| LIFE CHRONOLOGY Hector Marcel Hammerly 1935-2006 Prepared by Ethel Hammerly, edited and formatted by K. Westhues |
October 12,
1935 |
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, son of Daniel Hammerly, a Swiss-born evangelist, pastor, and college professor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and Angélica Peverini, an Argentine nurse. |
1941-1951 |
Elementary and secondary education in Buenos Aires. |
1952-1953 |
Study at Adventist Junior College, now the Universidad Adventista del Plata, in Libertador San Martin (Puiggari), Entre Rios, Argentina, where he meets his future wife, Ethel Pidoux. |
1953-1956 |
Works in Mérida, Caracas, and Maracaibo, Venezuela, saving money for intended higher education in the U.S.A. |
February
5, 1956 |
Marriage to Ethel Pidoux, Caracas, Venezuela; she had joined him there the previous September. |
January 2,
1957 |
Immigration to the U.S.A., arriving in Miami, Florida; residence in Takoma Park, Maryland, for work and study at Columbia Union College. |
April 6,
1958 |
Son, Milton Edwin Alan, born in Takoma Park, Maryland. |
1958-1961 |
Instructor in Spanish and Proficiency Tester, School of Languages and Linguistics, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, Arlington, Virginia. |
1961 |
B.A. in French and Religion, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland. |
1961-1964 |
Graduate study in Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, aided by a National Defense Education Act Title IV Graduate Fellowship. ABD. |
1964-1965 |
Instructor in (Experimental) Spanish, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. |
1965 |
Immigration to Canada for appointment to the charter faculty of the newly-established Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. |
1970 |
Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education, specialization in Applied Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation title: Linguistics and the Teaching of Foreign Language Pronunciation. |
1965-1997 |
Instructor in Spanish
to Full Professor of Applied Linguistics, Simon Fraser University. Courses
taught include, inter alia: Spanish language at all levels, |
1997 |
Early retirement from Simon Fraser University, under pressure from the university administration. |
March 2004 |
Suffers a serious stroke requiring hospitalization and long-term care. |
March 2006 |
Flees alone from an assisted living home to the Ramada Inn in Coquitlam, BC, where he is found dead of a stroke. |
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