Thursday, July 21, 2011
From:Chuck Crockford, Waterloo, ON
Imagine my surprise (and shock) when I was reading the obituary page of the 'Kitchener Record' and came across Norm's obituary. I met Norm when he and I were undergraduate education students at the University of Alberta, probably due to the fact that in many of our education courses students were seated alphabetically, and, even in those days of educational change, "D" still followed "C".
Norm and I indulged in many between-class discussions, and I can remember his telling me that one of his English professors gave his class a weekly quiz; Norm had a friendly contest going with a classmate, and, if I remembere correctly, Norm did as you would expect and quietly but steadily came out on top.
I lost touch with Norm after graduation, and I was surprised to read that that he had been teaching "down the road" only a couple of hours away. If I had known we could have carried on our discussions, and solved some of the world's problems--ha!
Farewell, dear friend. I will have a cup of coffee in your honour, and pretend I am doing so with you sitting across from me in a campus coffee shop fifty years ago. Peace.
