When the Review announced that its series about Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s most unforgettable characters would launch with a recollection of the late Ralfe Clench, readers responded with pleasure -- not surprising, since the man was so well and favourably known during his 39 years on campus. In all his Queen's connections 카지노 게임 컬렉션 student, scholar, CFRC volunteer, evangelical streetcar buff, both faculty and staff 카지노 게임 컬렉션 he inarguably merited the label 카지노 게임 컬렉션unforgettable.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Ralfe Johnson Clench, Jr., arrived in September 1954 from Hamilton, Ontario, as an Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션58 freshman, mathematics scholarship in hand, proceeded to grad school (MSc카지노 게임 컬렉션60) and enjoyed careers in two very different Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Departments that exposed him to virtually every student on campus. One was Mathematics & Statistics, where he lectured in Calculus (only to students with no prior experience) and drove some faculty colleagues scatty with his idiosyncrasies and lectures on 카지노 게임 컬렉션the idiot-proof method카지노 게임 컬렉션 and 카지노 게임 컬렉션your favourite cute cuddly little x's.카지노 게임 컬렉션
His other appointment was in the Registrar's Office, where the astute Jean Royce hired him in 1962 to serve variously as Chief Examination Proctor, Convocation Marshall, and timetabler for both exams and lectures.* This complex scheduling he handled masterfully and manually, being something of a human-computer. Even after hours, he remained a campus fixture, living among the students.
When ill health forced his early retirement in 1980, a Kingston radio talk show saluted him by inviting listeners카지노 게임 컬렉션 anecdotes. The stories from Ralfe카지노 게임 컬렉션s students, neighbours, colleagues, and fellow grads were so many and so colourful that CKLC added a second show. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s likely that he listened with some satisfaction, for he was well aware of the 카지노 게임 컬렉션campus legend카지노 게임 컬렉션 label he카지노 게임 컬렉션d earned.
Ralfe died of his digestive illness at home on August 4, 1993. He had requested no funeral and no memorial service. His Whig-Standard obituary, repeated for eternal Googling by The American Mathematical Monthly, was unusually brief, but eloquent: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Brilliant teacher, a kind and considerate man,카지노 게임 컬렉션 it read. 카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션 Will be fondly remembered by friends and colleagues both far and near.카지노 게임 컬렉션
It said nothing of his hometown, his accomplished Kingston ex-wife, or his family. He was descended from many generations whose menfolk were named Ralfe Johnson Clench, the first of them a Loyalist Niagara settler, a hero with Butler카지노 게임 컬렉션s Rangers. The perennial middle name Johnson celebrated his connection to New York카지노 게임 컬렉션s great Loyalist general, Sir William Johnson, and his Mohawk wife Molly Brant (both with Kingston connections), and later his lawyer-ancestors카지노 게임 컬렉션 kinship with Chief Joseph Brant카지노 게임 컬렉션s descendants. There was no physical hint of this U.E.L. ancestry in the large, blond Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s man whose chief battles involved tilting at the ivory tower.
If he could have planned his death for the campus카지노 게임 컬렉션s most beautiful and busy season, he might have, because for Ralfe, timing was everything. Punctuality was a passion. Students who came late to class found the door locked, and the story of his class once locking the door on him has become part of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s lore. He began lecturing on the dot of the hour while deftly disassembling the lock with the tool kit always on his belt. Along with tool pouches for screwdrivers, staplers and paper clips, that belt also carried flashlights and rings of keys that might have herniated a smaller man.
In his passion for conserving heat, controlling light, maximizing storage space, and preventing burglary, Ralfe boarded up all his windows (except a small one on the third floor) and installed elaborate 카지노 게임 컬렉션thief traps카지노 게임 컬렉션 of rope.
Other signs of his eccentricities and compulsions were many and easily visible. His overcoat was specially made like a shoplifter's. He used its sturdy inside pockets as a backup filing system and library, adding such seasonal items as insecticides, lock de-icer and slip-proof crampons. Two radios hung around his neck on a rope, each tuned to a different local station, mostly to double-check the weather. He carried several timepieces, preferred the military precision of the 24-hour clock, and stuck to Eastern Standard Time year-round.
