Two v1ews of Guelph and a new career
Brad Inglis with his mother, Grace, and sister, jennifer.
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RAD INGLIS, BA '91, WORKED FOR 19 YEARS in social services at the senior management level before taking a break to follow his entrepreneurial dream. With his mom as a business partner, he has opened an eclectic little store in Guelph's Speedvale Mall called What's in the Pantry. He says his U of G days gave him a different perspective on his hometown and a greater appreciation for the steady stream of new people coming to the city each year. "New people mean new ideas, different ways of doing things and new business opportunities;' he says. With this in mind, he chose the 1950s plaza to set up his store. It was part of his neighbourhood while growing up in an area popular with young University professors and their families. Inglis says this was the outskirts of town in the 1950s and 1960s. Before the plaza was built, the site was the home of the local drive-in theatre. "Going to the University of Guelph created a whole new window into what was right in my own backyard and not only prepared me for my first career but also planted the seed and equipped me for my next one!"
fidential information to a West Virginia scrapyard appeared in the Globe and Mail and on CTV. The story was a runnerup in the National Newspaper Awards last june and was nominated for an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists. Akin grew up in Guelph and started his journalism career at the Ontarian. He has worked for several Canadian newspapers and has been CTV's political reporter since February 2005.
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• Michelle (Jones) Axford, B.Sc.(Agr.) '94, and her husband, Michael, live southeast of Melbourne, Australia, and run a 220-cow dairy farm with their two children. She says we started something by asking who had the most Guelph grads and students at their wedding. There were 41 Guelph grads at the Axfords' ceremony in July 1999. "With one or two exceptions, they were aJI OAC grads," she writes. "This doesn't include my brother and several younger
cousins who began their studies at Guelph since 1999. I am the oldest of four children; three of us are OAC grads and three of the 'in-laws' are also OAC grads." Axford guesses correctly that there are others who can top 41. Check out the photo at the bottom of page 37. • Catherine Bancroft, BA '96, has co-edited a book of women's travel stories and written a story for it from her own experiences. 011tside the Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories was published last fall by Second Story Press in Toronto. Bancroft has lived in Zimbabwe and has travelled throughout Asia. When not travelling or writing, she is a social worker in Toronto. • Mark BeJJetrutti, B.Sc. '97, is a pediatrician and recently started specialty training in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton. He and his wife, Joelle, have two daughters, Anne-Marie and Vanessa, who was born July 5, 2005. They can be reached at mbeJJetr@ hotmail.com. • Ian Chisholm, B.Sc. '95, is a biologist with Health Canada in Ottawa. He was married on Thanksgiving weekend 2005. • Chris Courneya, B.Sc.(Agr.) '94, has won an Ottawa Business Award for his work as president of prairie Pyre Software. He was recognized for his contributions to the company's expansion worldwide and for encouraging company involvement in local and international charities. A community volunteer himself, he has edited Hockey Made Easy, an instructional manual targeted at coaches, parents and chi ldren, for more than seven years. • Kendra (Arthur) Craig, B.Sc.(H.K.) '90, was married in July 2003 to Gord Craig, and they have a year-old daughter,
Carlene Grace. The Craigs live on a small farm outside Exeter, Ont., and Kendra co-owns a therapy clinic caJJed Bio-Connections Health Care Clinic. • Sheila Gardiner, B.Sc. '94, began her career at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Virginia, working as a field assistant, reproductive physiology lab technician and GIS lab administrator and instructor. She returned to Ontario in 1998 and graduated from Ridgetown College with an associate diploma in veterinary technology in 2000. She worked as a registered veterinary technician m Oakville, Ont., and Burnaby, B.C., but is now employed at Energix Research, Inc. in Burnaby. She also volunteers at the Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre in Langley and invites friends to contact her at a6a3000@telus.net. • Pamela Jacobs, B.Sc. '88 and M.Sc. '90, began a new job last May as associate university librarian in collection resources at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. • Anne Joselin, B.Sc.(Agr.) '90, lives in Sydney, Australia, and works for Samaritan's Purse, a Christian relief and development agency. She'd love to hear from any Guelph grads in the area via e-mail: anne@incantatem.com. • Heather (Musgrave) Kenalty, B.Sc. '98, was one of the mystery skaters pictured in the fall 2005 Portico. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry since graduation and is now with Serono Canada, a Swiss biotech company. She was married in 2001 to Brendan Kenalty, and they have two sons, Keagan, 3, and Ayden, 1. • Harry Kerr, ODH '98, received the Star of Life Award for his outstanding work in