Andrew Simone
Andrew Alexander Simone, CM (born May 12, 1938) is a Canadian physician, dermatologist and founder of Canadian Food for Children, a charity which collects funds and food for starving children around the world.
Biography
Born and raised in Etobicoke, he is the son of a Sicilian immigrant father and a French-Canadian mother. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1963 from Queen's University and became a dermatologist in 1968 after specializing at Harvard Medical School. He is married to Joan Simone née Hoare, an English-Canadian, and has 13 children, one of whom is adopted.
In 1985, after meeting Mother Teresa, he founded Canadian Food for Children.[1]
In 2000, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[2]
gollark: Which are probably basically the same but fancier-sounding.
gollark: And perhaps awful "handles" could be replaced with cool and trendy things like "streams".
gollark: Non-evil FS API ideas:- direct `write`/`read` access - no handles or handles emulated on top of this - either that or your thing can implement *either* handles *or* direct read/write and have the API translate it- no `fs.find`, `fs.combine`, `fs.complete`, `fs.getDir`, `fs.getName`- `mount`/`unmount`- per-file metadata
gollark: Well, actually, potatOS does support it, unless your handle happens to be to a virtualized file, at which point it'll just crash horribly somewhere.
gollark: Also you'll doom all VFS writers to an eternity of suffering.
References
- "Giving it all away" (PDF). National Post. April 15, 2005. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Order of Canada citation
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