New Trail Winter 2014

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UNIVERSIT Y OF ALBERTA

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SOME OF THE STORIES BEHIND THE FACES: THE STANLEY CUPWINNING DOCTOR P.29 THE TRAILBLAZING MOUNTAIN WOMAN P.37 THE SIMPSONS WRITER P.25 THE GUARDIAN OF THE CREE LANGUAGE P.17 THE LAW GRAD TURNED MUSIC COMPOSER P.21 THE CENTENARIAN APP DEVELOPER P.45 THE GANGBUSTING DETECTIVE P.21

WHAT 100 LOOKS LIKE A CENTURY OF FACES. ONE AMAZING STORY.

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PLUS THE GRADS WHO HELPED BRING TO LIFE: CANADA’S HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE P.42 INSULIN INJECTIONS P.50 THE CANADIAN FLAG P.49 THE CANADARM P.36

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A Spectacle A Spectacle of Light, of Light, firefiand re and snowsnow

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Games, snow ball targets, roving performers, music jams and snow slide.

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W I N T E R 2014 VOLUME 70 NUMBER 3

On the cover: It takes a lot of people to tell the collective story of University of Alberta graduates. To learn which 16 alumni are featured in our cover collage, turn to page 28.

Photo illustration by Marcey Andrews

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12 Faces of a Century

One hundred and three portraits, one compelling story

20 The Global Caregiver

Christine Mhina empowers women to find their own solutions to problems in their communities

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24 The Hollywood Writer

Joel Cohen transformed a biology degree into a longtime career writing for The Simpsons

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28 How Well Do You Know the U of A? Our history quiz will put you to the test

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32 The Everyday Hero

Susan Smith does things for others every day, a reason to celebrate her and other grads like her

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44 The Lifelong Learner

George Robertson has plenty to teach us about never being afraid to take on a new challenge

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Your Letters Our Readers Write

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Bear Country The U of A Community

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Whatsoever Things Are True Column by Todd Babiak

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Question Period BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk talks beer

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Events In Edmonton and Beyond

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Class Notes Keeping Classmates up to Date

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In Memoriam Bidding Farewell to Friends

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Photo Finish The Picture-Perfect Finale

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Supervising Editor Cynthia Strawson, ’05 BA, ’13 MSc Editor-in-Chief Lisa Cook, @NewTrail_Lisa Senior Editor Karen Sherlock Associate Editor Christie Hutchinson Art Director Marcey Andrews Senior Photographer John Ulan New Trail Digital Editor Karen Sherlock New Trail Digital Shane Riczu, ’12 MA, Ryan Whitefield, ’10 BA, Joyce Yu, ’07 BA Staff Writers Sarah Pratt, Bridget Stirling Proofreader Philip Mail Intern Ruslan Bergenov, ’14 MA Advisory Board Anne Bailey, ’84 BA; Jason Cobb, ’96 BA; Susan Colberg, ’83 BFA, ’91 MVA; Glenn Kubish, ’87 BA(Hons); Kiann McNeill; Robert Moyles, ’86 BCom; Julie Naylor, ’95 BA, ’05 MA; Sean Price, ’95 BCom CONTACT US Email (Comments/Letters/Class Notes) alumni@ualberta.ca Call 780-492-3224; toll-free 1-800-661-2593 Mail Office of Advancement, University of Alberta, Third Floor, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, AB T5J 4P6 Facebook U of A Alumni Association Twitter @UofA_Alumni Address Updates 780-492-3471; toll-free 1-866-492-7516 or alumrec@ualberta.ca TO ADVERTISE lesley.dirkson@ualberta.ca This University of Alberta Alumni Association magazine is published three times a year. It is mailed to more than 150,000 alumni and non-alumni friends, and is available on select newsstands. The views and opinions expressed in the magazine are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Alberta or the U of A Alumni Association. All material copyright ©. New Trail cannot be held responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs.

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OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

Sean Price, ’95 BCom, MBA Associate Vice-President Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA, ’96 MSc Director, Alumni Programs Kara Sweeney Director, Alumni Engagement Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives

ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE President Glenn Stowkowy, ’76 BSc(ElecEng) President-elect Mary Pat Barry, ’04 MA Executive Member at Large Ron Glen, ’89 BA(Spec), ’04 MBA Vice-President: Affinity Chris Grey, ’92 BA, ’95 MBA Vice-President: Centenary Wanda Wetterberg, ’74 BA(RecAdmin) Vice-President: Communications Glenn Kubish, ’87 BA(Hons) Vice-President: Education Charlene Butler, ’09 MBA Vice-President: Histories & Traditions Jason Acker, ’95 BSc, ’97 MSc, ’00 PhD, ’09 MBA Vice-President: Students Sheena Neilson, ’06 BSc(Pharm) Vice-President: Volunteers Tom Gooding, ’78 BSc(MechEng) Board of Governors Representatives: Jane Halford, ’94 BCom Rob Parks, ’87 BEd, ’99 MBA Senate Representatives Cindie LeBlanc, ’01 BA Sunil Agnihotri, ’05 BA, ’12 MA

Graduate Studies Chris Grey, ’92 BA, ’95 MBA Law Ian Reynolds, ’91 BCom, ’94 LLB Medicine Vacant Native Studies Carolyn Wagner, ’06 BA(NativeStuHons) Nursing Keith King, ’04 BScN Pharmacy Sheena Neilson, ’06 BSc(Pharm) Physical Education and Recreation Wanda Wetterberg, ’74 BA(RecAdmin) Public Health Paul Childs, ’05 MPH Rehabilitation Medicine Linda Miller, ’89 BSc(OT) Science Fred Johannesen, ’84 BSc(Spec) Members at Large Darryl Lesiuk, ’87 BA, ’91 BCom, ’07 MBA Jessa Aco, ’14 BCom Ken Bautista, ’99 BEd David Johnston, ’94 BA Ayaz Bhanji, ’91 BSc (Pharm) Emerson Csorba, ’14 BA(Spec) Della Lizotte, ’10 BA(NativeStu) Christine Causing, ’97 BA Julie Lussier, ’11 BCom Nick Dehod, ’11 BA Wes Penner, ’71 PhD Steven Dollansky, ’09 BSc, ’12 JD EXCEL ’07 BA Amy OFFEEXXCCEELLLL OFShostak, L EO E LE LEL Kevin Higa, ’85 BCom SILVER SILVER SILVER River Wilson, ’01 BA, ’06 MSc(RehabMed)

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When Bill Kent, ’31 BSc(CivilEng), was 93 years old, he hopped a bus from his hometown of Langley, B.C., and rode 12 hours to Edmonton so he could celebrate his 70th class reunion. That year, Kent became a celebrity with the Alumni Weekend crowd, constantly surrounded by alumni, staff and students wanting to hear stories about his life, his work and campus in the early years.

Kent came back for Alumni Weekend nearly every year after that — even after his 100th birthday and beyond — and each year his appearance was the highlight of the weekend. Sadly, Kent passed away Oct. 11, just as we were putting together this issue. He was aOOFfew his birthday. We are sad to lose one of the F EXC107th EL L FEEXXCCEELLdays shy of O E EL E LLE LE SILVER SILVER SILVER alumni and a man many of us called a friend. university’s proudest Bill Kent (page 48) is one of the people whose stories we tell as CASE CASE CASE CASE 2014 2014 2014 2014 EX OFFICIO 2014 2014 the 100th anniversary of the creation of the U of A WA W part of celebrating W AR A A ARR AARR AR RA Honorary President GR DS PR O DDSS PPRRO GR DSS PPRROOGGRR D DS PR O GR OG Alumni Association in 1915.

Indira Samarasekera FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES To create this keepsakeX issue, New Trail undertook a year-long Interim Vice-President (Advancement) EX EX EX X E CE Academic Representative X F EFXC EX EC OF OFCEOLFLCEX OF OCFEE LLCELL LL CELL OF LL O F E CELL E Colm Renehan LE OLE O LLELLE E LE MBA LE LE LE LEtoLE LE effort photograph one alumnus from each graduating year for Jason Acker, ’95 BSc, ’97 MSc, ’00 PhD, ’09 SILVER SILVER SILVER Vice-President (University Relations) which there are living alumni and create illustrations of the graduates Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences Pozega Osburn CASE CASE CASEDebra CASEELEOOFFEEXXCCEELLLLCASE CASEwho Reint Boelman, ’97 BSc(Ag) EXCEL EL L passed away. Our selection committee chose graduates OF EXChave OF L E E 2014 Executive 2014 2014 LE LE L Director, Alumni Association W Arts A W A A W A A A SILVER SILVER A SILVER A SILVER R R R R A R R R R R AR A RD A who, collectively, represent all facets of our alumni family. We feature R R G GR O G G R D SR DP DS P DR DS R MBA GR RPD SO D S P R O GSean Price, ’95 BCom, S PROG R SO G PD PRO SRPOR O G S PR O Glenn Kubish, ’87 BA(Hons) teachers and doctors, volunteers and entrepreneurs, mothers and CASE CASE CASE Acting Dean of Students Augustana 2014 2014 2014 Robin2014 Everall, ’92 BA(Spec), ’94 MEd, ’98 PhD WA Wfathers, alumni who have attained celebrity status and alumni who Sandra Gawad Gad, ’12 BSc AR A A A A R RRDD R RD G D S P R O G R F E XFCEEX C E GFR E XF CEEX C E X C E Graduate X CF EE X C E E XCE SS PPRRO S P R OOGF E O OO F EXC Students’ OF O O Association O LL O OF LL LL LL L ELL ELL LL Business E E E E E E had E L have aL Lremarkable impact in their communities. Each of these E E Susan Cake Charlene Butler, ’09 MBA alumni is an outstanding and accomplished individual. But when you X X X EFXC E E E Union C C C XCEStudents’ X F F F F E E C E E E E F O O O O O LLELL LL LL L LL O Campus Saint-Jean E CASE CASE E E LE LE LE LE LCASE look atLE theseL people collectively, you begin to understand how we William Lau, ’13 BSc(Nutr/Food) Marty McKeever, ’02 BEd SILVER SILVER A A A A A A A A A R R R R R R R R RD R R D RtheG world.

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‘Classic’ leadership

On the topic of leadership [“Deconstructing Leadership,” Autumn 2014, page 26], the basis is a grounding in morals and ethics. What better place to start than the very foundation of learning, the Department of Classics. The great philosophers of the ancient world, both East and West, are still of great significance. Zeno, the founder of Stoicism. Nor must we forget Socrates, who first formulated the rules of logic, yet of great value today, and his pupil Plato. Having earned my BA in philosophy, I may be biased. After spending 28 years as a teacher, I appreciate the grounding I had from my degree in the Faculty of Arts and Science, beginning with Professor Emeritus John MacDonald. A favourite professor of classics was Dr. May, who introduced us to classical Greek. Another very good professor in Education for philosophy was Dr. Lupul.

Obviously, there were others. Nevertheless, all instilled the ideal motto of the U of A: quaecumque vera. – James E. Logan, ’55 BA, ’57 Dip(Ed), ’71 Dip(Ed), Edmonton

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The yin and yang of leadership

This post is spurred by a couple of interesting pieces in the most recent edition of the University of Alberta New Trail magazine.

“There are three elements of leadership: vision, understanding the situation and the courage to act,” says Richard Fields in “Deconstructing Leadership.” I would add two other essential elements: a moral compass (to my way of thinking leadership always has a strong moral element: the demagogue is not a leader); and relationship skills and practices (the capacity to provoke engagement and commitment).

The interesting thing about the consideration of “leadership” at this time is that we are starting to explore the matter of followership. Arguably, they are not two distinct fields of study.

Throughout my life, including the years I was minister of education in Alberta [1979-1986], I have been sometimes the leader and sometimes the follower. The yin and yang of leadership/followership has been my experience in married life, in the service clubs I have been part of, in other workplaces and in civic action.

Kim Campbell’s description [in “Leadership without Bombast,” page 32] of her leadership style as “interactive” is quite suggestive of scholar James MacGregor Burns’ description of leadership as being the outcome of the relationship between the leader and

the followers. Leadership accomplishes more when it is inclusive, respectful, collaborative, reciprocal, non-ideological and creative. – David King, ’84 BA, Victoria

Keep in touch between New Trail issues.

Find web-exclusive content online, or sign up for regular email updates. Visit newtrail.ualberta.ca to see these stories and more.

Beyond the Portraits Watch interviews with some of our alumni, including former MP Wilton Littlechild (page 29).

Celebrate a Century U of A grads have a lot to be proud of as their alumni body turns 100.

Editor’s note: this is an excerpt from the blog Change Now, for Good, by David King, former education minister of Alberta. Read the full blog post at http://changenowforgood.ca/thinkingdifferently-leadership/.

Q&A With Dan Riskin

Too Aggressive

While the articles on leadership in the autumn edition of New Trail were very interesting, I found the front cover quite disturbing. It has a very 1930s aggressive feel about it that I thought was quite inappropriate. Having spent a lifetime in industry, apart from my time at U of A, I have worked with good and bad leaders.

The aggressive ones were invariably bad.

Working for a good, effective leader is the best way to learn leadership. – Tony Taylor, ’93 PhD(MechEng), Victoria

The Daily Planet host comes to campus in January for Green & Glow Winterfest (page 18). We catch him early.

Battling the Pine Beetle U of A researchers and alumni have been pivotal in tackling this threat to our forests.

CORRECTIONS: Kelly Gordon Morstad, ’87 BCom, was mistakenly noted as deceased in the Spring 2014 issue. He is, in fact, alive and well.

Lori Shortreed, ’85 BA(Spec), was mistakenly listed as a lawyer in the Autumn 2014 issue. Shortreed is an advocate and volunteer who supports immigrant, disability and international development causes.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by these errors.

Winning Diabetes Idea PhD student Nermeen Youssef pitches an award-winning idea for needle-free diabetes treatment (page 5). newtrail winter 2014

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RESEARCH IN THE NEWS U of A research is always making waves across the media. Here’s the lowdown on what’s up in our labs lately.

Nano-Computing Partnership A new $2.7-million partnership could lead to faster, greener computer technology. The partnership, involving innovation company Lockheed Martin, the Government of Alberta and U of A professor Robert Wolkow’s Quantum Silicon Inc., will support Wolkow’s ongoing work to commercialize atomic-scale computing technology. In 25 years of research, he and his team have discovered a way to increase computer speed and storage by breaking silicon atoms into four parts. By doing so, Wolkow says, the atoms can take on more energy, which will allow developers to create faster, more energy-efficient computers. - Metro News

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SUPERSIZED CHICKENS

Chickens have changed in the past 50 years. In fact, chickens have changed a lot, according to a recent study led by Martin Zuidhof Zuidhof, ’91 BSc, ’93 MSc, ’04 PhD, associate professor of agricultural science at the U of A. For the study, Zuidhof and his research team raised three breeds of broiler chickens: one common in 1957, another from 1978 and a third breed from 2005 called the Ross 308. Though the breeds were fed identical diets, the Ross 308 chickens grew much bigger than the 1978 breed and more than four times the size of the 1957 breed. Why? Today’s chickens are simply bred to be bigger.

But, Zuidhof says, there is no danger in eating larger chickens.

“That would be comparable to saying it is more dangerous to eat bigger carrots because they’re bigger.” – Huffington Post

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Cleanup of oilsands tailings ponds could become faster and more environmentally sustainable with a new technique developed by U of A civil engineering professors Mohamed Gamal El-Din, ’01 PhD, and James Bolton. By using sunlight as a renewable energy source rather than electrically powered ultraviolet lamps, they were able to treat oilsands wastewater efficiently and at a much lower cost. Typically, tailings ponds can take more than 20 years to be reclaimed. Gamal El-Din says using the UV radiation from solar sources in combination with a chlorine treatment would significantly accelerate the process.

