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> Long-time "Ideas" resident technician Lorne Tulk e-mailed me and
> others, saying that John Rae, for many years one of the great voices
> of CBC Radio, has died at age 88. John is remembered as a friendly,
> dignified colleague with a sharp sense of humour who hosted one of the
> best classical music programs the network ever broadcast. He'll be
> missed by those who knew him.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5su79r
Friday July 25, 2008
JOHN JAMES WEST RAE Passed away after a brief illness on Tuesday, July 22,
2008 at the age of 88. Much loved husband and soulmate of Susan. Father of
Mark (Meredith) Cowan, Catherine (Mike) Gravelle, Elizabeth Cowan (Wayne),
and
Jennifer Cowan. Grandfather of Danielle and Michael Gravelle, Nicolas
Cowan,
Tara and Liam Floyd, Lisa and Jennifer Seary and great-grandfather of
Andrew
Landrey. Predeceased by wife Jean and daughter Leslie.
John had lifelong passions for classical music, travel, food and
friend****p.
These began early in the city of Vancouver and through moving to Toronto
in
1944.
His career at the CBC began on a dare in 1942 and continued for 37 years
until
his retirement in 1979. Ever mindful of keeping busy he persued his lifes
interests in making wine, model ****p building and writing short stories
which
have for the last 3 years been published in an English language magazine
in
his beloved Nerja on the South coast of Spain.
Until the age of 82 he periodically maintained his hand at shaping new
broadcasting talent with his 'On Air' presentation training in his home.
For the last 8 years he has organized a monthly luncheon of an evergrowing
group of former CBC employees called the 'Walking and Chowder Club'. These
luncheons have brought together many old friends and colleagues who unite
to
share memories, food and lots of laughter. John maintained his dignity and
joy
for life until the very end. He will be fondly missed by his family and
friends both here and abroad.
Many thanks to the physicians and staff of the emergency department and 6
West
at NYGH who cared for John in his recent illness. A Memorial Service will
be
held on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral
Home
(6150 Yonge St., at Goulding, south of Steeles) with visitation from 2:00
p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sue and John Rae
Endowment
Fund c/o North York General Hospital Foundation. Condolences
www.rskane.ca.
R.S. Kane 416-221-1159
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The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum
John Rae
Posted by David Lennick [3]Email (DLennick) on July 23, 2008,
11:17 pm 69.158.111.216
One of the great voices of the CBC, John Rae, died Tuesday night at
North York General Hospital. He was a formidable presence from at
least the late 40s, a successful commercial announcer, the CBC's chief
announcer for quite a while as well. There will be a memorial service
on Wednesday August 6th at 3pm at Kanes Funeral Home in North York.
There will be an obituary in Friday and Saturdays Toronto Star and
Globe and Mail.
My colleague Graham Newton just passed this on to me. He and John
shared a room at NYGH a couple of weeks ago.
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The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum
Re: John Rae
Posted by purkasz [3]Email on July 25, 2008, 5:44 pm, in reply to
"[4]John Rae" 205.188.117.194
When I was a young 15 year old lad in Toronto aspiring to be on radio
I would skulk the halls of the CBC on 1958 Jarvis Street in search of
iconic figures I knew to be real radio announcers.
One day, passing as an invisible worker, I espied John Rae coming my
way but of course I did not recognize him as such until he nodded as
he passed me by, went into a studio sat down and threw a switch on a
small board on the desk and began to speak. I recognized the voice
immediately and knew then that I could be such a guy. Years later
after a few radio station apprentice****ps I worked at CHUM-FM with
Murray the K, CKFH, then KPOI in Honolulu, KDIA in San Francisco, WWRL
in New York and then KGFJ in Los Angeles before I and Stephen
Spielberg were discovered by Jerrold Freedman, a producer at Universal
Studio and I became an actor.
But, to this day and even just now, I never forgot the feeling I got
when I espied this elegant lanky gent coming down the hall at the CBC
studios and knew him to be a man as I wished to be.
