[Bcma-l] (Fwd) Untimely death of John Dickenson

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From:           	Ian McLennan <ian.mclennan@gmail.com>

Vancouver, B.C.
05 February, 2007


Dear Friends

It is my very sad task to inform you that John Dickenson, formerly 
director of the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, died around 
9:00 pm last night at the care facility on Salt Spring Island where 
he had resided for the past several months. John was only 63 and just 
beginning to enjoy early retirement when he was stricken with a rare 
form of Alzheimer's.

I talked with Joan Dickenson this afternoon, and although we both 
expressed great sadness at John's untimely passing, we agreed it was 
a blessing, considering his hopeless condition and rapid 
deterioration in recent weeks.

There will be a quiet, modest service for John at 3:00 pm on  
Saturday, February 10th on Salt Spring Island. I talked with Joan 
about the possibility that a public memorial be held for him on the 
mainland sometime in the future. We agreed to talk about that 
sometime soon.

John will be remembered as a visionary leader, someone who took on 
a 
passion for science and for the facility he led, and a person who 
devoted considerable talent and energy towards creating an 
institution of which the city could be proud. He will also be 
remembered internationally for his efforts to bring modern 
management 
and marketing techniques to the International Planetarium Society. I 
am sending out a separate mailing to John's many friends throughout 
the world in the IPS.

Beyond the institutional strengths and energy John brought to his 
work, he will perhaps best be remembered as an honourable 
gentleman - 
and a nice guy. Hard to beat that as a legacy. John Dickenson will be 
sorely missed.

icm


Condolences may be addressed to:

Joan Dickenson...
3030 Southey Point Road
Salt Spring Island BC V8K 1A1
Canada

 < jdickens@telus.net >




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