The sun’s energy would partially remove organic contaminants, and its reaction with chlorine added to the water would produce oxidative chemicals that would remove any remaining contaminants. The chlorine’s decomposition would be hastened by the sunlight, leaving no remaining waste. In lab tests, researchers found the technique removed 75 to 84 per cent of toxins, and they are confident in its use in the field. - Fort McMurray Today

‘SHOCK TUBE’ WILL HELP EXPLORE BRAIN TRAUMA A new U of A research facility will improve our understanding of the brain injuries soldiers suffer from explosions, as well as head injuries from other causes.

The Centre for Traumatic Brain Injury and Military Research will have one of Canada’s few “shock tubes” — a nine-metre-long device capable of simulating the effects of explosions, including blasts from improvised explosive devices. Other equipment will allow researchers to study head injuries from motor vehicle collisions, falls or contact sports.

The lab was made possible by a donation from the Royal Canadian Legion Alberta-N.W.T. Command.

“Traumatic brain injuries are devastating for anyone who suffers such an injury — over 11,000 Canadians die each year as a result — but the societal cost is also quite high,” says Ibolja Cernak, professor and holder of the Chair in Military and Veterans’ Clinical Rehabilitation in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. “It’s estimated these types of injuries cost the healthcare system $3 billion a year in direct and indirect costs.”

Cernak, one of the world’s leading experts in blast-induced neurotrauma,

CAMPUS NEWS A brief look at what’s new at the U

The U of A climbed 12 spots, placing 84th among 2,000 universities across the globe in this year’s QS World University Rankings, post-secondary education’s most respected measure. The university placed fifth in Canada among 26 institutions. The Department of English and Film Studies ranked 22nd in the world. Arts and humanities ranked 89th, while life sciences and medicine placed 91st.

A new MOOC about video games explores what they tell us about society’s views on issues such as gender, sex and violence. Understanding Video Games, launched in the fall and open to students around the globe, is the second massive open online course offered by the university. Its inaugural MOOC, Dino 101, was launched in 2013.

said it’s difficult to study the effects of explosions because it’s hard to recreate the kinetic energy release that can send soldiers hurtling through the air, as well as “blast overpressure,” a shock wave that travels at supersonic speeds and envelopes the body, often causing serious injury to the lungs and head. The shock tube allows researchers to simulate blast conditions down to the types of explosives, distance from a blast and concussive effects in lab models. – Bryan Alary

Pitch for needle-free diabetes treatment wins second place in global competition

The endowment fund has surpassed $1 billion for the first time in its history. “This is an important milestone toward our goal of a $1.5-billion endowment,” President Indira Samarasekera said of the fund, which supports student scholarships, helps attract top faculty and researchers, and funds research.

The Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre opened on Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alta., at a gala event in November. The building, believed to be the first in North America to have all-LED house and stage lighting, is a partnership involving the U of A, the City of Camrose, Camrose County and the Government of Alberta. It’s one of only three projects chosen by the Lougheed family to remember Alberta’s 10th premier.

An idea for a needle-free way to treat Type 1 diabetes using blue light to stimulate fat cells to secrete insulin earned a student second place at Falling Walls Lab in Berlin, a contest showcasing next-generation innovators.

Nermeen Youssef, a fifth-year PhD candidate in Peter Light’s lab in the Alberta Diabetes Institute, was one of three winners of the U of A’s local Falling Walls Lab qualifying competition, held in September. The three travelled to Berlin for the finale Nov. 8. There, they were among 100 presenters from 38 countries to give a three-minute pitch of their ideas to a jury headed by Carl-Henrik Heldin, board chair of the Nobel Foundation.

The U of A’s two other contenders were engineering post-doc Zack Storms, with an idea for a food packaging that detects contamination, and chemical engineering PhD student Diana Martinez Tobon, pitching a process to better break down plastics with bacterial enzymes.

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David Turpin Named Next U of A President

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS U of A alumni who made headlines recently

RESPECTED ACADEMIC LEADER AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR BEGINS TERM JULY 1, 2015

John Geiger, second from right, with other leaders of the expedition searching for Franklin’s ships

John Geiger, ’81 BA, chief executive officer of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, was a member of a Canadian research team that found one of the two lost ships from Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition. The wreck of the HMS Erebus, found 11 metres below the surface of Victoria Strait near King William Island, could help solve the mystery of what happened to Franklin and his crew 168 years ago. (More about Geiger on page 27.) - CTV News Geneticist Charles Lee, ’90 BSc(Spec), ’93 MSc, ’96 PhD, along with two fellow researchers, was named by Thomson Reuters Corp. as a strong contender for the 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work exploring how specific variations in the human genome are linked to various diseases. Lee is scientific director at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn. The prize was later awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Mosel. - Hartford Courant Marilyn Adams, ’91 BSc(PT), has been hired as director of rehabilitation for the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. She served as team physiotherapist for Triathlon Canada at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games and spent five years with Canada’s snowboard team on the FIS Snowboard World Cup tour. - NBA.com

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by the post-secondary sector are the hallmark of his successes.

“Communities rise or fall on each person’s willingness to invest in other people — to give them the means to become the best they can be so that they, too, can give back in kind,” he said.

“That to me exemplifies the virtuous circle of the public university.”

Turpin has earned some of Canada’s most prestigious honours. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Royal Society of Canada and has received the Queen’s Diamond and Golden Jubilee medals. He was also named a Steacie Memorial Fellow by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 1989 and joins a select group of Canadian researchers on the global Highly Cited Researchers list.

Outgoing president Samarasekera said Turpin’s combination of scholarly and executive excellence will serve the U of A well. “I have enormous pride and confidence in the U of A and believe that we will continue to play a critical leadership role in our communities and our society — with David’s vision and under his leadership.”

Samarasekera also announced the establishment of an endowed fund at the U of A with a lead donation.

The Indira V. Samarasekera Global Student Leadership Fund will support students in their pursuit of education, research and community service experiences beyond Canadian borders.

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avid H. Turpin has been named as the 13th president of the University of Alberta.

Turpin, who most recently served as president of the University of Victoria, is a Canadian academic leader and renowned international scholar whose achievements are recognized across the post-secondary sector. His appointment was approved Nov. 13 by the U of A Board of Governors.

He will replace President Indira Samarasekera when her second term expires June 30, 2015.

“The opportunity to lead a university that has, for more than a century, been committed to ‘uplifting the whole people’ draws me here,” Turpin said at the announcement Nov. 14 in Convocation Hall. “The U of A has a real sense of purpose, a real excitement for what’s next, at this university, in this province and in our country.”

Board chair Doug Goss, who led the year-long international search for a new president, said Turpin rose to the top of an outstanding pool of candidates due to his impressive combination of academic, administrative and leadership achievements.

Turpin attended elementary school in Calgary and his great-grandfather was an Alberta rancher.

Before becoming president of UVic in 2000, he served as provost and vice-principal (academic) at Queen’s University and as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science prior to that. He served as professor and head of the botany department at the University of British Columbia. In 1980, he earned his PhD in botany and oceanography at UBC, where he also completed his bachelor of science in cell biology in 1977.

Turpin says his connection and commitment to communities served

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by Todd Babiak

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here have been plenty of CEOs in the history of commerce.

Few of them are as celebrated and criticized, picked-over and memorialized, worshipped and despised as Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs. You can read books, watch documentaries and feature films, and lose yourself in Internet musings and speculations about him.

Apart from the rather important things he brought into the world, Jobs was filled with what we love in a character, real or imagined: contradictions.

While he doesn’t always seem pleasant, the biographies and on the screen, his determination to make machines more human was enormously profitable. Jobs spoke of Apple as a marriage of science and humanities.

It’s also a marriage of business and the arts, and you can feel these unlikely marriages in an iPhone and in the best of Apple’s ads.

Companies that make things always have designers, but they’re generally far from the executive suites. Historically, humanities and science, the arts and business have been — in universities and in most industries — distinct disciplines and ways of thinking.

On the University of Alberta campus, it’s not terribly far to walk from the Humanities or Fine Arts buildings to the School of Business; Science and Engineering are much farther away. In my time at the U of A, the separation didn’t end in the classrooms, labs and hallways. Back then, students from fine arts, liberal arts and law gathered for beer at Dewey’s, then housed in HUB

Mall. Students from other faculties went to the Power Plant and RATT. Since I graduated into the world, universities and the world have become more interdisciplinary. In some cases, it’s little more than a

label and we all know why. Marrying distinct ways of thinking and ways of working means breaking comfortable traditions. It’s scary.

But schools can be marvellously unconventional. In 2013, the U of A

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Bruyère, had roots in Europe. When they arrived in Edmonton to make their fortunes in real estate, their competitors welcomed and helped them, became mentors.

“I found it so strange and so wonderful,” says Mactaggart, whose frame of reference was New York and London. “I had no idea what to make of it.”

From their first days in the city, they were invited into realms that went beyond business. A lawyer Mactaggart had met at a party phoned on a Sunday to invite him to the Edmonton Art Gallery (now the Art Gallery of Alberta), which was then in the Secord House.

Mactaggart was worried the man would ask for a donation, because Mactaggart and de La Bruyère’s company — Maclab Enterprises — had not yet made much money. But he got dressed up in his best suit anyway. When he showed up at the gallery, the lawyer handed him a bucket of paint and a brush and asked him to spruce up the wooden front steps.

Not long after, Mactaggart — who

claimed to know nothing about theatre when he arrived in Edmonton — co-founded the Citadel Theatre with Joe Shoctor and a couple of other friends. His experiences in the arts began to colour his decisions in business, mostly because he had so many opportunities to build things.

Even things he was not, officially, trained to build.

Just because you’re an engineer by training, doesn’t mean you can’t also write and star in a one-woman Fringe show or serve on the board of a dance company or publish a short story in the 40 Below Project. Artists become entrepreneurs. Electricians can dance. And, just maybe, it makes them better electricians.

Todd Babiak, ’95 BA, co-founded the company Story Engine and has published several books, including Come Barbarians, a national bestseller.

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launched a certificate program in computer games. The program throws computer science students in the same rooms with creative writers, visual artists, musicians and actors. Students from faculties that were once far apart work together before they graduate.

This is the atmosphere at Edmonton’s videogame developer BioWare; why not in school?

University is a microcosm for life beyond it. We talk a lot about universities preparing students for the job market or — much better — for success in life. Success isn’t always conventional.

The U of A is part of a unique culture in Edmonton. The most memorable successes, the ones we talk about the most, tend to be ideas that grow with a co-operative effort — even when they’re in the ultra-competitive private sector.

Former U of A chancellor and generous benefactor Sandy Mactaggart, ’90 LLD (Honorary), told me recently about arriving in Edmonton from the East Coast of the United States. Both he and his business partner, Jean de La

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WHAT DOES 100 LOOK LIKE? Over the past year we’ve discovered that it looks like volunteers and entrepreneurs, artists and inventors, academics and committed community members. One hundred ranges across continents and areas of expertise — but in the end it tells a surprisingly cohesive story.

In honour of the University of Alberta Alumni Association’s 100th anniversary, the New Trail team decided to feature one representative for each graduating class starting from 1911, when the first degrees were granted.

It was an exciting idea and an overwhelming task: how do you choose 103 people from more than 260,000 University of Alberta graduates? And once you have your list, would people even want to participate?

As it turns out, we were amazed by the generosity of those asked to take part in this year-long project. From the staff and alumni who volunteered to sit on our selection committee to the graduates who carved out the time to sit for our photographers, every last person was gracious, enthusiastic and humble. We’re grateful that so many made the time to help celebrate this amazing community of people.

In selecting the few to represent the many, we strove to make the entire list representative of our alumni community. Ninety-three per cent of our alumni live in Canada, with 75 per cent of them living in Alberta. Education, Arts and Science are the faculties with the most grads. Our alumni are heavily involved in volunteer work and public service. Additionally, we sought to strike a balance between outstanding grads whose achievements are well-known and outstanding grads whose accomplishments might not be recognized beyond their families or communities.

You can dive in and read each person’s story or page through to see the meta-stories: the early years, filled with so many accomplishments on a global scale, and notable for their firsts for women and minorities; the mid20th century in which Alberta became a leader in energy; the emergence of environmental awareness in the ’60s and ’70s; and the increasing diversity of our population in recent decades.

You will also find some graduates whose stories we highlight because of what they show us about our larger story: the international student who stayed in Alberta to serve an at-risk population (page 20); the advocate for disabled people (23); the science grad who found fame with The Simpsons (24); the unsung hero who spent her life putting others first (32); and the lifelong learner who is turning 100 (44).

As we went through this list, it was hard not to feel a little overwhelmed by the accomplishments of our graduates. Certainly, boiling their life stories down to one or two sentences was an extremely difficult task. But these people allowed us into their lives in an incredibly personal and genuine way. Our alumni are funny and warm and joyful and generous, and that is reflected in these photographs in a way that could never come across in a summary of their accomplishments. This has been a singular experience for us, and we hope you share that feeling of awe and celebration as you look at these pages. — LISA COOK, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF new trail winter 2014 13

2014 RUSLAN BERGENOV ’14 MA | Edmonton

This former Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant came to the U of A from Ekaterinburg, Russia, to study applied linguistics. He has embarked on his career with a position in marketing research.

2014 The University of Alberta’s 13th president, David Turpin, is introduced on Nov. 14.

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2012 After 244 years of publication, the Encyclopaedia Britannica discontinues its print edition.

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2013 DIANE ORIHEL

2012 JEREMY BRYANT

A freshwater ecologist who is a strong voice for science and the environment in Canada, Orihel helped save the Experimental Lakes Area research centre.

He is co-founder of Mealshare, helping restaurants across Canada donate money to food programs based on how many diners buy Mealshare-starred dishes.

2011 JAN BUTERMAN

2010 STEPHANIE EDDY

An educator and activist on issues of importance to trans-identified Albertans, Buterman is back at the U of A working on his MEd in educational policy studies.

Eddy is a food writer known for her kitchen creativity, both on her blog, Clockwork Lemon, and in her Globe and Mail column, “Icing on the Cake.”

’13 PhD | Winnipeg

’92 BA, ’11 Dip(Ed) | Edmonton

2011 Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton wed on April 29 at Westminster Abbey in London.

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’12 BCom | Edmonton

’10 BA | Okotoks, Alta.

2011 Researchers at the university link a reduction in the number of newborn polar bear cubs in Canada’s Hudson Bay with climate change. newtrail winter 2014

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2008 CASEY EDMUNDS

The first to earn a PhD in the Faculty of Arts, McMaster became a renowned scholar of English literature and the first faculty member to win the University Cup.

A singer, dancer and comedian, this Campus Saint-Jean grad is president of RAFA, Alberta’s francophone arts association, and sits on the Premier’s Council on Culture.

2005 RENELTTA ARLUK

2004 GRAHAM BUKSA

Of Inuvialuit and Dene descent, Arluk travelled her grandparents’ northern trapline as a child, which shaped her path as a writer, actor and storyteller.

Buksa built his first skateboard while still a student at the U of A, going on after graduation to found Rayne Longboards and revolutionize the fast-growing sport.

’63 MA, ’65 PhD, ’09 DLitt (Honorary) | Edmonton

’05 BFA | Yellowknife

’08 BA | Edmonton

2008 The university celebrates 100 years. Campaign 2008 includes $581.7 million raised, 1,114 scholarships, 50 endowed chairs, eight endowed professorships and 13 facilities.

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’04 BSc(ElecEng) | Vancouver

2004 The University of Alberta and Augustana University College merge.

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2007 AMY SHOSTAK

2006 ANTHONY HODSON

CARRIE LAM PHOTO BY KENNETH LIM/KENNETH LIM PHOTOGRAPHY

’07 BA | Edmonton

’06 BSc(Forest) | Turner Valley, Alta.

As artistic director of Rapid Fire Theatre, Shostak has helped take Edmonton’s improvisation talent to the world. She also co-chaired Make Something Edmonton.

A passionate outdoorsman and rodeo competitor, he is finding ways to use reclaimed pine-beetle-damaged wood with his business, Cowboy Country Log Homes.

