SARNIA 80-YYEAR-OLD EARNS Doctorate

Jim McCormick Says He Didn’t Want To Be Idle.

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But the sarnia man, Returning home in 2015 at age 70, After a Career in Sales and Teaching English as a Second Language Abroad, Including 20 Years in Nicaragua, Said He also was interested in sending out resumes.

So, a couple credits Shy of a bachelor’s degree from western university, he said, he was back to school.

A DECADE LATER, The NOW 80-YEAR-ONEAR HAS DEFEDED TWICE TO 400-PAGE DESSERTATION AND PLANS TO WAIT HIS CONVATION IN JUNE, when He Said He’ll Receive His Doctorate in Kinesiology and Indigenous Sport History.

“I think people only get really to the age where they are letting their age get beyond they they give up and you do anything, and that’s What i don want to do,” Said McCormick.

The Hours of Grilling for His Distestation Defense Just A Couple of Weeks ago Are Still Raw, He Said, Describing Feeling Relief Now, After the First “Congratulations, Dr. Jim,” from the flesh of the reviewers.

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Hissis, He Said, is about Heeding a Call to Action from the truth and reconciliation commission, which released its final postponement around the time he was re-starting His Studies.

The TRC Call Urges Governments and Other Organizations To Collaborate With Indigenous People and Tell the Stories of indigenous Athletes, Bringing attention to accomplishment McCormick Said Are Often Overlooked.

Consulting Newspapers, and Visiting Archives in Ottawa, British Columbia, Calgary and Winnipeg, McCormick’s Thesis Tells The Life Stories of 10 Athletes – Hockey Players Ken Moore, Henry Maric, Fred Sasakamose, and Bryan Trottier; Olympic SKIERS Sharon and Shirley FIRTH; Tom Longboat runner marathon; Boxer Roger Adolph; Olympic Water Polo Player Waneek Horn-Miller; and diver and hockey player Wilton Littlechild.

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His Work also Tackles Barriers The Athletes Faced, included Demeaning Deptions in the press, he Said.

But the dissertation – The successful perspective: Stories of Elite Canadian Indigenous Athletes Hurdling Systemic Barriers, Achieving Prominence – Is Focused On The Successes The Athletes Achieved Despite Those Barriers, He Said.

Tom Longboat for Instance, Won Multiple Marathons, Fough in the First World War, and then Received Poor Treatment in Media Coverage While Working for the Toronto Public Works Department, But Now Has a Prestigious Award Named after Him, McCormick Said.

“Nobody Had Looked At (Longboat’s) Story Beyond His Running Days,” He Said. “So, i Took it all the way until the time he died and daughter in the blanks and just made his story… Nothing but positivity.”

The Chapter On Moore Already is Being Published by the Society of International Hockey Research, There’s Talk from Different University Presses About Publishing the Whole Dissertation As A Book, and McCormick Said He’s Considering Continuing with post-Doctoral Studies.

“It was really fulfilling and rewarding and i’m so glad i did it,” he Said about Completing the work.

He Enjoys Having Something to Focus On Every Day, He Said.

“I’m GOT SOMETHING TO DO AND SOMETHING TO KEEP Me Going, and That’s What Makes Me HAPPY.”

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