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SKIING legends Neil Mckenty Other Key This book The OTHER KEY launched in November 2003 slids | Album This book SKIING LEGENDS launched in November 2000. May 23, 2002 wex Westmount authors receive award for ski book By Marilynn Vanderstay Westmount authors receive award for ski book Westmount authors Neil and Catherine McKenty recently received an award from the US-based International Skiing History Association for their collaborative work 'Skiing Legends and The Laurentian Lodge Club'. The SKADE award is given annually by the association for the best book written on skiing. The book that details the history of skiing in Montreal and the Laurentians and the ski club where they and many Westmount residents shared so many experiences and events was published in 2000 by Westmount resident Michael Price's company, Price-Patterson Ltd. WebShots.com where you can get & see all photos McKenty 978 McKenty or Sedbergh "Jackrabbit" Neil McKenty get a print Jackrabbit Johannsen starting a race at Sedbergh School (Hugh Wallis Collection) However We belive that is not a Race but judging a ski jumping where David Nicholson made the longest jump landing on in the creek. The young man watching is Auther Dawson now a famous doctor in California. Neil & Catharine McKenty 66 Somerville, Westmount, Que., H3Z 1J5. Phone: 514-486-8466 Fax: 514-486-5339 NeilMcKenty@Globalserve.net Neil At CDHS 1938-42. I became excited about writing thanks to my marvellous English teacher, Kathleen Ferris. Before leaving CDHS I began reporting the news of Hastings for the Peterborough Examiner when Robertson Davies was editor. Then I spent 26 years in the Jesuit Order and almost 20 years hosting my own radio and television talk show in Montreal. During that time I had two books published: MITCH HEPBURN, the Ontario premier and IN THE STILLNESS DANCING, the biography of a Benedictine monk named John Main. My latest book, a memoir entitled THE INSIDE STORY has been on the best seller lists in Toronto and Montreal. It contains reminiscences of my happy years at CDHS. My wife, Catherine, and I are coming to the reunion with bells on. see John Main's Christian Meditation a peice by Neil McKenty Catharine 1967 Neil McKenty, UBC Medal for Canadian Biography / UBC President's Medal in Biography Established in 1952 by University of British Columbia president Norman MacKenzie, and known familiarly at UBC as the President's Medal, this award is given annually to the best biography by or about a Canadian. Note: from Hansard THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1992 HON. R. BLENCOE: Hon. Speaker, as we know, there are many prominent Canadians visiting British Columbia these days concerning the constitutional agreement, talking to British Columbians about the positives of this agreement. Today a group of people from Quebec, calling themselves "From Quebec With Love For Canada," are with us. The group includes people like John Hallward, deputy chair of McGill University; and Neil McKenty, author and broadcaster in the province of Quebec. Neil McKenty Books Former radio and TV talk-show host, Neil McKenty, shows us another side of his life: alcohol, drugs and clinical depression. His years with the Jesuits bring their own mixture of anxiety and joy. With help from the Jesuits, family, friends and the medical profession, he struggles to attain a life where he is "comfortable in his skin," in the process discovering himself. Memoir, 160 pp. ISBN 1-896754-01-5, $18.95 Mike Price A recent biography by author Neil McKenty, In the Stillness Dancing (London: Darton Longman, Todd, and New York: Crossroad, 1987), has added immensely to our knowledge of John Main's life. AmazonIn the Stillness Dancing: The Life of Father John Main by Neil McKenty, Neil McKinty Our Price: $3.995us This item will be published in October 1987. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. Chapters Our Price: $24.95cdn $16.30us -- Chapter 1 Club Price: $22.46cdn $14.67us Confessions, computers and conversations: The Inside Story, Shoreline Press, 1996, $18.95, by Neil McKenty.--> The author opens his autobiography with a suicide note. After an exhilarating day of skiing in the Laurentians, the well-known Montreal radio and TV talk show host writes to his wife: "Dearest Catherine, I think you will be better off without me. Love Neil." What follows is a moving account of McKenty's journey from "toxic religion, sex and celibacy, drinking and depression" to spiritual consolation and self-acceptance. The Inside Story provides the reader with a raw and honest glimpse into the engulfing state of clinical depressionÑreferred to as a "cancerous sickness of the spirit with no language to adequately describe it." For McKenty, hope comes from a concerned medical community, an unconditionally loving and patient wife, and from the existential