working for the last five years as a seasonal park ranger in Alberta' s Kananaskis Country.
Suzy Rosenstein, BA '86 and MA '89, says she found happiness through the classifieds. She met her husband, David Esser, through a personal ad. They ' ve been married for a year and a half and celebrated the birth of their son, Maxwell Jacob, in August. The family also includes Hundleby the cat and Yoffi the golden retriever. She has been working in the field of public health since graduation, in areas such as heart health, tobacco use and substanceabuse prevention. John Span, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 80, is the marketing and research director for Carlisle Technology, a bar-coding and data-collection systems integrator based in Burlington, Ont. Prior to this appointment, he was a freelance horticultural photographer with clients in the nursery and landscape industries . He still maintains his stock library and speaks frequently to horticultural groups. He and bis wife, Anne Lavallee, have two sons, Joel and Caleb.
Amy (Bundy) Speers, BA '86, is a retail lending manager in Orillia, Ont. She and her husband, Jamie, have two-year-old twins, Erin and Cody. Freeman Sweazey, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 87, is an RCMP officer who was recently transferred to the North-
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Lorraine (Pieck) Tawfik, B.Sc. ' 80, is a PhD student in materials science engineering in the Department of Orthopedics at SUNY in Stony Brook, N.Y. She also teaches two math courses at Suffolk Community College in Long Island. Gregory Vis, Dip.(Agr.) '84, is senior marketing manager for International Thomson Publishing in Albany, N.Y. He and his wife, Nancy, have a one-yearold son, Samuel James. Karen Warkentin, B.Sc. '85, worked for several years after graduation as a naturalist, then completed an M.Sc. in biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She is now doing a doctorate in zoology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field work deals with the life history of red-eyed tree frogs in Corcovado National Park, which is located in the rainforest of Costa Rica. Not long ago, CBC radio's Quirks and Quarks aired a story about her observations of escape hatching - tadpoles hatching early when attacked by egg-eating snakes. Ellen Woodley, B.Sc.(Agr.) '80 and M .Sc. '91 , is a CUSO volunteer stationed in the Solomon Islands. She is involved in CUSO ' s social justice movement in the South Pacific, aimed at helping local community groups fight for individual rights. Woodley is helping islanders retain their culture by working with the College of Higher Education and a government department.
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Moira Brown, PhD '95, has been appointed assistant professor of biology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She is continuing her research on the genetics of right whales.
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Jennifer Bull, B.Sc. ' 94, is working on a master's degree in wood science at the University of British Columbia and will be studying at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada, located on the UBC campus. Karen (Focht), DVM '93, and George Catt, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 91, live at Brownsville, Ont. George farms at the family dairy operation; Karen practises at the Wellington Animal Hospital in Woodstock. Jeff Charron, B.Sc.(H.K.) '91, earned a degree from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto earlier this year. He and his wife, Debra, now live in Windsor. Kelly Cunningham, B.A.Sc. '92, supervises customer relations and catering operations in the nutriGuelph Alumnus