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COVER STORY
ON CAMPUS
16 Tuition squeeze Steep increases in academic fees are causing worrisome levels of debt for some students
Students and staff welcome bright spaces in new link It’s all about rivalry for first-year twins Three with King’s ties honoured by province
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23 The moon in their eyes Stephanie Nolen’s (BJH ’93) latest book recounts the fascinating story of 13 women astronauts trained by NASA for the moon race
Fourth-year student dies on Cuba trip Agreement broadens academic options for journalism students A recent grad recounts his experiences on the New England college recruitment circuit
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ALUMNI PROFILE
25 Top man on the East Coast Glenn Davidson (BA ’73) rises to commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic
J-school director Stephen Kimber’s latest book explores simmering trouble in wartime Halifax
COVER: Fourth-year BA student Amber Savage. Story on page 16. Photo: Michael Creagen
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Letters Rhodes was no statesman To the Editor: Thank you for yet another attractive, informative and well-written issue of Tidings. Despite its virtues, two points in the Summer 2002 edition need correcting. On page five you refer to Cecil Rhodes as a “British nobleman and statesman.” He was neither noble nor ennobled. Counting him among British statesmen only brings to mind the great evils humanity owes to its empire. In fact, Rhodes, the son of an Anglican clergyman, was a genocidal murderer, liar, traitor of friends and business associates, petty tyrant and cheat, robber, thug and imperialist racist, who, among his other large-scale iniquities, provoked the Boer War to serve his business interests. The still-prevailing injustices and terrible miseries of a great part of Africa at the end of the 19th and throughout the 20th century are owed in substantial measure to him. Although recent revisions have ameliorated their original effect, by the terms of his will,
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the Rhodes Scholarships were designed to promote both racism and imperialism. On page 18 in reference to the Foundation Year Programme, it is alleged: “Over the years, the university has integrated more social and political studies into the programme’s curriculum.” This would not be borne out by an examination of its present list of readings and lectures or of its teachers. Lest I bore you with the details, I note only that in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003, those most responsible for the curriculum and lectures (the director, associate director, and the six section co-ordinators) had doctorates in classics (2), theology (2), philosophy (1), history (1), political theory (1) music (1) English literature (2). A like dominance of humanists has prevailed since 1977.
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Students and staff welcome bright spaces in new link Large windows highlight new offices for alumni and students’ union By Becky Harris
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ing’s students can now go to the New Academic Building in their pajamas. The long-anticipated link between the old building and the new is just about complete, meaning students can travel through the tunnels from their residence rooms or the Arts and Administration building to the new building, without having to step outside. Third-year student Laura Pellerine likes the large, arched-top office windows and natural light in the ground-floor corridor. “It’s such a smooth walk,” she says. “It lives up to its billing as a breezeway. You ‘breeze’ right through it.” The project has been in the works since 1998 when the university first proposed the New Academic Building. But when the new building was completed last year, there still wasn’t enough room. Enrolment at King’s had increased so much since the original plan that faculty members were left without offices, and seminar rooms and classrooms were booked solid. As well, enrolment pressures prompted the administration to eye the basement of the women’s residence, Alexandra Hall, as space for more residence rooms. This past summer the university built 14 new rooms requiring relocation of the alumni office and three other offices.
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The university’s finance committee and the board of governors decided an expanded link was the answer. They proposed a plan to more-than-double its usable size by adding to the planned basement and ground floor levels. The move would result in more offices, classrooms and a new, larger space for the alumni office and the King’s Students’ Union. “That’s when the two projects came together,” says Bursar Gerry Smith. “We could use the cash flow from the new rooms to pay for the mortgage on the link.” $1.3-million project But just because the size doubled, doesn’t mean the cost did. Smith says a lot of the costs were for excavation so the expansion added only 50 per cent to the bill, making
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it a $1.3-million project. Jennifer Laurette, interim administrative secretary for the alumni, development and public relations office, remembers only too well the old alumni office in the basement of Alexandra Hall. “It was this dark basement with dusty carpet,” she says. “It faced Coburg [Road] so there was no direct sunlight.” Sitting among boxes piled in corners from the move in mid-October, Laurette (replacing Paula Johnson, who is on maternity leave until May) says the new office is larger and brighter. But more important, she says, it’s more visible. Because it’s in a high-traffic area, students walking by come in and check out the King’s merchandise. “It’s been crazy,” she says, “We’ve
The final stage of construction on the New Academic Building “links” the structure with the A&A Building. Photo: Michael Creagen
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Short list announced for new president
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ing’s is one step closer to choosing a successor to university president Colin Starnes. Elizabeth Edwards, chair of the presidential search committee, announced the short list of candidates for King’s next president: Professor Bruce Archibald, William Barker and Mark Kingwell. Professor Bruce Archibald, who teaches at the Dalhousie Law School, was educated at King’s (BA ’70), Dalhousie University (MA ’71, LLB ’74), Columbia University (LL.M ’75) and the Université de Paris (post-graduate law study). He has published widely on criminal law, comparative law and restorative justice. In addition to academic duties, he has acted as a consultant to federal and provincial departments of justice. William Barker is currently chair of the English department at Memorial University in
Newfoundland. He studied at Dartmouth College (BA ’68) and at the University of Toronto (MA ’70; BEd ’71; PhD ’82). His main research field is early modern English texts. He also writes on the history of the book and the history of education and has been a frequent contributor to CBCRadio’s Ideas. He is a past director of the Graduate Program in Humanities at Memorial. Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was educated at the University of Toronto (BA ’85), University of Edinburgh (MLitt ’87), and Yale University (MPhil ’89; PhD ’91). He is the author of five books including Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac (1998) and The World We Want: Virtue, Vice and the Good Citizen (2000). Dr. Kingwell has also contributed to the National Post, the Globe and Mail, Harper’s and Adbusters. Each candidate visited King’s for interview sessions in midJanuary. The committee expects to announce its choice by the end of the month. Colin Starnes’s 10 years as president end officially on June 30, 2003.
Long-serving maintenance man Kenny Askew flashes his trademark smile as he displays a gold pocket watch he received to mark his 30th year of service to King’s. University staff celebrated with a luncheon in his honour. They also presented him with a vintage John Deere ad and a miniature replica of his everpresent tractor. Kenny told those gathered he was initially hired for a one-month term. Photo: Sharlene Salter
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‘A huge improvement’ Continued from previous page sold out of stuff.” She says the alumni staff reordered merchandise from suppliers only once during the last year but has placed one order already, only four months into the new academic session. Glenn Woods, financial vice-president of the King’s Students’ Union (KSU), says the organization’s new location, across from the alumni office, is ideal. “It’s a huge improvement for us,” he says. “It gives us way more space.” He says he remembers being told the link would be completed in September 2001. Then it was postponed to September 2002. The students’ union didn’t actually move in until early January. Smith can explain the delay. He says the land behind the link belongs to Dalhousie University and they have plans to eventually build residences there. The likelihood of close proximity to new buildings required construction workers to install fire shutters on the back wall of the link as a safety precaution. The shutters arrived only at the beginning of November. An unexpected need to remove rock from the site also added to the delay. The sulfur content of the rock produces a weak acid when mixed with rain water and could have threatened the local environment. Now that the students’ union has finally moved in, it has six workstations in an open office area, a meeting room and a storage closet. Like the alumni office, theirs is more visible to students. “Now students will come to realize what services we do offer,” Woods says — such as the student health plan, the handbooks and the yearbooks. Woods says the construction has benefitted everyone, not just the KSU. “It puts people where they should be rather than scattering them in little cubby holes across campus.”
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OnCampus By Sarah Crane
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wins Ben and Sam Stewart are sitting in their shared room in Cochran Bay trying to explain how small their Annapolis Valley hometown of Bridgetown, N.S., is. “There’s only one thousand people living there,” says Ben. “Yeah, there were only 400 kids in our high school, from Grades 7 to 12,” Sam adds. “We figured out we are 0.2 per cent of the population of the whole town,” Ben chimes in with a smile. Talking with Ben and Sam Stewart is like talking to a single person. If one twin starts a sentence, it’s not long before his brother completes it. Whoever can finish the most sentences wins. They’re not identical twins, but they seem to agree on most subjects. However, the issue of which brother is the most athletic isn’t one of them. Ben thinks he is, and Sam doesn’t agree. But that’s just their competitive nature coming out to play. Ben says they don’t compete with each other in school, but Sam disagrees. “He says that only because he’s losing,” Sam says. Even sharing a conversation is like a competition. The Stewart twins are thoroughly enjoying their first year at King’s, both taking the Foundation Year Programme and science courses at Dalhousie. They play on the soccer team and are the driving force behind an effort to mount the first King’s varsity badminton team in decades. They read their FYP books and write their essays at the same time but they never help each other, only because they think it would end in a fight. They graduated high school with impressive academic and athletic achievements, including almost every athletic award offered. They played badminton, volleyball, soccer, basketball and were on the table tennis and track teams. Not only did they play every sport together, but they ruled every sport. They shared the Most Valuable Player award for the soccer and bas-
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ketball teams, and Sam was the table tennis MVP. In Grade 11, Ben and Sam shared the Athlete of the Year award at their high school, but in Grade 12, Ben got the award. Sam can’t help but speculate Ben was singled out because Sam broke his leg in the provincial basketball final, hurting the rest of his athletic year. A small hum of excitement has followed the twins to King’s. But recent articles in the ChronicleHerald and Sport Report make them feel like they’re getting more attention than they deserve. “It’s definitely much ado about nothing,” says Ben. “Ryan Tully was the rookie of the year on the [King’s] soccer team and now he’s on the basketball team at King’s. But nobody pays any attention to him because he’s not a twin,” says Ben. Still, King’s Athletics Director Neil Hooper says the two have already proven themselves. “Aside from their obvious athletic strengths, they add a lot to the university in terms of their personalities, attitudes and support of other players,” he says. “They’re just really positive guys.” The brothers play so many sports it was difficult for them to decide on one when they arrived at King’s. They set their sights on soccer after King’s coach Jeff Baker came out to watch one of their high school games. They enjoyed their soccer team but say the higher level of competition was jarring. “In high school it was always demanding of your time, but it was never as physically demanding,” says Sam.
“I didn’t expect to come home from a practice and physically not be able to write a paper,” adds Ben. They enjoyed their soccer season and they’re hoping to launch a King’s badminton team this year. They’ve played the sport together as far back as second grade, with their father as coach. Last year they competed as a doubles team in the province’s senior boys division. They beat all of the big, urban schools in Halifax and brought the provincial banner to Bridgetown. As that accomplishment revealed, badminton is their true passion — and that’s one thing they actually agree on.
It’s all about rivalry for first-year twins
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$10K US grant supports book prize, guest profs
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eginning this year, students in the Science and Religion course have an extra reason to give their papers some extra polish. The best essay submitted during the course’s two halves — Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Perspectives — will win the new Sir John William Dawson Essay Prize in Science and Religion. Prof. Stephen Snobelen said the book prize was made possible by a $10,000 US grant from the Templeton Foundation, one of only two awarded in Canada this year. The Science and Religion course is cross-listed in the History of
Science and Technology, Early Modern Studies and Contemporary Studies Programmes. Prof. Snobelen said the prize was the first of its kind in the young programmes. He hoped the essay prize would be an added incentive for students to take the upper-year course. The winner will be selected by the course instructor, the heads of the three departments and the university chaplain. The balance of the grant will be used to make the prize an annual honour and to bring in guest lecturers for the Science and Religion course.
