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dean hughes weekender may 9 1987pjj a friend looks back snapshot ofdean hughes and rex vveyman by rex weyman as reported last week local un- ionville resident dean hughes re cently passed away and his many friends and associates were deep ly saddened as his oldest friend i had special reason for grieving as i sat back and relived my close relationship with dean which started back in 1926 when we were both 18 at the time i was employed as what was then called a junior clerk with a bank in toronto although i had aspirations of becoming a writer and had actually sold one short story not having a mind for figures i goofed it up with the bank and was graciously asked to resign i was granted two weeks in order to give my replacement some idea of what his junior clerk duties would be the new jc turned out to be a cheerful and chatty young fellow named aubrey dean hughes and during our friendly chitchats he admitted that he too had dreams of becoming a writer so what happened on my last day at the bank we both left together at clos ing time and dean never went back again i remember him saying phooey on a bank job im going to be a writer whatever it takes and that was the start of our close ongoing friendship from then on our careers fol lowed a curiously parallel pat tern dean started work with macleanhunter publishing almost at the same time i was offered a job with the ryerson press then in the midthirties we both decided to go to england where we holed up in london and both managed to gain creative assignments of one kind or another but after a year or so we decided to return home and from that time on slowly but progres sively we both achieved our shared ambition of becoming pro fessional writers both of us busy fulltime writing for publication andor radio and television by 1940 we were both married and dean and his wife lyn bought a lovely old farm complete with cows in the barn in what was then tiny truely rural unionville almost inevitably after many trips to join our old friends my wife kathleen and i decided to sell up in toronto and become union- villites too we bought an old farm house called the cedars just a skip and a jump from the hughes farm we stayed in the markham area for some 18 years during which time i greatly enjoyed writ ing a column for the economist sun entitled over the cedar rail at that time dean had accepted an important position with what was what was then canadas top ad agency which meant driving into toronto everyday 1 remem ber him getting up at five in the morning to help his hired man milk the cows before getting dres sed to go to work but now thats all in the past my oldest friend has gone and all i have are the snapshots of our many trips and merry escapades together but as another dean put it in one of his songs memories are made of this i guess dean martin had a lot of happy time to remember too uni ii i mil ml ml hill receive central air conditioning jr- w yes you can receive up to 25 off your new lennox central air conditioner i when you switch to a lennox i fcj pulse furnace h t no 5j 0 financing available oac heating air conditioning ltd authorized consumers gi dealer islington richmond hill newmarket markham woodbridge thornhill aurora stouffville 7439701 4995090 7732034 4794440 limited time offer 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii l 1 1 1 1 1 1 ill 1 1 ill l l dean hughes is your child an a student hiding behind a c grade we can develop the selfconfidence and motivation required to improve classroom performance individual and group instruction in all subjects for more information call 2948757 today i ill j mum centrefor lurning skills suite 203 southeast corner highway 7 and mccowan n i 1 0 unicorn travel limited under new management we pride ourselves in offering ifixofsaional tpexsonalizsd szwicz loxfioxau jxavsl arfixancjsnisnti jomsstic c 1xjonaz vacation jxavsl do ami destination of tioux clioia prompt courier service 4757477 vzljs monfri v 4757479 825 denison st unit 4 cfajn markhamont lt w all major caeoitcarbsagcepteo- vi