realization that he had to lose his old life with its false masks and desire to control, in order to find a new one. At times, McKenty seems prone to exaggeration, and his claims of victimization are unconvincing. While McKenty's childhood was far from ideal, it also seemed quite normal or representative for its time, and inspires empathy for each member of his family. The same could be said for his years as a Jesuit, an experience described as "whips and chains." This begs the question of why he chose to remain for 25 years. In the end, McKenty's most powerful point is that he had to reach out beyond himself and rediscover the God he had never truly known as a child or as a Jesuit. by Chris Fitzgerald, BA'86, BSW'89 Community Worker, Ottawa, Ont. Chapters The Inside Story: Journey of A Former Jesuit Priest and Talk Show Host Towards Self-Discovery by Author Neil McKenty Our Price: $19.95 Our Sale Price: $16.95 Savings: $3.00 (15%) Usually ships in 24 hours    Help on Search ""Neil McKenty"" search on: All the Web - AltaVista - Deja - Google - HotBot - Infoseek - Netscape - Northern Light - Yahoo

A man of many dimensions During the past days of national mourning I've been asked whether I ever met the former prime minister I did on several occasions, all of them brief, but memorable. Michael Price The first time was in the general election campaign of 1968 at the very height of Trudeau mania. I had gone to a mass Liberal rally in one of the large display halls at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Mr. Trudeau, slim, shorter and stockier than I expected, was surrounded by screaming fans and out-stretched arms. Despite the crush around him, I managed to get Mr. Trudeaus's attention and we talked briefly about my biography of former Ontario Liberal premier, Mitch Hepburn, published the previous year. What struck me at this first meeting was how Trudeau, even at the centre of a howling crowd, had this ability to give you his full attention, as though you were the only person in the place. Three years later, I was the executive director of a Toronto Foundation helping the intellectually handicapped get involved in the Special Olympics. On a busy visit to Toronto, Mr. Trudeau, now prime minister, took time out to come to Maple Leaf Gardens to chat with the young athletes and to drop the puck for the first Special Olympics hockey tournament. Cathrine McKinty The prime minister declined our invitation to come to Washington where the Kennedy's were presenting an achievement medal to Jean Vanier for his work with the intellectually challenged. However, he did send a short message to the awards ceremony to be used only if it were read in both French and English. In the years after I came to CJAD in 1972, I was fortunate, as a member of the media, to catch a glimpse of Mr. Trudeau in action in two election campaigns. In the first, on a lovely warm day in the lush Eastern Townships, Mr. Trudeau, his thumbs in his belt (the 'gunslinger' pose) stood on a farm wagon, pointed one arm at the rapt crowd and yelled, "You're zapped," his way of ridiculing Robert Stanfield's promise to "zap" wages by introducing wage and price controls, something that Trudeau himself, in an ironic reversal, did shortly after he won the election. In the general election of 1979, I flew in Trudeau's campaign plane for a whirlwind tour of Quebec towns. I remember walking down the main street of Chicoutimi, a brass band blaring, and Trudeau waving and smiling to the crowds lining the sidewalk. I also remember Mr. Trudeau on the plane, sitting by himself in the front, fiddling with papers, but often just staring through the window, motionless. It was the time the marriage of this very private man was crumbling in the bright glare of unwanted publicity. After he retired, I would often see Mr. Trudeau at Mass at the Benedictine Priory in the old McConnell mansion, just across from his own residence on Pine Avenue. I had been there with my wife when he had lunch at the Priory with Yehudi Menhuen. In the library afterward, Menhuen enthralled the group with anecdotes from his long and illustrious career. Trudeau was as enthralled as the rest of us. It was clear he was totally comfortable with someone else holding centre stage. On those Sundays when he came to Mass at the Priory, Pierre Trudeau invariably remained for a half hour of silent meditation. Like the rest of us, he sat upright on a blue cushion, his back straight, his face masqued and immobile, his eyes closed. This was another dimension of the man who had so many, a deep spiritual dimension that I believe informed the grace with which he lived his life, especially his final days. I was fortunate to have these brief glimpses of this most extraordinary Canadian, a leader in a time of peril, a man for all seasons. 2000 Taken from www.theseniortimes.com/

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