CANTRICK, Robert A. - April 14, 1944 - November 4, 2020, Toronto, Canada,
Of complications from treatment for throat cancer.
He leaves behind his wife, Joanne Pritchard of Toronto, and four siblings, Joel, Anthony, Timothy, and Susan.
He was preceded in death by his father, Robert B., mother, Margaret, and youngest sister, Catherine.
Bob grew up in the United States and attended the University of Rochester and Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, earning a BA degree in German. He did graduate work at the universities of Cologne and Bonn on a fellowship, then continued studies in Germanic languages and literature at Indiana University on a teaching assistantship.
Bob was a 50-year member of the Socialist Workers Party, through which he and his comrades devoted their lives to the elevation of working-class people.
With innate intellectual curiosity, love of languages, boundless energy, enthusiasm, and warm personality, Bob was a born teacher, world traveller, shutter bug, and amateur magician.
He also was a gifted translator, having been a winner of the New Books in German Translation Competition (2016), second prize winner in the John Dryden Translation competition (first part of Thomas Mann's Mario and the Magician, 2017), and a featured translator at the Festival Neue Literatur (NYC 2018).
In the off hours, you would find him in pursuit of his other great passion, on the tennis court perfecting his lag forehand.
He was beloved and will be forever missed.
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