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Winter 2007/2008 Letter from the Alumni Association President

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Letter from the Editor & News Briefs

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EDITORIA L COM M I T T EE

Classic King’s Photos

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Sherri Aikenhead (BJH ’85) Tim Currie (BJ ’92) Greg Guy (BJH ’87) Kyle Shaw (BSc ’91, BJ ’92) Kara Holm

Greening the Curriculum at King’s

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Simulated Reality Journalism Students Head to Fontinalis

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Music We’re Listening To Rachel Pink & Jonathan Bruhm

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FYP Texts Column “Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, the lady of situations.”

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A Postcard from Kenya A Word from a King’s Student Abroad

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Books I’m Reading Stephen Kimber

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KING’S WEBSI T ES

Calendar of Events/Photo Gallery

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Informal Alumni Networks ’80s Alumni Keep in Touch On and Off the Web

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King’s Lore

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Cover Story Transforming FYP

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Encaenia

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King’s Kindles Romance

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Lives Lived Roland Frazee

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Annual Golf Tournament

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Alumni Profile: Michael Fenrick Kingsman to Clerk at Supreme Court of Canada

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Nominations for Honorary Degrees and Hudson Award

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New Faces on Campus

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King’s Alumni Association 2007–2008

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Branch Briefs

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Alumnotes, In Memoriam & Lost Sheep

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tidings@ukings.ns.ca * * * * Stories in this issue of Tidings were written by students and alumni of the School of Journalism.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT My fellow alumni and friends of King’s: As I was reading through the stories in this issue of Tidings, I began to notice that many of them talked about connections of one type or another. The connections we made with people who have become our life-long friends (see pages 10 and 14), the connections we made with people who became our spouses and partners through meetings in the fishbowl (page 22), the connections we have with the world we live in (page 5) and, of course, the connections we made with ideas and professors in the Foundation Year (page 16). You could even say we have even made with connections with ourselves that have helped us find our own paths in life (page 25).

Alumni connections are what it is all about. Whether you are involved formally with the Alumni Association like I am, or more informally like the Crow Bowl gang, it is hard to deny that King’s was the beginning of our adult lives. We have all gone on to do other things, and obviously these have had a hand in shaping who we have become, but King’s gave us the foundation to go out there and make the most of the opportunities we were presented with.

More than other universities, I think King’s was a great place to make these connections. It was (and is) small. There is a community feeling and relation to history that King’s offers, a sense of shared purpose which I believe is directly related to the residence community and the nature of the academic programs, and a sense of activity and vitality that is very unusual.

Having spent a fair amount of time on campus over the past few years, I believe that special King’s spirit is as strong if not stronger than it ever was, but it is up to all of us to ensure it continues to thrive. I am going to use this letter as a soapbox to get an important message out to you, the Alumni. Although King’s has been fine, it is coming to a point where what the College has to offer will erode unless we take action. In the early 1990s, 70% of the budget came from the government; today that figure is just over 30%. Tuition now contributes 50% of the budget. Government funding is not going to increase, and

students can not be asked to do more—they are already paying the second highest tuition in Canada. If we make budget cuts, the life of the College will suffer because the enrichments that make King’s stand out and the small class size will be at risk.

What can you do as alumni? You can support the Annual Fund as you are able. As you will have seen in the last issue of Tidings, we have a list of supporters, but that list only represents 10% of the College’s alumni. I wonder why St. FX and Trinity both have the support of 35% of their alumni when they don’t offer a fraction of what King’s does? Perhaps their alumni have been made to understand that the small gifts have just as much value in the annual context as the larger gifts.

Alumni aren’t the only ones who care about alumni involvement. Outside donors look at alumni financial participation.

Prospective students and their parents look at alumni participation in the life of the College. Your support of the Annual Fund shows people interested in King’s that we—the Alumni —had a great time at King’s, we saw (and see) value in King’s, and we believe that it continues to have something original to offer students.

I strongly urge you to look at the Annual Fund material, check out the website www.ukings.ca/fyp35, and reflect on your time here. I hope your reflections on your connections to the finest undergraduate school in Canada will inspire you to make a gift to the College as permitted by your means. Every single gift is important.

If you are interested in talking about this further, please contact myself or any other member of the Alumni Executive or Branch leadership.

I hope that you enjoy this issue of Tidings, and wish you the best of the holiday season.

Yours truly,

Steven Wilson (BA ’87) President University of King’s College Alumni Association

Corrections In our Summer 2007 issue’s Classic Photo (page 3), we incorrectly identified Elizabeth Laurie Brown’s graduation year as 1946. Now known as Laurie Gausden, she completed her BA in 1949.

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We also omitted Saskatchewan in the Stewardship Report’s Support Among Alumni by Province. The Prairie province had a Participation Rate of 4%, their Amount Donated was $350.00 and the Average Gift was $175.00.

L E T T E R F R O M T H E E D I TO R Going Green Shortly after the last issue of Tidings was printed, Dr. Stephen Snobelen, the Director of the History of Science and Technology Programme at King’s, approached us about the paper that we use to print the magazine. One of his alma maters had recently decided to print their magazine on a more environmentally responsible paper, and he asked us to consider doing the same. After exploring the possibility, we discovered that making a switch of our own was incredibly easy.

The paper with which we are now printing Tidings upon is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (www.fsc.org).

This means that the raw materials originate in forests run according to high environmental, social and economic standards, and contain 50% recycled content including 25% post-consumer waste. As well, while the aesthetic value is virtually identical to our previous issues, so, too, is the cost—a true win-win situation. This is just one of the ways that King’s has been paying attention to Environmental issues—for more, see the first of our two-part series on King’s and the Environment on page 5.

As for the rest of this issue of Tidings, I hope that you will enjoy the wide range of stories. As Steve Wilson observes, the theme of ‘connections’ is prevalent throughout the issue, and I agree that we all have a different connection to King’s. Personally, I am what some refer to as the ‘Diet Coke of King’s’—a One-Year Bachelor of Journalism grad who only had a year on campus. I didn’t take FYP, either, so I can’t totally relate to those who had their lives altered by The Divine Comedy or any of the teachings from FYP’s fantastic faculty. Nevertheless, I am still a proud Kingsman—my connection comes from keeping in touch with my fellow alumni through some of the same methods used by those zany ‘80s Alumni—read the story on page 14 and you’ll get my drift.

What is your connection to King’s? We welcome your comments on this, or anything else that you read about in Tidings.

Happy reading,

Jonathan Bruhm (BJ ’04) jonathan.bruhm@ukings.ns.ca

NEWS BRIEFS A NEW LEGACY AT KING’S Imagine our surprise to read in Frank Magazine (Issue #502) that King’s was a significant beneficiary of the Estate of Margaret Martin. Of course, we are very grateful to Ms. Martin, a librarian whose father was a professor at King’s from 1932-1957, and also served as the librarian for a portion thereof. We were also feeling a little sheepish that we had no idea that she had remembered King’s in her will. Call us old fashioned, but it would have been nice to say thank you to a donor while they were still with us.

To date, King’s has received $433,333.33 as a result of Ms Martin’s generosity. This money (received in stocks and cash) has been used to increase the College’s endowment as specified in her will.

Legacy gifts, such as the one left by Ms. Martin, have played a major role in the development of King’s endowment fund. Making a major impact at King’s through a legacy gift is easier than you think. If you are considering remembering King’s in your will, please let us know

so we can say “thank you” and help you identify how you would like your money to be used. We can also provide you with some questions to ask your lawyer or financial planner about using a legacy gift to offset estate taxes.

For more information, please contact Advancement Director Kara Holm at (902) 422-1271, ext. 129 or kara.holm@ ukings.ns.ca.

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Mary Barker (BA ’67, HF ’97) was recently inducted into the College of Fellows of the Canadian Public Relations Society as an Honorary Fellow. The honour was bestowed upon her “in recognition of exceptional professional capability, professional experience, contributions to the advancement of the profession, and significant leadership in public relations.”

Mary was also made a Life Member of the Society and was the recipient of its prestigious Lamp of Service Award in 2005.

Congratulations Mary!

Mary Barker

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YO U ’ V E I D E N T I F I E D YO U R S E LV E S …

Lookin’ Sharp in ’59 Left to right: Back Row: Leslie (Cutter) Walsh (’58), Richard Walsh (LTh ’61), possibly Marilyn Smith, David Clare (BA ’59), Edward Tuck (LTh ’60), Barbara (Townsend) Tuck (’59), Nancy (Clark) Violi (BA ’62, MSW ’64) Middle Row: possibly Jeannie Bird, Geraldine Hamm (BA ’62), Lawrence Buffett (BSc ’58) Front Row: David Morris (’64), William (David) Chard (BA ’60), Robert Fowler (’60), Linda (Cruickshank) Fowler (BA ’59) Thanks to David Morris (’64) for submitting this photo and to Mary Barker (BA ’67, HF ’97), Bob (’60) and Linda Fowler (BA ’59), G. Rodney Ives (BA ’65, LTh ‘65), Caleb Lawrence (BA ’62, BST ’64, DD ’80) and Nancy (Clark) Violi (BA ’62, MSW ’64) for their assistance.

Flip to page 32 for some of our “Lost Sheep” from this era.

…C A N YO U I D E N T I F Y T H E S E A L U M N I ?

If you know who these alumni are, please contact us at alumni@ukcalumni.com.

Do you have photographs from your time at King’s that you would like us to have?

Please send them to the Advancement Office at King’s, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1A1. We’ll appreciate your contribution.

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GREENING THE CURRICULUM AT KING’S

by Janet Shulist

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R. STEPHEN BOOS is an avid sional instructors, Dr. April Hayward. hiker and camper. He also hapThe course, which is also cross-listed pens to be the Director of the Conthrough Dalhousie University’s School temporary Studies Programme at King’s, for Resources and Environmental Studies, and says that a few years ago, he came up discusses everything from The Big Bang with the idea for a course on the aesthetics through to people’s changing attitudes of nature during a camping trip to Five about the environment.

Islands Provincial Park, near Parrsboro, “It’s such a huge topic,” she says. “EvDr. Stephen Boos (centre) on a class trip to Nova Scotia. ery single lecture could be developed into Duncan’s Cove “I had one of those awe-inspiring exan entire course.” periences of the sandstone cliffs,” he says. “I started thinking Dr. Hayward says that the course doesn’t focus on environabout what that experience consists of.” mental changes as right or wrong, but instead as fact, and she He says that he has seen a growing interest in environment- wants students to recognize how quickly technology and enminded courses on campus in recent years, and now teaches a pair vironmental attitudes have changed in a short period of time. of them that focus on the environment—one on environmental “It’s hard to appreciate—as a person who only lives for philosophy and the other on the aesthetics of nature, the latter of eighty to a hundred years—to get a historical perspective on which has tripled in size since he first offered it. He attributes the that,” she says. “We’re at the point now where we’re putting not increase to a greater awareness of environmental concerns. only other species in peril, but we’re also putting ourselves in “I know that students are more and more interested in is- peril. We’re starting to do things to the planet that may impact sues concerned with the environment,” he says. “I’m sure that’s how the future plays out and how comfortable we are.” largely because of the concern about global warming.”

Dr. Ian Stewart, Interim Director of HOST, says that enviIn an age when environmental awareness is on the rise, ronmental course offerings are increasing in his programme, University Vice-President Dr. Christopher Elson (BAH ’86) and that they are looking to add a full-time environmental and notes that the relationship between people and nature has a life sciences historian to their teaching staff. historical background at the University.

“We have at least one other course starting up in the fall of “It’s always been at the core of what we do at King’s,” he next year called Global Ecology,” he says. “It’s on the historical says. “That’s a big focus of our intellectual activity here.” development of the idea of ‘ecology’ that will allow students Dr. Elson says that this preoccupation with the environment interested in ecology to gain an historical grasp of this key is a contemporary way of expressing age-old ideas, and that it aspect of the life sciences.” is introduced to students in various disciplines, starting in the Dr. Boos says that his course on environmental philosophy Foundation Year Programme (FYP). focuses on the different thinking of human and non-human natures, “Right from the very first lectures of FYP on the ancient worlds and he wants the course to provide students with a greater awareof Egypt or Sumeria, you have this question of how humanity de- ness of themselves in the environment, both natural and urban. fines itself in relation to natural forces,” he says. “Because of our “If we are going to change our behaviour in relation to historical and text-based approach, I think King’s contributes in a the environments in which we live, then I think some kind of special way to environmental awareness and thought by provid- change in our understanding of our relation to nature seems ing a sense of the origins of these ideas, paradigms, images and to me to be part of that change,” he says. relationships in relation to specific thinkers, texts and periods.”

Dr. Hayward agrees.

“Until you change your mind, you can’t change anything.”

He also says that there are three important aspects to consider As an institution, Dr. Elson says that King’s has committed in terms of environmentalism on campus: the curriculum, and whether the University is giving students and faculty a context to to a campus renewal plan which is set to begin in the comthink more deeply; what the people on campus are doing about ing months and will consider a number of environmental and sustainable aspects. He says this will include ideas for a more the environment; and the institution as a whole behaves.

In terms of the curriculum, Dr. Elson says that he is excited earth-friendly campus, with interesting possibilities already beto see the level of environmental reflection at King’s enhanced ing heard, such as rooftop gardens and increased green spaces on campus—and possibly even the sodding of the Quad. through enriching its current programmes.

“It will be a great opportunity to hash ideas out in an orga“I think there’s room for a lot of innovation in all of our joint honours programmes on these questions,” he says. “There may nized way,” he says, adding that discussions about the environeven be possibilities for new programmes, and new combina- ment have intensified at King’s. “These issues are dear to the hearts of the community.” ∂ tions of programmes.”

New to the History of Science and Technology Programme (HOST) this fall is the University’s first-ever course on En- In the next issue of Tidings, we will feature an exploration into the pracvironmental History, which is taught by one of its new ses- tical changes and plans for improving environmentalism on campus.

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SIMULATED REALITY Journalism Students Head to Fontinalis

by Richard Woodbury

Peter Dawson

Items such as currency are created to make PPC exercises more authentic

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HE REPUBLIC OF FONTINALIS is a country gripped in civil war. For three years, the minority Truttans and the majority Fontinalians have been battling each other, but this is nothing new for the two groups—the history of their violent ethnic conflict goes back more than 150 years.