2003 CARRIE LAM

2002 DOROTHY THUNDER

A dedicated volunteer with the Hong Kong alumni chapter, Lam works in the financial industry. She and her husband are expecting their second child.

A Cree language teacher who bridges the gap between academy and community, Thunder is pursuing her MA in linguistics and is building a corpus of the Cree language.

’03 BCom | Hong Kong

2002 Bear Tracks, the university’s web-based registration, is launched.

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’02 BA(NativeStu) | Edmonton

2003 After 30-plus years exploring our solar system, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends its final signal to NASA. It was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and take close-up images of Jupiter. newtrail winter 2014

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Director of research for the Institute for Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine, Rieger works to improve quality of life for survivors of head and neck cancers.

This co-anchor for SportsCentre made the jump to broadcasting after university. Her love of sports comes from growing up watching the Oilers and Eskimos.

’00 BCom | Toronto

THE CELEBRATION OF A CENTURY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IS TURNING 100.

IT’S KICKING OFF A YEAR OF BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS IN 2015 WITH A WINTER FESTIVAL OF LIGHT, FIRE AND SNOW. Magical “lightscapes,” fire and pyrotechnics, a snowpants party, music, art and a cool science lecture are all part of the fun at Green & Glow Winterfest, Jan. 29-31. Meet three of the many alumni involved in planning and pulling off this special event.

Find out more at uab.ca/winterfest.

2001 The Pandas hockey team begins a 110-game unbeaten streak.

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Dylan (Toymaker) George, ’98 BA This multidisciplinary artist’s work has been featured across North America. He is creating 100 lanterns for alumni to carry in a nighttime parade through Quad on Jan. 30 and designing a light garden with recycled lights from Lister Hall.

He is fascinated by the way light can transform spaces and connections.

“My art is a gateway to another world.”

Amy Shostak, ’07 BA An award-winning improv comedian, actor, writer and teacher, Shostak is casting and co-ordinating a roving troupe of merry performers for Winterfest. Shostak is artistic director of Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s longest-running improvcomedy company. She appears on Tiny Plastic Men and has contributed to CBC Radio’s This Is That and The Irrelevant Show.

(More on page 17.)

Dan Riskin, ’97 BSc The producer and co-host of Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet will deliver a lively lecture on “cool” science Jan. 29.

A biologist (bats are his primary field of research), author, educator and sought-after science personality, Riskin is an engaging guide to the weird and wonderful world around us. He recently published his first book, Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You.

2001 On Sept. 11, a series of four co-ordinated terrorist attacks on passenger jets in the United States results in 2,996 deaths. The world comes to a standstill and the airspace in the United States and Canada is closed for the first time.

TIMELINE PHOTO GOLDEN BEARS AND PANDAS ATHLETICS

JANA M. RIEGER PHOTO BY EPIC PHOTOGRAPHY; DYLAN (TOYMAKER) GEORGE PHOTO BY RYAN WHITEFIELD, ’10 BA; AMY SHOSTAK PHOTO BY PEDERSON; DAN RISKIN PHOTO BY DSG PHOTO

2001 JANA M. RIEGER

’91 BSc(Speech/Aud), ’01 PhD | Edmonton

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1999 KEN BAUTISTA ’99 BEd | St. Albert, Alta.

Building on his success as a tech entrepreneur, Bautista is growing Edmonton’s startup community as co-founder of Startup Edmonton and director of entrepreneurship at Edmonton Economic Development.

2001 University of Alberta’s Foote Field opens in July and includes an artificial turf field, a natural grass field and a state-of-the-art running track used as a practice venue during the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics.

1999 Nunavut becomes a territory.

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1998 CHRISTINE MHINA ’98 MSc, ’05 PhD | Edmonton

In her role as director of outreach for the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, Mhina draws on her experience in her home country of Tanzania, where she worked with women in rural communities.

1998 James Cameron’s Titanic is released. It becomes the secondhighest-grossing film, earning more than US $2 billion worldwide to date.

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1997 The United Kingdom transfers the sovereignty of Hong Kong back to China on July 1.

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THE GLOBAL CAREGIVER

BY SCOTT ROLLANS, ’82 BA

Like many former international students, Christine Mhina vividly remembers the shock of her arrival in Edmonton. “I didn’t like the weather at all!” she laughs. “I just wanted to go back home.”

The move hadn’t been her idea. In 1995, Mhina’s employer, Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives, had arranged a scholarship for her to pursue a master of science at the U of A. And so, she packed up her children and headed to Canada.

Initially, it wasn’t just the climate she found cold. “Back home, we live with people all the time,” she says. “There are so many people. You’re surrounded by your extended family, by your friends and neighbours. And here, everybody’s just by ourselves.”

After completing her master’s degree, Mhina returned to Tanzania for a year and a half but came back to the U of A to complete a doctorate in women’s empowerment, an issue she had fallen in love with in Tanzania. Working closely with women in rural communities, Mhina learned to view them as sources of knowledge rather than merely passive recipients of government programs. “I wanted to work with them personally, to find out what they know and to what extent they can address their own problems in their communities.”

More recently, Mhina has applied this attitude to her own work, as director of diversity outreach, intake and court support for the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton. She helped launch a new research project studying how people in Aboriginal and immigrant communities deal with sexual violence. As in Tanzania, Mhina has found ordinary people have a lot to offer. “We underestimate their wisdom and their practical knowledge,” she says. “By combining their knowledge and their practical wisdom with what we know, we can come up with better solutions. That inspires me.”

This year, Mhina has an extra need to draw on that inspiration. After a December bout of malaria brought on by a suppressed immune system, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks the plasma cells that normally produce antibodies to help the body fight infection.

However, Mhina hasn’t even considered stopping her work. If anything, she gains strength from the women who surround her. “They are my friends,” she says simply. “They are like my relatives.”

Edmonton’s climate may be as chilly as ever, but Mhina has found warmth here as well.

1997 The Francis Winspear Centre for Music opens in Edmonton.

1997 AMRITHA VAZ

’97 BA(Hons), ’02 LLB | Los Angeles

After starting out as an international lawyer doing development work, Vaz draws on her classical training in Indian and western music as a composer for films.

1996 LISA BYRNE ’96 BSc | Vancouver

This Vancouver Police Department constable was named 2009 Police Officer of the Year for shutting down some of the city’s most dangerous gangs.

1997 J.K. Rowling releases her first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, in the United Kingdom. The seven-book series goes on to sell 400 million-plus copies.

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1994 CHRISTINE L. NORDHAGEN-VIERLING

A high school teacher and world-class Monopoly player, Vandendooren won the Canadian championship in 2004 and went on to the world championship in Japan.

A wrestling pioneer and six-time world champion, she fought to see female wrestlers included in the Olympics and competed at the 2004 Games in Athens.

’95 BPE, ’98 BEd | Edmonton

1992 PIERRE HEBERT ’92 BEd | Edmonton

1991 TIMOTHY HANKEWICH

A Campus Saint-Jean alumnus, Hebert has served for several years as vice-principal and guidance counsellor at École publique Gabrielle-Roy, a francophone school.

1994 The University of Alberta receives an official coat of arms from the Governor General.

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’94 BEd | Calgary

’89 BMus(Hons), ’91 MMus | Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Hankewich is music director and conductor of Orchestra Iowa and a guest conductor with orchestras around the world. He won the Aspen Conducting Award.

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1995 LEON VANDENDOOREN

1993 A scientist from George Washington University Medical Center clones the first human embryos.

This act of splitting a single embryo into twins or triplets raises many ethical and practical questions.

THE PASSIONATE ADVOCATE 1993 HEIDI JANZ

’93 BA(Hons), ’95 MA, ’03 PhD | Edmonton

A disability ethics researcher and adjunct professor, Janz is also a playwright, author, advocate, Woman of Vision award winner and a woman with cerebral palsy.

1990 AMIL SHAPKA

’78 BSc, ’90 DDS | St. Paul, Alta.

1989 LYNN HAMILTON

Shapka’s 1993 trip to Honduras to help people in need grew into Kindness in Action, an NGO providing dental care and education to people in developing countries.

1992 The Edmonton LRT crosses the North Saskatchewan River to reach the university.

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Heidi Janz doesn’t let her disability define her, but the subject of disability ethics inspires her. Through her writing, teaching and research, Janz addresses big questions about life as a person with a disability — including end-of-life issues — and hopes her writing engages and educates people.

’84 BA(Spec), ’88 MBA, ’89 LLB | Edmonton

A lawyer, mother, volunteer and owner of an aviation forest-fire-fighting company, she has competed in the world’s toughest horse race, the Mongol Derby.

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1988 JOEL COHEN

’88 BSc | Pacific Palisades, Calif.

As a writer and producer for The Simpsons, Cohen has brought laughter into the homes of audiences all over the world. He also worked on the television show Suddenly Susan.

1989 The first full-length episode of The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” is shown on Fox. 24

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1989 On Nov. 9 the Berlin Wall comes down. The barbed wire and concrete division of East and West Germany was built in 1961 by the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic.

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THE HOLLYWOOD WRITER Why did you choose the University of Alberta and what did you study?

I wanted to go somewhere other than Calgary, where I’d grown up, and much to the U of A’s dismay, I’m sure, they let me in. It just seemed more exotic. I did pre-med because I thought, “OK, I’ll just take the hardest thing I can and then every road will still be open to me.”

That line of thinking will establish what an idiot I was. I failed organic chemistry, took it again and still only barely passed. So I left pre-med and took the science courses I was interested in, like zoology, which eventually led to a biology degree. After my degree I took another half year and just took every class that interested me, things like anthropology and computer programming. That allowed me to get a better sense of what I wanted to do with my life.

Like start writing comedy for TV? To do an MBA at York University, actually.

An MBA?! I managed to waste a great education in one fell swoop. I honestly can’t remember a single thing I learned there.

So this led to working in high finance on Bay Street? Umm, no. I worked in Toronto for five years for a nowbankrupt film distribution company in its home video department, which allowed me to sell the worst possible movies you could ever imagine on VHS to video stores across Canada.

As a Canadian, what do you think you bring to the writer’s room for The Simpsons? It’s possible that at one point I had a Canadian influence on the show, but now I feel like I have Stockholm Syndrome, where I affiliate with my captors. Really, I feel like I’ve been indoctrinated into The Simpsons sense of humour rather than me bringing anything in from outside. I think the only thing that separates me is that frequently a word will come up, like “decal” [editor’s note: many Americans pronounce it dee-cal]. I said decal in the room the other day and it literally stopped work for two hours, because no one else knew what a decal was and I had to spell it and explain it. It was like a caveman being discovered in a block of ice and people trying to communicate with him, it was that awkward. It was like exchanging grunts trying to understand what we were each talking about. There are lots of words like that.

Every time I say “pasta” it sucks $500,000 of productivity out of the show while I explain it. I just say “noodle” now.

What do you think has given The Simpsons such longevity? The characters don’t age. You can turn on a TV, right now, somewhere in the world and an episode is on and you don’t know if the characters are in season 2 or 22. There’s something comforting about that. It established this sense of humour and now it’s evergreen. It’s been around 25 years; it’s what we know and can turn to.

1988 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky is traded to the Los Angeles Kings on Aug. 9. This move, which shocks the country, comes a mere 12 weeks after the Oilers’ fourth Stanley Cup victory.

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Joel Cohen transformed a biology degree into a successful TV writing career. He tells us how he went from selling directto-video movies to writing for one of the world’s most beloved shows ... and what life after The Simpsons might look like.

BY CURTIS GILLESPIE So the show is both familiar and subversive? Well, we get away with a lot because we’re animated — but by this point, we are almost one of the milder animated shows. South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, there are lots of other shows that are raunchier or more controversial. South Park does stuff we’d never do. We were more subversive when we started, but now we’re subversive in a more acceptable way. We’re there if someone wants a nice soothing pool of subversiveness they can bathe in and not feel bad about themselves.

And so what’s next for Joel Cohen?

One of the great things about The Simpsons is that some of us have the luxury of doing stuff outside the show if we can. I’ve worked on a few other things — some online stuff, feature films, other TV shows. I’m working with a couple colleagues and we’ve written and are producing an animated film to be released in 2017, which will hopefully be using a Canadian production company. I’m always dabbling. I love The Simpsons and want to stay as long as I can, but I also feel like I’m ready for the world outside the show whenever that happens.

Curtis Gillespie, ’85 BA, is a 2014 Alumni Award winner, editor of the awardwinning magazine Eighteen Bridges and author of five books, including the memoir Almost There. He is working on a longer piece about Joel Cohen for a future issue of New Trail.

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1987 THOMAS TROFIMUK

1986 MELODY DAVIDSON

Trofimuk’s novel Waiting for Columbus won the City of Edmonton Book Prize. He founded the Raving Poets open-stage poetry movement.

Head coach of the Olympic gold-winning women’s hockey team in 2006 and 2010, she is Hockey Canada’s general manager for national women’s team programs.

1983 BRIAN FRYER ’83 BPE | Edmonton

Former Golden Bear and five-time Grey Cup winner with the Edmonton Eskimos, Fryer was the first player trained at a Canadian university to play in the NFL.

1987 On July 31, a tornado rips through Edmonton, killing 27 people and injuring more than 300. The day becomes known as Black Friday.

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’86 BPE | Calgary

1982 MOEKETSI MAHASA

’82 BSc(Ag) | Vereeniging, South Africa

Mahasa, a specialist in agriculture and rural sociology, is CEO of Phethahatso Community Development, a rural development management company.

1983 The university celebrates its 75th anniversary.

Prince Charles delivers the convocation address.

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’87 BA | Edmonton

1985 GAIL HALL

1984 CLAUDETTE TARDIF (MERKOSKY)

A foodie and culinary instructor, Hall has explored how global food culture can be brought to Canada to influence local flavours.

One of Canada’s top advocates for minority linguistic rights and post-secondary education, this former dean of Campus Saint-Jean now sits in the Senate.

1981 JOHN G. GEIGER

1980 ARTHUR SMITH

An author and exploration enthusiast, Geiger has been involved in researching the fate of Franklin’s expedition, including the discovery of HMS Erebus in 2014.

Smith is head librarian of the Royal Ontario Museum, one of the world’s top museums of natural history and world cultures.

’85 BA | Edmonton

’81 BA(Spec) | Ottawa

1981 Canadarm, Canada’s famous robotic and technological achievement, makes its space debut on the space shuttle Columbia on Nov. 13.

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’80 MLS | Toronto

1980 Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, the worst volcanic disaster in the history of the United States. newtrail winter 2014

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HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE U OF A? TEST YOUR HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE OF DATES, NAMES AND NUMBERS WITH OUR QUIZ

1) How much did full-load arts tuition cost in 1908?

A $10 B $20 C $65 D $80 2) Between 1913 and 1926, how many Model Ts did A.E. Ottewell, ’12 BA, ’15 MA, use on his travels with the Department of Extension?

A 1 B 7 C 16 D none 3) Maimie Simpson, ’22 BSc, ’24 MSc, ’30 MEd, was the first female Alumni Association president. During what academic year did she hold this position?

A 1910-11 B 1911-12 C 1923-24 D 1948-49 4) When did the Alumni Association create its first home page on the Internet?

A 1995 B 2000 C 2003 D 2008 5) In 1919, Prohibition was enforced but students who were war veterans could procure liquor if they had: A an open-minded professor B enough money C connected friends D a prescription

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6) Who was the Alumni Association’s first president, in 1915?

A Alexander Rutherford B Henry Marshall Tory C A.E. Ottewell D There was no first president in 1915

12) How many buildings were constructed on campus during the 1960s?

A 4 B 23 C 46 D 59

7) In what year did students, with the exception of seniors, no longer have to wear academic gowns to class?

A 1914 B 1920 C 1944 D 1967

True or False 1) In 1910, the Students’ Union membership fee was $2.

