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Ron Smith
August 13, 2020
I note Charlotte has kept active in the Scuba Diving world as she still attendes our Bay Area Divers Shipwrecks' and Scuba Banquets in Sandusky, Ohio. This year 2020 we canceled due to COVID but will be held at Kalahari next year 2021 Allan loved to scuba dive. Ron Smith Chair for Shipwrecks and Scuba Banquet
Brian Mccutcheon
February 20, 2014
I remember Alan and his sister from my boyhood friend ship and neighbor back in Calgary , Alberta
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John Rubino
April 22, 2011
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Allan Aizenman
February 4, 2011
Friday, 04 February 2011
I recently received the University of Alberta alumni magazine and was very shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Allan Yates. I got to know Allan in Edmonton, where he was a couple of years ahead of me in medical school, and visited him on occasion during his post-graduate PhD studies in Toronto. The last time I saw him was in Columbus, not long after her started teaching at the medical college. That must have been nearly 35 years ago, yet I still remember Allan so very vividly and the details of that long-ago visit. To Charlotte and family, and his sister Donna (whom I knew from her Montreal clinic) I extend my sympathies. Allan Yates was a truly exceptional individual.
Bert Krikke
January 26, 2011
I remember Allan well from med school. My sincere condolences to Charlotte and the family.
Doreen Markowitz Schreiber
January 19, 2011
Dear Charlotte and Family,
I am deeply saddened to hear of Dr. Yates' passing. He was my graduate advisor and mentor. I also worked in his lab as a research assistant in the 1980's. He was a kind and gentle man with a great sense of humor. I admired his intelligence and his many accomplishments. I do remember him being a wine connoisseur. When I graduated he gave me a bottle of wine which I have kept over the years and still to this day 26 years later it is in my wine rack, reminding me of the time I spent doing research in his lab.
Ron Smith
November 23, 2010
I was shocked to hear this last Sun.at the Ohio Council of Scuba and Skin Diver meeting held after our annual Bay Area Divers Shipwrecks and Scuba Banquet, about the passing of Al who I met at Scubafest a couple of years ago. In fact I spoke to Al at the yearly DAN diving event at Portage Quarry this last July and he was looking forward to coming to our event, together with his wife Charlotte. Please accept my sympathy. For the short time I knew him, I could tell he was an exceptional person. Ron Smith, Chairman of Shipwrecks and Scuba Banquet
November 16, 2010
I presented this at the November 15 memorial at The Ohio State University:
I find it difficult to believe that I had known Allan for 35 years. Although we did not work together during all that time, we had frequent contacts. A couple of years after I came to Children's Hospital, Allan joined the Pathology Department at Ohio State. We shared a common interests in pediatric neuropathology since I had spent 6 months at Children's Hospital during my residency and Allan had trained in part at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. That interest continued through the years and we were both consultants to Children's Hospital. We alternated at three month intervals going to the Friday morning neurology/neurosurgery conference and afterwards looking at problem cases with the Children's Hospital pathologists and residents. At OSU I was more involved in medical student education and he in graduate education and research, but we came together at the microscope in diagnostic neuropathology. Neuropathologists especially enjoy sharing cases and the adage "two heads are better than one" also applies here.
But Allan had many interests aside from neuropathology. Allan and Charlotte travelled to exotic and often far away places almost yearly. Several years ago, prior to their recent trip to Spain (a pilgrimage) they visited us in Hocking County to begin a two day backpacking hike on the Buckeye Trail with an overnight stay in the campground at Old Man's Cave. We left their car at the far end and I dropped them off at the other end to begin the hike. But most of their travels were far more intesting and distant. After their trips Allan gave a presentation in the Neuropathology Division. He shared photographic slides from the region he and Charlotte had just visited. He usually provided a meal, often appropriate to the area visited, and he gave in depth carefully prepared discussions of the history, people, culture, art and architecture of the region.In this was we all shared in the experiences from Allan's and Charlotte's adventures. He also often brought back gifts from the region for members of the division. When Allan retired I knew he would still remain active in his professional pursuits. He truly led a rich, full life and in his too brief 67 years he managed to cram a wealth of experiences. He approached all his many amazingly diverse interests with passion. He experienced life to the fullest.