Many alumni have Edna Warrington to thank for keeping their residence rooms and classrooms from falling into total disarray while they concentrated on papers and parties. Edna retired on Oct. 24, 2002 after 23 years at King’s. Here she is being congratulated by President Dr. Colin Starnes in academic regalia. Photo: Jesse Henry
Three with King’s ties honoured by province Three friends of King’s, Dr. Carrie Best, OC (DCL ‘92), the Hon. Lorne Clarke, OC (BoG 1999-00) and Dr. Marie Elwood (DCnL ’87), were among the initial 10 recipients of the Order of Nova Scotia on Oct. 2, 2002. They were selected from more than 200 people nominated for the order, established in June 2001. At a ceremony at Province House Calbert Best (BA ‘48) accepted the order on behalf of his mother, who died last year. Dr. Carrie Best of New Glasgow was a journalist, broadcaster and respected leader of the AfricanNova Scotian community. A pioneer in the fight for racial equality in this province, she founded Nova Scotia’s first black-owned newspaper, the Clarion in 1946. The Honourable Lorne Clarke of Halifax is a former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He was a law professor at Dalhousie University and a leader in the field of labour-management relations as negotiator, conciliator and frequent arbitrator. And as chair of the Swissair Flight 111 Memorial Secretariat he helped create a dignified monument to that tragedy. As its chief curator of history from 1973 to 1992, Dr. Marie Elwood, of Tantallon, added three significant historic houses to the Nova Scotia Museum. She also catalogued and published the King’s College Weldon Collection, one of the oldest collections of ceramics in Canada, and is currently cataloguing the entire contents of Nova Scotia’s Government House.
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Fourth-year student dies on Cuba trip
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he King’s community was shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Kyle MacDonald, in Havana, Cuba on Dec. 12. Kyle, 22, of Port Hawkesbury, N.S., was one of seven students taking part in a four-month studyabroad programme through Dalhousie University. While in Cuba he had presented his research findings, in Spanish, to professors at the University of Havana. The Canadian embassy and the University of Havana, a partner in the programme, provided support for the other students as they returned to Canada. Kyle was to have returned on Dec. 15. Kyle took part in the Foundation Year Programme at King’s, and was working toward a
Bachelor of Arts degree in international development studies and history that involved study at both Dalhousie and King’s. He would have graduated in May 2003. Dr. Dorota Glowacka, a Contemporary Studies professor, taught Kyle last year. She remembers him for the great effort he put into her course, although it was far-removed from his other studies. “He really put himself into what he was doing,” she says, noting his excellent project on Holocaust art. “He had such a cheerful presence,” she adds. “You had a sense that everyone really liked him.” Most students had already left King’s for Christmas break when news of Kyle’s death arrived. A memorial service at King’s was planned for Jan. 29.
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Agreement broadens academic options for journalism students Four-year journalism students whose other academic interests aren’t satisfied at Dalhousie University now have the chance to study at other schools. Journalism school director Stephen Kimber says honours students typically do their nonjournalism studies at Dalhousie, but not all have been able to find the programmes they want there. To accommodate those students, the school has created a programme that allows students to do a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) at King’s and Interdisciplinary Studies at an institution other than Dalhousie. Fourth-year student Angela Chang is the first to benefit from the programme. She’s been taking courses in Asian studies at Saint Mary’s University with permission from King’s. Now,
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thanks to an agreement between King’s and Saint Mary’s, King’s will credit her Asian studies work as it would other students’ minor programmes at Dalhousie. Kimber doesn’t expect students to pursue this option often. Students will have to apply and King’s will assess each request individually. Because the journalism program is largely practical, he says, the other studies must be academic. The other institution also has to agree that King’s journalism programme meets its academic requirements. Kimber says what started as a single request will allow BJH students to expand their view of the programme. “There was a problem and a desire to solve it,” he says. “That’s often the way new things start.”
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Mills, Steffen receive Inglis honour
Kyle MacDonald poses in Cuba in front of a picture of Che Guevara. Photo: Submitted
Dr. Eric Mills and Dr. Detlev Steffen have been named Inglis Professors of King’s College. Dr. Mills taught in the department of oceanography and helped set up the History of Science and Technology programme. Dr. Steffen was a member of the department of German and a Foundation Year Programme lecturer. Both retired in 2002. The title of Inglis Professor, created in 1992, is meant to strengthen the ties between the university and members of the faculty who retire from teaching. It gives the retirees the same privileges as all scholars at King’s including use of the library and membership in the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Athletes now subject to drug testing
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or the first time, student athletes at King’s may be subject to random drug testing. All athletes are also learning about the hazards of drug use — from steroid abuse to the over-the-counter cold remedies that may contain banned substances. Last year, the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association in connection with the Canadian Centre for DrugFree Sport established a programme that requires all athletes to attend a drug awareness seminar. Any athlete
may then be tested with only 18hours notice. All medal-winning teams and individuals at a national championship are automatically tested. An athlete who tests positive for a banned substance could be suspended for up to four years and entire teams may be penalized. This athletic season is the first year the programme has been in effect. Mike Sutton of the centre held a seminar for King’s athletes in October. Athletics Director Neil Hooper
says King’s doesn’t typically have the sort of hulking athletes who might use steroids to get even bigger. But he said the university’s athletes did learn to be careful about taking any drugs near a competition date. Officials don’t make any exceptions for athletes who accidentally use a banned substance. “You simply can’t take it,” Hooper says. So far no King’s athletes have been subject to testing.
Athletics update
Strong start to 2002-03 season By Neil Hooper King’s teams and student athletes kicked off the school athletic year with some great performances this fall. On the field, our teams were in two playoffs. Women’s rugby captured their second Division Two college rugby championship in an exciting overtime win over Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Congratulations to new coach Nora Donald and her players on a terrific finish to their season. The men’s soccer team made the playoffs but lost a hard-fought first round game. On the individual awards front we were extremely successful. The men’s soccer team was particularly well represented, led by Matt Fegan who was selected Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association (ACAA) Most Valuable Player, and All-Conference, Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA) All-Canadian, and CCAA Player of the Month. Other award winners were King’s sweeper Mike de la Mothe, who was selected to the ACAA All-Conference team, Ryan Tully, who was ACAA Rookie of the Year, and Tim Kunz, who was ACAA All-Conference
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Keeper. In women’s soccer Lyndsay MacMullin won her third AllConference award in a row. Congratulations are also extended to King’s men’s soccer coach, Jeff Baker for winning his second consecutive ACAA Coach of the Year Award. Promising start for basketball, volleyball teams Basketball and volleyball seasons are in full flight and our teams are off to great starts. All but one of the teams hold top three positions in their respective divisions. Men’s volleyball, which is looking to win its third-straight ACAA championship, have a 7-1 record and sit in first place. An early award winner was Colin Stairs from men’s volleyball who was selected as CCAA Player of the Month. Heather Stillwell from women’s basketball received an AllStar selection at the John Abbott Women’s Basketball Tournament. Players to watch this year include Marlon Maclean from men’s basketball, who is currently leading his team in scoring and Mariana Hrkac from women’s basketball — a for-
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mer player for Sir Wilfred Laurier University. Her size and skill along with the play of some key rookies are a big part of our new and improved women’s basketball team making waves in the ACAA league. King’s has five new coaches this year. Les Berry, who coached a silver medal-winning team at the Canadian Juvenile Basketball Championships last summer, brings his strong coaching background to women’s basketball. Trish Ryan and Kellie MacMullin now coach our women’s soccer team. Both are former basketball and soccer standouts for King’s and are multiple winners of our Female Athlete of the Year Award. Rounding out the list are Nora Donald from women’s rugby and Ron Cleroux from men’s rugby. It has been a very successful start to the 2002-03 season. Teams welcomed the chance for some muchneeded rest over the holiday break after a fast-paced first half of the year. Congratulations to all teams and student-athletes. Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season. Neil Hooper is King’s Director of Athletics
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King’s hosts soccer series King’s hosted the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association soccer championships on Oct. 26-27. The top four men’s and women’s teams, including the second-ranked King’s men’s team, competed. For its first chance to host the championships in over 10 years, the school chose Weir Field in Upper Sackville. Athletics director Neil Hooper called Weir Field one of the best surfaces in Atlantic Canada. In championship play, the King’s men’s team dominated their opponents, the Sexton Tigers, for 70 out of 90 minutes but lost a close first-round game 3-2. Hooper expects more success from the team in the future, with all but one of the players returning next year. The young women’s team has built a solid defence and aims to boost its offence next season, Hooper says.
Rugby teams head to the Rock King’s men’s and women’s rugby teams made an earlyseason trip to Newfoundland to take part in Rugby Fest — a series of matches against club teams — in September. “The hardest part of the trip was trying to get there on time,” said athletics director Neil Hooper. A day-long delay of the ferry’s sailing meant the
women’s team missed their first match and both teams were travel-wearied for the tough matches that followed. Though not successful on the scoreboard, Hooper said the trip — the most significant for rugby teams in several years — was a great beginning to the season. The women’s team went on to win their division championship.
King’s rugby teams await their bus in front of the A&A Building on Sept. 13.
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ACAA Men’s and Women’s Volleyball Championships at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B. ACAA Basketball Championship Tournament at Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. CCAA Volleyball Nationals: Men’s – Okanagan, B.C.; Women’s – Grande Prairie, Alta. CCAA Women’s Basketball Championship at Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S. CCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament at College EdouardMontpetit, Longueuil, Que.
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The Michael Elliott Award Annie Clifford & Glen Woods
The Michael Saunders Award Alicia Potter
The Sandra MacLeod Award Kate McKenna & Jacob Prager
The Beaver Club Award Eva Holland The New Brunswick Award David Carter The John Godfrey Journalism Book Award Susan Read
‘I just found out Nova Scotia means New Scotland’ Continued from page 13 As students meander between exhibitors, some talk eagerly to the reps. Individuals with clear goals stride confidently through the exhibit hall and take few, carefully selected brochures. Others slink surreptitiously past tables, purloin pens, or grab brochures until their bags overflow. Some boys pass the Wells College exhibit and make a grab for the colourful handout portraying its picturesque Aurora, N.Y., campus. “Women’s college, guys,” the rep admonishes them, with a smile. Visitors to the King’s booth often begin with “D’yuh guys have…?”, usually posed after hasty perusal of our brochures. Among the more bizarre requests are glass blowing courses and equine studies. “I just found out Nova Scotia means New Scotland,” one embarrassed mother admits. “Scary, man. Like, Nova Scotia’s out of the country,” comments a per-
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ceptive teen. Another mother asks about the language of instruction — “Is it English or French?” Although the number of girls and boys in attendance is roughly equal, girls outnumber boys two to one in requesting information. I quickly try to pinpoint the “King’s types” — perhaps 30 per cent of the 160 students who visit the booth. After scanning the brochure they enthuse about Foundation Year and the great books it covers. Many have heard of King’s already. They’re individuals with eclectic interests, such as Irish step-dancing, music and pottery, and want to know what Halifax and our province can offer them. Most favour the arts and more than a third of them are interested in journalism. Some already write for local newspapers; others are looking ahead to graduate studies or to professional careers. Now all that remains is for Karl to recruit them.
