Tidings — Winter 2022

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Reporting in Mi'kma'ki Q-and-A with Bill Lahey as he enters his second term

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4 Reporting in Mi’kma’ki Rogers Chair in Journalism Trina Roache, BJ’00, is teaching journalism students how to report responsibly about Indigenous people in Canada, by taking the class to Eskasoni First Nation in Cape Breton, N.S., where members of the community work with students to tell their stories.

14 Everything is possible with Nick Harris As a teenager, Nick Harris suffered an extended period of illness. Realizing that his outlook was all he could control, he resolved to focus on the positive. Since then, he hasn’t looked back. Meet King’s 33rd Rhodes Scholar.

22 Onward, together: President Lahey starts his second term President William Lahey sat down for a Q-and-A with fourth-year BJ(Hons) student Elizabeth Foster. He shares what he’s learned since coming to King’s and what he hopes to accomplish over the next five years.

40 Responsible Investing at King’s Motivated by the climate crisis and other societal challenges, King’s Board of Governors has adopted an ethical investment policy. Read why board member Tom Eisenhauer, BA(Hons)’83, says this approach has taken “centre stage” and find out how a team of board members developed a policy for King’s.

44 Olivia Larkin Olivia Larkin, BA(Hons)’13, channeled an interest in social justice into a career in corporate social responsibility.

From an intern at the Clinton Foundation, to the chief of staff for Sir Tim Berners-Lee and now as senior policy and program manager for the City of London, read why Larkin says FYP prepared her for this incredible, impactful career.

49 Sheryl Grant Sheryl Grant, BJ(Hons)’80, was among the first graduates of the School of Journalism.

From working nights and evenings at the Chronicle Herald, to assistant managing editor, she built a career reporting local news. When a fellowship in digital journalism showed her the future of news media, she pivoted within the industry and discovered where she truly belonged.

Stories for this issue were written by students, staff, faculty and alumni of the University of King’s College.

Tidings is produced on behalf of the University of King’s College Alumni Association. The views expressed in Tidings are expressly those of the individual contributors or sources. We welcome and encourage your feedback on each issue.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

RECENTLY I ADMITTED to a colleague that there were moments in the last two years where the isolation left me feeling like the Wizard of OZ. At King’s, much of what is different today from a year ago reflects the gradual restoration of conventions and traditions that were the stuff of everyday life before the pandemic: things like in-person course delivery; watching the Blue Devils compete in the gym; Classics in the Quad; or attending an in-person alumni event. Developments like this might not exactly be ‘new’ but they now hold new wonder; having lost these rich textures of our campus life for so long, there has been a deep encouragement in their sometimes-wavering return.

My message for Tidings last year referenced the memo issued by Dalhousie President Deep Saini and I on March 13, 2020, when we announced the suspension of in-person classes and, as I reminded last year, we anticipated that the King’s and Dalhousie communities would “come through this situation even stronger and more compassionate.” Reflecting on the past two years, this has borne out. Beyond the exhaustion we all now feel, I believe we are collectively stronger and more compassionate as a community, both within King’s and between King’s and Dalhousie. We have certainly learned that our strength must come from our compassion.

Throughout, the King’s community has demonstrated its desire to be part of the solution. This desire is a common thread uniting alumni over many generations. In this issue you’ll read about several alumni pursuing positive social change. They include Tom Eisenhauer, BA(Hons)’83, who has lent his recognized expertise in ethical investment to the development of a responsible investment policy for King’s (p.40).

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There’s an alumni profile of Olivia Larkin, BA(Hons)’13, former chief of staff for World Wide Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee, with whom she worked to make the web a safer, more empowering space (p.44). I also encourage you to read some of the stories written by and about current students.

These include the cover profile of King’s 33rd Rhodes Scholar, Nick Harris, who emerged from a period of illness resolved to improve the lives of others, like those who supported him at his lowest ebb (p.14).

And I invite you to read the interview fourth-year Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) student Elizabeth Foster conducted with me (p.23). As I consider my second term at King’s, now a year in, I feel privileged to again be entrusted with the stewardship of this community. I am eager to continue the work underway—work that includes ensuring King’s is as welcoming as we want it to be for everyone and that it is more accessible to all students who face barriers in attending and thriving at King’s. I also look forward to strengthening our association with Dalhousie, including the development of a growing number of integrated academic programs.

We live in times in which the state of the world engenders deep anxiety and uncertainty among our students, especially our undergraduate students. I for one find little in my greater age and longer experience to discount their reading of our common

situation. Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine is the most recent and horrific reminder of the need for something better, post-pandemic, than a return to normal. It is a time in the history of the world when what we do at King’s has potent, urgent and sustaining relevancy. This is true of our interdisciplinary version of the liberal arts, embracing the humanities and science in the study of the human condition from the ancient to the contemporary world in and beyond the western tradition. It is likewise true of our versions of university education in journalism and in creative writing that enable students and graduates to tell the stories the world needs told.

King’s will continue to adapt to prepare students for their futures in tomorrow’s world. On the strength of our care for one another and our compassion, we have shown ourselves capable of handling both the opportunities and challenges we have faced in times of difficulty. Working together, I am confident that we are equally prepared for those to come.

Sincerely,

William Lahey President and Vice-Chancellor

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CELEBRATIONS FOR THE CLASS OF 2020 AND CLASS OF 2021 Plans are underway to hold an in-person celebration for the classes of 2020 and 2021 on May 6. If you graduated from King’s in the past two years and you wish to be a part of these events, we invite you to learn more at

ukings.ca/graduation-celebration/

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LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

AS I WRITE THIS MESSAGE in the winter of 2022, I take up one of the themes that my predecessor, past President of the Alumni Association Paul Thomson, BA’90, raised in these pages one year ago: optimism and hope. They are words that, I think, are as valuable now as they were this time last year, perhaps more so.

Few undertakings show more optimism than to seek out an education. If it takes humility to acknowledge what we do not know and courage to embrace what is new, I would argue that it is optimism above all that moves us to take up the challenge to better ourselves and perhaps one day, some small corner of the world. It is optimism and hope that tell us a better world is possible.

As King’s alumni, these qualities brought us, however briefly, to the same place. And even after we disperse at graduation, I believe these qualities continue to unite us, near, far and across generations.

Since becoming president of the Alumni Association in July, I have been deeply impressed by the optimism I have seen on campus and in our alumni community.

Students returned to campus in September and despite a brief return to online learning as Omicron peaked in Nova Scotia, in-person teaching has been the primary mode of delivery at King’s this year. That the return to campus has been remarkably successful is thanks in no small part to an incredible amount of planning and preparation. But plans and preparations are nothing if people do not believe in their potential to bring about success and that is what I have witnessed at King’s in recent months.

Along with in-person learning, in-person gatherings are slowly being restored.

In November, I was thrilled to return to the Wardroom in the company of fellow alumni,

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faculty and current students, to support a campaign launched by the KSU for new sound equipment for our beloved campus bar. It wasn’t the wildest night the Wardy has seen, nor the longest, but for me, it’s one I won’t soon forget. After a long period of social isolation and change, the King’s community was still showing up for each other— not only was the campaign’s fundraising goal exceeded, but with the benefit of a laptop and Zoom, we were even able to include those alumni who wished to attend but were unable to join in person. It reminded me how powerful it is to be part of a true community and it filled me with hope for all the things we can accomplish going forward with the benefit of new, more inclusive technologies to enhance that feeling of community for all alumni, no matter where you are.

With the ability to gather together again, come increased opportunities to become involved. Working in partnership with the Advancement Office, the Alumni Association is exploring more ways to connect alumni to one another and to King’s. We want to take a page from President Lahey’s successful alumni lunches to find additional ways to bring more alumni into contact with current students, who are so often inspired by your career paths and insight.

In the coming months we will help to hold the first in-person Encaenia since 2019. Encaenia is always a cause for celebration, and there will be many things to celebrate when King’s students can finally be handed their degrees on stage again. I will relish the chance

to stand alongside the newest members of the Alumni Association and welcome them.

Plans are also underway for long-overdue celebrations with the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021. Wearing graduation robes that came in the mail, these young alumni sat in living rooms and kitchens around the country, surrounded not by their peers and faculty, but by family, friends, partners and roommates. For them, Encaenia, like so much of life these past two years, was held online. King’s committed to celebrate these graduates with an in-person event as soon as it was safe once more—and that time, we hope, has finally come.

All of these students—those who graduated in 2020 and 2021 as well as the Class of 2022—have sacrificed a significant portion of their university experience to support vital public health requirements. I reiterate the commitment Paul Thomson made on behalf of the Alumni Association to support and encourage these classes as they take their next steps. You are part of a community that will stand behind you wherever you are, whatever may come.

As alumni, the optimism that brought us to King’s for education takes on new life in the potential we see in one another and the hope we share for the next generation of King’s students.

Sincerely, Ian Whytock

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CAMPUS NEWS REPORTING IN MI'KMA'KI Offered in person for the first time, Reporting in Mi’kma’ki is a collaboration with Eskasoni First Nation that will teach students what it means to report Indigenous stories ethically

By Jessica Casey

IN MAY OF 2022, a group of King’s journalism students will take on the singular experience of moving from the classroom to a Mi'kmaw community.

“Reporting in Mi'kma'ki” is an on-theground, immersive course that teaches students how to report on Indigenous stories responsibly.

After instructing last year’s course virtually, Rogers Chair in Journalism Trina Roache, BJ’00, is looking forward to bringing this experiential learning opportunity to King’s in person, for the first time.

Roache is the primary instructor for this course, working with Associate Professor Terra Tailleur and Instructor Erin Moore. According to Roache, the course was Tailleur’s brainchild and they built the course collaboratively.

Over the four-week intensive program, students will spend time in Eskasoni, a

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Jessica Casey is a second-year Bachelor of Arts student in the Contemporary Studies Program

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vibrant community with a rich history. According to Eskasoni First Nation’s website, it has 4,000 members, making it the largest Mi'kmaw community in the world.

Working in small teams, students will create a multimedia project, presenting their stories to community members during a special thank-you luncheon when the course comes to a close. This year’s theme is conservation.

“You learn more by doing it,” says Roache. The course gives students a basic foundation in Mi'kmaw history and understanding, while emphasizing experiential learning through conversation. “It’s really geared toward allowing the students to learn, allowing the community to share stories that they want told and to shine a light on aspects and voices in the community, on the ground.”

The course is open to graduate students and undergraduate students taking journalism as either a major or a minor.

Roache borrows a phrase from journalist and King’s alum Duncan McCue, BA’92, DCL’18, when she says, “We don’t want to be story-takers versus storytellers.” King’s intends to be part of a relationship of mutual gain with Eskasoni, which involves supporting local businesses and sharing knowledge about media literacy. “There has to be a benefit to community, so there’s this reciprocity.”

Roache says they also plan to engage with high school students in the community.

Among the 94 Calls to Action published by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, #86 states that all journalism students across Turtle Island [the name used by many Indigenous Peoples for North America] should graduate with an understanding of Indigenous history and Peoples, including

the legacy of residential schools, treaties, and Aboriginal rights.

This course is an excellent step toward this goal, but as an elective available to only twelve students at a time, it is not the end of the conversation. “It doesn’t check the box, and we don’t want to think of it in that way, of checking a box.”

Roache believes that there is more work to be done. “The curriculum itself is the larger goal. To add Indigenous content throughout the overall curriculum.”

Roache is a Mi'kmaw woman from Glooscap First Nation and she is keenly aware of the deficiencies in the media’s reporting of Indigenous stories.

“I challenge you to find a story about an Indigenous person … that’s not about an ‘Indigenous issue,’” Roache says.

Her challenge reminded me of a poster on her office door. It was a bingo card with Indigenous stereotypes in each square: violence, warriors, spirits, addiction. The poster

Michael Basque (centre) is the community liaison for the Potlotek fishery. Photo courtesy Michael Basque and The Signal

was from the Native American Journalist Association and advised that if your story gets bingo—kill the story.

Taking the time to speak with Roache brought to life the poster’s simple message: the importance of resisting stereotypes and seeing the person. As an Indigenous student at King’s, I found hearing this passion and understanding from a professor energizing.

“We always talk about Indigenous stories as laden with … trauma; and trauma across generations and poverty and incarceration, missing and murdered Indigenous women and residential schools … but there’s also a lot of joy and a lot of humor and a lot of love.”

Roache is a genuine and funny woman with an infectious laugh—and it’s impossible to understand what that is like without meeting her and having a conversation. This course will allow participating students to get those one-on-one opportunities to encounter Mi'kmaw people as they are—as real people.

“Good stories are always nuanced. And I think that that’s what we really want the students to understand—it’s that Mi'kmaw people are people.”

With thanks to Kathy Pratt LeGrow, BA’70, who generously made a gift to King’s in 2020 that continues to provide funding for this course.

TOP LEFT: Rogers Chair in Journalism Trina Roache TOP RIGHT: Students in the upcoming Reporting in Mi'kma'ki course will work with Allison McIsaac, senior biologist with Eskasoni Fish & Wildlife Commision. Here an intern with the commission is seen identifying aquatic bugs. Photo courtesy Allison McIssac

In June of 2021, students from the first Reporting in Mi'kma'ki course published “Netukulimk: Our Way Forward” on The Signal. It is a story that weaves together personal accounts shared by Mi'kmaw fishers, hunters and community organizers who are fighting for their treaty rights to be recognized. At the same time, it reveals the important role of Netukulimk—a concept of hunting and harvesting that prioritizes conservation and sustainability central to their approach. Read the full story and watch the video at signalhfx.ca/ netukulimk-our-way-forward/.

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BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: WORKING WITH ALUMNI, STUDENTS TAKE NEXT STEPS ASK A KING’S ALUM if the education they received has played a role in their career, and you’re likely to get the same emphatic answer—“Yes!” A liberal arts education shapes individuals for a lifetime. But for King’s students, it isn’t always obvious where their degrees will take them. Alumni are a critical piece of this puzzle.

In 2020, Joanna Sheridan, BA(Hons)’07, assumed the position of assistant to the vice-president and coordinator of public humanities and experiential learning. It is a new role at King’s, as Sheridan describes, “intended to nurture and grow

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the academics-adjacent areas of the college, such as student employment, experiential learning, academic outreach and research services...” Since her arrival, Sheridan has been helping students to explore what their future path could look like.

“Our goal is to help students to understand their strengths and values,” says Sheridan. “King’s has a special regard for the way education shapes personal development. An arts degree is not about job training; we’re here to help students understand the many ways they can contribute to the world and how to further develop their competencies.”

Sheridan has gathered up existing experiential learning opportunities into her portfolio and added new ones: opportunities for applied research, career services tailored to students in the liberal arts and an internship program for the innovation space. The result is a suite of programs and opportunities that help King’s students to better understand how to apply their strengths and interests outside the classroom.

Sheridan adds that now, in addition to presenting positive examples of career outcomes, King’s alumni are taking a more active role, offering direct workplace experiences for students.

One of the programs Sheridan oversees is the Undergraduate Fellowships in Public Humanities, now entering its third session.

The fellowships are open to students of all years who have completed the Foundation Year Program. In 2021, eight participating organizations hosted eight King’s students in varying roles. Seven of those eight host organizations involved alumni. Examples include:

Patrick Blenkarn, BA(Hons)’13, is co-founder and project lead for videocan, an open access archive for video documentation of Canadian theatre and dance performance.

It is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Strategy Fund and operates in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Institute of Performance Studies. Blenkarn hired fourth-year student Nathan Ferguson for a fellowship as researcher and archivist.

He explains Ferguson “... drew extensively on his superb writing skills to craft articles and notes for both public and private use… [he] was diligent in his work, communicative in his activities and frequently drew important connections between theory and practice that will serve the organization for years to come.”

Ferguson describes the work as demonstrating to him the viability of “... a kind of self-employment I had never considered previously. As someone who is interested in pursuing work in library sciences, it has enabled me to develop experience working in an alternative archival setting. The diligence and work ethic that I honed as a student at King’s were also assets—if less immediately relevant ones—in every aspect of my employment...”

After completing the Foundation Year Program (FYP), Aidan Rawding completed a fellowship as marketing/communications intern for Barb Stegemann, BA’91, BJ’99, at The 7 Virtues Beauty Inc. She says, “Working with The 7 Virtues has deeply inspired me to explore new career paths that I hadn’t considered before, like graphic design or social entrepreneurship. I also came to know more about my learning habits through this

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DATA SHOWS THAT while nearly one quarter of undergraduate students in the province are in the arts, this category of students has been underserved by formal experiential learning opportunities. A new initiative funded by the Nova Scotia provincial government and overseen by King’s will try to change that. “Art of the Possible: Envisioning a bright future for entrepreneurship & experiential learning programming for NS students in the humanities, social sciences, languages and performing/creative arts” is a year-long, provincial capacity-building project. Its goal is to create resources institutions can use to make their own decisions about how experiential learning and entrepreneurship could be expanded and enhanced for arts students.

fellowship, for example, that I like being given a set number of tasks to complete independently, then checking in with my supervisor throughout the process if I need guidance or have questions. I can now better communicate my opinions and visions and feel comfortable pitching ideas to my coworkers and supervisor. This fellowship opportunity has given me a lot of confidence in the degree I have chosen to pursue at King’s. I know I will be able to apply the many skills I’ve learned ...”

Sarah Cooper, BA’96, co-founder and owner of UK-based Little Black Book, a digital business-to-business publication for the global advertising and production industry, offered a fellowship to third-year student Joshua Neufeldt as editorial intern/staff writing intern. Neufeld’s supervisor Laura Swinton, head of the editorial team says, “Josh’s studies in journalism had prepared him well for this internship. He was able to get to grips with a complex industry quickly.

He was confident and extremely competent in his ability to research and write articles.

His eye for detail when it came to style cer-

tainly came to the fore.”

About his experience, Neufeldt writes, “From a very early point, they emphasized that they wanted me to get something I enjoyed out of the work experience as well. In terms of how this experience impacted me, there is no doubt that this was the best job I ever had. I loved the team and the opportunities given to me and I learned so much… It’s not an exaggeration to say that this job removed a good amount of my cynicism about working in the journalism industry. At the start of the year, I wanted to just find some casual work after graduating while thinking about what I wanted to do, but I realized from this experience that this specific style of journalism is for me. I’m also grateful for my journalism education and how it prepared me for this job… With that said, I have no doubt that without the opportunity, my life would be very different right now ... Not only was this far more academically stimulating, but I genuinely had a passion for the work and the craft.”

at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, a large teaching hospital and Level 1 trauma centre affiliated with Dalhousie University. Under the supervision of Dr. Gabrielle Horne, MFA’19, Kimmelman worked on a project called “Books by Heart: Using Technology to Humanize Care in Heart Health.” The project makes local e-books accessible to cardiology in-patients.

She writes, “This experience [helped] me decide which lines of work I want to pursue more in the future… My previous social sciences education came in handy the most, as there is a psychology focus to this project, and a small research component involved in the grant writing. The placement developed my research skills, creative problem solving and independent and initiative-dependent work.”

