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Published on: 2/6/2008
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The Marion Schweitzer Fund was established in 1996 by Marion Schweitzer, a Life Member of theKitchener-Waterloo club who wished to honour Parry and encourage excellence in music at the youth level.
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Marion Schweitzer graduated from McMaster University in 1933, qualified as a Specialist in English and taught English and French at Kitchener Collegiate Institute for eighteen years.
Lenia Chamberlain was born in Cyprus and emigrated to Canada where she lived for thirty years.She earned a BA in classics from LondonUniversity (Bedford College), England, in 1965 and an MA from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1986, concentrating on archaeology for which she earned the university's Gold Medal for academic excellence.She was a scholar in the truest sense of the term.As well as English and Modern Greek, she could read and write Ancient Greek and Latin and had a working knowledge of French and German.Her knowledge of ancient art and history and her love of books were reflected in her job in the Reference section of the Kitchener Public Library and her extensive personal library.