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Jo-Anne Douglas uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, June 13, 2020
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Lene Rubinstein lit a candle
Sunday, May 17, 2020
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Mark was a wonderful scholar and a generous, caring and faithful friend. His personal warmth and wisdom permeated his scholarship as well as his relations with fellow scholars, colleagues and friends. He is a shining example to us all.
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Rod Mickleburgh posted a condolence
Sunday, May 3, 2020
One of the kindest, smartest, funniest, loveliest, most good-humoured, warm-hearted, caring and positive persons there ever was...with a smile that could light up the darkest of days....and someone who never ceased to advocate for justice and a better life for those dealt a tough hand.....
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Jo-Anne uploaded photo(s)
Monday, April 27, 2020
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Stephen Hodkinson lit a candle
Monday, April 27, 2020
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Mark was a welcoming, cheerful and humorous academic friend. Separated by the Atlantic, we didn't have many opportunities to meet in person, but he was always positive and helpful in our emails. He did much fine and innovative academic work which will stand the test of time for many years to come. Farewell, dear friend.
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Jonathan Scott Perry uploaded photo(s)
Friday, April 24, 2020
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Mark was a supportive, generous, and invariably hilarious mentor to me, and he encouraged me as I fumbled my way into the scholarship of ancient sport. He epitomized the very best of his beloved Canada, and his passion for social justice was reflected in all of his work, e.g., his relabeling of the 'Coalition of the Willing' as the 'Oilition of the Willing'. He welcomed me as an American who had definitely been born on the wrong side of the border--and this picture was taken in, of course, a Tim's in Vancouver in 2009.... Please accept my deepest condolences--I would have been so very happy to have had a dad like him.
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Jo-Anne lit a candle
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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A tree was planted in memory of Mark Golden
Monday, April 20, 2020
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Marcie posted a condolence
Saturday, April 18, 2020
One of the kindest, most gentle teachers and men I've ever known. I am lucky to have learned from him. What a sweet man. Thanks for sharing yourself with us, Mark.
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Cathy Hellsten posted a condolence
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Mark was a great guy - smart and full of quiet humour. We mostly knew the activist Mark - on the board of the IDEA Centre, helping with Tools for Peace, and supporter of many progressive causes. We would run into him on occasion and touch base. Our deepest condolences to all his family members and friends.
Cathy Hellsten and Randall McQuaker
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Jo-Anne Douglas uploaded photo(s)
Friday, April 17, 2020
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Mark meets baby Owen, his grandson, for the first time on March 26.
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Karen and Steve planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Friday, April 17, 2020
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"Mark Golden" will remain in our hearts forever.
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Paula Steinberg posted a condolence
Thursday, April 16, 2020
I always admired Mark for his desire to walk the less ordinary path. He once lived in a kibbutznik-style house in Canada, before most of us knew much about communal living. He was neither understated, nor overstated and he possessed a way of making the subjective appear just matter-of-fact. He was a personable, kind, and gentle soul who dressed like the quintessential professor that he was. I knew Mark as my cousin with whom I visited on infrequent occasions from late teenage years to more recent years when he came to see us in Calgary and when I was in Winnipeg. It was always a joy to be in his company. Our hearts are with Molly, Jo-Anne, Max, Stephanie and grandson, baby Owen Markus. Love, Paula, Gerry, Jordhynn and Jaxen
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Jaya lit a candle
Thursday, April 16, 2020
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We have fond memories of courses. My husband remembers him wearing slippers in his office. My mother worked with him and looked forward to their encounters in the hallways. We were so sad to hear of his sickness and even sadder now that the world has lost this brilliant light.
Love Jaya, Glenn, and Judy
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Associate Professor David M. Pritchard planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Max, Jo-Anne, You are in our thoughts. Mark was a lovely man, a true friend and a very fine scholar. David Pritchard and Jumana Bayeh (Australia).
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Ville Vuolanto (Tampere University) planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
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Mark was a wonderful person, a great scholar, and always an encouraging mentor. His work will stay, his memory will live. Requiescat in pace!
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Ray Laurence posted a condolence
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Mark was our invited VIP keynote speaker at our conference in Gothenburg- first time I met him - he was a tour de force of passion, knowledge and humility. Set tone for best event I ever organised and I see how the then young have collaborated and continued in the vein of “nice people succeed”. So blessed to have met Mark and had my misspelling of Winnipeg gently corrected. Professor Ray Laurence (Macquarie Uni, Australia)
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Mary Harlow planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
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In memory of a brief meeting, good company and lasting scholarship
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Mary Harlow posted a condolence
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Happy memories of my first and only time of meeting Mark at a conference on Greek and Roman families in Gothenburg where, arriving early he helped fill the conference packs, talked about thrillers we had read, made jokes and generally was such easy company. Then, of course, he set the conference on the right track with a thought-provoking lecture - parts of which I still use to open my Roman Family teaching. He will be very sadly missed, my condolences to all this family - and to all of us who will the less for his loss.
