News Exchange

Parker Gregory

Nick Boutilier ’07 and Michelle White, Athletic Fund Development O cer, StFX

Shanelle Clowe ’14 and Christopher Hillier ’12 got engaged in December 2020 at Signal Hill National Historic Site

Janet Smith ’85 with her mother Florence (O’Connor) Smith ’50 who just turned 91 years old!

’60s

James Casey ’60 has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his leading business acumen in Canadian manufacturing, and for his active involvement in the energy, agriculture and health sectors. He was one of 61 new appointments announced in December 2020. The Order of Canada is one of the country’s highest civilian honours. Mr. Casey, a Charlottetown, PEI resident, is the former president and CEO of Padinox Inc., which makes Paderno pots and pans. He is credited with turning the company into a thriving Island business employing about 200 people. He has also served on the board for Maritime Electric and chaired a campaign that raised $23 million for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Since 2009, he has been chairman of the board of Atlantic Beef Products.

’70s

Congratulations to Ed McHugh ’79 on recently receiving this volunteer recognition award from HRM! In the past he has also been recognized by both Bedford and the Province of Nova Scotia for his volunteer contributions through the years. His generosity, sense of caring and energy have no limits. He has also done so many other helpful and kind acts along the way that are just part of his nature. Well done Ed! A virtual Golden Grad celebration will take place during our virtual Homecoming weekend for the Class of 1971. Please ensure to update your contact information at alumni@stfx.ca| Send News Exchange items to Glenda Bond, Alumni A airs O ce St. Francis Xavier University, PO Box 5000, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Phone: (902) 867-2186 • Fax: (902) 867-3659 • Email: alumni@stfx.ca

’80s

Stan MacDonald ’84 was one of two Nova Scotia lawyers inducted in March 2021 into the American College of Trial Lawyers. The college is comprised of distinguished trial lawyers in the United States and Canada. It’s recognized as the leading trial lawyers’ organization in both countries. Membership is o ered only by invitation and limited to trial lawyers regarded as among the best in their state or province. MacDonald leads a law rm in Halifax, NS and has over 30 years in trial law. He’s a past president of the Nova Scotia Criminal Lawyers Association. He graduated with a business degree from StFX and from Dalhousie Law School. He is an associate professor at Dalhousie Law School, teaching a clinical course in criminal law, and is an instructor for the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society’s Bar Admission Course.

When Katrina Wheaton ’89 moved to Toronto, ON to take a new position she didn’t know a soul in the city. Lo and behold one day in the elevator of her apartment building on walked an X-Ring worn by John McIver ’88. Although they didn’t know each other well during their time together at ‘X,’ they knew many of the same people and have become great friends. The ‘X’ spirit is a bond unlike any other.

’00s

Paul Boyko ’05 co-owns an indie game development company based in the Niagara region of southern Ontario, which recently released a game designed to help combat the spread of COVID-19. He says the game Cat Colony Crisis was with support from LabX, a division of the National Academy of Science, and in consultation with members of the CDC. The game was released on PC, MAC, Linux, Google Play and Apple App store on February 9, 2021. Paul says “one reason the project was so interesting and important to me was due to the positive attitudes that I developed at StFX towards community and trying to be part of a global solution to the problems that we all face as humans on this earth.”

’10s

Ella Besserer ’16 graduated from the StFX honours program, Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition, and worked for three years in a tertiary care hospital in Ottawa, ON. She is now attending the University of Toronto Physician Assistant Elite program. Cameron Sehl ’18, Max Jennings ’19, Devin McArthur ’19, and Dr. Sameer Berry are pleased to share the news that Symbi Medical, a digital health company they started in 2018 that provides patient engagement solutions across multiple medical specialties, has been acquired by Blue Charm Adherence Inc., a healthcare company specializing in medication adherence. “We are incredibly excited to be joining Blue Charm Adherence in their mission to help patients access life-changing medications and better manage their health,” said Sehl, CEO of Symbi Medical. “Becoming part of Blue Charm accelerates our progression towards a leadership position in the digital health space and allows us to have an even greater impact on patient care.”

