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Dec 21, 2019 · What started as the school’s Scientific Society, set up by McCrorie, soon expanded into the Philosophical Society. Teaching about life’s wider curiosities mattered to him.
Jan 4, 2020 · Ian McCrorie. Teacher and choral music specialist. Born: May 6, 1941; Died: December 5, 2019. IAN McCrorie, who has died aged 78, is not in Wikipedia’s list of famous people from Greenock, but ...
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Jun 15, 2012 · Ian was a pupil there from 1946 till 1959 (in the Nelson Street building) in both primary and secondary departments. He was Head Boy of the school in session 1958-59. School Career. There were three paths which Ian’s career could have taken. He always wanted to become a teacher.
Dec 5, 2019 · Ian Mccrorie. Teacher and choral music specialist Born: May 6, 1941; Died: December 5, 2019. IAN MCCRORIE, who has died aged 78, is not in Wikipedia’s list of famous people from Greenock, but it cannot be disputed he gave more to the town than many who are on the list ever did. He spent most of his life in and around Greenock Academy.
Dec 6, 2019 · TRIBUTE has been paid following the death of Ian McCrorie who was much-loved and highly-regarded in many aspects of life in Inverclyde including education, music, Clyde ferries and steamers and the church. Mr McCrorie, who taught chemistry and was assistant rector at Greenock Academy, was 78 years old and lived in Greenock all his life.
IAN McCRORIE Council member Ian McCrorie MBE died on 5th December 2019. His obituaries characterised his life as ‘popular teacher, chorus master and Clyde maritime historian’. In the Church Service Society, it was his musical expertise for which he was elected to the Council, and it was in this capacity at many of its meetings that
Separately, Ian McCrorie was drawing up ‘news notes’, including a diary of ships visiting the Albert and East India Harbours, which Fraser typed up at home in Motherwell and duplicated on a Gestetner machine, amounting to a dozen foolscap sheets.
