Roy Ingram Died

[Sarah Turnbull ('85)]

Beloved Bayside teacher Roy Ingram died of cancer on Friday morning December 29 2006 at Belleville General Hospital.

[penneme]

So very sorry to hear that Mr. Ingram died. He was a great teacher and a great man. My condolences to his family.

[Wanda Fry (Goodall)]

My condolences go out to his family

[Anne Wride Pennington]

Sad. He was a good French teacher. Good human being.

[ROADRUNNER 12]

The 'C' word takes another good person before his time.
I lament the loss to cancer for Roy Ingram, teacher and later politician in the new Quinte West folloing the "A" word.
I don't recall him teaching French, but he was great as an English instructor - or giving us students a course on animation.
He was a students' teacher. Unlike some of the instructors who were above us - Roy came down to our level and made learning fun. I excelled in his 12 and 13 English classes - scoring good grades because if you participated, you were rewarded. Interpreting poems like Keats, Brown, Yeats....all fun. He did not penalize you because you didn't have the same idea on a poem and what it meant. He praised you for your thinking process...that was the goal of the exercise. Who knew what the poet was thinking back in 1856 when they wrote their verse. A sad loss for the stable of teachers a lot of us students had the pleasure of being taught by...only the good die young. And Roy was still young at his death. Thoughts and prayers go out to his next of kin, plus all his former students and colleagues from BSS.

jules -


PS -Happy New year to all....health, happiness and prosperity with the advent of 2007

[Roland Poirier]

I would like to express my sincere condolences to the Ingram family. Mr Ingram (still can't call him Roy) was one of my favourite english teachers. He helped me allot with Shakespeare. I could not get interested in Shakespeare but Mr Ingram recognized the struggle I and other students were having and tried to make it as interesting as possible and tried to break the language down to laymans terms. That's the kind of person he was, caring...
We will all miss him I'm sure.

[gatorgosse]

Roy Ingram was a fine English teacher, and a deeply respected human being. Like so many others at Bayside he was far more than a teacher. Those of us who were lucky enough to know him in our time at BSS should appreciate what we learned from him in the classroom and out.

[mholmes]

Is there an address where we might send condolences? I, too, have fond memories of Mr. Ingram for his support and encouragement during my BSS days as well as his kindness over the years following. I would like to extend my condolences to Pam and Mrs. Ingram as well. Does anyone have an address for the family?

Regards,
Mike Holmes

[Neil C. Thomsen Class of '86]

So sad that the first post I read on this board is of the death of Mr. Ingram. My family considered the Ingrams to be friends of the family and I remember Pam quite well.

I can't recall all the classes for which I had Mr. Ingram as my teacher -- but I do remember the media arts class quite well. It was Mr. Ingram's class that instilled in me a love of photography.

Such a sad loss. He will be remembered with great fondness.

[Sarah Turnbull ('85)]

mholmes said:

Is there an address where we might send condolences? ... I would like to extend my condolences to Pam and Mrs. Ingram as well.

The address I get is as follows:

Roy Ingram
276 Colonial Rd
Belleville
Ontario
K8R 1B9
[phone]


I believe Colonial Road is off Montrose Road.

Cheers
Sarah

[Grandamman]

Hello All:

I am very shocked to hear about Mr. Ingram's death.

I have to agree with everyone here that he was an excellent english teacher. For reading books, I was never motivated but with his class I found the reading challenging but also it was explained in a way that all of us could understand. It is hard to believe it was more than 20 years ago I was a high school student. But for me, there are some awesome memories that will always be with me.

Marc

[Michael Hill]

That is Mr. Ingram's correct address on Colonial Road. I had Mr. Ingram for grades 12 & 13 English and always cherished his enthusiasm for the arts and encouragement to students. He was always very approachable and treated everyone with respect. I ended up buying a house a few doors down from Mr. Ingram and would sometimes see him outside his house and think to myself that I should go over and re-introduce myself to him. Unfortunately, I never did and now regret having lost the chance to catch up with a teacher I really respected.

[susancousins]

Its hard to think of Mr. Ingram as gone. His love of science fiction was inspiring. A truly nice man, he will be missed.

[xavier78]

RIP ... always enjoyed his classes as his student.