Carl P. Boesel
September 6, 2010
My first memories of Allan are from when I was about five and we moved from Edmonton to Calgary. Very quickly I began to look forward to going to dinner at Uncle Jimmy and Auntie Evelyn's because "my cousin Allan" would be there and he was always doing something interesting. Allan was seven years older than me, but always took the time to talk to the little cousin who kept following him around and asking all sorts of questions.
As he grew older Allan developed the same love of the outdoors as my Dad and they would go downhill sking near Canmore in the winter. Occasionally Donna would join them, and I would watch them all head out, wishing I was old enough and athletic enough to go. Allan started to attend Crescent Heights High School where my Dad was teaching and they began to have even more interests in common. It was around that time that they began having their sometimes heated discussions when the family gathered together. They seemed to me, to cover a variety of topics, education included, with Allan sometimes asking for advice from Dad about a school assignment. Even then he would still take a few minutes from his busy schedule to talk to me, before he headed out to play hockey or his trumpet. After Allan started to attend university he wasn't around as often during a family gathering. But if he was, he and Dad would get into their talks again and often forget anyone else was even in the room.
Once Allan finished his formal education, he met and married Charlotte and no longer resided in the Calgary area, but by then neither did I. When Allan would visit Calgary he and Charlotte always tried to stop in to visit my parents and he would have a good discussion of some kind with Dad. Mom and Dad moved to Canmore, and later when Dad was on his own Allan still made time on his trips to Calgary, to head to the mountains and go walking and talking with his Uncle Jack. I always knew when Allan had been for a visit as my Dad would let me know that Allan had asked how I and my family were doing. Allan and I didn't see each other for many years, as we lived in different parts of the country and were busy raising our families, and him developing his illustrious career and travelling. But after my Dad passed away Allan was there for me with phone calls and emails providing me with understanding and support as he had so many years before.
There has always been and always will be a special place in my heart for Allan, and he will be sorely missed by me and the many others whose lives he impacted. I apoligize for been so late with my condolences to Charlotte, Robert, Brian and Donna also. Like everyone else I'm still grappling with the sudden passing of my cousin Allan and hope that time will make their loss easier to bear.
Leigh Yates Clark (Fruitvale, BC)
Donna Yates-Adelman
September 5, 2010
I spoke at Allan's Memorial service, here is what I said.
ALLAN JAMES YATES
When I was 3 and a half years old, my mother leaned over and placed Allan in my arms, a living doll that smelled of baby powder and he was wrapped in the white woolen blanket I'd watched her knit during the winter. "Here's your baby brother," she said. Allan opened his big, blue eyes and looked at me like he knew I was his big sister. He wrinkled up his brow. He looked like a baby monkey. I loved him.
My little brother had an adventuresome heart right from the get-go. When he was 5, he told Mom he was taking his friend--5-year-old Greg and his 3-year-old sister Cindy--to our grandmother's place. She lived 20 blocks away. Allan asked Mom to make him a lunch to take. This was not unusual, for he regularly asked her to pack him a lunch and then he'd go off to some exotic place, riding round and round the block on his tricycle. So Mom gave him the lunch and waved good bye as Allan and Greg disappeared down the street, pulling Cindy in the wagon.
After a while, Mom became worried, she called Dad who came home from work and then called the police. Grandma didn't have a phone. They found grandma, all 4'6" of her in her black hat, two blocks from our house, Allan and Greg still pulling Cindy in the wagon. Allan was very indignant and kept repeating, "Why were you worried. I knew how to get to Grandma's and I knew how to get home."
Allan's adventurous mind and his sense of exploration and discovery extended to many fields of interest. He loved history. While in high school, he voraciously read Will Durant, devouring all 7 volumes, all that were written by the time he went into medical school in 196l. Dad had read all 12 versions of Toynbee so there were many heated discussions between Dad and Allan--Toynbee v/s Durant.
