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Victoria University Alumni Milestones Fall 2024
Hamish Guthrie Vic 7T5 published the poetry collection Love Hurries This (At Bay Press, 2022), which includes works that have appeared in more than 30 publications across Canada, the United States and Britain. Two major themes of the poems are nature’s variety and the richness of human relationships.
Lisa Hepner Vic 9T3 has become an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is teaching graduate students about documentary production, as well as tools to help navigate the ever-changing film and television industry.
Ernie Jardine Vic 6T8 was selected by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists as the 2024 winner of the Doris Huestis Speirs Award, a lifetime achievement award recognizing outstanding contributions to Canadian ornithology. Jardine has written two books on bird song identification and has recorded bird songs throughout eastern North America, which are available on his website at www.birdsongidentification.com.
Nicole Katsuras Vic 0T5 showcased her oil paintings in a solo exhibition at Vancouver’s Bau-Xi Gallery titled The Gentle Ground. The series used “freeflowing extruded paint application to create spaces of lightness and grounding in which to contemplate the present moment.”
Grace Ji-Sun Kim Vic 9T2 has published two new books, Surviving God (Broadleaf Books, 2024), co-written with Susan Shaw, and When God Became White (IVP, 2024). These are her 23rd and 24th books.
David Macleod Vic 6T5 published Inflation Decade, 1910–1920: Americans Confront the High Cost of Living (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). The book tells how the first sustained period of rapidly rising consumer prices after the United States industrialized brought trouble, confusion and discord.
Robert J. Potts Vic 6T9 received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from York University Oct. 18. He was recognized for his longstanding efforts as a legal advocate on behalf of Indigenous peoples in Canada—and through those efforts, furthering the cause of reconciliation.
Suzanne Scott Vic 9T3’s debut novel, Until Even the Angels, will be published by Penguin Random House in December 2024. Scott is the wife and daughter of Vic grads, and her daughter started in the Vic One program in September.
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga Vic 5T8, the first woman to serve as president of Latvia, was named an honorary Officer of the Order of Canada. She was recognized for her work enriching CanadaLatvia relations and for reflecting Canadian values abroad.