2) In the 1930s, the high school entrance requirements for home economics were increased from 50 per cent to 65 per cent.

4) The Alumni Association celebrates 100 years in 2015.

9) How many of that first class were female?

A none B 3 C7 D 22

6) Clare Drake, ’58 BEd, ’95 LLD (Honorary), was the assistant captain and leading scorer of the championship Golden Bears hockey team of 1953-54.

11) In what year did Collège Saint-Jean become part of the university?

A 1955 B 1961 C 1970 D 1990

Which is older? The U of A Alumni Association or … a) Hotel Macdonald b) Empire State Building c) television d) Moby Dick e) fall of the Ottoman Empire f) the fax machine g) polio vaccine h) High Level Bridge i) Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings j) the Wright brothers’ first flight

3) Prince Charles received an honorary law degree in 1983.

8) How many students were enrolled in the University of Alberta’s inaugural class in 1908?

A 12 B 24 C 109 D 45

10) In what year did the university hire Geneva Misener, its first female professor?

A 1908 B 1913 C 1945 D 1969

Bonus Question

5) Rutherford Library was built in 1968.

7) In 1922, 13 faculty members were hired for the booming Department of Agriculture, and ag students were required to pay $0 for tuition.

8) The LRT crossed the river in 1999.

9) In 2001, 57 per cent of Canadian undergraduates were women.

Who’s on the Cover?

Test your detective skills and try to identify the 16 people who make up our cover mosaic.

Multiple Choice Answers: 1) B; 2) B; 3) C; 4) A; 5) D; 6) C; 7) B; 8) D; 9) C; 10) B; 11) C; 12) B True or False Answers: 1) True; 2) True; 3) True; 4) True; 5) False (it was 1951); 6) True; 7) True; 8) False (it was 1992); 9) True Who’s on the Cover? Answer: Jeremy Bryant (P.15); Jan Buterman (P.15); Stephanie Eddy (P.15); Anthony Hodson (P.17); Dorothy Thunder (P.17); Natasha Staniszewski (P.18); Christine Mhina (P.20); Amritha Vaz (P.21); Christine Nordhagen-Vierling (P.22); Amil Shapka (P.23); Claudette Tardif (P. 27); Stanley Gooch (P.35); Alice Payne (P.35); Robert Dowling (P.39); Manoly Lupul (P.40); Barbara Bromley (P.41) Bonus Question Answers: Older than the Alumni Association: a) Hotel Mac (1912) d) Moby Dick (1851); f) the fax machine (1843); h) High Level Bridge (1913); j) the Wright brothers’ first flight (1903). Younger than the Alumni Association: b) Empire State Building (1931); c) television (1923); e) fall of the Ottoman Empire (1922); g) polio vaccine (1952); i) Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings (1922)

Multiple Choice

Compiled by Sarah Pratt and Joyce Yu Yu, ’07 BA

1979 RANDY GREGG

1978 SUSAN A. MCDANIEL

Gregg spent 10 seasons as a defenceman in the NHL, winning five Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers.

He is a primary care physician.

A University of Lethbridge Canada Research Chair, McDaniel was one of Alberta Venture’s 2014 50 Most Influential People for her research into labour shortages.

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’75 BSc, ’79 MD | Edmonton

1977 KATHLEEN M. DELONG

’77 BA(Spec), ’79 MLS, ’91 MPM | Edmonton

DeLong works for the U of A Libraries and is a guest lecturer and sessional instructor at the School of Library and Information Studies.

’78 PhD | Lethbridge, Alta.

1976 WILTON LITTLECHILD

’67 BPE, ’75 MA, ’76 LLB, ’07 LLD (Honorary) | Maskwacîs, Alta.

Littlechild, who spent 14 years in residential schools, credits sports with giving him direction. He was the first Treaty Indian in Canada to serve as a federal MP.

1978 The 1978 Commonwealth Games take place in Edmonton — the first Commonwealth Games where a computerized system is used to handle ticket sales.

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1975 ELIZABETH CRUMP-DUMESNIL

1974 JAMES RALSTON

Crump-Dumesnil won a 1991 Alberta Human Rights Award for bringing intercultural teaching methods to Alberta schools and holds a PhD in education.

As comptroller general of Canada, Ralston and his office were devoted to the responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

1973 KEVIN MCCRACKEN

1972 PHYLLIS YAFFE

McCracken’s research focuses on inequalities in health and population aging. He holds honorary positions at universities in Australia and Hong Kong.

Yaffe oversaw Alliance Atlantis’s worldwide operations, as well as Showcase and the Food Network. She is in the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

’73 PhD | Sydney

1973 Pink Floyd releases The Dark Side of the Moon. The album remains on the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988 and is one of the bestselling albums of all time.

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’74 BCom | Orleans, Ont.

’72 BLS | Toronto

1973 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police recruits women for the first time.

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KEVIN MCCRACKEN PHOTO BY ANTHONY BURNS/HOMEPIX PHOTOGRAPHY

’72 BA, ’75 BEd, ’75 Dip(Ed) | Edmonton

1971 RAY RAJOTTE

’71 BSc(ElecEng), ’73 MSc, ’75 PhD | Edmonton

Founding director of the Alberta Diabetes Institute and the Islet Transplantation Group, his team achieved a 100 per cent success rate in freeing insulin-dependent diabetics from daily injections.

1973 A ceasefire is signed, ending the involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War.

1971 Chuck Moser, ’64 BPE, ’72 MA, creates the Great University Bear of Alberta, or GUBA, from fleece and a bear mask. John Struger, ’76 BPE, is the first GUBA. newtrail winter 2014

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1970 SUSAN SMITH ’70 BA | Edmonton

Smith — a mother of three — worked with Alberta Child and Family Services and is a community volunteer and an advocate for seniors. She served on the Strathcona County seniors advisory committee.

1970 The federal government announces plans to convert the nation to the metric system.

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1970 Collège Saint-Jean becomes part of the U of A. It will later become a faculty, in 1978.

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THE EVERYDAY HERO

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EVERY DAY, SUSAN SMITH MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HER. IT’S IMPORTANT THAT SHE, AND GRADS LIKE HER, ARE CELEBRATED

BY TOBIE SMITH, AS TOLD TO LISA COOK

For my entire life, my mom has been a presence at home and at school. She never missed an event, whether a school play or a fastball game. Teachers and staff at my elementary school knew and loved her as The Cookie Lady, and at my high school she was heavily involved in the parent society.

Then there were the hundreds of rides between our home in Sherwood Park and my high school in Edmonton. My mom would joke that she made the drive so often her car knew where it was going.

I had never really thought much about what she was like before my two siblings and I came along. She had always been my mom. That changed a couple of years ago. I had a moment that made me see her not only as a parent but as a full person.

I had recently started working at the U of A, and I was eager to bring my mom back to campus. We had brunch at the Faculty Club and walked around Quad. Mom suggested we go to the bookstore. “I always loved the bookstore,” she told me.

I remember it was a dreary, late-winter day as we headed across Quad and into SUB. The bookstore was having a hoodie sale, so Mom and I combed through the clothing racks. As we shopped, she looked over at me with an expression I had never seen before. “I always wanted a hoodie when I was in school, but I could never afford it,” she said. Then her face lit up. “I’m going to buy myself something.” It was as though, in that moment, she realized it was OK to put herself first for once.

My grandfather died when my mom was 14; her little brother was four and her sister was 16. With my grandmother focused on keeping the family going, Mom had to grow up quickly. In university, Mom lived in a basement suite and worked as a receptionist to put herself through school. I remember her telling me about having to eat liver paste spread on hot dog buns. As a kid I just thought it was gross — I didn’t think about what that said about her life as a student.

On that day in the bookstore, I suddenly realized what those stories meant about my mom’s experiences as a young

1970 Tuck Shop forever closes its doors.

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woman. I, too, had put myself through university and I remembered what it felt like to not be able to afford a school hoodie. It wasn’t easy for my mom. There must have been times when she thought about giving up. But she never has.

Mom met my dad, Bob Smith, shortly after graduation; both worked for Johnson Controls in Edmonton. They fell in love, got married and three years later I was born. They had two more children and Mom quit her job as a social worker to stay home with us.

The year I turned 14, Dad got laid off. I’m sure it was a very difficult time, but we never saw that. Mom went back to work and eventually got a position with Alberta Child and Family Services. That was 20 years after she graduated.

My mom hasn’t really changed much since I was a kid. She still goes to watch my sister’s fastball games but now she also cheers on her grandchildren.

She’s passionate about seniors and aging well. She was a member of the Strathcona County seniors advisory committee, where she improved the quality of life for countless families.

She served on the organizing committee and as the volunteer and youth leadership liaison for the Canada 55+ Games this past August. Since that day in the U of A bookstore, I’ve seen my mother with new eyes. I recognize how many experiences we have in common, and I think I understand her a bit better because of that. She still proudly wears the green sweatsuit she bought that day.

My mom has asked me why she was chosen for this special issue of New Trail. She doesn’t see her life as remarkable, but the rest of us know the truth. My mother — and the thousands of other graduates out there who have gone through life quietly putting others ahead of themselves — should be celebrated more often.

My mother is compassionate, funny, intelligent and giving. I know all daughters feel this way, but I believe my mom is truly the best of all the moms.

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1969 DAVID ESTRIN

1968 LEROY JOHNSON

A nationally respected pioneer in environmental law, Estrin lectures widely and leads international legal efforts on climate change.

Johnson, a three-term MLA, was a mainstay at Camrose Lutheran College (now Augustana Campus) and founded the Viking Cup world hockey tournament.

1965 PHYLLIS ARNOLD

1964 MORRIS FLEWWELLING

An educator and entrepreneur, Arnold founded Arnold Publishing, which produced textbooks for Canadian and American schools.

Teacher, guidance counsellor, city councillor, founder of the Heritage Community Foundation and former Red Deer, Alta., mayor, Flewwelling embodies public service.

’68 BA, ’69 LLB | Toronto

’65 BEd, ’72 Dip(Ed) | Edmonton

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’68 BEd | Camrose, Alta.

’64 BEd | Red Deer, Alta.

1967 The Provincial Museum of Alberta opens with a mission to help tell the stories of Alberta through art, science and culture.

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1967 ANNE WHEELER

1966 STANLEY GOOCH

She’s a filmmaker and master storyteller whose works include Better Than Chocolate and Bye Bye Blues, plus episodes of Da Vinci’s Inquest and The Diviners.

Gooch served as Canadian ambassador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.

He was also high commissioner to India.

’67 BSc, ’90 DLitt (Honorary) | White Rock, B.C.

1963 ROBERT CHURCH ’62 BSc(Ag), ’63 MSc | Calgary

Involved in both medical science and holistic ranching, Church has pioneered a number of molecular genetics and embryo-transfer techniques in cattle.

1965 On Oct. 15, The Gateway announces: “The cramped, crowded U of A campus will start expanding into North Garneau by late 1966 with construction of a new law building.”

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’64 BA, ’66 MA | Kelowna, B.C.

1962 ALICE PAYNE

’62 BSc, ’65 MSc | Calgary

Payne pushed the boundaries for women in geology and served as the first female president of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists.

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1961 MARY-WYNNE ASHFORD

1960 GARRY M. LINDBERG

’60 BSc(HEc), ’61 BEd | Victoria

Physician and professor, Ashford served as co-president of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

1959 MYER HOROWITZ

’59 MEd, ’90 LLD (Honorary) | Victoria

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Lindberg was project manager of the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, which first flew on Columbia in 1981. You might know it as the Canadarm.

1958 CLARE DRAKE

As U of A president from 1979-89, Horowitz guided the school through a turbulent decade. Prior to his presidency, he advocated for early childhood education.

1958 Men and women are now allowed to drink together in Edmonton’s hotel beer parlours.

’60 BSc(EngPhys), ’12 DSc (Honorary) | Ottawa

’58 BEd, ’95 LLD (Honorary) | Edmonton

Drake, the most successful coach in Canadian university hockey, also served as mentor and inspiration for countless students and athletes.

1957 The Jubilee Auditorium opens in Edmonton. The arts centre is built as a gift to the people of Alberta in honour of the province’s 50th birthday.

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While Aileen Harmon, ’32 BA, of Mill Bay, B.C., is not the oldest grad featured in this issue (that honour goes to 1934 representative Isabel McRae), she is the alumna from the earliest grad class that we were able to photograph for this project. This earliest living grad is a native of Banff, Alta., where her knowledge of trails and local flora and fauna — plus her acquaintance with outfitters, guides and scientists — helped her compile Banff’s first nature guides. For 25 years, in increasingly senior roles, she drove the naturalist information and communications of Canada’s mountain parks.

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1957 BARBARA PATERSON ’57 BEd, ’88 BFA | Edmonton

This sculptor is best known for her Famous Five monuments, Women Are Persons, on Parliament Hill and in Calgary’s Olympic Plaza. She is creating a piece to honour the U of A’s presidents, to be unveiled on campus in 2015.

1957 The University of Alberta’s first computer, an LPG 30, arrives on campus. The computer weighs 363 kilograms and costs $40,000.

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1955 Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus, breaking the Montgomery, Ala., segregated seating law.

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1956 KAREN MILLS (NIELSEN)

1955 ROBERT DOWLING

Her dedication to public health issues included serving on delegations to the World Health Organization and the editorial board of Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Dowling, a Second World War veteran, was an MLA for Edson, Alta. He led Alberta’s 75th anniversary celebration and the province’s participation at Expo ’86.

’56 Dip(Nu), ’69 BScN, ’79 MHSA | Spruce Grove, Alta.

1954 HENRY SHIMIZU ’52 BSc, ’54 MD | Victoria

1953 DAVID GELL

Part of a surgical team that performed North America’s first successful functioning limb replantation, he also created the Images of Internment series of oil paintings.

1954 The Edmonton Eskimos win their first Grey Cup with the help of Stephen Mendryk, ’53 BPE. TIMELINE PHOTO EDMONTON ESKIMOS

’55 BSc(Pharm) | Jasper, Alta.

’52 BA, ’53 BCom | Calgary

A familiar voice in both Alberta and the United Kingdom, Gell was the first Canadian DJ on the BBC and hosted the popular U.K. quiz show Concentration.

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1952 SHIRLEY STINSON

1951 MANOLY LUPUL

Stinson has profoundly shaped nursing policies. She pioneered nursing research and designed the first nursing PhD program in Canada.

Named to the Order of Canada for promoting multiculturalism, Lupul founded the U of A’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.

’52 Dip(Nu), ’53 BScN, ’12 DSc (Honorary) | Edmonton

1950 GRANT STRATE ’49 BA, ’50 LLB | Vancouver

1949 LILA ENGBERG

A charter member of the National Ballet of Canada — as a dancer and resident choreographer — Strate infused the company with an original Canadian perspective.

1952 The U of A School of Graduate Studies is established and accepts its first doctoral student.

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’50 BA, ’51 BEd | Calgary

’49 BSc(HEc) | Guelph, Ont.

Engberg was the driving force behind the Home Economics Association of Africa and spent years helping women around the world achieve their goals.

1951 Comedy duo Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are welcomed into North American living rooms as I Love Lucy begins its six-season run on CBS. TIMELINE PHOTO THINKSTOCK

1948 BARBARA BROMLEY

’47 Dip(Nu), ’48 BScN | Yellowknife

The quintessential volunteer, Bromley is an advocate for the elderly, a caregiver, activist and organizer. She was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2000.

1950 The first Students’ Union Building opens with separate lounges for men and women.

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1949 The Golden Bears football team sells its green and gold uniforms to the newly formed Edmonton Eskimos, providing the CFL team with the green and gold they wear to this day. newtrail winter 2014

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1947 MICKEY HAJASH

1946 DOROTHY HARRIS

After years as a CFL football player and a career as a geophysicist, Hajash now spends time on his considerable charitable pursuits.

Harris brought creative dance to the U of A, founding its Orchesis Dance Group. She avidly promoted dance education across Canada and the globe.