Thanks John. We never met...and yet we did.
Michael C. Gwynne
[5]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350380/
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2.3 Broadcast Language Supervisors.
William H. Brodie joined the CBC in 1936, and was first attached to
the Programme Division. The Broadcast Language Department was formed
in 1940, with "Steve" Brodie as Supervisor of Broadcast Language, the
title which he retained until his first retirement in February, 1962.
On January 20, 1966, Brodie returned, at age 74, to help train the new
announcers needed for coverage of Expo '67. He was retained in an
advisory capacity until shortly before his death in 1976.
Brodie was succeeded by Eldon Wilcox, the newly-appointed Chief
Announcer (English), on February 26, 1962. Wilcox was selected to
provide specialist advice and instruction in matters relating to
announcer's [sic] functions in the English language (Toronto
newsletter (memo), A.K. Morrow, February 28, 1962).
John Rae took over as Chief Announcer in October, 1965, when Wilcox
was moved to Ottawa. On June 5, 1974, Rae was appointed Supervisor of
Broadcast Language for both Radio and Television in the English
Services Division. His duties and his title were changed to Manager of
Broadcast Language and Announce [sic] Services on February 3, 1975,
and Lamont Tilden then worked with him in the role of Broadcast
Language (BL) Counsellor. Tilden had postponed his retirement for two
years to take the position. When Tilden did retire in December, 1976,
John Rae continued alone for a year until George Rich took over as BL
Counsellor in December, 1977. John Rae retired on July 1, 1979. Rich
carried on as Counsellor until May, 1983, when he was ****ged into
early retirement at the age of sixty. The Office of Broadcast Language
then lay empty until the fall of 1983 when Ken Haslam urged that the
position be revived. Ken Haslam is the present (1989) Broadcast
Language Counsellor. Haslam was given the title and responsibilities
in addition to his full-time duties of Senior Announcer.
Unfortunately, because of severe cut-backs in funding for the CBC, the
Office of Broadcast Language no longer has an operating budget.
2.3.1 CBC language bulletins.
Brodie's column Please Don't Tread on the Flowers appeared almost
continuously for twenty-eight years in the CBC in-house publications,
running from January, 1947, until July, 1975. The succession of
magazines in which Flowers appear is: Radio 1(3), which become
Radio-TV 13(7), on September 1, 1957, which then become Closed Circuit
1(1), on September 14, 1965. The last installment of Brodie's column
appeared in Closed Circuit 10(10), on July 10, 1975. A compilation of
Brodie's Flowers is in preparation for publication by Dr. Kenneth
Bambrick of the University of Western Ontario (personal communication,
January 30, 1988).
In February, 1975, Lamont Tilden and John Rae started a monthly BL
bulletin titled You Don't Say. The bulletin was distributed throughout
the CBC, and was also made available to interested organizations and
individuals outside the cor****ation. When Tilden retired, Rae
continued You Don't Say until George Rich took it up in December,
1977. Over one hundred editions, in six volumes, were published before
the bulletins were discontinued in July, 1983. Dr. Grace Jolly of the
University of Saskatchewan has compiled a computerized database of the
contents of the first four volumes of You Don't Say (personal
communication, February 24, 1988).
Ken Haslam began his in-house column of advice in February, 1984. This
is currently in distribution within the CBC, and is called Generally
Speaking. Haslam also regularly writes a column titled Words: Use and
abuse that appears in Content magazine, a trade publication for
Canadian journalists.
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Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications
Canadiennes
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Brave Voyage
A Canadian-produced soap opera sponsored by Lever Brothers: the story
of a young Canadian woman who discovered that life could be a rich,
rewarding adventure.
CBC Trans Canada Network, Monday through Friday, 2.00-2.15 pm Eastern
time from May 9, 1949 to 1951. Cast included Peggy Brown, Jane
Mallett, Beth Lockerbie, Jack Scott, Syd Brown. Producer: Esse Ljungh.
Announcer: John Rae.
Written by John Corcelli - January, 2002
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