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September 10, 1992 CONCORDIA MOU Vol. 17 No. 1 September 10, 1992 CONCORDIA MOU On Monday, Aug. 24, an anned man entered the Henry F. Hall Building, made his way to the ninth floor and opened fire. This is horrifying enough. What makes it more horrifying is that the armed man was a professor and his targets were his colleagues. When it was over, and Mechanical Engineering Professor Valery Fabrikant was arrested, Concordia was left to mourn its dead: Civil Engineering Pro­ fessor Matthew McCartney Douglass; Chemistry Professor and President of the Concordia University Faculty Asso­ ciation Michael Gorden Hogben; and Mechanical Engineering Professor Aaron Jaan Saber. And to pray for the wounded: Electrical and Computer En­ gineering Chair Phoivos Ziogas and Mechanical Engineering Secretary Elizabeth Horwood. At an emergency meeting of the Board of Governors last week, Chancel­ lor Alan B. Gold, who stepped down as Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court in July, said, "What happened here is the terrible price you pay for an open society, the terrible price that any university that respects its people and its dissenters can pay." Tragedies of this magnitude have happened elsewhere, he added, but the institutions have survived; and so will Concordia Shuffle proceeds to be donated to Memorial Fund Concordia's third annual 1992 Shuffle After the tragedy, Concordia University Faculty As­ will be dedicated to the memory of Pro­ sociation Vice-President June Chaikelson said "our fessors Matthew Douglass, Michael losses are beyond calculation." As the community Hogben and Aaron Jaan Saber. The Fac­ struggles to recover, we pay homage to the three ulty and Staff Shuffle Committee has fonnidable teachers we lost and to the colleagues who were wounded. announced that all proceeds of this year's event will go towards building the Concordia University Memorial En­ dowment Fund in their memoiy. Hundreds of letters of sympathy and condolence The Shuffle will take place on have poured In from across Canada and the United Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 1 p.m. The route States. A listing of these letters, received as of Aug. 31, and excerpts have been compiled in the hope has been reversed so that the starting that they can offer us some comfort. point will be at the Loyola Campus, while the finish line will be in the atrium of the new downtown library complex. Registration will be held simultan~ ously on both campuses on Sept. 21 and The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and 22 from 12 to 2 p.m. in the Henry F. Hall Counselling and Development have been on hand to lend support and assistance, in this time of need, Building lobby dowtown and in the for both the University community as a whole and lobby of the Administration Building on an Individual basis. on the Loyola Campus. ·Buses will be available to transport See SHUFFLE page B PHOTO: Jora Pl!)lllnlll 2 - September 10, 1992 • profiles The tragic events of Monday, Aug. 24 have prompted the entire community to ask itself questions.Why did it happen? Could it have been prevented? What kind of person could do this to other human beings? There has been much discussion, but in the end, there are few answers . The only thing that remains is that three of our colleagues and friends are no longer with us and the two others who were wounded, struggle to recover. Much will be said about the case of Valery Fabrikant in the weeks and months ahead.This special issue of Concordia's Thursday Report is dedicated entirely to the memory of Civil Engineering Professor Matthew Douglass, Chemistry Professor Michael Hogben and Mechanical Engineering Professor Aaron Jaan Saber. We extend our most heartfelt sympathy to their families. We join the University community in its prayers fo r the full recovery of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair Phoivos Ziogas and Mechanical Engineering Secretary Elizabeth Horwood. Matthew Douglass Michael Hogben was more than a teacher was a man who cared "Dr. Matt," as he was known to his Michael Hogben climbed mountains close colleagues and students, was and tracked stars, and his hobbies mir­ truly loved. rored the idealism and relish for chal­ And he was deeply admired. Not lenge of his professional life. long after the shooting that took his life A professor of chemistry, he crossed on Aug. 24, a man standing outside the the artificial dividing-line between sci­ Henry F. Hall Building told a television ence and the arts to study the human reporter simply, "I really think he was a impact of science and teach jointly with kind of saint." a Philosophy professor. As President of Matthew McCartney Douglass was the Concordia University Faculty Asso­ born in Trinidad in 1926. He earned a ciation (CUFA), he