Tidings Winter 2000/2001

Tidings The University of King’s College Alumni Magazine

King’s & Dalhousie At long last a review of how the two institutions fit together

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Inside COVER STORY

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A map of the past, a plan for the future

ON CAMPUS Students love online registration Digital technologies transform teaching and production in j-school ‘Best’ season since ’91 for women’s rugby

For the first time, King’s and Dalhousie have documented the complex relationship between the two universities ALUMNI PROFILE

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CBC-TV host has news for you Ken Lima-Coehlo (BJ ’96) brings the news to those too young to remember the ’90s

King’s would do well in Maclean’s ranking ‘Shocking’ loss in men’s soccer

10 ALUMNI PROFILE Bad weather didn’t mar recent grads’ part in celebration of sail

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Chronicle-y optimistic Armed with talent and an impressive resume, Halifax filmmakers Scott Simpson (BA ’93, AMC ’95) and Graeme Gunn (BA ’94, BJ ’96) are ready for the big time

New history of science prof Daryn Lehoux brings a light approach to serious questions

COVER: Brian Christie, Dalhousie’s executive director of institutional affairs

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‘Goodbye’ from outgoing Assn. president n September of 2000, my term as Alumni Association President came to an end.

When I first replaced Luanne Walton, I thought that I had made a very big mistake having only recently become involved with the Alumni Association and not having had the time to become aware of the issues facing the Association. However, with the guidance of people like Jone Mitchell, Jane Spurr and Stuart McPhee, I quickly came up to speed.

Looking back over that three years, I wonder where the time went. The Alumni Association has been involved in many activities including sponsoring a scholarship for a Canadian student of African or Aboriginal descent, being on the Committee responsible for drafting a Code of Conduct for faculty, staff and students, contributing to the design of the new academic building, sponsoring student activities and societies and searching for a new Vice-President for the University. Those sitting on the Executive continued to show a keen interest in the University and its activities. Fund raising is a major focus for the executive and annually we sponsor a golf tournament and dinner, sell memorabilia throughout the year and sell degree frames at graduation. Two of my

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favourite duties as President were welcoming new graduates into the Alumni Association and being the host at the annual Alumni dinner.

Speaking to the new graduates allowed me to encourage them to stay connected with university life. At the Alumni dinner, I had the honour of assisting with the presentation of the Judge Elliott Hudson Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award. During my term, the award was given to Bruce Archibald, Gordon Earle and, most recently, Ruth Hudson.

As I take up my duties as Past President, I extend my sincere thanks to the members of the Executive who have taken the time to become involved and I especially thank Jone Mitchell and Paula Johnson of the Alumni, Development and Public Relations Office for their untiring work and the support they have given to me.

Lastly, I encourage each and every one of you to become involved with the Association, if only in a small way, and I wish every success to my brother, Stuart, who after many years on the Alumni Executive, has taken over as President.

Tidings Winter 2001 This issue of Tidings was written by third-year journalism students.

Tidings is produced on behalf of the University of King’s College Alumni Association.

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Students love online registration Transition to paperless registration moves smoothly as students register for classes via the Internet for the first time

By Ali Bresver No more filling out forms and waiting three weeks to get them back — only to find out you didn’t get the classes you wanted.

The Banner online registration program is up and running.

After three years of debating, planning and implementation, Banner went to work for the 2000-2001 year. The system allows students to see the course calendar, register, add and drop classes, check their marks and find out where classes are — all on the Web. It took an entire year to put the program into operation, not counting the design or testing of the program.

King’s Academic Student Services Officer Rebecca Fraser says the change has helped everybody involved.

“If you’ve ever stood in line in the gym in the heat of August to get signatures and then walk across campus to the history department and back, then this is a piece of cake.”

Students had a lot of questions at first, Fraser says. But after she explained the short, easy steps and tricks, there were few problems.

King’s Registrar Elizabeth Yeo says about 81 per cent of King’s students registered online — 668 of the 822 King’s students. “It was much higher than we had even anticipated. It showed that students at King’s and Dalhousie are quite ready to use the Web.” The online registration was

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useful for students travelling during the summer. Fraser talked to students travelling in Ireland and Italy who were able to get register in all the courses they wanted by simply stopping at an Internet cafe.

‘It took me no time’ Brian Shiffman, a computer engineering student at the University of Waterloo, used the Banner system to sign up his younger brother for classes. He says he couldn’t believe how efficient Banner was in comparison to the program used at the University of Waterloo. “It is so much easier to understand and follow,” he said. “It took me no time to get my brother (a Dalhousie student) all the classes he wanted. To get anywhere using Waterloo’s program, it takes double or even triple the time — and I’m a computer student.”

Fraser says the biggest advantage to online registration is students no longer need to fill out ‘add/drop’ forms to remove themselves from one course and enrol in another. “It offers students freedom. Just a click and they’re in.”

Students had many questions, but Fraser says most were answered easily. Both King’s and Dalhousie increased staff to deal with phone inquiries. The biggest problem, she says, was students wondering what their registration code was.

Students’ access to the Internet wasn’t a problem. Only

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154 of the 822 students registered by mail.

“There were so few students who actually mailed in their forms,” says Fraser. “Even ones who did — but who didn’t get the classes they wanted — often proceeded to register online to Students make sure at King’s they got into and Dalhousie the class the are quite ready second time.” to use the Fraser says Web.” the advantages of the Elizabeth Yeo new Banner King’s Registrar system outweigh the problems that have resulted.

“I think overall it went smoothly. The kinds of things that came up couldn’t be helped because it is part of a new system.

Next year, when the students become more comfortable with it, it will be even better.”

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Digital technologies transform teaching and production in j-school

By Jennifer Vardy

Reel-to-reel tape machines and waxers are long gone. The school’s newsrooms are now just computer labs.

Photo: Michael Creagen

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When Eugene Meese first came to King’s for an interview in the fall of 1979, the pervasive sound in the journalism school was the click and clatter of typewriters.

“They took me downstairs (where the journalism school was then) for the interview, and there were two or three huge rooms, 25 typewriters, and that’s about it,” Meese says. “The typewriters were big, grey, ugly-looking things that now look more like doorstops.”

The first computers didn’t come to the journalism school until 1986, the year Meese began to research the use of computers in the school.

The school decided on 25 Macintosh 512Ks to use intially as word processors. By the 1990s, they added five $5,000 computers running at 16mhz for doing newspaper layout.

“They’ve been continuously replaced ever since as we try to maintain the state-of-the-art, which is hard to do,” says Meese.

Today, all of the radio work and

most of the television work is edited on conputer. Radio students conduct inteviews with mini-disc recorders. TV and online reporters use digital cameras. The school also has online access to the full-text archives of most daily newspapers in Canada.

Soon after the Internet was introduced to King’s, in the early 1990s, Stephen Kimber realized it would have an important impact on journalism. The online journalism courses began in 1994 with the production of NovaNewsNet Digest (then called Morning Line), a daily news summary that is still e-mailed to more than 475 subscribers around the world.

“Every new type of technology means change, including online,” Kimber says. “It means a new medium, just as newspaper changed when television was developed.”

The online course is now offered as a workshop (taught by Tidings editor Tim Currie), where one-year BJs and fourth-year BJH students produce a daily online newspaper.

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online,” Kimber says. “There isn’t a form yet, or formula that you can give to students and tell them to use. So far, we’ve been very focused on the text, the stories themselves, but now I think we’re going to move more into the multimedia, audio/video stuff.”

Kimber says the Internet also makes a journalist’s job easier.

“With the Internet, research is at our fingertips,” he says. “But the problem with the Internet is that anyone can go online. So now, part of the journalist’s job has become evaluating the information that’s out there.”

Back to basics Meese thinks traditional narratives are not the best approach for writing stories because the Internet is more interactive. The reader has many more options available. But he says the new technologies — especially the Internet — bring journalists back to the basics.

“Spelling and grammar now matters for all the mediums,” Meese says. “Print wins! People need to be able to read the text that you put on an online page, which means it has to be grammatical, it has to be accurate, it has to be spelled properly. It has to be all the things that the traditional print story has to be.”

