Honouring the Legacy of Alexander (Sandy) Sellers
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Sandy was a Founding Member and Benefactor of our school. His warm presence, unflagging support, wit, guiding wisdom, genuine care and interest in our students, community, and staff has sustained us over the decades since the school was founded in 1996. His vision and spirit will live on and continue to inspire our school community.
We are sharing this beautiful insight into his life from his obituary:
Alexander (Sandy) George Sellers. Born May 2, 1950; died January 14, 2025. He died as he lived – with wit, wisdom, and wonder. Father of Shaun (Brian), Julia, and Clara (Patrick), grandfather of Maia and stepgrandfather of Lenci, husband of 35 years to Katharine, brother of Edward and Hugh (deceased), and uncle of many nieces and nephews. Publicly shy, a steadfast supporter of others, and a generous philanthropist, Sandy leaves a genetic legacy in his three accomplished daughters, and a social legacy in Mulberry Waldorf School in Kingston, which he co-founded, and to which he gave generously of time and treasure. Professionally, he assumed roles as a biology teacher, and a high-tech librarian and manager at Bell-Northern Research. He delighted in collecting Arthuriana, lawnmowers, antique typewriters, 16mm films and almost-functional farm equipment. Bringing in the hay and adjusting – and re-adjusting – the (old) New Holland Super 66 baler from his good friend Keith was one of his great pleasures. As family genealogist, he spent time working with his brother Edward digitizing family lore for their descendants. In his last years, after a lapse of five decades, he picked up his guitar again. Always a steward of beautiful properties, he particularly loved his island on Clark Lake. Sandy has lived well. His life was rich in meaning, a meaning distilled through personal encounters, through a satisfying outer life congruent with his inner life, and through a predisposition to seek the deeper metaphor behind all experience. He had the gift (sometimes a burden) of living one step ahead of the present, anticipating, and planning for whatever future was streaming towards those he loved. Many know he was an obsessive punster. For those, he will certainly be mist in the fog of time… A Celebration of Life will take place on Sunday, February 2nd at 1:30pm at the University Club (formerly the Faculty Club) at Queen’s University, 168 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON. Donations to Mulberry Waldorf School click here or Wintergreen Studios (www.wintergreenstudios.com) would honour his legacy. And when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night (Romeo and Juliet, III.ii.21-24) |
