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John Kulczycki
December 15, 2024
My sincere sympathy for your loss, Sharon.
Jon Archibald
March 31, 2011
I hadn't heard from him since 1982 when I received a letter delivered my a mutual friend.
We were in grade nine ('77/'78) together in rural Nova Scotia, and we used to get ourselves kicked out of class, or auditorium audiences for snickering to each other. He was my downfall that year according to adult observers, but he lifted my teenage boredom and depression like no one could. In class we concocted characters with drawings by me and dialogue by him poking fun at teachers, or of a '40s Weegee-style crack newspaper man named Scoop Benson.
Something just died inside me knowing he's gone. I'm very sad. He meant more to me then I knew.
January 20, 2011
Cliff was my honors student when he was an undergraduate at Concordia University in Montreal. In forty years of teaching he was one of three or four most brilliant and creative students I have had the pleasure to work with. His honors thesis on a 19th century southern Methodist preacher who wrote books for boys was scholarly, insightful, witty, and done with a precisely calibrated touch of irreverence. It was pure Cliff. Cliff's irony and irrepressible sense of humor will always remain in the memory of those who have had the privilege to know him. My deepest sympathies go out to his family, especially to his brother Michael, who also took a course with me at Concordia, his wife Elspeth and his beautiful daughter Gladys.
Fred Bode, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
January 9, 2011
We wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to Uncle Bill and Aunt Pat for the loss of their son Clifford. I only remember him fondly as a creative and imaginative child and always full of life. We are praying that God's arms of comfort will surround you and give you peace and the support of many friends. Walter, Laura & Jennifer Harder (Delta, BC, Canada)
Allan OHara
January 3, 2011
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
John Kulczycki
December 21, 2010
We wish to express our heartfelt condolences to Elspeth and her daughter and the rest of the family. This is shocking and sad news of the passing of someone whom we thought very highly of as a scholar and valued as a human being.
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