Durham Chronicle Volume XLIV, Issue 11
Durham Chronicle Volume XLIV, Issue 11
Durham Chronicle Volume XLIV, Issue 11
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14 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> April 10 - 16, 2018 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Rigby was part of DC 'family'<br />
Whitby<br />
campus<br />
faculty<br />
member dies<br />
Austin Andru<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
“When you went to the Centre<br />
for Food, everybody knew<br />
Terry,” said <strong>Durham</strong> College<br />
president Don Lovisa. “The<br />
dirtier he was the better. He was<br />
always out there with a smile on<br />
his face and he always had a story<br />
to tell.”<br />
Rigby passed away suddenly on<br />
March 8.<br />
To many, it feels like a significant<br />
piece of <strong>Durham</strong> College’s<br />
Whitby campus has left with him.<br />
Rigby started as a mature student<br />
in the Chemical Engineering<br />
program and graduated with<br />
President’s Honours in 2008.<br />
In 2009, he became a faculty<br />
member.<br />
“We saw something in Terry,”<br />
said Lovisa.<br />
“We wanted to hold onto him<br />
so we gave him a job.”<br />
That’s when Lovisa got to know<br />
him best, when Rigby went to the<br />
Centre for Food and became the<br />
“keeper of the gardens.”<br />
“He was in his element, being<br />
outside and gardening,” said<br />
Lovisa.<br />
Don Fishley, a carpentry professor<br />
and building construction<br />
technician, says Rigby was always<br />
bringing people food they liked.<br />
“He knew I loved garlic so he’d<br />
hand me one and say ‘put this in<br />
your pocket and take this home.’”<br />
“I’d be taking home carrots,<br />
potatoes and garlic in my pocket,”<br />
said Fishley. “My wife would<br />
say ‘Where did you get this?’ and<br />
I’d say ‘just my friend Terry.’”<br />
Fishley says Rigby was a wellknown<br />
face around the campus.<br />
“He was so fun to be around.”<br />
Fishley says Rigby would regularly<br />
stop by the shop. “I knew<br />
Terry because he would come<br />
into the shop, he’d be looking<br />
for a piece of wood to stake up<br />
something in his garden.”<br />
Amapola Serrano, an administrative<br />
assistant at the Whitby<br />
campus, was good friends with<br />
Rigby.<br />
“Terry found out from daily<br />
conversations that I really love<br />
Oreos and Toblerone,” she said<br />
with a smile.” From that moment<br />
on, he would always have refills.”<br />
“He would come in and say,<br />
‘how’s your stock on Oreos?’”<br />
Photograph courtesy of <strong>Durham</strong> College<br />
Terry Rigby<br />
As an incentive for Serrano<br />
to stop smoking, he told her he<br />
would no longer bring her Oreos<br />
and Toblerone unless she quit.<br />
“He’d bust me all the time outside<br />
because I didn’t quit,” said<br />
Serrano. “But he would still buy<br />
me the Oreos, just not as often.”<br />
On the day before his death,<br />
Rigby saw Serrano smoking outside.<br />
“He was shining an apple<br />
on his chest,” Serrano said. “’An<br />
apple a day,’ he said, just to rub<br />
it in my face.”<br />
Serrano says she could go to<br />
Rigby about anything.<br />
“He was this ball of firecracker<br />
energy,” she said. “If I asked<br />
something, he would never say<br />
no, and I know that’s not just for<br />
me.”<br />
“Terry was part of our family,<br />
part of our community,” said<br />
Lovisa.<br />
“He’s a young man, 53 years<br />
old, to die so suddenly, I think it<br />
makes everybody stop and think<br />
about their own lives.<br />
Reminds us to be kind and<br />
enjoy life and do the things that<br />
are important to you.”<br />
Stephen Hawking: The death of a genius<br />
Physicist,<br />
visionary<br />
and author<br />
passes<br />
away after<br />
battling<br />
Lou Gehrig's<br />
disease<br />
for years<br />
Heather Snowdon<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Stephen Hawking had a brilliant<br />
mind. He was a physicist, an author,<br />
a teacher and a visionary<br />
who spent most of his life looking<br />
for answers regarding how science<br />
governs all of our lives.<br />
Hawking died on Mar. 14, 2018<br />
in Cambridge, England at the age<br />
of 76.<br />
Hawking was born on Jan. 8,<br />
1942 in Oxford, England.<br />
Both of his parents were<br />
well-educated and attended university.<br />
Hawking was praised for his<br />
work in theoretical physics and<br />
won many awards for his contributions.<br />
He won the Adam’s Prize for<br />
research in mathematics in 1966.<br />
He wrote many novels, such as<br />
General relativity: an Einstein<br />
Centenary Survey, A Brief History<br />
of Time and My Brief History.<br />
He investigated the probability of<br />
black holes and the possibilities of<br />
what their existence means.<br />
Hawking came to the conclusion<br />
after years of research that black<br />
holes emit particles and particles<br />
can jump from them.<br />
He was also known for his contributions<br />
to the field of general relativity,<br />
which can be used to describe<br />
Stephen Hawking, died recently at age 76.<br />
the laws that govern black holes.<br />
But after being diagnosed with a<br />
motor neurone disease, known as<br />
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)<br />
or Lou Gehrig’s disease, at the age<br />
of 21, doctors said he may only<br />
have two years to live.<br />
The disease impacted Hawking’s<br />
motor skills and eventually led to<br />
his paralysis.<br />
Hawking proved the doctors<br />
wrong and lived a long life.<br />
Hawking was lucky enough to<br />
experience what it would be like<br />
to go to outer space even though<br />
he was battling ALS.<br />
At Kennedy Space Center in<br />
Florida, Hawking was placed into<br />
a jet, where the simulation of feeling<br />
weightless was a lot like being<br />
on a rollercoaster and he spun as<br />
Photograph taken from Stephen Hawking Facebook page<br />
if in outer space.<br />
He will be missed by his wife and<br />
their three children, Robert, Lucy<br />
and Timothy and all of the people<br />
who loved him were influenced by<br />
him and were drawn to his philosophies.