“At 12, Boyd McDonald thought he would grow up to be an amateur boxer, just like his dad.
“I owned a pair of gloves and bantered about with colleagues in high school,” says the Saskatchewan-born pianist, who moved to Waterloo Region in 1976 for a teaching post at Wilfrid Laurier University.
“But for every punch I landed, I got one back. So that didn’t lead anywhere.”
Then, for a brief moment in time, an interest in stars pointed toward a career as an astronomer…”