INVITATION TO ALUMNI

King’s is working to expand and enhance the supports we provide to students who wish to gain professional experience and build networks that will help them achieve their goals. While the programs Sheridan is nurturing are not exclusively offered through alumni, through the programs, alumni are working to deepen their engagement with King’s by offering new, mutually beneficial opportunities for current students to explore their future.

Are you looking for ways to be involved with King’s? Do you own or work for a business or organization that could benefit from the skills humanities students possess? We would love to hear from you. joanna.sheridan@ukings.ca

Undergraduate Fellowships in Public Humanities are made possible in part by a gift from BMO Financial Group.

First-year student Rachel Kimmelman took a fellowship as development coordinator

Learn more at ukings.ca/programs/experiential-learning/

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TALES FROM THE QUAD

CLASSICS IN THE QUAD One of King’s best-loved traditions, Classics in the Quad returned in October after nearly two years spent ‘waiting in the wings.’ Directed by third-year student Tessa Hill, the cast of primarily first and second-year students dazzled the audience on a chilly fall evening with their performance of Antigone.

MICHENER AWARDS Top journalists from across Canada, comprising winners and nominees of the Michener Awards, came to King’s in November to discuss public service journalism. Day-long programming for students in the School of Journalism was followed by an evening panel discussion with the public. The laureates debated subjects ranging from sustainable media funding models to the existence of journalistic objectivity. Watch the panel on King’s YouTube channel.

KING’S INAUGURAL SUMMER BOOK CLUB All summer long, alumni and friends, faculty and staff gathered online once a month and got into the nitty gritty of some of the faculty’s favorite books. With a different title selected by a faculty champion each month and online discussions that echoed FYP tutorials, the first edition of King’s Summer Book Club was a page-turning success! Stay tuned to King’s social media channels for the announcement of our 2022 lineup!.

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KING’S CO-OP BOOKSTORE NEW SWAG With snazzy new swag designed by King’s Co-op Bookstore Manager Paul MacKay and artist Kevin Curran, you can now bring a little corner of campus with you wherever you go and support an independent bookstore while you’re at it! Stock up on merch and books at kingscoopbookstore.ca.

WOMEN’S RUGBY In their most successful season ever, the women’s rugby team, led by Head Coach Lysa McGrath, won a silver medal at the 2021-22 Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association conference finals against the University of New Brunswick. Congratulations to the team! We look forward to watching them build on their success next season!

FORMAL MEAL Led by the music of bagpipes and wearing the robes that identify them as scholars from matriculation onward, a new generation of students entered Prince Hall to celebrate their first Formal Meal. As excited students took their seats and the dining services team laid out the first course of a tempting meal, the hall glowed with the warmth and energy of the occasion and the liveliness of community.

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WRITING WORKSHOPS Since 2019 nearly 150 writers, representing all levels of experience have participated in King’s non-credit writing workshops. Organized by Executive Director of the MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program Kim Pittaway, each online workshop is led by an experienced writer who guides participants on an in-depth exploration of a specific skill or genre over eight weeks. Topics have included memoir, sensory description, fiction and creative nonfiction and writing effectively about emotional pain. Look for details of the next round of workshops in the April alumni newsletter.

MFA PODCAST / FURTHER READING Two seasons in, Further Reading, the podcast launched by the MFA in Creative Nonfiction, continues to grow in scope and subscribers. If you haven’t heard it yet, this is your chance to join MFA Mentor and host Gillian Turnbull, MFA’17, along with guests including Eternity Martis, Jordan Abel and Jenn Thornhill Verma, BJ(Hons)’02, MFA’19, as they sit down and talk process.

From research and revision to writing habits, Further Reading is a celebration of the writer’s craft. Listen on Apple Podcasts or SoundCloud.

PRESIDENT LAHEY’S HOT CHOCOLATE SOCIAL ‘Twas early December and classes were done, the students were stirring and ready to run.

So President Bill invited the lot: “Come quick to the Quad, the chocolate is hot!” When what to their wondering ears was then heard, but the sounds of the choir like the song of a bird! The beverage was sweet but the song it was sweeter, surrounded by friends but spaced by one meter.

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MFA podcast host Gillian Turnbull

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CHAPEL CHOIR: REFRAMED Faced with tough pandemic restrictions in early 2022, Garth MacPhee, King’s Chapel Choir’s interim director of music, wanted a way to keep choristers “connected with one another and to reach deeper into the college community and beyond.” The result was Chapel Choir: Reframed. It’s a series of videos featuring members of the choir discussing things they’re passionate about that connect to music. MacPhee compares the videos to “the windows in an Advent calendar,” offering insight, like an unexpected gift, into the talent each chorister brings to their role in the choir.

“You lift and you see ‘Wow, this person— besides singing in the chapel choir—they also have this amazing knowledge of architecture and they can relate it back to music.’ Or maybe somebody is a fantastic folk guitar player, or [plays] mandolin….” says MacPhee. “It’s really an effort to communicate and reach out to people. I think one of the very simple ways of doing this is just to say, ‘Here’s something I’m very interested in and maybe you would like to know something about it.’” Explore Chapel Choir: Reframed at kingschapel.ca/chapel-choir-reframed

LUNCHES IN THE BOARDROOM Inspired by his experience studying at Exeter College, Oxford, President Lahey initiated Lunches in the Boardroom, a series bringing students together in conversation with an alum over lunch. Since resuming the series last fall, President Lahey has hosted students alongside alumni such as playwright, screenwriter and producer Hannah Rittner, BA(Hons)’11, epidemiologist and CEO Chère Chapman, BSc(Hons)’94, Kathryn Morse, BJ’89, and publicist and musician Trevor Murphy, BJ(Hons)’06.

WARDROOM FUNDRAISER Alumni came out in person and online to show their support for King’s students and the Wardy last November. Organized by the KSU and Wardroom staff to raise money for a new sound system and featuring a performance by Terra Spencer, ’99, Alumni Night in the Wardroom brought together old friends, faculty and President Lahey in shared cause to ensure the next generation of students keep the party going. Thanks to all who donated, the event exceeded its $1,200 goal, raising just over $2,000 total!

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS SAMUEL GOLDBERG WINS THE SACKNOFF PRIZE FOR SPACE HISTORY

En route back to King’s from his hometown of Philadelphia, Pa., Samuel Goldberg had just stepped off a plane in Toronto. The fifth-year student, who will graduate this spring with a combined honours in History

of Science and Technology (HOST) and philosophy, learned about King’s and the HOST program by virtue of its successful alumni, like space flight historian and HOST graduate, Amy Shira Teitel, BA(Hons)’08. Goldberg sat down in the airport and checked his email. It was then that he learned he had accomplished something few undergraduate students have achieved; Goldberg had won the Sacknoff Prize in Space History.

Since 2011, the Sacknoff Prize has been awarded each year by Space 3.0, a nonprofit organization in the United States that “aims to preserve space history, empower entrepreneurs, and secure the future.” Students submit a long-form essay dealing with a topic in space history and the winner’s essay is subsequently published in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly. The award also comes with an invitation to present at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

Goldberg’s winning essay is titled “Falling with Style: Zero-Gravity in Early Spaceflight Thought.” Explaining how he got the idea, he says, “I had this intuition that weightlessness itself, the phenomenon, was not sufficiently discussed in early space flight thoughts.”

Professor Stephen Snobelen, Goldberg’s thesis advisor, puts the student’s success into context. “One reason why I was gratified to hear that Samuel had won the Sacknoff Prize was that his paper would be published.

I must stress that it is very, very rare for an undergraduate to publish in a mainstream journal.”

After he graduates this spring, Goldberg plans to take a year off and then resume his studies. “I have two areas that I’m really interested in. One is early spaceflight history, that is, before the space race,” he says. “…and I think space medicine is really interesting.”

For this King’s student, not even the sky is the limit.

LESLIE AMMINSON AND LANE HARRISON AWARDED JOAN DONALDSON CBC NEWS SCHOLARSHIPS Every year, graduating students from 16 journalism programs from across Canada apply for the Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship. In the spring of 2022, two graduates of King’s School of Journalism, Leslie Amminson and Lane Harrison, will be among the select few students beginning the four months-long, paid CBC internships that come with the scholarship.

Over the course of the internship, students complete two separate placements at the national broadcast centre in Toronto and one in a regional station. The application process is described as highly competitive by Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism Terra Tailleur BJ’97, MJ’13. She adds “For many it’s a gateway into regular work at the CBC.” Both Amminson and Harrison gravitated toward writing and journalism at a young age. For Amminson, who will graduate this spring with a Master of Journalism, the excitement she feels for her burgeoning career nevertheless surprises her. “I didn’t expect to be quite so enamored of the work,” she observes. “Writing can feel solitary, but journalism feels connected. It’s a lovely bal-

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ance of talking to people and coming back to your desk and writing about it, making something special out of it.”

Harrison, meanwhile, is in the final weeks of the Bachelor of Journalism (Honours). He says he loves information—researching it, gathering it, writing it, sharing it. Throughout his studies he has been active with the Dalhousie Gazette, first writing stories, then as news editor and now in his final year as editor-in-chief. The challenges facing a small campus newspaper echo those of much larger publications. “We’re trying to meet people where they are,” Harrison explains, “putting more stories on Instagram and other social media platforms.”

Amminson and Harrison share a drive to succeed in the field, but they are motivated by different things. “I want to learn how to think about stories as national,” says Harrison, “and how to take local stories and learn to make them matter to all Canadians.” For Amminson, it’s injustice that moves her. “I’m drawn to stories where I feel there is some harm being done and we need to look at why that’s happening… the things that aren’t being talked about enough.”

CAMPUS NEWS

AMANDA LESLIE AWARDED 2021 PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA PRIZE FOR BEST MFA NONFICTION BOOK PROPOSAL Amanda Leslie, MFA’17, was awarded the 2021 Penguin Random House Canada Prize for best MFA nonfiction book proposal.

Diane Turbide, Penguin Canada’s publishing director and one of the judges for the annual award, said that the Halifax-based journalist’s proposal for Wild Places: Exploring Our Connection to Canada’s National Parks, “invites readers to follow her as she uncovers parts of the country that remain unknown to so many of us.”

“Her work synthesizes elements of settler and Indigenous history, geology and public policy into an entertaining, informative and rewarding read,” said Turbide.

Leslie’s submission, a proposal that includes sample chapters and sections describing the book’s marketability, was chosen from among five shortlisted finalists, including Gloria Blizzard’s, MFA’21, Black Cake, Turtle Soup and Other Dilemmas, Virginia Heffernan’s, MFA’21, Settlers in the Wetlands: The Story of the Ring of Fire Discovery, Melinda Jacobs’, MFA’20, Out of Office and Aaron Williams’, BJ’13, MFA’17, On the Hillside: Working with the Last Loggers.

“I’m delighted to see the strength of our graduates’ projects shine through in these proposals,” noted Kim Pittaway, the executive director of the MFA program.

The award was established by the generosity of Penguin Random House Canada in partnership with Westwood Creative Artists literary agency. It celebrates excellence in creative nonfiction and is awarded for the best nonfiction book proposal prepared by a student in their graduating year, or by an alumnus. The prize is $2,500 and a consultation with a Penguin Random House editor, as well as an offer by Westwood to represent the author.

FACULTY HONOURS

Professor of Humanities and Director of the Contemporary Studies Program, Dr. Dorota Glowacka is part of a research network that has been awarded a seven-year, $2.5 million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

The research network, Thinking Through the Museum, comprises an international group of scholars, museum professionals and graduate students who are working to bring underrepresented perspectives to greater prominence in the museum world.

Inglis Professor Kim Kierans, BA(Hons)’83 was named a senior fellow of Massey College in Toronto, Ont., a three-year, renewable appointment. In September, Kierans further joined Massey College as a senior resident for a one-year term. During her appointment as resident, Kim is leading programs for the junior fellows in building communications skills, teaching them how to communicate about their research and work succinctly and accessibly.

At a ceremony in May, the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) honoured Fred Vallance-Jones, BA(Hons)’67, associate professor in the School of Journalism, with the 2020 Charles Bury Award.

Vallance-Jones and Instructor David McKie were recognized for what the CAJ described as “their pioneering work in the field of computer assisted reporting/ data journalism in Canada over the past several decades in both newsrooms and classrooms across the country.”

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, the latest work of historical nonfiction

by Professor Dean Jobb, member of faculty in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program, was longlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Additionally, it received an honourable mention in the Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year Awards and was a Washington Post pick as one of the Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2021.

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IF YOU WANT SOMEBODY at the table who can beat the odds, invite Nick Harris.

Harris is in his fourth year at King’s, studying political science and Law, Justice and Society. He is also a newly-minted Rhodes Scholar—the 33rd King’s student to receive one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world.

And the odds? Well, each year students in countries from around the globe—from Australia to Zimbabwe—apply for a Rhodes Scholarship. Thousands apply. Thousands of the best and brightest. Only a tiny percentage, around a hundred students, are successful. They will be Harris’s classmates

at Oxford University when he begins his courses there next fall.

If you get to know Nick Harris though, that he beat the odds is not much of a surprise. He’s done it a few other times. And he has always done it with a belief that the impossible is absolutely possible.

“I would describe myself as someone with wonder in my eyes,” he explains. “That means that despite the challenges or the circumstance, I believe in possibility, in limitless possibility, even when we are constrained by whatever external factors.”

In his teenage years those “external factors” were more than a little constraining.

“We didn’t have a lot of money when I was growing up in Windsor across the river from Detroit. We weren’t poor, but both my parents worked minimum wage jobs their entire lives. I knew very early on that education was my way out. But then I got sick and I wasn’t sure I would even finish high school.”

In his personal statement submission, part of his application for the Rhodes Scholarship, Harris explains his illness.

“I was fourteen, sitting in my doctor’s office, when she accidentally wrote down an extra zero on my prescription. That was the day I began poisoning myself with nearly three times the maximum dosage of a medication intended for acne.”

Harris’s vision and hearing deteriorated.

He had seizures. He had to resort to home schooling. For almost a year he lived in the dark because of his extreme sensitivity to light. Odds upon odds stacked up against him. But for Harris, it was an opportunity, a gift.

“It’s in this darkness where I learned many lessons: chief among them, to look up and count the stars.”

Harris also learned the value of community from the people who supported him during this wretched time. He learned that working together made for a better world.

Harris clung to those lessons and they served him well. He recovered enough to return to high school. Post-secondary schooling loomed but choice was limited as money was an issue. He applied for a Loran Award. It’s the big one. A four-year undergraduate award worth around $100k and given out on the basis of “character, service and the promise of leadership.”

Harris was one of 30 students from across Canada to win the award.

When the Loran folks called to let him know the first thing Harris said to them was, “You just made everything possible.”

With the money situation resolved Harris had the luxury of choosing pretty much any university in the country. He chose King’s and dove in, always looking up to count the stars and always looking to find or create community. That led him to become a motivational speaker at high schools and conferences during his reading weeks. The goal was always to bring people together to donate and help local food banks. It got him thinking about what else he could do.

“I was always politically inclined but I didn’t know that would be my career path.

When I got sick I saw a community of people rally around me. I thought, these people make my life just a little bit better, so what can I do at a higher level to make others’ lives just that much better?”

The answer? Student politics to start.

Harris became King’s Students' Union (KSU) vice president financial. After two years of that he was elected president in March 2021.

He works tirelessly to make life better for the community of students at King’s.

But Harris also has a rich and a just so Kingsian social life.

“For my 19th birthday, I didn’t go drinking, I organized, like, a Plato symposium on the definition of happiness. About 35 people showed up in my tiny dorm room. We all gave speeches about happiness.”

Harris’s speech focused on sunsets.

“I would describe myself as someone with wonder in my eyes. That means that despite the challenges or the circumstance, I believe in possibility, in limitless possibility, even when we are constrained by whatever external factors.”

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“I talked about the term carpe diem which most people understand to mean ‘seize the day.’ I had spoken to a Latin professor though who says it actually means something closer to ‘hold on to that which is fleeting.’ So I talked about sunrise and sunset and how beautiful they are but they are moments that are fleeting. It’s the same as happiness. You see it. You recognize it. But it is fleeting. But then you just have to wait for the next sunrise or sunset.”

As he entered his last year at King’s, Harris began thinking about the next chapter of his life. Money for postgrad work was an issue. So he applied for the Rhodes Scholarship. His application got him to the final selection round—a two-day event with other Maritime applicants held on PEI. The first day included a dinner party.

“The first hour was brutal,” Harris recalls.

“I sat there. I overanalyzed myself. I didn’t eat any of the first two courses, barely touched the wine.”

But then the talk around the table turned to a debate about, of all things, the plight of adjunct faculty. Harris squared off against the Rhodes judges.

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“The judges, the people who would interview me the next day, just piled on me on that one. But I stuck to my guns. And they kept coming after me. It felt afterwards like it was a test. That was my favourite part of the day.”

The next day was the formal interview.

Then it was the long drive back to Halifax.

“I was almost home. We were inching along over the bridge. The sun was setting and there were these beautiful blues and purples and reds and yellows. Lindsay Cameron Wilson, [BA’95, BJ’99], she’s my Loran mentor, she’s driving and she asks me if I’d like a little quiet time. Not 20 seconds into that silence and I get the call. They said, ‘Nick we have you on speakerphone.’

There is only one reason they would have me on speaker phone and I choked out, ‘Oh my goodness.’ They said, ‘We think you are deserving and worthy and that you would bring so much if you had a seat at our table.

And we’d like to offer you one through a Rhodes Scholarship.’ I then choked out, ‘You just made everything possible.’”

What are the odds? Pretty good if you are Nick Harris.

"When I got sick I saw a community of people rally around me. I thought, these people make my life just a little bit better, so what can I do at a higher level to make others’ lives just that much better?”

OPPOSITE: Nick Harris with King’s President William

Lahey BELOW: Nick Harris with alum Lindsay Cameron Wilson, his Loran Award mentor

SCHOLARS ROUND-UP Meet a few of this year’s major scholarship recipients, who express excitement and gratitude

JOHN AND JUDY BRAGG FAMILY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Hillary MacInnis of Bay Bulls, Nfld., is the second student to receive the $6000 John and Judy Bragg Family Foundation Journalism Scholarship. Created in 2020, the award is given annually to a student in the School of Journalism.

A first-year Master of Journalism student, MacInnis, described how the scholarship has impacted her graduate studies, saying, “I am so grateful to be a recipient of this scholarship. Not only has it given me the financial freedom to focus on my studies, but it’s the best motivation. It's pushing me to do my best.”

SYLVIA D. HAMILTON AWARDS The Sylvia D. Hamilton Awards launched in 2020 in honour of Inglis Professor Sylvia Hamilton’s retirement year. Open to African Canadian students, the award is worth $2020 per year and is renewable for the standard duration of the student’s degree.

We spoke with some of the 2021 Sylvia D. Hamilton Award recipients.

Avery Stewart is an accomplished poet and short story author pursuing the Master of Journalism. She explains, “When I think about journalism and writing I think, for example, about the work of Truman Capote.

