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COMPILED BY VICTOR OLIVIER AND RICK HIEBERT
DIED: Philanthropist and businessman Cecil H. Green, 102; in his sleep, in La Jolla, California, April 12. Born in Whitefield, England, he immigrated to Vancouver in 1906 with his family. Educated at King Edward High School and UBC, he received an M.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1924. In the early 1930s, he joined Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI), a pioneering seismic-monitoring firm in the North American oilpatch. Mr. Green and his partners bought GSI in 1941 and retooled it for the war as an electronics company. After the company, now Texas Instruments, made the first silicon transistors in 1954, he became a multi-millionaire. Although he remained on the company's board until 1979, he and his wife (they had no children) devoted most of the rest of their lives to philanthropy. "If you don't give it away, a bunch of strangers will be giving it away for you," he once reasoned. "Why not do it yourself while you're still around?" Mr. Green funded a college at Oxford and buildings at Stanford University and MIT, but he probably made his biggest impact at UBC, where he created Green College with a donation of over $10 million. Awarded 13 honorary degrees, he was made an honorary knight by the Queen in 1991.
DIED: Newsman Andrew W. (Andy) Philip, 83; of cancer, in Calgary, April 4. Born in Evansburg, Alta., he was led by an early fascination with radio...
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