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ON CAMPUS Vice-president Angus Johnston to step down

Vegetarians finding fuller plates in dining hall Wardroom bounces back from money troubles

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12 A future for the past Think the National Dream was an Olympic hockey team? ... or the guy who invented time zones was Swiss? Didn’t hear a whisper about the Quiet Revolution? Rudyard Griffiths and Erik Penz have plans for you.

Breakdance group keeps gym ‘hip-hopping’

16 FEATURE E-mail news digest keeps grad in Fiji up-to-date

19 KING’S PEOPLE

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18 Academic, priestly roles appeal to Friesen

Bruce Wark works off anger in column, Web page

King’s new chaplain Paul Friesen likes wearing ‘2 hats’

COVER: Dominion Institute founders Rudyard Griffiths and Erik Penz Photo: Tracy Clare Photography

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OnCampus King’s ‘heart and soul’ to step down V.P. Johnston to continue teaching in FYP By Cathryn Spence Amid the clutter of his second-floor office in the Arts and Administration building, Angus Johnston sits contemplating his future. Johnston, a 23-year veteran foundation year program tutor and lecturer, has been vice-president of the college since 1988. This year Johnston has decided not to re-offer for another full term as vice-president, although he says he will remain a FYP tutor. Johnston offered the committee the option of allowing him to continue as vice-president for one more year. As chair of the new building committee, Johnston wanted to remain vice-president until the new arts building is completed. The university Board of Governors approved the offer in May. Johnston says he has decided to step down for two reasons. “One reason is that I’ve held the position for 12 years now, save for a one-year sabbatical in 1991. I think that is long enough for anyone to hold an administrative position. “As well,” Johnston continues, “I had planned to take a sabbatical next year, but because I’m chair of the new building committee, I won’t be able to after all.” Because he won’t be taking next year off, Johnston says he’ll recommend to the selection committee that, although they allow him to remain in the position of vice-president for one more year, they select the person who will replace him now. “That way, the selection is already done,” he says. Johnston also hopes the committee will accept applicants from within the college, keeping with tradition. Spring 2000

“There are some excellent potential applicants within the college,” says Johnston. “Ideally, a vice-president should be a connection between academic and administrative concerns, which may be why there has never been an external vice-president here. The position has always come from people within the college.” Began as FYP tutor in 1977 Johnston first came to King’s as a FYP tutor in 1977, accepting the position as he was beginning work on his thesis in classics. “In a way,” he jokes, “coming to King’s was a terrible decision. I loved teaching here so much that it dominated my life, taking me seven years to finish my doctorate.” Besides being a tutor and vicepresident, Johnston has held a variety of other administrative positions, including associate director of FYP in 1981 and FYP director in 1984. “You learn very quickly at a small place that, if you really care about what is going on, you must take on various roles,” Johnston says. “Angus is the heart and soul of King’s,” says college President Colin Tidings

Starnes, “as well as the will and intelligence of the college. That he’s been willing to do the job of vice-president for so long and so well, despite the fact that the administrative position of vice-president can wreak havoc with scholarly work and social life, is an indication of how much he has given to this institution.” In addition to planning King’s new building this year, the position of vice-president allowed Johnston to play a key role in the construction of the library in the early 1990s. “The greatest satisfaction I have achieved from my role as vice-president, however, comes from being able to enrich upper-year programs here at King’s,” says Johnston, “including the additions of the contemporary studies program and the early modern studies program, which I had a hand in developing. It has been a great time for King’s in recent years.” “Angus has been the world’s best vice-president and an utterly remarkable teacher,” says Starnes. “It is stunning that he can do the job of vicepresident so well and at the same time maintain the level of teaching, lectures and tutorial work that he does.”

Angus Johnston has agreed to retain the V.P. post for an additional year until the new arts building is completed. He is chair of the university’s building committee. Photo: Cathryn Spence

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Vegetarians finding fuller plates in dining hall 36 per cent of King’s students eat vegetarian By Jessica Block

Photo: Jessica Block

Lyndall Musselman

It’s supper time in Prince Hall and foundation year student Lyndall Musselman grabs a tray and cutlery and heads over to the salad bar. There are the vegetable sticks and salads, as well as chunks of tofu and a container of hummous. She walks back to the kitchen, where she gets a plate of steaming tofu stir fry, white rice and half a baked potato. “Today is a good day,” she says, eyeing her plate.

