{"id":31475,"date":"2025-05-15T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31475"},"modified":"2025-05-13T00:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:22:44","slug":"remembering-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remembering-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"remembering Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31477\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31477\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jay-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Jayavel 1921-1997<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Last century, one of the many members I enjoyed chatting wth at our monthly meetings (in person in those days) was Jay Jayavel. He was a quiet unassuming individual and easy to talk with. Sometime in 1998, I noticed he no longer attended meetings.<\/p>\n<p>I found out why when my friend and fair chairman, Larry Boccioletti told me Jay had passed away in late 1997 after suffering a severe heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>In issue 23-4 of our journal, Larry wrote the following brief obituary, &#8220;With much regret I report the passing of a long-time member\u00a0and\u00a0good\u00a0friend,\u00a0Chadiambara (Jay)\u00a0Jayavel,\u00a0after a\u00a0heart\u00a0attack, November 26, 1997. He was in his 77th year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Photography was his\u00a0passion with his interest turned to the collecting of Olympus equipment. Jay was a dedicated member for 15 years, attending all our meetings and regularly offering his services at the Spring and Fall Fairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Wing Commander in the Indian Air Force, he and his family emigrated to Canada after his retirement in 1970. He leaves a son, Jay, in Toronto and a daughter, Jugnu, in Long Island [NY].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Last century, one of the many members I enjoyed chatting wth at our monthly meetings (in person in those days) was Jay Jayavel. He was a quiet unassuming individual and easy to talk with. Sometime in 1998, I noticed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remembering-jay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[2017,403,240],"class_list":["post-31475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","tag-article","tag-journal","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31480,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions\/31480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}