Meese and Kimber agree that the journalism program has not changed drastically since its introduction two decades ago, despite the new technologies.

“Essentially, this program, from the beginning, has been an attempt to treat journalism as something to do, as a set of skills to learn, and not as an academic subject,” Meese says.

“It’s always been a practical place.

All we’ve changed is the machines that we use to do the thing we call journalism.”

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‘Best’ season since ’91 for women’s rugby

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Only final game loss halted top-ranked team Despite some setbacks, this year proved to be one of the best for the women’s rugby team.

“In the four years that I’ve been here, this was the best year,” says Jana Carpenter, president of the women’s rugby team, “We had a really good team.”

By the end of the season in October, the women’s team was ranked number one in their division, having only lost to Truro Agricultural College in the final game. “We beat them all through the year,” says head coach Kirk Graham, “47-0, 27-0, but we lost to them 5-0 in the final (championship) game.”

Graham says he was disappointed in the final game, not because the team didn’t try its best, but because of the circumstances surrounding the game.

“We were supposed to play them a week before, with a home team advantage, but the city decided the fields weren’t playable, so Truro got an extra week and a half to practise before the final,” says Graham.

Carpenter says since they have to play on Halifax Regional Municipality fields, they are at the whim and mercy of the city. Since it looked like rain that day, the municipality didn’t want the rugby team tearing up their field. “The worst part is another team played on the field an hour later,” says Carpenter.

The team’s bad luck continued when it arrived in Truro only five minutes before the game started, leaving no time to practise,” she says.

With the exception of the last game, however, Graham was overjoyed with the team’s performance this year.

“We had more than enough people playing this year, and they were all really good.

It was hard to pick a starting lineup — we had two or three lineups instead of just one.”

He said this was due to the good mix of rookies and veterans on the team.

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impossible to have one or two people as the stars on the team. A star team is a really cohesive one, it’s like 15 sisters out there on the field.”

Graham believes the team proved their cohesion when they beat Dalhousie’s varsity team in an exhibition game this year, 10-0.

“They were really cocky,” says Carpenter.

“Since we’re a division lower than them, it was a really tough game. But it was the best game of the year.”

For Graham though, the team’s best game was in Cape Breton at UCCB. “The road trip up and back was really fun,” says Graham “but coming back in the secondhalf to beat them 12-10 was the best. It was a really good game for players that didn’t shine till the second-half.”

The season almost rivals the 1991 one when the women’s team made it to the finals.

Good attitude

Class of 1999 gift FYP teaching fellow Ian Stewart, HOST professor Daryn Lehoux and HOST director Gordon McOuat helped install a sundial in front of the library steps in September. The timepiece is part of a gift from the class of 1999.

Carpenter says the team clicked because of the attitudes of the women. “The only game we played to win was the worst game we played,” she says. “The coaches were amazing, and everybody was really into it.”

“Rugby’s kind of neat,” says Graham, “and it’s a pretty inclusive sport, so you get a lot of girls from all the different parts of the King’s community, getting together and becoming a family. A lot of these relationships last for life.” on Stil sa l le

By Erin Brannen

The University of King’s College Chapel Choir 1996 CD Laudamus te

Philosophers’ conference Stephen Boos organized this year’s Atlantic Region Philosophers Association conference held at King’s this October. It was the first time since 1970 King’s has hosted the event.

Themed "Rethinking the Self" the conference featured Sandra Bartky, from University of Illinois at Chicago speaking on "The making and unmaking

Available from the Alumni Office (902) 422-1271 ext. 128

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King’s would do well in Maclean’s ranking University would excel in many categories ... if it was included

By Alanna Macpherson and Tim Currie The Maclean’s 10th Annual Ranking of Universities issue was published Nov. 20, 2000. In it, universities across Canada were graded to see which provided the best all-around services to students. Average entering grade, class size, faculty, finances, library acquisitions, and the university’s reputation were considered. Mount Allison, Acadia and St. Francis Xavier were at the top of the list among the 21 “primarily undergraduate” universities.

But yet again, King’s was not present in the ranking.

In our summer 1997 issue, Victor Dwyer, then-editor of the education issue, told Tidings that Maclean’s annual ranking of AVERAGE ENTERING GRADE Average final-year grades of students entering from high school or Quebec’s CEGEP system

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Mount Allison King’s Acadia Wilfrid Laurier St. Francis Xavier Mount St. Vincent St. Thomas Bishop’s Winnipeg Cape Breton Saint Mary’s Lethbridge UNBC Moncton UPEI Ryerson Trent Nipissing Brandon Brock Lakehead Laurentian

Canadian universities includes schools only if they have an enrolment of at least 1,000 students. On that count, King’s will likely never be included, as the university has no plans to raise enrolment that high. Jone E. Mitchell, King’s Director of Alumni, Development, and Public Relations, says King’s currently has about 870 students.

But, if it had been included, the university would stack up well against other universities.

Mitchell says not all categories of the Maclean’s ranking can be applied to King’s. The setup of the first-year Foundation Year Programme, with more than 200 students in a core lecture class and tutorial groups of approximately 15, is uncommon in other universities.

But in applicable categories, King’s would rank highly in its class.

The five charts below show selected Maclean’s 2000 rankings for “Primarily Undergraduate” schools and King’s place in them if it had been included. Statistics

come from the King’s bursar’s and registrar’s offices. Categories such as library holdings and operating budget are not easily isolated in the King’s/Dal relationship and are not shown here.

In Maclean’s, the “highest average entering grade” is 85.1 per cent at Mount Allison; second is Acadia with 82.2 per cent. If King’s had been included, it would win second place with 84.1 per cent.

In the category of the “proportion of entering students with an average of 75 per cent or higher,” King’s would steal first place from Sir Wilfrid Laurier, having 89.8 per cent of their students at this level, compared to Mount A’s 88.6 per cent.

King’s would also be first in the category of “percentage of total operating expenditures devoted to student services.” King’s spends 12.88 per cent, beating Bishop’s University of Lennoxville, Que., at 11.76 per cent.

— Data source: Maclean’s

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Percentage of incoming students from high school or Quebec’s CEGEP system with averages of 75% or higher

Percentage of students from other provinces

Percentage of total operating expenditures devoted to scholarships and bursaries

85.1% ➡ 1 84.1% 2 82.2% 3 82.1% 4 80.7% 5 80.4% 6 80.4% 7 80.1% 8 79.4% 9 79.0% 10 78.8% 11 78.7% 12 78.7% 13 78.4% 14 78.1% 15 77.9% 16 77.1% 17 76.9% 18 76.4% 19 76.3% 20 75.4% 21 73.8% 22

King’s Wilfrid Laurier Mount Allison Acadia Bishop’s St. Thomas Mount St. Vincent St. Francis Xavier Moncton Ryerson Saint Mary’s Lethbridge UNBC Cape Breton Winnipeg UPEI Trent Lakehead Nipissing Brock Laurentian Brandon

89.8% 1 88.6% ➡ 2 82.5% 3 82.2% 4 76.6% 5 6 75.8% 74.0% 7 73.5% 8 68.6% 9 66.1% 10 65.6% 11 65.3% 12 63.5% 13 61.8% 14 61.3% 15 59.0% 16 57.8% 17 53.2% 18 52.1% 19 51.0% 20 50.3% 21 46.3% 22

Mount Allison King’s Bishop’s St. Thomas Acadia St. Francis Xavier UPEI Lethbridge Saint Mary’s Mount St. Vincent Moncton Cape Breton Brandon Trent UNBC Lakehead Ryerson Winnipeg Laurentian Wilfrid Laurier Brock Nipissing

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1 60.2% 49.6% 2 42.9% 3 34.6% 4 32.0% 5 27.7% ➡ 6 19.5% 7 18.8% 8 15.3% 9 13.5% 10 9.8% 11 8.6% 12 7.0% 13 6.4% 14 5.7% 15 5.0% 16 3.8% 17 2.8% 18 1.8% 19 1.7% 20 1.2% 21 1.1% 22

