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Record W317352086

Carol Anne Letheren (1942-2001): A Life in Sport-Far Too Short

2010· article· en· W317352086 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Garth A. Paton

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings: International Symposium for Olympic Research · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSports, Gender, and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThursdayEnthusiasmPassionWifeVariety (cybernetics)HistoryMedia studiesSociologyPsychologyLawPolitical scienceTheology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Introduction On Thursday, February 1, 2001, Carol Anne Letheren was speaking to an alumni group of the Schulich School of Business, of York University, Toronto. She had begun her speech with her usual enthusiasm, following a full day of work. Part way through the session her voice began to slow and slur, she began to slump to the floor and was quickly rushed to the hospital where she was given treatment but to no avail. She passed away the following day, February 2, 2001 at the age of fifty-eight. (1) Her untimely and sudden death brought an end to one of Canada's most successful and prominent female figures in the sports world. Carol Anne Letheren spent a major share of her life creating a voice for women in what had been a traditional male domain. Her career was a truly remarkable story of a life devoted to Early Life and Education Carol Anne Letheren was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, July 27, 1942, to an unwed mother and immediately put up for adoption. By good fortune, she was adopted very quickly by a loving family (Wood) in Guelph, Ontario. Carol Anne Wood attended Guelph Collegiate Institute and was immediately involved in many school activities and sports. Subsequently, she developed a lifelong passion for a variety of sports, including, badminton, volleyball, gymnastics and synchronized swimming and running. Clearly, her career path was established early and her dedication to sport led to a lifelong career that carried her to the very peak of a variety of domestic and international sport organizations, unquestionably, becoming one of the most important figures in the Canadian sports world. By her own admission, sports were at the centre of her school experiences. an address to a women's group in Calgary, she mentioned that the year 2000 marked the anniversary of women's participation in the Olympic Games, but went on to mention her passion for sport during her elementary and high school years. She pointed out that she climbed fences in order to play tennis at her boyfriend's club. During her high school and university years she had a passion for music, history, and languages, but in her own written words commented, In fact, I believe, in fact, I know, I enjoyed school a lot and it was because of sport. the same address, she went on to say that Sport has been and is my social centre; my hobby; my most cherished moments of achievement; my most profound teacher. (2) the same address, Letheren went on to elaborate some of the lessons she had learned from These included such things as commitment to team, dedication to others, receiving from others, work ethic, an understanding of making decisions quickly under pressure, and bias, its application and consequences. (3) On the other hand she maintained an interest in other pursuits as well as a short article she had written prior to her death, published in The Reader's Digest following her death, Carol Anne commented on her first job, at sixteen years of age. Here she mentioned the lessons she gained from working a night shift as a candy striper at the Homewood Sanitarium in her hometown of Guelph, Ontario. Carol Anne was deeply impressed by the nurses who exhibited a great deal of compassion and patience with individuals suffering from drug withdrawals. As she phrased it, In my subsequent careers as a business person, university professor and administrator, I have put my Homewood experience to good use. To understand others I put myself in their place--something I learned on my job. (4) Following high school, Letheren entered the University of Toronto and graduated with a B.Ph.E. degree in 1963. She was then appointed to the faculty at the U of T. During her tenure at the U of T Carol Anne continued her education and received her B.A. in 1969 with specialization in psychology and anthropology. 1970 she accepted a teaching position at York University, and again continued her pursuit of education earning an MBA from York in 1977. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.832
Threshold uncertainty score0.817

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.328 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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