Alumnnotes

ALUMNOTES

Read more details on alumni achievements in the Alumni & Friends section of King’s website: www.ukings.ca/alumni

50s

Johanne McKee, 1950, has been awarded the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers by the Governor General of Canada. Johanne is a lifelong volunteer who has given her time to multiple causes and inspired a spirit of volunteerism within her family. She has served in multiple roles at the First Baptist Church Halifax, contributing to the flower committee, the craft group and various fundraising events. She also spent more than two decades raising funds for the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. The award will be presented in Halifax at a later date.

60s

Good friends from King’s got together in Ottawa: (L to R) Ena Gwen Jones, 1968, Don Reid, 1972, David Jones, BA’68, HF’98, Mark DeWolf, BA(Hons)’68 and Mike Nichol, 1970.

Michelle Rippon, BA’65, received a Volunteer of the Year Award from the Asheville, N.C. Chamber of Commerce. Michelle is Senior Counsel with Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP and has served as attorney for the Chamber for the past 24 years.

Alumni from King’s met at an event in Saint John, N.B., called, “Faces of Women in Business” hosted by The Chamber. Jessica Sundblad, BJ’18, MJ’19 (l), and Eleanor Austin, BJ(Hons)’81 (r), pose with Lily Lynch, BA(Hons)’16.

Six members of the last N.S. Junior Varsity King’s Championship hockey team also participated in King’s alumni golf tournament at Granite Springs Golf Club in August 2019. BOTTOM: (L to R) Dave MacKay, 1970, Andy Sherwood, BSc’70, Allan Thomson, BA’70, Andy Hare, BA’70, George Sheppard, BSc’72, and Bob Colavecchia, BSc’70.

Dr. George M. Burden, 1974, was recently formally appointed by Father Peter Noel Lamont, Chief of Clan Lamont, as both as High Commissioner for Canada and as Ceann Tighe (head of the house, or Chieftain of a major branch of a clan). Dr. Burden currently sits as an Associate Member on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs as Peter Lamont’s representative. Kevin Reinhardt, BSc’78, has a new position as Director of Clinical Services, PsychologyService.ca in Newmarket, ON. King’s journalism professor Kim Kierans, BA(Hons)’83, tweeted her delight in running into Yukon’s Deputy Premier Ranjit Pillai, BA’98, at the Whitehorse airport over Christmas.

Rev. Taunya (Padley) Dawson, BA(Hons)’85, received the degree of Master of Divinity from the Atlantic School of Theology on May 4, 2019 and was ordained a Deacon (transitional) by the Archbishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island on May 30, 2019. She has since been appointed to All Saints’ Cathedral in Halifax.

The Venerable Stephen Vail, BSc’87, has been appointed Rector of St. James Cathedral and Dean of Toronto. Stephen studied Theology at Wycliffe College, Toronto, and was ordained in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in 1991.

Former King’s roommates Patrizia Quas, BA’90 and Barb Stegemann, BA’91, BJ’99, were back at King’s in May and took the opportunity to re-create a photo of themselves in the Quad taken 32 years ago!

Chris Elson, BA(Hons)’86, Kate Scarth, Nicholas Jones, BJ’00, and Lisa Takagi, BJ’16, MJ’17, had a lovely evening together at the Mon restaurant in the Hotel Grand Arc, Hanzomon, Tokyo.

Ian Fairclough, BJ(Hons)’89, was promoted in Nov. 2018 to the rank of deputy chief with the Kentville Volunteer Fire Department in Nova Scotia. He has been a member of the department since 1992 and is also the training officer. In his day job, he is the Valley Southwest bureau reporter for The Chronicle Herald.

90s

Lisa Blackburn, BJ(Hons)’90, has been named Deputy Mayor of Halifax. First elected to represent District 14— Middle/Upper Sackville in 2016, Lisa is best known as a radio broadcaster, but also wrote a column in the Halifax Daily News and worked at CBC.