Wilfrid Laurier Lakehead Trent Bishop’s Laurentian King’s Brock St. Thomas Nipssing Mount Allison Ryerson St. Francis Xavier Saint Mary’s Acadia Moncton Mount St. Vincent Lethbridge Winnipeg UPEI UNBC Cape Breton Brandon

STUDENT SERVICES Percentage of total operating expenditures devoted to student services

7.23% ➡ 1 7.08% 2 6.91% 3 6.87% 4 6.85% 5 6.30% 6 5.46% 7 5.10% 8 4.68% 9 3.91% 10 3.73% 11 3.72% 12 2.32% 13 3.09% 14 2.78% 15 2.70% 16 2.50% 17 2.40% 18 2.02% 19 1.84% 20 1.32% 21 1.18% 22

King’s 12.88% Bishop’s 11.76% Lethbridge 10.53% Nipissing 9.31% Winnipeg 9.05% St. Thomas 8.71% Brock 6.66% Wilfrid Laurier 6.54% Lakehead 6.01% Saint Mary’s 5.70% Trent 5.66% St. Francis Xavier 5.60% Cape Breton 5.55% Acadia 5.53% Ryerson 5.49% Brandon 5.24% Mount Allison 4.92% Laurentian 4.59% UNBC 4.08% Moncton 4.06% Mount St. Vincent 4.05% UPEI 2.99%

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OnCampus

‘Shocking’ loss in men’s soccer But team had another banner year

By Trevor Stewart After losing to St. Thomas in the semi-finals of provincial play, the Blue Devils Men’s soccer team had to reflect on the entire season to put things in perspective. A tough 2-0 loss at the hands of the Tommies was hardly reflective of the season.

The men’s soccer team had a strong season but coach Jeff Baker said the team may have become over-confident against what they felt was a weaker team in the St. Thomas squad.

“It was a shocking loss,” said Mike Swinburne, all-conference mid-fielder.

King’s had a strong team and expected to have a shot at the conference championship. The team won seven of eight games, finishing in top spot in the Atlantic College Athletics Conference (ACAA) season play. Their only loss was to University of New Brunswick at Saint John (UNBSJ).

“We were by far the best team in the league all season,” said Coach Baker. “But it came down to one game where we weren’t the best.”

Neil Hooper, King’s Athletics Director, echoed this sentiment.

“We had an excellent team. We were 7-1 and finished in first place. We had a really young team and anytime you win more than you lose with a young team, that’s all good. But I think our youth came through. Maybe they thought of the finals before they got through the semi-finals.”

“Win or lose, we’re very proud of our team.

Players are normal, they all make mistakes.

Five of 11 all-conference positions went to Blue Devils.

Swinburne called it a “point of irony,” that the lowest point in the season was the semi-final loss, while the teams best performance was a 10-1 crushing of St. Thomas only two weeks prior to their semi-final loss to the very same team.

“Just two weeks before provincials,” said coach Baker, “the team really pulled it together. We played really tight, it was really a breakout game for us. It wasn’t just the score but how we played overall.”

The banners from the 80s and 90s that hang around the King’s gymnasium’s basketball court, prove that soccer success has been a tradition in the last 20 years. The Blue Devils had captured the last three titles and four of the last five prior to this year.

“Maybe it was our turn to step back,” said Hooper, “we’ve been blessed with really great teams.

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Everyone said we were a young team in ’96 and look what we did in ’97, ’98, and ’99.”

Indeed the future looks good.

Hooper looks forward to the next couple seasons as well. The team hasn’t stopped recruiting and Hooper says one of the major reasons why King’s has had successful teams is its ability to draw players from many different parts of Canada.

“We’re very fortunate to have a good talent base from the city [Halifax],” said Hooper. “We always get some good players from Upper Canada and a lot of different places.”

Jeff Baker will be returning as the coach for only his second season. He earned nothing but praise from Hooper for his efforts in his rookie run at coaching college soccer.

“Jeff Baker handled himself and the team very well,” said Hooper. “He couldn’t have prepared them better.”

St. Thomas went on to win the league title, defeating UNBSJ in the final. The UNBSJ team was the best match for King’s all year.

Hooper said the wet conditions on the day of semi-final favoured a team with a kick and run game. The King’s team, which likes to move the ball around, had trouble. “Obviously we, and Saint John, met a very inspired team,” Hooper said.

The athletics director is confident King’s will come back with a strong team next year. He says “we have to look back on this season as a good one, even without the championship.”

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King’s player Will Landymore eludes a UNB (Saint John) defenceman.

Photo: Michael Creagen

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Tall ship adventures Bad weather didn’t mar recent grads’ part in celebration of sail

By Leah Fitzgerald

Nick Day and Victoria Nickerson on the Oosterschelde in Halifax Harbour Photo: Submitted

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When the Tall Ships sailed around the world this summer, King’s grads were on board.

Ian Turnbull (BJ ’00) and Victoria Nickerson (BA ’00) both took part in the Tall Ship Millennium Challenge, a non-profit Canadian program to encourage youth to sail the ships. Nickerson also arranged to take part in a leg of the race on the three-masted Dutch schooner Oosterschelde, and Nick Day (BAH ’98) accompanied her.

Turnbull went through the Tall Ship Millennium challenge and got a placement during the last week in May on the first crew on the Lunenburg-based barque, Picton Castle. He says the ship wasn’t ready to sail when he arrived in Lunenburg so the first three days of the week’s trip were spent setting up the rigging for the sails and clearing the decks. Another day was spent waiting for the weather to clear. When they finally left, the weather still wasn’t favourable.

Because of all the delays, the trip from Lunenburg to Maine or to Boston turned into a short sail to Mahone Bay. “But the one and a half days of sailing were great,” Turnbull says. One morning he watched the sun rise from the top of the rigging, suspended above the deck.

Turnbull had sailed on a tall ship before, so wasn’t overly upset. He just found the disorganization disappointing. But, he says, the people were worth the experience.

“There were people from all over Canada. There was someone from every province on board. The

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younger ones didn’t understand what was going on.

There was the opportunity to talk about being Canadian and that was what was important.”

Nickerson’s first voyage was also on the Picton Castle through the Tall Ship Millennium Challenge.

Her trip was in late June from Bermuda to Virginia.

But the weather was terrible and the Picton Castle used its motor during the trip. Most of the crew was seasick, including Nickerson.

‘I spent a great deal of time hanging over the side’ “I was quickly nick-named the Aloha Princess by our captain,” she says. “I spent a great deal of time on the Aloha deck, or more accurately, hanging over the side of it.”

Her next voyage, from Boston to Halifax, was on the Oosterschelde. A company in England that was matching crew members with ships put Nickerson in touch with the Oosterschelde. She convinced Nick Day to come with her, after his placement on the Picton Castle fell through.

Nickerson almost left the schooner on the first day after a short bout of seasickness, but the captain ignored her pleas for a coast guard ship. Day says he was lucky he didn’t get seasick.

Day and Nickerson spent their days doing everything from climbing the rigging to peeling potatoes to polishing brass.

Day remembers getting caught in a huge thunderstorm that overtook the ship suddenly. Day was on watch and watched the waves from the bow of the ship. Dolphins swam alongside and underneath the ship and whales played near the ship.

Both recall the joy of sailing back into Halifax in the middle of the night. Nickerson was thrilled when the ship sailed into the Halifax Harbour. The ship was first in that leg of the race; though it placed lower overall because of handicaps the ship is given to make the race even.

Now that Tall Ships is over for the year, the sailors are back to their normal lives. Turnbull is living in Ottawa looking for work in journalism. Day is teaching at a private school in Ottawa. Nickerson is spending the year traveling the world. She plans to attend law school in the fall of 2001.

“I was actually supposed to be there this September, though I deferred my acceptance,” she says. “I felt I needed a bit of time to sort myself out and take a break from the crazy whirlwind of a nonstop study and caffeine subsistence.”

Nickerson has heard the Tall Ships will be having a small race in 2002. She’s already looking for a ship.

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Capital Campaign update WATCH THIS SPACE! Only the finishing touches are now left to be completed on our new academic building.

The first photo, taken in October, shows the shell almost complete with only windows and some stone facing left to be completed.