Concise, conversational writing is often overlooked in literature. It’s a style to which

I aspire.” Stewart says she never pursued scholarships in her undergraduate studies, so when she learned she was one of the 2021 Sylvia D. Hamilton Award recipients, it was “a new and exciting experience.”

“The award going a long way to make the MFA possible and it gives me peace of mind,” says fellow 2021 recipient Valerie Chelangat. As a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, Valerie Chelangat is in the midst of writing a book about intentional reading. “It’s reading selectively and widely,” she explains, “reading books by different kinds of authors to diversify your experience.”

Third-year Bachelor of Arts student Jayden Nordin also received a Sylvia D. Hamilton Award in 2021. Nordin plans to study social work, saying “I want to help kids with a similar background to mine and show them there are things they can do, things they can be a part of,” he says. When he’s not studying, or leading the men’s basketball team as point guard, Nordin works two part-time jobs and spends time with his son.

Recalling the moment he learned he was the recipient of the award he says simply, “It made for a very good day.”

LEFT TO RIGHT: Avery Stewart; Jayden Nordin;

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DONALD R. SOBEY FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP

DEBRA DEANE LITTLE AND ROBERT LITTLE ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS FOR VARSITY ATHLETES

Since 2014, the Donald R. Sobey Family Scholarship, worth $50,000 over four years, has been awarded to 21 students entering the Foundation Year Program (FYP) at King’s. Meet the newest Sobey Scholars.

Zoe Schacter-Beiles, a student in the Foundation Year Program (FYP), says she knew that King’s was right for her when she realized it was a place where students read Dante and Saint Augustine and, what’s more, “where people want to talk about these things.” Receiving a 2021 Sobey Scholarship has helped her to realize what she has to offer. “I had no expectation when I applied… It’s making me recognize that I’ve accomplished things.”

Since starting FYP in September 2021, Olivia Piercey has particularly enjoyed the chance to study early feminist texts. “I’ve been reading excerpts from Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies. She was a medieval scholar and one of the earliest feminists. There was so much slander of women at the time and she fought back to prove that women were as capable as men.” She says the Sobey Scholarship motivates her. “I really didn’t think I would get it and it’s added to my motivation to do well. I have to live up to it!”

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The Debra Deane Little and Robert Little Academic Scholarships for Varsity Athletes recognize students who combine scholastic excellence with athletic skill and dedication. In 2021, 11 first-year students received the four-year, renewable scholarship, worth up to $20,000. In 2021/22 there are a total of 41 Deane Little Scholars at King’s. We spoke with four of the 11 students who started at King’s in 2021 as Deane Little Scholars.

First-year student Liam Bendsza is a forward on the men’s basketball team who was drawn to the Foundation Year Program (FYP) after taking a high school philosophy course. Being named a Deane Little Scholar meant a lot to Bendsza. “It kind of solidified for me that ‘You’ve made it.’”

Fellow FYP student Maria Collins came to King’s to study journalism and to be part of the women’s rugby team, where she plays wing. She says the Deane Little Scholarship affirms the work she has invested toward her goals. “When I was in high school, there was nothing I wanted more than to play varsity rugby in university. It just kind of confirmed my hard work in the classroom and on the field.”

Like Collins, Deane Little Scholar Elena Neufeld also plans to study journalism. The volleyball player was excited to find a university with an esteemed School of Journalism and strong athletics programming. She describes the moment when she was awarded the Deane Little Scholarship as “overwhelming.”

Like his fellow Deane Little Scholars, men’s basketball centre Ethan Brownsey is grateful for being recognized with the scholarship. “It means the most because my five years of hard work paid off.”

During that time, Brownsey continued to practice shooting free throws, even when injuries prevented him from running.

Alongside basketball, Brownsey is at the start of an academic career that he hopes will lead to law school.

TOP TO BOTTOM: Elena Neufeld; Ethan Brownsey; Liam Bendsza; Maria Collins

DR. CARRIE BEST SCHOLARSHIP The Dr. Carrie Best Scholarship is named after the acclaimed Nova Scotian journalist, author and broadcaster, Dr. Carrie Best, DCL’92. This renewable entrance award is worth up to $20,000 and is open to Black and Indigenous students.

“From what I know of Best’s legacy, she strikes me as an incredible educator through her advocacy,” says Catherine St-Jean, the 2021 Dr. Carrie Best Scholar. “I hope throughout my time at King’s I can follow her example to listen and learn from the people around me, as well as share my own limited experiences and advocate where I can for Indigenous, among other, communities.”

THE PRINCE SCHOLARSHIP

TOP TO BOTTOM: Alp Ozgoren; Shana Jardine

HARRISON MCCAIN SCHOLARSHIP The Harrison McCain Scholarship is worth $16,000 over four years. During the 2021/22 academic year, there are eight Harrison McCain Scholars studying at King’s.

First-year Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) student Shana Jardine says she “wanted both a small university and a bigger city experience and King’s, with its amazing journalism program, was perfect.”

She has vivid memories of the moment she learned she was a Harrison McCain Scholar. “I’d been checking my emails nonstop once I knew I’d been short-listed. My parents had gone to pick up my sister from a volleyball game when the email came in. I literally shrieked and I completely terrified our dogs. Then I called my mom.”

First-year Bachelor of Arts student and basketball player Alp Ozgoren began to look at King’s after meeting the Blue Devils basketball coach. He’s enjoying the opportunity to explore different courses. “For me the university environment is a place to discover things I wasn’t aware of that I might want to pursue.” Being a Harrison McCain Scholar keeps him focused. “The Harrison McCain Scholarship makes my university experience easier, for sure. But it’s also a way for me to keep myself on track… set a standard for myself, keep improving.”

TOP TO BOTTOM: Kendra Gannon Sneddon; Monique Nguilibet

Worth up to $24,000, the Prince Scholarship is uniquely available to African Nova Scotian students entering the Foundation Year Program (FYP) at King’s. Meet the two newest recipients.

Kendra Gannon Sneddon was driving when she received a call from President Lahey telling her she was one of the 2021 Prince Scholars.

“I can remember everything I did before that conversation, but I have no idea what I said to the president.” Now at King’s, she plans to study journalism. “There aren’t enough people on air who look like me. I want to change that.”

Monique Nguilibet remembers how surprised she was to receive the call from President Lahey. “I was really shocked,” Nguilibet says.

“He introduced himself and told me I had won.

I ran out to the living room to tell my parents.”

She recalls her first FYP lecture, on The Epic of Gilgamesh. “I looked around me and there was everyone else in the lecture hall making notes and listening so carefully, just like I was.

It calmed me down and made me feel that I had made the right choice.”

THE CARRIE AND RALPH WRIGHT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP The Carrie and Ralph Wright Memorial Scholarship was established by Judith Kaye Wright, BA’64, in honour of her parents. A four-year, renewable award, it is valued at up to $39,000.

Maggie Fyfe is the 2021 Carrie and Ralph Wright Scholar. During her last year in high school, she wrote an essay on Antigone that was one of two winners of King’s inaugural essay-writing contest for high school students. Soon after arriving at King’s, she had the opportunity to be part of a production of that very play, with Classics in the Quad.

It’s no wonder she calls King’s “a great fit for me as a student and a person.” She says the

scholarship allows her to focus on her studies and that she hopes to honour the Wrights’ memory. “I feel so grateful for this amazing gift from Judith and her parents and King’s.”

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ARRIVALS GARTH MACPHEE Discussing his appointment as interim director of the University of King’s College Chapel Choir, Garth MacPhee notes that given his background in the Anglo-Catholic liturgical tradition, the chapel choir is “very much my ‘home key.’” A native of Dartmouth, N.S., MacPhee holds a Master’s of Music (Organ and Church Music) from McGill and is past music director of churches in Montreal and Victoria. He currently holds a simultaneous appointment as director of music at St. George’s Round Church in Halifax.

But MacPhee’s enthusiasm for the position goes beyond musical compatibility.

“I relish the opportunity to work with young singers…. To me, this interim role is so much about providing some support and

RHEMA FERGUSON “One of the things I want to do … is create spaces for people that allow them to bring their whole selves to King’s,” says Equity Officer Rhema Ferguson. “People should feel comfortable being their complete selves wherever they go. But unfortunately that is not the case for a lot of places. With the help of faculty and the administration and the students, I want to create an environment that allows people to be who they are.”

Ferguson joined King’s in July from a role at the University of Saskatchewan, but she was already based in Nova Scotia.

From the Bahamas originally, she graduated from the Environment and Sustainability program at Acadia. She then spent six years living and working in Saskatchewan, but she missed the ocean and so moved back to Nova Scotia, continuing in her job remotely.

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“Then a friend of mine heard about the job at King’s as equity officer,” she explains, “and she said—‘Oh this would be perfect for you!’

So when I looked at the posting I went—Yes! This is exactly what I want to do!”

Among other initiatives, with the help of the university’s EDI Working Group, she is currently drafting an equity, diversity and inclusion action plan. The plan will help the King's community take key steps, together, on the path to becoming a more inclusive and welcoming environment.

“My ideal campus would be an incubator for personal growth. Students need a place where they are comfortable enough to learn. People, who come here, come here for growth. So we need to have a safe environment, a place where you can explore all different aspects of who you are.”

encouragement to [the choristers] … and to keep them making music, hopefully at as high a level as we can.”

Since starting in January when tough pandemic restrictions remained, MacPhee has focused on helping the choristers “stay connected with one another and also, to reach deeper into the college community and beyond.” That goal is what led to Chapel Choir: Reframed, a series of videos featuring members of the choir discussing something music related that excites them (read about the series on pg. 11). Meanwhile, as Nova Scotia’s pandemic restrictions are again relaxed, he looks forward to slowly resuming the activity that lies at the heart of any choir—singing.

TRACY LENFESTY Tracy Lenfesty joined King’s as university librarian in November, following 25 years as the head librarian at the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Though one might imagine that the records, reference books and reports that fill the library at DNR are a world away from the reading material at King’s, Lenfesty has uncovered a lot of common ground. On her first walk-through of the library, she recalls finding “a display of natural history

by Professor Henry How, who I knew about from my geosciences work.” How taught at King’s and Lenfesty says that his book, The Minerology of Nova Scotia, was a work she often referenced at DNR. Lenfesty was a founding board member of Halifax Humanities and worked with St.

George’s YouthNet, both organizations with strong ties to King’s.

And those connections to the Quad go deeper still: alumni who attended King’s in the ‘90s may recall Lenfesty from her days as a senior don in Cochran Bay while studying for a Masters in Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie. Asked if she sees a difference between the students she worked with back then and students today, she says “I think that the people who come here, come here very deliberately. There’s something different and special here that they want and that’s why they come. And I don’t think that’s different—King’s has always been small and a bit different and you know we probably always will be and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

ASHLEY NIXON Ashley Nixon is King’s new assistant dean of students. Their background blends past experience in residence support with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) from Dalhousie that included a placement with the university’s Social Work Community Clinic.

“There’s a continuity between social work and student support because I can provide educational programs about gender identity, LGBTQ+ issues and anti-racism,” they explain. “In social work, the anti-oppressive [social work practice] approach means implementing different critical social theories and recognizing systemic inequalities—and those things can help in my role here at King’s.”

Growing up in a military family, Nixon’s childhood was spent in Greenwood, N.S. and Edmonton, Alta. Since returning to Nova

Scotia during high school, they’ve grown to love the local music scene, saying that despite the fact that “not a lot of big-ticket musical acts come through … you get to dive into local music, whether in Halifax or the rest of the Maritimes.”

Since joining King’s in December, Nixon has quickly integrated into life on the Quad.

“I’m starting to understand what King’s small, tight-knit community means for different folks and different types of students.

The community is so collaborative and unique and supportive.

“One of the things I really like is when the lights on the trees in the Quad come on.

I thinks it’s such a warm, inviting light that illuminates this beautiful area where a lot of people run into each other and have conversations.”

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Q&A WITH THE PRESIDENT OF KING’S Bill Lahey talks about the future and his second term

By Elizabeth Foster

Fourth-year Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) student Elizabeth Foster sat down with President William Lahey to reflect on his time as King’s president and outline his future goals.

Hello President Bill, and congratulations on your reappointment as president and vice-chancellor! Was there something in particular that made you want a second term?

It’s pretty straightforward; I’ve fallen in love with the University of King’s College. My partner Kathryn and I and our kids… King’s has become our home…

Beyond that, we’ve made very encouraging progress over five years on the objectives that were set before me when I started… it’s not that we still don’t have challenging work to do, but we’re also in a period of time where we are getting to see the benefits and the outcomes of [that work] … I want to be around for some of that.

What is the most significant thing you’ve learned about this role since you first took office in 2016?

I didn’t expect to be changed as much by King's, as I have been. What I have learned here has made me a better human being in ways I hope are reflected in the job I am doing as president, and for that matter in the work I’ve done at the same time, such as my work on forestry for the province.

Before I came to King’s, I had an outsider's view of its uniqueness and success, but now… I believe I have a deeper understanding of what truly does make King's unique…

There’s a sense here that we don’t simply

have an academic learning experience and a good community experience beside it as an add on—we’ve integrated those two aspects… We build community inside our academic programs and our academic programs, at the same time, benefit from the community that happens around them.

When Board of Governors Chair Douglas Ruck, [BA’72], announced your reappointment in January 2021, he praised your stewardship of the university during the pandemic. Were there past experiences for you to draw on in your decision-making?

I've learned through my experiences over a diverse career that collective objectives are best achieved when people are not being told what to do, but when they have the organization that allows them to do what they know how to do…

I think of how our faculty, with student interns, reimagined our programs not just as online programs but as King’s online programs, or of how the Day Students’ Society supported students in isolation, or of how all our safety plans were developed by our Occupational Health and Safety Committee… in a very collegial process of discussion, taking everyone’s point of view seriously. I could give many other examples and we should never forget the assistance we have received from our Dalhousie colleagues and the province. The point is that it has all come together over and over to meet the challenges we faced as best we could. I hope it’s true that I played some role in creating the framework for all of that, but it really was done by the whole institution…

You’re known as a president who takes the time to get to know his students, soliciting their insight on the ways the university can improve, encouraging open dialogue. How are you hoping to engage students in your second term?

I came to King’s because I am a university professor who wanted this additional way to contribute to the success of students. I became a professor because of the opportunity that gave me, yes, to teach students, but also to learn from students. I feel the same way about being president of King’s.

I plan to continue to be accessible… for example, I plan to continue to host lunches for bringing alumni and students together and to have students in the Lodge for supper. I’m looking forward to once again having president's skating parties. I have a whole great big bag of kings skating scarves that I’m looking forward to seeing on students as they skate around the Oval.

Then there’s the formal relationship with King’s Students’ Union, which played a critical role during not just the pandemic, but also in the progress we’ve made on sexualized violence and equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion. I’m looking forward to continuing that relationship…

Being open, not just to knowing students and being known by them, but to learning from students, it’s one of the things that is most remarkable about being privileged to have a career in higher education. And it actually gets more important and more valuable the older you get in that career—you certainly learn to appreciate it more—the opportunity it gives you to see the world and the future from the perspective of young people.

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Speaking of your teaching, you continue to teach at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law. Can you tell us more about how this informs your presidency?

Sure, I think it’s very important that someone in university administration keep in touch with the academic mission of universities, which is to teach and to learn. So yes, my continued teaching, including the lecture I give in FYP, informs my work as president.

But it also works the other way. The course I teach at Dalhousie is Canadian Legal History and it deals with many heavy topics in the injustice of our law… I teach it in a more robust way because of what I’ve learned about equity, diversity and inclusion from my colleagues at King’s and by being part of our work making King’s a more equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive community.

You’ve said that you accepted the Board of Governors’ offer to become president in 2016, based on the understanding you developed that King’s wanted to address its “diversity deficits.” What does this look like one term in? How will you continue to address this?

We’ve done some important things, like scholarships for Black and Indigenous students. We’ve taken some big steps in deliberately hiring for diversity and creating a full-time equity officer position. We’ve taken the name Haliburton off a classroom and we have or are working on making other spaces more inclusive… We’re offering a very exciting course called Reporting in Mi'kma'ki, in partnership with Eskasoni First Nation… and we are working with Mi'kmaw Kina'Matnewey to create a program for Mi'kmaw students

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studying journalism at King’s.

What we really need to do is to take our separate initiatives, and bring them together under the framework of an action plan that includes a robust academic plan… At the core of that action plan there must be a level of commitment that requires us to stop thinking of diversity and inclusion as solely areas of improvement… and to instead start thinking about [these] as central dimensions of our mission…

With equity, diversity and inclusion a big part of your second mandate, how are you communicating to the communities you're looking to attract? What kind of outreach is King’s doing?

Relationship to community is vitally important… I’ve been told repeatedly by members of the Mi'kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities that if a university doesn’t have a relationship with the community that it seeks to attract students from, it’s not going to attract [them]… And it must be a symmetrical relationship that includes the contributions we can make to those communities, not only the students they can send to us.

Before the pandemic, the board chair and I were having very good conversations with leaders from the African Nova Scotian community based on the research that was done through our scholarly inquiry… which showed that King’s had significant connections to the enslavement of Black peoples, and the profits that institution generated…

I believe very strongly that there is a debt that we owe to Black people for the ways in which their ancestors contributed to this

university and in an unacknowledged way, during its first 50 years of existence. Likewise, our acknowledgements that we live on unceded Mi'kmaw land have to be put into actions that create opportunity for Mi'kmaw students and their communities.

What are some of the goals for accessibility?

We have to address accessibility holistically, including but not limited to the parts of it concerning the rights of people with disabilities. Economic accessibility is also crucial and something that I know about as a first-generation university student myself.

We have a comprehensive process underway to develop the accessibility plan we are required to have under the Accessibility Act… This summer, we’re going to take the first step in making Alex Hall a residence that is accessible. We’re installing an accessible elevator… we’re changing the entrance way into the building so there won’t be any steps… and creating the first of a number of accessible rooms and washrooms. We have to go beyond making our buildings as accessible as we can… we have to build accessibility into teaching and learning and into all the services we provide to everyone at King’s and our many visitors. This is the law but also the right thing to do.

And overall, what priorities or objectives would you like to see the university accomplish in the next four years?

We need to continue to make progress across the many priorities we have been working on. I’ll simply list some of them: strengthening relationships between the

college and alumni, increasing funding and supports for students; advancing equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion; supporting our faculty and staff; adding to our academic programs, including through deeper collaboration with Dalhousie; completing the improvement of residences by making Alex Hall accessible—as previously discussed—and restoring Cochran Bay as we have the other bays. And we are in the early stages of a fundraising campaign that will focus on supporting students, our academic mission and our campus.

An important emerging priority is a new space for the School of Journalism that reflects the evolution happening in the practice of journalism and also what’s happening at King’s with the addition of the MFA degree, of which—spoiler alert—there will soon be two… We’ve also added a number of people whose main job is to support students; a sexual health and safety officer, an equity officer, a student support advisor and I hope we soon have an accessibility officer, all of whom need space to conduct their work… there is also need for more space for student societies and activities. And finally, we have a thriving athletics program at King’s and a lovely but antiquated gymnasium. A large dream is a new building that addresses all these different needs.

