Cathy Ann Chapin
| Cathy Ann Chapin | |
|---|---|
| Died | 2010-10-08 Thunder Bay |
Cathy Ann Chapin (died 8 October 2010) was probably the cartographer and map librarian of Lakehead University whose death in a tragedy was mourned in the December 2010 issue of RALU News.[1]
Remembered in RALU News
The editorial of the December 2010 issue begins on a sombre note: a colleague named Cathy Chapin had been "taken from us in a tragedy", and the editors felt that the full sense of loss was only beginning to sink in. The university, it says, lost a talented cartographer and map librarian, and the writers lost a friend and mentor. She loved to talk about maps and, in the editorial's words, could teach more in half an hour than a great deal of reading would.[1]
Identity
The newsletter gives no date of death or middle name. An obituary-index entry dated 13 October 2010 lists a Cathy Ann Chapin of Thunder Bay with a death on 8 October 2010,[2] two months before the issue and consistent with a loss that was "only now dawning". The surname is uncommon, so the two are treated as probably the same person, but the match rests on the name and timing alone.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Editorial "Arguments and Facts", PDF p. 11, RALU News, vol. 3, no. 1 (December 2010), Retirees' Association of Lakehead University. Archived copy on datum.locker (original PDF listed at the association's archived newsletters page).
- ↑ The Chronicle-Journal, 13 October 2010, p. 15(B)