Dick Schwartz
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Eastmoor United Methodist Church for Colonel Richard H. Schwartz, USMC (ret.), 85, who passed away April 20, 2021, at St. Luke Living Center in Marion.
Dick’s life began on Oct. 1, 1935, in Leavenworth. He was the son of Joseph and Erma P. (Hawes) Schwartz.
Dick was a 1953 graduate of Leavenworth High School, where he excelled in athletics. He went on to Ottawa University, where he earned his bachelor of science degree and earned athletic letters in football, basketball, and track, and was inducted into the Ottawa Hall of Fame.
Dick completed his formal education by earning his masters degree in business from the University of Southern California.
OTTAWA The Ottawa BlackJacks basketball team has named a University of Ottawa Hall of Famer as their new assistant coach. Fabienne Perrin-Blizzard becomes the only woman to currently coach professional sports in Ottawa. “It is an honour to join our local professional basketball team,” Perrin-Blizzard said in a news release. “I am thankful to take my career to the next level and be a part of a club that will inspire the next generation. I am looking forward to being reunited with the rest of the coaching staff on the sidelines at TD Place.” Perrin-Blizzard graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Computer Science in 1995 and a Bachelor of Social Science in 1992. She served as assistant coach of the Gee-Gees from 1994-1998, and moved to the head coaching role for the 1998-99 campaign. In 2004, she furthered her education and earned a Project Management Masters Certificate from Carleton University, the team said.
INTRODUCTION
As I’ve learned from my own experiences in the classroom both as a student and as an instructor, poetry is so often taught badly to us in grade school (if at all). I am, to this day, learning how to undo the myth of poetry being the work of certainty a perfect command of a subject, experience, event proclaimed through verse. This is obviously a byproduct of the ways in which the Western canon is taught: the work of “great masters” whose genius we are trained to admire and respect. But my immersion in queer and disability writing has taught me the value of