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Hopes, Homer and hormones Des Writer (BJ ’02) recounts his service to King’s on the New England college recruitment circuit By Desmond Writer
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y role as a college representative begins in early August, with a telephone call. “How would you like to spend three weeks in New England?” asks King’s Admissions Officer Karl Turner. I demur, anxious to avoid the impression of unseemly haste. I call him the next day. There follows a series of weekly “teach-ins,” preparing me for the role. Karl explains the mysteries of Foundation Year and relates his joy of reading the programme’s great books. He tells me about combined honours programmes (“they impress Americans”) and we discuss subjects as diverse as King’s Anglican tradition and the new journalism minor. FYP director Kyle Fraser talks enthusiastically about the university’s faculty/student collegiality and how the programme “essentially transforms” many of its students. Angus Johnston fascinates me with a magical account of Odysseus’s travels over the winedark sea in his lecture on Homer’s Odyssey. Registrar Elizabeth Yeo describes how unique programmes, a friendly city and a good exchange rate form an attractive alternative to American
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colleges. Thus armed, I set out on my three-week odyssey in a Ford Crown Victoria brimming with brochures, the countertop exhibit and three weeks’ luggage. I would travel more than 5,000 kilometres, visit 12 college fairs, sleep in 15 different beds, meet innumerable representatives from high schools and colleges and do my utmost to affirm the virtues of a King’s education. Like the Running of the Bulls The doors open at 7:00 p.m. Bodies tumble inwards in a headlong rush reminiscent of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Soon, the room’s overcrowded with hundreds of students; the noise is deafening. Muffled PA announcements occasionally rise above the clamour. Students wander between tables at random. Boys shuffle in packs, skateboard pants scuffing the floor. Girls hover in huddles. Necklines plunge and bare midriffs expand. Testosterone meets estrogen everywhere. “I don’t know how their mothers let them out,” opines one college rep from a Catholic university. A young woman approaches me with bright eyes and a wide smile. I start my carefully prepared spiel,
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before she begins focusing on a young male in the aisle behind me — her boyfriend. I lose the battle for her attention. College fairs are meeting points, melting pots and brief escapes from the humdrum of high school, all masquerading as a lens into students’ educational futures. About 250 colleges and universities exhibit at all the New England fairs. Host institutions include universities, community colleges and one military establishment — the United States Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn. Some fairs have one session; others occupy an evening and the following morning. Parents often accompany offspring on evenings or Sundays. Exhibits range from a few leaflets neatly displayed, to sophisticated Powerpoint presentations, but the rules are strict. The most common format, like the King’s exhibit, is a three-panel display with accompanying brochures. Karl had told me how to deflect any allegation that our exhibit is two inches too high — ask the complainant “What’s that in centimetres?” College fair etiquette is important too: “Stand behind your exhibit and don’t talk to students until they approach you.”
(Above) Students pack a hall at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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University of King’s College Stewardship Report 2001-02 The University of King’s College is fortunate to have so many committed alumni, such as those listed on the following pages, who realize the importance of supporting higher education, especially in these critical times. This lists all alumni, friends, corporations and foundations who gave to the University between April 1, 2001 and March 31, 2002, except those who wish to remain anonymous. Every effort has been made to list names accurately. If your name has been omitted, or displayed incorrectly, please accept our apologies, and notify King’s Development Office, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2A1 or call (902) 422-1271 ext. 128.
$300,000 Other $56,554
$250,000 Annual Fund $23,820
$200,000
Bequests/ Gifts-in-Kind $13,200 Capital Campaign $481,775
$150,000
$100,000
$50,000
0 Special Friends/ Parents
Alumni
Family
Corporations
Foundations
$120,651
$98,046
$35,894
$279,758
$41,000
Who donated A Air Canada Regional Inc. Joan Aitken Aliant Telecom Inc. Bob & Cathy Allison John Alward Dennis Andrews S. B. Wallace Archibald Peter Armstrong Laura Auchincloss B David Bancroft Bank of Montreal Mary Barker Margaret Barnard Angela Bate T. Fred Baxter
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Jonathan Bays Robert Bean Christie Bennet & James Hammel James Bennet Paul Bent The Birks Family Foundation William Bishop Anne Blakeney J. Ewart Blanchard David Blom M. Alberta [Bertie] Boswall Gord & Patty Brannen Jamie Briggs Stephen Brooke Creighton Brown* Fredrik Bruun Lorna (Surpless) Bryant
How they donated Peter & Patricia Bryson Don & Joan Buck Ronald Buckley Lawrence Buffett Michael Burslem C Chantal Caille Robin Calder Sheila Cameron David, Kathy, Nicole & Christopher Campbell The Canada Life Assurance Company Canadian National Railway Company John Carr John Carruthers
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Carman Carson Helen Pullen Cathcart Patricia Chalmers Elizabeth Chandler Chere Chapman & Gordie Cooper Paul Charlebois Nancy ( Martin) Chipman Fred Christie CIBC Charitable Foundation Lyssa Clack John & Lynn Clappison Dolda Clarke Mary Clarke Maxwell Clattenburg Joan Clayton Charlotte & James Cochran Peter Coffin
Heather Collins Daniel Colson John Cook George Cooper H. Rhodes Cooper John & Ruth Cordes Rosalie Courage Armand Couture John & Pamela (Scott) Crace Robert Craig James Creaser CTV Cundill Foundation Lucille & Patrick Curran Thomas & Jane Curran Lorn Curry & Joanne Wall
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D S. Allison Davis Wendy Davis L. Ann Day Nicholas Day Jack & Eleanor Dean Kenneth Dekker Lisa Dennis Amy Densmore Marilyn & Fraser Dewis Ben Dexter Reid Dexter Teddy Dexter Dexter’s Audi Subaru Alan Dick Joseph Dickstein Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia Susan M. Dodd Floy Doull Dover Mills Limited Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell Kathryn Dundas E Gordon Earle EastLink Cable Systems Ecole S.A.R. - Cantine Brian Edwards Elizabeth Edwards C. Russell Elliott Estate of Dorothy Heighton* Estate of F.C. Manning* Estate of Isabel Janet MacNeill* Estate of Jen MacKenzie Douthwaite* Estate of Mr. Forrester* Estate of Robert Morris* J. Trevor Eyton F Martin Feaver Barbara & Fergus Fergusson Constance Finck Brian Flemming Jeanne Flemming Margaret Flemming Mark Flemming R. Frank Folland Lillian Fowler Rowland Frazee F. Melvin French Paul Friedland Friends of King’s College, Halifax Inc. Gillian (Charlton) Fullilove G Deanna Gallaway Edward Gesner Lloyd Gesner Ed Gigg Dorota Glowacka Richard & Ruth Goldbloom John Gorrill Nita Graham Beverley Greenlaw & Sylvia Hamilton Tim Grew Gulf Canada Resources Limited Charles, Anne, Graeme & Cameron Gunn
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H Ann, Alec, Amy & Elizabeth Hadfield Geraldine Hamm Glenna Hanley Anne & Andy Hare Mary Beth Harris Peter Harris Ronald Harris Susan Harris Walter Harris Marnie Hay Annette Hayward C. William Hayward James Hayward David Hazen Harold Hazen Peggy Heller Ian Henderson John & June Hibbitts Neil Hooper Dennis House John Houston Robert Howe Ruth Hudson Ronald Huebert Jean Humphreys I Ideas Canada Foundation Erin Iles Eric Ingraham Deborah Irvine Anderson J Jackman Foundation Roland Jamieson Philip & Ruth Jefferson Paula Johnson Angus Johnston & Sandra Haycock David Jones K Deborah Kempton Glen & Glenda Kent Jean Keohane D. Ross Kerr Ken & Kim Kierans Stephen Kimber Peter King John Kinley David & Janet Knickle L Lafarge Canada Inc. Andrew Laing Paulette Lambert Mary Lane Jeffrey LeBlanc Tom & Barb LeBrun Penelope Lockhart Aleah Lomas M Sandy MacDonald Sara MacFarlane Catherine MacGregor Ken & Mary MacInnis Keith MacIntyre Eric MacKay Ian MacKenzie Linda MacLean Susan MacMillan Donald MacQuarrie Jennifer Mallory
Adrienne M. Malloy The Maritime Life Assurance Company Ronald Marks Carmen & Rene Martin Keith Mason Susan Mathers Leonard Maurice Vivian & Christiane McAlister M. Ann McCaig G.Wallace McCain D. Scott McCann T.A. Guy McCarthy Bob McCleave Peter McCreath Gretchen McCurdy Michael McDonald Heather McEwan Ross McGregor McInnes Cooper Karyn McLean Cal McMillan R. Leonard McNeil Judith McPhee Stuart McPhee Nick Meagher Merrick Holm Frank Metcalf Lois Miller J.W.E. Mingo Catherine (Rhymes) Misener Jone Mitchell Shirley Moir Penny Moody-Corbett Graham Moores Moosehead Breweries Limited Robert Morris Joan Madeleine Morrison John Mullowney Corinne Murray Bob Muter N Hilroy & Fannie Nathanson Peter Nathanson National Life BMO Nesbitt Burns Michael Nichol Nova Scotia Power Inc. O Bruce Oland Juliana Ott Jean-Eudes & Marielle Ouellette Marc Ouellette Sandra Oxner P Robert Pace Elizabeth Page Owen & Elizabeth Parkhouse Andrew Paton Charlotte (MacLean) Peach LeRoy Peach Drake Petersen Michael Phelan Phillips Hager & North Investment Management Chuck Piercey Andrea Pilichos Cynthia Pilichos Dorothea Pinch
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Harold Pippy Brian Pitcairn Power Corporation of Canada Amy Pugsley Fraser
Don & Gloria (Teed) Trivett Randolph & Judith (Banks) Tsang
R R. Howard Webster Foundation Thomas Raddall III & Cathy Raddall A. Irene Randall Reader’s Digest Foundation of Canada Tim Rissesco Neil & Patricia Robertson Ron & Shelia Robertson Ann (Peglar) Rodger Anna Ruth Rogers Carol Rogers Henry Roper Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. John Roy Royal Bank of Canada Charitable Foundation Celia Russell Merv Russell
U UKC Alumni Association UKC Students’ Union Brian Underhill Tim Unwin
S Robert Saunders Barbara Sawyer Barry Sawyer A.Winifred Scott Seamark Asset Management Limited Jill (Standfield) Sears David Secord Marnie Shaw Jacky Simmons & Richard Worzel Nora Simpson The Sir James Dunn Foundation Margo Pullen-Sly Linda Smardon Barbara & Heather Smith Gerald Smith Deryk Smith Joy Smith Janice Smith Larry Smith Weldon Smith Cynthia Snell The Sobey Foundation Sobeys Inc. Colin Starnes Detlev Steffen Janice Stein Donald Stevenson Thomas Stinson Rodney Stokoe Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury Limited Geoffrey Strople John Swain T Catriona Talbot Shelia & Brian Taylor The Edper Foundation The Pepsi Bottling Group Don & Mary Thompson Judith Thompson Shirley Tillotson The Toronto Dominion Bank
V Hugh Vincent Thomas Vincent Nancy Violi Nancy Vondette W Luanne Walton Bruce Wark Suzanne Wheeler Chris White Glenn Williams Michele Williams Bob & Fran Williams Rose Wilson Wilson Fuel Company Limited Frank Winters James Wood Phyllis (Scott) Wood Charles Wurtzburg Y Elizabeth Yeo Z Gretchen Ziegler * deceased Donations were given in memory of the following people: Noel Andrews Graeme Brown Wayne Campbell Jake Creighton Rita Creighton Susan Williams Dexter James Doull Charles Douthwaite Michael Elliott Murray MacNeill Cahman Mason W. S. H. Morris Theodore Reagh Nora Simpson Harry Smith Watson Sodero Stanley Walker Peter Wilson J. Eric Nichol Bernice Marion Hampton Nichol Denise Ouellette James Leslie Robertson Page Andrew Pitcairn A donation was also given in honour of Archdeacon Elliott
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Steep increases in academic fees are causing worrisome levels of debt for some students By Emanuella Grinberg
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ing’s student Sam Fisher tries not to think about his student debt too much. Keenly aware that tuition at King’s is among the highest in the country, the third-year student of classics and English (with a minor in journalism) stops himself from pondering how his debt load will affect his post-graduate plans. “When all’s said and done, it’ll be worth it,” he says. “But right now, I’m trying to stay focused on student life. [Debt] is something to take care of after school.” Out of sight, out of mind seems to be a comforting motto for students paying tuition at King’s with loans. Working a minimum of 10 hours a week as supervisor of King’s bar security, Fisher says, “I don’t have time to think about how I’m going to pay off my loans.” Fisher, whose debt stood at approximately $22,000 before he began his third-year studies in September, estimates he will leave King’s with an accumulated debt of at least $40,000. The prospect worries the 20 year old from Canning, N.S., who hopes to pursue a degree in education after King’s. But since his parents can’t contribute, he says loans were the only way for him to pay for university. While student loans are old news for those pursuing higher education, the financial burden on students has risen dramatically in recent years. King’s Registrar Elizabeth Yeo reported to faculty in November that the university’s bursary committee had been troubled this year by some students’ financial situations. She said, in some cases, the
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committee observed a $3,000 to $3,800 gap between students’ assessed needs and the maximum amount they could receive in student loans. “I am concerned that the increasing costs of tuition and residence are putting King’s programmes out of reach of students who have the greatest financial need,” Yeo stated in the committee’s report. “If you see some students struggling in your classes, financial problems might be the reason,” she told faculty members. Throughout Nova Scotia, university students have seen their tuition rise by an average of 7.4 per cent since last year. Arts courses at King’s and Dalhousie now cost $486 per class per semester, an eight per cent increase from 20012002. According to Statistics Canada, tuition costs in Nova Scotia have gone up 93 per cent since the 1993-1994 academic year. Some courses in arts and sciences have extra fees attached to them to offset costs of materials and resources used in the course. They can be as little as $15 for an English course or as much as $100 for a journalism or theatre course at King’s or Dalhousie, says King’s Student Accounts Officer Sharlene Salter. These auxiliary course fees, in addition to other compulsory facility fees, have also risen in the past few years, up by 12.3 per cent since the last academic year and 105.3 per cent since the 1993-1994 academic year. But tuition is only a piece of the pie. While Fisher’s tuition bill for the fall semester was $2,447.40, he borrowed $5,610 to cover books, spending money and residence, which on its own costs $3,835. He
