Family pride in U of G grads
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ichael and Elisabeth Maynard have seen three of their four children graduate from U of G, including Alison Maynard, centre, who received a BA in political science this summer. She has since travelled to Brazil to volunteer with Mulheres Mils, a program run by the Brazilian government to empower disadvantaged women, and then to Palmas in Tocantins state to teach English at a private school. Alison’s sister, Lindsay, BA ’04, was also bitten by the travel bug, working in Banff, Alta., and teaching English in Japan before returning to Ryerson University to complete an MFA. She taught at George Brown and Sheridan colleges and now lives in Fredericton, N.B., where her parents have relocated after raising their family in Barrie, Ont. Nathan, BA ’07, earned his Guelph degree in studio art. He is now studying advertising and graphic design at Humber College in Toronto. The youngest Maynard sibling is Sebastian, a Grade 11 student who has yet to decide where to begin post-secondary education.
went on to earn a master’s degree in theological studies, specializing in pastoral counselling, at Wilfrid Laurier University in 1998. She recently opened a private practice in Guelph as a registered marriage and family therapist offering individual, couple and sex therapy.
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Kim Anderson, PhD ’10, plays a leadership role in an aboriginal health research project at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and is raising two children with Dave Dornan. A Cree Métis
writer and educator, Anderson received the University’s prestigious Brock Scholarship for doctoral research in 2005. ■ Martha Archibald, BA ’02,
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has moved to London, England, to pursue a master’s degree in human rights at City University. Previously, she interned at two human rights organizations in the Philippines and volunteered with Amnesty International for three years in Ottawa. ■ John Dempster, B.Sc.’00, has opened an integrated holistic health care centre in Toronto (www.thedempsterclinic.com) to integrate naturopathic and traditional medicine practices and to promote disease prevention through proactive health care. ■ Shannon Gregg, B.Sc. ’09, received her bachelor of education from Queen’s University in June. She lives in Ajax, Ont., and works as an occasional teacher with the Durham Catholic District School Board. ■ Jenna Healey, BA ’09, continues her education in a University of Toronto master’s program in history and philosophy. ■ Valerie Hawke, B.Sc.(H.K.) ’01, is a physiotherapist in Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia. She and her husband, Brian, welcomed their first child, Matthew Jack, on Sept. 11. ■ Heather (McCready), B.Comm. ’05, and Jeremy Hertel, M.Sc. ’05, were married in Guelph in 2008. They both work at The Co-operators in the communications and actuarial departments and celebrated the arrival of baby Jake on July 25. ■ Alisha Janzen, DVM ’04, graduated in June with a master’s degree in veterinary science from the University of Saskatchewan, Western College of Veterinary Medicine. ■ Andrew Kaszowski, BAA ’06, was elected to the University of Guelph Alumni Association board of directors this past summer. A communications specialist at St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ont., he is the first University of Guelph-
Humber graduate to serve on the alumni board. ■ Kristen Keller, BA ’07, has embarked on a cross-Canada journey called the “Coast-toCoast Couch-Surfing Robot Tour” in which she is helping special-needs children build moving, art-making robots. She has traversed Nunavut and is now travelling from the East Coast to British Columbia to teach 15,000 kids at 250 schools how to make robots out of recycled materials. Find out more at www.kristenkeller.org. ■ Allen Kharlip, B.Comm. ’08, is director of marketing at Green Earth Solutions Inc. (www.GreenIsIn.ca), a green energy management company in Concord, Ont. ■ Mackenzie Kinmond, BA ’05, worked in Africa and England after graduation and is now completing a master’s program in social work at York University. ■ Kristopher Mask, B.Sc. ’00, and his wife, Tania, of Windsor, Ont., welcome new baby Alexander Lucas, born April 29. ■ Mitch McKechnie, B.Comm. ’06, has started his own landscaping business called Superior Stone Designs and Installations (www.superiorstone.ca) in Burlington, Ont. ■ Meredith Owen, B.Sc. ’04, graduated from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Dentistry in Nov. 2009. She received the Dr. Bruce Maxwell Medal, an academic merit scholarship in restorative dentistry, in her last year and was also the faculty’s nominee for the University Convocation Medal. She is practising dentistry and tutoring second-year dental students in Sydney. She would love to get in touch with friends from U of G and can be contacted at emily_meredith@hotmail.com. ■ Judith Samuels, MBA ’06,
is manager of corporate communications at Maritz Canada Inc. in Mississauga, Ont.
