william_c_tate_bco

William C. Tate (BCom) passed away in Hawkesbury, ON, on April 10 after a mercifully quick battle with cancer. As a talented young hockey player, Bill had been recruited by the Detroit Red Wings, but then WWII service in the RCAF intervened. He remained interested in aviation the rest of his life. He attended Queen’s as one of many war vets. Soon after graduation, he joined Garrett Manufacturing Ltd., a division of the Garrett aerospace company that he helped grow into a major manufacturer of top-quality equipment for the aviation and aerospace industries. His family points out that if you’ve flown on a major commercial airline, it was Bill’s systems that helped control the air you breathed for a comfortable flight. Even after retirement he co-founded Tulmar, a leading vendor of aviation life-support supplies, based in Hawkesbury. Bill was predeceased by his first wife Daphne and his brother, Dr. Robert G. Tate, MD’52. He is survived by his wife Sylvia, five children and nine grandchildren.