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OFFICE OF A L U M N I A F FA I R S
Executive Director Susan Peirce, ’70 BA Associate Director/ Manager, Alumni Education Programs Rick Pilger Associate Director/ Manager, Alumni Branches Gina Wheatcroft, ’94 BEd Executive Project Manager Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd Administrative Coordinator Jacquie Reinprecht Assistant, Alumni Branches Andrea Dunnigan, ’03 BCom Coordinator, Alumni Chapters John Perrino, ’93 BA(RecAdmin) Communications Manager Kim Green Communications Associate Shelagh Kubish, ’85 BA Assistant to the Director Diane Tougas Assistant, Alumni Education Angela Tom, ’03 BA Coordinator, Graphic Communications Lisa Hall, ’89 BA Coordinator, Alumni Recognition Jodeen Litwin, ’90 BSc Assistant, Alumni Recognition Cally Wesson, ’07 BA Coordinator, Research & Marketing Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA, ’96 MSc Assistant, Alumni Services/Reception Ann Miles Coordinator, Alumni Special Events Colleen Elliott, ’94 BEd Assistant, Alumni Special Events Ashley Hunka, ’05 BA Coordinator, Students & Young Alumni Chloe Chalmers, ’00 BA How to contact the Office of Alumni Affairs
Write to us at: 6th Floor, General Services Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1 Call us toll-free in Canada and the U.S.A. at 1-800-661-2593 or in Edmonton at 492-3224 Fax: (780) 492-1568 E-mail your comments, questions, address updates, and class notes to alumni@ualberta.ca Join the Alumni Association’s online community at www.ualberta.ca/alumni.
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AUTUMN 2007
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Director Susan Peirce, ’70 BA Supervising Editor Rick Pilger Editor Kim Green Associate Editor Shelagh Kubish, ’85 BA Contributing Editor Jodeen Litwin, ’90 BSc Art Director Lisa Hall, ’89 BA
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Executive Committee President Jim Hole, ’79 BSc (Ag) Past-President / Vice-President Nominating & Bylaws Heike Juergens, ’72 BA, ’79 MEd, ’87 PhD Vice-President: Awards Judy Zender, ’67 BA Vice-President: Centenary Jim Hole, ’79 BSc (Ag) Vice-President: Scholarships Stephen Leppard, ’86 BEd, ’92 MEd, ’03EdD Board of Governors Representatives Ruth Kelly, ’78 BA Dick Wilson, ’74 BA, ’75 LLB Vice-President: Strategic Planning Kurian Tharakan, ’86 BCom Senate Representatives Jennifer Rees, ’80 BSc (PT) Kerry Day, ’80 LLB Vice-President: Student Life Mark Polet, ’77 BSc (Hon) Secretary Doug Irwin, ’73 BPE Faculty Representatives Agriculture, Forestry, & Home Economics Anand Pandarinath, ’93 BSc (For), ’00 MBA, ’00 MFor Arts Judy Zender, ’67 BA Augustana Stacey Denham Gibson, ’95 BA (Augustana), ’98 LLB Business Kurian Tharakan, ’86 BCom Dentistry Tom Mather, ’69 DDS Education Stephen Leppard, ’86 BEd, ’92 MEd, ’03EdD Engineering Jim Funk, ’78 BCom, ’86 BSc(Eng) Graduate Studies vacant Law Bryan Kickham, ’71 BA, ’74 LLB Medicine Larry Jewell, ’63 BA, ’68 MD Native Studies Heather Taylor, ‘97 BA NS Nursing Carol Duggan, ’59 Dip(Nu) Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Rose Anne Lawton, ’73 BSc (Pharm) Physical Education and Recreation Gerry Glassford, ’64 MA Rehabilitation Medicine Grant Fedoruk, ’99 BSc(PT) Campus Saint-Jean Deni Lorieau, ’73 BA Science Mark Polet, ’77 BSc Member at Large C.H. William Cheung, ’86 LLB Academic Representative vacant Ex Officio Executive Director Susan Peirce, ’70 BA Graduate Students’ Association Julianna Charchun, ‘04 BA Students’ Union Michael Janz U of A Vice-President (External Relations) Sandra Conn Honorary President Dr Indira Samarasekera
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Short-Time Reader
Last evening at a function I extolled the superb New Trail — its content, layout and diversity of subject. It is GREAT. As I celebrate another 50th graduation anniversary I think of the U of A. By the way, I have published a book, Redesign the Door, dealing with 38 events in my life which challenge tradition. Lulu published it. Now I am publishing The Dirty Thirties... I hope. The Watrous Manitou (a Saskatchewan weekly) has published several chapters. I am looking for a publisher and have written U of A press. We will see what happens.
My name is Jonathan Vermeire. I’m a grade six student attending Our Lady of Victories Catholic School. I began to read your articles when my teacher brought his collection of New Trail magazines into class and was fascinated by the articles that you publish. I was wondering if I could get New Trail delivered to my house, even though I’m not a graduate of the University of Alberta and I’m not 13 yet?
Barry Brooks, ’55 BA, ’57 BDiv North York, ON
A Satisfied Reader
Long-Time Reader I continue to find New Trail interesting and informative, and that it helps to maintain my ties to the University of Alberta 46 years after graduation.
I enjoyed reading your Summer ’07 issue, especially the hiking story [‘Kilimanjaro High’] and the nanotechnology article.
Ellis Treffry, ’61 BSc(Ag) Vermilion, AB
Carol Nowicki, ’74 BSc(HEc) Edmonton, AB
Jonathan Vermeire Edmonton, AB (Editor’s note: We sent Jonathan a copy.)
tuck shop
We Have A Winner
recent book about life on the U of A campus called I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories About the University of Alberta, 19062006.
Last issue (Summer ’07) we ran a Tuck Shop contest called “Those s Those Were The Day Were The Days” where we asked you to identify six photos of The correct answers are: U of A grads. It was our most 1) Doris Anderson, ’45 BA, ’73 popular contest to date, but LLD (Honorary); 2) Joe Clark, only one person got all the ’60 BA, ’73 MA, ’85 LLB correct names that went with (Honorary); 3) W.O. Mitchell, the faces. . . congratulations to Susanne Barton, a professor ’43 BA, ’75 DLitt (Honorary); 4) Preston Manning, ’64 BA; in the U of A’s Department of 5) Joe Shoctor, ’45 BA, ’46 Physiology. We’ll be sending LLB, ’81 LLD (Honorary); Susanne a copy of Ellen 6) Paul Gross, ’97 BFA. Schoeck’s, ’72 BA, ’77 MA, 3
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a long time yourself from a picture taken You could probably recognize you are most likely someone else whose face ago. But can you identify do with the distinwhat we’re asking you to familiar with today? That’s If you think you alumni pictured above. guished University of Alberta to us by August 10, with the faces, send them have the names that go with the most correct out a prize to the person 2007, and we will send all the people picperson correctly identifies answers. If more than one draw a winner. put the names in a hat and tured or if there’s a tie, we’ll hunting. Good luck, and happy head Services Building, Trail, 6th Floor, General or e-mail Send your answers to New Alberta, Canada, T6H 2H1 University of Alberta, Edmonton, us at newtrail@ualberta.net
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