The second photo, taken in January 2001, shows the exterior complete except for the west end of the north wall, which is being left unfinished in anticipation of Phase 2, planned for later this year. The construction will replace Dalhousie’s day-care centre, the building in the lower right-hand corner, with a connecting corridor to the A&A, and offer space for the students’ union.

The new building is being built directly behind North Pole Bay. These photos look south-west from behind the A&A building.

This is the final series of photos. Our next issue will contain a full feature on our wonderful new building.

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he Building on a Strong Foundation capital campaign has raised close to $5.5 million, reaching 81 per cent of the campaign’s overall goal of $6.7 million. A number of areas have already surpassed their goals.

These areas include: scholarships and bursaries, having reached 207.5 per cent of their goal; library acquisitions, 114.7 per cent of their goal; the King’s community, having reached 117.1 per cent; and foundations, having reached 105.4 per cent of their goal; and Special Friends are within reach of their goal at 86 per cent of their goal.

The Alumni are fast approaching the halfway mark of their $800,000 goal. If this goal is reached the large FYP lecture hall will be named the “ALUMNI LECTURE HALL” to recognize their support of the university and its capital campaign. If you would like to make a gift to this campaign, please contact Jone Mitchell at (902) 422-1271 ext. 129 or at Jone.Mitchell@ukings.ns.ca

OCTOBER 2000

alumni award

winners

The Michael Elliott Award

JANUARY 2001

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The Beaver Club Award

Renée Morris Francis Wooby

Florence Yoon

The Sandra MacLeod Award

Brunswick Award

Sarah McGinnis

Melanie Cloney

The Michael Saunders Award

The John Godfrey Journalism Book Award

Amanda Agnew

Ryan Pierce

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COVER STORY

Brian Christie, Dalhousie’s executive director of institutional affairs

By Cathryn Spence or nearly 80 years King’s and Dalhousie have coexisted in a peaceful, symbiotic relationship. In all that time, a formal evaluation of their relationship had never been conducted. Last year, the Institutional Affairs Office at Dalhousie undertook a process to do just that.

Members of a review committee organized by the Institutional Affairs Office of the Dalhousie Senate conducted interviews with King’s students and faculty.

Two external reviewers, Dr. Carman Miller from McGill University and Dr. Tilottama Rajan from the University of Western Ontario, prepared the final report.

Brian Christie, executive director of institutional affairs at Dalhousie University, said similar studies are conducted by the Dalhousie Senate on every aspect of the university, including “reviews of faculties at the university and reviews of our relationship with institutions that we are affiliated with.” His office

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would like to conduct reviews of faculties every five years, but because of time constraints they are done approximately every seven years.

King’s established a committee to document Kings’ position for the external reviewers.

“Putting together the report for the senate was an incredible amount of work,” admitted King’s President Colin Starnes.

“But it was worth it. The relationship that exists between Dalhousie and King’s is very fragile because each school does things that the other can’t. And mutual respect is fundamental in maintaining these good relations.”

“This review is really an ongoing process,” Christie says. “Once the King’s faculty have finished going over the recommendations made in the review, they will report back to the senate on the recommendations they wish to implement.

Then in a year or so the senate committee will evaluate how well those recommendations have worked.”

Christie said Dalhousie decided to conduct the review not only to evaluate the

present relationship between the two institutions, but to determine a course for their relationship in the future.

“The most important finding of the review, and what the review confirmed” Christie says, “is that the relationship between the two institutions is beneficial to both.”

President Starnes agrees the relationship is mutually beneficial, and he wants to take steps to improve it, building on the recommendations made in the review.

“A lot of what the report recommended were things that needed to be done anyway,” Starnes says. “This report just adds extra ‘oomph’ to actually accomplishing these tasks.

“I think that the most important recommendation was that each institution has to do more to make sure that the strengths of both are clearly explained to students. There is a lot that students at both universities don’t know about what the other offers.”

This recommendation means Continued on page 14

For the first time, King’s and Dalhousie have documented the complex relationship between the two universities.

And the review committee wants them to become better acquainted.

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map of the past,

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a for the future

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We need to promote this relationship between the schools ” Dalhousie will work harder to promote King’s and its programs through its recruiting procedures. Similarly, faculty at Dalhousie and King’s will work harder to make sure students who take the Foundation Year Programme at King’s in their first year are fully aware of the options offered by Dalhousie later in their university careers.

“We will always lose some portion of our first-year class to other institutions after they complete FYP,” Starnes says. “Many students transfer to other schools after FYP for personal reasons, but what we need to concentrate on is making sure that students who are going elsewhere because they believe Dalhousie doesn’t offer what they need are informed of the many programs offered at Dalhousie. By making students fully informed of what Dalhousie offers we hope to retain the excellent students that we have worked so hard to recruit.”

Brian Christie agrees students at both schools need to be better informed of what each offers.

“Students at King’s have the best of both worlds, and one of the things that we were struck by during the review was how positive King’s students are about King’s,” he says. “We want them to realize that by staying at King’s and taking courses at Dalhousie they have the best of both worlds: being part of a small school while still having all the benefits of studying at a large school.”

In addition to working together to attract students to Dalhousie and King’s, the report suggests that, to better serve the interests of students taking classes at both schools, the institutions set up a desk where students can find out about classes at either school.

President Starnes says a helpful example of such a setup is already in place at King’s.

“By hiring (former Dalhousie associate registrar) Elizabeth Yeo, who has awareness of what both schools offer, as the King’s registrar, we’re working to fill the need of upper-year students and first-year students who are looking to study at Dalhousie after FYP,” he says.

“We need to promote this relationship between the schools to as many students as possible to make sure they get the most out of their university education.”

Besides hiring staff such as Yeo to help bridge the gap between Dalhousie and King’s, the senate’s report also recommended the Dalhousie calendar place greater emphasis on King’s and the relation between Dalhousie and King’s, and that similar information be made available in the King’s calendar and FYP handbook. A similar recommendation called for a link to the King’s Web site on the Dalhousie homepage so students at both schools are aware of what the other offers. As well, the report recommended students beginning FYP at King’s be greeted in the first few weeks of the course by Dalhousie Deans of the faculty of arts and science, fos-

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tering a good relationship between King’s students and Dalhousie faculty.

Furthermore, the report states representatives from various Dalhousie departments should make presentations concerning courses offered at Dalhousie to FYP students during the latter half of the year when students begin to consider the courses they will take next year. The review committee felt this would strengthen awareness of Dalhousie’s offerings to King’s students and increase the number of King’s students who choose to stay after their first year and split their studying between Dalhousie and King’s.

‘We want King’s students to feel more welcome’ “We want King’s students to feel more welcome here at Dalhousie,” Christie says. “King’s does an excellent job of attracting bright students who are an asset to both schools. We want to make sure they feel welcome at both Dalhousie and King’s.”

In addition to addressing student concerns, the senate report also recognizes the considerable amount of work King’s faculty are responsible for.

“Staff at King’s do a lot of work, likely because programs like the History of Science and Technology program and the Early Modern Studies program are just getting off the ground,” Christie says. “We need to make sure they have lots of support behind them so they don’t work so hard that they burn out. We want to help them as much as possible with their academic careers and make things easier for them through various academic arrangements. For example, appointing them to adjunct appointments in specific departments at Dalhousie or allowing them to supervise graduate students.”

The report also outlines steps to make sure faculty at Dalhousie and King’s are aware of what each school offers and, as a way to encourage greater awareness of Dalhousie programs, it calls for more professors from Dalhousie to appear as guest lecturers in the Foundation Year Programme.

“We think that a greater sense of give-and-take between the two universities will be a benefit,” Christie says. “That way there will be more opportunities for the two schools to learn about each other’s strengths.”

Finally, the report on the relationship between Dalhousie and King’s recommends the two institutions strive to make life easier for the student caught between them.

“For example,” Christie explains, “the report recommends King’s students be allowed to obtain a degree in music from Dalhousie as King’s students, and representatives of King’s and Dalhousie’s Department of Biology meet and attempt to resolve the timetable conflict between first year Biology and the Foundation Year Programme. If we want students to stay on after their first year and enjoy what each school has to offer, we must work together.