If you’re ‘Googling’ Fontinalis right now to find out more about the country and its history, don’t bother—it doesn’t exist, in the traditional sense. It is a fictitious country created by the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC—online at www.peaceoperations.org) for Exercise Eurasian Star 2007, an eight-day simulated training exercise in Istanbul, Turkey involving NATO troops.

“The purpose of the exercise is to put people into a situation where they have to respond the way they would in reality,” says Peter Dawson (BAH ’85), the Project Manager for the PPC’s Exercise Department. “And that, of course, gives them a realistic training opportunity because it forces them to think about all the factors that they’d have to think about in the real world.”

The PPC is a non-profit organization that teaches and trains people who serve in conflict zones, such as civilians, police officers, and military personnel. Projects such as Exercise Eurasian Star 2007 are organized by the PPC and sold to governments or international bodies for training purposes.

“IT WAS LIKE A BIG GROWN-UP ROLE PLAYING GAME.” —Victoria Fowler On September 19, 2007, the PPC signed a Memorandum of Understanding with King’s, allowing some of the University’s Journalism students to play the role of the media during the exercise in Turkey, along with future projects. Under the supervision of faculty members Kim Kierans (DipJ ’76, BA ’82, HC ’83) and Stephen Kimber, eight students will travel to Istanbul in late November.

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where the Memorandum of Understanding was signed.

The exercise replaces the students’ regularly scheduled internships, but is certainly no vacation—they will work 12-14 hours a day and are responsible for producing two newspapers and a ten minute television show every day. Still, it is an invaluable opportunity for journalism students who are seeking international experience.

Not all of the journalism students will be participating in the exercise—in fact, 35 of them vied for the eight available spots.

One of the successful applicants is Mark Burgess, a Bachelor of Journalism student from Ottawa, who says that his interest in international relations and politics is what made him apply.

“I’m hoping for an intense kind of pseudo-war reporting experience, as close to the real thing that I can hope for,” he says.

Burgess sees the international experience as a crash course in fast-paced, quick-turnover journalism that could serve as a test-run for his future aspirations.

“Reporting from far-off places would be ideal,” he says.

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In 2005, Victoria Fowler (BJ ’06) participated in Exercise Indigo Sword—a similar PPC exercise that was held at Nova Scotia’s CFB Cornwallis.

“It was like a big grown-up role playing game,” she says. “I thought it was fantastic, it gave us an in into military journalism.”

Dawson was pleased with the work of the King’s students during Exercise Indigo Sword, which is why he worked to establish a continuing relationship.

“It has been our experience so far that the King’s School of Journalism has delivered a thoroughly professional and outstanding job in supporting these exercises,” he says.

One story in particular stands out for Dawson. During Exercise Indigo Sword, the students were questioning one of the public affairs officials and sensed a discontinuity in the story.

They pounced on him and he was visibly stressed.

“He was getting a dose of the real thing,” says Dawson.

“The students were being realistic.”

The PPC has been putting these exercises on since 1998, and

there are currently two exercises planned for 2008, to be held in Germany and The Netherlands. Presently, the plan is to have King’s Journalism students participate in these exercises as well.

Dawson says that his specialty is creating the scenario material that supports the exercises—military insignia, currency, flags, coat of arms, and beer labels are just some of the things created to make the experience more authentic.

“We want people to think that this is reality, [but] the level of realism goes beyond paper,” he says. “We recreate the stress, the temple, and the real life examples of what they will face in a real peace operation” adds Monaghan. “We force them to react to rapidly changing events, involving among others, civil and humanitarian groups, international bodies, hostile neighbours; all the things that you would actually see in a true peace operation.”

Nevertheless, the exercise will be conducted in a safe environment; nobody’s lives will be at risk, as there will be no soldiers in the field. Instead, the exercise will be a simulation conducted at NATO’S Rapid Deployment Centre and all of the decisions will not cost real lives or real resources.

Dawson says that he is passionate about the role that peacekeeping plays in the world.

“The methods by which we keep the peace may have changed

a little bit since the Suez crisis and the original Pearsonian concept of peacekeeping,” he says. “But the objectives of peacekeeping—I don’t think that has changed and I don’t think it should change.” ∂ This story was written prior to the students’ participation in the exercise. In our Summer 2008 issue of Tidings, Mark Burgess will report about his experience in Turkey.

Mark Burgess

MUSIC WE’RE LISTENING TO

The Advancement Office Audiophiles: Rachel Pink (Alumni Officer) & Jonathan Bruhm (Communications & Events Co-ordinator)

Jonathan Bruhm (BJ ’04) and Rachel Pink

RP: What I’m listening to usually depends on what I’m doing or where I’m going.

However, there are a few songs that seem to reappear on many of my playlists.

The Arcade Fire’s overwrought and theatrical “Intervention” struck a chord with me when I first heard it performed at the Coachella Valley Music Festival last spring. The first note, sounding like a powerful church organ, drew me in and while its unique instrumental ensemble may seem over the top, it manages to remain sincere and engaging. I thought that their first album was groundbreaking and would be hard to top, but “Intervention” matches its brilliance.

Hot Chip’s “Over and Over” is another tune that makes its way onto many of my playlists. This danceable, infectious tune is lots of fun with a very catchy chorus

and a beat that will make you want to move—a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

My mixes are never complete without a song or two by The Boss. Bruce Springsteen has been a part of my music collection ever since my father introduced him to me during our drives to swimming competitions back in the ’80s.

Lately, I have been enjoying We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, which revisits songs that Pete Seeger recorded himself, all reworkings of age-old American folk standards that were sung by demonstrators in popular movements for social change. As Springsteen writes in the liner notes, these were live recordings done with no rehearsals, which gives the album a very loose feel—and not just because you can hear him call out chord changes in a handful of songs. While The E Street Band may be absent, Springsteen tackles Seeger’s tunes in classic ‘larger-than-life’ Boss style. Complete with a huge band that includes several string players, a horn section, accordion, and more, it’s hard to not get swept up into the excitement of this album.

JB: In October 2007, I paid a visit to my longtime friend Nick Li (BAH ’03) in

Chicago and we had the opportunity to check out a performance by Liars and Interpol. The former bombarded us with loud, obscure, experimental noise with few discernable ‘songs’—not my cup of tea. The latter is a cathartic post-punk band often (correctly) compared to Joy Division, whose songs all sounded similar —fortunately, it was a pretty good song.

In another lifetime, I covered the Atlantic music scene for a variety of online, print and radio sources for nearly a decade. Even though my finger sits a bit farther from the pulse these days, I still try to keep my ear to the ground—a few of the local selections that have been flowing through my speakers include “Archaeologists” by Wintersleep, “Lydia” by Dog Day and “Surround” by In-Flight Safety.

Aside from that, I generally sift through a mix of hard rock—some of my favourite albums at the moment include Bionic’s Black Blood, Foo Fighters’ The Colour And The Shape, and Supersuckers’ Live At The Magic Bag. I also recently rediscovered “Weird Al” Yankovic, one of my old grade school favourites, whose last two albums (Poodle Hat and Straight Outta Lynwood) have renewed my interest in the prince of parody.

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FYP TEXTS COLUMN

“Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, the lady of situations.”

by Dr. Thomas Curran, Senior Fellow, Foundation Year Programme

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HE EPONYMOUS HEROINE of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone made her first appearance on the world stage in Athens nearly two and a half millennia ago (somewhere around 440 BCE). Presumably, she would have continued to exercise her grip on our theatrical imagination even without the unequivocal admiration of the great 19th-century philosopher Hegel, who described Sophocles’ tragic drama as “one of the ... most excellent works of art of all time...” The only way to match that sort of enthusiasm is to do exactly what Hegel himself did: in his discussion of the never-to-be-supplanted Antigone, Hegel rises to Sophocles’ standard by producing one of the most celebrated exercises in literary criticism ever formulated.

In essence, the Hegelian interpretation explores the perfect balance that Sophocles’ tragic vision delivers; Sophocles manages both to catalogue and to intensify the conundrum, the aporia, the Greek agon (contest, competition, combat) which is at the heart of the play. Antigone and Creon are simply incapable of seeing eye to eye, which, in the play, leads to their mutual destruction: Creon arranges Antigone’s incarceration and pushes her towards suicide. This, in turn, precipitates a rash of suicides, which swallow up both his son and his wife.

The circumstances of this showdown between uncle and niece are reasonably well known: Oedipus’ two sons cannot satisfy themselves with the power-sharing arrangements put in place after their father’s abdication. Consequently, one brother (Polyneices) violently seeks to depose the other (Eteocles), with the hapless citizens of Thebes reduced to the “collateral damage” unleashed by this fatal family rift. A certain poetic justice is realized on the battlefield when the two brothers, locked in mortal combat, manage to kill each other.

Creon, as their surviving regent, and as brother-in-law to the polluted Oedipus, wishes to restore the healthy state of the

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“commonwealth” of Thebes, and so orders that the one brother (Eteocles) be buried with full military honours as the champion of his native city. However, Polyneices’ putrid corpse is to suffer the same dishonour that the living traitor had exercised upon the city of his birth. The dishonourable Polyneices is to be denied even the most minimal funereal rites, without which, according to ancient Greek piety, the soul of the treacherous brother can never come to rest.

It is further essential to recall that Oedipus sired four children in the womb of his mother: two brothers and two sisters.

Therefore, this evenhandedness in the contest of two brothers finds its immediate “counterbalance” in the opening scene of Sophocles’ drama. The brothers have liberally furnished the occasion for tragedy, and their two sisters now ably respond to this prompt in the spat which makes up the tragedy’s first 100 lines. The brothers’ grotesque expression of sibling rivalry finds its appropriate parallel in the bathos1 of grieving, quarrelling sisters. Essentially, this altercation reflects the larger quandary: is it possible to accede to this royal decree, which forbids even the most cursory adherence to custom, specifically the dignity and respect, in death, which we must accord to even our bitterest enemy?

Antigone, as an orphan, is devoted to her “irreplaceable” brother—at one point, she argues that while one can always have more children, a brother must remain unique (c. line 910). So she will not be deterred from her duty to honour her brother in death just as much as in life.

Her sister, Ismene, on the other hand, who wants to live, and what is more to live in Thebes, urges Antigone to proceed with a little more caution and tact. This advice is rejected as mealy-mouthed, pusillanimous time-serving, that is to say irrelevant where questions of eternal justice are on the table. But divine justice, as we know, extracts a terrible fee: Antigone, so ap1 Bathos: in the sense of a decline from the sublime to the ridiculous.

parently devoted to family, shall in due course perish in a barren solitude.

But we are not yet done with the awesome parallelism of Sophocles’ play.

Towards the conclusion of the tragedy, around line 1300, there is the very first mention in the play of Creon’s two sons.

Haemon’s name is well known, as Antigone’s betrothed, as the dutiful son trying to reason with his father, and as the bridegroom whose only entry into his marriage bed is by way of his own self-inflicted death. However, in this last turn of the drama, there is suddenly a reference to Megareus, by tradition Creon’s older son.

His miserable history, which the play assumes without further elaboration, results from his pious response to the prophecy of Teiresias: Thebes will never survive this onslaught without the provision of a human sacrifice. The dutiful Megareus, as Creon’s son, offers himself as the price that must be paid for the city’s safety by falling to his death from the walls of Thebes. While the details are not mentioned

by Sophocles, we are told that Creon’s wife, unable to bear the grief of Haemon’s death, herself dies cursing her husband for the loss of both sons.

Here in exquisite miniature, we rehearse, at the play’s denouement, the overwhelming dilemma of all the action.

Creon apparently has already lost or sacrificed one son in the interests of civic peace: Megareus, the city’s champion; now Creon, through his pig-headedness, casts his younger son into the role of the city’s renegade—since Haemon is unable to stomach the promulgation of the father’s inhumane laws. In principle, remember, laws are only enacted to serve the citizens and to enable their freedom.

As Creon loses sight of this principle, Haemon informs his father, this inflexibility has the effect of turning Thebes into a barren wasteland.

First two sons, then two daughters, and finally another two sons: with this awesome parallelism does Sophocles hammer home the contest, competition,

and combat by which great families are going to be destroyed. The genius of the play, and the occasion for its tragedy, is the evenhandedness with which Sophocles presents the principles moving (and destroying) the close relations in this extremely dysfunctional royal fam-

ily. The 20th-century philosopher JeanPaul Sartre, in discussing one of his own most successful plays, gives the final word both to Sophocles and Hegel. Sartre’s description could not have been formulated without both of them: “I do not take sides.

A good play should raise problems, not

solve them. All the characters in Greek tragedy are in the right and all of them in the wrong...” ∂ The title quotation comes from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, I: The Burial of the Dead (ll. 49-50).

POSTCARD FROM KENYA A Word from a King’s Grad Working Abroad

by Sara Nics (BJH ’02)

Nics (centre) interviews a Muslim woman who is vying for a civic seat in a poor community on the outskirts of Mombasa

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HERE ARE ABOUT 20 LAPTOPS at work in the Java Coffeehouse at Adam’s Arcade this afternoon and I’ve just scored one of the two power outlets to refresh the waning battery on my Toshiba.

We are all gathered for the free Internet access and the good coffee that sells for about three American dollars a cup.

Less than a ten minute walk from here lies Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa, where the majority of the one million residents live on less that two dollars a day. This is expatriate life in Nairobi.

Preparing for my time working here with Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), I had visions of hot weather, rustic living, scenic vistas and safaris. But Nairobi is not Kenya. It is a cosmopolitan city planted in the middle of the developing world.

Nairobi is the hub for East and the Horn of Africa. Most major international aid agencies have regional offices here. The UN’s regional office for East Africa is on the outskirts of downtown.

A westerner living here can buy just about everything he or she might expect to find at home, but most of those import items are far beyond the financial reach of the Kenyans living here.

As part of my JHR work, I have been giving journalism skills workshops to young people in Kibera. When one of the staff at Ghetto Light Youth walked me through the slum, it was a far cry from the landscaped compounds and breezy restaurants of Karen or Westlands.

The footpaths through the slum are paved with years’ worth of accumulated trash and bright red Kenyan soil. Open canals carry waste and wastewater beside the piles of garbage where socalled Street Boys dig for recyclables to sell and food to eat.

Although people here are living in great poverty, because everything is carried in by hand, they pay more for water and power than do people in more affluent neighborhoods. But Kiberans will tell you that, compared to other slums in the city, this is a safe place to live.

