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Dr. Robert Cluett Robert Cluett is Professor Emeritus of English at York University, Toronto. In 1989 he took leave and then early retirement from York in order to become founding Chairman and CEO of CMSF. He retired from active hands-on service with the CMSF Board in 2001, and since 2002 has been National Co-Chair of CMSF's final interviews. Trustee of the John Motley Morehead Foundation from 1968 through 2006, he was also founder and executive officer of The Canadian Morehead Programme from 1983 through 2006. He still serves that programme as a volunteer advisor.

Author or co-author of 13 books and monographs and over 40 published articles, he has written on a wide range of topics. The focal interest of his career and private study has been the discovery of individuality, in particular how individuality is shaped and how it gives expression to itself in the form of language.

He calls his years with CMSF "the best thing that ever happened to me — a truly luminous and life-making experience."