Laurie Cook, BJ(Hons)’92, has started working as a faculty member at Mount Saint Vincent University teaching Intro to Nonprofit Leadership. Laurie is also President of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet).

as delivery partner for the Mayor of London’s programme of Brexit Business Resilience for London’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Chris and his team of UK/EU regulatory experts are rapidly expanding their offering to support businesses within the UK, EU and further afield to mitigate risks (and explore opportunities) within the upcoming transition period.

On Dec. 14, 2019, Jane Doucet, BJ(Hon)’93, married Craig Pothier at Halifax Central Library. It was the fifth anniversary of their first date at the library’s fifth-floor Pavia café, and also the fifth anniversary of the library opening. The couple, who attended high school together in Yarmouth, N.S., in the mid-1980s, lives in Halifax. Amelia Hadfield, BA(Hons)’96, has taken up a new position as Head of Department of Politics at the University of Surrey, as well as Chair in European and International Relations. She’s also founder and Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe.

Stephanie Nolen, BJ(Hons)’93, DCL’09, won a sixth Amnesty International Canada media award for a long-form print piece focused on Colombia’s peace negotiation process.

In July 2019, Lia Daborn, BA(Hons)’94, became the Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick. In October, Lia was awarded The Pinnacle Award from the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) for excellence in association leadership—one of the top two awards that this organization hands out. Lia also received her Level 3 designation from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (London) and is a sommelier in her free time.

Chris MacNeil’s, BA’94, company, ebooster limited/BrexitHelp.net, has been appointed John Perry, FYP’96, BJ’04, has stepped away from his role as Senior Producer of CBC Radio’s As It Happens program. He’s currently a fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College (along with Martha Troian, MJ’13). The William Southam Journalism Fellowship will take him to Halifax, Berlin and Helsinki this year. He writes that he’s not missing the daily deadline at all.

Smoke and Baloney, a film by Shirley Moore, BJ’99, won Best Picture at the Oregon Documentary Film Festival. Smoke and Baloney focuses on Shirley’s quest to find out what killed her father after he was diagnosed with cancer and passed away in the prime of his life. Then two of his brothers suffered a similar fate. It turned out they grew up merely 200 metres away from one of the largest toxic waste sites in Canada—Nova Scotia’s notorious Sydney Tar Ponds. Smoke and Baloney follows Shirley’s search for answers against the backdrop of an environmental nightmare. Colin Borgal, BA(Hons)’01, who’s been selling rare books part-time since the early 2000s and full-time since 2008, has launched a new online library called Codex Rare Books with business partner Michael Vickers. Since 2011, more than 4,000 books have been photographed to comprise the collection, which continues to grow.

After spending two years as Executive Producer at CBC Sports digital, Mihira Lakshman, BJ’01, has moved to a new role at The Walrus as Director of The Walrus Lab.

A play called The Bridge, an exploration of faith, family and forgiveness set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community and written by alumna Shauntay Grant, BJ’03, premiered at Neptune Theatre in February 2019.

Jen Powley, BJ’01, MFA’15, received the Independent Living Nova Scotia Lois Miller Tulip Award. Jen founded and continues to work with No More Warehousing: The Nova Scotia Association for Inclusive Homes and Support. She’s also a long-time disability rights advocate who has contributed to disability supports and accessible transportation. The annual award, named for King’s alumna Lois Miller, BA(Hons)’65, (pictured to the right of Jen) recognizes a person, group or organization that exemplifies the spirit of independent living and enables people living with disabilities to have control over their lives.

Gillian Nycum, BA(Hons)’02, began a new job in October 2018 as Interim Registrar and Executive Director of Enrolment Services at McGill University and was appointed to the role permanently in April 2019. After King’s, Gillian studied law at McGill, becoming involved in health law and bioethics research and projects. She also started managing indie rock bands. She interned at the World Health Organization in Geneva, then took a genetics and ethics research post at University of Montreal. After having her first child in 2008, she launched a career in music management and film production. In 2014, Gillian took a temporary contract in McGill’s Faculty of Law. In 2016, she was Senior Advisor for Federal MP, David Lametti (now Minister of Justice). In 2017, she was Director of Strategic Initiatives for a startup, before she had the opportunity to return to the Faculty of Law as Acting Assistant Dean.