1943 MARGUERITE RITCHIE

1942 E. BETTY THOMSON

Ritchie spent decades promoting the rights of women and founded the Human Rights Institute of Canada. She was the first woman appointed federal Queen’s counsel.

A lifelong volunteer, Thomson devoted much of her time to the Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Alberta) and the Allen Gray Continuing Care Centre.

’47 BSc(MiningEng) | Victoria

’43 BA, ’43 LLB, ’75 LLD (Honorary) | Ottawa

1947 Alberta’s first major oil discovery is made near Leduc.

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’46 BA | Edmonton

’42 BCom | Edmonton

1946 The Gateway publishes each student’s final exam grades for the final time.

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1945 STEELE BREWERTON

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’45 BSc, ’48 MD | Cardston, Alta.

1944 LORA FRIED

’43 Dip(Nu), ’44 BScN | Edmonton

The type of doctor who made house and country calls in all kinds of weather, Brewerton delivered thousands of babies without a maternal death or lawsuit.

A retired public health nurse, Fried spends much of her time painting and co-wrote South Edmonton Saga, the story of the area that became Mill Woods.

1941 ROBERT BLACKBURN

1940 ELIZABETH BELL

Blackburn was chief librarian at the University of Toronto from 1954-1982 and played a lead role in building it into Canada’s largest university library.

She met the doctor who became her husband on the tennis court beside the nurses’ residence at the U of A, and they spent a lifetime travelling the world.

’40 BA, ’41 MA | Mississauga, Ont.

1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares victory in Europe on May 8, after news spreads of Adolf Hitler’s suicide.

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’40 Dip(Nu) | Victoria

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1939 GEORGE ROBERTSON ’39 BSc | Ottawa

Robertson, whose 100th birthday aligns with the kickoff of the Alumni Association’s centenary year, embodies the lively mind and love of learning that define U of A alumni.

1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical, Oklahoma!, opens and goes on to win numerous awards, including a special Pulitzer Prize for the creators.

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1942 The first issue of The New Trail is introduced.

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THE LIFELONG LEARNER George Robertson has always loved to play with numbers.

So much so that in 2011, at the age of 97, he released a gaming app for Apple mobile devices called CheX Challenger. Imagine a fusion of Sudoku, chess and tick-tack-toe and you have CheX Challenger. The object of the game, designed for two players who alternate entering the numbers 1 through 5 into a five-by-five grid, is to achieve the highest score by completing rows and lines without repeating numbers. It’s simple math and scoring, Robertson says, but requires complex strategies and decision-making. “It makes you think.”

Developing a smartphone app may seem surprising for someone his age, but Robertson has been tinkering with complex numerical problems and technology for most of his life.

As a math and physics major at the U of A in the late 1930s, he recalls his first experiences with computerized arithmetic on an early hand-held calculator, which used a stylus to add, subtract, multiply and divide with numbered and notched slides.

Throughout his 55-year career in

meteorology, researching the effects of weather patterns on regional and global food production, Robertson came to rely more heavily on electronic devices.

Eventually, he would use computer programs to work out how the amount of rainfall, humidity, sunshine and temperature affected the growth and yield of crops. “So I soon learned how to program a computer by taking courses while I was working as a meteorologist,” he says.

Since retiring in the 1970s, his love of learning hasn’t waned. He remains a member of several scientific societies, including the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Meteorological Society and the Royal Meteorological Society. “I still get periodicals from all of them,” says Robertson. “So that’s one way I keep up with my education and knowledge of what’s going on in the scientific world.”

He also did grid-based numerical puzzles such as KenKen and Sudoku to keep his mind sharp but found he wasn’t sufficiently challenged by their prenumbered and solitary-play format.

He decided he could do better.

1939 Military training on campus is compulsory during the war.

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George Robertson has been learning non-stop for the past century. From using one of the first mechanized calculators in the 1930s to releasing an app in the 21st century, this math and physics major has much to teach us about not being afraid to take on a new challenge.

BY CHRISTIE HUTCHINSON So in 2009, he and his son, Glenn, designed an early version of CheX Challenger — or digital checkers, as he then called it — and played some 80 games back and forth by email.

Later, Robertson used QBasic coding to create a version for his home computer, complete with an internally programmed opponent he named Robby the Robot. The desktop computer program soon evolved, in co-operation with Robertson’s nephew Laurie Davis, ’76 BSc(ElecEng), ’78 MSc, into the CheX Challenger app for iPad and iPhone. Since its release, the free version of the app has been downloaded nearly 12,000 times. It’s now used so widely, Robertson says, “You can play against an opponent using the same screen, or an opponent overseas in Australia, or with a neighbour across the street.”

Robertson, who celebrates his 100th birthday on Dec. 20, seems to have found a winning formula for keeping his mind sharp. “It’s good to challenge the mind. [Playing games] uses those sleepy neurons that you don’t normally use; it gives the brain and the mind lots of opportunity to work and get exercise.”

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1938 ERNEST A. CÔTÉ ’38 LLB | Ottawa

As a student, Côté worked for the Northern Transportation Company. He became deputy minister for Northern Affairs and Natural Resources and for Veterans Affairs Canada. He was also deputy solicitor general.

1937 Grade 12 replaces Grade 11 as the university entrance requirement.

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1937 Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Fred Noonan vanish over the Pacific Ocean during a flight around the world.

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1937 NYAL FLETCHER

1936 IRENE COULTER

Fletcher worked in the family pharmacy with both his father and son. These days he is devoted to community, family and church, and still loves to play the violin.

Two weeks after graduation, Coulter married and moved to the United States with her husband. She has had a busy life of church work and raised two children.

’37 Dip(Pharm) | Magrath, Alta.

1935 JEAN CALHOUN

’34 BA, ’35 Dip(Ed) | Portland, Ore.

1934 ISABEL MCRAE

After graduating, Calhoun earned her MSW and became a social worker. Her impact is clear in the Head Start classroom named for her at a local agency.

1934 The 1934 University of Alberta calendar prohibits hazing.

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’36 BCom | Olathe, Kan.

’34 BA, ’60 BEd | Edmonton

One of the U of A’s oldest living alumni at 106, McRae taught for 39 years before retiring in 1970. She has been an avid traveller throughout her life.

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVID DESPAU

THE EARLY GRADS

1932 WALTER HUTCHINSON

More than 100 years have passed since the first small group of students graduated in 1911. Graduates of our earliest years are honoured in this series of portraits, based on their graduation photos in Evergreen and Gold yearbooks and the university’s archives. The splash of colour in each portrait represents the hood colour worn by graduates of a specific faculty.

’32 BSc

Hutchinson was a junior assistant during the 1930 field season in what’s now known as Dinosaur Provincial Park and was the first to discover a fossilized turtle with eggs.

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1933 ARTHUR BESSEMER (BIERWAGEN)

’33 BA, ’35 LLB

A successful lawyer in the oil and gas sector and a bencher of the Law Society of Alberta, he changed his name to Bessemer during the Second World War.

1933 The first Edmonton traffic light at Jasper Avenue and 101st Street becomes operational.

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1931 WILLIAM KENT

’31 BSc(CivEng)

One of the university’s most dedicated alumni throughout his life, Kent was a civil engineer who helped design and build Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge. (More on page 2.)

1929 Canadian women are legally declared “persons” and eligible for appointment to the Senate.

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1927 ERNEST TINKHAM ’27 BSc

Tinkham was an entomologist, naturalist and a leading authority on Arizona insects.

His collection is held at the California Academy of Sciences.

1929 GEORGE F. STANLEY ’29 BA, ’71 LLD (Honorary)

1930 YUICHI KURIMOTO

’30 BA, ’64 LLD (Honorary)

Founder of Nagoya Railway School (later Nagoya University and Koryo International College), Kurimoto was the first Japanese national U of A graduate.

1927 Former Alberta premier Alexander Rutherford is elected university chancellor.

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A highly respected historian, Stanley became lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick and was the designer of the Canadian Maple Leaf flag.

1928 THOMAS MCBEATH

’28 BSc(Ag)

McBeath was a lifetime honorary member of the Canadian 4-H Council and the first recipient of the Alberta Institute of Agrologists Distinguished Agrologist Award.

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1925 LEONE HELLSTEDT (MCGREGOR)

’25 MD, ’77 DSc (Honorary)

The only woman in the U of A’s first medicine class, Hellstedt married and settled in Sweden, opening her own practice and socializing with European leaders and royalty.

1923 WILLIAM GLADSTONE JEWITT ’23 BSc(MiningEng), ’53 LLD (Honorary)

A Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame member, Jewitt was an aerial Arctic exploration pioneer and established flight techniques that became standard civilian procedures.

1926 DAROL FROMAN

’26 BSc, ’27 MSc, ’64 LLD (Honorary)

A physicist and weapons researcher, Froman worked on the Manhattan Project and was deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1923 Maimie Simpson becomes the first female president of the Alumni Association, serving for the 1923–24 academic year.

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1924 JAMES COLLIP

’24 PhD, ’26 MD, ’46 LLD (Honorary)

Part of the team that isolated insulin, Collip created a form pure enough to be used in humans. John Macleod shared his portion of the 1923 Nobel Prize with Collip.

1922 The Alumni Association takes over the work of collecting money for the University War Memorial, thus beginning its 100 years of philanthropy.

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1919 DIXIE HAYES (PELLUET) ’19 BSc

1921 JOSEPH BAINBRIDGE

’21 BA, ’22 MA, ’31 BDiv

After coming to Canada in 1911 and serving in the First World War, Bainbridge completed his degree and was ordained in 1921. He was a minister in Edmonton and Calgary for 50 years.

1922 ARTHUR DONALDSON

’22 BSc(CivEng)

Donaldson worked on the Panama Canal as well as on the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam, and as a chief engineer on the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams.

1920 The first issue of The Trail is published.

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Pelluet became a biology professor at Dalhousie University, where she was a trailblazer fighting for fair pay and equality for female academics.

1920 GRACE ANNE STEWART

’18 BA, ’20 MA

The first woman to graduate in geology in Canada, Stewart was also the first to have a lifetime career in the geosciences. She was a paleontologist and taught at Ohio State.

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1916 HECTOR MACLEOD

’16 MSc

MacLeod became a professor and then dean of applied science at the University of British Columbia. UBC’s electrical engineering building is named for him.

1918 MALCOLM KERR

’16 BA, ’18 BDiv

Kerr held several pastorates throughout Alberta. He was also a chief engineer and sailed the seas for five years, including traversing the Suez Canal 30 times.

1917 ESTHER MARJORIE HILL

1915 GEORGE R. STEVENS

After completing her BA, Hill went on to complete a degree in architecture at the University of Toronto. She was Canada’s first woman to be a registered architect.

A distinguished author, broadcaster and film director, Stevens wrote 12 books, including a three-volume history of the Canadian National Railway.

’17 BA

1915 The University of Alberta Alumni Association is formed by a group of enterprising young graduates.

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’15 BA, ’64 LLD (Honorary)

1914 From 1914 to 1918, a total of 438 students, staff and alumni join the military during the First World War — 82 die in service or in action.

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1913 JOSEPH DOZE

’13 BSc

Part of the first applied science class (later engineering), Doze was one of Alberta’s foremost surveyors. Doze Lake, in northern Alberta, was named for him.

1914 LEROY MATTERN

’14 BA, ’20 MA

A pioneer in air traffic control, Mattern was the managing director of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association until his retirement in 1968.

1908 Henry Marshall Tory becomes the first president of the University of Alberta, serving from 1908 to 1928. His vision drives the U of A for the next century.

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1911 DECIMA MITCHELL (ROBINSON) ’11 BSc, ’12 MSc

The first graduate of the University of Alberta, Robinson was a mathematician who completed her MSc the following year and joined the U of A staff.

1912 ALBERT OTTEWELL

’12 BA, ’15 MA

Ottewell lays claim to many U of A firsts: first Gateway editor, first student union president and first Alumni Association president. He also served as registrar from 1928-46.

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Greg Zeschuk,

’90 BMedSc, ’92 MD

The co-founder of BioWare left a storied video game career to start fresh. Really fresh — with wheat and barley and hops. Call it an informal education: he has earned his beer-judging certification and is writing about beer, lobbying for craft brewers and doing a little craft brewing himself in his friend’s garage. We caught up with him to talk about his new-found passion and modern gaming.

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Your new baby is The Beer Diaries web series. How did the idea come to you? I got inspired during my time in Austin [leading BioWare’s Texas office], meeting some of the local brewers, who have a combination of entrepreneurship and devil-may-care attitude to the challenges of starting a brewery in a relatively inhospitable climate.

I wanted to tell their stories. That experience gave me the confidence to connect with brewers and beerlovers everywhere and the skills to also become executive director of the Alberta Small Brewers Association.

People probably ask you all the time, “Greg, why beer?” I’m inherently a bit of a foodie, a taste explorer. I like wine and scotch, too. Beer, though, I find most complex and varied. It’s got the biggest range of flavours, textures and smells. There’s subtlety in wine that you have to be sensitive to, but with beer, it’s broad strokes.

Why not stay a hobbyist? At some point I intend to start a brewery. Part of this is the experience of learning the brewery business and how to brew.

You mean an informal education?

I tend to throw myself fully into something. I don’t really dabble.

I took the Beer Judge Certification Program, which let me learn and learn and learn. I look at beer and see that, if I want to stick with it, I have my remaining lifetime of learning ahead of me. There is that much to it — there’s history, science, esthetic.

You mean, as opposed to video games’ 40-year history? Right.

Fermentation started in China about 7000 BC; they were doing a mead-ish wine. About 5000 BC, the Sumerians had what was probably beer, and then the Egyptians after that definitely had beer — their art shows a loaf of bread and a litre of beer. With video games, in contrast, you can go back to the mainframe guys in the early ’70s.

Do you still play games? I’m back into them now. I was just so entrenched with games that I stopped playing for almost two years. The passion was gone. But over the last while, I’ve inadvertently become an entrepreneurial adviser or board member to my friends in video game companies. Out of friendship, I said, “OK, I’ll advise you. And if I advise you, I have to start playing.”

What’s it like playing and working with video games again? It’s a different space. Video games have become very segmented. One of the most exciting segments is true indie — they’re selling on Steam [the desktop competition to the App Store] and without marketing. It’s very different from what I did. But it’s neat to see this indie startup scene come up.

I see in them what we used to be like.

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ALUMNI EVENTS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES CAPS CAREER FORUM EDMONTON | JANUARY-APRIL Alumni from all backgrounds are invited to share their career stories and inspire students looking to answer the question: what do I do next?

U SCHOOL EDMONTON | JANUARY-APRIL The Senate’s U School program is looking for volunteers to help introduce and connect students from grades 4 through 9 to campus. Bring your enthusiasm for learning to U School and inspire the next generation of U of A students!

SHARE THE CHEER! EDMONTON | DEC. 20-JAN. 1 Share the joy of a Canadian holiday meal with international students spending the December break in Edmonton.

GREEN & GLOW WINTERFEST EDMONTON | JAN. 29-31 We’re kicking off our Alumni Association centenary celebration with an incredible weekend of winter fun and wonder. Light up the night at the opening ceremony, help out at the Cool Science Lecture or lend a hand at one of our other fun events.

STUDIO THEATRE EDMONTON | FEB. 5-14 & MARCH 26-APRIL 4 U of A Studio Theatre is looking for volunteers to help with performances of The Threepenny Opera and A Dream Play. Help by ripping tickets, greeting guests or answering questions — and enjoy the show yourself.

ANNUAL JOB SHADOW WEEK EDMONTON | FEB. 17-21 Give a student a behind-the-scenes look at your career and the value you bring to the Edmonton community. Application deadline Jan. 9.

More at ualberta.ca/alumni/volunteer.

REGIONAL ACTIVITIES Stay involved with the U of A through one of the more than 50 active alumni chapters around the world. Check online for information about events near you.

