<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Friends,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I like to listen to CBC IDEAS when home in the evening. The program invariably serves as an eye-opener.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tonight’s segment was entitled: <b><i>For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson.</i></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Very Rev., The Honourable Dr. Lois M. Wilson, the 28th Moderator of the United Church of Canada, and the first woman to fill the role, died in hospital in Fredericton, NB, on Sept. 13, 2024. She was 97 years old.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Wilson was the first woman president of the Canadian Council of Churches in 1976; elected the first woman Moderator of the United Church in 1980, the first Canadian to serve as a president of the World Council of Churches, from 1983 to 1991. In 2000, she led Canada’s first parliamentary delegation to North Korea to begin the process of establishing formal diplomatic relations.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From 1990 to 2000, Dr. Wilson was the Chancellor of <a href="https://www.lakeheadu.ca/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-underline:none">Lakehead University</span></span></a>. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1998, retiring in 2002.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For her work in human rights, ecumenism, social justice, and her contributions to the political and cultural landscape, Dr. Wilson received 14 honorary degrees, including one from the United States, and also the following honours and awards: the Queen’s 25th Anniversary Medal (1977), The Pearson Peace Medal (1985), Officer of the Order of Canada (1984), Order of Ontario (1991), <a href="https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-14212" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-underline:none">Companion of the Order of Canada</span></span></a> (2003), Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Award for Christian Unity (2010), and the Heart and Vision Award (2011).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">She was the author of 10 books, ranging in topic such as ethics, interpretations of biblical stories, and feminism.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I had the privilege of hearing her speak on numerous occasions. In the 1980s, our Development and Peace group at the Newman Centre invited her to speak.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">See links below.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Roswita</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16095111-for-sake-common-good-honouring-lois-wilson" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson | Ideas with Nahlah Ayed | Live Radio | CBC Listen</a></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://united-church.ca/news/trailblazer-lois-wilson-dies-age-97" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">https://united-church.ca/news/trailblazer-lois-wilson-dies-age-97</a></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://councilofchurches.ca/news/the-very-reverend-the-honourable-lois-m-wilson-passes-away-at-age-97/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">https://councilofchurches.ca/news/the-very-reverend-the-honourable-lois-m-wilson-passes-away-at-age-97/</a></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://broadview.org/lois-wilson-dead/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">https://broadview.org/lois-wilson-dead/</a></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.emmanuel.utoronto.ca/news/remembering-the-very-rev-dr-honorable-lois-m-wilson/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">https://www.emmanuel.utoronto.ca/news/remembering-the-very-rev-dr-honorable-lois-m-wilson/</a></span></span></b></span></span></p></div></body></html>