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Barb Stegemann (BA ’91, BJ ’99), author of The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen, was the keynote speaker at a Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce event in February at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, London, UK. Left to right: Chris MacNeil (BA ’94), Victor Bomers (BScH ’09), Barb Stegemann, John Stiles (BA ’89) and His Excellency Gordon Campbell (former BC premier, current Canadian High Commissioner). fire” ranging from grad school and Toronto theatre, to rugby and an NGO. Kim Hutchison (BJ ’10) has been hired as national communications coordinator with Flynn Canada. Vultures of Tibet, a film produced by Elisabeth Oakham (BScH ’10), has been nominated for a Student Academy Award. Jennifer Pawluk (BJ ’10) continues to work as a sessional proofreader with the Hansard branch of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly. She also recently started in a communications role at Balmoral Hall School in Winnipeg, an independent day and boarding school for girls, from childcare through to grade 12. Jennifer writes book reviews for the Winnipeg Free Press “now and then”. Julie Sadler (BAH ’11) has been accepted into York University’s PhD program in disability studies. Sophie von Hahn (BAH ’11) has been accepted into the master’s program in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, England. Connor Dalton (BJH ’12) has been promoted to the full-time position of AMI-audio coordinator for the Halifax bureau of Ac-
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cessible Media Inc, where Connor began as a volunteer in the summer of 2010. He currently voices and produces the weekly “Sports Features” program. Andrew Miller (BJ ’12) has been accepted into the master of journalism program at King’s. He is currently writing for Streetwise newspaper in Chicago and previously wrote for NewCity, also in Chicago. Kristen Slaney (BAH ’12) was named Halifax’s 2b theatre’s emerging artist in residence for 2013. She will develop her new play, “The Beekeepers,” with mentorship from 2b’s artistic co-directors. She co-founded Once Upon A Theatre Collective in 2009 and is one of seven playwrights in Eastern Front Theatre’s playwrights unit, where she is developing her play, “King of Berlin.” She has written several plays that have been produced in Halifax. In February 2013, her play “Tragedy of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, was produced as part of the New Works Festival in Edmonton. She completed a novel-writing workshop at the Banff Centre for the Arts in September 2010, and is working on a novelwriting mentorship with the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia this year.
Emma Whitney Curran’s (BAH ’10) received her MA in classics from Dalhousie University in October 2012. Her thesis was “Golden Age Imagery and the Artistic Philosophy of Ovid’s Metamorphosis”. It was announced this spring that Emma is the recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal for most outstanding master’s student in the humanities and social sciences. She has been awarded a SSHRC doctoral scholarship and will begin a PhD in classics at Princeton University in the autumn of 2013.
Emma Whitney Curran with Dr Eli Diamond (BAH ’99) in October 2010.