King’s is known for its journalism school, FYP, humanities courses, and MFA programs. What goals are there for these programs as King’s approaches its 100th year of association with Dal? The academic programs are the heart and soul of the university. The university must

be encouraging, enabling and supportive of those programs in charting their futures.

Faculty renewal is also very important…

That includes creating new tenure-track positions for professors from underrepresented communities in ways that contribute to an academic plan that sets a course for our future… Collaboration with Dalhousie is a very important part of this because there are opportunities for both universities—and the students of each—in combining our respective strengths. I would like to see the 100th anniversary be more than a celebration of the past. It should also be a new launch for the association, which is truly unique.

During your first term, you made it a priority to strengthen the ties between King’s and its alumni. How are you going to continue this work in your next term?

I’m looking forward to getting on the road again. My first year, I had a lot of fun going across the country meeting with groups of alumni… I think the alumni have become a more significant source of advice for the university through the alumni association and alumni representatives on the board and I hope that can grow and develop.

The other thing we’ve made some progress on is increasing alumni involvement in helping our students be successful at and beyond King’s… We’ve done that through making more information about our alumni and their inspiring stories after King’s available to our students. The Undergraduate Fellowships in Public Humanities program involves students working for organizations that allow the students to put their education to work, always with an alumni as the

primary host of the student… I host lunches for students and an alumni guest that give them a real opportunity to get to know each other. I’m looking forward to doing more of those. I would like to see a greater role for alumni in preparing new students for life at King’s and in mentoring them at King’s. The stories our graduates tell me about how they found themselves at King’s—I’d like more of our students to hear those stories.

By now you’ve met plenty of alumni and worked closely with today’s students. In your opinion, is there a through line that connects King’s students today with its alumni over several generations?

I was once told by a grad (Dan de Munnik, BSc(Hons)’02) that it was this: from here (King’s) you can go anywhere. I think there is a lot of truth in that. It is more than that our graduates are found everywhere and in every possible line of work but that there is something in the King’s experience that finds and nurtures that self-confidence and curiosity that motivates our students to dream and to follow their dreams, confident they can accomplish what they want to accomplish.

I also have to say that I find our students and our graduates remarkably similar in their dedication to living for others—for the world, in fact—and not only for themselves.

It has led me to believe that the words in our Matriculation Oath that I love so much, the ones that promise fidelity to the “precepts of communal life and learning,” capture something foundational about what has always been true of King’s and that must always continue to guide us.

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LEARNING TO UNLEARN WITH KENNY FRIES As King’s works toward accessibility, a guest lecture provides valuable insight about what is truly required to accomplish this goal

By Tessa Hill

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ACCLAIMED WRITER KENNY FRIES has spent his career searching for language to express experiences that he hadn’t read about before. As a writer with a disability who sometimes takes this experience as his subject, Fries’ writing offers valuable perspective at a time when improved accessibility standards are increasingly demanded but often, remain poorly understood.

In January, Fries spoke to the King’s community during a virtual event organized by the Contemporary Studies Program (CSP) entitled “Disability Can Save Your Life: Queering the Crip and Cripping the Queer.” The title is derived from the titles of two of Fries’ recent projects and it captures Fries’ associative approach to his creative writing. Fries’ writing career began in the early 90’s, with the publication of groundbreaking, highly acclaimed works of both fiction and nonfiction. Since then, he has also led various curatorial projects. Over the hour of his presentation, Fries brought

“Disability becomes divorced from cultural context and becomes the problem of the individual, not a category defined by a society.”

us through excerpts from his published work, following threads of thought that run through his work. From his first book to his recent work, Fries’ writing is connected by a common goal: to find political power in the creative spirit.

Disability is often associated with a story, says Fries, but it is one society demands from the individual as a form of explanation.

Questions like, “what happened to you?” and, “why do you look like that?” haunt daily life for disabled people. “What is actually a physical fact becomes a story with a hero or a victim,” he explains. “Disability becomes divorced from cultural context and becomes the problem of the individual, not a category defined by a society.”

Through creative nonfiction, however, Fries has created the space to write what had yet to be written. As a man living at the intersections of disabled, queer, and Jewish identities, Fries seeks to express his identity through the intimacy of self-defined

storytelling. Although his work is set against the questions forced onto disabled people, he strives to write beyond the cultural myths of disability. Fries has also been critical in constructing a new canon of disabled artists through projects like the Staring Back anthology and his current curation at the Schwules Museum in Berlin. He has even created his own test of disability representation in media (aptly named the Fries Test) that highlights the lack of real representation in media as much as it does the works that pass.

Among the questions asked by the students who attended, one stood out to me: what can we do to unlearn our internalized ableism? I’ve heard this kind of question in many spaces, often arising in discussions about oppression—many people attend with a willingness to learn while also hoping they might find concrete answers about change.

“That’s a very good question,” Fries chuckles, considering the weight of his response.

“I think that [ableism is] probably one of the most difficult things to unlearn.” He explained that unlearning requires learning about disabled lives and examining how we are each situated within an ableist culture.

Fries’ response touched on a key shift in how we seek to unlearn as individuals and as a community. Speaking personally, as I finish my third year of studies in CSP, I have learned that I must stop asking about what I can do and start looking at how I listen. This year, I’ve been able to contribute to King’s Accessibility Planning as a student representative. The King’s Accessibility Plan will address long-ignored accessibility issues and institute significant changes required by the provincial government of Nova Scotia of all businesses, organizations and government offices by 2030. Guided by a sub-plan, the college will work in a cumulative threephase approach, addressing six key focus areas.

The work King’s is undertaking begins with the process of unlearning that Fries described. In our work, we use the term “first voice” to describe the centering of disabled folks’ experiences in policy creation. A core part of our sub-plan’s first phase is changing the climate of ableism and building community capacity through a range of programming that centres disabled voices. Kenny Fries’ insightful work shows us that listening closely to the creative expression and lived experiences of disabled folks must be the foundation to real institutional change. His lecture represents a hopeful beginning in a journey for the King’s community—a journey of listening and action, one that starts with unlearning.

LEFT: Kenny Fries. Photo by Michael R. Dekker RIGHT: Tessa Hill, a third-year student with a

combined honours in Contemporary Studies and English

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‘MAXIMUS IS IN!’ Most Rev. Mark MacDonald delivers the 2022 Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture

By Jessica Casey

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KING’S WAS FORTUNATE to be joined

by Most Rev. Mark MacDonald, who spoke about Maximus the Confessor for the 2022 Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture, delivered online in January.

Admittedly, I had never heard of this historical figure before attending the lecture, but I was immediately drawn to the way our lecturer spoke about him. I could tell by the way he was speaking that Maximus’ teachings were not a mere academic interest to him, but actively impacted the way he lives.

MacDonald began by saying that he “came

to know” Maximus forty years ago. Rather than claiming to be an expert, he said humbly that he has “walked with Maximus a long time.”

MacDonald became the National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop in 2007, meaning he represents the interests of Indigenous Anglicans in Canada. He is the World Council of Churches president for North America and has held ministry in a variety of positions across Turtle Island [the name used by many Indigenous peoples for North America].

MacDonald is a charismatic speaker about Indigenous and environmental issues and as I found out after a few Google searches, he really knows his way around an acoustic guitar. Through the lecture, MacDonald used his unique position as an Indigenous Anglican to present his perspective on the life and teachings of Maximus and liturgy itself.

The desire to link the practices and values of the church with the Indigenous past and present is a challenging and sensitive thing. The cultural genocide and traumatic relationship between the church and Indigenous peoples were very much alive in my mind as I listened.

Maximus, sometimes known as Maximus the Confessor, was a theologian from AD 580-662. He was born into the aristocracy of Constantinople before becoming a monk. He opposed Monothelitism, the idea that there is one will in Christ. As he stood by his belief that Christ had both human and divine wills, he was convicted of heresy.

Maximus was venerated as a saint shortly after his death.

MacDonald walked us through some ideas including the belief that human beings are bodies and souls working together. For Maximus, he described, “the goal of spiritual practice is not union with God, but love.”

These complex ideas were a lot to fathom, but MacDonald unpacked them with enthusiasm and care.

He also presented some of his Indigenous perspective, discussing compatibilities he sees between Anglican and Indigenous spiritual practices. Speaking as an Inuk woman, many of our lecturer’s beliefs did not personally align with my own. Indigenous perspectives are diverse, and MacDonald’s perspective has a unique context as he represents Indigenous Anglicans.

When attending an “Indigenous perspective” lecture, we must remember that no one Indigenous person can speak on behalf of all Indigenous people. I resonated with one of the attendees who questioned the appropriateness of MacDonald’s homogenization of Indigenous peoples in his lecture.

Indigenous peoples are a vast population across Turtle Island, each community with a rich and diverse culture and set of spiritual practices.

I always enjoy seeing people who are energized by their work. The archbishop’s bright enthusiasm shone through in the spirited Q-and-A section of the lecture, where many listeners delved deeper into the speaker’s knowledge.

When a member of the chapel community asked about where to start when reading Maximus, MacDonald listed a few texts that he described as his “greatest hits!” He ended by confidently pronouncing “Maximus is in!”

It was illuminating to hear MacDonald’s lecture and to join together as a community of learners to share these important and complex conversations. The spirit of Truth and Reconciliation demands that we keep these conversations at the forefront, both as we navigate Indigenous relations and as we take up space day-to-day in settler institutions.

Through the lecture, MacDonald used his unique position as an Indigenous Anglican to present his perspective on the life and teachings of Maximus and liturgy itself.

Bishop Mark MacDonald, National Indigenous Anglican Bishop. Michael Hudson for General Synod Communications

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FYP TEXTS

SHAKESPEARE THE HISTORIAN

by Dr. Thomas Curran

THE FOUNDATION YEAR Program has devoted 50 years of King's life to exploring the unending hold that literature has on the human imagination. Certainly FYP has become a generational phenomenon—children of former students have been spotted around campus and in tutorial—perhaps, then, a world is beginning to emerge where even grandchildren of the original FYP cohorts might begin to appear?

In FYP, we have done whatever we can to recognize the author who appears to have laid the most definitive stamp on English language literature, that is William Shakespeare. I said English language, but perhaps I should have said English history? The Duke of Marlborough—known for his victory at battle of Blenheim (Blindheim, Bavaria: August 1704) and for the Palace (about 10 miles outside Oxford) that was constructed to commemorate his career—the Duke famously suggested that for a satisfactory grasp of the grand sweep of English history there was a singular and supreme source: ‘Shakespeare, the only history of England that I ever read.’

I am guessing that historians of British monarchy in the 15th Century might find this a rather diminished bibliography for the reigns of Shakespeare’s foremost theatrical kings, particularly those from the reign of Richard II (1377-1399) to the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth in 1485—which represents a dramatic narrative (of sorts) for about a century. But the Duke is right: if you wish to make any allusion to the succession of monarchs that Shakespeare’s drama considers—while ignoring committed historians—Shakespeare is the place to anchor your discussion.

And, furthermore, there are recorded performances offered by some of the most famous names in theatre, who by their very adoption of these same roles actually determine how we visualize the historical characters that they are bringing to life:

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Kenneth Branagh, Timothée Chalamet, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Dinklage, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Laurence Olivier, Mark Rylance, David Tennant, Denzel Washington…

FYP has at least once engaged directly with Henry IV—but a play like Antony and Cleopatra belongs somewhere in the catalogue, as a kind of history, the ins and outs of which Dr Roberta Barker has vividly explored with us. Cleopatra also inhabits our imagination, in just the way that Shakespeare made clear: “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety.”

I might be inclined to transpose this formula onto Shakespeare’s history plays themselves: “Age cannot wither them…”

In the famous (Shakespearian) speech that Henry V makes before the Battle of Agincourt (in 1415), Henry suggests that a battle to be fought on the Feast of Saints Crispin and Crispian (October 25th) will be remembered: “From this day to the ending of the world” … Well, I understand that this is rather an extravagant claim, but I do want to provide two supporting comments. The first is that Henry correctly identifies the double-named Feast of “Crispin Crispian”— but neither saint is particularly well known, and St Crispian, if remembered at all, really only lives on in our consciousness because of Henry’s speech! Moreover, these famous actors are the ones who keep the names of Saints Crispin and Crispian ringing in our ears—since actors are still reciting these very words in theatres and films—six centuries or four centuries after the fact, depending on your point of view.

As further evidence: apparently (Anne Curry) in the 16th Century, it was common for ambitious families “to pad their resumés” by claiming that they had forebears who were with Henry V at Agincourt, thus adding

depth and profundity to their family histories.

This is a phenomenon highlighted in a creation by Arvo Pärt, the Estonian composer. Wikipedia informs us: “From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019.” I am not in a position to “fact-check” this assertion, but I take it as a sufficient support for a more modest assertion: that Arvo Pärt has had a successful career, and a world-wide following—which includes glittering performances by both, for instance, the Music Department at Acadia University in Wolfville, and by the King’s College Choir here in Halifax.

The piece I have especially in mind is Pärt’s 1997 composition: “The Woman with the Alabaster Box” for unaccompanied chorus. The exact text that Pärt has set for this chorale work comes from Matthew’s Gospel (Chapter 26), but it appears also in Mark’s Gospel (Chapter 14). Recently we have been reading Mark’s Gospel in FYP—so I am trying (to claim) this—surreptitiously—as a “FYP text” as well.

The libretto concerns an anonymous adherent, who in an act of spontaneous devotion anoints Jesus by pouring “precious ointment” over Jesus’s head. A dispute ensues about this waste of something of high value that could have been used for charitable purposes. But Jesus puts an end to the “conversation” by asserting: “Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.”

Again: I am going to emphasize the slightly more modest formulation which reads: “wheresoever this gospel shall be preached”— but the statement is correct to this extent: that wheresoever this choral work is performed or recorded … this will “be told for a memorial of her”—the nameless woman who appeared “in the house of Simon the Leper”.

Fifty years, fifty book lists. No textbooks.

Thousands of papers, thousands of students. No bad questions.

Countless debates, countless journeys. No limit to where it can take you.

Correctly name three of the people in these photos and your name will be entered into a random draw to win a gift certificate to the King’s Co-op Bookstore! Email your answers to sonya.jampolsky@ ukings.ca

FIFTY YEARS OF FYP STARTING IN SEPTEMBER 2022, the King’s community will launch a year-long celebration in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Foundation Year Program (FYP).

A passionate engagement with the seminal texts of Western thought, FYP is credited by many program alumni with teaching them to think critically and write persuasively.

From Dante to Darwin, from Voltaire to Césaire, the book list may change but the premise remains the same: students form

their own understanding of a work by engaging directly with its claims, bolstered by the instruction of lecturers and the company of their tutors and peers.

Events are being planned to fête FYP throughout the 2022/23 academic year.

Stay tuned for lectures, tutorials, debates and a book-length collection of written testimonials from FYP graduates from over the program’s first 50 years. Visit ukings. ca/50yearsofFYP in the coming months to

see what’s happening and to learn how you can get involved in the celebrations.

Information will also be shared in the events section of King’s monthly Alumni Newsletter.

If you aren’t receiving the monthly newsletters, or if you wish to update your contact information we invite you to do that online at ukings.ca/alumni/connect or contact Paula Johnson in the Advancement Office.

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STEWARDSHIP REPORT 2020/21

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STEWARDSHIP REPORT April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021 I WRITE THIS as the last few weeks of the fiscal year draw to a close. As always, this report covers the preceding year. And I am, of course, aware that many of you have given again in the year we are in.

As a university, there is no greater sign of relevance for our work than each student who chooses King’s. However, the many ways that you, our donors (and especially as many of you are indeed former students) decide to give and direct your gifts is another great signal of both Photo by Adams Photography relevance and confidence—a form of proof that there is still urgency and importance in our mission and in the particular way we pursue it.

And this signal of confidence and ability to help arrives with every single gift.

Although it often feels inadequate, the greatest expression of our gratitude still resides in saying—thank you! On behalf of the college, its students, faculty and staff and everyone who cares for and about King’s, we extend gratitude to you for all the things King’s is able to do and provide to students as a result of your abiding generosity.

The university has many aspirations and goals and much we want to accomplish in the coming years. This September we will celebrate 50 years of the Foundation Year Program and in 2023 we will celebrate 100 years of our association with Dalhousie. Our upper-year humanities programs are in multiple collaborations about the future with Dalhousie colleagues. Our School of Journalism is thinking big about its future and our creative writing degrees are at the beginning of showing their full potential. Our enrolment is steadily increasing. I look forward to communicating with you in the near future, as the work to earn your continued support carries on.

We have come through a lot and we will accomplish a lot, together. We always talk about King’s as a community. You are exemplars. Thank you for supporting King’s educational mission and the students who come here to attain an education they can only attain at King’s and Dalhousie.

TOTAL FUNDS RAISED Bequests

$22,835

Annual Giving Gifts

$2,961,866

TOTAL

$3,318,920

With appreciation,

YOUR GIFTS DIRECTED Unrestricted

$120,944

ibraries & Academic L Programs

$100,314

Athletics

$5,973

Chapel

Bill

$334,219

$24,766

Chapel Choir

$61,810

tudent Assistance S (Scholarships & Awards) $659,438 Student Experience Campus Renewal Other

$118,338 $2,220,681 $6,658

TOTAL

$3,318,920

New Pledges (2020-21)

$204,971

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DONOR ROLL

DONOR ROLL Please note this report reflects donations made from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021. Donations made after this time will appear in next year's Stewardship Report. Every effort has been made to list names accurately. If your name has been omitted, or displayed incorrectly, please accept our apologies and notify King’s Advancement Office, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2A1 or call (902) 4221271 ext. 128 or e-mail Paula.Johnson@ukings.ca.

Explaining the “King’s Crowns.” The “blue crown” symbol marks donors who have contributed consecutively for the last five financial years. The“gold crown” symbol marks donors who have contributed consecutively for the last ten financial years. And there is an invisible “heart” symbol that marks all of you as King’s!

CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE ($10,000 and over) anonymous (2) The Alpha Aquilae Foundation BMO Financial Group George & Tia Cooper ∂ Elizabeth & Fred Fountain ∂ John & Genesta Hamm Donald Harrison Harrison McCain Foundation ∂ Larry Holman ∂ Susan Hunter ∂ Peter Jelley ∂ Kathy (Pratt) LeGrow Debra Deane Little & Robert Little Oriel MacLennan Rod & Robin MacLennan Estate of F.C. Manning* ∂ Anja Pearre ∂ Beverly (Zannotti) Postl ∂ UKC Alumni Association ∂ Wesley M Nicol Foundation Wilson Fuel Company Limited ∂ GOVERNOR'S CIRCLE ($5,000 to $9,999) anonymous (2) Acadia Broadcasting Limited ∂ William Barker & Elizabeth Church ∂ Patricia Chalmers ∂ Compass Group Canada Thomas Curran ∂ Edmonds Landscape and Construction Services Ltd. Kevin & Carolyn Gibson ∂ Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans ∂ William Lahey & Kathryn Lassaline ∂

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Gillian McCain ∂ Kim McCallum ∂ Elisa Nuyten Donald Stevenson ∂ INGLIS CIRCLE ($2,000 to $4,999) anonymous (1) Adriane Abbott ∂ Judy Abraham CC Alexander David & Robin Archibald ∂ Heather & Philip Barnes Katrina Beach ∂ Black Family Foundation Derek Bond Peter & Patricia Bryson ∂ Gordon Cameron ∂ Sarah Clift The Corpus Christi Foundation Richard & Marilyn (McNutt) Cregan ∂ Arthur Davis Joan Dawson ∂ Robert Dawson ∂ Christopher Elson ∂ Dale Godsoe ∂ Kevin Gormely & Mary Abbott William & Anne Hepburn ∂ Bernard Hibbitts J & W Murphy Foundation Keith Johnson Laurelle LeVert ∂ Roland & Marian (Huggard) Lines John MacLeod Rowland Marshall ∂ Michael & Kelly Meighen ∂ Daniel O’Halloran Penguin Random House Canada

Dennis Phillips R. Howard Webster Foundation Ronald Stevenson ∂ Sarah E. Stevenson ∂ Stingray Radio Estate of Marguerite I. Vernon* PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE ($1,000 to $1,999) anonymous (2) Roberta Barker ∂ Shirley Bradshaw Brian Brownlee ∂ Chère Chapman & Gord Cooper Paul Charlebois ∂ Brenda Christen Brian & Lindsay Cuthbertson ∂ Glenn & Petra Davidson Daniel de Munnik & Tasya Tymczyszyn ∂ Fred Fletcher Arthur Frank & Catherine Foote ∂ Marion Fry ∂ Bruce Geddes Maureen Grace & Robin Fyfe Roselle Green ∂ John & Brenda Hartley ∂ Kara Holm ∂ The Hornbeck Family ∂ Ronald Huebert ∂ Jennifer Inglis & Lew Turnquist Kim Kierans ∂ Andrew & Patricia Laing ∂ Amanda Leslie Kenzie MacKinnon ∂ Jaqueline Matheson Ian & Johanne (Zwicker) McKee Elizabeth Miles ∂ Peter O’Brien Peter & Sophie Oliver Sandra Oxner Ann Pituley ∂ Power Family: Steven Power ’88 & Rhonda Power ’92 Douglas & Valerie (Morine) Ruck Fiona Smith & Thomas Clute Jane Spurr Ian Stewart David Swick ∂ Benjamin von Bredow Suzanne Wheeler Romeo ∂ Hugh Wright ∂ Charles Wurtzburg

BENEFACTOR'S CIRCLE ($100 to $999) anonymous (32) Jane Adams Ritcey & Wilfred Moore Janet & Kenneth Adams ∂ Jennifer Adams John Adams Bob Allison ∂ Lorraine Atherton Nathalie Atkinson Sarah Atkinson & Ian Spears Margot Aucoin ∂ Kathleen Bain David Baker Jane Baldwin ∂ Paul Baldwin ∂ Jennifer Balfour ∂ Mary Barker & Ron Gilkie ∂ Keith Barrett ∂ T. Frederick Baxter Celine Beland David Ben-Arie Matthew Bernstein & Risa Prenick ∂ Gilbert Berringer ∂ Myra Bloom ∂ Elizabeth Boudreau Stephen Bowman & Elizabeth Koester ∂ Daniel Brandes & Dawn Tracey Brandes ∂ Jonna Brewer Rhea (Skerrett) & Patrick Bright Lauren Brodie ∂ Julia Brown Myrna Brown & Nathan Gilbert Rebecca (Moore) Brown ∂ Sharon Brown Sandra Bryant Christophe Brzezinski & Agata Brzezinski Mordy Bubis & Nina Stipich ∂ Brian Burnell Steven Burns & Janet Ross ∂ David Cadogan George Caines ∂ Nancy Campbell ∂ Howard Cappell Jackie Carlos & Colin Soule John Carr ∂ Donald & Jean (Kryszek) Chard Mira Chatt Carolyn (Tanner) Chenhall ∂ Greg & Karen Chiykowski Fred Christie ∂

DONOR ROLL Ian Chunn & Susan Reaney Burdette Coates ∂ Charlotte (Graven) Cochran Peter Coffin ∂ Peter Conrod ∂ Anne Coolen Thomas Coonan ∂ Barbara Corbin Rosalie Courage* Mary Craig Robert Craig ∂ Gerry Curnew Tim Currie & Christina Harnett Ronald Cutler ∂ Audrey Danaher & Richard Heystee ∂ Ken Dauphinee Gwendolyn Davies ∂ Susan Davies ∂ Wendy Davis ∂ Ann (Creighton) Day Gwen Day Ken Dekker ∂ Michelle Deruchie ∂ Mary (Coffill) Deveau J. Mark & Rachel (Swetnam) DeWolf ∂ Jackie Digout Sarah Dingle & Carl Lem ∂ Blair Dixon Susan Dodd ∂ Michael Drohan Jennifer Duchesne Stephanie Duchon ∂ Mark Dwor Diocesan Synod of Fredericton ∂ Elizabeth Edwards ∂ Keith Egger & Tracy Summerville Nancy Elliott & Richard Dyke Catherine (Sutherland) Emmerson Williams English & Jennifer Adams Michael Ewald & Edie Shaw-Ewald Alyssa & Matthew Feir Jim Feir Pam Fisher Wilson Fitt & Thelma Costello ∂ Graham Flack Mark Fleming & Rachel Renton Phillip Fleury ∂ Ian Folkins ∂ Susan Folkins ∂ Alexander & Stacey (MacDonald) Forbes ∂ Gisele (LeBlanc) Forsey

Luke Franklin J. Roderick Fraser ∂ Nevin French Paul Friedland Jim & Sally Garner Tara Gault Emily Gesner & Anna Maria Martin Dorota Glowacka ∂ Dr. John F. Godfrey Amy Goldlist Nestor Gomez ∂ Sandra Goodwin John Gorrill ∂ Andrew Graham ∂ Nicholas Graham ∂ William Grant David Gray ∂ Jennifer Gray Howard Green & Lynne Heller Julie Green Bev Greenlaw & Sylvia Hamilton Anne Gregory Joanna Grossman ∂ Gregory Guy ∂ Barbara Habib Catherine & David Hamilton ∂ Geraldine Hamm ∂ Elizabeth Hanton ∂ Gaye Harden Andy & Anne (Dorey) Hare Carla & Steve Harle ∂ Peter Harris ∂ Susan Harris ∂ Reid & Marilyn Harrison Sarah & Michael Harrison Michael & Kathy Hawkins C. William Hayward ∂ David Hazen Douglas Hazen ∂ Harold Hazen Mark & Shirley (Wall) Hazen ∂ Alan Hebb ∂ Mureena Hebert Dawn Henwood Wendy Hepburn David Herbert ∂ H. Douglas Hergett ∂ Jessica Herschman ∂ Angela Hill ∂ Kirsten Hill John Hobday ∂ Neil Hooper ∂ Bruce Howe ∂ James Howison Michaela Huard ∂ Caroline (Bennet) Hubbard David Hugill

Ian & Catherine Hugill Dennis Hurlburt Robert Hyslop ∂ Erin Iles ∂ Ranall & Sherry Ingalls International Council of Air Shows Simon Jackson Rhonda Jansen & Brad Faught Ian Johnson ∂ Paula Johnson ∂ Donald Johnston Sarah Jones Ben Kates ∂ Janet Kawchuk ∂ Doreen Kays ∂ Brenda Keeping Mary (Lewis) Kennedy ∂ Glen & Glenda (Cummings) Kent ∂ Ross Kerr Stephen Kimber ∂ W. J. Tory & Margaret (von Maltzahn) Kirby Stephen Knowles ∂ Simon Kow ∂ Phil Kretzmar & Kaarina Baker Frances (Kuret) Krusekopf Jacob Langer & Ferne Sherkin-Langer Jennifer Laurette & Allen McAvoy ∂ Caleb Lawrence ∂ Joanne Leatch Thomas & Barbara (Aikman) LeBrun Thomas Ledwell ∂ John & Nancy Leefe ∂ Beth Legge T.C. Leung ∂ Alan Levine & Iris Jacobson ∂ Thomas Lewis Judith Lockett Ruth Loomer ∂ Bill & Stella Lord ∂ Iain R.M. Luke ∂ Andy Lynch Margaret Lynch Christina Macdonald ∂ David MacDonald ∂ Elmer MacDonald Lesa MacDonald Kevin MacDonell ∂ Elaine & Ian MacInnis Ken & Mary MacInnis ∂ Wendy MacInnis David Mackay ∂ Kathleen MacKeigan & Chris Gibson

John MacKenzie ∂ Norman MacKenzie ∂ Lina (McLean) MacKinnon Anne MacLaren John MacLean ∂ Stephen & Julianne (Doucet) MacLean ∂ Russell MacLellan Jennifer (Bassett) MacLeod Michael & Cynthia (Edwards) MacMillan ∂ Chris MacNeil Marli MacNeil ∂ Kim Manchester Bob Mann ∂ James Mann ∂ Mary Martin Brian Matchett Heather May ∂ Molly McCarron Frances (Smith) McConnell ∂ Duncan McCue Warren McDougald Anne (Wainwright) McGaughey Graham McGillivray ∂ McInnes Cooper Lorna (Upham) McSheffrey David Mercer ∂ Berry Meyerowitz & Robyn Goren Beverley Millar ∂ Carol Miller Kathy & Dick Miller ∂ Lois Miller & Iain Macdonald Joyce (Blandford) Millman Catherine (Rhymes) Misener ∂ Janet Mitchell ∂ Penny Moody-Corbett Dr. & Mrs. Michael Moran Karen Morash David Morris* ∂ Kathryn Morris Brendan Morrison ∂ Joan Morrison ∂ Sarah Moses Paula Mowat Elizabeth Murray & Gary Powell ∂ Stephen Murray ∂ David Myles & Margaret (Harris) Myles* ∂ Peter Nathanson ∂ Ardis Nelson Andrea Nemetz Jan Nicholls & Paul Sobanski ∂ Sabine Nölke Dan O’Connor Peter O’Hearn Richard Oland TIDINGS | WINTER 2022

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DONOR ROLL Anne O’Neil ∂ Charles O’Neil Fran Ornstein ∂ Jessica & William Osborne Jennifer Otto Marco Oved Doug & Marlene Oxner John Page Kevin Pask ∂ Kelly Patterson & Peter Buckley ∂ Anne & Pays Payson Charlotte (MacLean) Peach ∂ LeRoy Peach ∂ Gary Pekeles & Jane McDonald ∂ Sandra Penney ∂ Arthur & Elizabeth (Baert) Peters Ric Peterson Robert Petite ∂ Cynthia (Smith) Pilichos ∂ Simone Pink & Doug Mitchell ∂ Rob Platts & Rachel Syme ∂ David Pond Helen Powell ∂ Morton Prager ∂ Kathleen Pritchard Margo Pullen Sly ∂ James Purchase Christina Quelch ∂ Noel & Susan (Pullen) Quinn Jennifer Rae-Brown Irene Randall ∂ Mary Lu Redden F. Alan Reesor ∂ Ryan Rempel & Joanne Epp Blair Riddle Tim Rissesco Patrick Rivest ∂ Edward Rix David Roach & Alex Schofield Eve Roberts Maria Roberts Paul Robinson & Ann Surprenant Leona Rodall Maurice Rodgerson Henry Roper & Phoebe Roper* ∂ Stephen Ross & Mary O’Riordan ∂ Michael Rudderham Elizabeth Ryan ∂ Helen Anne Ryding Mike Sampson Bonnie Sands ∂ Stuart Schwartz

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Aden Seaton & Howard Krongold ∂ Shelley Shea ∂ John Sherren William Sherren Brian Sherwell Catherine Shiner Carrie & Peter Simon ∂ Patricia Simpson & Kim Read Lynda Singer ∂ Katharine Sircom ∂ M. Elliott Siteman William Skinner Barbara Smith ∂ Ben Smith ∂ Jane Smith Roslyn Smith Sean Smith Gary & Kadre Sneddon Stephen Snobelen ∂ Peter & Elizabeth (Bayne) Sodero ∂ Reiaz Somji Andrew Sowerby ∂ Miranda Spence Lori Stahlbrand Thorfinn Stainforth Detlev Steffen Alison Stewart Thomas Stinson ∂ Kevin & Janice Stockall ∂ Carmon & Sharon Stone ∂ Theresa (Nowlan) Suart John Swain Lisa Taggart ∂ Elaine Taylor R. Brian & Sheila Taylor ∂ Kelley Teahen D. Lionel Teed ∂ Jerome Teitel ∂ Rose Tekel Geraldine Thomas ∂ Paul Thomson Chelsea Thorne ∂ Gary Thorne Kelly Toughill ∂ Keith Townley ∂ Nicholas Townley Juliette Valcke & Jérôme Blais Fred Vallance-Jones ∂ Anna van Blankenstein Saras Vedam & Jeff Miller Thomas Vincent ∂ Nancy (Clark) Violi ∂ Anne von Maltzahn Ian Wagschal Isabel Wainwright ∂ Mordecai Walfish ∂

Richard Walsh ∂ Karolyn Waterson ∂ Katy Weatherly William Wells ∂ Alvin Westgate & Cathy Ramey-Westgate Yael Wexler Christopher J. White ∂ Tara Wigglesworth-Hines ∂ Tom Wiley William Williams ∂ Directors of Williams Lake Conservation Company James Wilson & Lindsay Cameron Wilson Jan Winton ∂ Michael Wolfe James Wood ∂ Kathryn Wood ∂ Stuart Wood Faye Woodman Anne Woods Peter & Maida Woodwark ∂ Des Writer Drew Yamada & Jennifer Adcock Joanna (Shepherd) Zuk CUPOLA CLUB (up to $99) anonymous (11) Marcia & Stephen Aronson ∂ Kenneth Askew ∂ Jane Barter Virginia Barton & Bruce Creba Joshua Bates ∂ Victor Bomers Vanessa Bonneau Timothy Borlase Ronald Buckley ∂ Katrina Byrne ∂ Clare Christie ∂ Lyssa Clack ∂ John Cook ∂ Mary Jane Craik John Creelman ∂ Hugh Crosthwait Veronica Curran Michael Da Silva Pauline Dakin Lynn Davies Douglas Davis ∂ Ingrid D'eon Donna DiCostanzo Sally (Bergasse) Driscoll Terra-Lee Duncan Michael Dunn Gordon Earle ∂ Edward & Karen English

Kirk Feindel Sara Forsyth Rosalie Fox Edward Gesner ∂ Lori & Bob Gillies Elizabeth Grant Jasmine Hare Natalie Harvey Keith Hatfield ∂ Lillie Haworth ∂ Pearl Hazen Rachel Lea Heide David Henry Michael Hoare ∂ James Hunter ∂ Kieran Innocenzi ∂ Melinda Jacobs Michael Kaczorowski Gladys (Nickerson) Keddy ∂ Mary Beth Knight Diane Kuipers ∂ Juliette Lawand-Denesyk Adrian Lee ∂ Anne Loosen Richard Sean Lorway ∂ Casey Lynch Ronald A. MacDonald ∂ Rory & Genny (Whelan) MacLellan ∂ M. Garth Maxwell ∂ Barbara (Neish) McArthur ∂ Stephanie McGrath Elizabeth McNeil ∂ Gordon McNulty Mr. & Mrs. Loren Mendelsohn Charles Miner Adrian Molder Elizabeth Montgomery ∂ Andrew Morrison & Jennifer Morawiecki ∂ Susan & Bruce Moxley Carolyn Naftel Donald Neish John Nicolson Andrew O’Neill ∂ Richard Ortner Diane Pickard & Russell Bamford ∂ Andréa Pilichos Mark & Carolyn Power ∂ Jonathan Powers Gabrielle Rekai Iris (Martell) Richards Nancy (Brimicombe) Ring Sheila (Fenton) Robinson ∂ Carol (Fairn) Rogers Gillian (Bidwell) Rose ∂ Celia Russell

DONOR ROLL Mary Salenieks Stanley & Anne Salsman Myra (Crowe) Scott ∂ Renee & Victor Serio Taylor Simon James & Pauline Siteman Antonia Sly Nichols & Cluny Nichols Glenn Smellie Edith (Rushton) Steffens Heather (Christian) Stevenson ∂ Reginald Stockall Liz Tarshish Dylan Tate-Howarth ∂ Edward Thompson ∂ Randy & Deborah Townsend ∂ Eric Turner Valerie Vuillemot Yolana Wassersug Terrance Wasson John Weeren ∂ Audrey (Powell) Weir Martin Wessman Sabina Wex Margaret Whitley Bernard & Jean (Haliburton) Wills Sam Zucchi *deceased

LEGACY Estate of F.C. Manning Estate of Marguerite I. Vernon

IN MEMORY OF Marion (Ware) Boyer Malcolm Bradshaw Captain Jenn Casey Bernice Jacobson Chatt Jamie Cochran Janet Cochran Rosalie Courage Jane Curran Rev. J.E. (Ted) DeWolf George Earles Canon C. Russell Elliott Michael Elliott Rev. Canon Jim Golding Thomas Chandler Haliburton Ruth Hazen Peggy Heller Rev. Dr. John Hibbitts Jeffrey Robert Hooper James & Audrey Ingalls Angus Johnston

Nancy King Daina Kulnys Colin MacLean Dr. Hubert Eric Morgan Douglas Myers Gerald Nelson Daniel & Valerie O’Brien John Ogilvie Regis Paquet Drake Petersen Wayne Roberts Lynne Ann Sherren Joy H. & Harry D. Smith Rev. Rodney Stokoe Rev. Beverley Strople Tata Professor Kraft von Maltzahn Leslie (Cutler) Walsh Budge Wilson Cherie (Tolson) Winters

IN HONOUR OF Jackson Byrne & Rebecca Best Dr. Jackie Cappell Julia Duchesne Marion Fry Dorota Glowacka Stuart Harden Allison Hill Father Ingalls and his students President Bill Lahey Gordon McOuat Power Family: Steven Power ’88 & Rhonda Power ’92 Eilidh Ram The Registrar’s Office Staff Donald McPhee Roberts Corrine Sparks Jordan Spears Colin Starnes Amy Teitel Anne Von Maltzahn for her contribution to the Williams Lake Conservation Company Angels’ Roost & Radical Bay Class of 2020 and their quest for diversity Inspired by Bill Lahey’s excellent public service The tenacity of King’s students and the incredible contribution King's makes to Canada