Lauren MacFadyen ’18 ’20, who was a varsity curler and an Academic All-Canadian at StFX, represented PEI in the 2021 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championships that took place in Calgary in March. Lauren’s partner is her brother Alex. They teamed up to win the PEI provincial title and advance to the national mixed doubles nals.

The Alumni A airs o ce sends many invitations in the mail each year. We’d like to do our part to reduce this paper usage and redirect postage costs to alumni programs by sending invitations by email to our grads whenever possible.

We can only do this if we have a current email address for you. To make sure we do, please send an email from your address to alumni@stfx.ca with the subject line ‘save trees’and we’ll make sure our email invite list is up-to-date.

Thank you! The air feels fresher already! Distance Education Programs for

REGISTERED NURSES

Applications are being accepted until June 30 for classes beginning in September. The Post RN-BScN program was awarded accreditation by the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) in 2019. • Bachelor of Science in Nursing • Certi cate in Gerontological Nursing • Certi cate in Continuing Care Nursing • Stand alone Nursing Courses • N490 Forensic Nursing • N497 Computers in Nursing • N483 Hospice Palliative Care Nursing

Update your Records Make sure your records are up-to-date to ensure you are receiving the most current StFX information.

To update, visit www.alumni.stfx.ca/updateinfo

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Toll-free: 1-800-565-4371 Email: distance.nursing@stfx.ca Stfx.ca/DistanceNursing

MASTER OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT S PROGRAMS AT St tFX FX

PART-TIME DISTANCE PROGRAMS Students may complete Master of Education programs in Educational Administration and Leadership or a variety of Curriculum and Instruction areas. These part-time programs require one month of study on campus in July. The remainder of the program can be completed online over a two-year period. These programs may be completed by coursebased, project, or thesis routes. Educational Administration and Leadership or a variety of Curriculum and Instruction areas. These part-time programs require one month of study on campus in July. The remainder of the program can be

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR FULL-TIME GRADUATE STUDY StFX admits a limited number of full-time graduate students annually who wish to develop capacity in teaching/leadership or applied research. Students are paired with faculty who provide them with internship opportunities related to university teaching and eld experience in the BEd program and/or research. Students who choose the research-based option may have the possibility of participating in funded research programs in collaboration with full-time faculty. Students are paired with option may have the possibility of participating in funded research programs in collaboration with full-time faculty.

For more information or to receive an information package, contact Continuing and Distance Education: Tel: 1-877-867-3906 or (902) 867-3906 E-mail: med@stfx.ca

CORRECTION: We extend our sincere apologies to Iris Rose Ann Hutton ’59, who was incorrectly listed as deceased in the last issue of the magazine.