EDMONTON | JAN. 22 Educated Reel: Huge Tales — Dino Myths on the Silver Screen

EDMONTON | MARCH 11 Educated Luncheon: Shale Gas Revolution with associate professor Nick Harris

CALGARY | JAN. 28 Calgary Alumni Lecture Series: Alberta Wildlife & Oil and Gas with professor Mark Boyce

EDMONTON | MARCH 20 Educated Critic: Jazz and Shiraz Backstage

EDMONTON | FEB. 12 Educated Luncheon: A New Angle on Oil with Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies EDMONTON | FEB. 20 Educated Critic: Alberta Ballet — Fumbling Towards Ecstasy PHOENIX | FEB. 21 19th Annual Alumni Brunch at the Arizona Biltmore CALGARY | FEB. 22 Symphony Sundays for Kids: The Twins and the Monster VANCOUVER | FEB. 26 Artist talk at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art CALGARY | MARCH 4 President’s Reception with Michael Houghton, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Virology VANCOUVER | MARCH 6 Dental Alumni Association Reception

CALGARY | MARCH 31 Calgary Alumni Lecture Series: Sport Concussions with associate professor Martin Mrazik EDMONTON | APRIL 4 Easter Eggstravaganza EDMONTON | APRIL 8 Educated Luncheon: Ibolja Cernak, Chair in Military and Veterans’ Clinical Rehabilitation HONG KONG | APRIL 28 President’s Reception featuring researcher Tim Caulfield BEIJING | MAY 1 President’s Reception featuring researcher Tim Caulfield CALGARY | MAY 12 Calgary Alumni Lecture Series: Water with professor Nicholas Ashbolt VANCOUVER | MAY 13 President’s Reception with Thomas Thundat, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Oil Sands Molecular Engineering

GET READY TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS The U of A Alumni Association celebrates 100 years in 2015. Save the dates for some very special events.

JAN. 29-31 | GREEN & GLOW WINTERFEST

MAY 22-23 | VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

JAN. 29 | “COOL SCIENCE” WITH DAN RISKIN, ’97 BSc

SEPT. 24-27 | ALUMNI WEEKEND 2015

Dates are subject to change; events are added daily. For more or to register, visit

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1. Julian Ulan, ’58 BA, ’59 LLB, (right) and Hazel Ulan (Kindraka), ’59 BEd, reunite with classmates at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald at the Golden Grads Dinner during Alumni Weekend.

Photo by Epic Photography/ Meryl Smith Lawton 2. There’s no doubt which team Randy McDonald is cheering for at the annual Labour Day Classic game between the Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos.

3. Jaclynn Fimrite, ’91 BCom, (right) and Maria Hernandez get ready for the rodeo at a pre-Calgary Stampede event in July.

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by Ryan Whitefield, ’10 BA 5. Ida Thomson, ’64 BPE, (facing camera) and Ilma Green, ’64 BPE, reunite before reliving their convocation at the Cap ’n Gown ceremony at Alumni Weekend. Photo by Laughing Dog Photography/ Dwayne Martineau 6. Sally Warr, ’01 BA(NativeStuHons), visits with President Indira Samarasekera during the President’s Reception in London, England, in October.

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CL A SS NOTES WE’D LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU’RE DOING. Tell us about your new baby or your new job. Celebrate a personal accomplishment, a volunteer activity or share your favourite campus memories. Submit a class note at alumni.ualberta.ca/connect/class-notes or email alumni@ualberta.ca.

1940s

’49 Helen Ivanhoe Smart (Liss), Dip(Ed), writes: “In 1948, after eight months of training, I began my first teaching job in a log schoolhouse west of Green Court, Alta.

When I recently visited the site of West Paddle School, no evidence remained of the once busy schoolyard. A grove of dense poplar trees has overtaken and obliterated all evidence of the school, barn, outhouses, well, pump and community hall.

After graduating in 1949, I married an American oil exploration geologist. His work took us around the world to Libya, Turkey, Israel, Rome, Colombia and Mexico. Now, at 87 years of age, after a gypsy life, my husband and I live quietly in a retirement community in Santa Barbara, Calif.

In my spare time, I have written three books. The Intrepid Fox is the story of my father’s struggles and achievements as an early western Canadian immigrant and homesteader in Sangudo, Alta. Lord Save Me From Taft is the story of my lonely life in the dry, dusty town of Taft, Calif. My latest book, Rocks in Her Head or How I Became a Rolling Stone, is a humorous account of a geologist’s gypsy life — everything from being picked up by the KGB in Moscow to winning restitution from the Communist government for a stolen suitcase.

Despite all the hardships and deprivations faced by our parents, John and Mary Liss, they were able to send five of their seven children to the University of Alberta: Stanley became an engineer; Vlad studied horticulture; Valeria Liss, ’57 BSc(HEc) graduated as a home economist; John Liss, ’58 BSc(Ag), became a major in the army; and I became a school teacher — splendid record for a Polish immigrant homesteader family. It was all made possible by the generosity and wisdom of the people of Alberta and its school system and university.”

1950s

’57 Jamie Wallin, BEd, ’62 MEd, went on to complete a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965. Jamie lives in Thailand and is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Chiang Mai University, sits on the editorial board for Rangsit Journal of Arts and Sciences with Rangsit University, and serves on the board of governors for Satit Bilingual School of Rangsit University in Pathumthani. He has served as a visiting professor at three universities in Thailand and is an active researcher and writer on topics related to socioeconomic issues in the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Jamie says, “Alumni interested in these issues are invited to write to me at jamie.wallin.cmu@gmail.com.”

’49 Sterling Haynes, BSc, ’51 MSc, ’58 MD, has just published his latest book, Where Does It Hurt Now? The collection of 35 stories contains mostly funny (and some not-so-funny) stories from his nearly 50-year career as a general practitioner. The cover portrays Sterling’s mother, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, the U of A dramatist, teacher and Alberta theatre pioneer for whom the Sterling Awards are named. The portrait was painted by his great niece Charlotte Falk, ’06 BDes, who has gone on to become an architect in Vancouver. Most of Sterling’s stories have been published in newspapers, journals and magazines. His first book, Bloody Practice, was a bestseller in his home province of British Columbia. Two of his stories have been chosen by Canadian anthologies for their collections: “Dad” appears in Engraved: Stories of World War One and “Mother’s Rebirth” will appear in Fly Like an Eagle. Both collections will be on the market by Christmas.

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A Spectacle of Light, fire and snow

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January 29–31, 2015 Winterfest is an outdoor spectacle of light, snow and fire that brings together artists, exhibits, and performers to create a magical winter wonderland on campus.

We have plenty of volunteer opportunities, and all volunteers will receive limited-edition UAlberta winter gear.

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Even our students are researchers As a third-year student, Justyna Jalosinski mapped “food deserts”— neighbourhoods located more than a kilometre from a grocery store. Her findings are now influencing the way we plan and manage communities.

Her work was supported by the Undergraduate Research Initiative, which is supported by donors to the Annual Fund. They have helped over 400 students like Justyna make a difference through research.

Please give to the Annual Fund to continue this great work.

Visit uab.ca/URI or call Jo-Anne at (780) 492-7587, toll-free (877) 992-7587

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1960s

’60 Bonnie Buxton, BA, has volunteered since 1999 with FASworld Toronto, an organization she co-founded to raise awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

Along with her husband, Brian Philcox, she launched the Baby Bump Campaign in use across Ontario and Minnesota.

’62 Jim Thorsell, BSc, ’09 LLD (Honorary), received honorary citizenship of Huangshan city at an international meeting of UNESCO at the Huangshan World Heritage site in China.

This was Jim’s 19th trip to China, where he has been assisting in establishing and managing natural UNESCO World Heritage sites. In July, he was appointed for a three-year term to the board of NatureServe, a non-profit environmental conservation organization headquartered in Arlington, Va., which operates throughout the Western Hemisphere.

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’68 John Eisner, DDS, was awarded the 2014 Gies Award for Outstanding Innovation for a Dental Educator at the American Dental Education Association annual session in San Antonio. The William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement are the preeminent recognition program in the areas of oral health and dental education. This award recognizes John’s distinguished career as a dental educator both as a faculty member at several universities and as a pioneer in the use of computer-based clinic management systems to improve dental education programs. While on faculty at the University of Buffalo, John founded Academic Management Systems, a computer software company that has developed admissions, administrative and accreditation management software used by organizations across North America. He is now enjoying retired life in Florida with his wife, Joanne Morgan.

ALUMNI NOMINATED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE Two alumni were shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Frances Itani, ’74 BA, was nominated for her book Tell (see page 62), and Padma Viswanathan, ’89 BA(Spec), was nominated for her novel The Ever After of Ashwin Rao. The prize was awarded Nov. 10 to Sean Michaels for his book Us Conductors.

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’75 Moira Day, BA(Hons), ’80 MA, is a professor of drama at the University of Saskatchewan. She writes: “My main area of expertise is Canadian theatre history, but with the anniversary of the First World War upon us, Prairie university women’s theatre and drama during the Great War has become a particular area of interest. Some years ago I wrote an article about Clara May Bell (1892-1918), a gifted young musician who was a student at the U of A prior to and during the First World War. She was also the composer/co-writer of Psyche, an original musical drama complete with dancers, chorus and orchestra presented in 1916. Tragically, Clara never graduated; she died from Spanish influenza at the infirmary in Pembina Hall in November 1918. However, her brother, William Wilberforce (W.W.) Bell, ’24 MD, survived the war to become a doctor in rural Alberta, and her younger sister, Frances Isobel (Bell) Kibblewhite, ’27 BA, married and also moved to rural Alberta after graduation. Sadly, I’ve never been able to find what happened to Psyche, although it was much praised at the time. An excerpt of it was published in a 1916 edition of The Gateway, but I haven’t found the manuscript itself in any of the archives I’ve searched, nor have I been in touch with anyone who knows where it is or what may have become of it. With the 100th anniversary of the operetta close at hand, I would love to get in touch with anyone who knows more about Psyche, Clara or her family, especially if she still has descendants who may have stories or materials of their own to share.”

[Note: Please contact alumni@ualberta.ca if you have information for Moira.] ’79 Patricia Fingerhut (Simmonds), BSc(OT), ’00 MSc, completed her PhD at Texas Woman’s University in 2005. She is associate professor and chair of the occupational therapy program at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Patricia is the creator of Life Participation for Parents, an evaluation tool for family-centred occupational therapy relating to children with special needs. She says she would love 62

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’74 Frances Itani, BA, member of the Order of Canada and author of 16 books, has two new books out this year.

The first, Best Friend Trouble, is a children’s picture book published in April by Orca Books. The second, her novel Tell, published by HarperCollins Canada in August, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel, set in Canada following the First World War, is a follow-up to her earlier, award-winning novel Deafening. Tell deals with loss, music and the secrets we bury to protect ourselves. Her earlier collection of poetry called A Season of Mourning is also being reissued this year by Brick Books.

to hear from other members of the U of A’s occupational therapy class of 1979. ’79 Christine Lefaivre, BSc(OT), recently published a textbook, Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: The Lefaivre Rainbow Effect. The book shares her groundbreaking method — for supporting and rehabilitating people with brain injuries — developed over her 26 years in clinical practice. Christine received an Alumni Honour Award for this work in 2001. ’79 Jan Selman, MFA, and Jane Heather, ’75 BA, ’93 MFA, published Theatre, Teens, Sex Ed: Are We There Yet? This book includes Jane’s play, Are We There Yet?, as well as analysis and a DVD with examples of theatrical participation.

1980s

’80 Richard Aistrope, BPE, has taken on a new job as the vice-principal at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, Calif. ’83 David Erickson, PhD, and Sheila Erickson, ’98 BScN, have moved to Brentwood Bay, B.C. They enjoy being able to kayak, bike and hike year-round while exploring Vancouver Island in their RV. David has relocated the head office for his computer software company, Behavior Toolbox Inc., to British Columbia. David and Sheila have two daughters: Jane, 32, works in Shanghai and is completing a master’s degree at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia; and Julie, 27, lives in Winnipeg and is completing her PhD at the University of Manitoba. ’84 Karen Green, BA, ’87 LLB, wrote to say: “My recent retirement started with a collaboration on a book with my husband, Jan Krijff, a Dutch historian. That book, Greetings From Canada: Postcards From Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands, 1884-1915, received a 2013 IndieFab award in the history (adult non-fiction) category from Foreword Reviews, a U.S.-based review journal of independent writers and publishers. As we now live in the Netherlands, it was wonderful, and unexpected, that our Canadian book (published by Granville Island Publishing in Vancouver) was recognized.”

’84 Lubomyr Luciuk, PhD, now a professor with the Royal Military College of Canada, has written a new book, Jews, Ukrainians and the Euromaidan, published by Kashtan Press.

The book traces the generally positive role played by Jewish Ukrainians and the Diaspora in support of the November 2013 Ukrainian revolution. ’86 Anita McGregor, BA(Criminology), ’93 MEd, is the director of the Wentworth Forensic Clinic, a collaborative project through the University of New South Wales (Sydney) and Corrective Services New South Wales. The Wentworth clinic is a training clinic for the master of psychology (forensic) program at UNSW and operates out of the city corrections office. Anita most recently received the Australian Psychology Society’s College of Forensic Psychologists award for research and academic work. ’87 Joe Pitzel, BA(Spec), ’89 BEd, has retired from teaching after a successful 25-year career.

He taught junior high science and grades 7-12 art in Winfield, Alta., for two years and in Buck Lake, Alta., for 23 years. Joe also coached junior and senior basketball for 19 years. He and his wife, Joni, will be retiring to Welland, Ont., to watch their granddaughters grow up and maybe help coach them at basketball. ’88 PearlAnn Reichwein, BA, associate professor in the U of A’s Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, wrote to say that her new book Climber’s Paradise: Making Canada’s Mountain Parks, 1906-1974 was a finalist in the 2014 Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Literature, Non-Fiction, category. In Climber’s Paradise, Reichwein looks at the Alpine Club of Canada as a viewfinder on Canada’s changing outlook on recreation, land use and conservation, particularly in iconic western Canadian and northern mountain parks. ’88 Kevin Timoney, PhD, won the 2013 Lane Anderson Award for his book The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem. The award honours the best science writing in Canada today, in both adult and young reader categories. The author of the winning book in each category receives $10,000.

’85 Leslie Bland, BFA, and Ian Ferguson, ’86 BFA, teamed up to direct Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood, a feature-length documentary starring Tracy Thomas, ’00 BFA. The film looks at the long history of Canadians in Hollywood and the major influence they have had on the development of American pop culture. It features celebrity interviews and classic archival images from the beginnings of Hollywood through present day. Gone South presents a historical overview of the influence of Canadians in Los Angeles as well as thematically linked interviews with current Canadians working in Hollywood. The film has screened at several festivals, including the Edmonton International Film Festival and the Florida Documentary Film Festival, and will air on Super Channel in the spring.

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1990s

’92 Pam Chamberlain, BA, ’96 BEd, ’03 MA, recently saw the release of In the Company of Animals: Stories of Extraordinary Encounters (Nimbus Publishing), the second book she has edited. A collection of stories by 37 Canadian authors, the book explores diverse relationships between humans and animals.

Pam teaches composition for Athabasca University and lives in Calgary, where she volunteers for her local community garden and Calgary Reads. ’96 Dawn Richards, BSc(Hons), ’00 PhD, was recognized on Patient Commando’s 2014 list of Women Changing Health Care. Along with her work as director of strategic opportunities at the Office of Personalized Genomics and Innovative Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, she is vice-president of the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance. Dawn is also the first patient adviser to the Canadian Medical Association’s Wait Time Alliance, a member of the ethics committee and the institute advisory board of the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research), and a member of the British Medical Journal patient panel of reviewers. ’98 Darren Bondar, MBA, started Watch It!, a specialty watch retail boutique, shortly after graduating from the U of A. He is

’90 Marika Deliyannides, BA(Spec), will see the release of her debut novel, Bitter Lake, to be published by the Porcupine’s Quill this fall. Marika describes her book: “Set in both Calgary and rural Alberta, Bitter Lake tells the story of professional organizer Zoe Lemonopolous, who finds herself wellemployed, married to a kind (if dull) dentist and pregnant. Zoe has agreed to have the baby but cannot imagine herself as a mother.