SPONSORSHIPS Wilson Fuel Company Limited

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BY DECADE 1942 Iris (Martell) Richards 1944 anonymous (1) 1947 Edward Thompson ∂ 1948 William Sherren Brian Sherwell 1950 J. Roderick Fraser ∂ Johanne (Zwicker) McKee 1951 anonymous (1) Donald Neish Gillian (Bidwell) Rose ∂ 1952 Elmer MacDonald Frances (Smith) McConnell ∂ William Skinner Audrey (Powell) Weir 1953 Marion Fry ∂ Ruth Loomer ∂ Barbara (Neish) McArthur ∂ Joan Morrison ∂ 1954 Keith Barrett ∂ John Gorrill ∂ Pearl Hazen Alan Hebb ∂ David MacDonald ∂ 1955 John Cook ∂ 1956 anonymous (1) Gilbert Berringer ∂ Mary Jane Craik Ann (Creighton) Day Harold Hazen Ann Pituley ∂ 1957 Caroline (Bennet) Hubbard John MacKenzie ∂

Carolyn Naftel Ben Smith ∂ Isabel Wainwright ∂ 1958 anonymous (1) George Caines ∂ Fred Christie ∂ Gerry Curnew John Hamm C. William Hayward ∂ Michael Rudderham 1959 Norman MacKenzie ∂ LeRoy Peach ∂ Elizabeth (Baert) Peters Reginald Stockall 1960 Arthur Peters 1961 Roland Lines David Myles ∂ Sandra Oxner Richard Walsh ∂ 1962 Geraldine Hamm ∂ Caleb Lawrence ∂ Thomas LeBrun Russell MacLellan Susan (Pullen) Quinn Donald Stevenson ∂ Nancy (Clark) Violi ∂ 1963 T. Frederick Baxter Charlotte (Graven) Cochran Gwendolyn Davies ∂ Gordon Earle ∂ Edward Gesner ∂ Doreen Kays ∂ Stephen Knowles ∂ Barbara (Aikman) LeBrun Marian (Huggard) Lines David Morris* ∂ James Purchase John Sherren Elizabeth (Bayne) Sodero ∂ D. Lionel Teed ∂ 1964 anonymous (1) Donald Chard Burdette Coates ∂ Blair Dixon

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DONOR ROLL Lillie Haworth ∂ H. Douglas Hergett ∂ T.C. Leung ∂ Anja Pearre ∂ Noel Quinn Barbara Smith ∂ William Wells ∂ 1965 Roselle Green ∂ Michael Hoare ∂ Nancy Leefe ∂ Lois Miller Margaret (Harris) Myles* ∂ Carmon Stone ∂ Thomas Vincent ∂ William Williams ∂ 1966 Margaret (Burstall) Brown ∂ Ronald Buckley ∂ Carolyn (Tanner) Chenhall ∂ Glen Kent ∂ John Leefe ∂ Judith Lockett James Mann ∂ M. Garth Maxwell ∂ 1967 Mary Barker ∂ Clare Christie ∂ John Creelman ∂ Hugh Crosthwait Douglas Hazen ∂ Bruce Howe ∂ Glenda (Cummings) Kent ∂ Carol Miller Charlotte (MacLean) Peach ∂ Sheila (Fenton) Robinson ∂ 1968 anonymous (1) Jean (Kryszek) Chard Peter Coffin ∂ J. Mark DeWolf ∂ Peter Harris ∂ Keith Hatfield ∂ Ronald A. MacDonald ∂ Anne (Wainwright) McGaughey Cynthia (Smith) Pilichos ∂ Beverly (Zannotti) Postl ∂ 1969 anonymous (1) Marilyn (McNutt) Cregan ∂ Richard Cregan ∂ Sally (Bergasse) Driscoll Larry Holman ∂

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Robert Hyslop ∂ Lina (McLean) MacKinnon David Mercer ∂ Janet Mitchell ∂ John Page Robert Petite ∂ Helen Powell ∂ Elizabeth Ryan ∂ Lynda Singer ∂ Faye Woodman 1970 anonymous (2) Andy Hare Anne (Dorey) Hare Kathy (Pratt) LeGrow David Mackay ∂ Brian Matchett Nancy (Brimicombe) Ring Heather (Christian) Stevenson ∂ 1971 Ken MacInnis ∂ Penny Moody-Corbett Irene Randall ∂ Sheila Taylor ∂ 1972 John Carr ∂ Rachel (Swetnam) DeWolf ∂ Mureena Hebert Ian Johnson ∂ Gladys (Nickerson) Keddy ∂ Thomas Lewis Charles O’Neil Carol (Fairn) Rogers Douglas Ruck Valerie (Morine) Ruck 1973 Timothy Borlase Glenn Davidson Phillip Fleury ∂ Cathy Ramey-Westgate R. Brian Taylor ∂ Alvin Westgate 1974 Wilson Fitt ∂ Susan Harris ∂ Kim McCallum John Swain 1976 Peter Bryson ∂ Rosalie Courage* Catherine (Sutherland) Emmerson

Mary (Lewis) Kennedy ∂ W. J. Tory Kirby Myra (Crowe) Scott ∂ Jane Spurr 1977 Patrick Bright Wendy Davis ∂ Michaela Huard ∂ Margaret (von Maltzahn) Kirby 1978 Robert Craig ∂ Gisele (LeBlanc) Forsey Jennifer (Bassett) MacLeod John MacLeod Patrick Rivest ∂ 1979 Andrew Graham ∂ Natalie Harvey 1980 anonymous (1) Rhea (Skerrett) Bright Patricia Chalmers ∂ David Hazen Bernard Hibbitts Richard Sean Lorway ∂ Shelley Shea ∂ 1981 anonymous (1) Thomas Curran ∂ Elizabeth Hanton ∂ Catherine (Rhymes) Misener ∂ 1982 Robert Dawson ∂ Susan Folkins ∂ Stacey (MacDonald) Forbes ∂ Kim Kierans ∂ Marli MacNeil ∂ Celia Russell 1983 Kathleen Bain Lynn Davies Alexander Forbes ∂ 1984 David Baker Richard Dyke Anne Gregory Michael Hawkins Kevin Stockall ∂ 1985 anonymous (1)

Mark Hazen ∂ Shirley (Wall) Hazen ∂ Iain R.M. Luke ∂ Elaine MacInnis Stephen Murray ∂ Peter O’Hearn Kelley Teahen John Weeren ∂ 1986 anonymous (1) Mary (Coffill) Deveau Nancy Elliott Christopher Elson ∂ Ian Folkins ∂ Simon Jackson Andrew Laing ∂ Ian MacInnis Joyce (Blandford) Millman Peter Nathanson ∂ Blair Riddle 1987 anonymous (2) Jonna Brewer Susan Dodd ∂ Gregory Guy ∂ Jennifer Inglis Julianne (Doucet) MacLean ∂ Stephen MacLean ∂ Gillian McCain ∂ Katharine Sircom ∂ Elaine Taylor James Wood ∂ 1988 Jennifer Balfour ∂ Michael Dunn Andrea Nemetz Steven Power Terrance Wasson Charles Wurtzburg 1989 Jennifer Adcock Laurelle LeVert ∂ 1990 Daniel Brandes ∂ Sandra Goodwin Nicholas Graham ∂ Jennifer Gray Lorna (Upham) McSheffrey Peter O’Brien Sean Smith Theresa (Nowlan) Suart Paul Thomson Lew Turnquist

DONOR ROLL Bernard Wills Jean (Haliburton) Wills 1991 Jane Barter Rebecca (Moore) Brown ∂ Paul Charlebois ∂ Lyssa Clack ∂ Dawn Henwood Keith Johnson Kevin MacDonell ∂ Edward Rix Kathryn Wood ∂ 1992 Mary Abbott Tim Currie Ken Dekker ∂ Bruce Geddes Kevin Gibson ∂ Kevin Gormely Duncan McCue Cluny Nichols Sandra Penney ∂ Rhonda Power Drew Yamada 1993 anonymous (2) Paul Friedland Lesa MacDonald Molly McCarron Kathryn Morris Andréa Pilichos Tim Rissesco Suzanne Wheeler Romeo ∂ Stuart Wood

Carolyn Gibson ∂ Donald Harrison Ross Kerr Andrew Morrison ∂ Christina Quelch ∂ Joanna (Shepherd) Zuk 1996 Nathalie Atkinson Roberta Barker ∂ Christina Harnett Karen Morash 1997 anonymous (1) Emily Gesner Angela Hill ∂ Mary Beth Knight 1998 anonymous (2) David Ben-Arie Mira Chatt Andrew O’Neill ∂ Aden Seaton ∂ 1999 Gordon Cameron ∂ Lindsay Cameron Wilson Stephanie McGrath Antonia Sly Nichols 2000 Sarah Dingle ∂ Nevin French Carl Lem ∂ Sarah Moses

1994 anonymous (1) Chère Chapman Gord Cooper Arthur Davis Mark Fleming Peter Jelley ∂ Frances (Kuret) Krusekopf Cynthia (Edwards) MacMillan ∂ Michael MacMillan ∂ Chris MacNeil Kim Manchester Jennifer Morawiecki ∂ Rachel Renton Sarah E. Stevenson ∂ Lisa Taggart ∂ Christopher J. White ∂

2001 anonymous (1) Lauren Brodie ∂ Kirk Feindel Howard Krongold ∂ Jennifer Laurette ∂ Thomas Ledwell ∂ Bob Mann ∂ Mike Sampson Valerie Vuillemot

1995 Jennifer Adams

2003 Luke Franklin

2002 Joshua Bates ∂ Daniel de Munnik ∂ Allen McAvoy ∂ M. Elliott Siteman Des Writer

Amy Goldlist John MacLean ∂ Andrew Sowerby ∂ 2004 anonymous (1) Ingrid D’eon David Herbert ∂ Jessica Herschman ∂ David Hugill Ben Kates ∂ Thorfinn Stainforth 2005 Joanna Grossman ∂ David Henry Wendy Hepburn Marco Oved Chelsea Thorne ∂ Nicholas Townley Dawn Tracey Brandes ∂ Tasya Tymczyszyn ∂ Yael Wexler 2006 anonymous (1) Jane Baldwin ∂ Terra-Lee Duncan Brendan Morrison ∂ Jennifer Otto 2007 Myra Bloom ∂ Williams English Sara Forsyth Anne Loosen Graham McGillivray ∂ Miranda Spence Mordecai Walfish ∂ 2008 Jennifer Adams Vanessa Bonneau Michelle Deruchie ∂ Adrian Molder Yolana Wassersug Martin Wessman 2009 Victor Bomers Julia Brown Michael Da Silva Alyssa Feir Chris Gibson Sarah Jones Christina Macdonald ∂ Kathleen MacKeigan Paula Mowat

2010 anonymous (2) John Adams Genny (Whelan) MacLellan ∂ Rory MacLellan ∂ 2011 anonymous (1) Matthew (Baker) Feir Adrian Lee ∂ Sam Zucchi 2012 Veronica Curran Casey Lynch Elizabeth Montgomery ∂ 2013 anonymous (1) Stephanie Duchon ∂ Jasmine Hare Kieran Innocenzi ∂ Amanda Leslie Warren McDougald Elizabeth McNeil ∂ Gabrielle Rekai 2014 Dylan Tate-Howarth ∂ 2015 anonymous (2) Pauline Dakin James Hunter ∂ 2017 Benjamin von Bredow Sabina Wex 2019 anonymous (1) Taylor Simon Rose Tekel Margaret Whitley 2020 Melinda Jacobs Margaret Lynch 2021 anonymous (1) Katy Weatherly

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RESPONSIBLE INVESTING AT KING’S TUCKED UNDER THE HEADING ‘General operating’ on the University Policies page of King’s website, the three-page PDF entitled Responsible Investing Policy looks unassuming enough. Its succinct elegance belies the multi-year effort of the Investment Committee’s membership, two of its successive chairs and a diligent working group.

In October 2018, President William Lahey and Board of Governors Chair Doug Ruck, BA’72 asked the Investment Committee to take up the question of responsible investing and how it could be integrated into the way the university’s investments are managed. The committee established an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) working group to review the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and to recommend what action King’s should take. Peter Conrod, who at the time was global head of procurement for RBC and chair of King’s Investment Committee, led the way in initiating the work.

The policy best explains its backstory: The University of King’s College has been the beneficiary of multiple bequests since its inception and has managed the resulting endowment funds through the Investment Committee who engages independent, professional investment managers.

The investment activities are governed by a Statement of Investment Policy and Goals (“SIPG”) which is reviewed annually, with any changes requiring approval by the Board of Governors.

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of the investment policy. Given today’s climate crisis and other societal challenges, it is appropriate the University embrace responsible investing policies and practices in the management of the endowment funds and align our investment practices with the imperative fight against climate change.

Since its inception in 2018, the Board’s ESG working group comprised college-wide representation including faculty, staff and King’s Students’ Union representatives.

In 2020, Conrod retired and Tom Eisenhauer BA(Hons)’83, co-founder, president and CEO, Bonnefield Financial Inc., became chair of the board’s Investment Committee and also one of the members of the ESG working group.

The group spent considerable time researching contemporary thinking around responsible investing. It reviewed the UNPRI, assessed the policies and practices of peer Canadian universities, both large and small and sought counsel from Morneau Shepell, a leading advisory firm in the area of institutional investing. They also reached out to the Canadian Federation of Students for its position on responsible investing.

The group’s collective work, a Responsible Investment Policy for the university, was adopted by the board in April 2021. It’s another step in King’s efforts to be part of the solution when it comes to climate change, building on the energy efficiency work that was carried out across the campus in 2017.

TOM EISENHAUER IS UNIQUELY positioned to bring value to the ESG working

group. He spent a good part of his career as a Bay Street investment banker. And in 2008, he co-founded Bonnefield Financial, a firm that invests in farmland, preserving it for farming. “I really wanted to use my finance and investment management skills in a way that was socially and environmentally responsible. This whole topic of sustainable investing has been near and dear to my heart for a long time—and something I obviously fully endorse, because I voted with my career,” he said.

And it’s a vote that has been counted.

In 2020, Bonnefield published an influential research paper entitled “The Role of Farmland in Mitigating Climate Change” that is testament to Eisenhauer’s corporate and personal commitment to environmental sustainability in investment.

When it comes to responsible investing, Eisenhauer says, some decisions are pretty straightforward: “Arms manufacturers, tobacco manufacturers. That’s dead simple.

That’s easy.” But beyond that, things start to get more complex.

“Responsible investing, also called environmental, social and governance investing (ESG), was considered a fringe movement in finance for years. But in January 2020 Larry Fink, the CEO of the world’s largest money management firm, wrote in his annual letter that “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.”

In other words, the world’s most powerful money manager was going to take policies on climate change into account when investing. Eisenhauer says that had a powerful effect: “It was an announcement that said ESG is really taking centre stage.”

“I really wanted to use my finance and investment management skills in a way that was socially and environmentally responsible."

While King’s policy does not direct the university’s investment management firm to put money into specific companies, it does lay guidelines for investing ethically.

When it came time to draft a policy for King’s, the working group members were firm in wanting to develop guidelines that will change with circumstances. They wrote: “It is recognized that responsible investing is a relatively new area of research and is rapidly evolving. We know best practices in this area will change and mature. As such, we are committed to an annual review of our Responsible Investing Policy and Practices and, when appropriate, to make changes to the policy as well as to the SIPG, to ensure they align with both contemporary thinking and the desires and needs of the university’s stakeholders.

These changes may well entail decisions to divest of our positions in certain industries or organizations.”

Eisenhauer adds, “Being a King’s alumnus, I really do think King’s represents certain values, and we should uphold those values in everything we do—including how we invest our endowment fund.”

These days, it’s Eisenhauer’s values that are gaining attention. His work at Bonnefield led the International Section of the August 28, 2021, edition of The Economist, in an article entitled “New frontiers: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown.”

University policies can be accessed through a link in the footer of every ukings.ca page.

With acknowledgement to Philip Moscovitch, MFA’19, for his interview notes.

Tom Eisenhauer

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BRENDAN QUINN Bachelor of Arts (Hons)’03 Creative Director

I learned so much from the tutors and professors at King’s...

I do think that the foundation was laid in terms of being able create something.

BRENDAN QUINN can’t wait until his new recording studio is ready so he can have his picture taken at the console. A creative director at Vapor Music, one of Toronto’s largest post-production audio facilities, he says the new office and recording studio is not only state of the art, he’s going to have instruments at hand, including his grandfather’s banjo.

As one of the key players on the team that works on animated children’s series, the hours are long and the timelines tight. He says the pandemic didn’t help, adding, “I’ve never experienced that level of intensity.”

What he loves about long-form composition for animation, as compared to composing music for commercials, is that the dialogue and the soundtrack come first. He says they usually drive the visuals. He likes this new configuration of being involved in the earlier stages of a project.

Responsible for entire shows, like the award-winning Netflix kids’ series, Hilda, Quinn isn’t always composing, but he’s still very much a part of the creative process.

Quinn says that music is part of his genetic structure. By way of explanation,

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he shares the story of how his grandparents met in England, during the Second World War. His grandmother was a nurse and nurses weren’t allowed to socialize with doctors, but she would go to the piano in the hospital and play Für Elise for everyone to hear. Beethoven’s famous piece was the cue for a doctor, the man who became Quinn’s grandfather, to meet her in secret.

Quinn’s musical interests started early. In grade 4, he wasn’t putting much effort into his piano lessons and his mother and piano teacher threatened to call it quits. He says they conspired, knowing how he’d react. “I just had this moment where I realized music was obviously very important to me.” From then on, he became much more respectful of his teacher’s time and effort.

After years of Royal Conservatory piano, Quinn started a band in high school with his best friend Jon Ophek, BA(Hons)’03.

Several years later, Ophek joined Quinn at King’s and along with Guy Godfree and Dom Hanlon, ’03, they became a band called PDQ. The band takes its name from his father’s initials, which became the friends’ vernacu-

lar for someone who was getting too intense.

There’s no malice intended; Quinn says— this is an endearing quality of his father’s.

“The first gig we got was to play the Wardroom and it was, basically, ‘just make your friends come out and drink beer and suffer,’” Quinn says with a self-effacing grin.

Looking back, he says the Wardroom was ‘magical.’ It’s where they learned to set up equipment, get over stage fright and where they started to perform their own music. It’s also where Quinn held the prized position of happy hour bartender.

Wardroom gigs became more frequent, thanks in part to Daniel Shearer, BA’03, who took on the role of unofficial promoter—and PDQ built a following. Eventually, their feel-good, soft rock sound was being sought out by other venues in Halifax, like the Marquee.

When graduation came, PDQ decided to go on the road for a year. “That was an amazing trip,” Quinn says, but adds, “It was just very exhausting. By the end of all of it, we were kind of ragged—not making enough money.” Their last gig was in a tree planting camp in Northern Ontario. The beds, along

with 21 hours of driving to reach the camp, he chuckles, broke their lead singer and guitarist.

After the friendly break-up, Quinn spent a year and a half in Australia taking an audio engineering course. Citizenship complications brought him back to Canada where he launched his career in the post-production sound world. He spent time working for companies like Pirate (now a competitor) and briefly ran his own business.

Quinn’s been with Vapor through almost a decade of big changes, including the acquisition of another company. Even though his current position as creative director means less time composing and more time on business and managing projects, he still loves to problem solve in the studio.

