{"id":667,"date":"2017-09-23T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/?p=667"},"modified":"2017-09-24T00:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T04:01:30","slug":"elvino-sauro-52-1932-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/elvino-sauro-52-1932-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvino Sauro (\u201952) (1932-2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> With the passing of Elvino Sauro on September 8, 2017, NTCI lost a great friend and\u00a0benefactor. Born on October 2, 1932, Elvino was a student at North Toronto during the\u00a0days of the legendary Jack Dow. A loan from the school enabled Elvino, a talented and enthusiastic trumpet player, to buy a trumpet and take private lessons. He took a part-time\u00a0job at Dominion bagging groceries to pay it off, but he never forgot the generous gesture.<\/p>\n

After graduating from NT, Elvino pursued film, his other passion, by\u00a0enrolling in the\u00a0radio and television arts program at Ryerson. On Saturday nights during the winter and\u00a0spring, he also played quite regularly in the dance band at Balmy Beach Canoe Club and\u00a0jobbed around with various non-union bands. He also performed with the Ryerson\u00a0marching band and at some football games with the University of Toronto Band. After\u00a0graduating from Ryerson, he played in a dance band at Clevelands House in Muskoka\u00a0then worked as a TV producer in Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n

A variety of media-related positions in various locales followed until 1964, when he\u00a0dropped in to see Ryerson\u2019s Direction of Extension Programs (now Continuing\u00a0Education) to see if there were any films courses in the calendar. As it turned out, they\u00a0were short an instructor, and Elvino was hired! By his own admission, he had a knack for\u00a0explaining things to people, so it was no surprise that by the 1968\u201369 academic year, he\u00a0was teaching a full daytime course load at Ryerson and was hired full time the following\u00a0fall. He never looked back, and by the time he retired in 1998, Elvino was director of the\u00a0film studies program. His memory will live on at Ryerson, as he established the Elvino\u00a0Sauro Film Award, granted annually to a fourth-year film studies student.<\/p>\n

In his retirement years, Elvino demonstrated his commitment to\u00a0\"\"lifelong learning as he\u00a0pursued a wide variety of continuing education courses. He even bought a trumpet and\u00a0started playing again in order to be part of NT\u2019s Memories Forever 100th anniversary\u00a0alumni concert at Roy Thompson Hall in 2012. Always generous, he also funded the\u00a0medley and the concert program for this special event. This was in addition to his\u00a0generous donation to the Heritage Court during the building of the new school and his\u00a0volunteer work to digitize audio and visual records from NT\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n

Elvino\u2019s ongoing financial support of NT\u2019s Music Department led to the establishment of\u00a0the Elvino Sauro Music Award in the 2013\u201314 academic year. In keeping with his own\u00a0experience, the award helps financially needy but promising music students in grades 9,\u00a010 and 11 pay for private lessons, music camps and other music enrichment
\nopportunities.<\/p>\n

He leaves behind his wife, Linda, and extended family, including many nieces and\u00a0nephews. In keeping with his wishes, a celebration of life for family, friends and\u00a0colleagues is being held at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club on Saturday\u00a0September 30th from 2\u20134:30 p.m. Elvino\u2019s enthusiasm and inspirational outlook on life\u00a0will be greatly missed, but his generosity and commitment to giving back will continue to\u00a0benefit students at both NTCI and Ryerson University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the passing of Elvino Sauro on September 8, 2017, NTCI lost a great friend and\u00a0benefactor. Born on October 2, 1932, Elvino was a student at North Toronto during the\u00a0days of the legendary Jack Dow. A loan from the school enabled Elvino, a talented and enthusiastic trumpet player, to buy a trumpet and take private … Continue reading Elvino Sauro (\u201952) (1932-2017)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}