John MacLean, BJ(Hons)’03, was elected President of the Law Society of Nunavut for 2019-2020.

Janet Dyson, BJ(Hons)’04, and Ryan McNutt were married September 6, 2019. They both work at Dalhousie University and often walk to work through the King’s Quad. They live in Dartmouth. Megan Wennberg’s, BJ’04, documentary Drag Kids won Best Atlantic Documentary at the Atlantic International Film Festival and Best Canadian Feature at the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival. This film was co-produced by Erin Oakes, 2006, and Edward Peill.

Brenda Solman’s, BJ(Hons)’05, theatre company, Theatre Kraken, presented Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, one of ancient Greece’s funniest—and most surprisingly modern—comedies in May in Ottawa’s Gladstone Theatre. Fed up with endless wars, the women of Peloponnesia decide to go on a sex strike until peace is brokered. What followed is a pitched battle of the sexes, loaded with innuendo, biting social commentary and ribald (sometimes even lewd) humour.

For the past five years Benjamin Witte, BJ’05, has been living in Montpellier, France, with his wife and daughter. After leaving King’s, Benjamin went to Chile and worked with an English language publication called the Santiago Times, freelanced and started working as a correspondent for a weekly publication on Latin America produced by the University of New Mexico. Benjamin is currently teaching at a communications school in Montpellier called ISCOM. He also writes about France’s rather obscure semi-professional baseball league, the D1.

Myra Bloom, BA(Hons)’07, completed a master’s (2008) and PhD (2014) in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she specialized in bilingual Canadian lit. Her dissertation, Textual Transgressions, looked at subversive uses of confessional discourse in 20 th century Canadian and Québécois texts. Myra worked sessionally for a few years in Toronto, then landed an extended-term appointment at Concordia in 2018, where she taught in and coordinated the Professional Writing and Composition programs. In July 2019, she left Concordia and joined York University (Glendon Campus) as Assistant Professor of Canadian literature. Myra has published in a variety of academic journals and also in a few literary magazines, including The Walrus and The Literary Review of Canada.

Zachary Moull, BA(Hons)’07, has recently taken on the role of Learning, Networking, & Conference Manager at the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT).

Dr. John Godfrey, DCL’06, King’s president from 1977-87, was named to the Order of Canada. He was a stalwart for traditions and a strong believer in establishing a living-learning community at King’s which he modelled after the Oxford-Cambridge experience, calling it the “total integration of all aspects of education, the education of the whole person,” and the primacy of undergraduate teaching.

Alexis Paton, BSc(Hons)’07, lives in England, is married to an Englishman and has a three-year-old daughter. Alexis is a lecturer at the University of Leicester, where she teaches and researches on social science applied to health and ethics.

The North American Travel Journalists Association has awarded King’s alumni with honours. Emma Yardley, BJ’07, and Jennifer Bain, MFA’20, both won multiple medals, including golds, for their travel stories.

Julia Clahane, BA’08, graduated summa cum laude from Mount Saint Vincent University’s Bachelor of Education program in 2012 and started a Master of Education in Curriculum Studies—Supporting Learners with Diverse Needs and Exceptionalities at MSVU in the fall of 2019. candidate at Western. She is researching Wikipedia and its role as a consumer health information resource for patient education and health decision-making.

Laurel Collins, BA’09, was recently elected as a Member of Parliament to represent the riding of Victoria in the House of Commons of Canada. Prior to her election in the House of Commons, Laurel was a councillor for Victoria City Council.