While we were growing up, our house was always filled with classical music. Dad played the violin in an orchestra in Calgary. Allan took up the trumpet. He entered music competitions--and usualy won, and played in concerts in our church and around the city. He went on to music school in the summers where he studied theory, harmony and eventually conducting. He wanted to be a conductor and planned to study music at the university in Calgary.
The night he enrolled at the university, my father asked him, "How did it go?"
Allan put down his fork and said, "I registered in medicine."
There was dead silence.
"I've written to Leonard Bernstein," Allan said, and proceeded to pull out a letter. "I asked him what chance I had of becoming a conductor."
Allan read us Bernstein's letter, which said, "It is a question of supply and demand. There are many musicians in my orchestra as qualified...if not even more qualified as I am to conduct. But it boils down to being in the right place at the right time...and a good serving of Luck. I was fortunate to have both. So if you can't be happy playing your instrument in an orchestra, I suggest you take up another career and keep music your hobby.
As they say, the rest is history.
One night when Allan was in his last year of pre-med, he and his friend Clarence came home about midnight. Allan woke me up and said, "Donna, I picked up a dead cat on the street. Clarence and I are going to dissect it and study its anatomy." Allan was all excited because he and Clarence were going to be tested on the anatomy of the cat on Monday. It wasn't long before Clarence got sick went home, but Allan persevered long into the night, identifying muscles, nerves and blood vessels...and aced his exam.
Allan not only had a demanding and disciplined mind, but he was very caring. One warm, summer night during his pre-med in Calgary, he came home from the university with a stray man who could not find his way home. Allan drove him around in Dad's car but the man could not identify his house, so Allan brought him back home and Dad called the police. Allan was quite distraught when he waved good bye to the gentle man who sat in the back of the squad car.
Although Allan was my little brother for the first part of my life, be became my big brother from the time he entered university and remained so for the rest of his life. He taught me how to study for my RN exams, even made me a study schedule for the last four months of my nursing training.
Many years later when I had my clinic in Montreal, he worked for me! He never refused to take call overnight when I was short of a doctor. He was always interested and supportive in any endeavor I undertook.
When Allan was in med school in Edmonton, he got a job in a mental hospital in Warren, Pennsylvania. He worked there for six weeks and then went on to Glasgow, Scotland where he was a sort of exchange student and worked in a surgical hospital. On his way back, he stopped in Montreal to visit me. One night after we'd been our for dinner, he suddenly asked me if I would drive him to Buffalo. "Sure. When? I asked.
"Now."
"I think it's a long way," I said.
"About six hundred and fifty miles."
Allan had been smitten by a pretty, young nurse-in-training, Charlotte Tritt, and he wanted to go back to Warren and woo her. He needed to catch the 7 am bus in Buffalo that would take him to Warren. But Allan had forgotten to renew his driver's license before he left Edmonton, so I drove all night, just making the bus on time. Then I turned around and drove all the way back to Montreal--thank goodness for Wake-up pills. Mom always said, "If that isn't sisterly love, I don't know what is." And I agree with her.
Allan was a family man through and through. His every thought was always of Charlotte, Robert and Brian and he was fiercely proud of them.
In addition to his long and distinguished academic life, my brother had a passion for traveling to far-away places where he could meld his love of history, art, language and culture. Before each trip he would study the language of the country,Russian, Spanish, French, Greek and bone up on its history and art. During the winter he devoured learning tapes on geology as well as lectures on fundamentals of music, the opera, symphony, string quartet. He could never get enough of learning.
That is what drew him to his last passion--scuba diving.
Diving was the ultimate thrill of adventure accompanied with all the aspects of learning Allan loved so much...history, art, geology, his love of all peoples of the world, and it had a huge bonus...the exquisite beauty of lakes, rivers, oceans. Beauty that was hidden from all but those adventurous enough to enter that silent, awesome aquatic world. And it had a bonus: he could indulge his passion for photography.