Because the police don’t venture into these cramped 630 acres, the community self-polices. Just a couple of months ago, two young boys were stoned to death for allegedly picking pockets. It’s that kind of human rights dilemma that I encounter every day I spend working and living in Kenya.

People have a right to personal security. Although the police are not fulfilling their duty to enforce the laws that defend that right, those children had a right to due legal process. And, of course, they had also had a right to be free of the abject poverty that presumably drove them to steal.

And so, I try to make some small difference here by teaching people to be better reporters, by helping people become more media literate, by talking to journalists about the international human rights instruments to which Kenya is a signatory.

But just as Nairobi is not Kenya, Kibera is not Nairobi. This is an unknowable city in an enigmatic country.

Kenya is the boys collecting firewood in tea farming villages, who chant ‘how are you?’ at every passing foreigner. It is women in full burqas, walking the old stone streets in Lamu. It is Indian men selling spices in Mombasa. It is a shyly grinning Maasai woman with a cascade of beaded earrings hanging from each elongated ear. It is 30-year-old men breaking into political songs in a two AM disco on the edge of the Rift Valley. It is tourists stalking lions in Tsavo National Park. It is the village chief who works under a palm tree in a coastal village. It is crowded markets and empty plains. It is the sun setting over the Indian Ocean, and the sun rising over Lake Victoria. And, for the next few months, Kenya is also a fair-haired Canadian girl, working on her laptop in a Nairobi café. ∂ Sara Nics is working as a journalism trainer with the African Woman and Child Feature Service, through a Canadian agency, Journalists for Human Rights. You can read more about her time in Kenya by visiting www.commonco.typepad.com/8months T I D I N G S | W I N T E R 2 0 0 7/ 2 0 0 8

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Joy Smith & Margaret Barnard

The Friendship of a Lifetime

by Amy Smithers

“It was no question: if I was going to go to university, I was going to go to King’s.”

–Joy Smith

Joy Smith and Margaret Barnard

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oy (Morrison) Smith (BA ’42) and Margaret (Campbell) Barnard (BA ’42) represent a classic case of the schoolgirl term “friends forever.”

They met in high school in the 1930s and graduated from the University of King’s College together in 1942, making this their 65th year as King’s alumnae. The two have been close friends ever since, and still live just around the corner from each other—and the University.

They can usually be spotted side by side at the Alumni Annual Dinner at King’s each spring, but their friendship extends beyond the Quad—they try to see each other at least a few times a week, and they regularly attending meetings, lunches and concerts together.

“On Thursdays, we go out to the shopping centre for [Joy’s] hair appointments,” says Mrs. Barnard. “And, we go to the Cathedral [Church of All Saints] group meeting on Mondays.”

Today, as they sit in the Wardroom, looking over some of the old photos on the walls, they discuss some of the operational changes to the school, but agree that the spirit of the students hasn’t changed much at all. Of course, the campus itself looks quite different—back in the ’40s, Alexandra Hall, the library, and the New Academic Building didn’t exist yet. Where the Wardroom sits today used to be the dining hall,

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and was not used as a student lounge until after Prince Hall was opened in 1962.

For Mrs. Smith, coming to King’s was a family tradition.

“I came because my father graduated from King’s in Windsor, and he served on the Board of Governors for years,” she says.

“So it was no question: if I was going to go to university, I was going to go to King’s.”

Both Mrs. Smith and her sister Margaret (Morrison) Hoffman (BA ’45) attended the University and since then, her son Deryk Smith (BA ’65), daughter Cynthia Pilichos (BA ’68, HF ’01) and her granddaughters Andrea Pilichos (BA ’93, AMC ’94) and Alexis (Pilichos) Pacey (BA ’88) have joined her as alumni. She also met her late husband, Dr. Harry Smith (DCL ’91), while she was a student. He went on to become the President of King’s in 1963, and the couple lived in President’s Lodge with their children for the following six years.

“It was quite an experience,” she says.

“It was a very good time in our lives because we had four children by that time.

They were all up on the top floor and they each had a room of their own.”

Mrs. Smith had been considering going back to school, but her husband’s job made her set her mind to ‘First Lady’ duties instead. They were required to do a lot of official entertaining in their home on campus, and she took charge of the parties and dinner functions. She also notes that Frosh Week in the 1960s was a particularly crazy time at King’s.

“They had an initiation that was horrible,” she says. “It continued even when Harry was President. They had [a boy] hanging out the window or something and he broke his arm.”

She recalls receiving angry calls from parents after that, all wondering why her

husband wasn’t single-handedly putting a stop to the students’ shenanigans, and having to politely explain that the President couldn’t be everywhere at once.

During her time at King’s, Mrs. Barnard lived in residence which, at the time, was not co-ed. She says that policies were strict and included early curfews—even away from home, the girls at King’s were never without a mother figure.

“We couldn’t just go out for a date,” she says. “We’d have to tell the Dean of Women we were going out.”

Today, some of the rules have been somewhat relaxed; as has the mandatory nature of formal gowns. While caps weren’t worn daily, gowns had to be worn to all classes and meals. Formality also reigned in the Chapel on Sundays; the boys’ attendance was optional but the girls’ presence was mandatory.

“I had a friend who thought that was very unfair,” recalls Mrs. Barnard. “Sometimes, she and I would escape and go over to the frog pond and skate during Chapel.

Nothing was said, but we knew that we weren’t supposed to.”

There was no Foundation Year Programme back while they were students, but both say that the curriculum was quite similar to what first-year students experience today. Mrs. Smith studied History, and Mrs. Barnard majored in English, but breadth in subjects was very important—they also took Latin, math, French and other requirements in the traditional university style which has been brought back through FYP. At that time, the School of Journalism did not exist either, but Mrs. Barnard found her way into the field anyway—she went on to work as a journalist at The Chronicle Herald and The Canadian Press.

“Women really got into journalism because the men went off to war,” she

says. “I don’t think [women] would be here today if they hadn’t gone to war and we got into the newsrooms.”

Both ladies admit that some of their favourite King’s memories involve the dances that were held in the Haliburton Room, which used to occupy the second floor of the A&A Building.

“The dance would open out into the whole floor,” says Mrs. Barnard. “The orchestra sat on the stairs between. We wore formal dresses and had little dance cards and programs.”

“Your dates would usually try to get

that filled up for you, so you had a partner for every dance,” adds Mrs. Smith. “Oh, it was very formal.”

As the duo inch their way slowly out of the building they’ve never really left behind, what might once have been giggling over boys is now a chuckle about their canes. They say that they try not to look back too much.

“We just went on with our lives because it was exciting just being out in the world,” says Mrs. Barnard. “But we did make some good friends at the time, now didn’t we?” ∂

Joy Smith (far left) and Margaret Barnard (second from left) don their academic gowns with friends

BOOKS I’M READING

Stephen Kimber, Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism and Interim Director of the School of Journalism

Stephen Kimber

I was at the Halifax airport a few weeks ago when I suddenly realized I hadn’t packed even one of the half-dozen books spilling off my bedroom night table.

Surely, I could survive a short flight without a book to read… I couldn’t. I asked the manager at the airport bookstore to recommend something.

“I couldn’t put this one down,” she said, pointing to a pile of copies of Peter Behrens The Law of Dreams, a novel that won the Governor-General’s Award for literature last year. I glanced at the cover blurbs— “poetically charged… lyrical… emotional…” I knew I wouldn’t like it; I’m no fan of sprawling historical epics, particularly poetical ones. I bought it anyway, to be polite.

By the time the plane took off, I was hooked on Fergus O’Brien’s one-damnthing-after-another tale of his tumultuous mid-nineteenth century journey from Ireland to Canada. What can I say? I’m a

sucker for a story.

The only problem was I was still with Fergus and “Red Molly” in Wales—barely halfway through the novel—when I suddenly remembered that the next meeting of my Gentlemen’s Book Club (I belong to a book club with, among other worthies, retired King’s profs Michael Cobden and Steven Burns) was looming and I had yet to crack our book-of-the-month selection, Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer José Saramago’s Blindness, the allegorical story of an entire city struck by a mysterious “white blindness.”

So The Law of Dreams has been relegated—temporarily—to my night table.

It’s not alone. A brief catalogue of wonderful books I-am-now-in-the-middle-ofbut-have-yet-to-actually-finish: Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, the what-if tale that asks what might have happened if the Jews had settled Alaska instead of Israel. I’ve been hooked on Chabon’s lose-yourselfin-the-story stories since Wonder Boys.

And then there’s Nathan Englander’s Ministry of Special Cases. Set in 1976 in Buenos Aires during Argentina’s “dirty war,” it tells the story of a man who earns his living defacing the gravestones of Jewish whores and pimps, whose respectable offspring hope to erase their own connections to their past in the process.

I’m a sucker for good reviews and this book—an acclaimed young author’s first full-fledged novel—garnered great ones.

Oh, yes, and then there’s Linden MacIntyre’s memoir, Causeway, about grow-

ing up in Cape Breton. Perhaps because of his success as a television journalist, readers have tended to underestimate Linden’s talent as a writer of both nonfiction and nonfiction. You should also check out his first and recently re-released first novel, the excellent The Long Shore.

Other nonfiction books in my in-progress pile: Canadian journalist Paul William Roberts’ A War Against Truth, his first-person account of the invasion of Iraq; Robert Quirk’s Fidel Castro, a biography of the Cuban leader I’m reading in part because I’d like to set a novel in post-Castro Cuba; Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, a reader’s guide to writing or a writer’s guide to reading; King’s grad Michelle Hébert Boyd’s (BA ’91, BJ ’92) Enriched

by Catastrophe, how the Halifax Explosion transformed social work; and a couple of books—Douglas How’s A Very Private Person about Izaak Walton Killam and his wife Dorothy, and Harry Oxorn’s Atlee: A Biography about the Dalhousie Medical School’s brilliant, quirky and controversial first head of obstetrics and gynecology— I’m reading as research for a nonfiction book I’m writing to mark the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Children’s Hospital.

And… OK, I’ll stop now—and get back to my reading.

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KING’S 2008 CALENDAR OF EVENTS January 8 January 9 January 10 February 4 February 5 February 7 February 27-28 May 15

Faculty Lecture Tour in Montreal with Dr. Thomas Curran Faculty Lecture Tour in Ottawa with Dr. Thomas Curran Faculty Lecture Tour in Toronto with Dr. Thomas Curran Faculty Lecture Tour in Vancouver with Dr. Simon Kow Faculty Lecture Tour in Victoria with Dr. Stephen Snobelen Faculty Lecture Tour in Calgary with Dr. Simon Kow The Armbrae Dialogue At King’s Encaenia

Please visit www.ukings.ca/kings_3438.html for more information on these and other upcoming events at King’s. Also, remember that the Tuesday Toot (pub night) will be held every second Tuesday of the month at the Henry House in Halifax.

Top left: Rob Richard (BAH ’06), Dana Kayes, Terra Duncan (BJH ’06) and Kylie Duncan at the 2007 Atlantic Jazz Festival (July 17, 2007). Top right: Dr. William Barker helps Coren Pulleyblank paint the KSU office (June 25, 2007). Bottom left: Taunya (Padley) Dawson (BA ’84), William Dawson and Jack Fraser at the Harry Potter Launch Party (July 20, 2007). Middle right: Rae Brown (BA ’99), Mark DeWolf (BAH ’68) and Mary Barker (BA ’67, HF ’97) at the Alumni Annual Dinner (May 12, 2007). Bottom right: Laurelle LeVert (BAH ’89), Rachel Pink and Laura Patrick (BA ’01) at the Alumni Annual Dinner Pre-reception (May 12, 2007)

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Top left: Chris Richardson (BA ’84) and Nick Twyman (BA ’87) at an alumni party in Calgary (July 7, 2007). Top right: Kim Kierans (DipJ ’76, BA ’82, HC ’83) and Bea Vongdouangchanh (BJ ’04) at the Michener Awards in Ottawa (June 15, 2007). Middle left: Benoit Larouche, Eleanor Bueza, Chris MacNeil (BA ’94), Katherine Stanley (BA ’85), Brendon McGloin, Kristine Kozicki (BAH ’06), Rebecca Pate (BAH ’06) and Sue Miller (BA '94) at the Network Canada Alumni Night in London (September 25, 2007) – courtesy of Neal Eiserman. Middle right: Peter Dawson (BAH ’85), Kathleen Soares (BA ’74) and Mark DeWolf (BAH ’68) cooking up a storm at the Welcome Back BBQ in the Quad (September 14, 2007). Bottom left: Graham McGillivray (BSc ’07), Steven Wilson (BA ’87), Johanna Verhagen and Maurice McGillivray at the Alumni Annual Dinner post-party (May 12, 2007).

Bottom right: Dr. Elizabeth Church and Advancement Director Kara Holm at the 2007 Atlantic Jazz Festival (July 17, 2007).

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INFORMAL ALUMNI NETWORKS ’80s Alumni Keep in Touch On and Off the Net photo: Courtney Pringle

by Sarah Greene

Crow Bowl 11: Back Row (left to right): Stephen MacLean (BScH ’87), J.R. Manderville (BSc ’86), Glenn Roy (BA ’88), Stephen Forest (BJH ’87), Bruce Walden, Fred Davis. Third Row: Peter Koyš, Bruce Fisher (BA ‘85), David Earle (’82), Dan Davis.

Second Row: Rob Douglas (BSc ’89), Gary MacIsaac (BA ’85), Shannon Greenlaw (’88), Darren Clelland (’86). Front Row: Arthur Matheson (BA ’87), Steven Wilson (BA ’87), Jenny MacIsaac, Craig Meister (BJH ’86), Kevin Crain (BJH ’87), Ian Folkins (BScH ’86)

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Brian Edwards (BSc ’88), Liam MacCormick The Moncton Mafia (clockwise from top (BA ’87), Greg MacDonald (BJH ’88) and Donna left): Sheila Cameron, Cathy KrawchukGabriel (BJH ’88) at the ’80s Reunion.

Donaldson, Brian Cormier and Jonna Brewer

HE KING’S ALUMNI ASSOCIATION has formal branches in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Europe. It also encourages alumni across Canada and around the world to get together in the name of King’s. But the true strength of the Alumni Association exists without a formal structure.