Dr. J. Cameron “Cam” MacDonald ’46 Thomas Joseph Gallaway ’47 Rev. Hugh D. “Father Hughie D” MacDonald ’48 Paul Bailey Shaw ’50 Leo Curry ’51 Rita Theresa (Larsen) Marrocco ’51 Helen Margaret Ross ’51 Fred William Martin ’52 Dennis Britten ’53 Cyril Thomas Dalton ’53 Douglas J. MacMaster, Jr. ’53 Louis Owen “Lou” Boyd ’55 Raymond Frederick “Ray” Dobberthien ’55 Bernard Michael “Bernie” MacKinnon ’55 Michael William Maloughney ’55 Gordon Cosmos Taylor ’55 Rev. John B. Finnigan ’56 Carol-Ann (Houghton) Hall ’56 Anne (MacDougall) St. Pierre ’57 Donald “Donnie” Vincent Fewer ’58 ’65 Sr. Genevieve McArthur ’58, (formerly Sr. Ann Romuald), SSM Karl Joseph Marsh ’58 Peter Foran O’Brien ’58 Rev. John Joseph MacDonald ’58 J. Kenneth Soucy ’58 Hollis Andrew Blair ’59 William Alexander “Billy” Jamael ’59 Charles MacDonald ’59 ’63 John “Jack” MacKenzie ’59 Ronald Joseph Southcott ’59 Wallace James Jimmo ’60 Norman “Carroll” MacIntyre (Murphy) ’61 James “Jim” Dorris ’62 Dr. Norman “Norm” Garey ’62 David Joseph Samson ’62 Raymond “Ray” Doucet ’63 Jude T. MacNeil ’63 Elizabeth “Betty” M. E. (Carey) Pasqualotto ’63 James Garrett ’64 Robert “Bob” Losier ’64 Maynard Joseph Bates ’65 Margaret Charlotte “Peggy” (McQuaid) Gallant ’66 Maureen Barbara (Taillon) Littlejohn ’67 Mary Margaret (Smith) Bernard ’69 Murray Cameron Johnston ’69 Deacon Hyland Fraser ’72 D. Barry Marchand ’72 Doug McGee ’72 John J. Peddle ’72 Rev. Dr. Bernard Joseph O’Connor ’73 Susan Clare MacPhee ’75 Gary Gregory McIntyre ’76 Heather Marie MacKenzie ’77 ’78 Roger Allan Soloman ’77 Manfred K. J. Goring ’79 Alan Nicholas Jankov ’80 Cheryl Elaine MacLean ’82 Shaun Campbell Black ’85 Janice Arlene (Perry) Gillis ’85 Michelle Taylor ’85 Heather Elaine MacGregor ’89 Sylvia Anne (Woeller) Campbell ’93 Michelle Lavonne Avery ’00 Harris Royston “Eric” Amit, Hon. Doc. ’08 (also former faculty) Theresa Marie MacDonald, MSB Charlotte Kay Brosha, former sta Joseph Thomas “Tommy” MacDonald, former sta Robert McDonnell, former faculty Gertrude Sanderson, former faculty

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ST. JOHN’S

The StFX Alumni Association is currently looking for two at-large members to sit on their council. For more information or to express your interest, please email Shanna Hopkins, shopkins@stfx.ca

LOST X-RINGS

LOST Man’s 1991 Woman’s 1999 Woman’s 2005 Man’s 2011 Woman’s 2005 Man’s 2011

MANAGING EDITORS Shanna Hopkins ’01 Email: shopkins@stfx.ca Kyler Bell Email: kbell@stfx.ca

ASSISTANT EDITOR Shelley Cameron-McCarron Email: sacamero@stfx.ca

WRITER Shelley Cameron-McCarron

DESIGN & PRODUCTION Andrew Conde Email: aconde@stfx.ca

NEWS EXCHANGE EDITOR Glenda Bond Email: gbond@stfx.ca

ADVERTISING INQUIRIES Glenda Bond Phone: (902) 867-2186 Fax: (902) 867-3659 Email: gbond@stfx.ca

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Matthew (16) and Ally (14), children of Derek ’01, IT Services, and Dawn (Musgrave) Bekkers ’00, Annual Giving Coordinator.

Scan to Save 15% o at shop.stfx.ca Code: ALUMNI15 WHERE ARE YOU?

How important is it to keep in touch with your alma mater? Plenty! At StFX, there’s so much going on – from alumni road trips to student sendo s each summer in cities and towns across the country and beyond. If we don’t have your current contacts, we’re not able to send out event notices, alumni mailouts, or the AlumniNews magazine, mailed free of charge two times a year to StFX alumni and friends. If you’re plugged into the StFX network, you can stay in touch with friends, nd mentors, visit the Alumni website, and keep up-to-date with all the details of Homecoming, and chapter events in your area. We’d like to reconnect with some of those with whom we’ve lost touch. If you have a current contact or information on any of the following alumni, listed by decade, please contact:

Records Researcher, St. Francis Xavier University 1-888-739-0031 • records @stfx.ca