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expects to receive about $4,600 in loans for the next semester. Still, King’s students are faring better, on average, than most, making up one of the wealthiest student bodies in the province. According to Greg Ells, a researcher at the Nova Scotia education department, only 32 per cent of King’s students from Nova Scotia relied on loans to finance their education in 2000-01; the provincial average was 46 per cent. As well, enrolment at the university has never been higher, reaching 965 this September. Both the provincial and federal governments hand out loans based upon financial need, taking into account how much money parents can contribute as well as how much of their own pre-study income students can use to offset the loan amount. Unfortunately for some, this sometimes means that if a parent earns above a certain amount, but doesn’t put it toward their child’s education, the student will still get a smaller amount than she would have if the parent earned less than he does. Students under these circumstances tend to turn to bank loans or other credit institutions. $75,000 in university bursaries At King’s, the university attempts to alleviate the burden of debt by providing students with extra assistance in the forms of scholarships and non-repayable bursaries. In his first year, Fisher received an entrance scholarship from King’s, in addition to his federal and provincial loans. But his grades Continued on next page
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Continued from previous page money, since it is the only assistance students don’t have to repay that is entirely need-based. Last year, the $75,000 budget for the bursary program was awarded to 82 King’s students, based entirely upon their financial need. Fisher says he didn’t apply last year because he and other students believe the university intends bursaries mainly for students who are running on empty or who are severely hamstrung by inadequate student loans. ‘Eliminating a segment of the population’
Fisher: “[Debt] is something to take care of after school.” Photo: Michael Creagen
have fallen, and he has since stopped receiving the in-course scholarships that King’s offers based on academic standing. Still, he makes no bones about his situation, saying he had to make choices to pay his bills. The King’s alumni office also hands out certain in-course scholarships for returning students to King’s based upon their contribu-
tions to life at the university. As well, the university’s bursary program provides students with extra assistance that is nonrepayable. Started in the 1991-1992 academic year, the bursary fund was designed to provide students with assistance once they had exhausted all other means of obtaining financial aid. The competition is stiff for this
Stopping the continual rise of tuition costs is a cause King’s student Dave Hare considers worth fighting for. As a representative of the Canadian Federation of Students, he spends most of his free time lobbying the government for tuition freezes and publicizing the financial problems students are facing. The federation’s main objective is keeping university education accessible to all students, regardless of their economic background, and maintaining the quality of education. Its leaders say that, although enrolment levels are rising — not falling — across the province, the demographic makeup of those entering universities is shifting.
AMBER SAVAGE: Fourth-year BA, $34,000 in student loans
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hope it’s all worth it in the end,” says Amber Savage, a fourth-year English major. Savage, who grew up in Kentville, N.S, has a debt load of $34,000. She hopes that after graduating, all the strain of having such a large debt will be worth her education. Right now, it’s hard for her to see the positive side of owing so much money. “My education isn’t worth a debt load of $34,000, but I guess it’s the price of success,” says Savage. “I’ll be paying this off forever, [and] I feel like I’ll be paying a monthly installment of $50 until I’m 50.” Savage’s liability comes from a combination of bank and government loans. Her mother helps out where she can, but without the student loans, Savage would not be able to get a university education. She has received bursaries from King’s in the past, but she says the loans are the only way she could survive financially. To help pay for bills and books, Savage works 20-25
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hours a week as a support worker in a small options home. Living pay cheque to pay cheque has forced Savage to question, as a consumer of education, if she is getting what she has paid for. “I love King’s, but sometimes I question if some of my classes are relevant and worth all the money I pay,” she says. “There are large classes of [more than] 800 which cut down costs for the university, but aren’t worth all the money I pay. “I don’t think I’m getting the bang for my buck,” she adds. With only a few months left in her undergraduate career, Savage is trying to plan her future. She is currently studying English but hopes to pursue a teaching degree afterwards. “I have to get the second degree or none of this is worth it,” she says. “I guess it is all worth it. If it wasn’t, I would be sacrificing everything for it.”
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t’s nice to know when I start working that the money I earn will go towards the future and not the past,” says Yolanda Janiga, 23. Janiga, from Burlington, Ont. has made it through four years of her undergraduate degree and into her one-year journalism degree without any debt. She has made it this far with help from scholarships and her parents. Janiga began her undergrad studying biology at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, with a $8,000 US scholarship, after being scouted by the school’s soccer coach. After second year, she followed the coach to the University of Southern Alabama, which offered her a full scholarship
“What we’re seeing is that students coming from higher income homes are five times more likely than those with lower incomes to pursue post-secondary education,” says Hare. “People are still going to university, but by raising tuition, we’re eliminating a segment of the population from the demographic without lessening any numbers.” Hare says Nova Scotia students, in particular, face a tough battle “because the provincial government is facing some very difficult financial decisions.” The problem, he says, is that the federal government doesn’t dictate how provinces use the billions of dollars it gives them in the Canadian Health and Social Transfer. Hare says the Nova Scotia government has consistently neglected its responsibilities in areas of post-secondary education and assigned federal money to other needs. “Right now, there’s no form of needs-based, non-repayable student financial assistance in Nova Scotia,” he says. Hare hopes students will organize themselves to the level Newfoundland students have achieved. “[Premier] Roger Grimes said he couldn’t raise tuition because the students wouldn’t let him,” Dave sighs dreamily. “Now that’s mobilization.”
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(academic and living expenses included). She looks at her scholarships as a payment for work and time she dedicated to her sport. “I worked for four and a half years playing soccer,” she says. “So in a sense, I gave them a service and they paid me for it.” Her parents covered what the scholarships didn’t and Janiga feels fortunate she has that support. “I’m lucky to have been able to attain a scholarship, and even luckier to have parents who support me, not just through encouragement but through finances as well,” she says. Janiga graduated from the University of Southern Alabama with a degree in biomedical sciences, and her passion for science writing pro-
pelled her to come to King’s to pursue science journalism. To finance her decision, Janiga worked at the Petro-Canada Lubricant Centre over the summer, filling drums with 205 L of oil. “It was the messiest job ever,” she says, but it gave her enough money to pay for housing and food for her year at King’s. Janiga says she didn’t qualify for any scholarships at King’s and what she couldn’t afford herself, her parents helped cover. Janiga doesn’t take her situation for granted though. She says she’s been blessed with a family that taught her that if she worked hard enough, good things would come her way. “They were right,” she says.
YOLA JANIGA: One-year BJ, no student debt
PAULA GALE: One-year BJ, $18,000 owing
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aula Gale, 28, says age has made her wiser with her money. “When you’re young and naïve, you don’t have a concept of money,” she says. The government gives you a loan and you pay for your tuition. You don’t think about value.” Gale, who hails from Newfoundland, says it wasn’t until six months after she graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland that she realized how much debt she had. Bank loans and government grants got her through her undergraduate degree, but left her owing more than $18,000. “I never had the concept of how much I was getting in debt,” she says. Since graduating from MUN in 1998 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, she has managed to pay off $8,000 of her debt. But, her decision to come to King’s to get a journalism degree has added another $10,000. Gale was the managing editor of a magazine when she decided that she wanted to go back to
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school and hone her skills. Gale moved back home and worked three bartending jobs to try and make enough money to get to King’s and tide her over until she would receive her loan. She made $4,000 during the summer, which was just enough. “I had $1.64 left in my bank account the day before my loan came in,” she says, laughing. Gale’s loan for this year is $10,000. Unfortunately, she says, after paying her tuition of $7,000 she will only have $3,000 remaining to pay for rent, books, and miscellaneous expenses for the entire year. To compensate, Gale has been working as a student assistant in the journalism school. “I have no personal time, I don’t even have time to eat properly,” she says. But she believes the benefits of taking the one-year program outweigh the fact that she will be in debt. “I’ve never had a lot of money, so I’m not used to living with a lot of it. My happiness, my health, and my education are much more important,” she says. “It’s just money,” she smiles.
Profiles by Ruth Petrykanyn
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University pressured by declining gov’t grants President worries provinces’ inability to slow tuition hikes will force privatization By Ruth Davenport
C King’s President Colin Starnes: “Students are paying more and getting a lesser educational experience.” Photo: Michael Creagen
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anadian universities are facing a funding crunch and, for the University of King’s College, the situation will likely get worse before it gets better. “King’s is a little microcosm of Canada,” says King’s President Colin Starnes. “Government funding has decreased but the number of students has increased, so universities have to choose between limiting access or cutting costs.” Starnes explains that 15 years ago, provincial funding to post-secondary educational institutions started to decrease on a national scale — in Nova Scotia alone the level has dropped from $211 million to $201 million over the last decade. A report released in October by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada indicates that on a national scale, per student operating support provided by provincial governments is 17 per cent lower this year than it was in 1992. Starnes explains that provincial governments made their initial funding cuts on the assumption the 18to 21-year-old age group in Canada was declining. However, university enrolments started to climb, despite difficult economic conditions. In the last three years alone, according to the association report, enrolment at Canadian universities has increased by 45,000 students to reach an alltime high of 645,000. As, Starnes points out, government funding for universities decreased while enrolment and costs climbed. Association senior analyst Herb O’Heron notes that while provincial funding cuts were fairly uniform, small liberal arts colleges felt a greater impact. “In most provinces, all educa-
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rovincial governments will have to expect tuition increases if they can’t provide funding at an acceptable level.” – King’s President Colin Starnes
tional institutions were cut the same way,” he says. “But for institutions like King’s, the cuts were quite deep because there’s really no other source of revenue. So they had to turn to tuition fees to offset some of the decreases.” Bleak choices Starnes explains the bleak choices universities faced when the funding crunch set in: either limit enrolment by raising entrance standards or reduce other costs such as building maintenance. “So universities made their cuts and tightened their belts, but the only way to make up the [funding] difference is from tuition fees,” he says. “They don’t make up as much as the government cut, but students are still paying more and getting a lesser educational experience.” King’s status as a purely undergraduate liberal arts college also excludes it from federal research funding targeting growth in science and technology. Of the $4 billion recently invested in research by the federal government, King’s received just $3,000.
