A year ago, in the midst of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada was struggling to find the equipment needed to protect health-care workers and give the breath of life to people gasping for oxygen.
Dr. Arthur McDonald, Nobel laureate and notable figure at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, had pulled together a team to make ventilators, a critical need inside Canadian intensive care units.
Dr. McDonald needed a key piece of equipment or the project could be set back months. So he turned to fellow Nova Scotian Donald Sobey.
Mr. Sobey, with his brothers Bill and David, had built the family business to become a national player in the food industry. He was equally known as a willing partner for people with a good idea and great need.
His son, Rob Sobey, remembers sitting in by speaker phone on Easter Monday 2020, as Dr. McDonald made his urgent pitch.
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Donald Creighton Rae Sobey was born in small-town Nova Scotia. The family legend is that he spent a lot of his youth repacking bags of potatoes. Hard work teaches lessons, and it showed this particular young man what he did not want to do.
While his older brothers were involved in the operations of the growing business, Mr. Sobey had a gift for figures that led his parents, Frank and Irene, to believe he would benefit from a university education.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Prior to that we had no connection with Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rob said, but the school had a good reputation and it was also strategically located between Toronto and Montreal.
카지노 게임 컬렉션He really wanted to go,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rob said, and in 1953 Mr. Sobey entered the Commerce class of 1957.
He enjoyed his time in Kingston. He studied hard but he also refined his sense of humour.
카지노 게임 컬렉션He often recounted with pride that the dean at the time would tell his class of Commerce 카지노 게임 컬렉션57 that they were, without doubt, the worst Commerce class 카지노 게임 컬렉션ever at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s,카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rob said. The story 카지노 게임 컬렉션gave him an opportunity to laugh at himself.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Mr. Sobey was under no obligation to go home to do the company books, but after just a year of law at Dalhousie followed by a short stint in London, England, with Wood Gundy, he joined the family firm.
He rose to become president of Empire Company Ltd., the chain카지노 게임 컬렉션s parent company, from 1969 until he was appointed chair of the board in 1985. He played a key role in expanding a regional supermarket company into a national player. Over the years, he sat on other boards, including as chair of the National Gallery of Canada and Maritime Tel & Tel, and as a director of the World Wildlife Fund.
He also maintained a connection with his alma mater. In 1998, that connection led to the founding, with his son, Rob (also a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s alumnus), of the D&R Sobey Atlantic Scholarship, which each year helps up to eight Atlantic Canadian high school students enter Commerce at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. There have been 148 Sobey Scholars 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and counting 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and about $6.6 million distributed.
Mr. Sobey saw the scholarship as recreating his own journey.
카지노 게임 컬렉션[Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s] matured him, helped him become who he was,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Rob.
For Charlotte MacDonald (Com카지노 게임 컬렉션13), being a Sobey Scholar served that exact purpose.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I grew up between Halifax and rural Prince Edward Island,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she said by email. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I went to a small high school with a graduating class of 32.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Studying business was not a very common path from my school, but I was curious enough about it to catch wind of the Sobey scholarship and the [Smith] School of Business. The scholarship introduced me to the idea of leaving Atlantic Canada for my undergraduate education and attending the best business school in the country.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Ms. MacDonald went on to obtain a Harvard MBA and a position as a team leader with the Boston Consulting Group, serving clients in the retail and consumer goods sector, including in the food industry.
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The scholarship isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t Donald Sobey카지노 게임 컬렉션s only contribution to the university. In 2008, Mr. Sobey established the Donald R. Sobey Professorship to support research by a Smith faculty member.
In addition to his passions for business and education, Mr. Sobey also had a lifelong interest in the visual arts.
In a 2016 interview, he said his interest was sparked by a visit as a high-school student to Mount Allison 카지노게임사이트 in New Brunswick, where work by Alex Colville, another successful Nova Scotian, caught his attention.
카지노 게임 컬렉션For the first time, I saw Canadian art that I really appreciated. Before that I had seen biblical art and ancient art, but there was no Canadian art that I could relate to and, all of a sudden, I saw [Alex] Colville,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Mr. Sobey said.
카지노 게임 컬렉션One fellow took me aside and said, 카지노 게임 컬렉션If you are going to buy art, why don카지노 게임 컬렉션t you just buy Canadian art. You카지노 게임 컬렉션re a Canadian.카지노 게임 컬렉션 And I followed that advice and my father followed it, too.카지노 게임 컬렉션
His own collecting included Cornelius Krieghoff, Lawren Harris, and James Wilson Morrice, as well as modern works by Brian Jungen, who would be the first winner of Mr. Sobey카지노 게임 컬렉션s biggest contribution to Canadian visual art, the Sobey Art Award.
The Sobey Award is today one of the largest visual art prizes in the world.
Mr. Sobey said in 2016 that 카지노 게임 컬렉션my father always said about his father, 카지노 게임 컬렉션If you give a dime into the community, somehow it comes back to you as a quarter.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Things work that way. That카지노 게임 컬렉션s what giving back was. You don카지노 게임 컬렉션t do it for that reason.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In this case, the project involved Ray Cronin, then the curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The first award was handed out in 2002. More than 250 longlisted, shortlisted, and winning artists have been recognized since. Today it is administered through the National Gallery.
Rob Sobey assumed the leadership of the award in 2006, but his father was always available for an appearance카지노 게임 컬렉션 with coaxing.
In business, Mr. Sobey was also a decider-in-chief. His son recalls, 카지노 게임 컬렉션he wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t afraid to see what works. But it was a calculated chance. If it didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t work, he needed to know where the back door was.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Mr. Sobey and brother David were known inside the family as Statler and Waldorf, the cantankerous hecklers from The Muppet Show.
The brothers both retired from the company board in September 2015.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Both of them said thank you and then Dad grabbed the mic and he said, 카지노 게임 컬렉션We are finally coming off the balcony, but rest assured we are still backstage.카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션
Donald Creighton Rae Sobey died in March at age 86 of undisclosed causes.
