The Globe and Mail

Dear Ted Ross, I've been thinking about you a lot over the past year. Then again, that's no surprise since my wife and I are about to celebrate the first anniversary of moving into a little modernist backsplit you designed in the late 1950s and then saw built by the dozens as part of the 1960 to 1961 Midland Park subdivision by your then employer, Curran Hall. Your boss, you might remember, was politician Paul T. Hellyer, who told me how he rescued the company from bankruptcy and ran it part-time when he wasn't busy in Ottawa.