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When it comes to solutions for universities in economic crisis, it seems there are no easy answers. O’Heron points out that university enrolment is not expected to slow down. “Students have heard the importance of enrolling in university so they finish high school and they want to go on to post-secondary education in greater numbers,” he says. “If the university has the capacity, then it will have to grow.” The association report indicates that by the year 2011, 200,000 new students will have enrolled in university. Most of them will be 18-24 year olds, children of the baby boomers influenced by their university-educated parents and by market indications that they’ll earn more money with a university education. The report also suggests that provincial governments will have to cough up an additional $6.2 billion per year to enable universities to meet the enrolment demands. Starnes warns that unless those funds are found and unconditionally distributed to universities, universities will be forced to consider the option of privatization. He also says that Nova Scotia, the most indebted province in Canada per capita, is the closest province to that option. “The provincial governments will have to expect tuition increases if they can’t provide funding at an acceptable level,” he says. “So, for an institution like King’s where only one third of our operating costs are coming from government, privatization wouldn’t mean that we renounce government funding — but we might raise tuition [significantly] and pour that money into making the university a first-class institution.” O’Heron is optimistic that scenario won’t occur. “There’s no long-term commitment to funding quality yet but there are signs,” he says. “Some provinces have provided healthy increases to operating support without expecting lots of enrolment. We just have to hope that the provincial governments will look to their longterm requirements. There’s constant talk about the need to develop [economically], and investment in education will lead to that development.”
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Books
Bottled up tensions J-school director Stephen Kimber’s latest book explores simmering trouble in wartime Halifax
By John Farrow
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hile researching his most recent book, journalism school director Stephen Kimber was initially shocked to learn how few people knew of the riots that had ripped apart downtown Halifax following the end of the Second World War. “I had friends tell me they could talk to 10 people on the street and not one of them would know the riots took place,” says Kimber. What started as celebrations of the Allied victory in Europe, soon escalated into mob rule on May 7 and 8, 1945 when exuberant servicemen found liquor stores, restaurants and dance halls closed.
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Shop owners, taking their cue from local civic authorities, had decided the best way to maintain control was to prevent sailors from celebrating. All this and the growing resentment between civilians and the armed forces leading up to the riots is chronicled in Stephen Kimber’s new book, Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War. “On a basic level, the story is about how a city is transformed by war,” says Kimber. “And how the city, in a sense, transformed the war. The larger story is about how ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances cope with adversity in their lives.” Stephen Kimber is a busy man. He is the author of five books, most
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recently, Not Guilty, the story of the Gerald Reagan sex case released in 1999 and Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swiss Air Crash also released in 1999. The title of his new book refers to the enlisted men who overran the city during the war; slackers was the nickname the sailors gave Halifax (a reference to those who avoided military service in times of war); blind pigs were the illegal, hidden bars that sailors and civilians frequented in a city with strict restrictions on drinking. Kimber’s accounts of wartime Halifax give the reader a vivid picture of the port city. Some of the characters include a destroyer captain, a Continued on page 24
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The Judge J. Elliot Hudson Distinguished Alumnus/a Award will be presented to Globe and Mail Reporter and Author
Stephanie Nolen BJ Hon ’93
University of King’s College Alumni Association Annual Dinner Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:30 p.m. Reception: Student/Faculty Common Room, New Academic Building 7:30 p.m. Dinner: Prince Hall
Stephanie Nolen covers national and foreign affairs for the Globe
Tickets:
$35 per person $350 for table of 10
and Mail, and has reported from such places as Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. She is also the author of two nonfiction books. Shakespeare’s
For ticket or table reservations, please contact the Alumni Office: 902-422-1271, ext. 128/129, e-mail: jen.laurette@ukings.ns.ca Entertainment provided by Terry Kelly (DCL ’01)
Face, published last spring, examines whether a painting owned by an Ontario family for generations is the sole painting, from life, of William Shakespeare. Her second book, Promised The Moon, published this fall, is the story of a group of daring women who were destined to be America’s first astronauts, before NASA abruptly cancelled their training program in 1961.
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KING’S COLLEGE • HALIFAX
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The moon in their eyes In her latest book, Stephanie Nolen (BJH ’93) recounts the fascinating story of 13 women astronauts trained by NASA for the moon race and then unceremoniously dumped from the programme By Peter Crnogorac
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lobe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen (BJH ’93) was interviewing Minnesota playwright Patricia Weaver Francisco three years ago when the conversation turned to a little-known footnote of American history. Francisco was talking about a play she had written in 1986 called Lunacy. She had based it loosely on the story of 13 female astronauts NASA had trained for its space programme in the 1960s, before abruptly dropping them in favour of men. At one point Francisco remarked wryly that the women had been promised the moon. “Literally,” Nolen replied incredulously. She was hooked. Nolen took leave from her job at the paper and spent an intense nine months researching and writing a story she suspected would make a fascinating book. Amid the drama of the Cold War space race was a captivating tale of women’s achievement in spite of society’s restrictive expectations. The result of Nolen’s work is Promised The Moon, published this past fall. “It’s difficult in some ways to believe that it’s been only 40 years,” Nolen says. “Women have so much more opportunity now than they had then.” Before John Glenn was the pic-
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ture of American machismo and Neil Armstrong bounced across the surface of the moon, the 13 women pilots passed NASA’s tests, many with scores that beat those of the best male candidates. The tests found they had a higher tolerance for pain and isolation; attributes that would make them better astronauts. The women chosen for the programme were all pilots, and many raced planes and performed daredevil stunts. At one point in the highly publicized space race between the Americans and the Russians, it seemed that women would be leading Americans into space. Terse telegrams But top brass at NASA abandoned that plan in fear of negative public reaction. The women received terse telegrams in September 1961, advising them their services were no longer required. The critics were mainly men — including former astronaut and later U.S. senator John Glenn — who believed the achievement should be the rightful domain of men. Instead of Americans learning the heroic story of such women as Jerrie Cobb and Janey Hart, they now talk about Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong. “I would give my life to fly in space,” says Cobb — one of the women at the heart of Nolen’s story — in the book. “I would have then. I
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would now.” Nolen says initially she didn’t know much about the space race. So she borrowed books from the library and read up on Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. She went to Washington, D.C., and was surprised at how easy it was to get information from NASA’s history office. The agency still denied existence of the programme but, in the 40 years since, had released other top-secret documents of the time. “God love Americans and their love of history,” Nolen says. “They have everything documented.” Once Nolen had an understanding of the events of the early 1960s, she contacted the 11 surviving women of the original 13. She made 18 trips to the United States to research and to meet the women and their families — all of whom were receptive to her questions. “They were grannies with crookedly applied lipstick,” Nolen says. “Totally normal and obviously not.” Ironically, the major figure in the Continued on next page
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Continued from previous page book is a woman who helped dash the chances of the 13 women to find out what happened. When, in 1962, a few of the women mustered the political support for a congressional hearing into their treatment, they turned to Jackie Cochran, an administrator of the programme and one of the most powerful women in the country. Cochran, 52, was a longstanding pilot who held records for altitude and speed, but who was deemed too old to go to space. Addressing the hearing, she shocked the women by siding with her male peers; she said she had not witnessed any discrimination and NASA would have ultimately wasted money when it lost the young women to marriage. Strong collection of documents Although Cochran died in 1980 from a heart attack, she became a strong resource for Nolen through the documents contained in her estate. “Jackie kept everything,” Nolen says. When the women from the early space programme began reading Nolen’s manuscript, they learned page by page how Cochran had betrayed them. Many of these women did not know the full extent of her involvement. “I’d get a message on my answering machine from an 80-year-old woman with a Texas accent saying, ‘That bitch’,” Nolen says with a chuckle. Nolen says she developed strong relationships with the women in her book. For months, she spent most days talking to them on the phone or visiting them at their homes. When she launched her book earlier this year in Toronto, three of the women flew in to attend. “I think they see me as something of a kindred spirit,” she says.
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female welder, a taxi driver and, of course, a journalist. “I wanted to get people who had interesting lives but who also had different perspectives on Halifax during the war,” he says. Kimber has been interested in the subject of wartime Halifax for some time. He first became interested in the 1970s when the Canada Council awarded him an Exploration grant to research the topic. He eventually turned it down, deciding to concentrate on other pursuits. In the winter of 2000, looking for a subject for his fifth book, Kimber remembered his old interest. “I came up with the idea for World War II Halifax and the publishers jumped on it.” What began was a process of several months of research, searching records, reading books and talking to people who knew and lived during the time. Kimber admits he found some difficulty finding characters to fill the pages of his book. “Most of the time it was serendipity finding people,” he says. Kimber found Desmond Piers, a destroyer commander in the Canadian navy, through the public archives. He found Dorothy Hendsbee, now Dorothy Chisholm, one of the first female-welders working in Halifax during the war, through an old article in the newspaper. Besides balancing work and a home life, other difficulties Kimber faced were finding people still alive to tell the tale of wartime Halifax and shifting his writing style to fit a different literary approach. “I wanted to write the kind of book that saw events through the eyes of people, instead of through my eyes,” he says. When Kimber completed the book, he says, like many authors, he felt mixed emotions. “It’s a really weird feeling,” he says. “I describe it as post-partum depression. You’ve done it, it’s out there, but it is too early for anyone
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to have read it and to know how well the book is going to do. There’s nothing you can do about it.” After Doubleday released Sailors, Slackers and Bay Pigs on Sept. 24, the book received critical praise. The National Post called it “a living picture of the times.” Jay White, a history professor at Dalhousie, appreciated the approach Kimber takes in the book. “The thing I like about Stephen’s book is that it focuses on the street life in Halifax during the war,” White says. “It concentrates on how people dealt with the war. The book reflects the home front which isn’t reported on often.” ‘Important to younger generation’ Dorothy Chisholm was happy to see Kimber’s research finally in print. “I was proud of the book,” she says. “I think it is important for the younger generation which doesn’t know anything about [the time].” Stephen has his theories about why people have forgotten the event. “People wanted to forget the riots,” he says. “In the process, they forgot about the uplifting things about Halifax during the war. I think people from that time, having lived through the depression and the war, wanted to move on and live in the now.” Jay White says, “The riots are not an aspect that has been discovered by tourism yet. It is not as visible in the city as some other events, like the Halifax explosion. I think that a lot of people think that wartime Halifax is not positive.” But Kimber says it is important to remember the time when Halifax became one of the most important ports in the world. “It’s a piece of history that is really interesting that people should know about,” he says. “It’s my job to make it fun to read and hopefully have people learn something in the process.”
