Jack Pollet came from Belgium to Montreal and worked at Imperial Tobacco before being hired as a Math teacher at S.L.C. He also taught a wine-making course in the early years, which was well attended. Jack bought a farm on Burnt Hill Road, and contracted the building of his home – a fairly large one story building with full basement. Jack taught at the Kingston campus for over 30 year and died within two years of retiring sometime toward the end of the 1990s.
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Jack Pollet came from Belgium to Montreal and worked at Imperial Tobacco before being hired as a Math teacher at S.L.C. He also taught a wine-making course in the early years, which was well attended. Jack bought a farm on Burnt Hill Road, and contracted the building of his home – a fairly large one story building with full basement. Jack taught at the Kingston campus for over 30 year and died within two years of retiring sometime toward the end of the 1990s.
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Humble Scribe
9/4/2020 10:09:09 am
There is a delightful story about Jack that also involves David Stewart, another SLC colleague who died recently. It is recounted in the 50th anniversary publication A Half Century at St. Lawrence (pp. 99-100 for those who have their copies handy). During one of the college’s periodic eras of restraint, in the early 1980s, a memo appeared in the mailboxes of staff in the Math and Communications Department. It outlined a program to convert scrap paper into toilet paper to reduce the excessive demands and costs of the latter. (Interesting how toilet paper recently became a key focus of pandemic purchasing – but I digress). Senior managers at the college were not amused, but no one owned up to the prank which took on all the makings of an Agatha Christie mystery. Appropriately, it was solved by the intrepid Hercule Poirot, aka Jack Pollett, who hailed from Belgium. David Stewart then admitted to writing the toilet paper memos, in effect wiping the slate clean.
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Ruth Tracy
1/12/2023 02:30:37 pm
"take two aspirins and phone in the morning" was what Jack was told by someone in Hotel Dieu E.R. By the next day, Jack was hallucinating when his neighbour brought him back, and he died of septicemia within two days.
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