Problems like the one he encountered in ‘Donutty Day,’ an episode in a series called Mighty Express. Another Netflix kids’ show, it was constructed with pictures before sound. Because Quinn couldn’t match what he saw—he’d have needed the real sound of construction pipes falling down a mountain—he used tubular bells and the episode became a musical. In the end, he says, the

story was more dramatic.

Another bonus of working in the longform composition world is that his kids are in the same age range as the target audience The day he heard his kids singing something he’d been working on, word for word, it all made sense. Reflecting on the path that brought him here, Quinn says he’s grateful for the opportunities that led him to this profession.

LEFT: Brendan Quinn in his home studio RIGHT TOP: L-R: Brendan Quinn, Dom Hanlon,

Jon Ophek RIGHT BOTTOM: L-R: Brendan Quinn, Dom Hanlon,

Jon Ophek

(The Wardroom) is where they learned to set up equipment, get over stage fright and where they started to perform their own music. It’s also where Quinn held the prized position of happy hour bartender.

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OLIVIA LARKIN Bachelor of Arts (Hons)’13 Senior Policy and Programme Manager, City of London Corporation

So many of my generation really do care about social justice and want to find ways they can do something about it.

“BEING A YOUNG PERSON TODAY is hard,” Olivia Larkin says. “The job market is hard. The world is chaotic. It’s hard to know what you want to do. But if you can just try a few things, that helps you figure it out.”

That’s how Larkin made decisions. She says she travelled, introduced herself to different people and was open to all experiences. “But,” she says emphatically, her good fortune has allowed her to do it this way, not everyone can make those choices.

These days, Larkin is senior policy and program manager for the City of London Corporation. Her job—to help bring diversity to the senior levels of financial and professional services in a city where class can still play a prominent role. It is about equality and social justice she adds.

Larkin was always interested in social issues but didn’t know what she wanted professionally when she came to King’s. She chose the Foundation Year Program (FYP) because of the expansive approach to what she describes as a “gap” in her knowledge.

“I like to question things. I like to understand why people do things, why things are the way they are. I think [FYP] gave great insight, at a hundred miles per hour,” adding

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it was “everything I wanted and more.”

Even though more education was beckoning, after FYP she decided to travel. That’s when she became very fond of India and has returned three times since. Every aspect of life in India is completely different from Canada. She says, “it can completely throw people off, but I found it thrilling.”

After India, she came back to Halifax to study international development at King’s and Dalhousie. “FYP teaches you to understand how others have thought about the world. International Development Studies teaches you what’s going on in the world, how countries work together from both a cultural and economic perspective.” The combination of the two, she adds, set her up for her next challenge.

“I realized there are so many options and so many jobs. I wasn’t sure which one I wanted. So, I talked with as many interesting people as I could. I met one man who had started a corporate social responsibility consulting company. I was totally fascinated.”

The man was Paul Klein, the company, Impakt. Klein asked Larkin to help on a project. She did, and it led to more. Impakt

helps clients define and refine their corporate social responsibility programs.

Larkin uses their work with the Home Depot, addressing youth homelessness in Canada, as an example of how companies are managing corporate social responsibility. She says she started in this field “… right around the time when [corporations] started to think maybe there’s more we can do than just hand out cheques.”

One of her projects at Impakt was conducting extensive research for Green Shield Canada. Green Shield wanted to address the fact that one in three Canadians does not have access to affordable dental care.

Larkin’s research kick-started Green Shield’s Green Door Project, which addresses the deficiencies in our system from capacity building through to public policy.

Larkin can’t say enough good things about Impakt and Klein. When she got a fivemonth internship with the Clinton Foundation in New York, Klein said to go and then come back to Impakt. When she wanted to travel for six weeks, he said—sure. When she decided to move to Berlin, they figured out how she could work remotely, even before the pandemic made that standard.

After five years Larkin left Impakt, moved to London, and was hired as chief of staff for Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web. Larkin’s position was to support his goal of ensuring the web is a safe and empowering place for everyone. Every day was a balancing act, working on strategic projects, speech writing, acting as Berners-Lee’s representative at meetings, balancing his many roles, and whatever else the day gave—Larkin loved it.

“I had six months of travelling with him for speaking engagements and meetings, Boston, London, Milan—and then the pandemic hit, and I shifted to my dining room table for the next two years. Luckily many of the organizations Berners-Lee worked with, worked remotely already, so it was an easy pivot.”

Today she divides her time between her dining room table and an office housing the City of London Corporation. And she’s not “leaving anytime soon.”

What she loves is that London is made of many villages, and she can’t get over the 40-minute route she cycles a couple of days a week past Buckingham Palace, through Westminster and by Big Ben into her office

in the financial district. She says she doesn’t know how it could get any better than this.

Pausing just a moment, she adds, “But then, you know, the sky opens up and it’s pouring rain and you’re sliding around and there aren't really enough streetlights on. You’re like, ‘Actually, it could get a bit better.’”

“I like to think of myself as a pretty passionate person,” she says. “The through line throughout my career is my passion for social justice and the need to do things better.”

Larkin is grateful for the people she’s met, the teams she worked with, and the time spent with FYP tutors, who she says prepped her for this work.

Working with many like-minded people—at Impakt, the Clinton Foundation, with Berners-Lee—has given her real hope for the future.

“So many of my generation really do care about social justice and where they can do something about it. As we become the ones in charge, I think you’ll see changes.”

“I like to question things. I like to understand why people do things, why things are the way they are. I think [FYP] gave great insight, at a hundred miles per hour,”

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MOIRA DONOVAN Bachelor of Arts (Hons), 2015 Law Student, Schulich School of Law

I always approach ideas by looking at their historical context: Where does our current treatment of a species, or way of thinking about a problem, come from?

WHEN MOIRA DONOVAN was a teenager, her sister told her she’d make a great journalist. Her casual reply was always “sure, that might work.”

Might work indeed. Today Donovan is a highly respected independent journalist specializing in the environment. Her written work has been published in The Walrus, The Christian Science Monitor, and The National Observer and her documentary work has been featured on CBC’s Ideas, Quirks & Quarks and Atlantic Voice. Topics range from the history of rats, to the threat of sea-level rise, to concerns about liquid natural gas projects.

Her interest in the environment started young. “I grew up spending a lot of time outside with my siblings and family,” says Donovan. “And I volunteered at a group for the protection of animals. Like a lot of children, I cared deeply for animals.”

That caring has grown into a passion.

“It’s become clear to me that the greatest challenges we have these days are directly related to our treatment of the environment.” As a journalist, she says her role is “to say that we need to do things differently.”

Donovan looks for the historic and philosophical starting points of issues. She also tries to incorporate more traditional ecological knowledge that comes from Indigenous communities.

“There’s an influential concept that comes from the Mi’kmaq called two-eyed seeing (etuaptmumk). It’s driving a lot of change. It’s been missing from the way western science approaches the natural world.”

She credits King’s as the starting point for developing her approach.

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“I did not go to King’s for journalism,” says Donovan. “I went not knowing what I wanted to do.”

What she did know was that she wanted to study something that was completely new to her, in a completely new way. “I hadn’t studied much philosophy,” she continues, “and didn’t know what I was getting into.

Right from the start I knew I made the right choice.”

She describes the Foundation Year Program (FYP) as “unrivalled” in terms of a positive and expansive university experience. “I still remember the pleasure of sitting around every day talking about ideas … That was a stark shift for me—school went from something you study because you have to, to something that changed the way you look at the world.”

She admits that open-endedness can be a challenge for people who may be goal-oriented. “Young people are coming into a world with a lot of uncertainty and have anxiety about that. For some, a way of managing is to take a program that is a clear route to a professional career. But I think people are well served by having a grounding in the knowledge systems and conceptual frameworks that structure the world we live in … it may be a cliché to say it, but employers want those qualities. They want people who can

look at the big picture … and translate that so other people understand.”

That grounding certainly served Donovan well. After graduating from King’s with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Early Modern Studies, she went on to study at the London School of Economics, earning her master’s degree in philosophy and public policy (2013). From there, she built a career in journalism that allows her to continue developing her expertise and explore topics that have been misunderstood or under-covered.

Donovan’s exceptional approach to her work has earned her awards, accolades, and a prestigious list of publications. But she says her career highlight is much more intangible: trust.

“I (recently) produced a documentary in collaboration with Tracy Marshall, a science student from Potlotek First Nation, about two-eyed seeing. It was really rewarding because we were substantiating the concept of the work, in the work. As much as I am dedicated to serving the public interest in my work, it’s also important to cultivate a relationship of trust and integrity and working with Tracy, it felt like we achieved that … I’ve had big moments, but those little moments give me the sense of being on the right track.”

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ANGUS ROSS Bachelor of Science (Hons)‘07 Co-founder, Escarpment Laboratories

We had this big, fancy molecular biology lab at our disposal. Of course, we were going to use it.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ENJOY BEER but not everyone parlays that interest into a career. For Angus Ross it led to the creation of Escarpment Laboratories, a unique Canadian company that supplies liquid yeast to breweries.

Ross graduated from King’s with a combined honours in biochemistry and the History of Science and Technology (HOST). He pursued graduate studies in molecular cell biology at the University of Guelph, where, in 2013, the idea for Escarpment started to grow.

Ross and a Guelph classmate, Richard Preiss, had taken up homebrewing as a hobby and were using the university’s lab to save and reuse yeast from batch to batch. “We got to thinking,” says Ross, “where are Canadian brewers getting their yeast?” Breweries that prided themselves on producing a local beer were using local hops, local water, and local malt—but had to bring in yeast from as far away as California.

Yeast plays a vital role in beer making. It eats up the sugar and turns it into alcohol. It also produces carbonation and has an influence on the aroma and taste of the product.

Just as the landscape and climate creates a local terroir for wine, all the ingredients in beer—including the yeast—create one too.

Local brewing had turned into a booming market. “Every small town in Canada was getting a new brewery every year,” says Ross.

“Throw a stone in any small town and you’ll either hit a brewery, or one in the planning.

This was an opportunity to use our yeast expertise in a productive way.”

Today, located in one of Guelph’s industrial parks, Escarpment Laboratories is an

important supplier to the Canadian brewing industry with over 30 employees. The company has banked over 400 strains of yeast that produce everything from fruity, hazy IPAs, to big, imperial stouts.

“We not only supply this key ingredient,” says Ross, “we act as a knowledge base, as a source of research. We put a lot of effort into developing new products and contributing to the research that helps breweries make the best beer possible.”

And it doesn’t stop at beer. “Everyone who works at Escarpment is a bit of a foodie,” says Ross, “and most of us make our own sourdough bread. So it made sense to release a sourdough product.”

They also have a kombucha ‘SCOBY’ (an acronym that stands for ‘symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast’) and are exploring the world of non-alcoholic beers, a category that has been growing in popularity post-pandemic. While some stats showed Canadians’ alcohol consumption rose during Covid-19, that shifted in 2021. “We saw a drop in home consumption that wasn’t compensated by an increase in bar consumption,” says Ross.

“The market trend is toward non-alcoholic products. I think every brewer wants to have

at least one non-alcoholic product on their tap list now.”

Looking back on his time as a student, he credits the Foundation Year Program (FYP) and HOST programs for helping him understand “where we came from and how we’ve come to know what we know,” as well as “how science is an ever-changing body of knowledge.”

Of FYP in particular, he adds, “a lot of scientists go through undergrad never having to write a humanities essay. FYP helped me with that. Learning how to deal with deadlines, and that kind of critical analysis sets someone up to be able to thrive in whatever industry they go into.”

So what’s his favourite beer? Just like science, that answer has evolved. “I started out liking the big, bold beers. In-your-face hops. As much alcohol as possible. Flavour explosions. But today I’ve mellowed out and have come to appreciate the more subtle things. I like something very traditional; I would go for the freshest, crispest lager I can find that’s been made as close to where I am as possible.” And that’s what Escarpment’s efforts are all about.

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SARAH FULFORD Bachelor of Arts (Hons)'96

One of the things I found at King’s was a sense of belonging and that’s a really powerful thing in a person's life.

SARAH FULFORD LIKES TO really figure things out.

It’s part of why she’s recently been asked to manage Maclean’s, one of Canada’s most widely circulated news magazines. It also explains her decision to attend the University of King’s College.

King’s caught Fulford’s attention when she read Linda Frum’s Guide to Canadian Universities, which made campus life sound “cinematic, literary, high minded.” Then, Fulford says, a cool older friend from high school came to King’s, “And I wanted to follow in her footsteps.” She then read the King’s viewbook and “The [Foundation Year Program] sounded fantastic, exciting and ambitious.” She says that’s how she knew “King's was a place where people had real ambitions for their lives and took themselves and their futures quite seriously.”

It's similar to how Fulford feels being the new editor-in-chief of Maclean’s. Over the past 100 years, Maclean’s, she believes, has helped Canadians to understand who they are and where they fit globally. She adds, “Playing a role in the country’s self-understanding, in the biggest conversations of the nation, that’s exciting to me.”

For 14 years, Fulford’s been at Toronto Life, helping to bring the publication into the digital age. At times, it required experimentation. “There was no roadmap for publishing digitally and none of us had experience. We just tried stuff and measured our efforts and eventually we learned the rules of digital storytelling,” she explains. At first, the perfectionist in her was cautious, but in time she found it a “marvellously creative space” to work.

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The digital age helped Fulford to answer questions with metrics. She says, “One of the happy surprises of my career is discovering your best work often resonates.”

The internet, she says, has helped do away with an old-style, cold and clinical journalism, adding readers want stories that are intimate and emotional. “You can do really important journalism that changes policy and reframes the conversation and delves into hugely pressing issues, as long as it's told really well, has a very good story and is compelling.”

Fulford credits King’s with showing her the rudimentary elements of good writing. “I believe strongly that having to write an essay every two weeks in the Foundation Year Program taught me how to read, write and think. Full-stop.”

And King’s made an impact in other ways.

Fulford observed the seriousness with which some of the students, students who she says were colloquially known as the ‘God Squad,’ responded to the Chapel. A secular

Jew from a large multicultural city, Fulford was inspired by “their intensity and inquisitiveness about tradition.” Further, studying ancient civilizations alerted her to her deficit of knowledge about the Jewish tradition.

She says it propelled her to a Yeshiva in Jerusalem where for one year, she says, “I had a very intense encounter with ancient Jewish texts in order to fill the gap that I hadn’t even recognized was there until I went to King’s.”

There’s one more thing she found at King’s.

Not long after a fellow student gave the play she directed a negative review in The Watch, she encountered him at a cocktail party. She was at the party to play the cello and yet found herself in conversation with her critic. His disposition toward her changed. Her critic was Stephen Marche, BA(Hons)’97, who has gone on to become a recognized Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. Fulford and Marche have been married for 20 years now.

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SHERYL GRANT Bachelor of Journalism (Hons)’80 Journalist

The thing that really attracted me to the digital side was data, the audience data. Being able to know what people were reading. That is the thing people sometimes don’t want to know.

You have to accept that you’re writing for an audience one way or the other.

SHERYL GRANT doesn’t always follow others’ advice—and that’s worked out well for her.

After completing a BA in English, Grant had a summer job working the front desk of the police station in Dartmouth; she took accident reports and checked in parolees.

Before long “I just decided, I couldn’t do that job.” But Grant needed to work, and her next idea was to study journalism at King’s.

“My parents thought it was a really terrible idea,” she says. Grant was brought up in Halifax’s North End, the daughter of a mechanic and a schoolteacher. Her parents were regular consumers of newspapers and TV reporting and when she told them her plan, they responded “who do you see, who looks like you in journalism? This is not going to work.” But Grant knew she was a good writer. She persisted and with their eventual support, applied and was accepted.

Two years later, Grant was proudly among the first cohort of King’s School of Journalism graduates.

After a short stint at a community paper, she was offered a job at the Chronicle Herald, one of Halifax’s two daily newspapers.

It was “a different time,” she remembers.

“A lot of the people who worked there, they had parents who were lawyers and I felt like a bit of a fish out of water.” As with all new reporters, she was moved to evenings and

obituaries. Grant says nights were, “A really good training ground. You had to be fast and get it done.”

“When I first arrived, my plan was to stay for two years. In the nineties, I decided I needed to do something different. I started to look for jobs in the US and then my mom got sick and I really didn’t want it to be that far away. I just decided that local news was really what I wanted to do and I would find a way to make it work for me.”

In 2000, Grant was assistant managing editor, when she heard about a New Media Fellowship being offered by the Poynter Institute in Florida. The non-profit research institute chose her to spend a year studying digital journalism. When she returned to the Herald, she knew exactly where she wanted to be—in the basement with the web developers. “People didn't really see why I was doing that,” she says. “I left the newsroom position and people really thought that I was crazy … Why would you want to work with the computer geeks?”

Grant became a “translator,” working be-

tween the newsroom and the web developers to build a website, a web presence and help the two groups understand one another. “It’s a role I think is or should be obsolete at this point,” but in that role she says she found a place she really belonged.

The significance of finding a place where she belonged was something she discovered at King’s. She says the university “cultivated” it. A small and intimate place where you build strong relationships, she says, is powerful. It’s why she’s served on the Alumni Association Executive and the Board of Governors. “I don’t think that I would have my career without Kings,” she says, adding, “it’s a testament to their ability to take somebody like me from a completely different background and say, well, you know, we think you belong here too.”

After more than 40 years in the newspaper business, Grant is now retired. And while she’s planning to take more time for herself, largely to paint and garden, she’s already begun work on a film about her mother.

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Wastepaper Modernism Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print

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Harold Skaarup, ’74, has published Cannon in Canada, Province by Province, Volume 3: Nova Scotia. This volume is an informed and detailed synopsis of the carefully preserved and restored guns and artillery on display in the province of Nova Scotia.

Lynda MacGibbon, BJ(Hons)’84, has written a memoir, My Vertical Neighbourhood: How Strangers Became a Community, published by InterVarsity Press. The book, based on her life in a Toronto condominium, explores her love for her neighbours.

With more than 30 books to her name, Martine Jacquot, BJ’84, has authored two new collections of poetry in French.

Filigrane gives life to absence, pushing away darkness and solitude, revolt and injustice.

La Couleur du Désir contains poetry where words dance in a dialogue of faraway voices.

Both are published by Washington publisher Bridgevision Production.

Susan Flanagan’s, BJ’91, first novel, Supermarket Baby, was published this year

by Flanker Press. It features Henry Puddester, a newly retired civil servant whose life goes off the rails after an innocent trip to the supermarket where he inadvertently switches his shopping cart with that of a young mother. Flanagan’s second novel, The Degrees of Barley Lick, was also published in 2021. Released by Running the Goat Books and Broadsides, this YA novel is about a 16-year-old who is drowning in despair when he finds out he’s needed.

Mark Sampson, BJ(Hons)’97, has published a fourth novel, All the Animals on Earth, with Wolsak & Wynn of Hamilton, Ont. His sixth book, the novel is described as a post-apocalyptic sex romp in a world with cratering birthrates. Certain species of birds and mammals get transmogrified into humanoid form with hilariously dire consequences.