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Glenn Davidson (BA ’73) rises to commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic By Ryan Laverty In 1990 the Soviet government opened Vladivostok harbour to foreigners for the first time since the reign of Joseph Stalin. Vladivostok was the Soviet navy’s Pacific fleet headquarters and up until that point it had been a symbol of Soviet solidarity. Glenn Davidson (BA ’73) was the commander of HMCS Kootenay and led the first non-Soviets since the mid-1930s to enter the city’s port. On that day, the lock on the communist world seemed to loosen. Davidson stared through his hazel eyes at civilians lining the shoreline as the three Canadian navy frigates pulled into the port. To the delight of those looking on, the Soviet and Canadian navies traded gun salutes before docking and opening the cordoned off waterfront. That evening the Soviet base commander and his wife had Cmdr. Davidson aboard their ship for dinner. “It was diplomatic greatness,” he says today. Davidson is now commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic and the highest-ranking officer on Canada’s East Coast. His responsibilities would probably break a less dedicated man. Just weeks after being installed in Halifax on July 12, the media introduced him as the new face of Canada’s troubled submarine program. The national media has reported heavily for more than a year on engine cracks, a leak and a dent in the four subs Canada purchased from Britain for $750 million. The program is a year behind schedule. On Sept. 26 he said publicly what had become obvious to many Canadians. “I think that at the outset we were very optimistic in our assessment of the time it would take to put the boats in operation,” he told the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Still, he vigorously defended the
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navy’s position that the submarine purchase was a good deal and that they will ultimately prove their worth. In person, Davidson gets fired up when discussing the component of his job that requires him to go “eyeball to eyeball” with the media. His dedication to the military makes him defensive when he encounters inaccurate or misleading stories about Canada’s forces. “These are some of the most patriotic, hard-working people you’d ever meet,” he says. “Despite what you sometimes hear in the media, they are skilled and they do a damn good job.” In truth, he says he finds public relations one of the least enjoyable aspects of his job. But Davidson says the satisfaction his job brings him makes it all worthwhile. He takes great pride in ensuring his ships and personnel are trained and ready for anything the world can throw at them. Life experiences Davidson graduated from King’s in 1973 and joined the Naval Reserve in 1970, working summers there through his university years. “As an English major I gained a great appreciation for words,” he says. “But I also gained an appreciation for life experiences.” So he set out to gain some. In the fall of 1973, a youthful
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Davidson and a few of his friends travelled Europe in a converted Bedford Ambulance. From September to December they cruised the continent from the sandy white beaches of Spain to the snowcapped mountains of Switzerland. Following in his father’s footsteps, he joined the regular force in 1974, eventually serving as Canadian Forces Attaché in Tokyo from 1992 to 1995. His fondest memory is of leading a small deployment of Canadian ships back to Japan in the spring of 1995. Cherry trees bloomed on the hillsides and Japanese friends gathered on the shore as he pulled into Tokyo harbour. He realized then he was achieving many of his goals. “I wanted to have a life where I could look back and say ‘Gee, I’m glad I did everything I’ve done.’ And I do.” After spending the past five years in Ottawa dealing with naval personnel issues Davidson returned to Halifax in July 2002 for the first time in 18 years. He has daunting responsibilities. Maritime Forces Atlantic is the largest naval presence in Canada. He commands 10,000 regular force members, reservists and civilians, who maintain a naval task group and conduct search and rescue oper-
Rear Admiral Glenn Davidson at the change-ofcommand ceremony at HMC Dockyard in Halifax July 12. Photo: Department of National Defence
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• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation • The Chronicle-Herald and the Mail Star
Continued from previous page ations. In lower-profile capacities, they also oversee fisheries protection, counter-drug operations and environmental monitoring. Davidson is glad to be back in Halifax and to have his family — wife Petra and daughter Eleanor — near the ocean again. His own family helps him appreciate the demands on the people who serve in Canada’s military. “With all the family and friends standing on the shore, it’s very emotional when you send a ship out on deployment,” he says. “But when you see all the good that our people are doing out there and then you see them get home safely, that’s just the best feeling in the world.”
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Gloria (Teed) Trivett (BA ’51) and Don Trivett (BA ’50, LTh ’52) celebrated 50 years of marriage on Sept. 30, 2002. In August, their family held a surprise dinner party attended by several King’s alumni: Eve and Jim Tupper (’50) of Halifax, Daniel (BA ’92) and Vanessa Trivett (BA ’91) of New Jersey, Anne and Gordon Trivett (’52) of Vancouver, Alec Stratford (current student) of Halifax, and George (’66) and Val Teed (BA ’65) of Rothesay. In September the Trivetts again kept company with former King’s people when they joined Ed Gesner (BA ’63) and Jim Brown (BJ ’84) for Aventures en Provence in France. Jean and Earle Ripley (BSc ’53) were also there. They then spent a week in Italy. Don also marked 50 years as a Deacon in March. Darcy Strickland (BA ’54) just spent a month travelling in China.
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Mark DeWolf (BA ’68) and Rachel DeWolf-Swetnam (’71) are returning to Nova Scotia in March 2003 after six years in Singapore, where Mark has been teaching English in government schools, most recently St. Andrew’s Junior College. Mark and Rachel would welcome email contact with old friends from King’s. Fellow alumni can contact Mark at: <dewolfm@yahoo.com.sg>. John Hatcher (BA ’69) retired in June 2002. He taught Grade 9 at Chester (N.S.) Municipal High School for 32 years. The Rev. Michael Holman (LTh ’63) was invited to attend the Anglican Church of Canada’s Sorrento Centre near Salmon Arm, B.C. this summer. David G. Jones (BA ’68) has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal in recognition of his public service. Presented by RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli, the award noted David’s service to the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Privy Council Office, several federal departments including Foreign Affairs and the RCMP, the government of the Northwest Territories, and municipalities in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Alberta. The award was conferred at a ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 29, 2002. George Keirstead (BSc ’68) is vice-president of Research Dimensions in Toronto. Stephen Knowles (’63) married Christine Jannasch on Oct. 12, 2002. He is the clerk of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign
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Affairs and International Trade. Deborah Boltz (BA ’77) is now executive director of the Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia. She’s looking for King’s students to volunteer. Contact her at: 902-429-2633 or <eans@ns.sympatico.ca>. David Buley (BA ’79) is teaching education at Acadia University and directing the university chorus. He’s also the music director at St. George’s Church in Halifax. The Rev. David Curry (BAH ’77) is the Rector of Christ Church in Windsor, N.S. He is also the chaplain and senior English teacher in the International Baccalaureate programme at King’s Edgehill School. Marilyn Curry (BAH ’77) works at the public library in Wolfville. Their children Elizabeth, Joel and Madeline all attend King’s Edgehill. Darrell Dexter (BA ’79, BJ ’83) was elected leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. Darrell, current premier John Hamm (BSc ’58), and past premier Russell MacLellan (BA ’62) are all King’s alumni. Christopher Flerlage (BAH ’78) is practising law in Vancouver, B.C. He’s married to Patricia and his family includes three dogs and two cats. James Fraser (BSc ’75) is now president of M.G.I. Ltd., an environmental consulting firm, in Halifax. Dr. W. J. Tory Kirby (BAH ’77) is now teaching theology at McGill University. Dr. Claire Marie Leblanc-Spence (BSc ’79) is the head of pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.
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Eric Alcorn (BAH ’88) is working in the biology department at Acadia University. Marlene Amadio-Bailey (BA ’88) had a baby boy, named Aiden, in June 2001. She teaches grade primary in Glace Bay, N.S. Kate Brooks (BA ’89) and Brooke Oland are living in Truro, N.S. where Kate has worked since 1994 as a freelance writer and graphic designer. Kate and Brooke have two children, Linnaea, three, and Liam, two. Fellow alumni can contact Kate at: <wordsmith@ns.sympatico.ca>. John Bunge (BA ’88) and Valerie Pottie Bunge (BAH ’91) just had their third child. John works for Natural Resources Canada. Sheila Cameron (BSc ’86) and her husband Keith Godfrey are pleased to announce the birth of
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Taylor Dorothy Godfrey on Feb. 25, 2002, at the Moncton Hospital. Taylor is a sister for Laura, 2. Fellow alumni can contact Sheila at: <kgodfrey@nbnet.nb.ca>. Catherine Campbell (BAH ’87) is teaching in Japan. Mary Campbell (BJH ’87) is currently living in the Czech Republic. David Carter (BA ’89) has been teaching in Hong Kong for two years. Dr. Iain Christie (BScH ’87) and Pamela DilworthChristie (BSc ’89) had a new baby, Kate, on Oct. 2, 2002. Patrick Curran (BA ’80) has been appointed Archdeacon of the Eastern Archdeaconry of the Diocese in Europe in the Church of England. He will continue as Chaplain of Christ Church, Vienna and will remain a Canon of St. Paul’s Valletta, Malta. Andrew Calkins (BAH ’88) and his wife are expecting their first child. Andrew is studying instructional design at San Francisco State University. Mary Deveau’s (BJH ’86) husband Bob passed away June 25, 2002. He died of cancer. Ian Fairclough (BJH ’89) was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Kentville, N.S. Volunteer Fire Department. Ian has been a member of the department for 10 years. Fellow alumni can contact Ian at: <ianfairclough@accesswave.ca>. Bruce Fisher (BA ’83) had a new daughter, Marlow Nicole Rose, on Aug. 13, 2002, a sister for Warren. Trudy Fong (BJ ’89) just finished the fourth edition of her travel book Off The Beaten Path (Globe and Pequath). It’s coming out in the spring in the U.S. and Canada. Lesley Frank (BA ’89) has been teaching sociology at Acadia University since February 2001. He earned his master’s degree from Acadia in 1995 and has co-ordinated a prenatal outreach program. He has four children. Victoria Goldring (BA ’87) became the director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Nova Scotia Department of Health in September 2001. Greg Guy (BJH ’87) of the Halifax Herald tied for Media Person of the Year at the Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia music awards in September. Mark Hazen (BAH ’85) and Shirley Hazen (BScH ’85) are back in Dartmouth, N.S. after two years in Australia. They can be contacted at: <mhazen@ns.sympatico.ca>. William Hody (BA ’83) and Pam Griffin-Hody (BA ’83) have been living in Ottawa since August 2001. William graduated from TUNS/Dalhousie in 2000 with a BSc and works as a data analyst with the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency. Pam works in graduate student administration at Carleton University (following 11 years of graduate administration at TUNS). Anyone passing through Ottawa is invited to contact them. Fr. Haynes Hubbard (BA ’89) and Susan (White) Hubbard (BA ’90) have lived in Dunnville, Ont.
