Marcia Grace Dilley

Marcia Grace Dilley
Died	2011-09-17 Thunder Bay
Years in Thunder Bay	Port Arthur schooling (years not given in the retirees' notice); 1967–1992 (Lakehead University faculty); 2011 (died in Thunder Bay)
Occupation	professor of psychology
Employer	Lakehead University

Marcia Grace Dilley (died (2011-09-17)17 September 2011) was a psychologist who taught in the Department of Psychology at Lakehead University from 1967 to 1992.

Life and career

Dr. Dilley was born in Trail, British Columbia, and her family moved back to Port Arthur while she was still young, so she went to local schools there. Whatever work she took up after high school involved some kind of creativity, and her career was so varied that the newsletter says it is hard to summarise it. Writing and photography were great interests, and early on she was a reporter for the Port Arthur News-Chronicle for many years.

Later she went back to school, studying at the University of Manitoba (B.A.) and the University of Western Ontario (M.A. and Ph.D.), where she pursued a new interest in child psychology. She became a professor at Lakehead University, where she enjoyed teaching and mentoring students. A Lakehead long-service notice dated 20 January 1988 and a retirement notice dated 28 January 1992 appear in the newspaper record below.

After she retired she took up pottery, painting, knitting, sewing, gardening, sailing, music, cooking and writing, and was good at them.

Death

Dilley died peacefully on Saturday, 17 September 2011, and was cared for in her last period by the nurses of Dawson Court. The family suggested memorial donations to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation's Northern Cancer Fund. An obituary-index entry dated 21 September 2011 gives the same date of death.

Newspaper record

• Biographical notice in The Chronicle-Journal, 1988-01-20.
  • Index note: LU long service pin.
• Retirement notice in The Chronicle-Journal, 1992-01-28.
  • Index note: LU/plus long service award.

Possibly related records

These six notices from 1947–1954 name a Marcia Dilley in Port Arthur and Fort William as a schoolgirl and young person. They were found by name only: none states a fact, such as her age or her parents, that ties it to the psychologist, so they are listed as possibly the same person. The 1947 choir notice (grade 8) would imply a birth around 1933–1934.

• Photo notice in Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 1947-04-24.
  • Index note: Central Choir - grade 8.
• Photo notice in Fort William Daily Times-Journal, 1954-04-06.
  • Index note: At HMCS Griffon inspection.
• Photo notice in Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 1951-06-25.
  • Index note: PA playground supervisor.
• Photo notice in Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 1951-04-14.
  • Index note: At YM-YWCA.
• Photo notice in Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 1947-05-28.
  • Index note: Lakehead guides visit Duluth.
• Photo notice in Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 1950-02-27.
  • Index note: In PACI ensemble.

Notes

The pages 'Marcia Dilley (fl. 1988)' and 'Marcia Grace Dilley' were merged. The retirees' notice gives the same death date as the obituary index (17 September 2011), and the earlier page records a Lakehead University long-service notice in January 1988 and a retirement notice in January 1992, which fit her faculty service of 1967 to 1992. The school and community notices from 1947–1954 were found by name only and are kept under Possibly related records.