Chan died on August 22, 2019 in Fergus, Ontario with the aid of medically assisted dying provided by Canadian law after a two year journey with cancer. Chan was born in Utica, New York in 1941. He prepared for Princeton at Kent School. After graduation in 1959 he spent 1959-60 at Denstone College, Staffs. as an English-Speaking Union Fellow. On New Year’s day 1960 he met his future wife Ann Marvell skiing in Gstaad, Switszerland.

He joined the class of ’64, was suspended for a semester so graduated in ‘65. He majored in art and archeology, played rugby, organized several cultural events, and was a member of Colonial Club. Upon graduation, he married Ann with deBekessy (65), Boynton, Briggs, Richardson, Sterrett, (64) as best man and ushers.

Ann and Chan then moved to Palo Alto where he attended Stanford University to study art history (MA 1968, The Samuel H. Kress Fellow to the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome 1969-1971, PhD 1972). Their daughter Elizabeth was born in California in 1969.

From 1972-1979 Chan taught art history at Amherst College. In 1980 he taught at Smith College before the family moved to Canada. Meghan was born in Massachusetts in 1972.

Chan joined the University of Guelph in 1980 where he continued to teach art history with a major interest in Italy (Associate 1980-1994, Full Professor 1994-2006). He organized and co-authored an exhibition at the Uffizi Museum, Florence on their drawings (1979). He also published on Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Gianlorenzo Bernini (Powers Matchless 1995). In Canada he organized and published several catalogues on contemporary Canadian artists including The Drenters Family, and Ken Danby, (1996. 2001,20040).

When the family arrived in Canada in 1980 they settled on Hog Hill Farm in Rockwood, where they ran a 25-sow wiener operation for 12 years. Chandler was active over the early years in St. Margaret’s School, St. John Anglican Church, the Elora Festival. In the 1990s he became involved in the Bruce Trail, eventually - - with the leadership of Meghan- - transferring 280 acres of farm land on the Bruce Peninsula to the Bruce Trail Conservancy 2016 (Unesco-designated world heritage site) as the Otter Lake Trial.

Chan leaves behind his wife Ann, his sister Pamela, brother, Hutch and wife Patty, and his two daughters and their husbands and four grandsons: Elizabeth and David Misener, Ethan and Spencer; Meghan Kirwin and Robin Collins, Rhys and Zachary.

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Undergraduate Class of 1964