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February 16, 2007
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Gord Fleming (84,85,86,87,88*)
January 2, 2007 - At HSR Gord
started as Staff-in-Training before becoming the Archery
Instructor/Star Hike Co-ordinator, and then Composite Skipper for his final two
years. Gord was the 1988 recipient of the Staff
Purple Bead
Award.
Since leaving the HSR Staff at the end of the Summer of '88,
Gord went to McGill University to keep up his French while earning an English
degree. After that, he graduated into the wasteland that was the early '90s -
crappy lazy music, ripped jeans and no jobs to be had. Summer employment at a
swimming pool store ("over here, we have the Tinkler...this one is the Lightning
Rod"...) kept him in beer and bacon for a couple of years before he applied to
Ryerson University with dreams of becoming a journalist. He woke up from that
dream with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Health and a
certification as a Public Health Inspector.
After 3 months of inspecting...you guessed it...swimming
pools, one of his instructors called him up to offer him a nice public health
policy analysis job with a non-governmental organization. Been there since, with
significant involvement in the fallout from Walkerton and SARS, among other
things that made you all stop drinking tap water and start carrying around
Purell.
 Gord
is currently living in west-end Toronto and married a lovely girl named Sara in
December of '06. They have yet to procreate or own real estate, but we'll let
you know. They also have an entertaining cat named Geddy (adopted from and named
by fellow Alum Tara (Neal) McNally)
He also minds the twine for a ball hockey team, paddles
with/coaches a Dragon Boat crew, is the Captain of the HSR Staff Alumni Cricket
Team, has served as Co-Chair and currently occupies the Archive Chair of your Alumni Association.
His favourite band remains Yes, and he still believes that
Star Wars is the best movie ever made. |
