The Accomplished
There are those people in society who rise above the mediocre through their personal interest in life and their outlook on their place in society.
These are those people, rare enough in number, who achieve status through their enterprise, sociability, empathy for others. They spark briefly - for, after all, how long is a human life before it is snuffed by inevitability - then fade, like a bright star lighting its atmosphere, collapsing into the black hole of eternity.
Such, it would appear, were two people from Alberta, a geophysicist and his wife, a family physician. Gerrit Maureau and Sheila Malm appear to have been quite special individuals. He was acknowledged as one of Calgary's experts on international petroleum exploration. His working life encompassed a globe-trotting career that took him from Algeria to Holland and Atlantic Canada.
He was responsible for developing business models for Memorial University in St.John's Newfoundland, and was the CEO of the Canadian Petroleum Institute before its dissolution.
Dr. Malm taught bioethics and family medicine at the University of Calgary, and was also council president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in the 1990s. Her patients, over the three decades that she served as their family doctor, will recall her with gratitude.
She and her husband, having made the most of a valued academic education that prepared them to face life with capable assurance, served their community and the wider world very well indeed. They found time for their own recreational pleasures, among which was her decision to undertake flying lessons, to become her husband's co-pilot.
Perhaps it's somehow fitting that they did fly tandem, in a 58 Beechcraft Baron aircraft, registered to Mauroil International. Their flight took them to southeastern Colorado for refuelling, and they then set course for Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle gave the alert when their plane disappeared from radar.
Search and rescue helicopters scouring the area in the Culebra mountain range were unable to find any indication of wreckage due to a winter snowstorm and high winds. With improved weather the search will continue.
Resquiescat in pace.
These are those people, rare enough in number, who achieve status through their enterprise, sociability, empathy for others. They spark briefly - for, after all, how long is a human life before it is snuffed by inevitability - then fade, like a bright star lighting its atmosphere, collapsing into the black hole of eternity.
Such, it would appear, were two people from Alberta, a geophysicist and his wife, a family physician. Gerrit Maureau and Sheila Malm appear to have been quite special individuals. He was acknowledged as one of Calgary's experts on international petroleum exploration. His working life encompassed a globe-trotting career that took him from Algeria to Holland and Atlantic Canada.
He was responsible for developing business models for Memorial University in St.John's Newfoundland, and was the CEO of the Canadian Petroleum Institute before its dissolution.
Dr. Malm taught bioethics and family medicine at the University of Calgary, and was also council president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in the 1990s. Her patients, over the three decades that she served as their family doctor, will recall her with gratitude.
She and her husband, having made the most of a valued academic education that prepared them to face life with capable assurance, served their community and the wider world very well indeed. They found time for their own recreational pleasures, among which was her decision to undertake flying lessons, to become her husband's co-pilot.
Perhaps it's somehow fitting that they did fly tandem, in a 58 Beechcraft Baron aircraft, registered to Mauroil International. Their flight took them to southeastern Colorado for refuelling, and they then set course for Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle gave the alert when their plane disappeared from radar.
Search and rescue helicopters scouring the area in the Culebra mountain range were unable to find any indication of wreckage due to a winter snowstorm and high winds. With improved weather the search will continue.
Resquiescat in pace.
Labels: Bioscience, Companions, Values
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