also took great satis­ BEng from McGill University in 1952, faction in one of the most frustrating after which he worked for five years in areas of collective endeavour - the industry and public service, and nine solving of labour grievances. years as an assistant professor at Howard University. He got a Master's 'People person' degree in 1962 from George Washing­ ton University (D.C.) and a doctorate Hogben was born in Middlesex, Eng­ from Oklahoma State University in land in 1940 and came to Canada in 1966, and came to Sir George Williams 1962. He joined Loyola College in 1971, University to teach. three years before the merger with Sir Douglass was the first Chair of the George Williams University. Through­ Department of Civil Engineering, from out his career, Hogben was "a people 1968 to 1972, and served a second term person," friendly, caring and deeply in­ from 1982 to 1989. terested in how people are affected by Matthew Douglass their environment. Enthusiastic teacher Chemistry Professor Robert H. Pallen talks of Hogben's devotion to teaching, His enthusiasm for teaching spilled and the many hours he spent counsel­ over into his research interests, which ling students about their career paths included computer-based learning and and their future. computer-aided analysis. He taught Biology Professor Perry Anderson courses in Mechanics and Structures, talks of Hogben's deep involvement in and served as a consultant to the De­ the development of an Ecotoxicology partment of Civil Engineering of the Diploma Programme at the University, University of West Indies. a programme so successful that . it is His life was full, rich in music, family now full to capacity with 60 students. It and friends, and that richness was re­ is an ideal response to the great interest flected in his funeral service. Douglass in pollution, and its socio-economic was an active member of St. Edward the and regulatory effects. Confessor Catholic Church, which shares its Pointe Claire church building Cared for colleagues with St. John's United Church in a still­ unusual instance of practical ecumen­ Hogben had been involved in the ism. The possessor of a beautiful Concordia University Faculty Associa­ singing voice, he was in the choir. tion for many years. He was CUFA sec­ At the funeral, the choir sang. Steel retary in 1979-80, Vice President in drums played ''Island in the Sun" and 1980-81, and President in 1981-82. He Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." involved himself in the negotiating Dean of Engineering and Computer team and on the joint grievance com­ Science and close friend M.N.S. Swamy mittee, and Journalism Professor Enn chanted a Sanscrit prayer, and friends Raudsepp, who knew him well through paid moving tribute to a vital, talented, CUFA, said he was "very much a prob­ generous-spirited man who was like a lem-solver." father to so many. "I was the editor of the newsletter Douglass was planning to retire next when he was president [in 1981-82]. He year, when he would have been 66. He was never one of those us-and-them is survived by his wife Joyce; his chil­ types. And when there was a problem, dren, Karen, Roy, Teri, Robin and Kim­ he personally siiw to it. I was amazed to berley; and eight grandchildren. Michael Hogben See HOGBEN page 8 September 10, 1992 - 3 IN MEMO profiles A. Jaan Saber was Hopes and prayers ambitious, gifted and of hundreds for extraordinarily productive Phoivos Ziogas' recovery Aaron Jaan Saber knew about the fra­ Phoivas Ziogas lies in the Montreal gility of life. Born with a heart defect, he General Hospital, fighting to recover survived infancy thanks to his tena­ from a severe gunshot wound to the cious mother, and underwent open­ abdomen. He has the hopes and heart surgery three times in adulthood. prayers of hundreds of friends and fam­ He was reaching the height of a bril­ ily members riding with him. liant career when he died of his injuries Ziogas joined Concordia's faculty as a the day after the Aug. 24 shooting. As lecturer in 1978, and became Chair of Rabbi Ronald Aigen said at his funeral the Department of Electrical and Com­ last week, ''Jaan Saber lived his entire puter Engineering in 1989. life in grateful appreciation for the mir­ Professor Asim Al-Khalili has known acle of being alive." him for 11 years, and was on the ninth Ambitious, gifted and extraordinarily A. Jaan Saber floor of the Henry F. Hall Building on productive, the professor of Mechanical Aug. 24 when the shooting took place. Engineering seemed to be everywhere, In fact, Al-Khalili "shoved" the gunman winning awards, research grants, in­ before he realized he was armed, found dustry appointments and consulting Ziogas wounded in his office, and contracts. Yet colleagues and neigh­ called 911 for help.
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