{"id":54346,"date":"2019-03-12T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=54346"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"carleton-mourns-the-loss-of-alumnus-peter-demarsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-mourns-the-loss-of-alumnus-peter-demarsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Mourns the Loss of Alumnus Peter DeMarsh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Mourns the Loss of Alumnus Peter DeMarsh\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>We learned today that Carleton University alumnus Peter DeMarsh, a graduate of our master\u2019s program in International Affairs in 1985, was one of 18 Canadian passengers on the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed Sunday near Addis Ababa. He was living in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeMarsh was the chair of the International Family Forestry Alliance and President of the Canadian Federation of Woodlot Owners. He was on his way to Nairobi to attend a conference about family-owned forests and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Carleton community extends sincere condolences to Peter&#8217;s family and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time,&#8221; said President Benoit-Antoine Bacon. &#8220;We are all shocked and saddened that Peter DeMarsh and Pius Adesanmi, both leaders of change who contributed so much to the world, are no longer with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A book of condolence for Peter DeMarsh will be available tomorrow (March 13) for members of the Carleton community to sign on the third floor of Tory Building in the foyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/peter-demarsh-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/peter-demarsh-1200x900-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>(Photo by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/faoforestry\/42622787475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAO\/Roberto Cenciarelli<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned today that Carleton University alumnus Peter DeMarsh, a graduate of our master\u2019s program in International Affairs in 1985, was one of 18 Canadian passengers on the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed Sunday near Addis Ababa. He was living in New Brunswick. DeMarsh was the chair of the International Family Forestry Alliance and President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":54348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-54346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54349,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346\/revisions\/54349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}