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Originally from St. Thomas, Ont., Bevin Clark passed away in Brockville on Feb. 25, 2022, at the age of 78. He was a fine natural athlete and, while at Queen's, he played basketball and football as the kicker for the Golden Gaels intercollegiate teams. He also had a guest-coach involvement with the Gaels football team in 1977-78, when the team won the College Bowl championship. From 1968 to 1985, Bevin taught at Thousand Islands Secondary School in Brockville, where he coached football and basketball teams, earning the nickname 'Coach,' used by many in Brockville for the rest of his days. In January 1985, his world changed forever when he was felled by a near-fatal attack of pneumococcal meningitis. That unfortunate event left Bevin with impairments that rendered him no longer competitively employable. In retirement, he remained in Brockville, living independently for as long as possible and, most recently, in a long-term care facility. Bevin was a brother of Bob Clark (Sc'56) and Bill Clark (Sc'60), and an uncle of Paul Tuff (Sc'84), and Peter Tuff (Arts'89).

Arland Benn passed away on March 21, 2022. He was 96. He is survived by his wife, Jean; his children, Alison (Artsci’92) and Jeffrey; and his five beloved grandchildren. Arland was born on the family farm in Long Lake, Ont., on Jan. 1, 1926. His father, Ira Leslie Benn, took some courses at Queen’s around 1905 and prospected with Professor Miller and an Indigenous guide in the Cobalt and Haileybury area of Northern Ontario, discovering a mine or two. While at Queen’s, Arland was a cadet and a member of the varsity wrestling team. When Arland completed his degree in civil engineering, he worked in Toronto, Northern Ontario, and then in Montreal on the St. Lawrence Seaway. He moved to Ottawa to work with the international arm of Declan, where he met his wife and continued to pursue his love of gliding. Arland’s engineering career took him to Thailand, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, and Indonesia. Upon his retirement, Arland continued his active lifestyle, becoming an award-winning hobby winemaker and medaling in cross-country ski marathons, winter triathlons, and in-line skating half-marathons well into his 80s. Arland’s “downtime” was spent at his Long Lake cottage with family and friends, designing and constructing mosquito-repelling pagodas and more efficient additions to the lakefront abode.

Bernard Fisher Trotter, MA'48, died on Nov. 5. He is survived by his wife, Jean, his children, Rex, Arts '73 and daughter-in-law Eliza, Victoria Vaghy, B. Mus '75, B. Ed '77 and son-in-law Tibor (retired assistant professor Queen's Music Department), his brother Hale, Arts '52, MA'53 (Mathematics), seven grandchildren including Marie, MA '19 (English), and four great-grandchildren. Bernard's father, Reginald George Trotter, was head of the Queen's History Department until he died in 1951.  

 Born in 1924 in Palo Alto, California, Bernard grew up in Kingston. He graduated from McMaster University in 1945. In 1946-47, he attended Lorne Greene's Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto before receiving his MA from Queen's in 1948. He joined the CBC as Assistant Talks Producer in Winnipeg in 1948 and then served in New York as CBC representative at the UN in 1950-51. After attending the National Defense College in 1951-52, and subsequently heading the English Language Section of the CBC International Service, in 1954 he moved to London,  England, asCBC European representative. In 1957 he returned to Canada as supervisor of CBC Television Public Affairs in Toronto, becoming General Supervisor of the Public Affairs Television and Radio from 1960 to 1963.  

In 1963 he left the CBC to join ������Ƶ as Executive Assistant to the Principal. While at Queen's, he worked with the Committee of Presidents of Ontario Universities to develop a funding system for Ontario universities. He was Head of Academic Planning from 1968 to 1981, authoring several papers on education. While at Queens he also served on the CBC Board of Directors from 1975 to 1980.  He was special assistant to the Principal from 1981 and was awarded a Queen's Distinguished Service Award by the University Council upon retirement in 1988.

Bernard was a longtime supporter of Queen’s, a gentleman of kindness and generosity, carrying to the last thanks and smiles for anyone attending to his needs and always expressing concern that others take care of themselves first.