“There is such a great relationship between Dalhousie and King’s,” Christie says. “We don’t want to change that in any way. We’re only looking to make it better so it can be the best it can be.” ■

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES AND SURPLUS

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UNIVERSITY OF KING’S COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2000 Dodd in Kyrgyzstan Budget (Unaudited) 2000 $ RECEIPTS Endowment Investment income Endowment donations

General Investment income Annual fund Alumni donations Sale of memorabilia Annual dinner Special events Other and student societies

EXPENDITURES Endowment Awards Bursaries

FYP teaching fellow Susan Actual 2000 $

Actual 1999 $

Dodd (BA ’87, HC ’88) was one of several university scholars who travelled to the central

8,077 3,261

23,027 6,441

12,856 7,151

11,338

29,468

20,007

2,173 19,847 100 8,000 2,400 8,200 250 40,970 52,308

6,196 19,847 – 9,971 2,266 8,174 696 47,150 76,618

3,477 20,330 75 9,091 1,686 8,484 407 43,550 63,557

Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan for three weeks this summer to participate in a conference on the social sciences. Kyrgyzstan is a former Soviet Republic bounded by China and Tajikistan. Many participants were from neighbouring republics.

Dodd says the conference was important to Kyrgystan, because of the remoteness of

7,000 2,000

7,000 2,000

7,000 2,000

9,000

9,000

9,000

18,000 100 2,000 5,300 2,300 5,300 100 2,000 900 3,600 2,500 250 –

18,000 100 2,298 5,496 2,149 5,256 40 1,800 897 2,734 156 236 3,035

18,000 100 1,794 5,368 1,380 4,948 59 1,390 924 2,140 601 228 3,897

often spend hours teaching,

42,350 51,350

42,197 51,197

40,829 49,829

Union; they were lacking in the

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25,421 239,284 264,705

13,728 225,556 239,284

the country and the lack of books and materials to work

General Scholarships The John Godfrey Prize Professional fees Purchase of memorabilia Annual dinner Special events Bank charges Student activities Receptions and meetings Travel and gifts Office and newsletter Miscellaneous Gifts to endowment from events

EXCESS OF RECEIPTS OVER EXPENDITURES SURPLUS — BEGINNING OF YEAR SURPLUS — END OF YEAR

with. Dodd says she would and then her participants would ask her for more.

"It was the most bizarrely energetic group of participants," Dodd says.

"They had a healthy scepticism towards us.

"To live under the Soviet areas of social sciences, like western Marxism and feminism."

Dodd will participate in the same exchange next summer.

– Andrew Gillis

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Too young to remember the ’90s?

CBC-TV host has news for you

By Christine Kay

Photo: Courtesy CBC Ken Lima-Coehlo with his co-host Kristina Barnes: “We don’t shy away from anything … young people are smart.”

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It may seem a little odd that a man who still wears the same old sweatpants he used to wear at King’s four years ago and a man who calls himself a “voracious magazine reader” is the host of the new CBC television news show for young people, CBC News.Real.

But Ken Lima-Coehlo (BJ ’96) now has to dress up and make sure he leaves his house in Calgary each morning cleanshaven. His day begins at 8:30 a.m. and by 4:55 p.m. Atlantic time, Lima-Coehlo is on the air across the Maritimes.

Although the newscast is over by 5:00 p.m. to make way for the Simpsons, the cast and crew have already managed to make the show a success. Fred Youngs, executive producer of CBC News.Real, says the show is averaging about a quarter million

viewers a day.

“Its success is that it deals with news the kids can both appreciate and understand,” says Youngs. “It doesn’t talk down to young people and that’s the key to it.”

The five minutes of airtime is aimed at viewers age seven to 17.

The target audience being a 13year-old boy or girl anywhere in Canada. The challenge, LimaCoehlo says, is capturing the audience’s attention.

With this in mind, the show takes a different approach to the news than that of CBC Newsworld. Lima-Coehlo says. For example, the show can’t explain or even discuss Gulf War Syndrome until it explains what the Gulf War was. The stories for CBC News.Real must be written in a way that recognizes the audience is not old enough to have an indepth knowledge of past events.

“The goal of the show is explaining to people the full con-

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text of the story in a fun way,” the young host says. “The goal is really to give young people a sense of the world.”

The lead story of a CBC News.Real newscast one afternoon concerned a computer chip shortage. This story, to a young person has a serious implication: there might not be enough chips to meet demand for this Christmas’s hot item, Sony Playstation II. The story was followed by one on smoking and cell phone use.

“It’s a pretty exciting show,” says Lima-Coehlo. “We don’t shy away from anything … young people are smart.”

He says his audience can understand issues such as the Gulf War Syndrome if they are given a little background information and a simple explanation.

‘A smart journalist’ Lima-Coehlo began working as a researcher at the CBC two weeks after graduating.

He was rewarded for his hard work when Youngs offered him the job of co-hosting CBC News.Real with Kristina Barnes.

Youngs says that he chose Lima-Coehlo because the qualities he showed in research were exactly the ones they wanted in a host.

“He’s a smart journalist,” Youngs says. “He’s engaging and he’s good on the air.”

Lima-Coehlo says at one point, he considered packing up and hitting the road to perform with his band, The Heebee-jeebees.

Although his band still performs in Calgary every so often, he chose to continue his quest in journalism and the quarter million young people who are watching him every day, are proof he made the right choice.

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King’sPeople

Weird science New history of science prof Daryn Lehoux brings a light approach to serious questions

By Sofia Kalormakis Daryn Lehoux walks into his History of Ancient Medieval Science class in the basement of the King’s A&A building, places a water bottle on the wooden table in front of him and starts off on Horoscopic Astrology.

He wears a T-shirt with a funny design on the front, jeans and brown running shoes. His manner reflects an attitude that is as comfortable as his clothes.

“Everybody here knows their own sign, right?” he asks the class as he explains Ptolemy’s astrological science. “Who doesn’t?” he asks rhetorically. “But that’s all most people know about astrology.” It wasn’t that way with the ancients, he says.

The course focuses on ancient physics, biology and astronomy.

It’s about ideas that are untrue and have been proven to be false, Lehoux says openly to his wideeyed audience.

For example, Lehoux explains, according to Ptolemy one can understand sympathy using magnets and garlic.

“If you rub two magnets with garlic, the magnets don’t attract metal anymore,” he says.

Today, he says, none of his students would think of testing the garlic theory. Everyone assumes it is untrue because it doesn’t make sense — just as the ancients assumed their ideas were true because it explained their world.

“This same reasoning gives truthfulness to our modern world,” he says.

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Lehoux is teaching in King’s new History of Science and Technology Programme. He says it reveals how people see themselves interacting with the world.

He thinks students have to adopt an alternate worldview to understand why weird ideas were good explanations for the times.

“The difference lies in our willingness today to accept a kind of pointlessness in the cosmos that the ancients did not accept,” he says.

“It doesn’t feel like a formal lecture,” former Foundation Year student Kate Duinker says.

“Daryn makes the stuff incredibly accessible for all of us and he acts it out, so that it’s even funnier.”

Duinker says she took the class because she can combine a relevant history course with her biology degree.

Lehoux, a University of Toronto graduate in the History and Philosophy of Science, thinks that while people today are more accurate than the ancients were, we are worse at using our common sense to explain ideas, often losing our creativity as humans.

“For the sake of increased accuracy, we have sacrificed comprehensibility,” he says.

Duinker believes that it’s Lehoux’s funny stories about the ancients and his unconventional assignments that make Lehoux a good professor. She says that her first assignment was unlike anything she had ever done before.

“It’s the first essay I’ve ever written in the form of a comic

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strip,” Duinker says. “I really like the unconventionality.”

Lehoux insists that his methods get him interesting results.

He says students need to present their ideas in ways other than as essays.

“It’s fun, learning should be fun,” Lehoux says. “I really do love this stuff and these are smart people.”

Duinker likes learning about an old, outdated science and its flaws because it teaches us moderns an ancient lesson.