Although her life has all the hallmarks of the successful adult existence she was sure she wanted, she senses her life spiralling out of control. Everything is further turned upside down when she reluctantly agrees to spend a week away from her carefully composed life in downtown Calgary.” An excerpt of Bitter Lake was awarded the Brenda Strathern Late Bloomers Writing Prize for most promising first fiction and was also published in Alberta Views magazine as the 2008 winner of its annual fiction contest.

pleased to announce that the company is now celebrating its 15th anniversary and has 30 locations across Canada. Darren says, “My experience at the Alberta School of Business and ongoing communication with the School of Retailing have been a big part of our success and a valuable partnership.”

’99 Lindsey Carmichael, BSc(Hons), ’06 PhD, has published her 11th science book for children. Her latest, Fuzzy Forensics: DNA Fingerprinting Gets Wild, uses the case of a kidnapped elk to teach children about DNA fingerprinting. It includes experiments and activities to try at home.

ALBERTA ORDER OF EXCELLENCE APPOINTMENTS Three alumni were inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence on Oct. 15. Morris Flewwelling, ’64 BEd, Frederick Mannix, ’66 BCom, ’06 LLD (Honorary), and Willie Littlechild, ’67 BPE, ’75 MA, ’76 LLB, ’07 LLD(Honorary), were named to the order, which recognizes outstanding citizens who have made a difference and served Albertans with excellence and distinction. (More on Littlechild on page 29; more on Flewwelling on page 34.)

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2000s

’01 Laurence Miall, BA, published his first novel, Blind Spot, which is set in Edmonton and features several fictional U of A professors and students as characters.

After graduating with a BA in political science, Laurence has gone to work in communications with the Alberta government, Alberta Teachers’ Association, McGill University and Concordia University. ’04 Ben Block, BCom, ’09 LLB, has launched a social network startup called GozAround, centred around people helping people and the idea that “what goes around comes around.”

’08 Caroline Lieffers, BA, ’10 MA, and retired U of A associate librarian Merrill Distad co-authored Collecting Culinaria: Cookbooks and Domestic Manuals Mainly From the Linda Miron Distad Collection. This book, which highlights some of the Distad collection’s most intriguing texts, accompanies an exhibit at the U of A’s Bruce Peel Special Collections Library featuring cookbooks and household guides from the collection.

WE’D LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU’RE DOING. Tell us about your new baby or your new job. Celebrate a personal accomplishment, a volunteer activity or share your favourite campus memories. Submit a class note at alumni.ualberta.ca/connect/class-notes or email alumni@ualberta.ca.

GozAround allows individuals and volunteer organizations to post and respond to help requests and formal volunteer opportunities in their area, making it quicker and easier to get involved in the community. So far, the project has more than 100 volunteer organizations registered and a growing pool of individuals wanting to help in their communities. To learn more, watch a video about the project or join the network, visit gozaround.com. ’06 Holly Nasogaluak Carpenter, BA(NativeStu), ’08 BEd, writes to say, “I have been teaching in my hometown of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., for the past four years. Thank you to the U of A for allowing me to obtain my education.” ’06 James Gifford, PhD, published Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes with University of Alberta Press. This collection of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the “lost generation” of writers of the 1930s and ’40s, forging a link between late modernist and postmodernist literature and encouraging readers to re-engage the lost generation through a new critical lens. ’09 Louise Arbour, LLD (Honorary), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, has joined the law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais as counsel.

2010s

’11 Joe MacKinnon, MA, published his second novel, Cypulchre, with Guy Faux Books.

His book is described as “a dark and twisted cyberpunk thriller that will take readers on a journey through revolt and redemption, high-tech nightmares and low-life dreams.” ’14 Tiffany Adair, BFA, wrote to say: “This year I became the first UAlberta student to win the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, which is a big deal! Since receiving the award, I worked as a sculpture technician at the U of A and I am currently working at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre. Some upcoming projects of mine include a collaborative artist book that I am making with three local poets, which will be completed next June. You can catch a logo and calligraphy design I did for FreeFall literary magazine this fall as well as my award-winning sculpture [titled Mind Frame] in the October issue of Sculpture magazine. I am also continuing work on a new body of sculptural and 2D works.”

’11 Joe Vickers, BEd, continues to create and record music with his Edmonton folk/punk band, Audio/Rocketry, and as a solo folk artist. He recorded his latest solo project titled Patient/Medicine Bag while splitting time between his family farm near Drumheller, Alta., and Portland, Ore., where he lives with his wife. The double EP features songs reflecting Alberta and its diverse people. Joe is now writing for Audio/Rocketry’s next album.

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THE FACULTY CLUB MYSTIQUE

ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES BRAITHWAITE; PHOTO OF JASON LEE NORMAN BY DYLAN WOWCHUK

After imagining it from afar, stepping inside was momentous MY RELATIONSHIP with the University of Alberta was a weird one right from the start.

I have never been an approval-seeking type of person, but with the U of A it was impossible for me to avoid. At first I played it cool, acted aloof as though I was the cool one and it was the university that should be thankful for having me attend. But it wasn’t long before that dynamic flipped and I became the one who desperately wanted the U of A to know I was there — to somehow make a lasting impression on it.

Mornings began the same way for me each day. I would park in a lot on the west side of campus and walk to one of the buildings on the east side, usually Humanities or Tory.

The shadow of the Faculty Club loomed large as I passed. It seemed to have the best little slice of real estate on campus and the added benefit of not having any classrooms or labs inside it. The Faculty Club was just for faculty, or at least that’s what I assumed at the time.

It was the classiest faculty lounge I’d never seen, with just the right mix of leather and wood and suede and tweed. Smoking inside buildings was not yet illegal so I also assumed that the club smelled sweetly of old books, pipe smoke and Merlot. I imagined professors from all over the university gathering each evening to have dinner in the immaculate and modestly designed dining room overlooking the glorious river valley and talking about how well I was doing in my studies. In my head, this is how things went.

One day not long ago, I got an email from someone at the Faculty of Arts. I had finally triggered their Google alert, I figured. The message asked me to emcee their annual awards dinner for faculty and students, and the event would be held AT THE FACULTY CLUB. “You had me at Faculty Club,” I replied, Jerry Maguire-style.

Entering the Faculty Club for the first time was kind of like going back to your old elementary school as an adult. Everything seemed smaller than I’d expected, and I felt much bigger compared with the idea of the place that I had in my head. In my heart, I was so excited to be there. I wore a suit. I said funny things. I read the names of award recipients who were all doing much more

valuable things with their time than I was.

But I was the one the faculty chose to be the host. Professors asked how I was doing and thanked me for coming. They asked if I needed anything, brought me ice water in a wine glass — a wine glass! It was one of the happiest experiences the U of A has ever given me.

At the end of the night, all mystique surrounding the Faculty Club was gone for me.

I realized it was just like any other building on campus. But it wasn’t just any other campus; this was the University of Alberta. I felt I had finally done enough in my life to pop up on its radar, and after the evening I spent there, I hoped to do enough to be invited back.

Editor’s note: Though we have not yet had the heart to tell Jason Lee Norman, Faculty Club memberships have been available since 2013 to all alumni who enjoy drinking water in a wine glass.

Jason Lee Norman, ’06 BA, is a writer with a beard. He is the 2014 Edmonton Public Library Writer-in-Residence and the creator of the 40 Below anthology, a collection of writing about winter in Edmonton. He is a fan of large coffees and tiny stories. newtrail winter 2014

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IN MEMORIAM

The Alumni Association notes with sorrow the passing of the following graduates (based on information received between June 2014 and October 2014)

’31 William Leslie Kent, BSc(CivEng), of Langley, BC, in October 2014

’45 Russel Gilbert Beairsto, BEd, ’47 BA, of Calgary, AB, in October 2014

’48 John Richmond Huckell, BSc, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’49 Elizabeth Gwen Lyon, BSc(HEc), of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’50 Dorothy Hilda MacPherson (Cameron), BEd, ’73 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in April 2014

’36 Irene L. Gaunce (Barnett), BSc, ’37 Dip(Ed), of Salmon Arm, BC, in April 2014

’45 June Alicia McCormack (Irving), Dip(Nu), of Oak Park Heights, MN, in July 2014

’48 Eric H. Knight, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in July 2014

’50 George Dickson McIver, DDS, of Camrose, AB, in October 2014

’38 Marion Lorea Francis (Williams), BA, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’45 Leslie William Nelson, BSc(CivEng), of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’48 Nora May Knowles (Kowalski), BSc(HEc), of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014

’49 Walter Louis Montgomery, BSc(CivEng), of High River, AB, in May 2014 ’49 Edna Elizabeth Murray, BA, ’52 BEd, ’67 MA, in July 2014

’50 William John McLuhan, BSc, ’57 MD, of Red Deer, AB, in June 2014

’38 Allan Alexander Gibb, BSc, ’39 Dip(Ed), ’42 BEd, of West Vancouver, BC, in June 2014

’45 Donald Murray Roberts, BSc(EngPhys), of Ames, IA, in July 2014

’48 Burns John Larson, BSc, ’50 MD, of Cardston, AB, in May 2014

’49 John Cameron Sadleir, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’50 Alixe I. Miller (Bures), BA, ’73 Dip(Ed), in April 2014

’39 David Stansfield, BA, of Portland, ON, in September 2014

’46 Cleve Spencer Bowlsby, BSc, ’48 MD, of Vancouver, BC, in September 2014

’49 Eugene Charles Audell, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in May 2014

’49 Arthur Mitchell Scott, BA, of Kingston, ON, in July 2014

’40 Alice Alberta Delorme (Whybrow), Dip(Nu), of Sherbrooke, QC, in March 2014

’46 Henry Ludwig Kasten, BSc(CivEng), ’49 MSc, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’49 Stanley Ernest Beacom, BSc(Ag), ’51 MSc, of Melfort, SK, in June 2014

’49 Margery E. Wall (Rowbotham), BSc, of Calgary, AB, in July 2014

’41 William Pavey Skelton, BSc(Pharm), of Lethbridge, AB, in June 2014

’47 Margaret Muir Gulliver, Dip(PHNu), of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’50 Dorothy May Beattie (Murray), Dip(Nu), of Grande Prairie, AB, in July 2014

’42 Helen Elizabeth Giles (Jamison), Dip(Nu), ’43 BSc(Nu), of Vulcan, AB, in October 2014

’47 Enid Kathleen McGuffin (Roper), BCom, of Calgary, AB, in September 2014

’49 Gertrude Catherine Bohan, BA, ’50 Dip(Ed), ’51 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014

’42 Elizabeth Ann Love (McNally), BA, of Calgary, AB, in September 2014

’47 Gordon Frederick McLean, BCom, of Toronto, ON, in June 2014

’42 Robert Alexander L. MacBeth, BA, ’44 MD, of Toronto, ON, in June 2014

’47 Mildred Ruth Smythe, Dip(Nu), of London, ON, in September 2014

’43 Betty Cecilia Chinn, Dip(PHNu), of Nanaimo, BC, in August 2014

’48 Douglas Clarke, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’44 A. Blanche Howard (Machon), BSc, of West Vancouver, BC, in June 2014

’48 Karl Lembit Erdman, BSc, ’49 MSc, of Vancouver, BC, in August 2014

’44 Robert Ludwig Sather, BSc(ChemEng), of Vancouver, BC, in October 2014

’48 William Leonard Esdale, BSc, ’50 MD, of Langley, BC, in August 2014

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’49 Louis Charles Chauvet, BSc(Ag), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014 ’49 Laurence Cottrell, BEd, of Victoria, BC, in September 2014 ’49 Lillian Mary Flint (Dunn), BSc, of Paradise Valley, AB, in September 2014 ’49 Ian Hamilton Fowler, BSc(ChemEng), of Calgary, AB, in August 2014 ’49 Ralph Ernest Hyde, BA, ’50 LLB, of Burnaby, BC, in August 2014 ’49 George Kostashuk, BSc, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’50 Robert Bodner, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014 ’50 Donald Alan Clarke, BSc(ChemEng), of Calgary, AB, in September 2014 ’50 John Elwood Davis, BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, AB, in June 2014 ’50 Marion Elizabeth Foster, Dip(Ed), ’51 BEd, ’61 MEd, of Nanaimo, BC, in October 2014 ’50 Philip Mycal Halisky, BSc(Ag), of Logan, UT, in May 2014 ’50 Bonnie Loder (Jones), BA, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’50 Bernice Agnes Newcombe (Holzworth), Dip(Ed), ’51 BEd, of Calgary, AB, in July 2014 ’50 Albert William Soklofske, DDS, of Medicine Hat, AB, in June 2014 ’50 Elizabeth Marilyn Thompson (Sears), BSc(Ag), of Nanton, AB, in July 2014 ’50 Thomas Jackson Trimble, BSc(CivEng), of Victoria, BC, in August 2014 ’50 John Veres, BSc(ElecEng), of Calgary, AB, in July 2014 ’50 Sylvia M. Wallace (Sattler), Dip(Ed), of Calgary, AB, in June 2014 ’51 Alan L. Clark, BSc, of Hinton, AB, in September 2014 ’51 Robert Hironaka, BSc(Ag), ’53 MSc, of Lethbridge, AB, in September 2014 ’51 Arnold Ellsworth MacQuarrie, BSc(CivEng), in May 2014 ’51 Nathan Reiber, BA, ’52 LLB, of Aventura, FL, in July 2014

’52 Ronald Norman Dalby, BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, AB, in October 2014 ’52 Donna Dolores Dlugos (Miller), BA, of Victoria, BC, in August 2014 ’52 Charles Raymond Ferguson, Dip(Ed), ’58 Dip(Ed), ’59 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014 ’52 Juanetta Mccoy (Mercer), BSc(HEc), of Ladner, BC, in October 2014 ’52 Frank Donald McEachern, BSc(PetEng), of Calgary, AB, in August 2014 ’52 Sophie Skulsky (Tkachuk), BSc(HEc), of Las Vegas, NV, in July 2014

’53 Patricia Elizabeth Labrecque (Kelly), BSc(Pharm), of Calgary, AB, in October 2014 ’53 Michael Claude P. Livingston, MD, in July 2014 ’53 Stuart Bowen Wilton, BSc(Ag), of Olds, AB, in October 2014 ’54 Mary Elinor Aitken (Maw), BSc(HEc), of Osoyoos, BC, in May 2014 ’54 Gordon James Hutton, BSc, ’56 DDS, of Chilliwack, BC, in June 2014 ’54 Marion Grace Mersereau, BEd, ’63 MEd, of Victoria, BC, in September 2014

’52 Nicholas Sloboda, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’54 James Arthur Millard, BA, ’55 LLB, of Calgary, AB, in April 2014

’52 Robert James Swallow, MD, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’55 Lawrence Oliver Fenniak, BSc(ElecEng), of Kingston, ON, in April 2014

’52 Lois E. Underschultz, Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in May 2014

’55 Donald Grove Marson, BEd, of Kelowna, BC, in August 2014

’52 Shozo Yasui, BSc(ChemEng), of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014

’56 Gordon Herbert Bowman, MSc, of Calgary, AB, in October 2014

’53 Audrey G. Dahl, Dip(Ed), of Whitecourt, AB, in September 2014

’56 Ronald Anthony Cimolino, BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, AB, in July 2014

’53 Jesse Marilyn Holmes (Huestis), BPE, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’56 Blaine Leon Hudson, BCom, of Cochrane, AB, in September 2014

’53 Theodore Frederick J. Jacobs, BSc(ElecEng), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’56 Ronald Ian McKinnon, BA(Hons), of Stanford, CA, in October 2014

