Chiropractic History Assignment Gould Variations Steve Zoltai is the collections de- velopment librarian and archivist for CMCC and was previously the Assistant Executive Director of the Health Sciences Information Con- sortium of Toronto.He has worked for several public and private libraries and with the University of Toronto Archives. Steve comes by his interest in things historical honestly – he worked as a field archeologist for the Province of Manitoba.He can be contacted at [email protected]. I n the October edition of CHA, I invited readers to send me their personal reminiscences and anecdotes about the famed Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould. Dr. Daniel Proctor responded. This is his story: IT WAS A COLD,WINDY OCTOBER DAY “In October of 1982, I was an intern at the CMCC Herbert Lee Clinic” writes Dr. Proctor. “My personal insurance agent, Mr. Ray Roberts, called me to explain that he was the executor of the estate for one of his other clients and that this client had owned a number of physiotherapeutic modalities. The name of the client was confi dential. He asked if I might be interested in taking a look at these modalities and possibly making him an offer to purchase the equipment. Since I was still an intern, and did not yet have a practice to use the equipment myself, I approached one of my clinicians, Dr. Silvano Mior, and asked him if he would accompany me to appraise the equipment.” “It was a cold, windy October day when we met at an aging brown-stone type apartment on St. Clair Avenue West in Toronto. The building looked like it belonged in an old style movie set. The elevator was the iron type which required you to slide the door like a cage to close the elevator and engage the lift. We traveled to the penthouse level and entered a strange apartment with six rooms. The hallways, living room, dining room and bedrooms were all painted either dark purple or fl at black. There was no furniture in the bedrooms although one bedroom had some very old children’s toys including a baby carriage, a rocking horse, 38 • CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | DECEMBER 2008 www.canadianchiropractor.ca Steve Zoltai feature
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