A high achiever in many aspects of his life, he also competed as a high-jumper at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne and was a trained pilot who served with the RCAF reserve
When Ken Money was a preparing to represent Canada as a high jumper at the 1956 Olympic Games he adopted an unorthodox strategy. Instead of training in lightweight athletic gear he would spend his practice time walking around and jumping while fully dressed with weights sewn into his clothes.
A physiologist by training, Dr. Money spent much of his scientific career working for the Department of National Defence at its renowned research laboratory in Downsview, Ont., now called the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine . Dr. Cheung said that while Dr. Money had an inexhaustible curiosity and excitement about his specialty, it was tempered with his experience and understanding as an RCAF-trained pilot and a member of the No. 400 Squadron air reserve which told him that laboratory experiments were not always an indication of what might occur in real flight situations.
“Ken was insistent that we go to the laundromat with them,” Dr. Bondar said. Unfortunately, Dr. Money then managed to shrink both the suits. “They were like flood pants, up about two inches above his ankles,” she recalled with a laugh. Not only did Dr. Money serve as her main communications support on the ground, she said, but in the months leading up to the flight Dr. Money regularly visited Dr. Bondar in Toronto when she was living on her own after recovering from a training injury. He brought her groceries and kept her steps clear of ice, assuring her that she would soon be on her feet again.
Born in Toronto on Jan. 5, 1935, Kenneth Eric Money spent his early years living with his brother and mother, who was divorced, an unusual circumstance for the time. During his childhood his maternal grandfather, William Bate, was a both a role model and a supporting presence. By then he had met and married Sheila Donnelly, a professor of nursing and his wife of nearly 65 years. Their only child was born in 1964.
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