Catharine Tunney, c.1991

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Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white negative of a portrait of Catharine Tunney.

Notes

Catharine Tunney was born at Peterborough, Ontario, on 18 September 1955 and was raised in Oshawa. She move to Brooklin in 1982. Mrs. Tunney served six years in the 1980s as the Whitby representative on the Durham Catholic District School Board, three of which were as chairwoman. In 1992 she joined the Board of Governors of the Whitby General Hospital and was its last chairwoman from 1996 to 1998. She then joined the board of the Lakeridge Health Corporation. Mrs. Tunny served on the Durham District Health Council's acute care study and helped establish the Durham Community Foundation, the Sunrise Rotary Sorichetti Fund and the Amanda Heron Fund. In 1988 she received the Peter Perry Award as Whitby's Outstanding Citizen.

Date of Original

c.1998

Dimensions

Width: 1 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Hospitals
Religious education
Schools
Peter Perry Award
Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise

Personal Name(s)

Tunney, Catharine

Corporate Name(s)

Durham Catholic District School Board ; Whitby General Hospital ; Lakeridge Health Corporation ; Durham Community Foundation

Local identifier

A2016_017_026A

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection

Geographic Coverage

Brooklin

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.9630951790987 Longitude: -78.9580672381592

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