This is a personal website of Dr. Oswald S. Tee, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. I am generally known as Ossie Tee.
Because of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), which showed up in 1996, I formally retired in 2000, after 37 years of researching and teaching Organic and Physical chemistry. After "retiring", I taught an advanced course in Physical Organic Chemistry in two subsequent years, and continued to supervise research students until 2005. Since then I have been active in the chemical community to a limited extent: acting as a reviewer of scientific articles and student theses, participating in the Ontario-Quebec Physical Organic Mini-symposium (POMs), and maintaining the POMs website which I created in 1998. More recently, I started the POMs blog and put POMs on Facebook. In addition to my own website and I have worked on those of two "junior" colleagues.
In 2009, Sue and I moved to Cobourg, Ontario, to be closer to family. Since retirement I have been able to devote more time to my hobbies: cooking, bird-watching, digital photography (especially of birds), dynastic genealogy, medieval history, and listening to classical music, Opera on the CBC, watching the Met Opera in HD at the cinema, etc.
Sue is now heavily into Golf, and since 2010 she has been helping to organize the Tuesday Morning Ladies League at the Port Hope Golf and Country Club. She also plays golf in the winter when we down south, while I twitch (bird-watch).
In 2014, we both joined Probus - Northumberland, a social organization for retired Professional/Business people. From August 2015 to ... 2017 we edited the ProBuzz Newsletter for this group, examples of which are on the web - here. Also is helping organize Golf events for our Probus chapter.
Because of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), which showed up in 1996, I formally retired in 2000, after 37 years of researching and teaching Organic and Physical chemistry. After "retiring", I taught an advanced course in Physical Organic Chemistry in two subsequent years, and continued to supervise research students until 2005. Since then I have been active in the chemical community to a limited extent: acting as a reviewer of scientific articles and student theses, participating in the Ontario-Quebec Physical Organic Mini-symposium (POMs), and maintaining the POMs website which I created in 1998. More recently, I started the POMs blog and put POMs on Facebook. In addition to my own website and I have worked on those of two "junior" colleagues.
- My Faculty website | Chris Wilds' website | Joanne Turnbull's website
- The POMs home page | The POMs - Blog | POMs on Facebook
In 2009, Sue and I moved to Cobourg, Ontario, to be closer to family. Since retirement I have been able to devote more time to my hobbies: cooking, bird-watching, digital photography (especially of birds), dynastic genealogy, medieval history, and listening to classical music, Opera on the CBC, watching the Met Opera in HD at the cinema, etc.
- The T-birds, T-pieces and T-shots - a spasmodic blog
- Photos on Flickr | For the Birds | Arizona birds | Presqu'ile Provincial Park | Cobourg Harbour …
Sue is now heavily into Golf, and since 2010 she has been helping to organize the Tuesday Morning Ladies League at the Port Hope Golf and Country Club. She also plays golf in the winter when we down south, while I twitch (bird-watch).
- Sue's Golf photos on Flickr. Contacts for Sue: e-mail | Facebook
In 2014, we both joined Probus - Northumberland, a social organization for retired Professional/Business people. From August 2015 to ... 2017 we edited the ProBuzz Newsletter for this group, examples of which are on the web - here. Also is helping organize Golf events for our Probus chapter.
Some good memories …
An early morning walk on Callala Beach, NSW, Australia (2007)
Every year, several thousand Sandhill Cranes spend their winter in Arizona, New Mexico and elsewhere. Here are a few at Whitewater Draw, AZ (2010).
Sunrise over Charleston Harbour (2011)
Sanderlings on the south beach, at Tybee Island, near Savannah, Georgia (2011)
Sunrise in the San Tan Valley, AZ (2013)
Hepatic Tanager at the Whitehouse Picnic Area, in Madera Canyon, AZ (2013)
On Highway 163 through Monument Valley, Utah (2013)
American Avocets in Cobourg Harbour (26 May and 2 September 2013)
Snowy Owl on the headland of Cobourg Harbour (18 Jan 2014)
Last revised: 4 November 2019