“You see, from past to present, a transition, the flow of truth,” Duinker says. “It’s a process and we’re not yet at the destination, even though we feel like we are.”

As moderns, we do not have any right answers, Lehoux says.

The history of science is about best guessing and we believe our best guess is right now.

“As technology jumps out at us, we must understand where we came from to know where we are headed,” Lehoux says.

The class, Duinker says, “feels like a group of friends sitting in a basement, laughing at a bunch of ancient guys.”

Photo: Michael Creagen

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Armed with talent and an impressive resume, Halifax filmmakers Scott Simpson (BA ’93, AMC ’95) and Graeme Gunn (BA ’94, BJ ’96) are ready for the big time

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By Meghan Stewart Filmmaker Scott Simpson remembers being sick and confined to his bed at the age of 15, watching soaps and talk shows on TV. Then his mother brought home two movies from the library: Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia. Much to Simpson’s surprise, he loved them.

“I was blown away,” Simpson says during a phone interview. “I couldn’t believe how engrossing they were. It was the first time I realized how powerful movies can be.”

Ten years later, in April 1997, Simpson co-founded Chronicle Pictures, a Halifax-based film production company located in the Roy Building on Barrington Street. He started the company in collaboration with his friends and fellow film enthusiasts Craig Cameron and Evangelo Kioussis. Graeme Gunn later joined the team in September 1998.

Now the challenge for the four friends is to make a name for themselves; to be well known on more than just a local level.

Simpson says it would be nice to be admitted into the club of successful film and TV producers instead of being seen as a new company with a high risk factor.

Simpson says he, Cameron and Kioussis started the company because they didn’t want to have to fight tooth and nail for their own projects.

“We can see the light. It’s just around the corner. This company is going to take off, so everything we do is toward that purpose,” Gunn explains.

Simpson, 28, was born in Canberra, Australia and grew up in New York City. But he spent his summers on a farm with relatives in Cape Breton. His family didn’t buy a television until he was 15, so going to the movie theatre was a big deal.

After he came to Halifax to attend King’s, he did everything he could to gain experience in the film industry at the Atlantic Film Cooperative. He worked on locally shot pictures like Two If By Sea and

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Love and Death on Long Island.

Eventually, he got a job as production assistant on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. While gaining practical experience, Simpson realized he wanted to be the driving force behind his own projects.

Graeme Gunn, 30, was born in Toronto and also came to Halifax to attend university. After graduating, he did advertising for The Coast newspaper in autumn 1994. He worked in Toronto for a while, then returned to Halifax where he wrote a film column for The Coast ... until Simpson offered him a job at Chronicle Pictures. Simpson needed a “director of development and distribution,” and Gunn needed a change of scene.

FYP influenced writing Simpson and Gunn first crossed paths when they met at King’s.

They both took the Foundation Year Programme (FYP). Simpson went on to get a degree in political science and economics, taking a film study course as his elective. Gunn received his bachelor of arts and proceeded to take the one-year journalism program at King’s.

In writing his own scripts, Simpson realized how much FYP influenced his writing.

“When you’re involved in [scripting] drama, you’re exploring human psychology. That’s when everything I read in FYP comes into play,” Simpson says.

Gunn says sometimes he, Simpson, Craig and Kioussis end up sitting around and talking about the movies they saw the previous weekend instead of working. Gunn says it should be the other way around, where people in other offices are raving about their movies. “ ‘Did you see that movie Touch and Go?’” Gunn says, mimicking the voice of an excited worker discussing one of the Gunn’s current projects. “ ‘You have to go see it. It was awesome.’”

“It’s certainly been a busy three years,” Simpson says. “We really shot out of the gate with our first few projects.”

In fact, Terminal Lunch, the 15minute film Simpson directed and edited in 1997 won four awards, including Best Atlantic Short Film

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in the Atlantic Film Festival.

Chronicle Pictures followed that project up with a made for TV movie for Global called December 1917. The film about the Halifax Explosion earned the company a Gemini nomination.

Right now, Gunn and Simpson spend most of their time working on Touch and Go, a film Gunn calls “a rather conventional romantic comedy.” It’s influenced by the style of Cameron Crowe, a director both Gunn and Simpson admire. The script was brought to them by Michael Melski (BA ’91).

Meanwhile, Kioussis is developing a science fiction series for television called Weaver. Craig Kelly has two or three projects on the go.

“But all four of us have the same ideals,” Gunn says.

Gunn says the four of them fit together within the company like pieces in a puzzle. Simpson does editing, post-production work and accounting. Cameron does budget break-downs and acts as production manager. Kioussis handles tax credit issues and legal work. Gunn deals with distribution, marketing and project development.

“Hopefully one of us will know the answer, or at least how to get to the answer,” Gunn chuckles.

Gunn dreams of the day when Chronicle Pictures will make a movie independent of government funding. He wants to be financially stable enough to move the company out of the pink walls and stuffy corridors of the Roy building and into an old house downtown.

Simpson wants people to call them and ask for help in making a movie, instead of Chronicle Pictures having to seek people out.

“We want it to be a comfortable environment for people to come to us and say, ‘I want to make a film but I’ve never made one before,’ “Simpson says.

All four members of Chronicle Pictures agree they would like to stop receiving calls from people who want photographs from the Chronicle-Herald newspaper. Gunn says they receive up to three or four of these calls a day. In the phone book, they’re listed right underneath the newspaper. Even though the addresses are different, it does-

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n’t seem to stop curious callers.

“People actually argue with us about it,” Gunn says, shaking his head. “They’d say, ‘Are you sure?

Because it says right here, Chronicle Pictures.’ And I’d say yes, that’s our name. We’re a film production company. Then the person would say, ‘Oh. Then who should I call?’ Gee, I don’t know, why don’t you try calling the ChronicleHerald?” Gunn continues with a sarcastic smile. He admits the barrage of calls unrelated to his business can be frustrating.

Gunn says the four members of Chronicle Pictures have respect for each other’s projects, even if each member isn’t personally invested in a project. A good script is a good script, and they will help each other when asked.

“Unless Scott decides to do a remake of Ben-Hur,” Gunn jokes.

Photo credit: Michael Creagen

Alumni Representation at installations of Chancellors and Presidents

Brandon University Rod Nickel (BJ ’95) University of Victoria James Caufra (BA ’61) University of Lethbridge Janet Bertsch (BAH ’96) University of Moncton John Wishart (BScH ’82) University of Winnipeg Anne Gregory (BA ’84, BJ ’85) University of Toronto Senator J. Trevor Eyton, Chancellor University of Western Ontario Kelley Teahen (BJ ’85)

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AlumniNews Calendar of Events

AUGUST 9, 2000

Congratulations winners!

May 15

Alumni Annual General Meeting, Second Floor Classroom, New Academic Building, 5:30 p.m.

Reception — Common Room, New Academic Building, 6:30 p.m.

Alumni Annual Dinner — Prince Memorial Hall, 7:30 p.m.

May 17

Encaenia

June TBA

Alumni Events Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg

August 15

King’s Classic Golf Tournament Granite Springs Golf Club

1st Place Low Gross Tony Richards Carl Demmons (’71-73) Mike Dempster Gary Higgins

1st Place Low Net Left to right: David Jones (BA ’92), Kathy Kalil, Doug Hadley (BA ’92), Bruce Murray (BA ’93)

Alumni Association

UPCOMING EVENING LECTURES

March 1

Gordon McOuat "Iconography: Image and Performance in Science" 7:30 p.m., 2nd Floor Auditorium, New Building

March 8

Peter Schwenger "Red Cannas, Sardine Cans, and the Gaze of the Object" 7:30 p.m., 2nd Floor Auditorium, New Building

March 15

Dalia Judovitz "De/assembling Vision: Conceptual Strategies in Duchamp, Matta- Clark, and Wilson" 7:30 p.m., 2nd Floor Auditorium, New Building

March 22

Dorota Glowacka "Ocular Constructions of Race and the Challenge of Ethics: bell hooks and Emmanual Levinas" 7:30 p.m., 2nd Floor Auditorium, New Building

March 29

Teresa Brennan "Deceiving Vision" 7:30 p.m., 2nd Floor Auditorium, New Building

April 4

Professor Bruce Barber The Postmodern and Pomophobia 7:30 - 8:30 p.m., Haliburton Room

Executive Committee 2000/01 Position

Name

Term

President Vice-President Treasurer Past-President

Stuart McPhee Doug Ruck Jane Spurr Judith McPhee

2000-2002 2000-2002

Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member

Joan (French) Buck Tim Currie Joan Parsons Doehler Jane Bailey Craig MacKinnon Leslie MacLeod Tim W. Rissesco

1999-2001 2000-2001 1999-2001 2000-2002 2000-2002 2000-2002 2000-2002

Bd. of Gov. Member Bd. of Gov. Member Bd. of Gov. Member

David Baker Frank Beazley Lesley Gaum

1999-2001 2000-2002 2000-2003

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2000-2002

Please call the alumni office for further details

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Mark Dewolf (BAH ’68) recently became the head of the English Department at the Tishun Town Secondary School in Singapore.

