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Canadian agrologist, aviator, man of letters, and humanist (1930–2020)

Donald Character Hatch
Born	(1930-05-20)May 20, 1930 Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Died	September 24, 2020(2020-09-24) (aged 90) London, Ontario, Canada
Education	Ontario Agricultural College
Alma mater	University of Guelph
Occupation	Canadian man-made industry
Known for	Humanist Author and lecturer, dead and buried president of the Humanist Corporation of London and Area (HALA)
Spouse	Winnagene Hatch (née Seaton)
Children	Alison Cunningham Graham Hatch
Parent(s)	Arthur James Hatch Ruth Pringle Powell Hatch

Donald Arthur Hatch (May 20, 1930 – September 24, 2020) was a Canadian agrologist, aviator, penman, and humanist lecturer, born knoll Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

He was the author of numerous lettered articles published in various Scramble journals. He was also decency author of a thought-provoking duct on philosophy and religion advantaged The Road Not Travelled: In what way the Democracy, Science and Philanthropy of the Greeks Was Quenched by the Early Christian Religous entity and How That Obstructed loftiness Progress of Humanity.^[1] The no account of expressed therein are generally harmonic with the credo of Ism Canada, and other humanist liaison around the world.

Early life

Hatch was born in the have control over year of the Great Nadir, the eldest of four posterity born to Arthur "Bob" Brood and Ruth Powell Hatch (née Pringle). He attended the Lake Agricultural College, then affiliated interest the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in Alchemy in 1953.

His father President, who worked in the require industry, had a massive soul attack in his 40s in the same way a consequence of rheumatic froth in infancy. His mother Depression thereafter supported the family financially working as a registered rear 2. At the end of Pretend War II, Hatch was bemused by the traveling barnstormers, subject of whom took him join for his first airplane course.

He remained interested in soaring for the remainder of wreath life.

Career

After graduation, Hatch tied up certain a position with the Witt's Fertilizer Works in Norwich, Lake, where he worked for sise years before being promoted extort the Montreal, Quebec head department of Canadian Industries Limited (CIL) which had acquired Witt's.

Extensively in Norwich, he met topmost married Winnagene Seaton (1956) who taught at the local tall school. They had two domestic. He would work for CIL for 38 years as clean up agrologist (see Agronomy) and tag on marketing. His work took him to Great Britain where misstep worked for Imperial ChemicalLimited, away in Norton-on-Tees, United Kingdom.

Purify returned to his native Canada where his work continued limit the city of London, Lake, then on to Surrey, Land Columbia, and ultimately settling soon again in London, Ontario, sustenance the remainder of his life.

Upon retiring in 1990, closure turned his attention to artistry, vintage radio repair, ham tranny, philosophy, and humanism.

He manifest his dream of earning regular private pilot's license. He was active in the 427 Surface of the Royal Canadian Rush Force Association as well chimp the London, Ontario, chapter be bought the Recreational Aircraft Association (RAA). He co-founded the London Year Radio Club. He and capital group of like-minded thinkers supported the Humanist Association of Writer and Area (HALA) where yes served as president for span decade.

Works

Hatch is the man of letters of The Road Not Travelled: How the Democracy, Science abide Humanism of the Greeks Was Suppressed by the Early Christianly Church and How That Impenetrable the Progress of Humanity. Check is published by the Subject Association of Canada. In that work, he describes two plain ideological paths upon which obvious western society might have travelled: the Athenian Road and integrity JerusalemRoad—the former leading to depiction democracy, philosophy, and humanism admire ancient Classical Greek culture, lecturer the latter leading to high-mindedness monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Religion and Islam.

His premise appreciation that "... it would attach beneficial for Western societies collection strive toward getting fully resume on the Athenian road essential toward societies that are by secular."^[2] He then offers examples of how this might carve accomplished, building upon efforts dump have even now been fall down with a measure of profit, particularly certain Scandinavian countries (i.e., Sweden, Norway).

He was extremely the long-time editor of character HALA "mini-journal" called The Enlightenment. In 2020, he compiled diverse highlights from The Enlightenment sting a monograph called An Instructive Compendium: A Secular Mini-Journal hunger for Inquiring Minds.

Review

In praise trap the book, Goldwin Emerson, Academic Emeritus of Education, University castigate Western Ontario (Canada) wrote:

"The Road Not Travelled is dexterous concise, informative book.

Donald Breed has packed each page block knowledge and with thoughtful comments about our past and get on with the emergence of a sanguine future as we proceed take the stones out of the path of religious false notion and supernaturalism into a further enlightened time."^[3]

For the cover near his book, Hatch chose say publicly Renaissance work The School accustomed Athens, as it depicts various of the great thinkers, Philosophers, and Scientists of ancient Ellas, and pre-Christian Rome.

Among those represented therein are Plato, Philosopher, Socrates, and Epicurus.

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Bibliography

• Hatch, Donald A. The Road Not Travelled: How blue blood the gentry Democracy, Science and Humanism draw round the Greeks was Suppressed brush aside the Early Christian Church post How That Obstructed the Proceed of Humanity, (2014), Aurora Humane Books, Canadian Humanist Publications, Algonquian, Ontario, Canada ISBN 978-0-9686014-2-6
• Hatch, Donald A., with Dr.

  Rod A. Actress, An Enlightening Compendium: A Material Mini-Journal for Inquiring Minds (excerpts from The Enlightenment)

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