ADA TANG ■ Ada Tang, B.Sc.(Eng.) ’05, and Libra Yeung, B.Sc. ’06, were married July 10 and live
in Markham, Ont. They met at a bus stop while they were students at U of G. Tang works in the natural health products industry and Yeung works as a pharmaceutical consultant. ■ Julia Vandepolder, BA ’09, had her work featured at The Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto. Her oil-on-panel paintings depict abandoned architectural structures through abstracted layers of colour and texture. ■ Dylan White, B.Sc.(Env.) ’09, is part of a 14-man crew that will row unassisted across the Atlantic Ocean to raise money for charity. The crew left
Morocco in December, planning to arrive in Barbados in 30 days: www.row4survival.com. ■ David Wilson, B.Comm. ’07, is a senior associate at KPMG Financial Institutions. He says the B.Comm. program at U of G offered him “a unique experience which enabled me to focus my area of specialization beyond what other universities offered.” ■ Valery Woloshyn, B.Sc.(Eng.) ’03, and Debanjan Mookerjea, B.Sc.(Eng.) ’02, served as panelists at the Consulting Engineers of Ontario 2010 conference. Woloshyn is an intermediate project manager at CH2M
HILL Canada Ltd. Mookerjea works in the environmental services sector at R. J. Burnside & Associates Ltd. ■ Don Woods, H.D.Sc. ’01, and his wife, Diane, wrote The Mills of Waterdown:The Growth of an Ontario Village, 1790 to 1915, which was published by the Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society.The book provides a historical tour through the development of the village as it grew around Grindstone Creek and the 28 different mills that have operated there. More than 250 maps, photos and sketches are included.
PA S S AG E S Angus Adams, BSA ’38, July 14, 2010 Derek Belfry, B.Sc. ’70, Aug. 17, 2010 Donald Baron, BSA ’49, Nov. 13, 2010 Brent Bonner, BA ’85, Feb. 14, 2010 Garfield Bowers, BSA ’51, June 24, 2010 Geoffrey Cox, B.Sc.(P.E.) ’70, April 25, 2009 Gail (Stibbard) Davies, ADA ’60, Jan. 29, 2009 Thomas De Geer, DVM ’54, Nov. 6, 2010 John Dippel, DVM ’47, May 15, 2010 Mary Duxbury, DHE ’47, Aug. 6, 2010 Mark Elliott, ADA ’94, Oct. 6, 2010 William Falkiner, ADA ’74, Aug. 2, 2009 William Fellows, BSA ’49, Oct. 7, 2010 Charles Firman, DVM ’50, Oct. 2, 2009 Alan Fisher, BSA ’52, Aug. 4, 2010 Helen (Hipple) Fleming, DHE ’38, Oct. 13, 2010 William Fleming, BSA ’52, Aug. 4, 2010 Maurice Foster, DVM ’57, Oct. 2, 2010 Norine Galvin, B.H.Sc. ’61 and M.Sc. ’72, April 11, 2010 Ronald Girouard, BSA ’60, Dec. 13, 2009 Ralph Glasser, BSA ’43, Dec. 31, 2009 Nigel Gough, BA ’09, Sept. 26, 2010
Lorne Greenaway, DVM ’58, Sept. 13, 2010 Wrexford Groves, DVM ’41, June 24, 2010 David Hall, BA ’73, July 14, 2010 Macklin Hancock, BSA ’49, Sept. 14, 2010 Grant Hart, BSA ’50, Oct. 10, 2010 Arthur Hawkes, DVM ’51, Oct. 6, 2010 Lyle Henry, DVM ’49, Aug. 6, 2010 Amber (Patterson) Jackson, BA ’87, Aug. 8, 2010 Carl Jackson, BSA ’61, Aug. 14, 2010 James Jewson, BSA ’43, Aug. 14, 2010 Graham Kemp, DVM ’51, October 2010 Eila (Ross) Lawson, DHE, ’39, Oct. 13, 2010 Thomas Leach, ADA ’40 and BSA ’49, July 18, 2010 Barbara (Dodge) Lock, B.Sc. ’75, Oct. 3, 2010 Myra MacLennan, B.Sc. ’84, Sept. 24, 2009 Barbara Manilla, MAN ’08, June 11, 2010 Edward Marfei, BSA ’51, May 9, 2010 Robert Mask, B.Sc. ’00, Sept. 19, 2010 Mark McGarry, BA ’74, Oct. 12, 2009 Lois McIntosh, B.H.Sc. ’59, March 31, 2010 Kenneth McNaught, BSA ’43, July 5, 2010
Clifford Mizzen, DVM ’50, Aug. 18, 2010 Glen Mowbray, DVM ’60, December 2009 Ralph Nelson, BSA ’49, Aug. 27, 2009 James Purdy, DVM ’50, Sept. 21, 2010 Gregory Rich, BLA ’83, Aug. 15, 2010 Sullivan Roy, BSA ’42, Sept. 29, 2010 Jan Rubes, H.D.Let. ’83, June 2009 Doris (Rose) Sadler, DHE ’34, May 22, 2010 Anne MacIntosh Schramek, M.Sc. ’89, Dec. 27, 2009 Walter Scott, BSA ’37, April 15, 2010 Rose Sheinin, H.D.Sc. ’91, March 20, 2009 Neil Stiver, BSA ’51, Jan. 25, 2010 Elizabeth (Howard) van Diepen, DHE ’36, July 31, 2010 Yohanna Yiljep, PhD ’91, Feb. 27, 2009 Christopher Zweerman, M.Sc. ’09, Nov. 14, 2010 FACULTY George Bedell, founding chair of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sept. 2, 2010 Ross Hallett, Physics, Aug. 6, 2010 Roberto Poma, D.V.Sc. ’02, Clinical Studies, Nov. 15, 2010 Samuel Sidlofsky, Sociology and Anthropology, Aug. 6, 2010
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