UKC Yearbook 2009

Acknowledgements I thank the many people who contributed to the creation of this book: John Hartman for the paintings of King’s; Matt Cyr for the design and layout; Janet Hathaway and Michael Clasing for proof-reading; the dons who submitted Bay and Hall pictures, and the students in residence for doing write-ups; Alyssa Feir for getting the write-ups for the athletics section, and Leslie Duncan for supplying the team pictures; Colin Niccole, Jenn Nauss and Tim Blackwood for taking pictures of events and the core classes; Bill Barker for supplying his King’s photograph portfolio and letting me use his camera to take photos of the CSP party; Jill MacBeath for the pictures of Move-in Day and Matriculation; Tony Ferguson for writing the news section, taking pictures, and for the many times he loaned me his camera to take pictures; Drake Petersen, Janet Hathaway, and the rest of the Library staff for giving me a place to work and access to the Archives; Clare Waqué for the photos of KTS; Rod Dueck, Trent Coull, and the staff at Friesens Corporation for publishing this book; Nick Hatt, for being a stellar Dean of Residence and allowing great things to happen on campus, Jesse and Naomi Blackwood for their words of encouragement, my friends, and everyone else who contributed in others ways to the creation of this book. ~ Mike Blackwood, Editor

Table of Contents I see my light come shining From the west unto the east.

Any day now, any day now, I shall be released. ~ Bob Dylan This book is dedicated to Dr. Angus Johnston

Introduction

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Residence

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Tutorials and Core Classes

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Graduates

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Events Let’s Get Started. Come One, Come All: Move-in Day

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Event of the Year: Bob Dylan Day

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Dawg Father visits the Quad

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The Sunny Quad

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A night that is big enough for the both of us: Big Night talent show

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SAMS’ Soirée: The Saint Andrew’s Missionary Society Celebrates Renewal

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Go Green: St. Patrick’s Day

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Faculty’s Tenure vs. Youthful Aspiration: Faculty-Student Tug o’ War

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Dancing (partying the night away): Young Alexandra Society Ball

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CSP Party: Just Like the Good Old Days

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Traditions: The official (and unofficial) Beginnings: Matriculation

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Leaving King’s in style: Encaenia 87 Let’s get wet in the snow: Water fight

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Mind over Body; Body over Mind: Athletics

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Why the bell rings: The Chapel

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Spontaneity and hard work: The King’s Theatrical Society

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The new kid in town: The King’s Concert Collective

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News in the World

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Words from higher powers: Department Heads, The President, and alumnus Michael Nichol

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John Hartman’s Paintings

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Editor’s Note Dear Gentle Reader, I applied for this job because I wanted to capture a year of the King’s community, a mixture of academics and fun. I never thought that after it was all over, the time I had put into the project would work out to 50¢ an hour, about the daily wage in Mexico. No official group worked on this yearbook, so I had to do a lot of organizing and pleading with people to take pictures and share them, and then I had to follow up to make sure everything arrived. Several people really helped me along the way and made this yearbook happen. Take a look at the contributors’ page, and when you see any of those people around, give them thanks, buy them a beer, or send them a message for their hard work, because if it were not for them, this book would not be what it has become. It is important to have a hard copy of the year’s memories, and this is what these people have helped to accomplish. I hope that readers enjoy having this book in their library and holds onto it as a King’s memento; the yearbook and one’s diploma are among the few pieces of physical evidence that graduates take away after the end of their years at King’s.

Finally, I would like to thank Matt Cyr, the one person who was as committed as I was to seeing this project through, even after spring had come and I was still waiting for students to send in their material. One day during the winter, I ran into some NSCAD students at King’s and when I asked them who might

be a good person to work on layout, they unanimously agreed on their peer, Matt Cyr. Before long what started as a meeting in the Just Us Cafe on Barrington Street turned into a project that lasted the better part of a year. Matt is in his last year of graphic design at NSCAD, and I thank him for applying his creativity and time to the layout of this book. If the reader looks at any of the previous yearbooks, you will see the resulting achievement speaks for itself.

Kyle Miller: FYP Sunday Jenn Nauss: Core Classes Lauren Nash: SAMS’ Soirée Colin Nicolle: Core Classes, Tutorials, YAS Ball, Student-Faculty Tug o’ War, Bob Dylan Day John Packman: Women’s Rugby Sandra Thorne: Fall Retreat Clare Waqué: KTS

In previous years, the scrapbook college model gave a glimpse of what King’s is like during the academic year. This book aims to bring the experience together by focusing on key components of University life with pictures of classes and events like Bob Dylan Day. I have included names of those pictured when possible, and added the core classes, interviews with department heads, and index. I continued past yearbook traditions such as St. Patrick’s Day, Matriculation, and Encaenia, and highlighted some of the groups that really stood out this year: the Chapel, King’s Theatrical Society, and the King’s Concert Collective. Thank you.

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Sincerely Yours, Michael C. Blackwood Graduate of the University of King’s College, 2009

The Record 2008-2009 Since 1879: One of Canada’s oldest student publications Illustrations and Cover: John Hartman Layout and Design: Matt Cyr Editor: Mike Blackwood Photography Bill Barker: Men’s Soccer, CSP Party, The Sunny Quad Mike Blackwood: Core Classes, Big Night, Chapel, CSP Party, Hockey, KCC, The Chapel Tim Blackwood: King’s Concert Collective, Core Classes, Water Fight Sinclair Bean: Women’s Volleyball Victor Bomers: Men’s Soccer Dan Callis: Matriculation, Move in Day Michael Creagen: Journalism Kerry DeLorey; Grads and Encaenia Pat Dixon: Tutorials Leslie Duncan: Athletics: Team pictures and action shots Alyssa Feir: Women’s Rugby, Joseph Hartman: Artwork John Hartford: Backgrounds Nadine LaRoche: Bob Dylan Day Angela Miller: FYP Sunday Devon Monroe: KCC Tony Ferguson: Future Party, Dylan Day, FYP Sunday, News in the World

News in the World: Tony Ferguson Proofreading: Janet Hathaway and Mike Clasing Those who contributed information and worked in other ways to support this book: Adriane Abbot, Jonathan Borden, Elizabeth Edwards, Monica Farrell, Adam Foster, Nicolas Hatt, Peggy Heller, Kim Kearns, Simon Kow, Jill MacBeath, Nathan Morier, Drake Petersen, Kelly Porter, Serin Remedios, Stephen Snobelen, and Elizabeth Yeo.

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first met artist John Hartman when he came to talk in Dr. Angus Johnston’s class “The Nature of Time.” Angus introduced Hartman and he presented the idea of what it was like to “see from above” -- to open one’s mind to new ways of looking at an idea, a point of view that characterizes Hartman’s work. When Hartman spoke about time and place in his paintings I noticed that his work was able to connect with the viewer in the same way that Johnston could convey ideas to his class.

A year later, I was contemplating the 2008-09 yearbook: I wanted to celebrate the 130th anniversary of The Record’s publication; I hoped to honor Angus Johnston’s career at King’s; and I wanted to capture the vision and the beauty that King’s inspires. I thought that it would be wonderful to have one of Hartman’s paintings on the cover. So I sent Hartman an email, and he agreed to allow me to use one of his paintings, and also invited me to a show he was holding at Studio 21 on the Halifax waterfront. Later that week at the show, I suggested the possibility of actually doing a painting of King’s. He said that he had his watercolours with him and--although he had to leave for the airport at noon the next day—he’d see what he could get.

The next morning, I biked to Kinkos and printed off all of the shots of King’s campus from higher elevations that I could find, as well as a few aerial photos. We met at 9 a.m. in the Quad. Hartman laid out the pictures on the hood of his car and studied them, then asked if we could get to some higher perspectives from which to view the campus. He looked up at the window in the Roost and said, “Can I get up there?”

Unfortunately, we found the window screwed shut and couldn’t see the campus from it. But the project was not to end there, as if in a dream, we somehow scrambled out onto the roof of the main building. Hartman stood with one arm resting on the cupola, surveying the Quad as a creator looking below. Next, we went to the fourth floor of Alexandra Hall, where the don, still in pajamas, opened the door to let us take some pictures from his window. Finally, we climbed the steps of Dalhousie’s Dunn Building next to King’s, from where Hartman took more photos. Unfortunately, a higher perspective is not so easily captured at Dalhousie; the doors to the Dunn’s roof were locked.

the airport, Hartman asked me what would be my ideal, and I said, “The main building with Angus in the clouds.” A few days later, although I feared I might be pushing my luck, I asked Hartman whether there might be a slim chance that he could include Bob Dylan in the clouds. A few weeks later, Hartman sent me a photo of the painting that is now on the cover of this book, “Angus Johnston lecturing on Bob Dylan” in the clouds.

I think that this image fits the nature of King’s and character of the past year so well: a professor who taught at King’s in the Foundation Year Programme, who later became Vice President and Director of the Foundation Year Programme, and who is a figure greatly admired by students. There is also the music, which characterized this year, reaching its high point during Bob Dylan Day. And there is friendship, of an artist and an academic, something often inspired by King’s.

When Johnston first quoted from the film Roads to Koktebel, “I can see from above,” I was reminded of questions he’s inspired a generation to ask: what does it mean to see something from another perspective, to think about an idea in a way you never have before, to see a person, a culture, an institution from another angle, to humble oneself by looking outside oneself ? How do we obey Socrates’ diamon or hear the voice of Homer’s muse? You do this, and in time, you see what changes and what does not.

What I liked most about Dr. Johnston’s classes was that he listened to his students and was eager hear what they thought.

At the same time, Johnston did not boast about what he knew; rather, he used his knowledge to empower students to think for themselves.

This is the reason why I came to study at King’s in the first place —to take a deeper look into the world. Often, even at the end of a class period, the answer might not have been found.

But by then we had begun to understand: it is not as much knowing the answer as it is knowing how to ask and listen to the questions. Then, if we’re lucky, we know what it is to see from above, and not simply be looked down upon. ~ Mike Blackwood

However, Hartman had collected enough information, and that day, he made two paintings. He said he would work on one of them with Angus in his studio. Just before leaving for

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Back Row from Left to Right: Christopher Muise, Emi ly Beattie, Chelsea Chapman, Dee Jordan, Alison DeGruchy, Luke Hardiman.

Middle Row from Left to Right: Seana Stevenson, Dav is Carr, Roxanne MacDonald, Brittany Fontaine Rojas, Keegan Stephenson, Laura Walker, Natasha Klimenko.

Front Row from Left to Right: Heather Ross, Miranda Spessot, Evelyn Hornbeck, Chris Williams (the don), Connor Mor an, Zoe Fregoli.

Missing Students: Robert Broome, Jamie Lockie, Neil McPhee, Erika Roberts, Rory Smith, Paula Libfeld, Alexandr a Milton.

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his year I learned that you can paraphrase philosophy, you can not paraphrase poetry.

Chapel Bay is a poetry, a mixture of personalities that create a work of art. The year has proven itself to be fun, frantic, and fruitful.

Chapel Bay came together in the first weeks of school and hosted the first (and best) Bay party – Toga style. We proceeded to bond in our friendships when we felt it was ok to pants each other, even in Prince Hall, and in front of the cleaning staff. Often Patrol would come up to our rooms and tell us we had to be quiet, the screaming from someone getting a blue shell on Mario Kart, or killing at Super Smash was too loud, or just that our laughing had been echoing down to the basement.

“Chaps” defined the word “Cactuse” when we chanted it aloud in the quad after pranking the entire school. Chapel Bay also became a war zone when the nerf-gun obsession began; every person in Chapel became a part of the family that was created this year. Momma Shannon was always at the Wardroom for a birthday celebration, and our four upper years were the wind beneath our wings in our rough and tumble year. Cactuse! Cactuse! (Also, we would like to thank everyone for participating in the water fight, and we were happy to have kicked yo asses.)

Names according to floor 1st Floor: Stephanie Duchon, Shannon Ireland, Faye Bontje, Serin Remedios 2nd Floor: Jon Finn, Ben Hicks, Scott Paton, Brendan Sangster, Adam Foster, Josiah/Andrew Montgomery, Andy Wilson, Devin Munro 3rd Floor: Marilla Word, Natalie Leventhal, Colleen Mulligan, Kaarina Mikalson, Jessie Penn, Meghan Oliver, Alexa Ferguson, Naomi Cooperman 4th Floor: Shawn Simpson, Tim Blackwood, Brian McMann, DJ Rossi Don: Shannon Parker

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hat to say about living in Cochran Bay? Aside from having the best bay-mates and Don ever (or rather, entirely due to that fact), Cochran was a fully rewarding and incredible experience.

We received a lot of flak from other residences for being the most “secluded” group – it’s true, we definitely kept to ourselves. But it definitely was for good reason; I can’t help but thank my lucky stars for being placed with such hilarious, energetic, and like-minded people.

I can only think of so many memories we’ve shared– smashing pumpkins, Mario kart, pasta Sundays, and our hosted party– and though these encapsulate the Cochran experience, there is still no way to convey all the incredible times we’ve had together. Sure, we definitely knew how to hit the books, but this doesn’t mean we didn’t have a great time now and then.

Cochran– we made it through the good times and the bad, but no one can deny us the bonds that we’ve formed over the past year. I know that with the things we’ve shared, we’ll only become stronger friends as we trudge on through this important step in our lives. And for that, I salute you.

Love and mischief, Jake Byrne

The students are,in no particular order: Mitchell Potter, Jesse Campbell, Andreas Straathof, Zac Mollica, Michael Wingrove, Tom Smith, Andrew Wight, Katie Day, Hayley Lynch, Sarah Mateshaytis, Michaela Cavanagh, Cara Muise, Hannah Jennings, Mitchell Cohen, Jon Borden, Jourdan Yawylak and Denise Gow. NOT PICTURED: Jake Byrne, Charlotte Bondy

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orth Pole: home of the drunkest human award and the worst human ever (undoubtedly Markus Liik). Despite leading a rather secluded life in North Pole, we’ve made some of our best friends between these walls.

Thanks to numerous impromptu dance parties, the great Speakeasy party, early morning fire alarms and weekly garlic finger feasts, we’ve managed to keep each other on our toes. Pam’s party room and day student hostel, Morgan’s hair and make-up salon, Markus’ flip cup arena, Sean’s gaming station and the don’s suite will linger in some of our greatest memories; the rest remains to be cherished amongst us all. So, adieu to North Pole, the Anne Frank door and our wonderful don Dan Wilband. ~Pam Gill

Left to right: Front Row: Sean Clarke, Mike Bowman, Pam Gill, Samantha Chown, Jaya Bremer Second Row: Markus Liik, Dan Wilband (Don), Ed Ducharme, Petey Day Third Row: Jacqueline Vincent, Max Ma, Chris Brown, Nate Friedman-Burley Back Row: Katie Conrad, Lindsay Keys, Kyle Woolner-Pratt, Dahlia Colman, Holly Pringle Absent from photo: Morgan MacDonald, Brittany Toole, Kathleen McMaster, Malcolm Woodside, Sam Zucchi, Michelle Wilband

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his past year at King’s was fantastic and I have come to love everything about it--but most of all Middle Bay. Some of the best people I’ve ever met spent their year here with me, and I’ve got to know them all. The best times were always hanging out in someone’s room, or running downtown, or just sitting in the hall drinking tea. We did our best to keep our doors open so people were welcome to come and visit, and this really created a friendly atmosphere that brought us all closer. Moreover, we all did our best to be the gentlemen that Middle Bay expects and is proud of, displaying a reasonable amount of class and nonchalance wherever we had the opportunity. Our fine dining societies were a wonderful time for all those present, and brought us closer to the traditions of the College. We held three enormous parties ranging from Dante to the Future, with many smaller gatherings strewn along the way. These were all extremely successful save for the occasional human shaped hole in a wall or a trail of turf, but everyone had a great time. When there was nothing going on, this was often remedied with music and running around shirtless in the bay.

All in all, being in Middle Bay made my first year at King’s the best year I’ve ever had, and it’s going to be hard to leave this place for the whole summer. ~Noah White

Names are in no particular order: Patrick Anderson, Richard Bartrm, Daniel Brown, Matthew Covert, Nevin Cussen, Connor Dalton Michael Da Silva, Alexander Desire-Tesar, Peter de Vries, Cameron Evans, Asher Goldstein John Hartford, Nicholas Hennessey, Gabriel Hoogers, Chad Hudson, Gavin Keachie, Benjamin Levitan Connal McNamara, Andrei Mihailiuk, Samuel Newman, Jordan Parker, Philip Taber, Griffin Tobe Noah White

Radical: thoroughgoing or extreme, esp. as regards change from accepted or traditional forms. (dictionary.com).

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adical Bay: probably the most colorful and characteristic of the bays. First floor: the smell, where the party usually gets started; the drums crazy loud at 1 am. Second floor: different smell (quite peculiar), various Andrews of different shapes, sizes and colours, ginger, (I’m not emo). Third floor: Sam let’s us know how comfortable he is naked, (SAM!), movies, video games, pizza, and a door that never opens. Fourth floor: video games and an elegant Englishman named Liam. This is a motley crew that damn right does its homework… sometimes. ~Marc Grub

Andrew Bala, Samuel Bamford, Jonathan Biro, Marc Blouin, Gordon Bryant, Isaac Dutton, Nicholas Gall, Devin Gerstein, Marc Goldgrub, Thomas Hoy, Kieran Innocenzi, Andrew Martin, Iain Moggach, Michael Morse, Trevor Morse, Micah Pirk O’Connell, Connor Rosine, Aaron Shenkman, Liam Sparks, Erik TarBush, Mark Taylor, Noah Tomlin, Ian Whytock, Nicholas Wright

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erched atop the A&A building is the Angel’s Roost; home sweet home this year to ten journalism students and two FYP students. Being so high up and separated by the journalism school and the president’s office, the Roost is a sort of mystery to many King’s students. Now and then, groups of first years wander up the flights of stairs to the Roost and suddenly find themselves in our lounge after a curious knock on the door. Unlike the Bays, the Roost has a big main lounge that separates the two wings. It’s so inviting that lots of visitors stay and hang out. The lounge is where the parties, shenanigans and after-class hangouts all happen. It’s where the climb to the top of the tower was attempted – although the brave Roosters who tried only made it as far as the hole in the side that led to the tops of the six rooms on the east wing. When one Rooster brought her Wii back from spring break, important assignments took a back seat to Mario Kart tournaments. As the weather got warmer, the Roosters enjoyed it from the patio that sat just outside the window of one room. Next year, the 09/10 Roosters will discover a lot of the same things as this year’s gang. But across generations of Roosters, one thing remains: Angel’s Roost is a great place to live.

Emilie Bourque, Sydnee Bryant, Angele Cano, Sylvia Cole, Anthony Ferguson, Connor Ingham, Colin Parrott, Aurangzeb Qureshi, Kristin Slaney, Melissa Tobin, David (Greg) Weston, Steven Woodhead

Back row (from left to right): Iain Mitchell-Boyd, Justin Mayne, Calum Whamond, Andrew Chisholm, Dave Rennie, Andrew Schipper, Michael Sniderman, Victor Bomers (Jr. Don), Andreas Tibbles, Geoff Stuart, Adrian Warner.

Front row (from left to right): Leo MacGillivray, Joy Ciccarelli-Shand, Luna Estey, Kate Roberts, Anna Wedlock, Meghan Borthwick, Frances Dorenbaum, Amanda Zalken, Veronica Curran.

Missing are: Chris Hodges, Luke Langille, Ben Coyle, Anthony Clements Haines, Sarah Glassman, Kayla Iafelice.

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ongratulations my girls!

You survived your first year at Kings. Can you believe that this year has gone by so fast? I can still remember all the new faces in September at the cheese party in the lounge. Boy, did we eat a lot of cheese! What a great start to what has been a fantastic year. We had lots of fun this year with a visit from Santa, pin the tail on Rudolf, breakfast at Tiffany?s, and nachos at Mexis, among other things. I could not have asked for a group of sweeter, more intelligent and beautiful girls. Thanks to each of you for your special contribution to the floor. I have no doubt you will all continue to reach great heights in the future. Go conquer the world, and in your spare timekeep dancing on tables.

Xoxo.

Tiffany Robertson (Don, 2nd Floor Alex Hall)”

The names of the girls in the photo are as follows (from front to back, left to right): Nora Bercovici, Sarah Godin, Emma Norton, Anne Cottrell, Emily Parker Siobhan O'Beirne, Jenny Reich, Tiffany Robertson, Alex Estey Amy Donovan, Rachel McLay, Judy Melgar, Emilie Novaczek Bridget Hall, Arielle Cohen, Winona Linn, Merriam Grieve MacKenzie Clayton, Cydney Proctor, Julia Martin, Iris Estrada Hannah Paton, Keriann Dowling Absent: Keltie MacPhail, MacKenzie Handforth, Sarah Benlolo, Katie Switzer, Julianne Fitzgerald, Kate Connolly, Kendra Hoskin, Sarah Wilson, Dana Mestechkin, Nicole Jamieson, Amanda Leslie, Kate Wakefield.

(Back row) Gabriella Utreras, Ashlie Estabrooks, Phoebe Mannell,Carolyn McDonald, Rebecca Hazell, Rebeccah Love, Kristan Newell; (fourth row) Noga Schwartz, Kayleigh James, Jasmine Pauk, Bethany Hindmarsh; (third row) Rachael Bethune, Emily Singer, Rachel Max, Sara Leslie; (second row) Laura Armstrong, Marika McKenzie, Sarah Nicole Kraus, Celina Clarke; (first row) Yamini Coen, Sophie Roher, Angela Friesen, Erin Gallagher DiCarlo, Melissa Pike.

(Back row) Marika McKenzie, Laura Armstrong, Sarah Nicole Kraus, Emily Singer, Rachael Bethune; (third row) Yamini Coen, Jasmine Pauk, Melissa Pike, Noga Schwartz; (second row) Rebecca Hazell, Lauren Walsh-Greene, Erin Gallagher DiCarlo; (first row) Sophie Roher, Angela Friesen, Celina Clarke.

I <3rd floor: it may look like a muddled (yet possibly true) mathematical equation, but all true third floorians immediately recognize its simple beauty. This year has seen ridiculous amounts of fun and amazingness on the third floor of Alex Hall – from impromptu Beatles sing-a-longs to a floor-wide effort to support Doctors Without Borders. The year started off with a picnic in the Manning Room.

Yay for rain! Holidays were lovely: Halloween involved surprise goody bags (and an awesome carved pumpkin), Christmas meant the best secret santa gift exchange of all time, and Valentine’s day special deliveries made everyone feel loved. After almost no one knew who Angela was when she dressed up as Annie Hall for Halloween she decided to host an important learning experience known as a movie night (complete with Manhattan style Chinese takeout). A Sunday trip to Dim Sum expanded the cultural horizons of many (yum, chicken feet). Okay, so they like to eat. Overall, though, this year’s third floor girls can be pretty well summed up in four words: tea party/dance party (at the same time – okay, eight words). They’re a complex (and by complex I mean awesome) bunch.

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on't be fooled by the fourth floor's quiet halls. We're not quiet . . . we're just never home!

The ladies of the fourth floor have been busy this year. They're playing rugby, advocating for political and environmental causes, dancing in the King's Dance Collective, performing at shows in the Wardroom, working for various Halifax businesses, and hanging out downstairs and in the Bays. And where would the KTS be without the fourth floor talent!

There's hardly been a play produced this year without at least one of us working on the costumes, lighting, or performing. We've had some fun times together, too: Oscar Night, gift-shopping for children in need, charades . . . and who says Santa can't come in January? Looking back on a great year it makes us wonder how we ever had time to study.

First Row (left to right): Dinah Thaw, Tessa Elliott-Israelson Second Row: Gaeby Abrahams, Delia Macpherson Third Row: Rebecca Sutton, Isabella Price

First Row (left to right): Brendan Gray, Bryn McLeod, Zoe Ritts Second Row: Jennifer Trommelen-Jones, Missy Jones, Marie David Third Row: Chloe Hung, Alisha Dukelow, Kat MacNeil Fourth Row: Julia Black, Kristin Campbell

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Back row: Jeremy Costello, Nevin Cussen, David Burns, Nick Hennessey, Connor Ingham, Micah Pirk O’Connell Middle row: Jacob Engel, Claire Siesfield, Jake Byrne, Emily Singer, E. Jones (tutor)

Back row: Kirsten Hansen, Nicholas Gall, Thomas MacDonald, Andrei Mihoiliuk, Mark Randell, Gavin Keachie, Julia Hutt

Front row: Tessa Elliott-Israelson, Melissa Evans, Rebecca Alkalay-Houlihan, Amara McLaughlin-Harris, Seana Stevenson

Front row: Paula Libfeld, Sarah Glassman, Lindsey Ward, Emilie Novaczeck, Isabella Price, Alison DeGruchy

Back row: Ben Coyle, Scott Patin, Noah Tomlin, Aaron Shenkman, Brendan Sangster, Martin McCallum (tutor)

Back row: Thomas Curran (tutor), Adrian Warner, Mike Bowman, Andrew Wilson, Andrew Montgomery,

Middle row: Jessica Gallant, Sophie Roher, Nan Matheson, Annie Cottrell, Ellen O’Hara, Alexandra Estey

Middle row: Delia MacPherson, Sarah Duhamel-Rosenberg, Katrina Rideout, Emily MacKinlay, Victoria Schaeffer, Alisha Dukelow

Front row: Natalie Leventhal, Laura Walker, Jess Geddes, Shannon Ireland Amara McLaughlin-Harris, Seana Stevenson

Front row: M. Joy Ciccarelli-Shand, Lauren Walsh-Greene, Claire Zimmerman, Natasha Klimenko

Back row: Matt MacNeil, William Young, Cory Richard, Nick Wright, Elyse Heagle Middle row: Alex Desire-Tesar, Iris Estrada, Alexandra Muise-Hennessey, Jacqueline Vincent, Ryan McDougall, Luna (nee-Eileen) Estey, Cydney Proctor

Back row: Andrew Chisholm, Erik TarBush, Angela Millington, Tom Smith, John Hartford

Front row: Bryn Robins Mcleod, Lee Jordan, Louis-Edouard Ducharme

Middle row: Miranda Spessot, Kate Roberts, Evelyn Hornbeck, Hannah Paton, Sadie Richards, Alyssa Moar Front row: Marilla Word, Adam Charney, Gabriella Utreras Amara McLaughlin-Harris, Seana Stevenson

Back row: Matt MacNeil, William Young, Cory Richard, Nick Wright, Elyse Heagle Middle row: Alex Desire-Tesar, Iris Estrada, Alexandra Muise-Hennessey, Jacqueline Vincent, Ryan McDougall, Luna (nee-Eileen) Estey, Cydney Proctor Front row: Bryn Robins Mcleod, Lee Jordan, Louis-Edouard Ducharme

Back row: Andreas Tibbles, Mike Wingrove, Gordon Bryant, Sean O’Brien, Anthony Clementes-Haines Middle row: Dr. Rosenberg (tutor), Sarah Kraus, Jessie Penn, Meghan Borthwick

Back row: Max Ma, Martin McCallum (tutor), Nick Grachev, Kate Connolly, Sarah Benlolo Middle row: Kaarina Mikalson, Kristin Slaney, Naomi Cooperman, Fenton Bethany Hindmarsh, Emma Norton

Front row: Jonathan Biro, Sarah Godin, Phoebe Mannelle, Nina Cherry, Emily Parker, Kathleen Day

Front row: Alexa Dodge, Nikki Jamieson, Faye Bontje, Chelcie Soroka Leah MacDonald

Back row: John Brundige, Jenny Reich, Ryan Hemsworth, Connor Dalton, Kyle Fraser (tutor) Middle row: Kevin Gaul, Serin Remedios, Davis Carr, Alexandra Fenton Jasmine Pauk, Peter Day Front row: Dahlia Colman, Sarah Wilson, Rebecca Hazell, Becky Sutton

Left to right: back row: Marika Forsythe, Jaime Sugiyama, David (Teddy) Williams, Micah Anshan, John Sampson, Colin Nicolle, Chad Poirier front row: Adria Young, Charles (no relation) Bourne, Ian Stewart, Leah Ellis, Robert Olsen, Donald MacDougall, Catherine Porter Missing: Peter Hay, Erin Gerrow

Left to right: Jake Schabas, Sarah Dube, Peter Richard, Jessica Pellerin, Jacqueline Blenkarn, Katherine Garner, Miriam Segal, Charlotte D’Arcy, Maren Schenk, Matthew Duffy, Delaine Tiniakos-Doran, James Rendell, Simon Ross-Siegel, Ashley Farrel, Chloe Anderson, Maija Buckley-Pearson, Patrick Anderson, Nadine Adelaar, Hazen Fry, Natalie Childs, Geoffrey Davies, Anna Mancini, Katherine Lewis, Sydney Black, Sophie Chiasson, Melinda Robb.

Prof. Georgy Levit; Tutor: Chloe Kennedy

Left to right: Caleigh Davis, Danielle Pacey, Cameron Roberts, Jennifer McKee, Caroline Michaud, Emma Cuddy, Leigh Dawson, Christina Turner, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Lewis Wynne-Jones, Ilana Speigel, Ben Caplan, Betty Codd-Downey, Alexandre Bergeron, Alex Kawchuck, Moira Donovan, Kenton Braun, Bob Olson, Dave Jerome, Liz Lumsden, Ben Langer, Scott Richey, Stephen Snobelen

Left to right Standing: Adam Casey, Geoffrey Davies, Alex Boutilier, Kate Siemiatycki, Fraser White, Alex Kleinman, Eli Burnstein, Andrew Cairns, David Sheppard, Dr. Elizabeth Edwards, Greg Slack, Lynsey Meisner, Michael Da Silva in front of Walter Muschenheim, Liz Fraser, Victor Bomers, Catherine Fullarton, Alison Hugill, Emma Davey, Peter Saltsman, Alexandra Filipczuk, Caitlin Saltmarche, Andrew Bateman, Lia Milito.

Sitting: Isaac Siemans, Joseph Bigda-Peyton, Alison Creba, Phoebe Johnston, Victoria O'Neill, Molly Willows, Emily Johnson.

Missing: Kristi Assaly, Tom Bamford, Julia Brown, Ishai Buchbinder, Joanna Caplan, Maddy Cohen, Roland Eksteins, Tristan Gray, Kaley Kennedy, Alex Neuman, Melinda Robb, Jake Schabas, Suzannah Showler, Clare Waque

Left to right: Tomas Hachard, Jon Grosz, Claire Dobson, Evany Rosen, Martha Harbell, Laura Hochman, Evan Brown, Luke Togni, Betty Codd-Downey

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Caitlin Aker

Michelle Arbus

Qureshi Aurangzeb

Andew Battison

Aaron Brown

Evan Brown

Julia Brown

Sydnee Bryant

Lindsay Bird

Michael Blackwood

Tim Blackwood

Victor Bomers

Emilee Burgess

Eli Burnstein

Kathleen Callahan

Stuart Campara

Emilie Bourque

Alex Boutilier

Graham Bowditch

Jacqueline Bowinkel

Gwyneth Campbell

William Cochran

Beckie Codd-Downey

Madeleine Cohen

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Catherine Crosbie

Michael Da Silva

Stephen Davis

Megan Dean

Tony Ferguson

Rebecca Fiander

Leanne S. Flett

Elizabeth Fraser

Lizzy Deshman

Terin DeWolf

Melissa DiCostanzo

Claire Dobson

Catherine Fullarton

Nadia Gibbons

Chris Gibson

Matthew J. Gillis

Elizabeth Downie

Samantha Eng

Lindsay Ann Fancy

Alyssa Feir

Katie Gillivan

Jonathan Grosz

Julia Grummit

Tomas Hachard

Madeline Hall

Safia Haq

Martha Harbell

Sarah Higgins

Sarah Letovsky

Jonathan Linds

Christina MacDonald

Kathleen MacKeigan

Nina Hoeschele

Laura Hochman

Alison Hugill

Matthew Irish

Alyssa MacKenzie

Alisha Manion

Katie May

Caitlin McConkey-Pine

Dave Jerome

Phoebe Johnston

Clark Kingsbury

Benjamin Langer

Emily McInnesGreenberg

Ruth Mestechkin

Darcy Mulligan

Alex Neuman

Kathijah Ng

Dominika Nycz

Allison O’Beirne

Victoria O’Neill

Arran Smith

William Stewart

Samuel B. Sutherland

Stephany Tlalka

Melissa Perreault

Kristan Rafuse

Lesley Roberts

Peter Saltsman

Erin Wagner

Katie Wagner

Rowan Weerdenburg

Josie Wood

Lily Sangster

Amanda Savoie

Martha Sellers

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Dr. Angus Johnston gave his final lecture as full time professor at King’s, lecturing on the three versions of Bob Dylan’s song, “I Shall be Released.” Tim Blackwood organized the rest of the day with a Bob Dylan film in the afternoon and the Dylan open mic in the evening, where professors, tutors, and students performed side by side. There were also professors and students from Clemente 101 (a program that provides university classes for the underprivileged). Dr. Johnston served as the MC for the evening. The sale of Bob Dylan Day t-shirts raised $2,000 for the Clemente program.

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First-year student Asher Goldstein and fourth-year Wes Petite had a meet and greet for the Day Students’ Society and arranged catering by the Dawg Father.

The Dawg Father usually sells hotdogs in front of the Dalhousie Student Union Building, but he made a guest appearance for the King’s gang, where a long line of King’s students filled their bellies with the wholesome dogs.

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Sitting on the Library steps on a sunny afternoon and reading on the grass in the Quad is as common a practice at King’s as is going to the Wardroom during happy hour, discussing philosophical ideas, or talking about the buzz of activity that occurs within the walls of the quad.

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Big Night had a number of great musical acts. Fourth year student Phil Taber and first year student Evey Hornbeck were the MCs. Many of the students who had been playing in the KCC’s open mics performed. New Providence, the band that was born and made from the KCC, performed and several people got up from their chairs and danced in front of the stage to one of their groovy pirate tunes. FYP Tutor Ron Haflidson read from his diary written back in his FYP years, first-year student Noah White was nominated most likely to succeed, and Heather Ross performed stand-up comedy.

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SAMS, the Saint Andrew's Mission Society, is a community outreach group whose "mission" is social justice. This year, SAMS President Katie Merwin led SAMS members in re-establishing the Society by networking with community organizations to provide King's students of all backgrounds and beliefs with diverse outreach and volunteer opportunities. As one of King's oldest societies, SAMS has enabled students to make meaningful contributions to those in need in the local community. The re-launching event, the SAMS Soiree, brought together alumni, faculty, students and community organizations such as Halifax Humanities 101, ARK, Community Action on Homelessness,

Immigrant Learning Centre and WUSC King's. Before the holidays, students living on campus created gift bags with candy, toys and practical winter clothing items for children from lowincome families through St George's YouthNET. SAMS hosted a roundtable discussion with activist Jim Loney on his peacekeeping missions in the Middle East. Members helped prepare and serve meals at local soup kitchens. Students also came together to knit winter scarves, hats and mittens for homeless adults living in Halifax’s North End. To learn more about SAMS, visit its website, HYPERLINK "http://www.samsoutreach.blogspot.com" www.samsoutreach.blogspot.com.

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St. Patrick’s Day at King’s involves drinking. Many students went to the bars downtown to enjoy the festivities, but several first-years stuck around and celebrated in the Wardroom with a dance party. Many of those who attended will remember the painted leprechaun’s appearance by Noah White, who brought another meaning to “going green.”

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There was a tug o’ war in the Quad this year. The students— many of them rugby players—faced faculty in a bout to raise money for the United Way. In the end, it seemed to be more of a struggle between hanging onto one’s youth and hanging on to one’s tenure. Of course, the faculty won.

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“Always a fun time, ballrooms at the Westin are rented, everyone gets dolled up, lit up, and what happens happens. This year Frank Magazine wrote an article about it, so you know it must be a fun event.” Colin Nicolle DJ Adrian Lee, KSU Vice-President (Communications) provided music for the event and kept everyone on his or her feet having a good time.

The Contemporary Studies Program held their annual party in the President’s Lodge. There were a couple open bars, food, and lots of dancing. The President even moved the furniture out of his living room to make room for the dance floor. Contrary to the King’s norm, students took a traditional approach and dressed to the nines. It was widely regarded as one of the best parties in the past four years. Everyone had so much fun that even the neighbors noticed. A tenant across the street called the police, and if someone hadn’t yelled, “Fuck you” at the officer, the party would not have been shut down, nor would the President have been fined. In the end, President Barker was cool as usual and shared a smoke with students on the back porch as the party wrapped up after midnight.

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Each year, new King’s students are introduced to the University’s traditions through matriculation -- the “signing of the book.” This happens in the Chapel in the presence of the Registrar. The choir, led by Paul Halley, provides music for the event, and the President opens the Lodge for refreshments and an opportunity to meet the new students.

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The conferring of academic and honorary degrees takes place during Encaenia, a ceremony rooted in the traditions of Oxford University. Encaenia is a Greek word meaning "beginning, commencement." The term has been used since the founding of King's in 1789, and the form of the ceremony has not changed greatly over the years. Anglican hymns and prayers are included in the ceremony, which has been held regularly in the Cathedral Church of All Saints since 1989, a building that provides a dignified and appropriate setting as well as good acoustics and seating for about 700 guests. The academic gowns and hoods of faculty and graduates, the procession led by the Apparator carrying the University Mace, symbol of authority, and the music and majesty of the setting make King's Encaenia a happy, splendid and memorable event.

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Every April 1, the unofficial tradition of a water fight in the Quad occurs. The students in residence put out their best this year. The Middle Bay boys painted their faces and carried homemade torches before charging with water balloons towards Alex Hall. The Alexandra Hall residents came out in full force by taking the high ground on the Library steps and winning the battle that ensued in the Quad. Partway through, snow began to fall, and what should be a scene at a summer camp looked more like the Romans’ invasion of Gaul.

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fter a bumpy start to the season, the Blue Devils turned it around after Christmas and won a few key games down the stretch to claim our spot in the playoffs. Our team endured a lot this year from day one, and the way we came together is certainly commendable. The team was made up of a few returning players, many new faces and even some “old” faces (Burke and Simon). Everyone worked very hard this year through thick and thin and ended with a level of success reaching our goal of making the playoffs.

On behalf of all the guys I would like to thank our coaching staff for their commitment and support this year. With special thanks going out to our AD, Hoops, who stayed behind our team and worked hard just to make this season happen. In closing, I would like to put the rest of the league on notice for next year……Look out for the Blue Devils.

Matt Gamblin- Captian

If there were a single word that could encompass the 2008/2009 season for Women’s Rugby at King’s, it would most certainly be “change.”

Becoming varsity just last season, the ACAA league brought in a new school for the ladies to face with the introduction of Holland College. This change is relatively minor, however, when compared with the new faces introduced to the women’s team, both players and coaches.

Long-time women’s coach and respected figure in both provincial and national rugby, Nora Donald, parted with us midway through the season to take a much deserved vacation exploring New Zealand – we wish her all the best. Co-coach from the previous season Tanya Boiteau returned to STFX where she is a starting flanker for their own rugby team, and in her stead came Ronnie Clereaux. He embraced the challenge of coaching

a team of which six of the starting fifteen ladies were themselves new to the team, some even being new to the sport itself. Another welcomed change? Some well earned victories and enthusiastic school support! We ended up in the semifinals against NSAC, to whom we sadly lost. The forwards provided a powerhouse for the scrums this season, and our back line, despite many difficult shufflings of positions, managed to use their speed to their advantage on multiple occasions.

The girls had a great season, wherein even the most experienced vets learned a thing…or ten. It is truly heartbreaking that we must bid farewell to Leanne Flett, Aly Feir and the remarkable Miss Kate MacKeigan: may the big bad world outside of the quad bring you only awesome things. Can’t wait to make some big hits and swift runs with you all next season ladies!

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espite never missing a season of organized hockey from the time I turned eight until my arrival at University, it took until my fourth, and last, year at King’s to involve myself in the intramural hockey team. What struck me, from my first unsteady shifts, was that no one really gave a damn about the three years of rust I was so

obviously trying to shed, or the three beers prior to the game that had calmed my nerves but not steadied my feet. The team, and the incredibly raucous fans, supported every play with an enthusiasm fuelled by mild inebriation and a die-hard love of the game. From goals to saves to fights to foul gestures made towards the refs to horrendous on ice errors, it was all love, baby. All King’s.

– Clark Kingsbury

For UKC Men’s Rugby, the 2008/2009 season picked up right where the last one left off. The men continued their domination, posting the second best record in the league, and drove all the way to the league finals. They were denied the Championship only after double overtime against Mount A. The squad would not be held off forever, and was able to send three full teams to Truro Seven’s in March. Of the three teams, one was given to the rookies, who fend for themselves well, and both veteran teams made it to the semi-finals. After losing their first game, the team “Old”, named so in honour of captain/coach John Choptiany, was perfect and brought home the Consolation

Championship. The season also heralded the continued high performance of Alex Robinson, as well as a strong showing of Rookies, led by his younger brother Will Robinson. The team regretfully will be losing both Sinclair Bean and Dave Jerome to graduation and the pursuit of doing something useful with their lives, and James Hutt, who will be taking a year abroad.

The best is wished to them both in their future exploits. The team would also like to thank the upwelling of fans that came out to watch the games this year, some of whom even followed them to Sackville and the weekend long Seven’s Tournament in Truro.

– Chris Handforth

The King’s Men’s soccer team was fortunate to have a solid core of returning players from the 2007/2008 ACAA Championship team. Several newcomers proved to be valuable assets as King’s went on to win a second straight ACAA championship under the command of rookie head coach CJ Young and assistant coach Matt Fegan. Although it was Young’s first year of head coaching neither he nor Fegan are strangers to the King’s Soccer program. Both men are accomplished alumni to the King’s Soccer program and have spent several seasons as assistant coaches.

Defending the ACAA title was not a simple task. The ACAA final took all 90 minutes of regular time, two 10 minute overtimes, and ten penalty kicks for each team before goal-keeper

Mike Beazley came up with a save that would finally secure the championship. However, you would have had to travel to Kamloops, BC to witness the highlight of this season. A narrow 1-0 victory over the country’s #1 ranked team from Quebec would see King’s finish 4th in the 2008/2009 National Championships.

Greg Bathe and Sam March were named ACAA 1st team all-conference, while Derek Reid and Brendan Parsley would receive 2nd team all-conference honors. Bathe would go on to be named to the 2008/2009 national championship all-star team. Head Coach CJ Young was honored with the University of King’s College Coach of the Year award.

Watch out for the boys next year as there are many returning starters and several promising prospects to the King’s soccer program.

– Kyle Murphy

Despite a late start the 2008/2009 season for the Blue Devils Varsity Women’s Volleyball team was a memorable one. Largely selfcoached until the latter half of the season, when men’s Rugby coach Owen Donat stepped up to the challenge of coaching an unfamiliar sport. The girls did a great job of coming together as a team and forming a tight-knit offence. Bright young things, like rookie players Brittany Gingrich, Emily Whelan, and Kylagh Hoogendoorn, quickly became vital members of the team and showed that age cannot diminish natural talent. Although the Devils came away from the season with only a handful of wins, this record cannot tarnish the memory

of a wonderful chemistry between hitters like MVP Alyssa Feir, Beth Downie, Hillary Wainwright and their setter and Captain Mika Nycz.

King’s will be remembered as a team with an unstoppable quick attack that could only have been made possible by MCP Libero Genny Whelan, and her prodigy Hoogendoorn. The Women’s Volleyball team’s love for the game was infectious and this was greatly illustrated by the commitment of their avid and surprisingly loud fans. Their commitment out there grinding themselves onto the court during games made them one of the most popular sports at King’s and they will be greatly missed in the future.

– Mika Nycz - captain.

The King’s badminton team had a pretty good all around 2008/2009. We placed 3rd as a team in the Atlantic Championships. Ryan MacIntosh came in 1st in the championship tournament for Men’s singles. He went on to win the tournament for National tryouts while Sam Bliss and Neesha Mahdvani came really close, but lost a close game against University of St.

Anne. MacIntosh was the only member of the Blue Devils to go to nationals where he placed 6th overall and won the Eileen Harle Award for Fair Play and Sportsmanship. There were some new faces on the team, Rookie of the Year, Sarah Kraus, and a familiar face on the soccer field, Victor Bomers. The team hopes to better the King’s record next year so we can win the ACAA championship.

– Ryan MacIntosh

King’s Chapel The Chapel at King’s had a busy year, continuing to provide students with a spiritual and intellectual home in many different ways, regardless of their faith traditions.

Music was abundant in the Chapel this year. The Chapel hosted many concerts, including popular Maritime artists Catherine MacLellan and the Olympic Symphonium. Under the direction of Grammy-winning director Paul Halley, the Choir sang for Wednesday Evensongs, Thursday High Mass, and in monthly concerts around Nova Scotia. On Tuesday nights, there was sung Compline by candlelight.

Students maintained a rhythm of daily Christian prayer -morning, midday, and evening prayer, and daily Holy Communion -- while Jewish students used the Chapel as a space to light Shabbat candles. A successful fall retreat was held in which 40 students canoed down the Annapolis River, and King's Teaching Fellow Ron Haflidson gave a series of talks on “The Poetry of Nature: Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver.”

In January, Dr. Wayne Hankey, Carnegie Professor of Classics and Chairman of the Dalhousie Classics Department, explored the idea of divine providence in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. He offered three important meditations on “God’s Care for Us: The Common Doctrine of Holy Scripture, Faith, and Reason as taught in The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius and The Guide of the Perplexed of Moses Maimonides.” For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, our guest preacher was Dr. Alexander Treiger, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Dalhousie. His challenging homilies focused on the scriptural images prominent in the liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Also, the Chapel supported the St. Andrew’s Missionary Society in its community outreach work.

These and many other activities helped the Chapel continue as an important space for diverse community and student involvement on campus ~ Benjamin Lee and Dan Wilband

Canoe Retreat

The Chapel is one of the many things that makes King’s such a unique University. The members of the Chapel are welcoming and supporting to each individual. I always felt comfortable attending any kind of Chapel event, and some of my best memories from university were made in the Chapel.

The canoe retreat in the fall of '08 was one of my most memorable experiences during my four years as an undergraduate student at Dalhousie. I ended up going on it on a ~ Emma Norton whim literally five minutes before the bus was leaving, only really knowing the Blackwoods and one or two others. It ended up being a practically spiritual experience out there on the Annapolis River in the midst of an extraordinary Nova Scotian weekend (and I'm not a Christian, which is a testament to the openness of the Anglican Church at King’s). I feel lucky to have been a part of it and met some really interesting people during the trip. ~ Ben Porta

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The King’s Theatrical Society has been a vibrant and active society at King’s for nearly 80 years. It is the largest society on campus and one of the largest university theatre societies in Canada. The kts is a theatre society run by and for students. It has two stages at King’s: The Pit (under the Chapel) and the Red Room, also known as the kts Lecture Hall, in the new Academic Building. For the first show of the year, Classics in the Quad, kts uses the Library steps as the stage for a Greek play. Each year, kts stages about a dozen productions, each running for four nights. In January, kts has a Fringe Festival that features exclusively student-written plays. This past year, the kts audiences saw a wide range of shows, from Sarah Ruhl’s classically inspired Eurydice to David Mamet’s famously vulgar Glengarry Glen Ross, as well as Romeo and Juliet, Camino Real, and the musical, Urinetown. At King’s, the classroom and the stage aren’t very far apart. Questions raised in Foundation Year lectures are brought to the stage in plays like God by Woody Allen.

The kts is run by an executive of students who are elected at the end of each year, but the plays are proposed, directed, acted and teched by students. It is a unique and creative environment that produces wonderful, evocative theatre. ~ Ailsa Galbreath

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The King’s Concert Collective was started this year by Tim Blackwood and his friend, Ted Williams. Blackwood moved back into residence, where he set up base camp for the society. Williams also practically ended up living in the small attic room in Cochran Bay where the two friends worked around the clock, recruiting musicians as well as creating and promoting events. The KCC had so much hype that within a few months, it had grown to one of the largest societies at King’s.

Students packed the Wardroom for monthly open mic nights, squeezed into the Senior Common Room for weekly jamborees, and participated in candlelight concerts in the Chapel.

Blackwood’s strong ties with King’s musicians through the KCC helped him launch Bob Dylan Day, which earned over $2,000 for Halifax Humanities 101. He lined up over 20 musical acts for the event and arranged for Dr. Angus Johnston to host what was the biggest Wardroom event of the year.

This was one of several fundraisers for local charities that King’s musicians participated in under the leadership of the King’s Concert Collective.

King’s administration and faculty members supported the KCC, attending its events, and Erik Liddell, Ian Stewart, Dave Puxley, Chris Elson and Dan Wilband performed on a regular basis.

“This kind of talent has always been here but it just needed some people to organize it,” said King’s veteran musician Ben Caplan at one of the monthly open mics.

Indeed, music was very lively on campus this year because the KCC gave musicians the chance to meet, jam, and form bands. Probably the most memorable of these groups is the pirate band, New Providence, who, after meeting through KCC functions, soon began holding concerts and recording an album.

The KCC is an outstanding example of what is possible when upper-year students work hard to support student life on campus and when the community comes together to support something it enjoys.

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Interview with Dr. William Barker, President of the University of King’s College

What things are foremost in your mind when you think back over the year?

I’ll start at the beginning of the year. Dr. Wayne Hankey gave a talk about King’s that explained the essential difference between King’s and a typical university.

In the Middle Ages, there were the collegium and the universitas, and he was able to explain the difference. This talk left an impression that stayed with me the whole year.

Among the things that happened during the year was the Dance Collective’s extraordinary performance, which brought dancers of all levels of ability together in one community.

Music became a significant focal point of the University this year. The King’s Concert Collective saw its first year of existence, and their accomplishments made me much more aware of music’s place on campus, due in no small part to Tim Blackwood’s urging. Of the many fruits born out of this music was a band called New Providence. Their level of musical ability saw a big improvement in just one year. The amount of music performed by individuals at formal meals and Big Night was more than I had ever seen at King’s in five years.

This is the first year that the Contemporary Studies Party got a ticket from the police for excessive noise, which was a big moment for them, the College, and myself, as we each paid one-third of the ticket. I feel that I got to know the senior level students fairly well.

Looking at this year’s graduating class, whom for the last four years I’ve interacted with on a regular basis, I feel I know them better than other senior classes.

When you get to know students one-onone, you are more aware of the energy that they bring to the College, and this

year’s senior class and their energy will be missed.

This is the year when we went head-tohead with other universities on experience. It was a big moment to get results and realize that we were actually the leader in Canada for first-year university experience, and we’re deeply competitive with other schools we don’t normally measure ourselves beside. It’s great to think King’s is somewhat of a threat to other institutions, because we’re very small, but what we do, we do well. And that comes down to the various people who take the moral life of the institution seriously and are willing to be vocal about certain issues.

There are sometimes disagreements, but these only arise out of the regard for the institution’s moral life.

The biggest thing that concerned the college this year was the budget, which affected everyone. Starting off, the faculty had a discussion regarding their pensions, downsizing, changing things; this contributed to a clearer sense of priorities. By year’s end, the faculty voted on plans to start the School of Humanities, which looks at the organization of our upperyear courses and opens the possibility of offering new courses to attract students from Dalhousie. Also, the History of Science and Technology has entered a relationship with the School of Engineering and will be offering new courses this upcoming year.

Is there anything you look forward to in the coming year?

I really look forward to the faculty discussion on the School of Humanities, which will be very exciting. I think it’s something that emerges from the University’s culture, while at the same time does not reject it. The other big concern was

space, which we lack here. The music students, especially the executive of the Concert Collective, were quick to point that out, particularly in regard to practice locations. People have been getting by, but more needs to be done, and now we have a plan to deal with the situation, while watching Dalhousie at the same time.

It’s weird­—at the beginning of the year, I thought, “Okay, I’m starting my sixth year at King’s (my year of renewal) and thought I had finally kind of figured the place out, but by February, I realized I hadn’t.” I’m sure this feeling happens to just about everyone here, but the institution has surprises for newcomers and old-timers. The college experience is one of constant questioning, learning, and growing, and my six years at King’s have developed in such a manner.

Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Edwards, Director of the Contemporary Studies Programme

What was special about the year? Who was on sabbatical? What classes were taught?

With many of the faculty on sabbatical, including Gordon McOuat, Dorota Glowacka and Neil Robertson, we were operating on a skeleton staff. Nervousness aside, we were really happy to have Georgy Levit join the teaching staff, filling in for Gordon McOuat. Not only did Dr. Levit teach in HOST, he also taught several courses in Contemporary Studies, including Science and Culture in the 20th Century (CSP 3000). He is very deserving of praise for his extensive contributions this year.

The CSP party was among the highlights of the year, but I’ve had to cut

the funding of the party due to the budget crisis. It’s going to be very sad to go on without the CSP party. If it’s going to go forward, it will have to be on a different basis than previously.

We’re looking at an increased number of students in the early registration process, and consequently, more students. We’re really happy about this and believe the students will have a great time, partly because all the professors on sabbatical are returning.

It was a great privilege for me to teach Deconstruction of Tradition (CSP 4000) while being Director. All 46 students were intensely bright and engaged in the discussions of the seminar. It is students such as these who give me an

appreciation of how CSP shapes the minds of those who go through by the end of the year.

We had several new classes. We like to offer specialized seminars, particularly from FYP tutors, so any year, we have a steady number of new classes coming in or being continued. Next year, I am really looking forward to teaching a film class titled “Modern Film and Theory of Gaze.”

I would also like to put in some good words for the CSP Society, which organized the yearly student speaker series for students and invited faculty. They also did great job with their publication, Hinge.

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Interview with Dr. Peggy Heller, Director of the Foundation Year Programme (FYP)

The music dimension was special this year.

The King’s Theatrical Society (KTS) has always been a landmark, but music students have not had such a way to organize previously. There have been so many wonderful KTS productions, but they are always associated with the entire student body, whereas I associate the musical flowering of this year with the first-year students. It’s surprising how many FYP students are musical. I suspect that music may become as important as theater in the future.

If I think back on this year, I think that the band New Providence, Bob Dylan Day, and the kind of emergence of musical personalities will be things I remember. There are so many musical tutors. Somehow all the music going on has brought out the tutors. They’ve had some great parties and brought together a collection of people, more than I have ever remembered.

FYP is so scripted, it’s like this juggernaut every two weeks, where we strike people down who want to be creative with their essays. They should be intellectually creative, but if they wanted to do a dialogue or something, it doesn’t work. It is necessary that there’s a strong segment in life where they’re self-generating, not just part of a whole thing.

Another memorable thing is the survey that was done two years ago. King’s has never been noticed in the Maclean’s university ranking results because it’s always been included with Dalhousie. Maclean’s was reporting on another survey in which King’s was scored separately from Dalhousie.

Another thing that marked this year was the unexpected number of withdrawals in September. When King’s looked at the end of the year, there were actually more students than ever before to graduate from FYP. Those who decided to drop

out did so at the beginning of the year instead of prolonging the agony. There are some people who, at a certain point, decide that they don’t like it. It’s unfortunate that they can’t be persuaded. Then there are some people who come to university who like the lifestyle but don’t finish the course work. They don’t finish the essays and never intend to. Some people probably should have had a break after high school. They are kind of pushed to come right after high school, so they don’t do the work as a kind of protest. It’s the first year you’re usually not living with your parents. It’s their first year of freedom in a certain sense, and then you have FYP, and sometimes it doesn’t quite mesh.

Is there something you look forward to this coming year as Director or in teaching?

One thing I am looking forward to is Neil Robertson doing the second section of FYP for the first time ever. I think it will be interesting and rich.

I have to be careful about the budget, because I am rethinking the decision to drop the extra FYP lectures. It’s nice for the FYP to interact with the world. I’m looking forward to the new FYP website, where we might be able to put podcasts of the extra FYP lectures. There are also alumni in some areas like Toronto who want to have reading groups, which would help connect us with the world outside of King’s.

Is there any thing you’re thinking about changing in the future?

This year, there was more effort initiated by the Vice-President and the Registrar to help people in FYP understand what their options are after they complete the program. There are more people returning to King’s than the year before. I

tried to explain the relation King’s has to Dalhousie, so when they are at Dalhousie they’re still there as King’s students Is there anything memorable about the students -perhaps their writing? You have to approve their papers, so you get to see a lot of the fine work that students do here in the Foundation Year Programme. Is there anything you would like to comment about on that -- something unique?

I don’t want to say I discern a trend one way or another; I think a paper is a paper.

This is not a comparison to another year.

In a kind of absolute way, I’m struck by how amazing it is that our students can write such thoughtful papers about quotes such as, “Heidegger says that Dasein is being held open to the nothing,” and then write wonderful papers about this quote.

This is miraculous to me. I’m just amazed that first-year students are even reading this stuff, let alone being able to talk about it. How many people in North America or in the world can do that at age 18? I don’t think it was more miraculous this year then it has been in other years. When I look at my CSP papers, I marvel at how people can think like this; it’s amazing to me. I think these papers are more sophisticated than any that my colleagues and I ever did at that age. They have said if we look back at our first year essays, they seem kind of naïve and underdeveloped. This sophistication may sound like a façade; however, it is sign that reveals a surprising depth and clarity for the student’s ability to look at what is real.

It is overwhelming at this time of the year; I feel as though I have lost my memory, because there are all the shortterm things to worry about. But FYP is great and so is the University, and it’s fun because you can do little things to make a difference.

Interview with Dr. Stephen Snobelen, Director of the History of Science and Technology Programme

This year, we have some new initiatives in HOST. Probably the biggest thing that is happening right now is the two brandnew courses, in history of engineering and technology respectively, which will be taught for the first time next year.

The engineering course will be a writing requirement course, so we’re going to get students just because of that. We really feel that it’s the mandate of HOST to teach these sorts of courses. HOST is the history of science as well as technology, and one thing that I’d like to stress is that we want to increase the technology component of what we teach. This has been difficult for us to do until recently, when Mélanie Frappier joined the department. Mélanie has her first degree in engineering and physics, which is very demanding, and it is no surprise that this gives her credibility when she goes to the engineering school. While we in many respects fit into the King’s paradigm,

teaching interdisciplinary material in philosophy, history, and literature, our main focus is science, which sets HOST apart.

Another course that we offered this year for the first time was our science fiction film class, which I teach. We had 87 students in its inaugural year, which was quite gratifying. I asked for a show of hands on the very first day and said, “How many of you are taking a King’s course for the first time?” and all but 10 people put their hands up. This is exactly what we wanted. We want people at Dalhousie to know more about our courses, because a lot of students at Dalhousie are under the illusion that they can’t take King’s courses.

We really like the combination of arts and science students in the same classroom; often in academia you don’t get that mix. They are two separate disciplines, which we bring together, as well as Dalhousie and King’s.

This year, we have a new guest professor, Georgy Levit, who is from St. Petersburg, Russia. He is a philosopher and historian of biology who is wellregarded internationally, having published a considerable number of works. Georgy taught a number of classes, including “The Biosphere,” “Darwinism,” and “Science and Culture,” and he is a HOST instructor. As a native of Russia and earning his higher degrees in Germany, Georgy brought a European tone to what we do. I think it enriches the experience for the students in both departments. It’s really nice that we have him here, and he’ll be here for three years.

Also, HOST Professor Gordon McOuat has been doing research this year in Berlin at the Max Planck Institute and heading up the Strategic Knowledge Cluster Grant for Canadian and international scholars. Dr. McOuat will be back next year to teach his class on Darwin.

Interview with Dr. Simon Kow, Director of the Early Modern Studies Programme A Few Thoughts about the Year The EMSP society was active. They teamed up with the CSP Society for the first time to hold a joint lecture series that related to the time between the early modern and contemporary periods. As usual, we had very active, lively small classes, which is the signature of EMSP. There were very interesting honours theses, which included “Conceptions of self in Montaigne and Rousseau,” “The Count of Monte Cristo in the French Revolution,” and “Conceptions of Punishment in the 18th Century.”

This was one of the most musical years because of Erik Liddell’s musical talents.

His renaissance talents contributed not just to EMSP but also to the Foundation

Acceptance Speech Judge Elliott J. Hudson Award: Alumni Hall First, I would like to add my personal thanks to Mrs. Joy Smith for being with us here tonight.

I expect most persons present in the audience tonight can imagine my emotions upon receiving this Award, standing before you, my fellow Alumni, in this old hall, filled as it is with the echoes of so many memories.

This Award is a compliment of the highest order. I feel grateful, surprised and overwhelmed, especially when I read the names of the past recipients.

I wish to thank the Alumni Association for this Honour from the bottom of my heart. In a person’s life, especially a businessman’s life, one is able to touch the Magic things on only rare occasions.

Such a time was the academic year of 1968-1969 when I, being one of the tiny number of business majors in all of King’s, found myself Treasurer of the Student’s

Year Programme and student life.

Faculty in and out of town This year, Kathryn Morris was on maternity leave and Neil Robertson was on sabbatical. Erik Liddell graciously came in to teach a full course load during his last year at King’s, and we will miss him a lot. He taught a class on love and society from Shakespeare. Martin Thibodeau taught a course on aesthetic theory, amongst others.

New classes Tom Curran is teaching a course on German Romanticism from Goethe to Hegel. I am teaching a class on movies in different historical settings, all the way

Union. That year the undergraduate enrollment at King’s had declined to a disastrous 90 persons. That year under the brilliant, iconoclastic leadership of Student Union President Bill Bryant an eclectic, motley and highly argumentative group of students undertook a campaign to reverse that decline.

Through these efforts a 1969-1970 freshman class numbering 125 was signed up and our extinction was postponed. Now, this was not the turnaround King’s needed—that came later with the introduction of the Foundation year program—but the University’s downward spiral was broken and a stable, economic student population was re-established.

Many of the leaders of that campaign missed passing their academic year but the Magic of doing something that was pure, unselfish and good made it a worthwhile sacrifice. I will always be grateful for that memory and that time which King’s gave to me.

Now I see some New Alumni are with us tonight and while joining in the

from feudal Japan to post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Kathryn Morris is back teaching her very popular class on witchcraft and a new class on atheism, as well as the third-year core class. Neil Robertson is back to teach the 2000-level core class and the fourth-year aesthetic theory honours seminar.

What should students look for in the coming year?

Dr. Kow has a forthcoming book is Rousseau and Desire, which he co-edited with two former King’s professors, Mark Blackell and John Duncan. After it is published by the University of Toronto Press, the book will be available at the King’s Bookstore.

welcome to them from us all I would also like to share a few insights about the world they are now entering. Remember University is not real life. Real life is Junior High. Also, remember that Politics is no more than a Competition for Dominance between the Business Class and the Knowledge Class, or, as you have known them in University, the Frat Types and the High IQ’s.

Last, remember that the best way for you to get a good job is to have a job already, no matter how humble and that prospective employers are just like Banks—they don’t want to talk to anyone who really needs them.

In closing I would ask that we all seated here tonight recall words taken from a poem by Hillaire Belloc: From quiet homes and first beginnings. We reach the undiscovered end. With nothing worth the wage of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ~ Thank you.

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