Dr. Wayne J. Hankey (BAH ’65) is on a half-year sabbatical. He is a visiting fellow at Clare Hall in Cambridge University and a visiting scholar at the Medieval Institute of Boston College and at the department of the classics at Harvard University.

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Deborah Boltz (BA ’77) is the Media Co-ordinator for Home for the Holidays and the Done in a Day Co-ordinator with Junior League.

Gail Stevens (BA ’77) is currently teaching at Astral Drive Elementary School in Dartmouth, N.S.

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Eric Bourque (BJH ’86) was one of the three finalists for best sports photo in the Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s annual Better Newspapers competition for his picture of a soccer player going head over heels.

Sheila Cameron (BSc ’86) and her husband Keith Godfrey are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Laura Elizabeth Godfrey, on July 18, 2000. Sheila is a partner in the law firm of Brown Cameron in Moncton. She can be reached at kgodfrey@nbnet.nb.ca Iain Christie (BSc ’87) and Pam Dilworth-Christie (BSc ’89) announce the arrival of their daughter Emma Mei Yuan Christie, born Hong Hu Yuan, April 23, 1999, JiangXi Province, China.

Iain and Pam returned from their trip to China in August bringing Emma home to live with them in Ottawa. They can be reached at dilchrist@home.com Peter Classen (BAH ’88) returned after 10 years overseas, having worked in 26 countries. Peter joined Columbus Newport, a Washington, DCbased consulting firm as Vice-President International. He and Elmira Togliatti from Argentina were married last summer.

The Rev. Canon Patrick Curran (BA ’80), the nonresidentiary canonry of St. Mark’s in the procathedral of St. Paul, Valleta, Malta has been conferred upon him by the Bishop of

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Gilbraltar in Europe. Patrick is currently the Chaplain of Christ Church, Vienna.

Trevor Greene (BJH ’88) spent last summer setting up the Japan operations of Stockhouse Media (www.stockhouse.com). He is currently the International Expansion Manager and living in Vancouver.

Suzette (Hollett) MacIsaac (BSc ’87) and her husband Scott are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Emily Lauren, born on July 14, 2000.

David Meagher (BA ’82) is taking the BEd at St. Thomas University, NB. He and his wife, Shirley (van Oorschot) live in Fredericton.

Owen Parkhouse (BA ’89 HC ’90) and Elizabeth Parkhouse (BA ’90) have moved to Washington D.C. Owen received the St. John Ambulance Life-saving Certificate for helping save the lives of several Timorese after a vehicle left the road and plunged down a cliff, injuring over 30 people. He was the first INTERFET member on the scene and assumed command. He was also awarded the Chief of Defence Staff Commendation for this incident. Owen is currently working at the Office of Naval Intelligence as a Canadian Liason Officer.

Their e-mail address is parkhous@bellatlantic.net John Stiles (BA ’89) will have his debut novel, The Insolent Boy, available in spring 2001, published by Insomniac Press of Toronto.

Kelley Teahen (BJ ’85) has taken a new job as media manager for the Stratford Festival of Canada. She is currently living in Stratford Ont. Nancy (Waugh) Umlah (BA ’89, BJ ’90) is now producing “Health Matters”, Canada’s only daily health news television show. Nancy has been with CBC Newsworld for ten years. She lives in Dartmouth with her husband Trevor.

Nancy invites friends to email her at waugh@halifax.cbc.ca

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Mary-Ann Archibald (BJ ’97) has written an ebook, Character Sketches, from Citadel Hill Publishing’s website, www.citadelhill.com Roberta Barker (BAH ’96) received her PhD in English Literature in August 2000 from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, U.K. where she has been studying as a Commonwealth scholar since September 1999. She is currently teaching at Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. Adrianna Beemans (1995-96) graduated from Trent University in 1999 with a BAH in Comparative Development. She is a junior product officer with the UN Habitat Commission based in Mazar-i-Sharif, Northern

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Janet Bertsch (BAH ’96) and Daniel Morrison (BScH ’96) have just finished their doctorates at University College London. They are currently in Lethbridge, Alberta where Janet has been appointed assistant professor in English at the University of Lethbridge.

Natalie Bona (BJH ’98) has been working since December 1999 with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Halifax. He email address is nataliebona@hotmail.com Heather Carmichael (BJH ’92) married Sandy Kearney on August 19, 2000. They live in New Waterfod, N.S. where both are teachers in the Cape Breton Victoria School Board. Heather can be reached at kearney@auracom.com Erin Casey (BAH ’92) and Henk van Leeuwen (BAH ’91) were married in Halifax in August 1999. They are now the proud parents of Marius Carl, born July 12, 2000. Henk is the news producer at CBC Radio in Halifax and Erin is a freelance editor and graphic designer and full-time mom.

John Edward Cochran (BA ’92) was married in 1998. His son, Angus Edward Cochran was born on March 1, 2000.

Sarah Cook (BAH ’96) completed an internship at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and curated an exhibition for the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle. She has started a PhD in the department of Arts, Design and Media at the University of Sutherland and was chosen as one of two National Gallery of Canada research fellows in post- 1970 Canadian art.

John Curry (BAH ’90) works in the PC leader’s office in Ottawa and is working on his MA in political science from the University of Western Ontario.

Allison Davis (BA ’93) married David Hamilton on Dec. 18, 1999 in Halifax. She is currently completing an MDiv at the Atlantic School of Theology and is the don of North Pole Bay. Yvette d’Entremont (BJH ’95) for the second year in a row, received first place honours in the investigative journalism category at the Atlantic Community Newspaper Association’s annual awards ceremony. She received top spot in the feature series category at the Canadian Community Newspaper Association’s annual convention. The awards were for the series she completed on health issues facing Canada’s peacekeeping veterans following the Persian Gulf conflict.

Jane Doucet (BJH ’93) and her husband, David MacQuaid, have relocated to Halifax. Jane has been working for various Toronto magazines since 1993 and has been freelancing full time for the past year, most recently as the managing editor at Gardening Life and as a senior contributing editor at Canadian Living. She has written articles for the October issues of FLARE, Homemaker’s, Saltscapes and Atlantic Progress magazines.

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AlumNotes J. Trevor Eyton, O.C. (Chancellor) was one of three Canadians who received the Aguila Azteca, the highest distinction that Mexico can bestow upon foreigners.

Jillian Millar Drysdale (BJ ’94) will be moving from Calgary in early 2001 to be with her husband Dave, who recently joined Air Canada’s head office in Montreal. She can be reached via tilt-creative@home.com Gabriel Edell (BA ’94) married Sarah Maley of Irvington, N.Y. in New Orleans on March 18, 2000 where they currently reside.

Catriona Fekete (BAH ’91) is working at a small university in southern Germany, organizing master’s programs. You can look at her work at www.master.school.de.

Brian Flemming, C.M. (D.C.L.’91) was recently appointed by Hon. David Collenette, the federal Minster of Transport, to be Chairman of the

Canada Transportation Act Review Panel. The independent panel, which has one year to report, will study major national transportation issues in Canada. Four others, including Ontario premier Bob Rae, will sit on this panel.