Megan Dean, BA(Hons)’09, received her PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in May 2019. She defended her dissertation, “Eating as a Self-Shaping Activity,” with distinction in April. Megan celebrated her graduation with her dear friend Arran Smith, BA’09, and her mother, Pamela Hazel, Assistant to King’s President William Lahey. Her PhD studies were supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Mellon Sawyer Foundation, and Georgetown University. In the fall, Megan headed to the Philosophy Department at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. to take up the Chauncey-Truax postdoctoral fellowship.

Christina Macdonald, BA(Hons)’09, was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in June 2018 and has joined Kimball Law in Wolfville, N.S. as an associate lawyer. Christina practices primarily civil litigation, including injury, insurance and employment litigation. She also practices family and criminal litigation, wills and property law.

Jessica Lee, BA(Hons)’08, was awarded the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Writing about her year travelling around Germany, swimming in 52 separate lakes (one for each week of the year), and overcoming heart-break and depression, Jessica was awarded this prize by 2019’s RBC Taylor Prize winner Kate Harris. The prize consists of $10,000 cash and mentorship by Kate. Jessica currently lives in Berlin, Germany and is working on finishing her next book and projects like The Willowherb Review.

Denise Smith, BA(Hons)’08, works as an academic health sciences librarian at McMaster University where she supports health researchers, undergraduate and graduate students in facilitating health research excellence by teaching information literacy. Denise is also a part-time instructor at Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies and currently a PhD

Timothy Blackwood’s, BA(Hons)’10, award-winning documentary The Conqueror tells the story of how “dreams can be realized even in dire circumstances.” The Conqueror has been an official selection at over 20 film festivals around the world and the winner of awards such as “Best Documentary” at the Global Film Festival awards in Los Angeles.

Nick Baker, BA(Hons)’11, has been accepted into the PhD program in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where he continues his master’s research into the intersection of imperial citizenship and political violence in the Atlantic world.

Michael Fraiman, BJ(Hons)’11, and Alex Rose, BA’16, BJ’17, MJ’18, who both work at The Canadian Jewish News, have launched a biweekly podcast called The Canadian Jewish Schmooze. They invite all fellow alumni to tune in on iTunes, Spotify or wherever they get their podcasts.

Rory MacLellan, BA’10, and Genny (Whelan) MacLellan, BA(Hons)’10, welcomed their daughter Josephine into the world on Dec. 17, 2019. They ran into old friends from King’s at the Seaport Market not long after: (L to R) Mike Beall, BSc(Hons)’09, Carol Malko BA(Hons)’08, Genevieve and Rory MacLellan.

Veronica Curran, BA(Hons)’12, and Thomas McCallum, BA(Hons)’14, were married in the King’s Chapel on August 17, 2019. Included in the wedding party were King’s alumni, Katie Merwin, BA(Hons)’11, Rosalind Curran, BA(Hons)’16, Colin Nicolle, BJ(Hons)’10, BA’13, and Aaron Shenkman, BA(Hons)’14.

Corbett Hancey, BJ’11, was awarded one of two 2019 Michener-Deacon Fellowships, an award that honours excellence in public-service journalism. Corbett will produce a series of investigative articles for print and broadcast on the recent controversial decision, made by the Canadian government, to allow Canadian defence contractors to sell weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian-backed rebels in the country’s restive east.

After graduation, Adam Foster, BA’12, completed a MA at Acadia University in Social and Political Thought in 2015. Adam started his PhD in the fall of 2015 at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in political science, specializing in political theory, and law and society, and is also completing an additional graduate certificate in international cultural studies. Adam also wrote a chapter in the book Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy published by Springer titled “Heretic Gnosis: Education, Children, and the Problem of Knowing Other-wise.”

Casey Lynch, BA(Hons)’12, completed a PhD in geography, with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies, from the University of Arizona in May 2019. Casey has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Jordan Parker, BJ(Hons)’12, MJ’14, is currently a successful public relations (PR) professional and freelance journalist and is starting his own PR firm, Parker PR, to work with entertainment industry professionals.