Since before the Association was established in 1846, King’s alumni have shared a common bond and a sense of camaraderie from being a part of the University. This camaraderie and a sense of humour are apparent in a group of friends who graduated in the 1980s.

“Nowadays it’s all Facebook,” says Rob Douglas (BSc ’89), as he sits in the Grad House, a favourite drinking hole among his fellow ‘Crow Bowlers.’ Douglas says that he doesn’t use the popular online social networking tool very often, but that’s where he goes to find out what’s happening with The Crow Bowl.

The Crow Bowl, an annual soccer game among King’s grads from the ’80s, began in 1997 when Alan McLeod (BA ’85) sent out a call to his King’s friends in hopes of organizing a soccer game in Halifax. Since then, participants have used phone trees, snail mail, e-mail, Yahoo! Groups, Facebook and Mcleod’s blog, www.genx40.com, to plan the game.

Alumni have traveled from as far away as Whitehorse to play for either the ‘Astro Poor’ or the ‘Cosmic Rich.’ They also vie for prizes such as the Smedley Award for spirit and enthusiasm, and the Golden Helmet award for the most destructive player. As for the Crow Bowl itself, the tarnished trophy, engraved with a C (for Crow Bowl), rotates houses—this year, it’s Douglas’ turn.

Douglas says that his classmates—now cardiologists, chiropractors, teachers and journalists—run like they’re still in university, and some end up sore for a week after the game. During half time, the children of alumni play their own soccer game.

“Some of them might end up going to King’s because of Crow Bowl,” he says. “They can see how their parents’ friends stemmed from their university days.”

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In March of 2006, McLeod made a post on his blog about Capt.

Trevor Greene (BJH ’88), who was injured during a tour of duty in Afghanistan. There were more than 400 responses to the post, which he describes as a spontaneous outpouring of sadness, best wishes and recollections.

“I was quite humbled and happy to have the medium available for the obvious demand for a space for sharing,” says McLeod.

The post helped to bring King’s alumni closer together, and was one of the catalysts for a late ’80s reunion, which was held on the King’s campus in May 2007. More than 75 alumni from the era met for a weekend back on campus, which included hanging out in the Wardroom, a dance party and reminiscing about the infamous Prince Hall red sauce.

“Everyone was still up at 6 am drinking beer,” says Brian Cormier (BJH ’86). “The staff were wondering why people weren’t in bed.”

“PEOPLE MOVE AND LOSE TOUCH, BUT IT’S NICE TO HAVE THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL ALUMNI NETWORKS.” —Steven Wilson “My favourite part of the reunion was just watching everyone hugging, laughing and crying as they reunited with friends,” adds Cathy Krawchuk-Donaldson (BA ’87, BJ ’88). “Someone said it felt like 20 years never happened, and that’s completely true.”

Cormier and Donaldson are part of another informal alumni network known as ‘The Moncton Mafia,’ which also includes Sheila Cameron (BSc ’86) and Jonna Brewer (BJH ’87).

As some of the reunion’s principal organizers, they say that Facebook, Yahoo! Groups and e-mails were some of the tools used to spread the word about the event.

Due to the success of the first reunion, another is being planned for May 2010—which may prove to be easier to promote, as more and more of their fellow alumni have logged on to Facebook.

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Steven Wilson (BA ’87) can often be seen at both formal and informal alumni events—he’s the President of King’s Alumni Association, and he’s also a Crow Bowler. This year, he hosted the post-Crow Bowl barbecue.

He says that the Alumni Association tries to foster formal linkages between alumni and the University, and between alumni.

The Association regularly puts on events such as Christmas receptions, alumni dinners, Faculty lecture tours, a golf tournament and high school recruiting sessions, but organizing the ’80s reunion was a little different. The bulk of the organizing efforts were done by the alumni themselves—he was on the e-

mail list and says that there was “cajoling, subtle arm twisting to make people more interested in going.”

The Moncton Mafia were able to get in touch with some alumni that the Association didn’t have addresses for, which is one of the problems that hinders efforts to organize alumni events. “[Some alumni are] not necessarily concerned about telling the Alumni Association where they are,” says Wilson. “People move and lose touch, but it’s nice to have the formal and informal alumni networks. The two help each other out.”

Cormier agrees, and says that the Internet has made it easier to keep in touch without expensive long-distance phone bills.

“Now there’s more activity taking part below the Alumni Association,” he says. “King’s is where I learned how to write.

It was an excellent networking experience that I’m only valuing now. A lot of the pressure of enabling networking has been taken off the Alumni Association and put back on the alumni.”∂ We know that there are many more informal alumni networks out there, and would love to hear about yours, no matter how big or small it is. E-mail us at tidings@ukings.ns.ca. Also, check out the alumni-run ’80s Reunion Facebook page at www.facebook. com/group.php?gid=2348772165

K I N G ’ S LO R E

Everybody has a great story (or two) from their time at King’s. Here is a recap of Mark DeWolf’s (BAH ’68) entertaining “The Great Doghouse Caper” which he shared at the 2007 Alumni Annual Dinner.

In the winter of 1966, some Cochran Bay residents (all males back then) decided to enter the Dalhousie Winter Carnival’s snow sculpture contest. There was only one problem: no snow. Showing commendable initiative, they persuaded the Halifax Shopping Centre to truck snow from their parking lot to the King’s Quad, where it was dumped in front of the Bay. A member of that happy band, I helped to create an enormous snow version of

Snoopy lying on top of his doghouse, which we then hollowed out, creating a good-sized but icy room. Not content with this, my enterprising Bay-mates waited until I was downtown at a folk concert before they completely furnished the interior of the doghouse with all the furniture from my room on Cochran Bay’s second floor.

“Ha ha!” I said. “Now move it back.”

But no one seemed inclined to take apart a joke they had worked so hard to create, and then some brilliant fellow had an idea. The doghouse, being in the Quad, was now a men’s residence room that was not covered by men’s residence regulations—including the one that forbade women from entering men’s residence rooms. Naturally, the idea of a room where girlfriends could visit 24 hours a day found favour among us.

And the Sixties being a time of student protests, a large sign in front of the doghouse proclaimed that the interior room would be occupied 24 hours a day as a protest against the university’s restrictive visiting policies. Because someone would have to sleep in the doghouse, an intricate signaling device was installed, running to Cochran Bay, in case the whole thing collapsed in the middle of the night. As the room’s “owner,” I was

given the first night, and in the morning, a photographer from The Chronicle Herald took a picture of me sitting in bed, enjoying a breakfast served to me by an attractive co-ed. Student protests being big news in those days, this photo appeared the next day on the front page of the province’s most widely-read paper.

For me, the story does not end there.

An old chum of my father’s from King’s in the 1930s, The Rev. Staff Tanton (LTH ’38, BA ’45), clipped the picture from the paper and sent it to my parents in Quebec, with a note that said simply, “A chip off the old block.” Strangely, my parents didn’t find the picture quite so amusing.

Desiring to give me a good talking-to, they unfortunately telephoned Cochran Bay during a riotous Bay Party and could not get sensible speech from anyone who answered. Now thoroughly convinced that I had become corrupted by the fast life at King’s, they must have panicked, for they telephoned the President of the University. So, into the middle of our Bay Party came Dr. Harry Smith (DCL ’91), trudging up the stairs of Cochran Bay in bathrobe and slippers, to tell me that my parents would like me to give them a call. To his credit, and to my eternal gratitude, he never mentioned this again, not even to tease me about it. I will always be grateful.

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FYP TRANS FORMATIONS

COVER STORY

YOUR FAVOURITES In September 2007, we sent out a call for your FYP memories through our alumni e-newsletter. Throughout this article, we will feature a few of your answers.

The respondents’ names were put into a random draw for a $50 gift certifi16

cate to The King’s Bookstore—Congratulations to our winners, Mark Duggan (’04) and Llewellyn Turnquist (BSc ’90)!

If you would like to share any of your FYP memories or comments on this story, e-mail us at tidings@ukings.ns.ca.

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There are many stories about the origins of the Foundation Year Programme, and many characters who have played significant roles in its development.

To commemorate the 35th Anniversary of FYP, we are pleased to feature an account from the programme’s first director, Dr. Wayne Hankey, who has returned this year to co-ordinate the Medieval section.

by Gillian Cormier (BJH ’07) | Illustration by Lisa Lipton

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N HIS 35TH YEAR , Dante Alighieri found himself at the gates of Hell with a somber teacher, only to ascend to the white rose of paradise a wiser pilgrim. The Foundation Year Programme, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, has travelled a similar path. Through darkness and uncertainty, the programme has flourished from its humble scholastic beginnings in the Haliburton Room into a grand meeting of minds in the equally grand Alumni Hall.

More than just a path of learning, FYP (as it would come to be called) is a communal journey. Dante had Virgil to guide him, but FYP students are joined by hundreds of their peers as they undergo a tough, yet rewarding transformation.

“This is what has made the programme work,” says Dr. Wayne Hankey (BAH ’65), who served as the programme’s first director and is now Carnegie Professor of Classics and Chair of Dalhousie’s Department of Classics. “They are transforming together, and that’s what makes the programme. It’s a group experience. It’s hundreds of people doing this one thing together, and it completely dominates the College.”

FYP has always been a catalyst of change in the lives of its students. But it was also a defining moment in the history of the University of King’s College.

At the end of the 1950s, the tiny Anglican college decided that it was time to expand. Prince Hall, Alexandra Hall and the gym were built, but ended up costing twice as much as expected.

Fundraising efforts had also fallen short, and construction had hit a number of expensive snags—including the unfortunate problem that the gym foundation had to be dug through solid slate.

According to Dr. Hankey, who was a student at the time, King’s was essentially broke, and the new President, Dr. Harry Smith (DCL ’91), told the President at Dalhousie that he would have declared bankruptcy if he only knew how.

At this time, the academic direction of the college was also

changing. King’s was a founding partner of the Atlantic School of Theology, which saw the Faculty of Divinity leave the Quad.

At the end of the 1960s, the school was adrift, penniless and without a core academic programme.

Faced with an uncertain future, a small group of Classics and Sociology professors now had the freedom—if not the desperation—to create a new identity for King’s.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the group of co-ordinators —including Dr. Patrick Atherton, Dr. Robert Crouse (BA ’51, MTH ’57, DD ’07), Dr. Herbert Gamberg, Dr. Detlev Steffen, then-President Dr. J. Graham Morgan, and Dr. Hankey—had a meeting of minds. There were competing visions, but there was also a singularity of purpose and an excitement to create something radical and largely unseen in the world of North American universities—an ambitiously comprehensive overview of the development of the Western world.

“The programme is designed to be demanding,” says Dr. Hankey. “But it was also designed to be a totally transforming experience for those who took it, with big surprises. Students take a big risk by putting all their eggs in one basket. Failing someone in FYP was not like failing them in one course—it’s really like destroying them right at the beginning.”

Dr. Hankey says that the initial plan was to use textbooks, not the actual books themselves. He fought this, arguing that history had to be understood through translations of original texts. Thus, in a way, he is the one to thank for the formidable reading list that students tackle every year.

Over the years, two important innovations—oral examinations and midterms—were introduced to make sure people attended all the lectures. Another fundamental change occurred during the Presidency of Dr. John Godfrey (DCL ’06), who took recruitment efforts Canada-wide. Many regard the changes that he made as crucial to the survival of the programme.

Despite its evolution, what’s most remarkable about FYP is how little the programme has changed in 35 years.

“The formula was right from the start,” says Dr. Hankey.

“There is no course known to me with so few fundamental changes.”

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ARY THERESE MACDONELL (BA ’80) was among the first to be ‘FYPed’—she was a member of the programme’s inaugural class in 1972. She says that she had already chosen a different university, but a presentation at her high school convinced her to give up her plans—and an apartment that was already waiting in another part of the province—to take the Foundation Year plunge.

“It piqued my curiosity,” she says. “The professors made it seem like there was more to education than I ever realized.”

There were only about 30 students in that first class—a far cry from its current brood of 300—so the group was a minority on campus. FYP did not yet dominate residence life at King’s, but it was very much alive with the same discovery, stress, confusion and epiphany that would become its calling cards.

“I was told things would make sense after Christmas,” she recalls. And they did, but other things began to fall into place much further down the road for MacDonell. She left school two years into her degree to work and travel, unsure as to whether she would return. Later, she sat in on a graduate class and was surprised to find that she could participate intelligently, and ended up pursuing a degree in Classics, largely to expand on her knowledge of the ideas, books and ancient figures she had discovered in FYP. “The Greeks and the Romans came alive to me in FYP,” she says.

The self-described “wandering child of the sixties” went on to become a lab technician and then a Director of Religious Education at St. Paul’s Parish in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia. Like many FYPers, she has been unable to part with her first-year books. But what she has held onto even more tightly are the concepts and communication skills she honed as a student in a truly innovative interdisciplinary programme. She says that her FYP transformation turned her into a more confident thinker.

“I was able to answer questions based on what I learned in Foundation Year,” she says. FYP brought the edges of disciplines such as sociology and philosophy together, and allowed her to see the world in a less fragmented way. She found learning exciting again.

This September, another student began a transformation of her own, 35 years after MacDonell. Meryn Winters also had plans to attend a different university, but was convinced through word of mouth that the Foundation Year was the right fit for her. She says that she has already learned one of the programme’s most important lessons—stick to the steady diet of a book a day, or get buried in the reading.

“That, and everything relates back to Plato,” she says.

She says that she had been warned about the heavy reading load, and the tutorials were everything she had hoped for. But some of the programme’s trademark features threw her for a loop. For example, essay questions that consist of one of the most significant quotations in Western thought, followed by ‘discuss.’

“Where do you start?” she laughs. “It’s so jam-packed. You really lose sight of time here. We’ve done so much already. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned.”

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Dr. Thomas Curran, had decided that it was so important to the cultivation of our immortal souls that he had allotted an entire week to its study.

Depending on who you ask, The Waste Land is either profoundly deep or needlessly inaccessible. After the second class, it became abundantly clear that I wasn’t going to ‘get’ it. About a week later, I decided to give up on the poem entirely—I was not ready for it. I put it aside, where it will be waiting for me later in life. Looking back, my FYP conversion was accepting that some concepts are beyond my present level of experience and understanding.

I look forward to re-reading The Waste Land someday, and I look forward even more to it becoming part of my soul the way that it has for Dr. Curran—but not yet.

