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PleaseincludeIRememberinthesubjectfieldBorn July 14, 1936, in Glastonbury, England;
died April 5, 2019, in Victoria, of cancer; aged
82.T
erry was the youngest of seven,
born in England to working-class
Catholics who had already tried
and failed to move to Canada.
They succeeded in 1948, moving to a home
in Windsor, Ont., that was so small 12-year-
old Terry slept in a tent with his brother in
the backyard.
As a child, his mother told him, “If you
have a book, you’ll never be lonely,” and it
prompted Terry to cultivate a lifelong love
of the printed word. This passion fed his
endless curiosity about history, gave him
the quiet moments he loved and played a
big role in his professional career.
After high school, he discovered he
loved acting and made lifelong friend-
ships in summer-stock theatre. Eventually,
he chose a new outlet for his performance
skills: radio. He made himself indispens-
able at the small station in Leamington,
Ont., and within a few years he was an-
choring TV news in Barrie, Ont. He then
became a reporter for CBC-TV in Toronto,
leading to some of his proudest moments:
covering new City Hall and producing a
documentary on the new Bloor subway
line.
In the early seventies, Terry was the first
to fill his proposed post of parliamentary
bureau chief for CBC Radio. He covered six
federal elections and prime minister
Pierre Trudeau’s groundbreaking trips to
China, Cuba and elsewhere.
When his union went on strike, Terry
met reporter Jodi White on the picket line.
He was smitten and left love letters under
the windshield wiper of her car. They mar-
ried in 1976. When Jodi went to work for
Conservative leader Joe Clark, the newly-
weds became pioneers in breaking the ta-
boo of a Parliamentary journalist and a
backroom political operative living under
one roof. Each spent their days hearing in-
formation that they could not share with
the other in the evenings. Because of their
shared passion for politics and democracy
(and throwing terrific brunches and cock-
tail parties), Terry and Jodi’s home be-
came a gathering place for public servants,
journalists and partisans across the spec-
trum. They had two sons, Tyler and Blake.
Terry used his radio skills to regale his
sons with accents, stories and jokes. He
brought them to the symphony at the Na-
tional Arts Centre and taught them debat-
ing technique at Sunday dinner. His incli-
nation to monopolize the conversation or
repeat anecdotes was mitigated by the hu-
mour of his tales. The boys’ favourite
Christmas gift (received at the age of 10)
was a cardboard tube with “To help you
decide where you want to go!” written on
it in his unmistakable, high-velocity scrib-
ble; inside was a map of the world.
Terry would become executive director
of Radio Canada International and retired
from the CBC in 1997.
He and Jodi had divorced in 1993, and,
in 1997, he married diplomat Anna Biolik.
With their mutual love of travel and the
music of Chopin, they explored the world
together as she was posted in St. Peters-
burg, then Almaty, Kazakhstan and finally
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They took their
grand piano everywhere they went.
Terry and Anna made their last home in
Saanich, B.C. – a place he considered para-
dise. In his golden years, Terry enjoyed a
view of the Juan de Fuca Strait, reading the
books of diplomat Harold Nicolson,
whose life he admired and successfully
emulated despite huge odds. He died sur-
rounded by his family. Recalling his moth-
er’s words, a copy of Robert St. John’sFor-
eign Correspondentwas slipped into his cof-
fin – to keep him company on his next
adventure.
A scholarship has been established at
Carleton University’s School of Journalism
in his honour.Tyler and Blake Hargreaves are Terry’s sons.TerryHargreavesLIVESLIVED
TERRYHARGREAVESFather.Journalist.
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goonlinetotgam.ca/livesguideM
ark Hurd, who was known
for both success and scan-
dal at Hewlett-Packard and
most recently served as co-
chief executive of the software compa-
ny Oracle, died Friday. He was 62.
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman and
chief technology officer, announced
the death but did not give a cause or
say where Mr. Hurd died. Mr. Hurd,
who lived in the Bay Area, had taken a
medical leave of absence in September.
“Oracle has lost a brilliant and be-
loved leader who personally touched
the lives of so many of us during his
decade at Oracle,” Mr. Ellison wrote.
Mr. Hurd spent 25 years at the busi-
ness technology company NCR, where
he became CEO and developed a repu-
tation for cutting costs and improving
the company’s stock price. In 2005, he
became the surprise selection to lead
Hewlett-Packard, a Silicon Valley pio-
neer known for computers and printer
technology.
He arrived at HP during a time of
tumult. His predecessor, Carly Fiorina,
had won a bruising proxy battle with
the heirs of the company’s co-founders
over her plan to buy Compaq Comput-
er a few years earlier. But divisions and
business problems at HP ran deep; Ms.
