Alumni Notes

Michael Moffat, BCom, died on July 1 at age 85. After graduation, Michael spent 11 years at Eaton’s, followed by over 30 years with the Oshawa Food Group, where he became VP of corporate business planning. After taking an early retirement, he started his own consulting business. Michael was an avid reader and enjoyed solving daily crossword puzzles, playing golf, shooting pool and watching the Toronto Blue Jays and Maple Leafs. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Catherine; children Edward, James, John and Kate; and nine grandchildren.

Keith Howard (BCom) died on August 22, 2014, in Toronto, Ont. He is survived by his wife Mary (McGillis); his four children, Rob (Lisa), Susan (Neil Ward), Leslie (Jim Stevenson) and James (Jing); grandsons Jack and Sam Stevenson; and siblings Adele, Shirley, Ron and Graham. Keith had a successful career of 58 years at Sun Life Financial, and was recognized in 1997 by his induction into the company’s Hall of Fame. With daughter Leslie, Keith founded the Howard Financial Group in 1996, and he continued working there until his official retirement in 2013. He was active in the Rotary Club for more than three decades, at the local and international levels, and as President of the Toronto branch. He was also a longtime member of Lambton Golf and Country Club, where he served on its Board of Governors, won many club tournaments and, in 2013, earned the Willie Lamb Cup for his positive lifetime contributions to the Club and the game of golf.

Retirement 14 years ago to the south of his native France has hardly slowed down Jacques Baylaucq, BCom’55. Thanks to a family connection to their subject, he and his brother Dominique have co-written a book about the founder of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps: Brutinel—The extraordinary story of a French citizen Brigadier-General in the Canadian Army. It’s the tale of a little-known hero of The Great War who, after emigrating to and making his fortune in Canada, raised funds to equip a machine gun brigade that fought from armoured vehicles, the first of its kind in the world. Brutinel returned to France after WWI and became a close friend of the Baylaucq family when Jacques’ mother befriended Brutinel’s daughter Raymonde (Robert). It was thanks in part to his influence that Jacques decided to emigrate to Canada. His Queen’s Commerce experience was a life-altering one, he says. Not only did he meet his wife Sylvie, Arts’58, daughter of celebrated Swiss-Canadian painter André Bieler, founding Director of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and head of what would evolve into Queen’s Fine Arts program, but he was also greatly influenced by legendary marketing professor Dan Monieson. The men became friends. “I experienced the excitement that Dan’s lectures generated,” Jacques recalls. “He would teach us wearing pink shirts to show us what marketing could do for fashion.” Jacques’ career took him first to DuPont Canada then in 1964 to the new field of consulting with P.S. Ross and Partners (later Deloitte) in Montreal. He rose to senior partner before leaving to join St. Lawrence Cement as Vice-President. He returned to consulting in 1981, when he opened the Montreal office for Spencer Stuart, later becoming its Canadian President. He returned to France in 1991, working for DBM, an international outplacement firm, becoming its European Chairman before retiring to the southwest of France in 1998. He and Sylvie are the proud parents of Philippe, a well-known filmmaker in Canada; Veronique (Artsci’82), an actress and film producer in Paris; and Nathalie, a graphic designer who founded Studios Baylaucq in Paris (designers of the Brutinel book). Jacques can be reached at baybiel@bbox.fr

Glen Turnbull (BCom) died on Mar. 11, 2014 in Calgary after a short illness. He leaves behind his wife of 58 years, Ann (BA’55); children Murray (Jacqueline), Sharon (BSc’81) (Robert), Lyn, Richard (Branka); and four grandchildren. He enjoyed a long career as a Chartered Accountant and was also a proud lifetime member of the Calgary Stampede.

Ronwyn “Ronnie” Ingraham, BCom, died on April 29, 2018 at age 84 in Reading, Mass. She was one of only three women in her class to graduate with a Commerce degree in 1954. She spent three decades working for CARE, the international humanitarian agency, including as regional director of CARE’s Washington field office. Upon retiring at 64, she joined United Airlines in 1997 as a flight attendant, satisfying both her love of travel and meeting new people. She is survived by her children: Diana B. Ingraham, Artsci’81; Jeffrey Ingraham, Artsci’86; Trevor Ingraham and Eleanor Axelrod.