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Blossom Wigdor (Blossom Temkin) was born on 13 June, 1924 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Discover Blossom Wigdor’s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 99 years old?
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Blossom Wigdor Net Worth
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Her husband, Leon, died in 1991. Wigdor remarried in 2002.
In 1990, Wigdor was named chair of Canada’s National Advisory Council on Aging. The same year, she oversaw the official opening of the Centre for Studies of Aging at the University of Toronto, which she was its director from 1989 to 1991.
Wigdor retired in the 1990s and became a professor emerita at the University of Toronto.
In 1989, Wigdor’s book, The Over-Forty Society: Issues for Canada’s Aging Population (co-written with economist David Foot), was published. The book examined the impacts of an aging population on Canadian society.
For her contributions as “a pioneer in the field of gerontology”, Wigdor was named a member of the Order of Canada in November 1988. She was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Victoria in 1990 and from the University of Guelph in 1994.
Wigdor joined the University of Toronto in 1979 and became the founding director of its gerontology program, the first at a Canadian university.
Wigdor returned to Montreal to in 1947 and began her PhD at McGill in 1949. After earning her PhD in clinical psychology in 1952, she taught at the university for another 27 years. She continued her clinical work during this time, and was named chief psychologist of Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital in 1961.
Wigdor married engineer Leon Wigdor in 1945 and moved to Toronto. She completed a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Mary Louise Northway.
Wigdor worked as a clinical psychologist in Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital in the 1940s, then at Montreal’s Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital.
Blossom Wigdor CM (born June 13, 1924) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and gerontologist. She is a professor emerita at the University of Toronto. Wigdor was the director of the University of Toronto’s gerontology program, the first of its kind in Canada. She founded the Canadian Association of Gerontology and was the first editor of the Canadian Journal of Aging. Wigdor was known for her efforts to raise awareness around discrimination against older employees and candidates in the workplace and the job market. She was named a member of the Order of Canada in November 1988.
Wigdor (née Temkin) was born in Montreal, Quebec, on June 13, 1924. Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. She earned an undergraduate degree from McGill University in 1941.