Mary Harlow
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Christie Macdonald posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
I had the very great pleasure of auditing a course at u of w several years ago. Ancient epics in translation. Professor Golden was an outstanding teacher. It opened up an entire world of study, which I enjoy to this day. I remember very well making Mark laugh when he asked the class for a one sentence summary of the Iliad. I said “it sucked to be a girl in Ancient Greece.” We had more profound conversations about the epics in the class, but always in a very grounded, accessible way. There was definitely no ivory tower in sight. He was a great teacher. My condolences to his family and friends
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norman Rosenbaum & Judy Morrow planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Sunday, April 12, 2020
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Wherever he is, he will be kibitzing with wit and grace. We love you Mark and Joanne.
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judith morrow lit a candle
Sunday, April 12, 2020
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Mark's warmth, humor, wit and love runs deep and brightened our life. He was a true friend. We will miss that wit and way of cracking us up with his jokes - who can keep up with what he has to say - but he will remain close to us in our thoughts.
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A tree was planted in memory of Mark Golden
Sunday, April 12, 2020
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Harry Berbrayer lit a candle
Sunday, April 12, 2020
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I'm in shock, utter shock. I've just learned of this from a Winnipeg friend. Mark was a good friend, to myself and my wife Rosemary, and, more than that, he was someone I respected very much, as I also respected and liked his late brother Peter. Mark was open and outspoken about his opposition to Israel's policies and practices, and willing to risk the wrath of those who endorse Israel in all circumstances. He was also an easygoing, sensitive, intelligent guy with a sense of humour and a great deal of warmth. And that's not even mentioning his contributions as a scholar.
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Bill and Arlene Boivin planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Sunday, April 12, 2020
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With deepest sympathy,
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A tree was planted in memory of Mark Golden
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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Doug Smith posted a condolence
Saturday, April 11, 2020
On the website of the University of Winnipeg there is a profile of Mark Golden that says he has been “described as ‘Canada’s foremost Classics scholar’ by The Globe and Mail.” I twitted him about this once, asking when was it that the Globe and Mail had begun ranking classicists. He laughed with embarrassment and said the article had been written by Rod Mickleburgh, an old friend from their days on The Varsity, the University of Toronto student newspaper. This made the joke even funnier; I knew Rod slightly and admiringly from the days when he worked on the Vancouver Sun and was Canada’s foremost labour reporter.
It seemed that Mark had been asked to give a talk in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Olympics and Rod, then a columnist with the Globe and Mail, had been in attendance. In a subsequent column, Rod described Mark as “a tall, lean guy who goes around in jeans and running shoes. He may also be Canada's foremost classics scholar, and he loves to puncture myths.” This, it turned out, was one of the myths Mark loved to puncture: he wasn’t, he told me, even the foremost classics scholar to emerge from his Ottawa high school, that honour belonged to a young woman who he identified and praised and whose name I have forgotten.
Many of Mark’s shining virtues are present in this story: self-effacing humour, generosity, a gift for friendship and network of friends in far flung places. And loyalty too, since I suspect that when I last saw Mark, he was wearing the same jeans and sneakers that Mickleburgh had written about ten years earlier.
I met Mark about forty years ago at party at the old Dorchester Co-op. Over the years we bumped into each other on occasion, and we had a sustained period of contact when I produced a newsletter for the U of W Faculty Association’s bargaining committee.
But it was really over the past decade that our friendship quickened. We regularly crossed paths at Bill Fugler’s Neighbourhood Café and Bookshop. At first these were serendipitous meetings, but later they were planned and regular. There we discussed what we had read and were reading, amazed to discover how many of the same literary roads we had gone down separately, the obscure books we both read. In most cases, we had shared valuations of the books we had read, but not always. He could not, for example, be argued out of his mistaken view that the works of John Updike were superior to those of Philip Roth. He, I, and a coterie of other oddballs began to attend live broadcasts of the Metropolitan opera and the National Theatre. Sitting next to him the dark provided a particular thrill because Mark was so open to the wonderful. Something would happen: a note, a line, an inflection, and Mark would flinch involuntarily with pleasure and recognition.
We did no great things together, no travel, no projects, nothing more than talk. It looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. When we discovered that this future was to be foreshortened, I determined not to be deprived of a moment of it. I had the great good fortune to accompany Mark to many of his doctor’s appointments and treatments. We talked away our time in chemotherapy, books, politics, sadly for Mark never sports, and the follies of humanity. He, for example, was pleased when, after a change in medication, his hair grew back. “In the future, you will have to say, ‘That Mark Golden, he was a very vain man.’” “No,” I said, “I will say that like Esau, you were a very hairy man.” Illness never seemed to dim Mark’s curiousity, generosity, or good humour.
About a year ago, I asked Mark to lend me his book on childhood in ancient Athens. He did so with a certain reluctance, noting that I might finding it heavy going. For the most part, it was. It is written for a specialist audience and expects you to bring a greater knowledge of the literature to the table than I possess. But it has a wonderfully engaging introduction, and a style that demonstrates a respect for the evidence and the reader.
For me, the book leapt to life in its discussion of the then received wisdom that the ancient Athenians did not develop an emotional attachment to their children as infants since so many of them were prone to early death. Carefully, slowly, and thoroughly Mark set about to puncture this myth. When I told him how striking I had found this section, he replied, “Yes, that was my greatest hit.”
The power in the writing of that section came from Mark’s love for children. He had even contemplated a career as a childcare worker or elementary school teacher. He loved his son Max and spoke of him regularly with deep affection. He was proud of Max’s talents and skills. His voice, normally frail and weak with illness, buzzed with strength when he accepted my congratulations on the birth of his grandson, Owen. He never spoke about Jo-Anne but in terms of warmth and affection. It was clear that he was deeply, touchingly, in love. He was blessed, and gloried in his great good luck.
This winter, in honour of the old fart that I feel myself becoming, I read James Boswell’s life of Samuel Johnson. In it, Boswell observes “Friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it very mellow and pleasant.” From my vantage point, ours has become a very old friendship, one whose end I cannot bear or begin to contemplate.
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Lindsay Butt uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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I am deeply saddened by Mark's passing. I will miss his dry wit, intelligence, kindness, generosity and of course his cheesecakes. Mark and I were opera partners and he was still strong enough to go Manitoba Opera's production of Susannah in November 2019. I will always think about him when I see and hear opera. I met Mark when he and I were in a men's group and we continued to meet until as recently as a few weeks ago. The bond he and I and Mark E and Rick shared was so strong and trusting. Having a good friend like Mark is a once in a lifetime chance. I am beyond happy that I was able to share so much of my life with him and he with me. My deepest condolence's to Jo-Anne and Max and to the new grandson that Mark was able to meet.
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Dave Holt posted a condolence
Saturday, April 11, 2020
I was barely off the phone discussing rehearsal times with my band, when Mark Golden, blues scholar and historian, and Uldis, his roommate at their Huron Street flat in Toronto, showed up on my front doorstep. Thanks to Uldis's brother who loaned the car, they drove out to my suburban town from the city, Mark bearing his latest jewel, wanting me to hear Otis Spann, the Chicago blues pianist who played with Muddy Mississippi Waters for ten years. We put Otis Spann’s new album immediately on the turntable. “Gonna get up in the morning, I believe I’ll dust my broom.”
Oh, I believed, Otis, yes, I was converted by the gospel of the blues. Music so fine, we wished, hoped, believed it would never stop playing until the whole world was baptized with it, so full of resurrecting power, how could the infernos and jails of the outside world long endure? Mark asked me to be his roommate at Rochdale, to join him in that great social experiment which I did, and we watched as it went awry then moved out after some months. However, it was at Rochdale that he taught me much more about the music. God bless you Mark. I will always remember our friendship and what you taught me.
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Dorothy Wigmore posted a condolence
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Not sure I have any photos of Mark, perhaps from a Dorchester Co-op party or one of my July 1st "garden parties". Shall look. Meanwhile, remembering a wonderful person, one of my favourite people, even if we didn't see one another often. We shared our Ottawa upbringing, student newspaper adventures, Palestinian rights, and much more. Rest in power, my friend. Hugs to Jo-Anne and Max.
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Barry and Shelley Chochinov planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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Greatly saddened.
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Hugh Conacher posted a condolence
Saturday, April 11, 2020
So sad to hear this news. He was one of my Father's (Desmond Conacher) students at Trinity College, U of T, and both my father and mother spoke fondly of him. I remember the grad student dinner parties at my house as I was growing up!
I spoke to my mother today and she sends her condolences, as I do mine.
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Barbara planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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Remembering my old pal, with love.
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Gilda Berger planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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Mark was a darling, loving, tender cousin whose memory I will forever cherish. Always with a twinkle in his beautiful eyes. What a loss.
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Julia, Tom, and Avi planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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We knew Mark only slightly through Sholem Aleichem, but his light always shined out. May his memory always be a Blessing.
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Bob Rae planted a tree in memory of Mark Golden
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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Mark aka Gellius was a gentle and brilliant student and remained that way his whole life. Sending my best to his family with the warmest of memories
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Jo-Anne Douglas uploaded photo(s)
Friday, April 10, 2020
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Friday, April 10, 2020
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