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AlumNotes on the shore of Lake Erie, for the past three and a half years. Haynes is the Rector of the Anglican parish, while Susan is studying midwifery at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is in the fourth of seven years, part time. They have two children, Sebastian, 4, and Gabriella, 3. Two King’s alumni are Gabriella’s godparents: Fr. Mark Andrews (BA ’87), Rector of St. Aidan’s church in Toronto, and The Rev. Janet ReadHockin (BA ’90), assistant at St. Matthew’s, also in Toronto. Marlene Smith (BA ’89), also a King’s grad, has just bought a home five minutes away from Dunnville, which pleases the children (and their parents) to no end. Blair Jerrett (BJH ’85) has been named director of marketing for Maritime Travel (formerly Maritime Marlin Travel). Headquartered in Halifax, Maritime Travel has been listed as one of Canada’s 50 best-managed companies each year since 1998. Fellow alumni can contact Blair at: <bjerrett@maritimetravel.ca>. Scott Kenney (BAH ’84) and wife Sylvia had a son, Nicholas Alexander on April 6, 2002. He’s a brother to 19-month-old Nathalie Noelle. Jill Kruse (BJH ’87) is expecting twins. Jean-Francois Lambert (BA ’80) is the department head of fine arts and the director of the Department of Education in Truro, N.S. He also produces and directs Cobequid Educational Centre musicals. Janice Landry (BJH ’87) is a part-time instructor at Mount St. Vincent University and works as a freelance journalist. She and husband Rob Dauphinee have a daughter, Laura, who turned three in November 2002. Michael LeBlanc (BJH ’83) is a story editor for two documentary series on the Discovery Channel: Frontiers of Construction and Stones of Fate and Fortune. He is part of the Hubcap Comedy Club that is planning a tour of New Brunswick in January 2003. Daniel Logan (BAH ’88) had a second son, John Daniel, on Feb. 21, 2002 — a brother for James Alexander, 3. He has also been made a partner at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. Bretton Loney (BJ ’84) and Karen Shewbridge (BJ ’84) moved to Halifax in the fall of 2002 where Bretton started a new position as editor of the Halifax Daily News. Jane MacDonald Spiteri (BA ’86) and her husband are pleased to announce the birth of their twin boys, Nicholas and Patrick, born Jan. 31, 2002. Victoria, 6, and Rebecca, 4, are thrilled to have two new baby brothers. Suzette (Hollett) MacIsaac (BSc ’87) and her husband Scott are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Rebecca Mary, on May 17, 2002, a sister for Emily. Suzette continues to work as the audiologist at the Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres in Truro, N.S.. Shaune MacKinlay (BAH ’89, BJ ’92) and husband Greg Little had their second daughter, Elizabeth Faye, a sister to Charlotte. Anna McCarron (BA ’83) is working to protect bird habitats as a Nova Scotia Coastal Guardian coordinator. She’s pursuing her master’s in urban and rural planning at Dalhousie University. Anna and Wilson Beaton (BA ’80) have four children: Logan, 19, Molly, 17, Benjamin, 15, and Emma, 7.
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(Above) Doug Hadley (BA ‘92) and David Jones (BA ‘92) ride the links at Granite Springs Golf Club in style. Christopher Mills (BAH ’88, BJ ’00) is working for the Canadian Coast Guard as a deckhand on a lifeboat in Sambro. He’s also writing his second book, about the lives of former lighthouse keepers in Nova Scotia. Scott Nicholson (BA ’85, BJ ’87) recently graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle with a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree. He is now teaching in Cape Breton. Alexis Pacey (BA ’88) had her second daughter, Devon Alexis, this summer. She’s a sister to Taryn. Barry Spence (BA ’84) and his wife Judith are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Victoria Hana Bennett Spence on Feb. 16, 2002. Victoria is a younger sister for Sophia who is now two years old. Nick Twyman (BA ’87) is an investment adviser in Calgary. He is married to Jennifer and has two children, Sasha, 4 1/2, and Jonah, 1 1/2. He can be reached at: <nick_twyman@hsbc.ca>. John Wishart (BSc’82) is the editor of the new media division of Brunswick News Inc.
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Jennifer Adcock (BAH ’90, BJ ’95) is working as producer for CBC-TV’s Street Cents. Dave Allaby (BA ’96) and Amanda Eagles (FYP ’90) were married June 15, 2002 in Halifax. Dave is currently at Dalhousie University, completing a BSc (Hons) in forensic psychology. Amanda is a recruiter with the Caldwell Partners International. Cheryl (Ciona) Arkinson (BA ’96) married Morgan Arkinson in Edmonton in April 2002. Cheryl currently works on climate change policy and
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emissions trading for the electricity industry. Fellow alumni can contact Cheryl at: <chermog@shaw.ca>. Golda Arthur (BJ ’98) is married and living in England. Anyone wishing to contact her can use the following e-mail address: <golda@hotmail.com>. Laura Auchincloss (BA ’91) married Ed Gatensby on June 23, 2001. Laura is vice-president of Annual Fund and Direct Marketing at the Women’s College Hospital Foundation in Toronto. Fellow alumni can contact Laura at: <lauchincloss@rogers.com>. Stacey Baillie (BJH ’94) was married at the King’s College Chapel in June 2000. She has a new baby girl, Jaimie Claire, who is now four months old. Sherry Banfield (BJ ’96) was married in 1999 and had a baby girl 2002. She’s working for CBCRadio in St. John’s, Nfld. Paul Barsanti (BJ ’92) is married with two children, daughter Kate, 3 1/2, and son, Luke, 1 1/2. Amy Bell (BAH ’95) is currently in England doing post-doctorate studies. David Ben-Arie (BAH ’98) completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Actor’s Studio, the New School for Social Research in the spring. Ryan Benson (BA ’97) has left Toronto for the greener pastures of Ottawa. He’s working as a special projects officer with the federal government, and moonlighting on the ski patrol at Tremblant. He would love to hear from friends or grads in the area, and can be reached at <ryanbenson@canada.com>. Karen Black (BSc ’97) was married to Neeraj Vats on Aug. 3, 2001. She is currently working on her PhD in pharmacology at Dalhousie University. Fellow alumni can contact Karen at <kmblack@ns.sympatico.ca>. Mary Bond (BJ ’93) is a research and statistical offi-
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AlumNotes cer for the Children’s Centre of Nova Scotia. Sara Brodie-Gillis (BA ’91) was married in September 2002. She’s now working as a manager at Spring Garden Road Public Library in Halifax. Lori (Hanna) Brown (’93) married Geoffrey Brown (’94) in Vancouver, B.C., in 2001. Amanda D. Burt (BAH ’99) has been working as a stylist in film in Toronto and Halifax since graduation. Kim (Paterson) Cameron (BJH ’91) and husband Mark Cameron are pleased to announce the birth of daughter Victoria Allison Claire on March 17, 2002, a long-awaited sister for brother Liam, 5. Kim is taking a break from the working world to be a stay-at-home mom for awhile, although she does some freelance design work to keep sane. They live in the Halifax area. Fellow alumni can contact Kim at: <cameron@ns.sympatico.ca>. Please drop her a line — any adult conversation is much appreciated. Janet Cameron (BA ’91) is teaching in Tokyo. Neil Cameron (BSc ’94) has been working as a chemist at the National Research Council since April 2002. Allyson Carras (BA ’98) is engaged to Bruce MacKay. They plan to be married this summer. Allyson is teaching at a private school in Toronto. Bruce is also a teacher. Tara Carter (BA ’92) is now working for the nonprofit Federation of Nova Scotia Heritage. Peter Christensen (BA ’95) is currently living in China. Robert Cochran (BSc ’94) married Nancy Browne on Aug. 24, 2002, in St. John’s, Nfld. Michelle (Murphy) Connolly (BJ ’92) had a baby girl, Victoria Bridget, on July 30, 2002. Susan Corkum-Greek (BJH ’91) is the executive director of the Lunenburg Board of Trade. Alice Crawley (BA ’93) lives in Australia. David Creese (BAH ’95) defended his PhD at the University of Birmingham in England on Dec. 16. He’s currently teaching Latin at the University of St. Andrew’s on a three-year fellowship. Lia Daborn (BAH ’94) and Allan Lynch were married in Fredericton, N.B. on Aug. 17, 2002. The beautiful ceremony was performed by the Rev. Allison Davis (BA ’93). It was a mini-King’s reunion as Mary Leblanc (BA ’94), Reaghan Fawcett (BAH ’94) and Paula Dyke (BJH ’94) were on hand for the wedding. Lisa Dennis (BJH ’94) is a civilian member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She is the senior communications adviser for “L” Division in Charlottetown, P.E.I. She can be reached at <ldennis@pei.sympatico.ca>. Andrew Dick (BA ’93) is a teacher at the Legant School for the Arts in Toronto. Bill Doane (BA ’93) and his wife Catherine (Murphy) are expecting a brother or sister for their daughter Sarah Elizabeth. Michael Dunn (BA ’88) is working on his PhD in the Special Education Program at Indiana University, after 11 years teaching in Mississauga, Ont. and nine years as a special education teacher. Mark Edwards (’96) is working on a master’s in criminology at Simon Fraser University in
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Vancouver. Tara Erskine (BA ’92) and her husband Brent Culligan had a daughter, Katherine, on Nov. 19, 2001. Nevin French (BA ’95) started a master’s in European studies at Carleton University in August 2002. Since graduating from King’s he has worked in theatre and spent a year teaching English in Prague. Now living in Ottawa, he helped found an online magazine as well as an arts promotion company. He can be reached at <nevin_french@yahoo.ca>. Scott Fulton (BSc ’96) married Alison Walker on Aug. 12, 2002. He is a research co-ordinator at the IWK Health Centre. Hilary Gibson (BScH ’97) married Peter Terhune on the Sept. 22, 2002 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Lynn Gilbert (BJH ’98) has been working as the public affairs assistant for the Cape Breton District Health Authority since November 1999. In 2001, Lynn was the editor and a contributing writer for Bay Notes, a 12-volume literary journal that looked at the history of Glace Bay, N.S. Todd Gillis (BJ ’94) has a second child, David Daniel Gillis, born June 27, 2002. Susan Goddard (BJ ’92) is married and has a daughter, Nora, born Jan. 10, 2001. She’s expecting another baby in March. She works for IBM in business consulting. Timna Gorber (BAH ’94) is working for Health Canada in Ottawa. Kevin Gormely (BAH ’92) and Mary Abbott (BAH ’92) have returned to Toronto after three years in London, England. Kevin has taken a position as legal counsel with CIBC World Markets and Mary has rejoined Toronto law firm Osler Hoskin & Harcourt. Ross Healy (BA ’95) completed his BEd at Canisius College in New York and is currently working toward his Master’s degree. He teaches Grade 8. Paige (Davidson) Hochschild (BAH ’94) and her husband Josh welcomed Jeremy Augustine, born on Aug. 26, 2002, a brother for Stephen. Carmen Holm (BSc ’97) completed her BSc (OT) in 2000 at Dalhousie University and is now working in Rehab Therapy at Whakatane Hospital, Bay of Plenty, Whakatane, New Zealand. Kristen Holm (BSc ’96) completed her BScH (OT), Summa Cum Laude, in 2000 at McMaster University. She is now working at Stanton Hospital in Yellowknife, N.W.T. Deborah Irvine (BJH ’98) married Jason Anderson on May 19, 2001 at St. Luke’s Church in Gondola Point, N.B.. Her father the Rev. Canon James Irvine (BST ’71) performed the ceremony. Deborah and Jason now live in Prince George, B.C. where Deborah is the producer of the CBC-Radio morning show for Northern B.C. Mark Irwin (BA ’95) works in Hong Kong and has owned a toy agency in Orient, Maine for four years. Megan Jones (BScH ’96) is in her second year of veterinary school at Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Jessica Jupp (’93) is travelling in Hong Kong. Sara (White) Keddy (BJH ’94) and her husband Craig are pleased to announce the birth of their