Heather Jean Adams ’96 Joanne M Alex ’95 Fahed Mousa Alsalem ’94 Eugenia Amporfu ’94 Jill Renee Anderson ’96 Frances Lorraine Arnold ’97 Leanne Marie Bourassa ’95 Dora Bourgeois ’94 Tammy Marie Bourque ’95 Anne Christine Boutilier ’94 Christina Margaret Boyle ’95 Simon Bradford ’96 Sandra Mary Brannen ’96 Jennifer Denise Branson ’95 Louise Bray ’94 Janice Lee Bridge ’94 Danica Lori M Brisson ’97 Je rey Alexander Brophy ’96 Patricia Joyce Brown ’96 Roger Brown ’96 Michelle Lynn Bruce ’97 Line Sylvie Brunelle ’94 Gerard B Buckle ’97 Laura Burkhart ’94 Laurie Anne Carter ’97 Kerry M A Casey ’95 Michael Alexander Chadwick ’97 Maryse Charette ’95 Gerard James Cheeke ’94 Raymond Kai Man Cheng ’96 Emily Ann Chisholm ’95 Margaret Joanne Chisholm ’96 Paul Kenneth Chisholm ’97 Hin Ling Chu ’96 George Thomas Chubbs ’96 Andrea Dawn Clarke ’97 David W Clarke ’95 Caroline Elizabeth Keenan ’95 Nel J Keith ’95 Jennifer Ann Keller ’94 Paula Marie Kennedy ’95 Stephen Kyle Kennedy ’96 John Douglas Kenny ’97 Michael Hugh Kenny ’96 Robert Thomas Kenny ’95 Christopher James King ’94 Daniel William King ’95 Sharon Noreen King ’95 Sharon E Kingsbury ’97

Sean Alexander MacDonald ’95 Stacey Jayne MacDonald ’94 Tracey Alexandria MacDonald ’94 Tracey Lynn MacDonald ’97 Bernard Joseph MacDougall ’97 Carla Elizabeth MacDougall ’96 Rebecca Mary MacEachern ’97 Lynette Marie MacEwan ’96 David Gerard MacGillivary ’95 Maxine Dorothy MacGillivray ’94 Sisca Maria MacHattie ’96 Mary Elizabeth MacInnis ’94 Scott Wesley MacIntosh ’97 Brian Andrew Mahoney ’95 Timothy Patrick Mahoney ’95 Sio Meng Mak ’97 Michael C Malcolm ’94 Karen Marie Manos ’96 Aaron Troy Marchand ’97 Danielle Marie Marchand ’97 Tracy Lynn Marinelli ’95 Lynn Marsden ’95 Glenda Lynn Martell ’96 Stephen Daniel Martell ’97 Gregory Stewart Martin ’94 Mariette Martineau ’97 Andrea Jeanelle Masterson ’95 Ann Matthews ’96 Tina Marie Anne McClenaghan ’97 Kristen Paige Mellis ’95 Federica Pascual Mengual ’97 Edith Rose Menzies ’94 Richard Gilles Michaud ’95 Stephanie Ann Mikes ’94 Dean N Mills ’96 Deborah Karen Misner ’94 Jeremy Monette ’95 James Stephen Moore ’96 Arlie Beth Morgan ’97 Gregory James Morin ’96 Marie R Morin ’94 Sarah Anne Morin ’94 Lynne Susan Morris ’96 Cherie Darlene Morrison ’96 Jennifer Louise Morrison ’94 Gloria Anne O’Blenis ’96 Michael James O’Brien ’97 Francis Peter O’Connell ’94 Joyce O’Connell ’96