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R. PEGGY HELLER, who has taught in the Foundation Year Programme for some 25 years, is no stranger to the transforming qualities of FYP. She says that every year, she sees students go into Classics instead of Physics, or undergo conversions to Christianity or Nietzsche.

One question that never changes is, “What is FYP?” Dr. Heller says that even those who have gone through the programme can’t really answer the question either, and that the Registrar’s Office receives compliments—and complaints—from students every year who found that FYP was not at all what they expected.

Dr. Heller attempted to answer this question in a history of FYP that she wrote for a book on notable humanities programmes.

FYP was the only Canadian programme represented, and she says its story gleans a lot from the Canadian consciousness.

“It’s like Canada—if we all become explicit about what we are, we’ll break up,” she says. “There are many things we try to do, and they are all in a creative tension with another. We

YOUR FAVOURITES

FAVOURITE FYP TEXT While we received a wide variety of responses to this question, Dante's Divine Comedy was the most popular answer by far.

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“The Divine Comedy really spoke to me. At the time that I was reading it, I was in the middle of my own journey. It was about Dante coming out of a terrible time in his life, making it through Hell and Purgatory and finding his way to heaven, and that's how I feel about my journey to King’s.”

—Terra-Lee Duncan (BJH ’06) “I had heard so many references to it through high school, and was looking forward to getting into it.

It lived up to its hype.”

—Cheryl (Penney) O'Shea (FYP ’84) “For the three subsequent years of my undergraduate degree, I attended every Dante lecture given by Dr. Robert Crouse and those given by his colleagues Dr. Kussmaul and Dr. Starnes whilst he

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don’t try to do one thing fully, because that would eliminate the others.”

She says at its core, FYP allows students to encounter significant books, create a sense of intellectual history, and to present a coherent education.

“We have many balls in the air, and there’s not a single purpose,” she says. “But I think—more than anything else—FYP starts something.”

While some may criticize and dismiss FYP as a bagful of snooty references to be spewed out as cocktail chatter, Dr. Heller says that she knows that there is something more than pretension going on.

“At first, people are excited that they have something that other people don’t,” she says. But, by then end of the programme, the high and mighty become humbly repentant, and realize they have been shown all that they could know—but they don’t know it all.

She likens FYP to a scarf that gets woven as you move through an education, and one day it is big and warm enough to be wrapped in and cherished.

“The learning of FYP happens years after, because you cannot possibly know why anything you’re learning is significant as you do it—you just don’t have the background or the context,” she says. “Things get clarified when you start to do other things. It’s learning in retrospect.”

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LL OF THIS CAME BACK to me when the bronze sculptures of Auguste Rodin made their way to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax a few years ago.

Admittedly, when it comes to sculpture, I am little more than a philistine, but I made a point of going anyway.

At the exhibition, I learned that Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Thinker” is a depiction of Dante seated before The

was on sabbatical in 1990-91. I later audited Dr. Crouse’s Classics Department seminars on Dante and the FYP lectures on the same as a visiting graduate student in Theology in the autumn of 1993 and did the same when I was back at King’s as Dean of Men from 1995-1997. Every year since then I have, almost contemporaneously with the students in the FYP, picked up Dante in early November and re-read at least one part of the Comedy. It has become a controlling theme of my life.”

—Fr. Edward Rix (BA ’91, HC ’92) FAVOURITE FYP LECTURE There are far too many to list, but here are but a few of your favourite moments from FYP: “Colin Starnes on St. Augustine drawing the breastfeeding scene, or the music one where Dr. Kemp played Supertramp at the end.”

—Deborah Irvine Anderson (BJH ’98)

“Daniel Brandes gives a mean Heidegger lecture; I think that was my favourite. He certainly made a bewildering topic slightly less confusing.”

—Bryan Heystee (FYP ’06) “A tradition had been started years ago whereby on the day of Fr. Crouse’s last lecture on Dante’s Paradiso, the entire lecture hall was full of individual white roses, a tribute to Dante’s text (no one really knew “who” left the flowers). Fr. Crouse entered the room after we had all filed in, and with the gentlest smile of pleasure and acknowledgement, started to speak. We gave him a standing ovation at the end. It still makes me tingle to think of it!”

—Dr. Laurelle LeVert (BAH ’89) FAVOURITE FYP LECTURERS & TUTORS Everyone had a favourite lecturer or tutor in FYP—here are a few of your choices: “Rev. Robert Crouse clearly loved what he did, and gave us a taste of what having that kind of

Gates of Hell (see sidebar). I found myself standing there, amazed that someone could be connected so deeply with a piece of literature that he would devote most of his artistic career paying tribute to it. It was a bit surreal to encounter a bit of FYP outside of King’s, but it is something very special to understand what Rodin was feeling when he brought the circles of Hell to life.

In FYP, students are given a mass of knowledge all at once, and then get to spend a lifetime mentally digesting concepts, words, and far-flung ideas. Schopenhauer may visit unexpectedly in the grocery mart years later, or Schiller some snowy Christmas. Shelley might click out of the blue, or some bit of Hegel may resurface for no discernable reason. Things that were once taught and memorized become known and understood.

Dr. Hankey hopes that former FYPers remember the programme when they go on to lead successful lives.

“This is a very hands-on and expensive way of offering education,” says Dr. Hankey. “These students get a tutorial with professors. To give people this kind of teaching in small groups is very expensive.”

Humanities programmes do not get the kind of government and research council support that other programmes do, so universities depend on endowments to grow.

“This programme needs the financial support of its alumni if it’s going to continue,” he says. “At the beginning, it saved us financially [and] gave us a purpose. It helped us rebuild everything. Every aspect of the college was transformed by the success of this programme. It saved the college, but now there is a need to preserve it.” ∂ Gillian Cormier took FYP in 2003–2004. At Encaenia 2007, she was named the recipient of the Governor General’s Silver Medal, awarded to the Journalism graduate with the highest marks.

passion and excitement for learning is like.”

—Eileen Hurst (FYP ’88) “I adored Stephen Boos, but I have to say that having Laura Penny was the most hilarious and enjoyable experience of my academic years. She's a hoot.”

—Sarah Langford (BAH ’07) “John Duncan could explain the most complex, nuanced philosophical concepts by drawing a diagram with stick people (and animals) on the chalkboard.”

—Jonathan Lear (BAH ’05) “Angus Johnston drove me nuts in my tutorials. I always wanted firm answers to questions and he refused to offer them. Instead, in his quiet way, he made us think and argue and consider. I believe that's called teaching.”

—Christine Davies (BJH ’83) “Dr. Thomas Curran went out of his way to make

”THE THINKER“ There is a theory that Rodin’s inspiration for “The Thinker” was Dante’s Divine Comedy.

We asked Dr. Angus Johnston, Director of the Foundation Year Programme, for some insight into this theory.

“The Thinker” is a very complex sculpture, in my mind. When you look at it, you’ll notice that there is a kind of twist in it—the position of the left elbow stabilizes instability in a beautiful way. It’s almost as if Rodin is trying to represent motion by impossible physical attributes.

If you actually see “The Thinker” as it was originally placed in the plan for a monument called “The Gates of Hell,” it’s filled with a liquid motion—behind it, there are swirling creatures. It depends on where in Hell he is in relation to Dante, but the vestibule is a portrait of people swarming, being bitten and falling. There is also a horrific vision of a man falling half-way off of the cliff in this vision, just below “The Thinker,” who is looking down, but also not looking at these things as well.

I think that Rodin may have seen that perhaps it’s truer that the ‘here’ and ‘now’ for us is much closer to the gates of Hell. And, as Dr. Robert Crouse has suggested, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise really make up one ‘present,’ and if they are to be one in this way, it must be in the difficult internal struggle which “The Thinker” embodies.

THE DIRECTORS OF FYP Dr. Angus Johnston (2005-present) Dr. Kyle Fraser (2002-2005) Dr. Stephen Boos (1999-2002) Dr. Neil Robertson (1997-1999) Dr. Peggy Heller (1994-1997) Dr. Henry Roper (1992-1994) Dr. Kathleen Jaeger (1990-1992)

sure you understood what you were studying, not just repeating it for the sake of passing exams. You could actually hear his passion for the texts we were studying, and that makes a huge difference when you're a student.”

—Angela Chang (BJH ’03) HORROR STORIES & FOND MEMORIES FROM FYP ORALS “I was really nervous and started to stutter like I had as a child. They asked me a question about Copernicus and I couldn’t pronounce ‘astronomer.’ After several ‘astron…astron…astron…,’ I finally gave up and said ‘astronoperson’ and can feel still that sick feeling of humiliation when I think about it.”

—Pam Griffin-Hody (BA ’83) “For the final exams at the end of the year, I realized at the last moment that I had never read Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill and had no idea what it was about. I asked John Haffner (BAH ’94, Don of

Dr. Kenneth Kierans (1988-1990) Dr. Angus Johnston (1984-1988) Dr. Colin Starnes (1981-1984) The Rev. Dr. Robert Crouse (1980-1981) Dr. Colin Starnes (1978-1980) Dr. Wayne Hankey (1972-1978)

Radical Bay ’95) if he had read it. He had, but didn't have time to talk to me about it because he had to jump in the shower, so I hopped up on the sink in the bathroom and he talked to me about the essay while he took his shower. When I went in for the oral exam, Dr. Jaeger started by asking me if I wanted to make her day by talking to her about Utilitarianism because she had asked about 20 students so far and no one had been able to. I then shared what I had learned from John about 20 minutes earlier. When I was finished, she smiled broadly and thanked me. I was delighted with my grade, so I certainly thanked John—in fact, I thank him every time I see him.”

—Stuart Wood (BAH ’93) “While I passed, I sometimes wonder how. I recall very clearly the first question of my Spring oral—Dr. Neil Robertson leveled his gaze on me and asked: ‘Why is April the cruellest month?’ Still unsettled, despite all my studying, I croaked out: ‘Because it's the month for oral exams...’ At least I got a laugh.”

—Stephanie (Simard) Potter (BA ’06)

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ENCAENIA

Congratulations to the Class of 2007!

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HE WEATHER DIDN’T CO-OPERATE at first, but the bagpipers played on as 219 students graduated from King’s on Thursday, May 17. An additional 19 students graduated in October 2006, bringing the Class of 2007 total to 238.

The newest additions to the alumni community are now off starting life after King’s—some are continuing their studies at Harvard on full scholarships, others are working on U. S. Presidential campaigns, and a few are taking some time to travel around the world. If you graduated in 2007, we would love to hear what you are doing now! E-mail us at alumni@ukcalumni.com.

At the 218th Encaenia ceremony at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, the graduates were joined by their friends, families and the recipients of five honourary degrees. Vice-Admiral Glenn V. Davidson (BA ’73), Professor Natalie Zemon Davis and Ms. Naomi Klein became Doctors of Civil Laws, The Reverend Doctor Robert Darwin Crouse (BA ’51, MTH ’57) received a Doctor of Divinity and Ms. Margo Pullen Sly was made an Honorary Fellow of the College. Dr. Crouse delivered the Convocation Address and Kathleen McKenna (BAH ’07) addressed her classmates one final time as Valedictorian.

For full coverage of Encaenia 2007, including more photo galleries, please visit www.ukings.ca/kings_4116.html.

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Photos: Kerry DeLorey (BJH ’80), Calnen Photography

ENCAENIA

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KING’S KINDLES ROMANCE

by Meghan Low

Dr. Stephen and Julianne MacLean

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Heather and Matt Fegan

OME STUDENTS LEAVE KING’S with more than just a degree. Along with their formal education, some are lucky enough to forge long-lasting relationships— sometimes of the romantic variety.

“Maybe it’s something about the tunnels,” laughs Halifaxbased historical romance novelist Julianne (Doucet) MacLean (BA ‘87). “Any place is a good place to fall in love, but when you’re at that age, it’s a romantic time—the whole world is open to you. For many, it’s the first time away from home and you have more freedom to stay out late and be with your friends.

It certainly makes the time right for romance.”

MacLean met her future husband, Dr. Stephen MacLean (BScH ’87) during Frosh Week festivities in 1984, but she says that it wasn’t exactly love at first sight.

“The first time that I laid eyes on him was at the beach party,” she says. “The upperclassmen were all throwing the frosh into the ocean—five guys grabbed me and dragged me down into the waves. I came up out of the water, hyperventilating, and all of the guys had disappeared to get the next frosh, but Stephen had stayed behind to make sure that I was okay, and he walked me back to my blanket.”

While they did not run in the same circles, they both lived in residence and played on the intramural volleyball team together. They lost touch after graduation, but a chance meeting in a video store four years later was the catalyst for their relationship, and the rest is history.

“I certainly felt like I knew him,” she says. “When you go way back like that, it does make a difference—you feel more comfortable. I can’t imagine what it must be like today, meeting new people on the Internet.”

The MacLeans are certainly not the only couple to have met in the Quad. This past summer, many recent alumni returned to campus to witness the marriage of Heather (McLeod) and Matt Fegan (both BJH ’05) in the King’s College Chapel.

It all began for them on September 11, 2001 when classes were cancelled due to the terrorist attacks in the United States.

Heather offered Matt a ride home from school that day. A week later, when he found out she was having her wisdom teeth removed, he invited her out to the movies to cheer her up.

“We were literally together from Frosh Week on,” says Matt, noting that they had the same group of friends, which strength-

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Nora and Noel Wilcox

ened their bond. “We would be in the same place, sometimes together, sometimes with our separate friends,” adds Heather.

They say that their relationship works because they take time to understand each others’ interests. Matt was a star soccer player at King’s and Heather was a dancer, so she would watch his games and he would always attend her performances.

Some of their friends bet that they were going to be the first couple of their group to get married. Surely enough, they were.

More than a decade before Heather and Matt were born, Betty (Parsons, BA ’70) and Bob Colavecchia (BSc ’70) met at King’s. Betty says that she knew Bob was the one for her when they started developing a strong friendship. During the first week of school, he approached her and invited her out for coffee.

“I wasn’t a coffee drinker, but I went anyway,” she says. “I ended up going to parties with him and his friends. He introduced me to the social side of university.”

“I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TODAY, MEETING NEW PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET.” —Julianne MacLean It wasn’t long before they were married—the couple have been married for 38 years and have two sons. Even today, King’s continues to play a role in their relationship—they regularly attend events such as the Alumni Annual Dinner, Christmas parties and the Alumni Golf Tournament.

