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Robert Brundage 1942-2009
Toledo Community Celebrates Dr. Bob's Legacy
Dr. Robert Brundage Alumni Scott High School
Oil Portrait by Lisabelle
48x60"
Scott is Toledo’s oldest public
high school, opening to students in 1913.
Robert
Brundage has played cello in The Toledo Symphony while earning an
Engineering BS, magna cum laude, at TU and working summers as a research
chemist at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC.
Active as a cellist in the Boston area, he first earned his PhD in
Biophysics at Brandeis University, then worked at a series of biomedical
companies. Starting as a translator Engineer for three of them.
With his third career he recorded and edited live performances for Harvard
University, MIT, New England Conservatory, Titanic Records, & WGBH,
Boston.
For his fourth career, Robert retired to Toledo in 1997 to become a
community builder. He is on such boards as Toledo Central City
Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation (in the neighborhood of
his youth), Community Shares of Northwest Ohio (workplace philanthropy),
Greater Toledo Housing Coalition, 433 Foundation (community strengthening
through ecological and artistic means), Citizens for Buckeye Basin Parks,
Toledo Urban Forestry Commission, Westgate Neighbors etc. He also
participates in several TMACOG (Metropolitan Area Council of Governments)
committees, The New Urbanists, five mayoral community groups, The Urban
Coalition, Parents for Public Schools, TPS groups, Multifaith Council of
Northwest Ohio, Building Bridges Towards Racial Harmony, Sister Cities.
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It is sad to lose our friend Dr. Robert Brundage,
for the world a (true humanitarian). I became aquainted with Robert Brundage for a period of
time in 2008, when I was a resident artist at the Collingwood Art
Center. I accepted a
commission that was initiated by Peter Van Schoek, a loved Poet Laureate
of the Old West End in Toledo, a friend of Robert Brundage.
Robert and I had several meetings before and during this portrait
commission. It was apparent
to me, he was graciously embued, a high spirit, such a giving person was
Robert Brundage. In the few
conversations that we had he had expressed to me, how much he cared for
our environment. He earned
a Doctorate as a scholar in important fields, Music and Science.
With his big heart he did excel, all to the benefit of humankind.
All of Toledo and friends from the globe, we must sadly accept an
insurmountable loss, all of mankind must mourn this senseless untimely,
sad violent death of Dr. Robert Brundage with forgiveness, for he had so
much love and faith in all of us. |
"A DOVE HAS FLOWN
AWAY"
A.. WAY OF PEACE
A.. WAY OF GIVING
A..WAY OF LOVE
DR. ROBERT BRUNDAGE A FRIEND
TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HIS FAVORITE TREE, IT'S SEEDS, HE PICKED AND
GAVE TO ME. "THE GINKO BILOBA SEED, "PLACE IT IN YOUR
MOUTH, LET IT DISSOLVE AND IMPART IT'S BENEFICIAL PROPERTIES, LEAST OF
ALL IT'S MEMORY ENHANCEMENT".
ROBERT WAS A MENTOR, TEACHER
FRIEND.
TO ALL OF US THAT LISTENED TO
HIM,
HIS RESPONSIBLE,
CHERISHMENT OF CREATION AND NATURE, HE GLADLY SHARED, IN SPACE, HEAVENS,
EARTH, CONTINENTS, U.S.A.., TOLEDO, OHIO.
ROBERT BRUNDAGE HAD
SUCH A UNIQUE UNFORGETTABLE PHYSICAL FORM. GRACEFUL. A FACE
AS WISE AND HANDSOME AS A WIZARD OF HIS KELTIC LINEAGE, EYES SO HAPPY,
WITTY AND SPARKLING WITH TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE. DR. ROBERT BRUNDAGE.
"A DOVE HAS FLOWN
AWAY"
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