Dr. Joseph Gerald "Gerry" Hagey

1904 - 1988  (84 years)

• Name	Joseph Gerald "Gerry" Hagey
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	28 Sep 1904	Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Honoured	1968
  	K-W Citizen of the year
  Honoured	1986
  	Order of Canada
  Died	26 Oct 1988	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Website	2007
  	wikipedia
  	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Hagey
  Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region	Bef 2012	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Name	Gerry Hagey
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-81661
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I81661	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Menno Hagey,   b. 27 Sep 1863, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Jan 1946  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Esther A. Cornell,   b. 27 Aug 1860, Lynden, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Nov 1907  (Age 47 years)
  Married	8 Aug 1888	Lynden, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Family ID	F21274	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eleanor Ford Forsyth,   b. 17 Aug 1907, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Dec 1998, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 91 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F36685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Minota Margaret "Minnie" Weichel,   b. 13 Jun 1904, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 13 Sep 1965, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Children	1. Robert Gerald Hagey,   b. 1931, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1988  (Age 57 years)   2. John E. "Jack" Hagey,   b. 30 Jan 1933, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Mar 2007, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F40001	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Joseph Gerald Hagey image from Dale White 2013

  
  

• Notes

  Gerald Hagey It is difficult to know where the University of Waterloo would be if Gerald Hagey had not failed his final year at high school in Hamilton in the early 1920s. Hagey's father told him he had a choice '96 get to work or complete his high school studies at Waterloo College. Hagey enrolled in the tiny Waterloo College in 1923, at a time when it was just beginning to offer university courses. He not only got his high school diploma there, but went on to complete a university degree before taking a job in 1928 as a sales clerk with B.F. Goodrich in Kitchener. Hagey worked at B.F. Goodrich for many years rising to the position of national advertising director by the 1950s, but then his mind began to wander back to education. He became involved with the board of Waterloo College and in 1953 was invited to become its president. Hagey had a dream in the mid-1950s '96 a radical vision '96 that would eventually transform Waterloo and change the nature of post-secondary education in Canada. Hagey wanted science and engineering students to be able to work in industry while they were completing their university degrees. The idea first began to percolate while he was manager of advertising and public relations at Goodrich. His American counterparts were pre-testing commercial advertisements through door-to-door surveys. The Canadian office couldn't afford the programme, so Hagey pondered whether university students would be able to do the work. "It would produce revenue for the students who did it. It would produce revenue for the college. And it was of benefit to the advertiser, on the basis that I had developed it," Hagey recalled much later in an interview. ..... https://www.wpl.ca/sites/default/files/waterloo_150/hagey_gerald.pdf

  
  

• Sources

  [S220] Waterloo Region Hall of Fame Waterloo Region Hall of Fame. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. Menno Hagey Born: Waterloo Age: 25 Father: Peter Hagey Mother: Elizabeth Hagey Born: abt 1863 Spouse: Esther Cornell Age: 27 born: Synden Father: Jeremiah Cornell Mother: Elizabeth Cornell married 8 Aug 1888 married: Wentworth, Lyden

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 28 Sep 1904 - Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 26 Oct 1988 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region - Bef 2012 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth