launched after graduation to a 30-person organization. Dymaxium was among the top 100 fastest-growing companies in Canada in 2002 and won several international design awards. • Connie Powers, BA '92, is a teacher with the Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board. She teaches music and language to intermediate grades. Last year, she taught ESL in the Sultanate of Oman and will be leaving to teach in Hong Kong in September 2005. She and her husband, Tom, enjoy international teaching and are glad to be doing it as a team. They have two daughters now attending university. Powers would like to hear from other musicians/classmates at powersconnie@yahoo.ca. • Brad Rooney, B.Sc.(Agr.) '97, and his wife, Shelly (Nicholson), B.Sc.(Agr.), '97, announce the birth of their second daughter, Tressa Grace, April29, 2004. They have an older daughter, Ainsley, and live in Ajax, Ont., where Brad works in wholesale sales for Sheridan Nurseries. They look forward to hearing from other members of"Team Hart '97" at therooneys@sympatico.ca. • Deborah (Matthews) Rumble, BA '95, sent this photo of a CSSSG party in the mid-1990s.
Deborah Rumble, front left, and friends
Matthews is using her psychology degree as a volunteer administrator for First Step Trust, a mental health charity
in the United Kingdom, where she is also training for the London Marathon. • Blaine Sack, B.Sc. '97, has been living in the Ottawa area for the last three years and is a quality-control technician for MDS Nordion in Kanata. He is also director of music at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Stittsville. • Michael Sedlak, B.Sc. '99 and M.Sc. '01, is assistant manager of research and development at Iovate Health Sciences Research Inc. , formerly known as MuscleTech Research & Development, in Mississauga, Ont. Mike asks that former classmates who remember the good times they had in "tox" contact him at m ichael.sedlak@iovate.com. • Tyrone Sluymers, B.Sc. '94, and his wife, Stephanie, are expecting their first child this spring. He is an elementary school teacher, and last summer, they moved into their dream home located within their own IS-acre forest in Hampton, Ont. He'd like to hear from old U of G friends at tyrone_sluymers@hotma.il.com. • Lyndon Stewart, B.Sc.(Agr.) '92 and M.Sc. '95, his wife, Tina, and children, Vanessa and Carson, launched their own company in 2004 to provide project management, succession planning, real estate management and business development and management. Lyndon Stewart and Associates is also developing and managing a multi-unit student housing project in Guelph. Living in Waterloo, Ont., since 1998, he has been active in the 4H Foundation and the OAC Alumni Association. Reach him at lyndon@lyndonstewart.com. • Janet Thompson, BA '97, began a career in advertising after graduating from U of G. She spent six years in Toronto,
four with Leo Burnett Canada, then relocated to New York City, where she works for Ogilvy and Mather on the Kraft account.
2000 • Marcy Wright, B.Sc. '97, has moved to Switzerland with her husband, Christopher Taylor, and one-year-old son, Lucas. She began a post-doctoral position at the University of Geneva in January and is expecting a second child in May. • Michael Doran, B.Sc. '01, is an environmental consultant and distributor of environmental technologies for MC2 Solutions in Peterborough, Ont. He says he "enjoyed my time, education, community and life at Guelph. It really helped to form me into who I am today and provided a great experience." • Erin Giles, B.Sc. '00, has spent the last four years at McMaster University, where she is completing PhD research in the medical soences program, looking into the molecular mechanisms involved when cancer cells invade and destroy healthy tissues. She plans to pursue a career as a research scientist in an academic setting. • Jennifer Graveline, BA '00, is making wedding plans for her Oct. 29 marriage to Kent Sheridan. They live in Uxbridge, Ont. • Kim Hinder, BA '00, and Matt Goodman, BA '01, became engaged in December 2004; the wedding is planned for spring 2006. • Leonard Jackson, BA '00, is working on a PhD at Oklahoma State University and writing a textbook on revenue management. • Garth Munz, B.Sc.(Agr.) '01, says six of the eight employees at Guelph's Richard Cote Consulting are U of G graduates, and most of them have been involved in the massive physi-
cal movement of scientific equipment and materials required by Guelph's science complex construction. Munz spent several months last fall supervising renovations and relocations from the old Chemistry and Microbiology Building into the MacNaughton Building and, later, into Phase I of the science complex. • David Schmidt, BA '02, and Vanessa Cotterell, B.Sc.(Env.) '00, met in their final years at U
David Schmidt and Vanessa Cotterel
of G and were married last July in Vanessa's home town of Campbellton, N.B. After a short time away to complete further education, they've moved back to Guelph to start their married life and careers. She's an elementary school French teacher; he's a GIS technician. • Jennifer Truax, B.Sc. '01, and Dan Lamarre welcomed their first child, Paige Marilyn Lamarre, Feb. 3, 2005. They live in Lindsay, Ont. • Wesley Wright, B.Sc. '00 and BA '00, earned an M.A.Sc. in environmental engineering from the University of Toronto in 2003. He works in project engineering for the environmental infrastructure department of Stantec Consulting Ltd. in Mississauga, Ont., where he lives with his partner, Wendy Yen, BA '00 . Wright invites classmates to contact them at wes_wright@yahoo.com.
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