York 카지노게임사이트 professor Paul Herzberg, one of his Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션58 classmates and, in Ralfe카지노 게임 컬렉션s highly competitive view of things, his chief rival in mathematics, recalls in a letter to the Review that Ralfe카지노 게임 컬렉션s way of taking lecture notes caught his attention early. 카지노 게임 컬렉션He always carried a very large black briefcase that contained several clip-boards, on each of which he had clipped a stack of loose-leaf paper with carbons between them. I don카지노 게임 컬렉션t recall how many copies he made,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Paul writes, 카지노 게임 컬렉션but every few minutes during the lecture, he would complete one sheet in his large handwriting, put the clipboard in his briefcase and pull out the next, all ready for him to keep on writing.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Neither of us can recall 카지노 게임 컬렉션 if we ever did know -- why our classmate thought every word was necessary and in multiple copies.
카지노 게임 컬렉션One can only imagine the huge pile of notes amassed in even a single term,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Paul concludes. By multiplying his note-making and note-taking habit by the years from 카지노 게임 컬렉션54 to 카지노 게임 컬렉션80, one can scarcely imagine the piles of notebooks behind his home카지노 게임 컬렉션s boarded-up windows and the daunting task of the executors charged with sorting papers after his death.
He was a tall man, even as an 18-year-old student, rotund when healthy, and, if all his pockets, tool pouches and both hands were full, he was indeed a broad and striking campus figure.
He ordered his clothes in batches 카지노 게임 컬렉션 sometimes, as in the case of underwear and toe rubbers, by the gross. His pants were made-to-order, with reinforced canvas pockets and heavy-duty belt loops. His shoes, too, were specially made for his narrow and unusually long feet. Because resoling such expensive footwear was costly, he wore toe-rubbers in all seasons except deep winter, when he changed to old-style, cleated rubber overshoes. His shirts were always white, as the pants were always gray and baggy, with each item identical to its predecessor. Except for his unbuttoned winter buffalo coat, the spring and fall coats were always beige. Every piece was assigned a schedule of wear, and despite oft-turned collars and much-mended cuffs, nothing was discarded before its due date.
Ralfe's sociable perambulations from home to his two offices and the College Variety store had another trademark: plastic shopping bags that had supplanted the huge and once-ubiquitous black briefcase. Usually, they were Dominion Store bags; invariably they were carried by admirers from his classes or co-workers worried about his health. What was in those bags? Mostly duplicates of every document handled in his daily work. When his executors began the mammoth job of sorting his hoarded 'treasures,' some of these papers were offered back to Queen's. The fact that some of them helped fill archival gaps would have pleased Ralfe greatly.
Both of his near-campus homes -- first on 카지노게임사이트 Ave., where he sometimes proctored special exams, and then his brick 카지노 게임 컬렉션fortress카지노 게임 컬렉션 at the corner of Frontenac and Union Streets -- had complete office set-ups. In his passion for conserving heat, controlling light, maximizing storage space, and preventing burglary, Ralfe boarded up all his windows (except a small one on the third floor) and installed elaborate 카지노 게임 컬렉션thief traps카지노 게임 컬렉션 of rope. Yet he was no hermit; he spent a lot of time leaning on his cane and visiting with passersby while outdoors checking his 'perimeter.'
His calculus students held him in such high regard that he was among the first nominees when the Alumni Association instituted its $5,000 Award for Excellence in Teaching. Though his part-time status made him ineligible, his enthusiastic students doggedly nominated him every year till he retired.
Ralfe was 58 when he died, but he seemed visually unchanged all those Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s years because of the same Oliver Hardy moustache, the hair clipped high above the ears, the hat-for-all seasons, and the identical wardrobe year in, year out. The one-and-only Ralfe Clench will live for many more years wherever tales of Queen's characters are told, right up there with an earlier generation's Dollar Bill, Alfie Pierce, and 카지노 게임 컬렉션Miss A,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Margaret Austin.
*Paul Herzberg, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션58, calls attention to Jean Royce카지노 게임 컬렉션s glowing tribute to Ralfe카지노 게임 컬렉션s work for her in the Roberta Hamilton biography entitled Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 (U of T Press 2002).