Fiorina was fired in February, 2005,
with Mr. Hurd hired the next month.
Where Ms. Fiorina was known for
bold technology strategies and pol-
ished public presentations, Mr. Hurd
excelled at operations. He set about
cutting costs, including by laying off
about 15,000 employees. People who
know him say he was fond of mottos
such as “vision without execution is
hallucination.”
Mr. Hurd would stand before a
whiteboard and recite copious statis-
tics about operations, said Philip Meza,
co-author ofBecoming Hewlett-Packard.
That attention to detail served Mr.
Hurd well, as the company’s earnings
and stock price improved.
“He had an incredibly high sense of
urgency,” said Antonio Neri, CEO of
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of two
companies created in the 2015 breakup
of Hewlett-Packard. “He was really fo-
cused [on] working and making things
leaner and more efficient.”
Mr. Hurd joined HP as its board was
mounting a kind of spying operation
aimed at discovering how leaks about
the company were reaching journalists.
Disclosure of the company’s tactics lat-
er caused a firestorm of criticism, cul-
minating in Mr. Hurd being called be-
fore Congress to explain
what had happened. He
said he had approved the
operation without ade-
quate consideration.
“There is no excuse for
this aberration,” he testi-
fied. “It happened, and it
will never happen again.”
Mr. Hurd helped re-
store HP’s personal-com-
puter business to a No. 1
position, Mr. Neri said.
But Mr. Meza added that
Mr. Hurd had never
forged a long-term strate-
gy for the company.
His stint there ended in 2010 with an
equally surprising scandal: the disclo-
sure that Mr. Hurd had had a relation-
ship with a female consultant to the
company and fudged some related ex-
pense reports.
He was swiftly hired by Oracle, a pio-
neer of the database software market.
Mr. Ellison had long spoken glowingly
of Mr. Hurd’s prowess in operations.
Mr. Hurd helped lead Oracle with Mr.
Ellison and Safra Catz, who was also
given a co-CEO title, which she still
holds.
At Oracle, based in Redwood City,
Calif., Mr. Hurd was closely associatedwith the company’s shift to offering
online versions of its software, a busi-
ness imperative compelled by the rise
of potent competitors such as Sales-
force.com.
“Mark was my close and irreplace-
able friend, and trusted colleague,” Mr.
Ellison wrote in the announcement Fri-
day. “All of us will miss Mark’s keen
mind and rare ability to analyze, sim-
plify and solve problems quickly.”
Mark Vincent Hurd was born on Jan.
1, 1957, in New York, the son of Ralph
Steiner Hurd, a financier, and Teresa
(Fanoni) Hurd. He grew up on the Up-
per East Side. According to Oracle, he
attended the all-boys Browning School
until moving to Miami for
high school. Tennis was a
major interest; he re-
ceived a tennis scholar-
ship to Baylor University
in Waco, Tex., and gradu-
ated in 1979 with a bache-
lor’s degree in business.
He started his business
career as a junior sales-
man in the San Antonio
office of what was then
known as the National
Cash Register, a Midwest-
ern company founded in- He rose through the
sales ranks quickly, mov-
ing to NCR’s headquarters in Dayton,
Ohio, and winning the chief executive
position in 2003.
Mr. Hurd became known at Oracle
for advancing the company’s support
for young tennis players through the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association. He
also contributed to Baylor’s athletics,
including helping to renovate its tennis
facility.
He leaves his wife of almost 30 years,
Paula (Kalupa) Hurd, a former senior
executive at NCR, and two daughters,
Kathryn and Kelly Hurd.
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I
was sad to hear that the Stanley
Cup-winning defenceman Ted
Green, who was also my golfing
friend, passed away. We all know
about Ted’s well-earned image as a
tough hockey player, but when I was
president of Edmonton’s Grant MacE-
wan Community College (now MacE-
wan University) I saw another side of
him.
Apart from coaching the Oilers, Ted
had several businesses as a sideline –
most recently an automated skate-
sharpening machine. His hockey career
had shortened his schooling, so, with
some trepidation, he asked if MacEwan
had business courses he might take. A
counsellor, also a former pro athlete,
met with him to identify his strengths
and areas for improvement through a
series of tests.
Two weeks later, “tough” Ted came
bounding into my office. With tears
flowing down his face, he cried “People
wonder if I’m smart, but the tests show I
can easily handle any course in the col-
lege. Kelly, this is absolutely the best day
of my life!” With confidence, Ted start-
ed on a course, but soon discovered he
had already learned what he needed
through business experience and the
school of hard knocks.GerryKelly,VictoriaIREMEMBER
TEDGREENTedGreenJOHNMAIOLA