’56 Gerhard Jacob Regehr, BSc(Ag), of Edmonton, AB, in May 2014

’59 Clifford Carl Louis, BSc(CivEng), of Saskatoon, SK, in June 2014

’61 Madeleine Agnes Kiel (Nysetvolvd), Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’57 Tove Margrethe Bording, BA, ’61 LLB, of Victoria, BC, in July 2014

’59 Mary Marguerite Suca, BEd, of Blairmore, AB, in June 2014

’61 Richard Leslie McBride, MD, of The Woodlands, TX, in February 2014

’57 Richard Lee Collver, BA, in August 2014

’60 Bernard Adell, BA, ’61 LLB, of Kingston, ON, in July 2014

’62 Terrance Allan Collins, BA, ’67 MA, of Mission, BC, in April 2014

’60 Jean A. Baptiste (Craig), BA, ’64 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’62 Gary Peter Coskey, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’60 William Bobey, MD, of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014

’62 Florence Kross (Skoreiko), BEd, of Crofton, BC, in June 2014

’60 Osborne John Broemeling, BEd, ’76 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’62 Floyd Lance Rowat, MD, of Calgary, AB, in July 2014

’58 Laurette Pauline Breton, BEd, ’70 BA, of Nicolet, QC, in July 2014 ’58 Rosemary Carveth Hall Hazelton, BA, of Toronto, ON, in August 2014 ’58 Patricia Ann Lassey (Phelan), Dip(Nu), of Frank, AB, in June 2014 ’58 Paul Alfred J. Poty, Dip(Ed), ’63 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014 ’58 Leslie Eric Snell, BSc(ChemEng), ’60 MSc, of Calgary, AB, in October 2014 ’58 Jerry Arnold Stewart, BSc(Pharm), of Surrey, BC, in April 2014 ’58 Arthur Otto Stinner, BSc, ’61 BA, ’65 BEd, of Winnipeg, MB, in May 2014 ’59 Alan Maurice Baker, BA, ’62 MA, of Victoria, BC, in September 2014

’60 Andrew Kinloch Clark, BA, ’61 BEd, ’72 PhD, of Kamloops, BC, in October 2014 ’61 John G. Adler, MSc, ’63 PhD, of Canmore, AB, in July 2014 ’61 Earl Kenneth Andersen, BSc(MiningEng), of Calgary, AB, in July 2014 ’61 Eric Henry Cook, BSc(MechEng), of Ottawa, ON, in March 2014 ’61 Gaston P. Curial, BEd, of St. Albert, AB, in October 2014

’59 John Raymond Coad, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’61 Margaret Mae Darbyson (Smith), Dip(Nu), of Vernon, BC, in May 2014

’59 Gerald Ralph Kuder, MD, of Ottawa, ON, in July 2014

’61 Ralph Elborne Hughes, BSc(MineralEng), ’63 MSc, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’62 Douglas William Townsend, BSc(Pharm), of Claresholm, AB, in July 2014 ’62 George Richard Walsh, BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, AB, in September 2014 ’63 Herbert Asals Battrum, DDS, of Burnaby, BC, in July 2014 ’63 Edward George Hunter, BSc(Pharm), ’65 MSc, of Sherwood Park, AB, in June 2014 ’63 Rose Motyka (Serink), BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014 ’63 Peter M. F. Preston, BEd, ’68 BA, ’71 Dip(Ed), ’73 MEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014 ’64 Frank Lee Dallison, MD, of Calgary, AB, in September 2014

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’65 Leonard Logan Aldridge, BSc, ’69 MD, of Calgary, AB, in October 2014 ’65 Larry W. Krause, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in July 2014 ’65 Charles John Pereversoff, DDS, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014 ’65 George Taylor Pinchbeck, BEd, ’74 MEd, of Strathmore, AB, in June 2014 ’65 Alexander William Pressey (Prysiazniuk), PhD, of Winnipeg, MB, in April 2014 ’65 Donatus Vervoort, BEd, ’68 MA, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014 ’65 Edna M. Weekes (Giebelhaus), BEd, of Jasper, AB, in October 2014 ’66 Bernard John Andrusky, BPE, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’67 Malcolm Andrew Beaton, BEd, in June 2014 ’67 George Evermont Carnahan, BA, of Westbank, BC, in August 2014 ’67 Robert Maurice Depledge, DDS, of Invermere, BC, in July 2014 ’67 Bernard Ervin Keller, BEd, ’75 Dip(Ed), of Westlock, AB, in August 2014 ’67 Keith Michael J. McErlane, BSc(Pharm), ’71 PhD, of Delta, BC, in July 2014 ’67 John Lyon Myroon, BEd, ’69 MEd, ’82 PhD, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’69 Douglas Harry Bell, BA, ’72 LLB, of Brooks, AB, in March 2014

’70 Reta Lillian Pegg, BEd, of Westerose, AB, in September 2014

’72 Brian L. Williams, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’69 Lois Bernice Green, PhD, of Saskatoon, SK, in August 2014

’70 Yvonne Carol Schneider (Hanson), Dip(RM), of Kelowna, BC, in May 2014

’72 Carol Ann Wlashyn (Puchalik), BSc(Pharm), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’69 Nagendra Nath Khanal, MSc, of West Palm Beach, FL, in September 2014

’71 Dennis Allan Denham, BEd, of Acme, AB, in May 2014

’73 Arthur Charles Burgess, MA, ’81 PhD, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’69 Joseph Yee S.S. Mah, BSc(ElecEng), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014 ’69 Margaret Anne McCormack (Ingle), BA, of Calgary, AB, in September 2014 ’69 James Francis Symes, MD, in August 2014

’67 Patricia Jean Olson, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’69 Rejeanne Marie Taylor, BA, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’68 Nicholas Bohdan, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’69 Edward Anthony Waelpoek, BEd, ’89 Dip(Ed), ’91 Dip(Ed), of Spruce Grove, AB, in August 2014

’66 Allan Robert Johnston, BEd, of Big Valley, AB, in February 2014

’68 Margaret Jean Butterfield (Marshall), Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’66 Myroslaw Basil Kohut, BSc, of Kyiv, Ukraine, in April 2014

’68 Mary Jean Cannings, Dip(PHNu), ’73 BSc(Nu), of Calgary, AB, in August 2014

’70 Elizabeth Helena Albert, Dip(PHNu), of Vernon, BC, in September 2014

’66 Edward Albert Kostyshen, BEd, ’69 Dip(Ed), ’77 MEd, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’68 Gloria Jean Dahl, BEd, of Sherwood Park, AB, in September 2014

’70 Peter Verner Combe, LLB, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’66 Joseph Edward May, BA, of St. Albert, AB, in September 2014

’68 Erica Klein, BSc(Pharm), of Barrhead, AB, in May 2014

’70 David A. Downie, PhD, of Winnipeg, MB, in August 2014

’66 Antony Oldenhof, BEd, of Vancouver, BC, in May 2014

’68 Andrew William A. MacInnes, BEd, ’75 BA, ’77 Dip(Ed), of Spruce Grove, AB, in September 2014

’70 Arlene Joy Flock (Weber), BCom, of Calgary, AB, in July 2014

’67 Gary Frederick Aitken, BCom, of Calgary, AB, in August 2014 ’67 John Peter Barford, BCom, of Vancouver, BC, in June 2014

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’68 Robert Allan Schur, BSc(Pharm), of Berwyn, AB, in June 2014 ’68 John Peter Soucek, BCom, of Calgary, AB, in May 2014

’69 James R. Zakowski, BSc(ChemEng), of Sherwood Park, AB, in June 2014

’70 Edward Nicholas Lasiuta, BEd, of Red Deer, AB, in February 2014 ’70 Joan McDonald, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’71 John David George, MEd, of Winnipeg, MB, in May 2014 ’71 Joyce Jane Engel, BEd, in July 2014 ’71 Mary Beatrice Martin, Dip(Ed), of Grande Prairie, AB, in October 2014 ’71 James Wilson Thompson, BSc(MechEng), of Stony Plain, AB, in June 2014 ’71 P. Edward Zacharko, BEd, ’87 MEd, of Wetaskiwin, AB, in July 2014 ’72 Linda Jane Addison (Sprinkle), BSc, of Lethbridge, AB, in July 2014 ’72 Michael Wayne Forbes, BA, of Vancouver, BC, in July 2014 ’72 Donald Allen Gross, BA, ’73 LLB, of Red Deer, AB, in February 2014 ’72 Yumiko Yasunari Hoyano, PhD, of Edmonton, AB, in May 2014 ’72 Bernard Francis Poelen, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in August 2014 ’72 Marion Patricia Priest (McKitrick), Dip(RM), of Abbotsford, BC, in May 2014 ’72 Warren Robert Shaw, BA, ’76 LLB, of Sherwood Park, AB, in September 2014 ’72 James Coupland Smith, BA, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’73 Peter Watson Green, PhD, of Duncan, BC, in July 2014 ’73 Ronald Eugene Hrudey, BSc(Ag), of Vegreville, AB, in September 2014 ’73 Bonnie Lea Kyle (Zahara), BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014 ’73 James David Shaffer, BEd, of Leduc, AB, in July 2014 ’73 Victoria Wintonyk, BEd, of Victoria, BC, in July 2014 ’74 Sylvia Ruth S. Chetner, BLS, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014 ’74 Stephen Vincent Rousell, BA, ’75 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014 ’74 Alexandra Lysiak Rudnytsky-Chernenko, MA, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014 ’75 Paul Joseph C.C. April, BEd, of Vermilion, AB, in October 2014 ’75 Steve Andrew Howe, BSc(Ag), of Camrose, AB, in July 2014 ’75 Margaret Hazel Jacobsen, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in May 2014 ’75 Randolph Claudius Kokaram, BEd, of Red Deer, AB, in September 2014 ’75 Ursula Neuherz, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’75 Susan Elizabeth Olsen (Henderson), Dip(RM), ’77 BSc(PT), of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014 ’75 Paul Jan Vander Voet, BSc(CivEng), of Nanaimo, BC, in June 2014 ’76 Darrell John Dixon, BSc(Pharm), in July 2014 ’76 Wilma Doreen Emmons, BLS, of Regina, SK, in September 2014 ’76 Gordon Lindsay Hay, BA, ’82 BSc(Spec), ’96 MEd, ’00 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014 ’76 Mary Kaufman (Trefanenko), BEd, of Lac La Biche, AB, in September 2014 ’76 Terry Richard John Keleher, MEd, of Saint John, NB, in March 2014 ’77 Frances Mary Cooper, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014 ’77 Bryan William Haines, BPE, of Calgary, AB, in September 2014 ’77 Ardis Mary Nolan, Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’78 Marlynne Jane Blackmore, BSc(Nu), of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’82 Sheri-Lyn Plewes (Carlson), BSc(CivEng), of Delta, BC, in July 2014

’85 Joanne Laura H. Wegner, MSc, ’88 PhD, of Victoria, BC, in September 2014

’91 Carmela D’Andrea (Bruno), BA, ’09 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in June 2014

’78 Theodore Henry Leshchyshyn, BSc, ’99 PhD, of Bakersfield, CA, in September 2014

’83 Leon Charles Ingraham, MEd, of Crooked Creek, AB, in July 2014

’86 Louise Campbell, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in April 2014

’91 Gregory Ridley Shaw, PhD, of Calgary, AB, in May 2014

’83 Peter Henry Brian Jayawardhana, MEd, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’86 Charlene Marie Duke, BCom, of St. Albert, AB, in October 2014

’92 David Alexander Vetra, BA(Spec), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’83 Wesley Kroening, BSc(CivEng), of Wainwright, AB, in September 2014

’86 Darcy Brent Hager, BSc, ’97 PhD, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’95 Robert Michael Coulter, BEd, of Grande Prairie, AB, in August 2014

’83 Cindy-Lou Pukalo (Brenneis), BEd, of Spruce Grove, AB, in June 2014

’87 Twylla Elaine Augustson, BMus, of London, ON, in June 2014

’99 Jacob Adeniyi Moibi, PhD, ’11 MBA, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’84 Andrew James Chamberlain, LLB, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014

’87 Glen James Donlevy, BA, ’93 BEd, ’13 MEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’99 Todd William Sherman, MBA, of Calgary, AB, in August 2014

’78 Aileen Macleod Ross (Sinton), BA(Spec), ’80 MA, ’86 PhD, of Red Deer, AB, in June 2014 ’79 William Robert Dean, BPE, ’82 MSc, ’00 MBA, of Lethbridge, AB, in May 2014 ’79 Eleanor Anne Fisher, MEd, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014 ’79 David Austin Parker, BEd, of Victoria, BC, in June 2014 ’80 Gregory Ward Berg, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014 ’80 Kathy Ann Hamilton (Jewell), BA, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014 ’80 Karen Esther Hoel, Cert(AdvObst), of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014 ’81 Michael Jerry Danyluk, BA(Spec), of Kamloops, BC, in March 2014

’77 Carol Elizabeth Roth, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’81 Carole Lynn Hunt (Woloshyn), BCom, ’91 MBA, ’94 LLB, of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014

’77 Brenda Joyce Skirrow, BEd, ’90 Dip(Ed), of Sherwood Park, AB, in August 2014

’81 Thomas Albert Ruzycki, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in June 2014

’77 Jacob Lenard Willms, BSc(Ag), of Lethbridge, AB, in June 2014

’82 Robert Joseph C.C. Doolaege, BSc(Ag), of Olds, AB, in July 2014

’78 Carol Lydia Adkisson, BSc(ChemEng), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014

’82 Keith Charles Nickel, BSc(Spec), ’91 BSc(Pharm), of Calgary, AB, in October 2014

’84 Perry James Millar, BCom, of Peace River, AB, in March 2014 ’84 Norman Lewis Usiskin, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014 ’84 Christopher Robin Weller, BSc(Spec), of Edmonton, AB, in May 2014 ’85 Cathy Bray, PhD, of Saskatoon, SK, in July 2014 ’85 Marion Barbara Elcombe, BA, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014 ’85 Alexandra Julia Kozak, BSc(MineralEng), of West Vancouver, BC, in February 2014 ’85 Patricia Marie Paone, BA, ’88 BSc(Nu), ’94 MN, of Ottawa, ON, in July 2014 ’85 Jane Elizabeth Proctor, MSc, of Richmond Hill, ON, in July 2014 ’85 Burt Cecil Smythe, BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in August 2014

’87 Shelley Yvonne Wetmore (Chorney), BA(Spec), of Edmonton, AB, in September 2014 ’88 Joan Sandra Lesmeister, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in April 2014 ’89 Louise Bernadette Baker (McLaughlin), BEd, of Cold Lake, AB, in September 2014 ’89 Sheila Marion Johnston, BA, of Brampton, ON, in February 2014

’05 Genevieve Lucienne Auger, BSc(MechEng), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014 ’07 Christopher Vernon Kazoleas, BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, AB, in October 2014 ’07 Susan Lynn Ray, PhD, of London, ON, in August 2014 ’10 Surjan Singh Sanghera, BCom, of Sherwood Park, AB, in April 2014

’89 Randall Joseph Troppmann, BFA, of St. Albert, AB, in July 2014 ’89 Mary Caroline Trumpener (Dorris), Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in October 2014 ’90 Shawn David Bews, BSc(Spec), ’94 BSc(Pharm), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2014 ’90 Donald Leroy Morgan, BEd, of Fort Saskatchewan, AB, in October 2014

If you’ve lost a loved one who is a University of Alberta alumnus, contact alumni records at alumrec@ualberta.ca, 780-492-3471 or 1-866-492-7516.

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Pilot Adrian Rivard circles a de Havilland Beaver above Bell Lake in the Northwest Territories, where, below, a small group of U of A students will begin a 10-day geology field school. This unique hands-on opportunity lets students map virgin geological territory in a remote part of the Canadian Shield alongside field geologists — the only such student experience offered in Canada.

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