A couple of weeks before Allan and Charlotte left for the Arctic, I asked Allan, "Why are you going to the Arctic when you've been to the Antarctic and Alaska--and you've done dives through holes in the ice! And he answered, "The Arctic ocean is unlike any other. You see beauty you cannot find anywhere else in the world."
And so it was fitting that his last breath coincided with the last flash of his camera. And his last image was of the cold beauty he loved so much.
Well, my brother, Mother Ocean has welcomed you into her gentle arms and now you are forever part of that beauty.
Thank you for taking care of me through the years...for believing in all the projects I undertook, for always finding a solution to any problem I had, for your frequent calls..."HI Donna, just touching base to see how you are." Thank you for your wisdom, for your love. And thank you for giving me a loving sister-in-law, Charlotte and two nephews, Robert and Brian. They're so much fun and I adore them.
I'm going to miss you terribly, Allan. I love you.
William Brantley
September 3, 2010
Mrs. Yates,
I am most apologetic for this very late message, but I only learned the tragic news about Allan's death yesterday. It has been both sad and inspiring to read the wonderful, well-deserved tributes to Allan. He was a most splendid person, caring enormously about the students in the IBGP and their success, as well as the success of the Program. He served as a role model for those of us who were privileged to interact with him. While he will be greatly missed, his legacy will live on.
C Gita Bosch
September 2, 2010
I send my sincere condolences to the Yates family. I knew Allan through our work together on the AAMC GREAT Group and it was an honor to know him. He was a gentleman and avid educator. He will be missed.
Eileen Summit
August 30, 2010
My sincere condolences and prayers go out to you, Mrs. Yates, and the rest of your family. It was always a pleasure working with Dr. Yates when I was in the Department of Pathology at OSU. He will be greatly missed. I will keep all of you in my prayers.
Joseph Goodman MD
August 29, 2010
Dear Charlotte,
I was saddened to learn of Allan's untimely death. He was a good friend. His contributions to Ohio State were far reaching, and he will be missed by the University and the Columbus community.
My deepest condolences to you and your family.
Sincerely,
Inimary Toby, PhD
August 25, 2010
Dr Yates, I will never forget your advice and support throughout my studies at OSU. Your commitment to the development of young scientists who could think outside of the box was unique. You are a rare gem and I thank God for the moment I first met you. My career and future goals were transformed from that first encounter. As we say in my native dialect "Sassong ooo", and rest in perfect peace, Sir.
Jennifer Stanke
August 25, 2010
Dr. Yates, thank you for the support and caring that you showed to each of the students you encountered at OSU. I thank you for your guidance through many challenging experiences. I pray for peace and comfort for your family. May they rest in the comfort of God's infinite grace.
Christina Igboin, PhD
August 24, 2010
Dr. Yates, you supported me during some of the most trying times of graduate school. Thank you so much for your excellent direction of the IBGP program. Bless you. Rest in perfect peace.
Dennis Smith
August 23, 2010
Please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of Allan. I served as the COO of the James Cancer Hospital since it opened and recently just retired. I had the pleasure of meeting Allan early in my career at OSU and always looked forward to my interaction with him. Whether it be working on an idea together or simply enjoying a casual conversation, time spent with Allan was always a very genuine pleasure for me. I valued his friendship and will miss him very much. My prayers go out to your family.
Jas Lang
August 22, 2010
Allan and you, Charlotte, were some of the very first to welcome me and my family to the USA when we arrived here from Scotland. I will always remember Allan for his friendliness and generosity. Norma and I also remember with fondness your Burn's Supper complemented with an ample supply of malt whiskys. Our thoughts are with you, Charlotte, and your family.
David Bartz
August 22, 2010
I always thought I was having a good day playing hockey when I could almost keep up with Al.
Eleanor Borem
August 22, 2010
Having worked with Dr. Yates for 20+ years I will always remember the many experiences we had at work and the slide shows we always had after his trips to exotic places. You could go to him with any problem and he would alwsys be there to offer his help. He will truly be missed by many.