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Ottawa Alumni Event Mike Nichol (’68) (left) shares a laugh with former Dean of Women and Ottawa branch cochair Ena Gwen Jones and Glenn Davidson (BA ’73) as more than 20 Ottawa-area alumni gathered at the Mayflower II Restaurant and Pub on June 10, 2002. baby girl, Sophie, on Feb. 21, 2002. Ross Kerr (BA ’95) will finish his MBA in March 2003 and is heading to China in February. Karen (Blackwood) Lawrence (BJ ’94) and husband Steve are expecting their first child on April 6, 2003. Katherine Laycock (’90) is living in England. Steven Lenihan (BSc ’91, BA ’93) is studying for her BEd at Acadia University. He’s also a Rugby Canada panel referee. Lori MacDonald (BA ’89) teaches at Amherst (N.S.) Regional High School. Friends can contact Lori at: <loriamac@hotmail.com>. Leslie MacLeod (BAH ’92) married Hal Thompson in Halifax on May 5, 2001. They are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Benjamin Ross, on June 12, 2002. Leslie is a lawyer with the Nova Scotia Department of Justice and Hal works for the Halifax Citadel Regimental Association at the Halifax Citadel, National Historic Site and is a freelance writer as well. Tara MacNeil (’95) is teaching English in Japan. Catherine Mazeika (BA ’92) was engaged to Aron Harris on Dec. 24, 2001. They plan to be married in September 2003. Katherine Menear (BAH ’95) is working as a lawyer in New York. Jillian Millar Drysdale (BJ ’94) and husband David welcomed their first baby, Kathryn Amelie, on Oct. 24, 2002. After spending a few years in Montreal, they are back in Calgary where Jillian works as an independent writer and layout artist. Fellow alumni can contact Jillian at: <jillianmd@shaw.ca>. Seth Montgomery (BA ’97) graduated from law school and is will be travelling until he begins an internship at Canadian Multinational. Dawn Morrison (BJ ’93) is pleased to announce that twins Maxwell and Olivia are doing spectacularly as of their first birthday, Sept. 12. Dawn and husband Jason Billard are adapting well to the rigours of balancing full-time work with chasing two busy babies. Dawn has just returned from maternity leave to her job as communications manager at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. She welcomes any e-mails from
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AlumNotes classmates at: <dmorrison@mta.ca>. Lara Nestman (BA’92) married Peter Keiley in 2000. She is teaching French immersion at Ridgecliff Middle School in Halifax. Elizabeth Norris (’90) works for the Canadian Paraplegic Association. She would love to hear from other alumni in Ottawa. Megan O’Brien Harrison (BJH ’98) and her husband David are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Ella Ruth, on July 4, 2002. Megan is taking a year off from her position at the law firm Lutz Longstaff in Hampton, N.B. to spend time with Ella and her sister Meredith. Former classmates can contact her at: <megan_obrienharrison@hotmail.com>. David O’Connor (BA ’94) acted on stage in London, England for three years. He completed Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts — master’s in theatre production at King’s College in London and is now living in Brazil. Andrew O’Neill (BA ’98) and Jenny Godfree were married on Aug. 10, 2002. Andrew was ordained in the United Church of Canada in May 2002 and is in a post-graduate program at New College, Edinburgh. Fellow alumni can contact Andrew at: <rev_oneill@hotmail.com>. Christine Oresovitch (BA ’95) married Kyle Shaw (BSc ’91, BJ ’92). Michelle Osmond (BJ ’96) had a new baby boy, named Jaxon, on Sept. 11, 2002 with George Rioux. Dr. Adam Oster (BAH ’94) was married in the spring of 2002 and is an emergency medicine resident in Calgary. Catherine O’Toole (’92) completed her CGA. Heather Parkyn (BJ ’95) has returned from a fiveyear posting at the Canadian High Commission in England. She’s now working in government caucus communications in Halifax. Lee Parpart (BJH ’91) had a baby girl, named Bridget Chase, on Oct. 18, 2002. Anna Pemberton (BA ’91) married Edward Seagram. Their son Liam was born May 9, 2002. Anna runs her own Web design business. Stuart Perrin (BA ’94) is working in the hotel business between Hong Kong and Vancouver. Heidi Petersen (BAH ’96) has two children, son Fleipe three and a half, and daughter Capin,
Ottawa grads gather 90s-era grads got together Nov. 2 at the Heart and Crown pub in Ottawa. Pictured left to right: James MacAulay ( BSc ’99), Rosanna Rahman (’96-99), Nonie Sly (BA ’99), Nick Day (BAH ’98), Nevin French (BA ’95) five months. Sheila Power (BJH ’94) lives in London, England. Nicholas Pullen (BA ’90) and Elizabeth Wendt are thrilled to announce the birth of their son Thomas Zenonas on June 27, 2002 in Truckee, Calif. Kristen Rector (BA ’90) started her own public relations company, JPR Communications, in Toronto. Tracey Reeves (BAH ’92) received her education degree in 2000. Karin Reid-LeBlanc (BJH ’93) had a daughter, Charlotte, on Oct. 30, 2000. Karin is now producing Information Morning in New Brunswick. Mark Reid (BJ ’96) has been working as a reporter with the Calgary Herald since leaving the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal in 2000. Andrew Robertson (BAH ’94) is now living in Hull, Que. He has been married for a year, and is a teacher. Alanna Robinson (BJH ’99) got her LLB from Dalhousie University and is working for Merrick Holm in Halifax. Jennifer Roos (BJ ’96) had a baby girl, Heather Annika, on May 24, 2002.
Tara Marie Rousseau (BJ ’94) has been supervising an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea since 1998. Daragh Russell (BAH ’94) and Michael Pick were married Aug. 31, 2002, at St. George’s (Round) Church in Halifax. They are living and working in New York City. Kyla S. Russell (BAH ’98) got her law degree from Dalhousie University in 2001 and is now working as a legal analyst at Huestis Rich. Amy (Rzadki) Zimmer (BSc ’96) married Gregory Zimmer on Aug. 16, 2002 in Toronto. She’d love to hear from old friends — e-mail her at: <ames_6@hotmail.com>. Mark Sampson (BJH ’97) recently attained his Master’s Degree in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Man. Louann Scallion Morine (BJ ’90) and her husband Tim Morine are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Miranda, in June 2001. Fellow alumni can contact Louann at: <morinelm@gov.ns.ca>. Janis Scholz (’95) is teaching English in Italy. Stephen Shaw (’91) is expecting his first child in February 2003. Michelle (Beardsley) Shears (BSc ’91) married David Shears in 2001 and gave birth to a daughter, Abigail, in April 2002. Paul Skelborne (BJ’92) is working in communications at Norske Canada. Nonie Sly (BA ’99) received her Master’s in criminology from the University of Ottawa in November 2002. She is currently working for the research branch of the Correctional Service of Canada in women offender research. Amy Smith (BJH ’92) married Paul MacNeil on Oct. 13, 2001 in the King’s Chapel. They live in Halifax where Amy is a political reporter for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Krista Smith-Moroziuk (BA ’92) is proud to announce the adoption of a baby girl, Tessa Valerie Danielle, born Aug. 14, 2002. Dave Stewart (BJ ’93) had a son, named Taylor Neil Dickson Stewart, July 23, 2001. Dorian Stuber (BAH ’97) married Marianne Tettlebaum on Aug. 11, 2002. The ceremony took place in Ithaca, N.Y., where both are cur-
In Memoriam William Archibald (’34) Halifax, N.S., March 25, 2002 Lt. Ernest Arthurs, RCNVR (Ret’d) (HMCS King’s ’43) Toronto, Ont., July 14, 2002 Ella Banfield (Alexandra Society) of Halifax, N.S., Nov. 6, 2002 Claude Brown (Arts ’31) Digby, N.S., June 11, 2002 Creighton Brown (BA ’63, LTh ’65) Barss Corner, N.S., Nov. 10, 2002 Frank Caswell (DpJ ’48) Halifax, N.S., May 2002 Susan Conrad (’81) Halifax, N.S. Lcdr. David Howitt, DSC, CD*, RCN (Ret’d) (HMCS King’s) Halifax, N.S., July 13, 2002 John Jefferson (Arts ’49) Dundas, Ont., May, 26, 2002 Douglas Ley (BSc ’55) Fountain Valley, Calif.
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AlumNotes rently pursuing doctorates at Cornell University. Crystal Sutherland (BA ’98) taught English in Russia for six months and in Poland for eight months. She’s now finishing a degree in philosophy at Saint Mary’s University. Kara Sutherland (BAH ’91) had twin daughters in 2001. Patrick Vandermeulen (BA ’91) and his wife Erin have returned to live in Enfield, N.S., with their son Peter. After several years working for Sobeys Head Office in New Glasgow, N.S., Patrick is now the general manager of Blaze Marketing and can be contacted by e-mail at: <patrickv@blazemarketing.ns.ca>. Sheri-Lynn Vigneau (BA ’91) had a baby girl, Sadie, on May 12, 2002. Emily Wickwire Foster (BA ’91) finished her master’s in art therapy at Concordia University and is setting up an art therapy practise in Halifax. Tara Wittchen (BJ ’97) and husband Roderick Affleck moved back to Halifax and purchased their first home in September 2001. Tara recently celebrated the first anniversary of her home-based writing and editing business. Get in touch at: <t_wittchen@hotmail.com>. Christopher Wright (BA ’97) was called to the Ontario Bar in October 2002 and will rejoin Baker and McKenzie’s Toronto office as a corporate law associate. Fellow alumni can contact Christopher at: <chriswright@bakernet.com>. Cheryl Young (BJ ’94) is a project administrator for a software development company.
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Dawn Armstrong (BSc ’02) is in Cambodia until February on a Canadian International Development Agency internship. While there she will be instructing fisheries conservation and management classes to Cambodian Department of Fisheries officials. Fellow alumni can contact Dawn at: <dearmstr@roadrunner.nf.net>. Kimberly Garritty (BJ ’00) is now working as a morning radio host at CBC in Saint John, N.B.. Moira Groeneveld (’00) is travelling through Europe, currently working in the Netherlands. She’ll be leaving in March to teach English in South Korea for six months. Phil Maheux (BSc ’01) has moved back to Toronto after an exciting tour of South and Central America. Phil is currently helping to develop AI modules for NASA hardware, and would love to hear from any of his fellow alumni at: <philmaheux@hotmail.com>. Edward Mishaud (BJ ’02) is working with the United Nations Volunteers Organization in Bonn, Germany. Selected to participate in the UN’s Junior Professional Consultant Programme, Edward is developing media strategies to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Fellow alumni can contact Edward at: <edward.mishaud@unvolunteers.org>. Shannon Rafferty (BA ’00) graduated with her Master’s in library and information studies from McGill University in the spring of 2002. Sarah Richardson (BScH ’00) will marry Clifford Trend on July 26, 2003. Scott Ross (BSc ’00) is the proud father of a beautiful baby girl. Mairianna Ross was born at the IWK Grace Hospital on Sept. 24, 2002. She weighed 7 lbs, 11ozs. Mom and Dad are extremely excited and doing very well. Fellow alumni can contact Scott at: <scottyross99@hotmail.com>. Marnie Shaw (BA ’02) is now working at National Book Service in Toronto, Ont.
Paula Johnson (Alumni office) and husband Andy are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Isabella Catherine, on April 26, 2002. Stephen Kimber (School of Journalism) received a Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal. The award was presented by the Honourable Myra A. Freeman, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, at Government House on Oct. 31, 2002.
YOU REMEMBERED! Well .... not really. We knew last issue’s photo was going to be a tough one. But it turned out to be a real stumper. We didn’t recieve any responses to the 1950s-era photo of the university housekeeping staff. This issue’s photo should be a little easier — although it’s dated a bit earlier. It’s of the 1938 men’s ground hockey team. The print comes courtesy of John Tasman, who is #1 in the photo. Take a look ... (over)
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