Nance Ackerman’s, MJ’13, latest film, a feature documentary called Conviction, premiered to a full house at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto in April 2019. Women are the fastest growing prison population in Canada and around the world. In Conviction, three filmmakers collaborate with women on the inside to explore the stories behind that statistic and ask what they would have needed in their lives to avoid incarceration.

Martha Troian, MJ’13, (along with John Perry, FYP’96, BJ’04) is among five Canadian journalists who have received Massey College 2019-2020 William Southam Journalism Fellowships. Martha, the McLaughlin Centre Fellow, is an independent award-winning investigative journalist who has contributed to CBC, Vice Canada, Maclean’s, Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, The Walrus and APTN News.

Sarah Lawrynuik, BJ’14, has been awarded the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary. Sarah is a Calgary-based multimedia journalist who has worked across multiple platforms, filing stories to the CBC, The Narwhal, The Sprawl and New Scientist. As the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter, she will examine the current political shifts in Eastern and Central Europe and how those shifts are resonating in Canada.

When Brenna Sobanski, BA(Hons)’14, and Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand, BA(Hons)’15, were matched as roommates in their first year at King’s in 2010, little did they know where it would lead. They remained roommates for four years as they both pursued History of Science and Technology (HOST) degrees and are still close friends today. Both also received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funding to pursue their master’s degrees.

Eliza West, BA(Hons)’14, earned her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware in May 2019. Her thesis, titled “ ‘Milled Fit for Trowsers’: Toward a Fuller[’s] Understanding of Woolen Finishing in the Mid-Atlantic from 1790 to 1830,” brought together her love of the early modern, history of technology and textiles, to explore a previously understudied craft, and was a runner-up for the program’s thesis prize. As always, she would like to thank King’s for fostering her creativity and making her the kind of writer who actually enjoyed the entire process of getting her master’s thesis on paper.

Kirk Angus Johnson, MFA’19, was one of the finalists for the RBC Taylor Prize and Mentorship program, being mentored by Kate Harris, who was the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize winner. Kirk, who served with the Canadian Armed Forces, has already secured a publishing deal with Penguin Random House for the book he is writing about PTSD and Cpl. Lionel Desmond.

In June 2019, Amelia Wilding, BA’14, graduated from a dual degree program between the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, earning a Juris Doctor and MA in International Affairs. After working internationally at the ICTY and for the Canadian government, she is completing her articles at Beach + Starkie, a criminal defence firm in Ottawa. Adding to the exciting news, Amelia married Andrew Rastapkevicius on June 29, 2019.

Adriana Fraser, BSc(Hons)’15, graduated from King’s with a science degree in microbiology and HOST. After leaving King’s, she worked in cancer clinical research at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. She returned to academia at McGill University, pursuing an MA in the history of medicine with a CGS-M award. Adriana is now in her first year of doctoral studies in the history of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, supported by a SSHRC fellowship. Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie, BA(Hons)’15, is a research associate at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, where she has been working on an exhibition, entitled Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe, which opened on Nov. 25 and runs until March 1, 2020. The exhibition explores the intersections of art, science and technology, and entertainment in early modern court culture. She holds an MA from the Bard Graduate Center in the history of decorative arts, design, and material culture, where her qualifying paper on the private glass workshop of Archduke Ferdinand II won the 2017 Clive Wainwright Award.

Sean Young, BA(Hons)’15, has received a Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNF) Broadcasters of Atlantic Canada scholarship. The RTDNF Broadcasters of Atlantic Canada Scholarship is for demonstrated skill in broadcast journalism by a student from Atlantic Canada. Sean is currently in his first year of a Master of Journalism program at Ryerson University.

Helena Moncrieff, MFA’16, has won Heritage Toronto’s Book Award. Helena’s book The Fruitful City examines our relationship with the various fruit trees found on our streets and in Toronto backyards. It traces the rise, fall and resurgence in the popularity of fruit trees in the GTA, while sharing the cultural heritage of Toronto’s indigenous roots and the stories of recently arrived communities.

