New & Noteworthy In Memoriam

Kevin Stewart (BA’13) and his wife Jen have opened First Light Distillery in Hanwell, NB, where they produce signature gins, cream liqueurs, vodka and rum.

Ross Kinney (BA’14) co-edited a book published by Chapel Street Editions about a New Brunswick writer and journalist, titled Walks with a Three-Legged Cat Ross works at the Legislature. He has been named Volunteer of the Year by Diabetes Canada multiple times, and was the #1 fundraiser in Canada for the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Insulin in 2021.

Cedric Noel (BA’14) was nominated for the Polaris Prize Long List for his album Hang Time

Elizabeth Strange (BA’14) is working in politics as an Operations and Correspondence Officer for the Official Opposition caucus in Alberta.

Anika Young (BA’14) is a Clinical Social Worker who is working with veterans.

Zachary Greer (BA’16) has won the 2022 Jane LeBlanc Music Composer Award. Greer is a New Brunswickbased composer for film, television, and advertising.

Yilin (Catrina) Ren (BA’16) worked at Western University as the International Recruitment Officer after graduation. She then started a part-time MEd program at the University of Toronto last year and will be finishing it next year. She currently works as the Director of International Recruitment and Partnerships at Wesleyan College in the USA.

H. Isabelle Agnew (BA’17) started working as a Communications Officer for the NBASW in 2018, and also began a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) part-time online that fall. She is now the Library Director at the Dre-Marguerite-Michaud Library in Fredericton, NB. Her daughter was also born in July 2020, smack dab in the middle of the pandemic.

Kelsey (Hartlen) Daley (BA’17) is a Health Services Portfolio Manager with Workers’ Compensation Board in Nova Scotia. She is responsible for managing its traumatic psychological injury program, permanent impairment assessments, medical advisors, psychologists, social workers and registered St. Thomas University | counselling therapists.

After graduating from STU, Andrea Guevara Colindres (BA’17) worked with the human rights commission in Honduras. After one year, she returned to Canada and worked as a graduate program officer at UNB. She finished her master’s degree (MPA) at DePaul university and was able to secure a job at Fisheries and Oceans Canada right before graduation. Her current role involves being a Financial Analyst. She has a son, Matteo, who is four years old.

Abby (Clarke) Moore, (BA’18, BSW’20) a former starting goaltender for the women’s hockey team, was named a Hockey Canada BFL Female Coach of the Year for her leadership and dedication as bench boss of the U18 AAA TNT Reds.

Anatasha (McIntosh) Lyons (Certificate in Native Immersion Education ’18) is an Education Language Coordinator at Wolastoqey Tribal Council Inc.

We extend condolences to the family and friends of the following alumni and friends who passed away recently:

Dale MacMullin, BA’93

November 11, 2020

A. Neil McNally, BA’71

April 27, 2021

Becky Thompson, BSW’98

June 12, 2022

Maureen Bonnell, BA’66 BEd’67

June 13, 2022

Richard Mockler, BA’51

June 18, 2022

Evan Walsh, BA’12

July 3, 2022

Ed Welch, Former Women’s Volleyball Coach

July 5, 2022

G. Patrick Gorman, K.C., BA’63

July 23, 2022

PJ Veniot, BA’77

July 25, 2022

Donnie Ross, BA’64 BEd’67

September 1, 2022

2020s

Right after graduation in May 2020, Wasiimah Joomun (BA’20) started her role as Executive Director for the New Brunswick Student Alliance until April 2022. In March 2022, she moved to Ottawa and started her current job at the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations as their Member Relations Officer.

Maria Caicedo (BA’21) moved to Toronto a year ago and started working at a fast-growing start-up as one of the first members of their sales team so she is helping shape the sales strategy.

Dylan Corbett (BA’22) recently started his first year of a Master of Arts in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. His graduate research is focused primarily on the Balkan region, with a particular focus on Italian irredentism in 1940s Croatia and what that can tell us about modern examples of irredentism. He is also focusing more generally on Balkan defence and security matters past, present and future.

Megan Gibson (BA’22) is currently enrolled as a Master of Arts in International Affairs candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University where she is specializing in Health, Human Displacement and Humanitarian Policy.

Malcolm Miller, Former Faculty Member

September 21, 2022

Paul Penney, BSW’82

September 26, 2022

Heather MacDonald-Bossé, BA’82 BEd’83

October 30, 2022

Madelyn Ramier, BA’99

November 4, 2022

Walter Vail, BA’71

November 6, 2022

Sherrie Noble, BSW’89

November 15, 2022

Ludovic Joseph Manuel, BA’66

November 26, 2022