Mark Flemming (BA ’95) is a senior advisor in the Research Department of China Securities in Taipei. China Securities is one of Taiwan’s largest investment houses.

Carol (Steeves) Houston (BA ’94) and her husband Tim are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Paget MacKenzie, on Sept. 2, 1999.

The family resides in Bermuda where Carol was formerly employed at the Bank of Bermuda and Tim works in the insurance industry.

Kelly Jones (BA ’95) after working as a writer and copy editor for Stoddart Publishing in Toronto,

NOMINATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED for the Judge J. Elliott Hudson Distinguished Alumnus/a Award for 2001 Alumni of the university are eligible for nomination. The successful candidate will have made a significant contribution to one or all of the following areas: their discipline, community, charitable or volunteer work. All submissions will be held in strict confidence.

Submit nomination with supporting documentation by March 9, 2001 to: Award Selection Committee c/o UKC Alumni Office University of King’s College 6350 Coburg Road Halifax, N.S. B3H 2A1 Tel: (902) 422-1271 Fax: (902) 425-0363

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traveled for nine months through Latin America. Kelly is currently writing and editing on a freelance basis for a number of different companies.

Mary Beth Knight (BJ ’97) is a speechwriter in Washington, D.C. Ken Lima-Coelho (BJ ’96) is co-host of CBC ’s news show, CBC News.Real, aimed at 13- to 17-year-olds.

Lana (Mitchell) MacEachern (BJH ’97) and Brent MacEachern are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Jonah Mitchell MacEachern, on Nov. 15, 2000. They are residing in Pictou County, N.S. where Lana is a reporter at a daily newspaper and Brent works as a welder.

Christina McKay (BAH ’93) married Mikael Brodin on July 29, 2000 in St. Stephen’s Church, Chester NS. They live in Stockholm, Sweden.

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In Memoriam Wayne L. Campbell (BA ’70) of Hammonds Plains, N.S. passed away on July 28, 2000 at the age of 56. He was Fleet Manager of Courtesy Chrysler Dartmouth and, prior to that, a career counsellor with CDI in Halifax.

Kenneth L. Dyer (’32-’33) of Ottawa, Ont. passed away Oct. 9, 2000.

Martin Thomas Andrew Evong (BA ’82, HC ’83) of Lower Sackville passed away on Oct. 9, 2000. He was employed by the CNR for 20 years.

Robert Gardner Forbes (’39) of Denmark, N.S. passed away on July 26, 2000 at the age of 77. He served in the Canadian army in the Second World and was wounded in battle in Italy. He worked with the Unemployment Insurance Corporation and later served as president of Forbes Bros. Furniture Store in Denmark.

Irvine, G. Harrison (HMCS King’s, JJ Division) of Oshawa, Ont. passed away July 27, 2000 at the age of 84.

The Rev. Donald Wilbur Noseworthy (DD ’84) of Fredericton, N.B. passed away March 8, 2000 at the age of 79. He was ordained priest in 1947 and served

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in numerous parishes in Massachusettes, Quebec and New Brunswick culminating in being appointed dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton in 1983.

Rev. Canon Joseph Nowe (LTh ’43, BSL ’50) of St. Catharines, Ont. passed away Jan. 3, 2001. He served in Anglican parishes in Nova Scotia and Ontario Heather Louise (Murray) Paterson (BSc ’72) of Adelaide, South Australia, passed away Aug. 27, 2000 at the age of 49.

Francis “Frank” Taylor Sayer (BSc ’41) of Dartmouth, N.S. passed away Aug. 28, 2000 at the age of 80. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and was employed by the CNR in Saint John Campbellton, Moncton and Halifax for 45 years.

LCdr. Bent Gestur Sivertz of Mayne Island, B.C. passed away Mar. 10, 2000 at the age of 95. He commanded HMCS King’s from 1944 to 1946 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his wartime service. He was later the first commissoner of the North West Territories.

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AlumNotes Whitney Miller (BAH ’94) has been living in Mexico City, working on an internship in the Mexican congress and in a public relations firm. Whitney married César Volpi Corona on April 14, 2000.

Alison Myers (BJH ’99) and Luke Puxley (4th year) are engaged to be married July 21, 2001.

Christine Oakey (BA ’95) was the stage manager for The Drawer Boy at the Alderney Landing Theatre on the Dartmouth waterfront, N.S. Megan O’Brien Harrison (BJH ’98) and her husband, David Harrison had their first baby, a daughter named Meredith Leslie, on Oct. 30, 2000. They are living in Saint John N.B. Aaron Orzech (BAH ’97) is currently working in South-western China as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is living in Guiyang City, the capital of Guizhou province where he teaches English at a college of traditional Chinese medicine.

Viva Press (BJH ’98) was recently named arts and entertainment editor for the Jerusalem Post.

Viva also works as a news editor/reader at Israel Radio. She has been living in Israel for the past two-and-a-half years.

Jennifer Roos (BJ ’94) and her husband Eric Chisholm are the proud parents of Katherine Olivia, born on May 13, 2000.

Barb Shaw (BJH ’96) worked on the movie, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, as the VFX

Co-ordinator. She is currently working in television as the production co-ordinator for “Angela Anaconda”.

Scott Simpson (BA ’93 AMc ’95) now has Graeme Gunn (BA ’94 BJ ’96) as a partner in his company Chronicle Pictures. Scott and Graeme produced a film for Evan Kelly (BAH ’96) last summer that starred Drew Yamada (BA ’92 AMc ’93). He is working on his first feature film. Graeme will produce, Scott will direct and the script is being written by Michael Melski (BA ’91). Scott is engaged to Beth Carey (1991-95).

Ed Sluga (journalism staff ’92-’94) and his wife Claire would like to announce the birth of John Christopher Barron Sluga, born June 2, 2000.

Heather Smith (BA ’97) has recently completed a Master of Social Work degree from Carlton University. In September she returned to Halifax to work with the Dept. of Community Services as a researcher in Prevention Initiatives. Email Heather at blue_bussed@hotmail.com.

Barb Stegemann (BA ’91 BJ ’99) is writing and producing stories for in-flight shows of the Dave Chalk Technology Show. She is living in Vancouver B.C. Anne Totten (BA ’99) graduated with a BA in Russian Studies in May 1999 and is now working in London, England for Interfax, a Russian

news agency.

Jean (Haliburton) Wills (BA ’90) and Bernie Wells (BAH ’90) had a son, Thomas Gabriel on August 22, 2000, a brother to Kristin, 4, and Jeremy, 2. Bernie is teaching at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Cornerbrook, Nfld.

Andrew Younger (BJ ’99) was in Niger where he was shooting a documentary series that will be aired in January. The Vision TV Skylight team won a Gemini Award and an international Gabriel award for an episode that included a story by Andrew about Wiccans in Newfoundland.

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Penny Howard (BScH ’00) is currently working as the Shipboard Education Coordinator for the Freedom Schooner Amistad in Mystic, Ct. Alasdair McKie (BJH ’00) is working as a copy editor at the Globe and Mail.

YOU REMEMBERED! #1 and #3 seemed to be pretty easy. So did #2 (for a while). We received three responses identifying #2 as Gloria (Teed) Trivett and one as Mary (Burchell) Kelly.

We're pretty certain the location is the site of the current King's library and the date is the 1947-48 academic year.

1. Tommy Fraser 2. Gloria (Teed) Trivett (BA ’51) or Mary (Burchell) Kelly 3. Aleah (Palmer) Lomas (BA ’48) Thanks to Hope (Bridgeford) Simmons (BA ’48), the Rev. Canon Don Trivett (BA ’50, LTh ’52), Alberta Boswall (BSc ’48) and Aleah (Palmer) Lomas (BA ’48) for their responses.

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And thanks to Caleb Lawrence (BA ’62, BST ’64) and Bob Flecknell (BSc ’67) for their further guesses to the photo in the Spring 2000 issue. As Caleb rightly corrects us, the activity in the photo would, of course, have been called “initiation” not “orientation” as it is now known.

So, let’s move on ... (over)

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