Nancy Street, PhD
August 22, 2010
My sincerest condolences to the Yates family-
I had the pleasure of working with Allan through the AAMC GREAT group where his passion and vision for graduate education was crystal clear. He was an inspiration to myself and others and I counted myself lucky to call him friend. He will be missed.
Sandra and Keith Raskin
August 22, 2010
Charlotte, Robert, Brian and Donna,
My husband Keith knew Allan from early University days in Calgary where Allan was known amongst his peers as the guy who studied the most and worked the hardest. I knew him as my best friend's wee brother who tagged behind us during our playtimes. I loved the Yates family. Evelyn and Jimmy were hard working, honourable parents who provided a humble and loving home and gently encouraged their children to reach a little higher for the bar. Little did we know how much Allan would achieve. He has left a wonderful legacy in his family and an extraordinary career. We are proud to have known him. Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this very sad time.
August 21, 2010
Charlotte, Robert and Brian, My husband Keith and I send you our heartfelt sympathy from Calgary.Keith knew Allan from early University days in Calgary where he was known as the guy who studied the most and worked harder than any other student in the class. I knew him as my best friend, Donna's wee brother who tagged after us throughout our play times.I loved the Yates family. Evelyn and Jimmy were hard working, honourable, parents who kept a loving, humble home where Donna and Allan were gently encouraged to reach a little higher for the bar. However,little did we know what Allan would achieve in his lifetime. He has left a wonderful legacy with his family and an extraordinary career.Please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers at this very sad time.
~ Sandra and Keith Raskin Calgary, Alberta
Albert Soloway
August 21, 2010
Dear Charlotte,
I was greatly saddened to learn of Allan's unexpected and tragic death. He was a great scientist and a wonderful colleague. OSU and the Department of Pathology have clearly been very fortunate to have a man of Allan's outstanding caliber serve for these many years on its faculty. There is little one can say to soften the great loss that you and his family are now experiencing. Barbara and I are thinking of you during these very tragic times. Kindest regards.
Tahira & Akhlaq Farooqui
August 21, 2010
Dear Charlette, Rob, Brian & Family,
Please accept our condolences for the loss of Dr. Yates. He was a very good and inspirational teacher, a good friend, and a true scholar, and for that he will be missed by so many. Our thoughts and prayers will always be with your family.
August 21, 2010
My condolences to all. I only knew Al as a hockey player (I had no idea he was such an accomplished educator.) Nonetheless, I think you can tell much about a man by his game. He exemplified good sportsmanship, competitiveness, and we always had fun. He will be missed by all who knew him.
Terrence N. Banbury ALA NCARB
John Oberdick
August 20, 2010
I had numerous interactions with Allan on various committees for the MSP program and other committees in the College of Medicine, and his passion for graduate education was always front and center. My fondest memories of him, however, were on Saturday or Sunday afternoons, quite a few years back, on open skate times at the OSU ice rink. Every so often he would slow down to my speed, skate side by side to chat, or skate backwards facing me to chat. Then off he'd go again, shooting around the ice many, many times. Allan was a true scholar with a zest for life.
August 20, 2010
Dear Charlotte, Rob, Brian & Family - I want to extend my deepest sympathy during this time. Allan was a true friend and someone I always enjoyed spending time with. I will miss him. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you all. With love...
Vince & Maria Russell
August 20, 2010
Dear Charlotte
The staff of Aquatic Adventures extends our deepest sympathy to you and your family. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this most difficult time. Allan will certainly be missed by all of us.
The Staff at Aquatic Adventures Ohio
Renee Kiesling
August 20, 2010
Aunt Char and cousins- My thoughts and prayers are with you all. I love you. Uncle Allan will be greatly missed. RIP Uncle Allan
Christine Kerr
August 20, 2010
Dr. Yates was the consummate teacher in everything he approached. Every situation was an opportunity to learn something new, and that approach was something that touched everyone who knew him. I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to share the experience of beginning a new graduate program with Dr. Yates, and for that I am very grateful. I will miss him.
