OY, Michael Terrence Mike - Passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, August 14, 2021.
It was the end of a courageous battle with cancer that started late in 2014 with a prognosis of two or three years.
We are grateful that he defied pain and frustration so he could be with us so much longer.
He is fondly remembered for his encyclopedic mind, skepticism, sense of humour, love of family, and as a teacher of writing. His love of travel took him around the world.
You can learn more about Mike from his wife's memoir under the title Brightening My Corner to be published in 2022.
A memorial axe-throwing party is being considered.
Mike was born in Chicago in 1936.
He started with newspapers as a copyboy for the Chicago Daily News. He learned his trade as a police reporter and then editor with the Chicago News Bureau.
He later worked for the U.S. military newspaper Pacific Stars and Stripes in Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines.
He was a war correspondent for United Press International in Laos and India, and UPI Bureau Chief during the Vietnam War. He wrote two books and for about ten years, was a reporter and managing editor of the National Observer (Washington, D.C.).
He was the managing editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong and the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones operations in Canada.
As a Fulbright Fellow from 1994-95, he taught business journalism in Kazakhstan. In 1995-97, he worked on a financial news service for Dow Jones in India.
Although he studied at Columbia University in a Ford Foundation program for journalists, it wasn't until 2001 that he completed his B.A. in Archaeology at the University of Toronto, at the age of 65. After retiring from journalism, he worked as an archaeologist in Canada.
He spent about 10 summers with Wilfrid Laurier University digging on Roman-Nabatean and neolithic sites in Jordan. He also worked on the Queen of Sheba site in Yemen with the American Foundation for the Study of Man.
He volunteered at the Royal Ontario Museum and Habitat for Humanity in Toronto.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth Lor Malloy and daughter Linda Malloy of Toronto, son Terry "Tierro" Malloy, daughter-in-law Bridget Law, grandsons Aaron and Ravi, and sister Shawn Gatz in the U.S.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to APOPO-Hero Rats https://www.apopo.org/en/support-us or the Oncology Department, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto.
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