Like many King’s couples, Betty feels that she and her husband were part of a special community, and is happy that they have so many King’s memories to share.

“It’s a nice bond to have,” she says.

This common bond is evident as one looks even further back into King’s history. Nora (Porter, MA ’22) and Noel Wilcox (BA ’10, MA ’14, BDiv ’22) met at the old King’s campus in Windsor, Nova Scotia and were married in 1916. At the time, Nora was the only female student in her class.

While both have since passed away, their son Jack Wilcox (DipJ ’49) recalls that his parents shared several common interests, including academia and the outdoors. They both loved to go camping and they were also part of a canoe club in Dartmouth.

He says that these activities sustained their relationship, which Department of German, but can often be seen on the King’s campus, as she also teaches in the Early Modern Studies Programme. saw them have four children and a home full of love.

Jack also remembers that after his parents left King’s, they Dr. Thomas Curran also teaches at Dalhousie, but spends the bulk of his time at King’s, where he serves as a Senior Fellow in the were both active in the King’s Alumni Association.

“While they were on the planet, I think they enjoyed it,” Foundation Year Programme. he says.

When students head off to university, they’re starting to The title of ‘King’s Couple’ is not necessarily limited to King’s grow up in many ways—love being one of them. He notes that students. Drs. Thomas and Jane (Rasmussen) Curran met King’s students are encouraged to speak their minds and bein 1974, while they were both students at Dalhousie University. come critical thinkers, and sometimes long lasting relationships At the time, he was a resident of the Angel’s Roost, and would are formed as students bond through this unique experience. eventually become the Don of Cochran Bay and a Junior Fel- However, he says students shouldn’t necessarily come to King’s low in the Foundation Year Programme. Then, after they were with the goal of finding their true love. married, they became the Deans of Residence at King’s.

“You might be just a little too young to start a relationship “The first year that we were married, we lived off-campus,” for life with the first person that you fall in love with,” he says. he says. “But the next four were in the Dean’s residence, which “The friends they meet at King’s can become their long-term or was much smaller than it is now. If a marlife partners, but maybe it’s not the first riage can survive that experience, it can person with whom they went out on a date. survive anything!”

It might be someone whom they had spoThe couple were named honorary ken to and then the relationship develops King’s alumni in 1981, just before leaving over subsequent years without it being the to pursue higher degrees in England. A first great love of their life.” ∂ decade later, Dr. Jane Curran was offered a job as Assistant Professor in the German See AlumNotes on page 30 for more about Department at Dalhousie, and her husband Julianne MacLean’s latest novel, In My returned to King’s as a Teaching Fellow Wildest Fantasies. Also, are you in a King’s in 1994.

Couple? Please share your story with us at Drs. Thomas and Jane Curran, circa 1979 tidings@ukings.ns.ca.

Today, she is the Chair of Dalhousie’s

LIVES LIVED

Roland Frazee photo: Patricia Seeley

by Mark Burgess

Roland C. Frazee

In May 2007, Mr. Rowland C. Frazee, CC (DCL ’75) was named the recipient of this year’s Judge J. Elliott Hudson Distinguished Alumnus/a Award by the University of King’s College Alumni Association. The award, one of many that Frazee received throughout his distinguished life, is for an invaluable contribution to a community or profession through charitable or volunteer work. Mr. Frazee was unable to attend the ceremony, so his granddaughter, Dalhousie student Laura Frazee, accepted the award on his behalf. He passed away two months later, on July 29, 2007.

According to his daughter, Catherine Frazee, he spent most of this past spring and summer in his rose garden in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He had transplanted the qualities that made him a successful

banker—organization, focus and attentiveness—to this hobby, and read assiduously on the subject. She says that he sat in his garden every day of those last months, “enjoying the beauty he had created.”

Throughout his career, Mr. Frazee was known for appreciating more than was mandated of the CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada. He was named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1991 for his deep concern for his fellow man and for his commitment to issues including child healthcare, higher education, the physically disabled and the environment.

“That’s one of the things I’m most proud of in my father’s legacy,” says Ms. Frazee.

“He countered the stereotype of the greedy and avaricious banker.”

She attributes much of her father’s compassion to his Maritime heritage and his deep spiritual connection to the region. She says this created an awareness of economic disparity that he applied at the national and international levels.

Mr. Frazee enrolled at King’s in 1938, but left to join the Canadian Forces during the Second World War, serving with the Carlton and York Regiment, First Canadian Infantry Division. He was wounded three times.

He returned to King’s after the war, and was “quite dejected” to no longer have a spot in residence. His daughter says that after his wartime experience, her father felt lost without the regimented meals and discipline, needing “the structure and camaraderie offered by the King’s experience.”

With the help of a former English professor, Mr. Frazee negotiated his way into residence again. He and a group of fellow veterans studied diligently together and formed the Beaver Club, which today continues to fund the annual Beaver Club Award at King’s.

“Those friendships he formed,” says Ms. Frazee, referring to her father’s time at King’s, “still at the end of his life—they were still the most important friendships.”

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ORE THAN 70 GOLFERS were treated to perfect conditions at the 14th Annual Alumni Golf Tournament, which was held on Thursday, August 16th at the Ken-Wo Golf and Country Club in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

It was great to see alumni, students and friends of all ages out, and the wealth of draw prizes gave everyone a chance to walk away with a token of our appreciation.

Many thanks to all of our players, volunteers and sponsors. We would especially like to thank Larry Holman (’69) for assisting with the event again this year, despite the recent passing of his wife, Joan (Sellick) Holman (BSc ’69). Joan was an avid participant and organizer, and she would be very proud of the tournament’s continued success.

The proceeds from the tournament help to fund the Alumni Journalism Scholarship and other Alumni Association activities. This year’s scholarship was awarded to Wanda Taylor of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, a student in the One-Year Bachelor of Journalism Programme.

For more photos from the event, please our online photo galleries at www.ukings.ca/kings_3936_11688.html & www.ukings.ca/kings_3936_11689.html.

Top left: Jeff Morris (’80). Top right: Mixed Low Gross Team—Vadim Golubev (University of St. Petersburg), Kim Kierans (DipJ ’76, BA ’82, HC ’83), Dean Jobb, Matthew Jobb, Darrell Dexter (BA ’79, BJ ’83).

Upper middle right: Men’s Low Gross Team—Mike Hasiuk, Jeff Farquhar, Mike Hadley & Doug Hadley (BA ’92). Lower middle right: Women’s Low Gross Team—Pauline Reid, Judy Pinaud, Meg Burhoe, Irene Phinney.

Bottom right: Mary Jane Rector, Anne Hare (BA ’70) & Betty Colavecchia (BA ’70).

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Michael Fenrick

Kingsman to Clerk at Supreme Court of Canada

by Michelle MacLeod

“I got to engage with people who are legal rock stars.”

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UDGES APPLAUDED Michael Fenrick’s (BA ’03) ability to debate without using notes at the Smith Shield’s Moot Competition, a prestigious debate sponsored by Halifax-based law firm, Stewart McKelvey, in October 2007. His performance speaks for itself—he is currently in his third year at Dalhousie Law School and has been selected to serve as the law clerk for The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada starting in September 2008.

Only 27 students from law schools across Canada have obtained internships at the Supreme Court this year, and Fenrick is the lone student from Dalhousie to have been selected. He also had the opportunity to interview with eight of the nine Supreme Court Justices last winter.

“Just interviewing was an incredible experience” he says. “I got to engage with people who are legal rock stars and learn something about people who you constantly read decisions from.”

Fenrick attributes a lot of his success to the time he spent at King’s, where he began his post-secondary studies in the Foundation Year Programme in 1996.

“I adored my time at King’s,” he says.

“King’s was a pretty formative experience for me. It taught me how to write, if nothing else, and I was constantly being challenged to read and re-evaluate my thoughts of the world.”

In his vocation, Fenrick says that relying on written material is impossible in the heat of the moment—especially whereas he was born with low vision and is legally blind in his right eye. Still, he says that his visual impairment does not limit his ability to succeed.

“It has changed the way I accomplish tasks, but it has not changed my performance,” he says. “And thankfully, my memory is good!”

A couple years into his studies at King’s, his mother passed away. In what was already a difficult year, he also began to notice distortions in his right eye and his vision became progressively worse over a period of two years before stabilizing again. It took some time for him to adjust to his reduced vision, but he has learned to adjust the way that he goes about his studies.

“Essentially, I have the eyes of an 80 year old,” he says. “It took me a while to pull my act together, but when I finally did, I graduated and was accepted into a Master’s program.”

During his time at King’s, Fenrick was a member of the King’s Theatrical Society.

After a production of The Life of Galileo in 2000, he began dating his future wife Eden (Kaill-Walker) Fenrick (BA ’99).

The couple met soon after he arrived at King’s in 1996. However, he admits that they were each other’s ‘nemeses’ at first, and didn’t get to really know each other until mutual friends brought them together during the play.

“I was that pretentious idiot,” he says.

“She was that girl who knit in class. It took me a while to let my hackles down and grow up a bit.”

They were married in the King’s College Chapel in 2002, and are now expecting their first child, who is due in April of 2008.

After Michael graduated in 2003, the couple moved to British Columbia for a year where they both studied at the University of British Columbia—Michael received his Masters in English and Eden received hers in Philosophy, a subject which she currently teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.

While studying in Vancouver in 2003, Michael volunteered at a local advocacy office. None of the employees were lawyers, but they were able to represent clients and send letters to administrative

Eden and Michael Fenrick

tribunals on their behalf without proper legal training. He says that this experience convinced him to apply to law school.

“What struck me was how effective it was,” he says. “The law provides a strong platform with people who have disabilities. I want to promote access to justice and promote marginalized people’s participation in society.”

While he was originally hesitant about going to law school, Fenrick says that he was pleasantly surprised by the experience.

“Some people go to law school and say the law loved them,” he says. “That’s true for me. The law makes sense to me.”

During his second year of law school at Dalhousie, Fenrick co-headed the biggest Pro Bono Student Society in the country, and was involved in pairing 140 students with organizations in Halifax to provide free legal research to clients. He has also accrued experience working with Stewart McKelvey, one of Atlantic Canada’s largest regional law firms, and Pallaire Roland, a self-described “small litigation boutique” practicing advocacy litigation in Toronto.

“The firm was a mix of what I was looking for,” he says. “The law was interesting because it tackled social issues and it paid the bills.”

Fenrick says that he hopes to one day work at a firm with similar goals to Pallaire Roland. But for now, he is looking forward to the year ahead—he and his wife will be raising their first child, which he predicts will be a “crazy experience,” and he will also have an invaluable opportunity to take a “behind the scenes” look at the Supreme Court of Canada.

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NOMINATION FOR HONORARY DEGREE

All Faculty and Alumni, all members of the Board of Governors, excepting undergraduate members of the University, all Bachelors of Divinity and Masters and Doctors of the University, all Fellows and all Inglis Professors of the University of King’s College are invited to submit nominations for honorary degrees (DD, DCL, DCnL) and honorary fellowships (HF) (the honour of Fellow of the University may be conferred by the vote of Convocation upon any friend of the University for noteworthy services rendered in its behalf).

Nominations should be submitted to the Clerk of Convocation, in care of the President’s Office, by noon on Friday, January 18, 2008. Convocation meets at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 in the Boardroom, Arts and Administration Building. Alumni of five years’ standing are eligible to attend Convocation and vote.

All members of Convocation have a vote. *(see below)

Nominations should come in three parts: 1. The first part should be a letter to the Clerk of Convocation, in care of the President’s Office, stating the full name of the candidate that you are proposing, the person’s address, any relevant contact information, and the honorary degree or fellowship for which you are nominating the person.

2. Attached with the letter should be a 300450 word statement explaining why this person would serve as an outstanding candidate for the honour. You should explain their achievements with details and why the nomination is relevant to the University of King’s College. It would be helpful if this were provided in electronic form. This statement will be presented to the Honorary Degrees Committee and, if the candidate’s name goes forward, may serve as the basis for a statement to be

read aloud to Convocation as information for their vote. Please ensure the statement is no longer than 450 words or it cannot be used by the Committee.

3. To your letter and statement you may append relevant supporting material such as articles about the person or other information that can be used by the Honorary Degrees Committee in their judgement of this candidate.

It is important to remember that not all candidates nominated can be put forward to Convocation for a vote. The Honorary Degrees Committee will provide the best possible slate for consideration by Convocation.

If you are in doubt about this procedure, you may contact the President’s Office (422-1271 x 121) and we will provide you with assistance in preparing your nomination.

*As Taken From the Blue Book of By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of the University of King’s College CONVOCATION Composition 35. (1) Convocation shall consist of: (a) the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the University; (b) all Bachelors of Divinity and Masters and Doctors of the University; (c) all Masters of Arts graduating under the Agreement of Association between the University of King’s College and the Governors of Dalhousie College, dated the first day of September, 1923, or the fifth day of November, 1954, who may have been enrolled in King’s College or who may hold the Bachelor’s Degree therefrom; (d) all members of the Board of Governors of the University, excepting undergraduate members of the University; (e) all current members of the King’s Faculty and Inglis Professors; (f) all other Bachelors of the University of five years standing; (g) Fellows of the University.

(2) All members of Convocation shall have a vote.

CALL FOR HUDSON AWARD NOMINATIONS The Alumni Association Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the Judge J. Elliott Hudson Distinguished Alumnus/ a Award.

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who, like Judge Hudson, have made significant contributions to their discipline, community, charitable or volunteer work.

This award will be presented at the Alumni Annual Dinner held in Halifax.

• All alumni of the university are eligible to be nominated for this award.

• Any member of the Alumni Association may submit nominations.

• Awards will not be presented posthumously.

• Only one award will be presented annually and only if there is a suitable candidate.

Please send submissions, including name of candidate, reasons for recommending this candidate, and references, to the Advancement Office at 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, NS B3H 2A1 or by email to rachel.pink@ukings.ns.ca by Friday, February 15, 2008.

N E W FAC E S O N C A M P U S Here’s a look at some of the new faces on campus for 2007-2008: FOUNDATION YEAR PROGRAMME

Ron Haflidson (BAH ’04) graduated from King’s and obtained his Masters from McMaster before returning to King’s as a Teaching Fellow.

