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B.Sc. ’79, is a secondary school teacher at Waitakere College in New Zealand. She and her husband, Steve, have three children — Philip, Charlotte and Genevieve — and a small livestock block where she has bred some Hanoverian horses. ■ Linda Manning, BA ’75, lives and writes in Cobourg, Ont., where she recently taught an eight-week course in creative writing.Two of her children’s plays, Marcie Saves the Circus and What Do You Do With a Dinosaur?, have been listed by the Playwrights Guild of Canada in a new online catalogue called Scripted for Schools. ■ Patricia Nuttall, B.Sc. ’78, moved to England more than 20 years ago and is a patient services manager at the BMI Bath Clinic. She says she’d love to hear from wildlife biology students who graduated around 1978. Her e-mail is nuttallpatricia@yahoo.com. ■ Sandra Richards, B.A.Sc. ’79, is a secondary school teacher in Port Hope, Ont., teaching hospitality and tourism and social science. ■ Constance Roy, B.Sc. ’76, is a nurse in Powell River, B.C., and welcomes e-mail from other grads at nmconstance@net scape.net. ■ Margaret Sadler, BA ’71, and her husband, Marcus Busch, have returned to Alberta after their third year-long sabbatical of volunteer service.They spent 1992/1993 in northern Japan, 2000/2001 in Mauritania and 2007/2008 in Cambodia.The second and third sabbaticals were with the Lutheran World Federation Department for World Service.“It’s a great way to learn more about the world,” says Sadler. “We can’t recommend it highly enough. Why isn’t everyone doing this?” ■ Paul Valeriote, BA ’73, is
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and is currently at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont. ■ Barbara (Dyer) James, BA ’75, is an indoor air quality specialist and a provincial judge of sailing in Quebec. She has been judging since 1995 and qualified as a national-level judge in 2008. She also competes three times a week in inter-club racing and led her team to the women’s nationals in October. ■ Ric Jordan, BA ’75, is manager of U of G’s Arboretum and is serving a three-year term on the University’s Board of Governors. ■ Suffian Kargbo, M.Sc. ’79, was featured in a three-part interview published in Sierra Leone’s online Patriotic Vanguard on Jan. 7 and 20 and Feb. 17. The article is about his political career as a member of parliament for his home district of Tonkolili. He was first elected in 1982 after a distinguished career that included serving as Sierra Leone’s first national soil scientist to work at the Land Resources Surveying Project (later the Land and Water Development Division) and as director general in the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Forestry. Kargbo told Patriotic Vanguard that he always enjoyed his chosen profession but never intended to be a politician.Thirty years later, he still represents his constituency, now called #64, as chair of the parliament’s agriculture and food security committee. In the Vanguard feature, Kargbo talks about his political philosophy and his role in Sierra Leone’s last war, the sugar scandal of 1987 and the Green Revolution. Read the whole series at www.thepatrioticvanguard.com. ■ Vickie (Bennett) Lawson,
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ouise Kent, BA ’02, is a singer-songwriter and motivational speaker who has spoken to more than 100,000 people since becoming a Free the Children ambassador in 2004. She has a passion for mentorship, a degree in international development and first-hand experience of living conditions in disadvantaged communities in Guyana, China and India. Now she’s taken on a new challenge as executive director and a performer for Me to We Music, the socially conscious music label of Canada’s Free the Children enterprise. She performed for 8,000 youth at last October’s National Me to We Day in Toronto and launched her debut album, The Small Things, in November. In addition, she produced a YouTube music video that jumped to No. 1 in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, Poland, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands and Brazil. Through her music and her speaking tours, Kent is encouraging ethical living and social responsibility while helping to fund the organization’s development initiatives. www.metowe.com/music.
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director of sales for Guardian Mobility, based in Ottawa. He has held more than 35 different jobs since graduation and encourages others to embrace change in their lives. He is president of his local Rotary Club and a member of the board of directors of the Centre for the Arts in Elora, Ont.
■ Arlene Wilcock, B.A.Sc. ’75, is a competition law officer with the Competition Bureau of Canada in Hamilton, Ont. She says she’s proud that her daughter, Angela Musico, B.A.Sc. ’07, followed her to Guelph. Musico completed a dietetic internship with Hamilton Health Sciences last August
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