King’s alumna Hannah Barrie, BA(Hons)’17, joined King’s scholarly inquiry to examine the possible connections, direct and indirect, of the university with slavery in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The comprehensive project comprises original, independent research by leading Canadian and U.S. scholars Hannah is currently an MA student in Gender Studies and Feminist Research at McMaster University.

Matthew Green, BA(Hons)’17, looks back on his time at King’s from his life now in England, where he’s pursuing a Master of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University: “It felt both responsible and empowering to learn more about the various methods, values, and assumptions that shape science as a form of knowledge and as a social institution.”

In the fall of 2019, Abagail Bumpus, BA(Hons)’18, joined the second-ever class of the Curating Science program, a joint venture between the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, and the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Sciences at the University of Leeds.

ALUMNA LLEWELLYN JONES, BELIEVED TO BE CANADA’S FIRST FEMALE ENGINEER, ENTERED KING’S DURING WWI

Jones was also a student here when the fire of 1920 burned the campus to the ground

by Megan Krempa, History of Science and Technology student

IN 1920, LLEWELLYN MAY JONES (née Reese), graduated from King’s. She’s believed to be the first female engineer in Canada.

Jones was born in Springhill, N.S., in 1899. She was the daughter of a mining family, and her father encouraged her to pursue studies to become an engineer. After attending St. Francis Xavier University for two years, she transferred to King’s where she completed her engineering education.

Jones graduated in 1920, and was, at the time, only the second female valedictorian in King’s history. Her valedictory address referenced the tumultuous period they had all just lived through:

“…[the] Class ’20 made its advent in College under the dark cloud of war in the autumn of ’16. In the second year its number began to diminish. Some answered the call of duty, other members have gone to other professions and other universities, and now the original class is almost without representation.

During the last four years King’s has undoubtedly passed through the most difficult period in her History. To Dr. Boyle,

our esteemed President…we owe a debt of gratitude for guiding us safely amid the most disheartening conditions.

With peace came great hope for King’s, and last autumn we welcome many of our old students returning from France. How gratifying it was to know that every available room in the College was taken…”

Jones also referenced the great fire of Feb. 5, 1920 that burned the original King’s campus in Windsor, N.S. to the ground in her final year, and again displayed her pluckiness by writing of the campaign to fundraise $600,000 to rebuild King’s, “… may King’s continue to win fame and glory in the future as she has in the past!”

A FORKED CAREER PATH After graduating in 1920, Jones moved to Alberta. In a later interview when she reflected back on this time, she said when applying to jobs related to her field, she came to realize employers “only wanted a Girl Friday.” Not interested in taking such a role, she returned to school, earning an education degree and going on to teach high school sciences. She was by then married to Sid Jones, another King’s alumnus.

During the Second World War, Jones finally had the opportunity to work in engineering, taking up a position as Assistant to the Chief Geologist for the provincial engineering board. She left once the war ended so that the returning servicemen could take the job. In her later years, she worked as a teacher and philanthropist in positions with the University Women’s Club in Alberta, and sat on symphony music boards.

She visited King’s during a return to Springhill in the 1970s, where King’s Librarian Patricia Chalmers, BA(Hons)’80, had the opportunity to meet her. (See sidebar.) Then in 1978, at the age of 79, Jones received an MA from the University of Calgary. Her thesis explored the history of the oil and gas industry of Alberta until 1947. She spent her final years working to develop exhibits of that history for museums in Ottawa. Jones died in 1986.

Llewellyn May Jones is like many of our past alumni trailblazers: ready and willing to help and make strides for others, tireless in her interests. Her achievements have been obscured by the lack of history in the field

JONES WAS PROUD OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS King’s Librarian Patricia Chalmers, BA(Hons)’80, had the opportunity to tour Jones around King’s during Jones’s 1979 campus visit.