Linda Long-Van Brocklyn
August 19, 2010
Dr. Yates was an incredibly generous man. He will be missed.
TA Dive Club
August 19, 2010
Dear Charolette,
The members of the TA Dive Club would like to extend our sympathy for the loss of Allan, he was truely a great man, friend and fellow diver. You and your family and Allan's extended family at work are in our thoughts and prayers. We will miss him.
Cindy Fox
August 19, 2010
Dr Yates hired me 17 years ago and believed in me as I believed in him. I would not be where I am if not for Dr Yates and I am truely grateful to have known and worked for him. Dr Yates and his family will be in my prayers and wish the best for the family. I will miss him greatly not only as a leader but a friend.
laura goldsmith
August 19, 2010
My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
August 19, 2010
Allan was one of the first people I met when I came to OSU almost 6 years ago and he continued to be one of the friendliest and most welcoming of colleagues. We always meant to get our families together for dinner and fully intended to do so. We were sad when he gave up the Directorship of our IBGP graduate student program, sad not to see him around the campus regularly and we are now very sad for his family and send them warm sympathy. Kay Huebner and Carlo Croce
Sandy Cottingham
August 19, 2010
Dr. Yates was an inspirational teacher, a physician mentor and friend. He was fascinated by everything in life and never ceased asking the best and most thoughtful questions--about everything from pinball machines to hockey to neuropathology. My condolences to the Yates family and to Allan's academic family.
Ginny Sanders
August 19, 2010
John Quincy Adams wrote --If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.--� This describes Allan perfectly!!!
Reinhard Gahbauer
August 19, 2010
I feel with your sorrow and wish to celebrate Alan's life and accomplishments. With his hard work and dedication he achieved the highest respect in his field. Even more important he was loved for his modesty, integrity, his ability to listen and his honest desire to understand and help. At work he was an admired gentleman and scholar and I know that for the same traits he was a wonderful family man.
I know very few people who were able to have a full professional life and still spend time with their family on the most extraordinary explorations around the world. From the pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostella, trips to Africa (still waiting for a picture!), South America and diving in the arctic with his family he has led a full life. We will remember him with great admiration and share your sorrow for your loss.
Reinhard Gahbauer
Kaylan Haizlip
August 19, 2010
I am keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers. He was truly an amazing, kind, and caring man.
Kristen Mandish
August 19, 2010
Dear Auntie Char, Robert, and Brian,
I am keeping you all close in my thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time. Uncle Allan will always be in my heart.
Love, Kristen
Danilo Perrotti
August 19, 2010
My sincere condolences to the Yates family.
Jeni Prosperi-Sullivan
August 19, 2010
My thoughts and prayers are with the entire Yates family. Dr. Yates had a large impact on my career and was one of the most supportive people I've encountered. His high spirits were contagious. He will be missed by so many.
Joanna Marshall
August 19, 2010
I once read that a true leader is someone whose actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more. I think that describes exactly what Dr. Yates was for us. Above all, I remember how I was struck by his ability to make people feel at ease and by how welcoming and kind he always was. I'm forever grateful to him and truly honored to have had the opportunity to learn from his example.
Ronald Glaser, PhD
August 19, 2010
I have been a friend and colleague to Allan Yates for many years. We did some research collaborations together but more often we would simply have long discussions about his work. At the time I was Associate Vice President for Research and often worked with him as he tried to develop and expand the graduate program in the Department of Pathology. He was always willing to share his ideas and goals and we became very good friends over time. I will personally miss him very much and send my condolences to his family.
Pamela Traylor
August 19, 2010
My prayers are with the Yates family.
Jim Van Brocklyn
August 19, 2010
Allan had a huge influence on my life. I first knew him as my boss, then later a career mentor and finally as a friend. If I have known anyone who truly embodied the spirit of lifelong learning it was Allan, and I believe that that spirit is perhaps the most important legacy that Allan left to me. I will miss him greatly.
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