“It’s strange to be on the other side of King’s, but it’s exciting, too,” he says. “A lot of my friends who did FYP are jealous because I get to do it again. I’m excited that I get to play a role in helping students to journey through the Foundation Year Programme.”

Eluned Jones earned her BA and MA from the University of Manitoba and is currently completing her PhD at Dalhousie. She captained Team Halifax to the National Poetry Slam title at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in October 2007, and says that her time as a gymnastics coach has helped her in her role as a Teaching Fellow at King’s.

“I swear that everything I learned coaching six year-olds works in the classroom,” she says. “I try and make tutorials fun and informative, but it’s not just about getting an ‘A’—I hope I encourage people to examine their own hearts and minds and determine what they want to get out of it.”

Scott Marratto has studied at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto, the University of Guelph, and is currently working on his PhD. He is pleased to join King’s as a FYP Teaching Fellow.

“I think the programme is really tremendous,” he says. “I’m a big believer that undergraduate studies should be an opportunity for individuals to develop an understanding of their historical and cultural situation, to come to terms with the ideas, philosophies, and the works of art and literature that define that situation.”

Martin McCallum (BAH ’03) graduated from King’s and recently completed his MA at the University of Western Ontario.

He says that his time as a student in FYP helped to shape his engagement with history and interdisciplinarity.

“I would say that my overall education at King’s has prepared me well for the King’s style of learning—it taught me how to teach as I went along,” he says.

“I’m comfortable in smaller groups like the tutorials and drawing people out.”

Joseph Rosenberg (BAH ’01) obtained his BA from King’s and his MA from Queen’s before spending five years in the United Kingdom, where he completed the work for his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. Having begun his post-secondary career in FYP, he says that he is now enjoying the course from a teaching perspective.

“After spending five years narrowly concentrating on a research project, it’s great to be able to return to the broad inquiry that King’s cultivates,” he says.

“Moreover, what makes FYP completely unique in my view is the astonishing level of dialogue that occurs between the faculty and students. It’s like a giant conversation, which makes it an absolute delight for teachers, as well as students.”

CONTEMPORARY & EARLY MODERN STUDIES PROGRAMMES

Dr. Martin Thibodeau obtained his BA, MA and PhD from L’Université de Montréal and was an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Ottawa before his cross-appointment to the CSP and EMSP at King’s this year.

“Coming from a French background, I didn’t know much about King’s before my appointment,” he says. “However, as I started teaching in early September, I was immediately impressed by two things: the intense involvement of the students in their curriculum, and the extraordinary congenial atmosphere reigning among faculty members.”

I was—professors and students are so intellectually involved at King’s that teaching here is a constant learning experience.

Both of my dreams are fulfilled!”

Dr. April Hayward recently completed her PhD in Theoretical Ecology at McMaster and is currently a sessional instructor at King’s. Primarily concerned with ecological and environmental issues (see story on page 5), she says that she has been receiving positive feedback about her new course on Environmental History.

“From our very beginnings, the environment has dictated our well-being and shaped our evolution and advancement very directly,” she says. “In this way, human history is a direct reflection of natural history. However, as our biological, cultural, and technologica advances have increased our ability to manipulate and exploit the planet to our own ends, natural history has increasingly reflected human history. The intimate relationship between human evolution and environmental history makes this course a critical component of the HOST programme.”

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME

Fred Vallance-Jones is an award-winning journalist and is one of Canada’s recognized experts in computer-assisted reporting. While he has previously taught in a sessional capacity at Ryerson, he says that he is enjoying his new position at King’s.

“It’s the best job that I’ve ever had,” he says. “I love journalism and I love teaching.

Put them together and you’ve got the best job. At Ryerson, I taught in my immediate area of expertise, Investigative Journalism, but now I get to do all of the fun stuff—the basics of journalism.”

Dr. Mélanie Frappier obtained her BScA and MA at Laval University and her PhD from the University of Western Ontario. She specializes in the history of philosophy of early 20th century physics, and her teaching interests also include the history of thought experiments and early modern physics.

“I always wanted to study and work at an institution such as King’s,” she says.

“When I applied for a position, I thought that it was my chance to at least achieve one of my two goals. Now I see how wrong

Our new cross-appointments from Dalhousie this year are Dr. John Bingham, Dr. Jason Haslam (FYP ’90) and Dr. Nathan Brett; new staff members include Sara Mullins (Bursar’s Office), Kate Ross (Journalism), Dawn Tracey (BAH ’05) (Registrar’s Office) and Ben Welsh (BJ ’04) (Registrar’s Office); Greta Regan is the Situating Science Research Cluster Manager; and our new Residence Dons are Kristin Campbell, Leanne Chisholm, Isaac Filaté and Johanna Stein (BAH ’05).

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Executive Members President Vice-President

Steven Wilson (BA ’87) David Jones (BA ’68)

2006–2008 2006–2008

Treasurer Secretary

Kim Manchester (BA ’94) Laurelle LeVert (BAH ’89)

2007–2009 2007–2009

Past President Board of Governor Representative

Doug Hadley (BA ’92) Daniel Logan (BA ’88)

2006–2008 2007–2009

Board of Governor Representative Board of Governor Representative

David Jones (BA ’68) Daniel de Munnik (BScH ’02)

2007–2009 2006–2008

Committee Member Committee Member

Lara Schweiger (BAH ’95) Elizabeth Ryan (BA ’69)

2007–2009 2007–2009

Committee Member Committee Member

Chris MacNeil (BA ’84) Matt Aronson (BAH ’02)

2007–2009 2007–2009

Committee Member Committee Member

Gregory Guy (BJH ’87) Sarah Hubbard (BA ‘86, BJ ’91)

2006–2008 2006–2008

Committee Member Committee Member

Robert Mann (BA ’01) Harry Thurlow (BA ’95)

2006–2008 2007–2009

Committee Member University President (Ex-Officio)

Andy Hare (BA ’70) William Barker

Advancement Director (Ex-Officio) Alumni Officer (Ex-Officio)

Kara Holm Rachel Pink

Student Union President (Ex-Officio)

Coren Pulleyblank

Branch Leaders FORMAL BRANCH LEADERS Halifax Montréal

Mark DeWolf (BAH ’68) Matt Aronson (BAH ’01)

mark@jmdewolf.com mattaronson@gmail.com

Toronto Calgary

Daniel Logan (BAH ’88) Dorothy Wong (BAH ’02)

dlogan@torys.com dkwong@ukcalumni.com

Europe

Chris MacNeil (BA ’94)

chris@ebooster.co.uk

New Brunswick Newfoundland

Kathryn Collet (BSc ’87) Kelly Foss (BJH ’98)

kathryn.collet@gnb.ca kfoss@nl.rogers.com

Ottawa Vancouver

Wendy Hepburn (BA ’05) Alexis Paton (BScH ’07)

hepburn.wendy@tbs-sct.gc.ca alexispaton@aol.com

Boston New York

Williams English (BAH ’07) Emanuella Grinberg (BJH ’04)

williamsenglish@gmail.com e_grinberg@hotmail.com

Australia

Johanna MacMinn (BA ’89)

jomacminn@optusnet.com.au

REGIONAL CONTACTS

Interested in starting up a branch in your area? We’d love to hear from you—please contact Alumni Officer Rachel Pink at rachel.pink@ukings.ns.ca. You can also sign up for our e-newsletter by e-mailing us at alumni@ukcalumni.com.

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BRANCH BRIEFS HALIFAX

This year’s golf tournament was perhaps the best yet, judging by the enthusiasm and cheerful mood of all the participants.

September’s “welcome to King’s” barbecue in the Quad for first-year students, held on a beautiful sunny afternoon, had appreciative students from all years lining for hot dogs (of the meat and vegetarian variety) and hamburgers, prepared by members of the “Home Branch” executive and some helpful volunteers.

October featured the first of the Tuesday Toots, an after-work gathering at a local watering hole, intended to provide a relaxed environment for a gathering of alumni from a wide range of years. The first few have drawn smaller crowds, but we expect numbers to swell as word gets around and alumni discover how pleasant an occasion it is. Other upcoming events in Halifax will include a movie night, more Tuesday Toots and much, much more.

MONTREAL

The Montreal Branch has been slow to start its activities, but the turnout for our October Pub Night was most impressive!

Based on the success of October’s event, more Pub Nights are being planned for Winter 2007/08 (hopefully to soon become a monthly event), as well as some Winter activates such as a Ski day and a Bowling or Curling night. The Montreal Branch is currently trying to locate UKC alumni who have moved to the area, so if you or someone you know would like to be on our contact list, please e-mail our Branch Leader, Matt Aronson (BAH ’01) or check out our Facebook page—www.facebook. com/group.php?gid=2231329624.

OTTAWA

The Ottawa Branch of the Alumni Association has had a great year! We had a pub night in October, and a Christmas party in early December at the home of Anne-Marie McElroy (BAH ’05). It’s great to see so many familiar faces, and to find out that so many King’s folk are living in Ottawa!

Early in the New Year, Dr. Thomas Curran will be coming to Ottawa as part of the Faculty Lecture Tour. This event was immensely successful last year, and

BOSTON

will be held at the National Arts Centre.

We look forward to seeing you there!

If you would like to help out with the Ottawa Branch of the Alumni Association, please contact Wendy Hepburn (BA ’05) at Hepburn.wendy@tbs-sct.gc.ca , AnneMarie-McElroy at annemariemcelroy@ yahoo.ca or David Jones (BA ’68, HF ’98) at commadore@sympatico.ca.

TORONTO

The Toronto Chapter has been very active in the past quarter—A pub night, organized by alumnus Jonathan Robart (BAH ’05) was held at Grace O’Malley’s in October and was well-attended by many Toronto alumni. Later that month, Dr. Angus Johnston delivered a lecture to our alumni on the people who have modeled and carved the Foundation Year Programme into Canada’s leading first-year, interdisciplinary humanities course. The lecture was well-received by all. King’s alumni have also been involved in student recruitment efforts in the Toronto area —members of the local alumni chapter, who are also alumni at the schools being approached by King’s, have assisted in the University’s efforts by attending at the recruitment talks. In that capacity, they have played a unique dual-alumni role, and provided a bridge between the two academic institutions. It is hoped that these efforts can be adopted broadly amongst alumni throughout the country.

VANCOUVER

Our Vancouver branch is gearing up for another great year, with recent graduate Alexis Paton (BScH ’07) at the helm.

They will be celebrating the holidays with the annual Christmas party, and are looking forward to hosting a pub night in January along with the Faculty Lecture Tour with Dr. Simon Kow in early February.

For more information about events in the Vancouver area, or to get more involved with the branch, please contact Alexis as alexispaton@aol.com. Also, if you are new to BC, please let her know and she would be happy to get you settled in and onto the mailing list for all of our events in the area.

This summer, the New England Branch of the King’s Alumni Association kicked it into high gear. In August, a group met at Ned Devine’s in Boston’s Quincy Market to have a drink or two and chat about how King’s was long ago and how things are now. The event was a great success with everyone expressing the wish to do it again. Williams English (BAH ’07) is planning on organizing another event in late January. Any alumni living in New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, or Massachusetts are invited to drop him a line at williamsenglish@gmail.com and he will work to get you involved!

NEW YORK

The King’s New York Alumni branch reaffirmed its existence this year at a midsummer Happy Hour soiree near Manhattan’s theater district. Kara Holm regaled the expats with tales from the King’s community and a few Stephen Harper barbs while plying us with booze and bar food.

However small the gathering may have been, those in attendance left swelling with King’s pride. Another successful reunion for the New York branch!

EUROPE

Much like a certain major bank, King’s Alumni are benefiting from ‘local’ knowledge. Most literally, UKC Alumni in London formed the majority of the winning team at Quiz Night in Canada House. Scoring a near-perfect 75 points, they went head-to-head against a dozen other teams in Network Canada’s Annual Alumni Quiz, proving their knowledge of Canadian and British trivia.

The Chapter enjoyed a 10% growth in membership across Europe, supported by referrals from fellow alumni and their new Facebook group. The branch is always keen to welcome newly-arrived colleagues, as well as those who hear about them for the first time.

European Chapter members also recently assisted a fellow alumna, Tina Quelch (BJ ’05) to locate a business partner in the UK after she had turned to them for referrals. Local knowledge may appear in any guise and at any time—clearly, it’s something that UKC Alumni do well!

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Annette Hayward (BAH ’66) was awarded the Prix Gabrielle Roy 2006 in May 2007, which is a prize given by the Canadian Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures for the best book of literary criticism on Canadian or Quebec literature published in 2006. Her awardwinning volume is entitled “La querelle du régionalisme au Québec (1904-1931). Vers l’autonomisation de la littérature québécoise,” published in 2006 by Le Nordir.

The Hon. Robert B. Hyslop (BA ’69, LLB (Dal) ’73) received his LLM (with Merit) in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of London in November 2006 and attended Convocation ceremonies London in March 2007. Judge Hyslop sits in St. John’s as a member of the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador and is a Past President of the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges.

THE ’70S

Ron MacDonald (BA ’73) has been awarded the Canadian Association of University Business Officers’ highest honour, The 2007 Ken Clements Award, which recognizes university administrators who have made an outstanding contribution to the profession of higher education management and administration in Canada.

Ron has served as the CEO of Interuniversity Services Inc. since 1984. He and his wife Cathy live in Bedford and have two sons, Andrew and Peter.

James Duncan MacPherson (BSc ’78) joined the Canadian Navy after graduating from King’s and served 10 years as a Combat Systems Engineering Officer, mostly on east coast ships. He then worked as an IT Management Consultant with Coopers & Lybrand in Ottawa and was subsequently appointed as Chief Technology Officer at St. FX University in 1996.

He was recently appointed as Director of Institutional Analysis & Planning at St. FX in addition to his CTO duties. He married Margaret MacDonald in 1985 and they have two children, aged 13 and 17.

John Nowlan (Certificate in Journalism ’70) has found the ideal retirement career after 30+ years as a CBC Radio and

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Television Producer: he loves to travel and has now sold articles, with photographs, to the major newspapers in every province (including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star and Toronto Sun) as well as the Boston Globe and Baltimore Sun. In the past couple of years, he has traveled to and written about the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon River, Japan, the Greek Islands, Eastern Russia and Antarctica.

Chapel in Las Vegas on August 11, 2007.

