Sid graduated from Talmud Torah in 1969, then on to Laurier Junior High and Ross Sheppard High School. After graduating from Shep, Sid tried his hand at being a milkman and a truck driver, but everything changed when he spent seven months backpacking through Europe.

That adventure inspired him to head to NAIT, followed by a brief stint as a property manager. But Sid wasn’t done reinventing himself – he went back to school, earning degrees from the University of Alberta and the University of South Carolina.

Despite struggling with Hebrew and French, Sid eventually picked up Spanish and Portuguese, which landed him a banking gig at the Canadian Export Development Corporation in Ottawa and later at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC. Along the way, he picked up some valuable lessons—like how to say, “There is oil leaking from the wing. Perhaps we should land,” in Portuguese. Oh, and push-starting a taxi in Ecuador after a meeting where he represented the Canadian Government!

Work took him all over Latin America, Africa, and Europe, including two years in Costa Rica along with short stints in Zimbabwe and Ghana.

Now retired, Sid lives in DC, with his wife, Betsy. They’ve got a house with a three-car garage where Sid spends his days building furniture and turning bowls on the lathe. They have two sons: Alexander, in DC, and Nathan, in Minneapolis.

Fond memories of TT:

• Carpooling with the Millers, including stops at Bon Ton Bakery.
• Playing on the monkey bars in winter.
• Climbing the wall on the way to the cafeteria.

Sid still keeps in touch with Gary Lyons, Marni Dlin, and others on Facebook. And in a wild coincidence, he once ran into Sue Guild in the Nairobi airport!