“No matter your political leaning, most of us can sense that America is barreling toward catastrophe—of one kind or another,” is where Stephen Marche’s, BA(Hons)’97, most recent book begins. The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, published by Simon & Schuster, plainly breaks down the looming threats to America and is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of its people, its land and its government.

Kate Cayley, BA(Hons)’01, is the author of Householders, a collection of short stories about families of all kinds including nascent queers, self-deluded utopians and sincere frauds. The stories move easily from the commonplace to the fantastic, from West End Toronto to a trailer in the middle of nowhere, from a university campus to a stateof-the-art underground bunker and back again. Named ‘Most Anticipated’ by CBC and Lamda Literary, a ‘Best of Fall’ by Quill & Quire, and a 49th Shelf ‘Book of the Year,’ the collection is published by Biblioasis.

Joseph Rosenberg’s, BA(Hons)’01, book Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print, explores how modernist writers, like James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen, imagined the ‘destruction of paper’ long before the advent of e-readers and the internet. Published by Oxford University Press in April 2021, Rosenberg points to the anxiety writers had about their medium and how it informed their work. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, the book began when he started compiling a scrapbook of references to waste in modernist literature.

The latest short story collection from award-winning, “dirty nature writer” David Huebert, BA(Hons)’08, Chemical Valley doesn’t shy away from prickly questions— the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the line between the artificial and the natural. From refinery operators to longterm care nurses, dishwashers to survivalist preppers, sex dolls to hockey enforcers, Chemical Valley always puts character first, asking how to make new joy in this wounded, wheezing world.

For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. In his first book, Toronto journalist Perry King, BJ’09, describes how grassroots sports build the bridges that link city dwellers together in ways that go well beyond the physical benefits. Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City makes an impassioned case for re-imagining neighbourhoods whose residents can be active, healthy and connected.

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Devon Code’s, BA(Hons)’03, novella, The Green Notebook, has been published

by Coach House Books as part of Disintegration in Four Parts. Co-authored by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Emily Anglin and Lee Henderson, Code’s novella documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elderly woman.

In 2016, American backpacker Justin Alexander Shetler mysteriously disappeared in India's Parvati Valley, known as the ‘Backpacker Bermuda Triangle’ for the dozens of tourists who have vanished there.

Harley Rustad’s, BJ’12, Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas, is about one man’s search to find himself in a country where the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. It's also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life.

Cate May Burton, BA(Hons)’13, has co-authored a book about her mom, Elizabeth May, and her early years of activism, targeted at middle-grade readers. Growing Up Elizabeth May: The Making of an Activist, tells the story of her mother’s life and what motivated her to act for the environment.

The book shows how May continues to inspire young people today to stand up for the planet and is available from Orca Book Publishers.

Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures by Moira Dann, MFA’16, published by TouchWood Editions, tells the story of a Victorian-era mansion and the people who lived there, through an examination of its architectural features and artifacts. Containing stories about Robert Dunsmuir, the Scottish coal baron who built the castle and tales of the Castle’s life as a WWI military hospital, the volume is replete with illustrations and colour photographs.

Susan MacLeod’s, ’79, MFA’18, first novel Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care, is the story of MacLeod’s nine-year journey seeking help for her elderly mom. A former government spokesperson who defended the system, MacLeod found herself at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother’s need for love and companionship, the system’s inability to deliver and her brother’s indifference.

Brutally honest and often funny, MacLeod’s book was named by the CBC to its list of ‘best Canadian comics’ in 2021.

In April 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked guards at Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ont., and seized control, making headlines around the world. Catherine Fogarty’s, MFA’18, book Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary, published by Biblioasis, tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Fogarty’s book has been praised by Publishers Weekly, the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada.

Phil Moscovitch, MFA’19, has two pieces of poetry in 2020: An Anthology of Poetry with Drawings by Bill Liebeskind, published by Black Dog & One-Eyed Press. The anthology features work from a hundred poets around the planet, framed around 250 sketches of people wearing masks by New York artist Bill Liebeskind. Moscovitch’s poems, Masked Men and Routine, join the likes of George Elliott Clarke, Bill Bissett and Ololade Akinlabi Ige. Gregor Craigie’s, MFA’19, first book, On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake, has been an Amazon bestseller, a Globe and Mail ‘Top 100 Book of 2021’ and a finalist for the 2021 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. Craigie has also written two nonfiction books for young readers that will be published by Orca Book Publishers in 2022 and 2024 (Why Humans Build Up: The Rise of Towers, Temples and Skyscrapers and Walls: The Long History of Human Barriers and Why We Build Them). His first novel, Radio Jetlag, will be published by Cormorant Press in 2023.

Visiting Africa: A Memoir, written by Jesse O’Reilly-Conlin, MFA’19, is a personal and physical journey. It’s about his ongoing and evolving attempt to approach Africa and its cultures with humility and modesty and about his struggle as a privileged white man to ethically encounter and live in a world marked by injustice and racialized inequality. An investigation into how the privileged can stand in solidarity with the people they meet and write about, this book is about possibilities.

FACULTY PUBLISH Before Jack the Ripper, the world’s deadliest serial killer was the Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream. He murdered at least nine women and one man in Canada, the United States and England before he was brought to justice. MFA Cohort Director Dean Jobb’s new book, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, published by Algonquin Books and HarperCollins Canada, exposes how bungled investigations, primitive forensic tests, corrupt officials and the stifling morality of Victorian society allowed the ruthless ‘Lambeth Poisoner’ to prey on vulnerable and desperate women, including many who turned to him for medical help.

In 2015, Toufah Jallow was a Gambian college student dreaming of studying abroad.

She entered a presidential competition for young women and won, bringing her to the attention of the Gambia’s dictator, Yahya Jammeh. Jammeh proposed marriage and when Jallow turned him down, he drugged and raped her. Fearing for her life, Jallow escaped to Senegal and eventually Canada. When Jammeh was deposed, Jallow returned home and became a vocal advocate for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Now, with co-author and MFA Executive Director Kim Pittaway, she tells her story in Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement. It’s a book the New York Times called “riveting... harrowing and propulsive.”

MFA Cohort Director Stephen Kimber’s collaboration with Jennifer Robertson, Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal and the Missing Millions, a memoir of the Quadriga cryptocurrency scandal, made it to the Toronto Star’s bestseller list. It’s Catch Me If You Can meets ‘a widow betrayed.’ With Robertson’s life of fairy tale romance and private jets destroyed by duplicity she has been left to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age.

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

70s Rev. Robert David Price, BST’71, has retired from active ministry with the Anglican Church after 51 years of ordained service.

Trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) he will continue to do trauma recovery work with people who suffer with substance abuse disorder. Price is also exploring the impact of quantum physics and evolution upon spiritual understanding.

Judy White, BA’79, recently retired from the Florida Department of Education. Over 14 years, she held several positions, retiring as chief of the Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services.

80s Rev. Canon David Fletcher, BA’81, retired from parish ministry at the end of February.

He served the Nova Scotia parishes of Port Morien and Louisbourg (where he was ordained a priest in 1986), New Waterford and Dominion with Reserve Mines and Lantz, where he served for over 31 years. Fletcher has moved to Halifax.

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Illustration by Emma Fitzgerald

Filmmaker John D. Scott,’88, had his film, Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, premiere at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival. The film was 10 years in the making and recounts Bishop’s journey through loss. Focused on the creation of Bishop’s poem, One Art, Scott believes that’s the poem which cemented Bishop’s legacy as one of Canada’s greatest poets.

ALUMNOTES Catherine Ellis, BA(Hons)’93, co-chaired Ryerson University’s Standing Strong (Mash Koh Wee Kah Pooh Win) Task Force, which addressed the work and legacy of the university’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson. The Task Force has recommended the university be renamed, in addition to supporting educational initiatives and activities that advance decolonization and reconciliation on campus.

90s Roger Thompson, BA(Hons)’91, is now a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie University. Currently teaching civics and Ethics in Science Fiction Films at Kyung Hee University in South Korea, he hopes to return to Halifax sometime this year.

Lana (Mitchell) MacEachern, BJ(Hons)’97, recently marked eight years as a library technician with the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA). Her roles have included training staff to use electronic patient record software, supporting the NSHA Covid-19 Hub, and creating e-learning modules for a new critical care paramedic program.

MacEachern and her husband, Brent, live in Caribou River, N.S. Their son, Jonah, attends the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University.

Matt Aronson, BA(Hons)’01, has been elected to the position of city councillor for District 7 in Westmount, Quebec. It’s not Aronson’s first time in office—he served as KSU president in 1999-2000. “Everything I know about representing constituents, I learned from my time at the KSU,” notes Aronson. “I look forward to putting those lessons to work in my new role.”

He will also continue to practice law during his four-year term.

Rev. Dr. Andrew O’Neill, BA’98, has been appointed to a half-time, tenure-track position as assistant professor of pastoral theology at Atlantic School of Theology (AST). He has taught courses at AST for the past 11 years and has served as a graduate student supervisor.

On January 22, 2022, Dr. Christopher Elson, BA(Hons)’86, King’s Carnegie Professor of French and Dr. Kate Scarth (assistant professor of Applied Leadership, Culture and Communications and chair, Lucy Maud Montgomery Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island), welcomed Lucie Maxine Elson into their lives.

A beautiful baby girl, Lucie was born at the IWK in Halifax.

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ALUMNOTES 00s Michelle Axworthy, BA(Hons)’07, has joined the Halifax partnership of the law firm Cox & Palmer. Axworthy works closely with her clients in all areas of family law.

Rebeccah Love, ’10, and Mitchell Cushman, BA(Hons)’08, are two of the producers of the feature-length film Lessons in Temperament. Cushman initially developed the script as a stage play with the writer and performer James Smith. Both film and play examine what it’s like to grow up in a neuro-diverse family. Smith, one of four brothers, tells the story by exploring the art and science of piano tuning.

Matt Fegan, BJ(Hons)’05, has been promoted from vice-president, operations, with the Halifax Wanderers Football Club to the club’s sports director. This is a new role in which he is responsible for off-field duties and improvements to the club.

The short film Parlour Palm by independent filmmaker Rebeccah Love, ’10, is now streaming on CBC Gem. The film follows an overworked lawyer as he attempts to care for his partner who’s suffering from a manic episode induced by anxiety over climate change.

Christina Turner, BA(Hons)’10, recently received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto. Turner’s doctoral dissertation examined how contemporary works of Indigenous literature respond to legal definitions of Indigenous rights in Supreme Court of Canada decisions. She began a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Manitoba in August 2021.

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Marco Chown Oved, BA(Hons)’05, was part of a team of Toronto Star reporters that received a National Newspaper Award (NNA) in the business category for a series of articles showing that Covid deaths in nursing homes were far higher in for-profit facilities than non-profit ones. The team also found for-profit long term care chains employed fewer staff and accepted government subsidies while paying out millions in dividends and executive bonuses. This is Oved’s second NNA.

ALUMNOTES 10s Stephanie Duchon, BA(Hons)’13, received a certificate with honours from Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) in the program Cool Climate Wine and Viticulture. She is now working at local wineries as part of their vineyard teams and hopes to travel to the old-world wine regions to learn more.

Eventually Duchon will make wine in Nova Scotia.

Musician Thomas McCallum, BA(Hons)’14, released his first full-length album, Many a Long Hour, and toured it across the Maritimes in the fall of 2021.

Many a Long Hour can be streamed on all major platforms.

Karla Mendes, MJ’14, has completed an extensive and complex research project which has been published on Mongabay, a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. The report investigates the damaging effects of the palm oil industry in the Amazon, including deforestation, pollution and human rights violations.

Launched in 2020, Story Hunter Podcasts have just released their 50th episode.

Produced, written and voiced by Catherine Fogarty, MFA’18, the series examines the history and mystery of famous crimes involving Canadians. Recent episodes have featured celebrities like the Vancouver-born Dorothy Stratten, a Playboy Playmate who was murdered in 1980, and Brantford, Ont., native, Phil Hartman, who achieved great success as a comedian on Saturday Night Live and was murdered in 1998.

Taylor Simon, BA’19, is pursuing a Master of Education at Trent University and developing wildlife and conservation educational programming for Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Ontario. A runner-up for the Natural Curiosity Suzuki Award for Excellence in Pre-Service Environmental Education, she’s currently teaching in Ontario. Of the Foundation Year Program (FYP), Simon says, “FYP provided me with the writing and critical thinking skills I use as an educator and a master’s student and I am excited to pass what I have learned to future generations.”

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Karli Zschogner, BJ’18, is training in Yellowknife for her new position as a CBC video journalist in Inuvik, also in the Northwest Territories, where she’ll be responsible for radio, TV and web news stories. She’ll be covering the Beaufort Delta Region in the western Arctic and her work can be seen on CBC North.

Photo by Chantal Dubuc

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ALUMNOTES Evany Rosen, BA(Hons)’10, received a 2021 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award nomination for her writing on comedy sitcom New Eden.

Gillian Turnbull’s, MFA’17, feature article on student loans in Canada is on the cover of Maisonneuve’s winter edition. In “Debt Trap,” she examines why student loans

have become such a burden and how the system needs to shift. Now a mentor in the MFA program, she’s also the host of Further Reading, a podcast about the craft of writing from King’s MFA program (read all about it on pg. 10!). There are now 12 episodes available anywhere you subscribe to podcasts.

IN MEMORIAM Last Fish, First Boat, a first film for Jennifer Thornhill Verma, BJ(Hons)’02, MFA’19, screened in several film festivals last year. The animated short, co-produced

by Verma with illustrator/animator, Kat Frick Miller and Canadian Geographic filmmaker-in-residence, Matt LeMay, tells the story of the early ’90s cod fishery collapse and how fisherman Eugene Maloney turns the end of the fishery into a new beginning— boatbuilding. It’s adapted from Verma’s 2019 book, Cod Collapse. You can watch the film on the Canadian Geographic website.

Thornhill Verma has received a Canadian Council for the Arts grant to adapt another story in her book into an animated short.

Working with Miller and LeMay, Unsettled is a tale of leaving the outports when communities were relocated.

Philip Moscovitch, MFA’19, wrapped up season 2 of D’innombrables voyages, the French-language podcast of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. The podcast, produced by Moscovitch and hosted by author Kim Thuy, highlights stories of immigrants, past and present and their multifaceted contributions to Canada.

Moscovitch is also co-host of the books podcast Dog-eared and Cracked, with his fellow bibliophile known simply as Jay. Old friends with very different tastes, for each episode the two recommend books for each other and then sit down and discuss them, with sometimes surprising results.

Susan (Price) Barrett, (BA(Hons)’78), October 2021

Elizabeth (Cordes) MacCara, (BA’51), March 29, 2021

Cindy Belyea, (friend of the college), March 27, 2021

Katherine MacDonald, (friend of the college), January 17, 2022

Derek Brown, (friend of the college), November 9, 2021

Guy MacLean, (friend of the college and former dean of men), October 29, 2021

Brian Burnell, (friend of the college), September 14, 2021 Kim Cameron, (BSc’68, DCL’10), November 30, 2021 Carol Ann Charlebois, (DCnL’14), December 31, 2021 Michel Deguy, (DCL’16), February 16, 2022 Thomas “Neville” Elwood, (friend of the college), April 30, 2021 Richard Goldbloom, (friend of the college), November 19, 2021

Alexa McDonough, (DCL’95), January 15, 2022 David Morris, (1963), May 29, 2021 David Murphy, (friend of the college), February 24, 2021 Margaret (Harris) Myles, (BA’65), June 30, 2021 George Phills, (BA’56), September 14, 2021 Anne “Nan” Robertson, (student), November 13, 2021

James Golding, (1959), March 6, 2021

Phoebe Roper, (friend of the college), April 2, 2021

Wayne Hankey, (BA(Hons)’65 and Inglis Professor), February 6, 2022

Donald Sobey, (DCL’13), March 24, 2021

Cecil Hebb, (BA’50, BSc’53), February 18, 2021 John Honderich, (DCL’15), February 5, 2022 Donald Johnston, (DCL’99), February 4, 2022 Marian (Huggard) Lines, (BA'63), November 2021

Harry Steele, (friend of the college), January 28, 2022 Pearl (Mauger) Whittier, (1959), September 30, 2021 Marjorie "Budge" (Archibald) Wilson, (1946), March 19, 2021 John Yogis, (friend of the college), November 23, 2021 Up to February 23, 2022

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AENEAS AND ANCHISES RELIEF RESTORED AS THE FACILITIES TEAM prepared campus for the return of students during the summer of 2021, one section of the Bays’ façade received special attention. It was the historic bas-relief sculpture installed above Middle Bay, depicting Aeneas fleeing the burning ruins of Troy and carrying his father, Anchises on his back. The scene comes from The Aenid, the Latin epic regularly studied in the Foundation Year Program.

The same scene is found on the Alumni Association’s seal. Dating to 1861 when King’s was located in Windsor, N.S., the

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stone sculpture was a gift from the Alumni Association to the college and was originally placed in the gable of Convocation Hall.

When fire destroyed the main building of the Windsor campus in 1920, Convocation Hall was spared. At the request of Canon Vroom and the alumni, the sculpture was brought to Halifax in 1930 and incorporated into the new campus above the entrance to Middle Bay. At the time, Canon Vroom wrote to the Alumni Executive that the sculpture would remind the King’s community of the alumni’s help rebuilding the college—an act

that echoed the assistance and self-preservation that are expressed in the sculpture.

Restoration work was undertaken to clear years’ worth of atmospheric residue from the limestone sculpture’s surface and its structure was stabilized. Stonework forming the niche around the sculpture was also cleaned and repaired. Now fully restored, the sculpture once again symbolizes the strength of the Alumni Association and the values and education that unite generation after generation of current King’s students to the alumni who came before.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & THANKS

TOP LEFT: Photo depicting restoration work BOTTOM LEFT: The restored relief sculpture TOP RIGHT: The sculpture is visible in this 1910 photo of Convocation Hall in Windsor, N.S. Today this building is listed in the Register of Canada’s Historic Places. It presently houses the King's-Edgehill School Library and the area where the sculpture was located has been bricked over

On December 31, 2021, Janet Hathaway officially retired as the King’s librarian and archivist—for real this time! Arriving at King’s in 1994, Janet retired the first time in 2015. She was called back as a consultant through 2016 and in 2018 returned as interim librarian, until recently when Tracy Lenfesty arrived to assume the role (see pg. 21).

Although Janet would eschew even this brief spotlight, we close this issue with our gratitude and thanks on behalf of the college alumni—many of whom worked for Janet as students—for the history, ephemera and treasures she so fastidiously researched, catalogued and stored. We acknowledge the support she has given to the editors of Tidings, providing content and archival photos like the ones in the preceding story of Aeneas and Anchises, year after year. Hats off to you, Janet. The Alumni Association joins your King’s colleagues in wishing you well.

BOTTOM CENTRE: Alumni Association seal drawing, 1850: featuring the motto “Nec nate tibi comes ire recuso” which translates to “I am ready to go with you, my son, as your companion”, from The Aeneid, Book II, line 704 BOTTOM RIGHT: Alumni Association wax seal

used in 1849

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