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KEEPING IN TOUCH
2000’s 1970s
CREATIVE MINDS
Wild Roses
A poem by Howard Taynen, Meds’73
The Medical Quadrangle
Shines brightly
In the late November night,
Lit by vibrant memory
And cascading years
Visions of spirit and light,
Wild youth dancing
In the sunny benevolence of spring
Fleet, nimble, boundless
Not yet weighed down by time
Passing now before you, sadly,
In this cold, still night
They are impossibly gone.
Old age cringes, cries out
At the softly vanishing face of Beauty,
Beauty beyond comprehension
That once stood so unbearably near,
Smiling its faint welcome
Now it gently wanes,
Descending in faded remembrance
Forever receding in vacancy
Deepening remoteness,
Impossibly gone –
What wild roses of old age
Await us in this passing dark?
There is recompense –
We die, Life does not.
Our children succeed us here
And Beauty is reborn
We, the aging, are but a mere step
In the unfolding of the Infinite
Grateful that the new log on the fire
Makes the old one burn more brightly
If you would have no endings, Friend
Have no beginnings,
Only the Song of birth and death is endless
What wild roses await us
With the passing of this dark.
Howard was back on
Queen’s campus last
autumn, first for his
40th reunion and later
to see his daughter,
Hilary Taynen, Artsci’14,
perform with a choir at
nearby St. James’ Anglican
Church. Howard’s
walk through the
medical quadrangle
and the flood of memories
it triggered were
the inspirations for
this poem. Howard
is a psychiatrist and
psychotherapist. He
recently moved his
practice from Burlington
to Ancaster, ON.
Congratulations
David, Arts’65, LLD’02,
and Christiane Dodge, Arts’65
JOHN ORR AWARD, TORONTO BRANCH
November 15, 2014
From the time they met at Queen’s, to
becoming alumni, they have worked as
a team to support Queen’s as volunteers,
leaders, and philanthropists. We honour
them for their many contributions to
Queen’s and Canada.
Thank you to RBC Capital Markets
for their support of this event
queensu.ca/initiative
Find out more at: events.queensu.ca/johnorr2014
Services Overseas (CUSO) volunteer.
He later became president of CUSO.
In 1976, Bill moved to Camrose, AB,
initially with the Smith Clinic. He later
formed his own clinic, the Camrose
Community Clinic. During that period,
he was active in the community,
serving on city council for three years.
In 1990, he returned to Edmonton. He
retired from his medical practice in
2004 and moved to Phoenix where
he loved his life in the beautiful
Sonoran Desert. Donations in Bill’s
memory may be directed towards the
Queen’s Meds’62 Bursary (payable
to Queen’s University, Office of Advancement,
Kingston ON K7L 3N6.)
1970s.
Eileen Hutton,
NSc’74, received
a
lifetime
achievement
award from the
Association of
Ontario Midwives
for her
work in
36 Issue 3, 2014 | alumnireview.queensu.ca