“Llewellyn May Jones received her degree from the University of Calgary in November 1978. The following summer she came back to Nova Scotia for a visit, and in early June 1979 she came to King’s, her alma mater. I was an undergraduate working as a student Library Assistant that summer. Dr. John Godfrey, the President, met with her, and then brought her upstairs to the Library, where she presented the Librarian, Mrs. Mary (Hunt) Lane, BA’38, with a copy of her M.A. thesis, “The Search for the Hydrocarbons: Petroleum and Natural Gas in Western Canada, 1883-1947.”

I was asked to show Mrs. Jones around the College buildings. She was a slight, but confident and energetic presence, and maintained a lively flow of conversation while we went up and down the stairs. I have always been interested in the history of King’s, and tried to prompt her to reminisce about her undergraduate days, but she preferred to tell me about her research into the energy industry in Alberta. She was proud of her accomplishments. Mrs. Jones told me that many people thought that she must have made a fortune with all her inside knowledge of the industry, at a time when people were staking claims and striking oil. They assumed that she would have made investments based on information gained when she worked for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board in the 1940s. She was quite disdainful of this attitude, as she would have considered it a violation of a public trust, to profit personally from a privileged position.”

When applying to jobs related to her field, she came to realize employers “only wanted a Girl Friday.” Not interested in taking such a role, she returned to school.

of engineering, but in the 70s she herself said that if she were not the first female engineer, she was certainly among the first several. King’s own history of scientific and engineering education is often indistinct from that of Dalhousie’s, but it’s important to remember that our interdisciplinary model of education which today includes studying scientific texts in the Foundation Year Program, and includes an upper years honours program in the History of Science and Technology, is born of its legacy.

With the centennial anniversary of King’s fire happening this year, it does us well to remember the lasting impact that alumni from that era have had on King’s and society. Llewellyn May Jones, a trailblazing pioneer, serves as an example to alumni and current students that the work done at this university has lasting impact. Sometimes, though, it takes a bit of uncovering to rediscover these stories. But King’s students not only know how to find them, but how to make history themselves.

Eric Alcorn, (BA’88, HC’93), July 4, 2019 John Alward, 1955, September 1, 2019 Margaret (Hatt) Armstrong, (BA’50), June 19, 2019 Nigel Armstrong, (BA’84), April 18, 2019 Beryl (Whalen) Balcom, (BA’46), January 7, 2019 David Boston, (LTh’67), May 27, 2019 George Boutilier, (BA’63), April 23, 2018 Anne Bruce, (Friend of the College), December 26, 2018 Edward Burn, (DCL’91), February 6, 2019 Sandra (Jones) Caines, (BA’60), June 20, 2019 Kadri (Oolo) Campbell, (BA’66), October 17, 2018 Dolda (Ricketts) Clarke, (1957), June 17, 2019 George Daley, (BA’93), July 22, 2018 J. Trevor Eyton, Former King’s

Chancellor, (DCL’02), February 24, 2019 Robert Ford, 1953, November 2, 2019 Robert Fowler, 1960, March 16, 2019 Barbara (Hendry) Goodman, (BA’47), September 8, 2019 Anne (Hill) Hart, (BA’56), October 9, 2019 William Hody, (BA’83), February 3, 2019 Arthur Irwin, (Friend of the College), January 7, 2019 Kathleen Jerome, (Friend of the College), May 30, 2018 Mary (Burchill) Kelley, (BA’50), November 12, 2019 Eric MacKay, (BA’66), July 26, 2018 George Martell, (Friend of the College), April 15, 2019 C.B. (Chuck) Piercey, (BA’57), April 4, 2019 Wendy (Harrison) Siteman, 1990, March 9, 2019 Murdock Smith, 1958, May 11, 2019 Ruth Smith, (BA’76), February 18, 2019 Elizabeth Churchill (Tolson) Snell,

(DipJ’56, BA’58), September 5, 2019 Mary Tasman, (Friend of the College), June 19, 2019 Christine Williams, BJ(Hons)’83, August 22, 2019

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