SP/ELLES: Poetry by Canadian Women (1986), and First Person Plural (1988).
Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick was born at Centerville, Iowa, on 2 April 1868. He attended the State University of Iowa, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1893 and a Master of Science in 1895. He served as Professor of Mathematics and Botany at Graceland College from 1895 to 1899 and again from 1908 to 1912. He also worked as a field collector for the Iowa State Historical Society from 1903 to 1907.
Fitzpatrick came to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1913 to serve as Professor of Science at Cotner College. He became Assistant Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Nebraska in 1918, a position he held until his retirement in 1949. During his career at the University of Nebraska he also served as librarian for the Botany and Mathematics Departments. Fitzpatrick died in Lincoln on 28 March 1952.
Dr. James Cyril (Flin) Flanagan was born on September 27, 1897, in Thorne, Quebec.
Left for dead on the battlefield in a blood bath at Passchendale in World War I, he miraculously recovered and went on to study dentistry at McGill. He became known as "Flin" Flanagan and starred at McGill for four brilliant years (1919-23) in both football and hockey despite having shrapnel in his legs and torso. He captained the hockey team in 1922-23 and scored 50 percent of the team's goals that season (11 of 22) in only six games. An ardent believer in the sanctity of amateur status, he declined a $4,000 contract to play for the Montreal Canadiens in 1922. After graduating in 1923, Flanagan opened two dental clinics in Montreal, including the first free dental clinic for the poor in the east end. His other clinic catered to rich Westmount clientele, which he charged double the going rate. Flanagan, who was quoted in the 1923 Old McGill yearbook as saying, "My hobby is everything except physics", practiced dentistry until the age of 88. He was a founding member of the NDP (New Democratic Party) formerly CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation). In 1997, he was inducted into McGill Hall of Fame for Football and Ice Hockey.
In 1926, he married Elizabeth Randall Baile (d. 1952). In 1957, he married Lorna Rosalind Haines. He died on March 12, 1994, in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