Lisa is a morning show co-host at Q104 FM in Halifax and is a weekly columnist for The Daily News. Jamie is the afternoon drive host and Music Director at KOOLFM and also writes a weekly column for The Daily News. Lisa has an eight year-old daughter and a 12 year-old stepdaughter and the whole gaggle of them live in Beaverbank, Nova Scotia.

THE ’80S

Nicolette Blase (BAH ’93) and Alex Moore (BAH ’96) were married in a small ceremony in Toronto on July 6, 2007 with immediate family, including Alex’s son, Sam, in attendance. A reception was held a week later to further celebrate, and a handful of King’s alumnae attended from near and far. Special thanks to Ashley Hennessy (BAH ’93) and Ken Evans (Dal, BAH ’97) who set them up five years ago!

Tim Carlson (BJ ’88) is the co-artistic producer of Vancouver’s Theatre Conspiracy. His 2004 play Omniscience was published this year by Talonbooks and was presented in translation at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin in December 2006. It was later produced by Theater Magdeburg in Germany in October 2007 and will be presented at Chicago’s Stage Left in April 2008. His latest work, Diplomacy, was presented by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in 2006 and is forthcoming from Talonbooks. He can be reached at www. conspiracy.ca.

Laurelle LeVert (BAH ’89) moved back to Halifax after 16 years in Toronto and is now the Registrar at NSCAD University. She can be reached at llevert@ nscad.ca.

Julianne (Doucet) MacLean (BA ’87) released her eleventh historical romance novel, In My Wildest Fantasies, in November 2007 through Avon/HarperCollins. Her husband, Dr. Stephen MacLean (BScH ’87), recently produced a video trailer for the book, which is currently on YouTube. For more information about her books, visit www.juliannemaclean.com.

Joan (Anthony) Rankin (BA ’87) is now living in Hilden, Nova Scotia with husband Rob and two daughters Riley and Bryn and currently teaching at Cobequid Educational Centre in Truro. Fellow alumni can contact Joan at rankinj3@staff.ednet.ns.ca.

THE ’90S

Nadine Archibald-Arnold (BA ’97) and husband Drew are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Ava Maxine, on February 20, 2007.

Lisa Blackburn (BJH ’90) married James Patterson at The Little White Wedding

Robert Bruce (BAH ’99) married Dawn Murray on June 2, 2007 in Halifax.

Elinor Cameron (BSc ’96) and Stephen Grover are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Cameron William Grover, on March 19, 2007. Fellow alumni can contact Elinor at elinor@dal.ca.

Dr. Neil Cameron (BSc ’94) has joined Emerald Technology Ventures, a firm that specializes in clean-technology venture capital, after several years with the National Research Council. Neil and his wife, Muriel, are also delighted to announce the birth of their daughter, Erin. Fellow alumni can contact Neil at neilc@corbierre-cameron.ca.

Andrew Cochran (DCL ’99) was named the Regional Director of CBC Television for The Maritimes in August 2007.

Sherri (Borden) Colley (BJH ’97) is one of 56 women featured in Black Women Who Made a Difference in Nova Scotia.

This book, published by the Congress of Black Women of Canada, was launched March 31, 2007 in East Preston. Sherri is a staff reporter with The Chronicle Herald in Halifax.

Andrew Duke (’90) is teaching Continuing Education Courses in electronic music at the Nova Scotia Community College’s Institute of Technology in Halifax. He can be found online at www.andrew-duke.com.

Chris Flanagan (BJ ’91) has been appointed as a Senior Counsel at Colour’s office in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Mark Fleming (BAH ’94), Rachel Renton (BAH ’94) and their daughter Cate are thrilled to announce the birth of Cate’s little sister, Claire Miranda Fleming, on August 23, 2007.

Bishop Fred Hiltz (DD ’95) was elected as the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada by the church’s General Synod in Winnipeg on June 22, 2007. As Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Hiltz has served on the King’s Board of Governors since 2002.

Michelle Horacek (BA ’91) has been working as a performance artist in London, England. She can be found online at www.mishaproductions.com.

Crystal (Levy) Bueno (BJH ’96) and her husband Luis are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Adam Christopher, on July 30, 2007. Big brother Marcus, who will be two in January, can’t wait for Adam to get big enough so they can play Hot Wheels together. The Bueno family lives in Brooklyn, NY. Chris MacNeil (BA ’94) was married to his longtime partner, Patricia Rey, in sunny Caracas, Venezuela on July 7, 2007. Chris continues to run the European Alumni Chapter from London, England and welcomes contact at chris@ebooster. co.uk.

Kirsti McHenry (FYP ’97) married Jennifer Mathers on October 20, 2007 at an art gallery in Toronto. King’s friends including Kate Davis, Kate Greenaway and Howie Krongold were in attendance.

Following a honeymoon in Eastern Europe, Kirsti and Jennifer returned to their lives as lawyers in Toronto. Kirsti can be reached at kirstim@gmail.com.

Dawn Morrison (BJ ’93) is a media relations manager at Dalhousie University (and also manager of her office softball team!) She lives in Waverley, NS with twins Maxwell and Olivia who will be six in September. Dawn is planning a reunion of the Bachelor of Journalism Class of ‘93 and will be tracking down classmates soon, once details become available. To contact her, please e-mail dawn.morrison@ dal.ca.

Jono (FYP ’95) and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Nemethy (BA ’96) are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, Molly Ilona. Molly was born in Toronto on April 15th, 2007 and has been warmly welcomed by big brother Gabriel Miklos. Fellow alumni can contact them at lizjono@rogers.com.

Peter O’Brien (BA ’90) was named the recipient of the Centre for Learning and Teaching’s 2007 Dalhousie Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Andrew O’Neill (BA ’98) completed his PhD in Systematic Theology at New College, University of Edinburgh, in April 2007. He will be taking a posting in the Maritimes as a minister in the United Church of Canada.

Jim Rankin (BJ ’92) was part of the Toronto Star team that won an Online Journalism Award for Service Journalism at the Online News Association Conference in Toronto on October 19, 2007.

The Rev’d Jonathan (BAH ’99) and Emily (Hunter) Rowe (BA ’97) are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Frances Elizabeth, on April 23, 2007.

Matt Sherrard (BAH ’99) graduated with an LLB from Dalhousie University in May 2006 and subsequently clerked with Madam Justice Tremblay-Lamer of the Federal Court (Trial Division) in Ottawa. He is currently completing his articles with McInnes Cooper in Halifax and will be called to the Nova Scotia Bar in December 2007. He will be moving to Montreal to work with the Aboriginal Law group of Fraser Milner Casgrain in January 2008. Fellow alumni can contact Matt at mattsherrard@hotmail.com.

Scott Simpson (BA ’93, AMC ’95) and Laura Graham (BJ ’04) were married in Judique, Cape Breton on August 18, 2007. Scott is a Halifax-based filmmaker and Laura is the Communications and Membership Coordinator for Music Nova Scotia.

Steven Spears (BSc ’94) has taken on a new position at Brunswick News as the GIS Supervisor. He now oversees route logistics and mapping for BNI. He is also still running his own company SPS Forestry & Environmental Conservation. Fellow alumni can contact Steven at sspears@ nb.sympatico.ca.

Dorian Stuber (BAH ’97) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas and is slightly surprised to find himself living in Little Rock.

Bruce Thorson (BJ ’97) left King’s for an internship at The Edmonton Journal and subsequently moved to Oxford, England, where he freelanced for BBC, CBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands, The Globe and Mail and Canadian Geographic. He attended the Vancouver Film School to study film in 2003 and has been writing and directing television documentaries ever since. Some of his credits include Toronto’s Associated Producers/Vision TV and Vancouver’s Paperny Films/Discovery.

Ian Walker (BJ ’98) married Beth Torbert (also known as Juno Award-winning musician Bif Naked) in Vancouver on Saturday, September 29, 2007. Ian is a sports reporter and extreme sports columnist with the Vancouver Sun. His Adrenaline blog can be found online at http:// communities.canada.com/vancouversun/ blogs/extreme/default.aspx.

THE ’00S

Paul Blake (BAH ’00) completed his MA in History at York University in 2002 and his LLB (Hons) at the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2006. He is currently serving a one-year appointment as a law clerk to a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and intends to go on to practice as a barrister in the area of criminal law. Fellow alumni can contact Paul at pjhblake@hotmail.com.

Kathryn Borel (BJH ’01) is an associate producer and on-air contributor for CBC Radio’s national arts & entertainment program, Q. She recently sold the world rights to her book, Chateau Shitfaced, to New York-based Grand Central Publishing, and the Canadian rights were picked up by Wiley Canada for a fall 2008 publication date. The book is about her and her fatalistic French father touring the wine regions of Alsace, Burgundy, Cotes du Rhone and Languedoc, combining the dysfunctional road trip of Sideways with the father-daughter dynamics of Father of the Bride (but funnier, and with more swearing).

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FACULTY, STAFF & SPECIAL FRIENDS

John A. Taylor passed away on May 23, 2007 in Picton, Ontario.

Nicola Hoffman (BScH ’05) has been awarded a Julie Payette Research Scholarship worth $25,000 from the National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC). She will begin a Masters program in neuroscience and physiology at Cambridge University in September 2007.

Michael Cobden (Inglis Professor, Journalism) recently led a two-year UNESCO project journalism curricula project for universities in developing countries and emerging democracies.

Mary Thoren (BA ’83) passed away on April 10, 2007 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Anne Larrass (BJ ’03) is working as a staff coordinator with CARE Canada in Abéché, Chad until the spring. Her blog while she’s abroad is http://annelarrass. blogspot.com.

Jonathan Lear (BAH ’05) completed a Masters in Bioethics in Sweden and the Netherlands and now works in health, social, education and children’s policy with the Government of Ontario.

Jennifer Vardy Little (BJH ’02) and her husband, Matt Little, are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Robert John Vardy Little. Robbie was born on June 15, 2007 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

The Rev. Andrew E. Nussey (BA ’04) was ordained a priest on October 18, 2007 in Rose Blanche, Newfoundland and is now serving in that parish as Rector.

Stephanie (Simard) Potter (BA ’06) and her husband Timothy are proud of announce the birth of their daughter, Hannah Mary, on September 9th, 2007.

Samantha Robertson (BAH ’03) received her Masters in English from Dalhousie University in 2005. She is currently working as an Assistant Editor with Dark Horse Comics in Portland, Oregon. Information about her projects can be found at www.myspace.com/editing_entropy.

Andrew Sowerby (BAH ’03) and Tidings designer Kate Sinclair were married on August 10 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Andrew is in his third year of law school at Dalhousie University and will be articling at Cox & Palmer next year.

Megan Wennberg (BJ ’04) was the recipient of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s 2007 Greg Clark Award. Part of her prize included a week-long internship at Nunatsiaq News in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

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George Cooper, C.M., C.D., Q.C. and M. Ann McCaig were awarded honorary degrees from the University of Alberta in October 2007, alongside their fellow Killam Trustees John Matthews and the late W. Robert Wyman.

Mark Pineo (Journalism) and his wife Erin MacWha-Pineo are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Carson Blade, on April 26, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sharlene Salter (Bursar’s Office), her husband Mark and big sister Amber are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, Henry Philip, on Friday, September 14, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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George Tracy (BA ’50) passed away on September 8, 2007 in New London, New Hampshire.

Nathaniel Woolaver (BAH ’05) passed away on September 21, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario.

LOST SHEEP

We’ve lost touch with some of our alumni, which means that they may not be upto-date on the latest King’s alumni news and events.

Here’s a look at some of our alumni from 1956-1964 with whom we have lost contact. If you have any information regarding these, or any of the “Lost Sheep” listed on http://ukcalumni.com/lostsheep. php, please send us an e-mail at alumni@ ukcalumni.com Frederick Campbell (BSc ’64)

E. George Whitman (BSc ’62)

Alan Carter (BA ’64)

Carol Berger (’61)

Sally Clark (’64)

David Douglas (’61)

J. E. Calbert Best (BA ’48, DCL ’95) passed away on July 30, 2007 in Ottawa, Ontario.

James Ernst (BA ’64)

Nancy MacKinnon (MSW ’61)

Royden Ferris (LTh ’64)

Lowrey Myers (’61)

Maurice LeBel (DCL ’64)

Paul Samuel (’61)

Rowland Frazee, CC (DCL ’75) passed away on July 29, 2007 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

Judith MacDonald (’64)

James Shortt (BSc ’61)

Tom Mitchell (LTh ’64)

Robert Atkins (’60)

Michael Moore (BA ’64)

Alice Hoyt (’60)

Murray Smyth (’64)

Janette Rutten (BA ’60)

John Galey (BAH ’84) passed away on July 2, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

David Willett (’64)

Miranda Spilios (’60)

A.H. Amagi (’63)

Peter Strong (’60)

Malcolm Brown (’63)

James Brittain (’59)

James Fisher (’63)

Pearl Whittier (’59)

Brian Hale (’63)

Anthony Berger (BScH ’58)

David King (BSc ’63)

Robert Dunphy (’58)

Janet Knickle (BA ’63)

Marion Ferguson (’58)

Peter Moir (’63)

Keith Graham (’58)

Peter Morgan (’63)

Lloyd Tucker (’58)

Wendy Underwood (’63)

A. Norman Kyle (’57)

Frederick Wood (’63)

Rosemary MacAulay

IN MEMORIAM

Frank Harrington passed away on January 6, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Rev. Canon David Hartry (LTh ’65) passed away on July 9, 2007 in Kitchener, Ontario.

Juanita (Barnstead) Hiltz (’46) passed away on August 3, 2007 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Joan (Sellick) Holman (BSc ’69) passed away on June 15, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Donald J. MacDonald (’52) passed away on June 5, 2007 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Basil Cooper (’62)

(BSc ’57)

William Crawley (BSc ’62)

A. Mary Preston (’57)

Marion Dimock (DCL ’62)

David York (’57)

Randy Hazel (’62)

Paul Gorlick (MSW ’56)

Kenneth McGlinchey (’62)

Ian Rae (’56)

Alan Paton (BA ’62)

Cornelius Tazaki (’56)

Hi Alumni, they have some nice Holiday gifts at the King’s Bookstore this year; new Eco-mugs, messenger bags, new t-shirt designs and a November book sale.

They’ve a real understanding of disegno. In fact, I got something myself.

Ciao, David

“Cave ab homine unius libri”

902-422-1271 ext 261 kingsbookstore.ca

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