Suzanne Pierrette O’Neill ’94 Crystal Dawn Ogilvie ’96 Therese Marie Old eld ’97 Joann Marie Osbourne ’94 Leslie Nicole Otter ’96 Rodrique Dennis Ouellet ’96 Kimberley Jane Palmer ’94 Robert Everett Pashkoski ’95 Helen Juanita Patil ’96 Craig Alvin Patzer ’94 Paul Pederson ’94 Nicole Irene Purdy ’95 Darryl Gordon Purvis ’97 Deanna Susan Rawding ’94 Jocelyn Richard ’96 John Evan Richard ’94 John Richard Riordan ’94 Marlies Rise ’95 Ruby Isabel Roberts ’94 Dawn Michelle Rogers ’94 Elaine Shantz ’97 Jeanette Anne Sharkey ’96 Maureen Shepherd ’95 Edison Nolan Sheppard ’97 David Scott Simmons ’95 Heather Anne Sinclair ’97 Aaron Douglas Smith ’94 John Bradley Smith ’94 Lois Elaine Smith ’94 Mark Roger Patrick Smith ’95 Mora Smith ’96 Lap-Chee Tsui ’94 Nocha Eleanor Vanthielen ’96 Audrey Crystal Venedam ’94 Christopher Elwyn Vergie ’95 Matthieu Vincens ’97 Neil Robert Walker ’94 Richard Alexander Walker ’95 Philip Glen Wall ’94 Mary Catherine Walsh ’95 Stacey Annette Ward ’96 Wendy Lynn Ward-Brohman ’96 Frances Monica Warner ’97 Paul Douglas Warwick ’97 Ka Ho Yu ’97 Shun-Loi Yu ’97 Amy Elizabeth van der Kooi ’95

INCREDIBLE SHOW OF SUPPORT AND SERVICE – THANK YOU STFX ALUMNI

Greetings Alumni & Friends,

I do hope when you pick up this edition of the AlumniNews that things are on the upswing in your lives in terms of preCOVID “normalcy.” Also, that this nds you and your family well and healthy.

Like many of you, I wear my X-Ring with great pride and, as it turns out, as we learn from our alumni survey results (See story page 20) we are the proudest and most engaged university alumni in all of Canada. I wasn’t all that surprised, having had the privilege of meeting many of you over the last ve years and hearing of your pride being part of the X-family. I did not think our collective pride could grow, but a er what we experienced this year in the face of the pandemic, where we led the country in keeping our campus doors wide open to provide a safe place for students to learn in-person, and live both in residence on campus and within the community – a new standard has been set.

Several key factors played into StFX’s success in the face of the pandemic, but I want to focus on one: the service of our alumni community in helping our students during a time of great need.

As students at X, we learn the virtues of living a life of service to assist others. When the calls for help went out during the past year, alumni stepped up—big time! First, in the spring of last year when the pandemic was unfolding, forcing the university to close quickly, many of our students were facing extraordinary expenses causing great angst and uncertainty. e call went out for donations for emergency nancial aid to support our students in the greatest need and over $300,000 was raised assisting over 300 students. Many donors were alumni. e next calls for assistance came in the fall and winter semesters to help thousands of o -campus students required to self-isolate for 14 days. We had hundreds of alumni come forward and pitch in where help was needed—be it in making supporting telephone calls (many alumni were calling from across the country to check in on students) to delivering groceries to student homes—it was an incredible show of support and service to our students. ank you, alumni, for all your service to others and our community. StFX is a very special place and I don’t think I could be more proud being part of the Xaverian family. Hail & Health

Murray E. Kyte ’87, M.Ed, LL.B, B.B.A Vice-President, Advancement

Murray Kyte ’87

Murray Kyte ’87, VP of Advancement, (pictured at centre) delivers groceries and other essentials to isolating students as part of the Neighbours Helping Neighbours program o ered this past academic year.

Our students spent this year exactly where they were meant to be... in the classroom.

Since 1853, we have been committed to pairing the highest quality academics with an extraordinary culture of engagement. It’s why students come. So it was only natural for us to meet the challenge of this last year in a way that would keep our students safe while giving them the collective, immersive experience they need, and deserve. By committing to this goal, we were able to keep 75% of our learning in-person—the highest in the country. By working together, our students, staff, and faculty truly exemplified what it means to be a Xaverian. StFX.ca

Safely together.

ank You.

We are coming o a tremendous year that saw StFX with the highest percentage of in-person classes in the country. And we couldn’t have done it without the leadership and support from the residents in our community.

Antigonish is a special place to us all. We are so very fortunate to have such strong support, partnerships, and friendships in the place we call home.