Some days, Musselman says it’s difficult for her to find something to eat at school, especially since she’s a vegan vegetarian, which means she doesn’t eat meat, eggs or dairy products. “Sometimes in the kitchen where the hot food is, there will be nothing, but that’s just because I’m so fussy about cheese and milk products,” she says. In general though, the vegetarian food at Prince Hall, where residence students and some professors eat on campus, is becoming more abundant, says Colleen MacDonald, the head chef, who has worked at King’s for 25 years. She says she remembers the days when the only option for vegetarians was a cheese omelette. Today, she says, vegetarian options are a necessity, when about 90 of 250 students who eat at Prince Hall are vegetarian and three are vegan. “You get people coming up who aren’t vegetarian but eat vegetarian too,” she says. “There’s a big trend towards that. The kids today are eating everything. Kids are more open, more exposed [to different cultures].” Musselman says she was concerned about the food choices when she first came to King’s, but she has since discovered a lot of options. Abundant meal options When she can’t find something hot to eat, she says, a cook might put together something especially for her. She often takes ingredients from the salad bar and makes a stir

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fry in the Prince Hall microwave. There is also a kitchen in Alex Hall residence where students can cook their own meals. And Musselman keeps a fridge stocked with soy milk and soy cream cheese just in case. Kitchen staff are open to suggestions from the students, say Musselman and MacDonald. MacDonald says she considers menu ideas from students who bring them in. A few years ago she also hired a student to work part

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You get people coming up who aren’t

vegetarian but eat vegetarian too. There’s a big trend towards that. The kids today are eating everything.” Colleen MacDonald Head chef, Prince Hall

time in the kitchen to help cook vegetarian meals. FYP student Annie Clifford’s job as a “Grub and Scrub,” means meeting five times a year with the cooks and cleaners, to discuss the quality of residence food and housekeeping. As a result of her suggestion, Cliffford says, the cooks are adding curries to the menu. MacDonald says King’s is a fortunate place to be vegetarian, because the college is so small. “By the end of the year we know what everyone’s having for breakfast,” she says. “At other big universities they can’t tell you if you’re a student.” King’s sent her to training sessions on how to cook vegetarian meals. But MacDonald says she still finds it difficult sometimes. “I’m not a vegetarian and it’s hard to taste it and know if it’s good,” MacDonald says. “I have to go by student feedback.” Musselman’s feedback is a clean plate. Spring 2000

Wardroom bounces back from money troubles: manager By Tim Currie and Trevor Stewart All eyes were on the bar this year as HMCS Wardroom and the King’s Students’ Union (KSU) struggled to get a grip on the student pub’s finances. But the pub’s new manager says the Wardroom is back on its feet and, more important, has the checks in place to ensure it stays healthy. One year ago, newly-appointed Wardroom staff found unpaid bills totalling $8,000, just weeks after beginning the 1999-2000 fiscal year. The pub takes in about $40,000 in revenue each year. Francis Wooby, who took over as Wardroom manager on April 15, 2000, credits Amanda Margison, the manager stepping down, with turning the bar around. “Business picked up this year and that can be attributed to the professionalism of the bar management.” Wooby was the KSU’s internal vice-president early last summer when creditors began knocking at the Wardroom door. Unpaid bills The pub owed money to numerous organizations including $3,000 to Pepsi Canada, and hundreds more to the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission for alcohol and to the university itself for unpaid wages of campus police officers. Wooby doesn’t believe any money went missing. He says the 1998-99 bar staff simply failed to keep track of their finances and overspent. “It was poor management. The KSU is required to keep in contact with the Wardroom manager and to keep track of what’s going on. They didn’t. No one kept tabs on it.” The 1999-2000 King’s Students’ Union executive agreed to cover the bar’s debt on the condition it repay Spring 2000

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IN B

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It was pretty off-putting to have to face this at

the beginning of the year. It was a serious problem. But I don’t think the Wardroom was in any danger of closing.” Francis Wooby KSU Internal Vice-president 1999-00

Campaign launch King's President Colin Starnes (and KSU President Matt Aronson) sign the student pledge to the Building on a Strong

the money into a future contingency fund. The Wardroom operates at arm’s length from the KSU, but its finances are ultimately underwritten by the student organization. “It was pretty off-putting to have to face this at the beginning of the year,” says Wooby. “It was a serious problem. But I don’t think the Wardroom was in any danger of closing.” Margison and the KSU agreed to meet once a month to review the bar’s finances and to keep the students’ union apprised of any problems. Margison began repaying the money by promoting the bar more heavily and holding more theme nights. The bar was able to repay $1,500 this year. “What’s made the Wardroom successful this year is that students took a big interest,” she says. “It was in a very tenuous position at the beginning.” Wooby is optimistic the bar now has a handle on finances. “The books took a 180° turn from the year before,” says Wooby. “They went from rags to being in immaculate shape.” Renovations to the bar beginning this summer will be paid from a shareholders dividend in the KSU’s health insurance policy. Tidings

Foundation capital campaign at its public launch before King's staff and students March 7. Students have committed $100/student over five years ($90,000). Staff and faculty have pledged over $50,000. Please see the campaign update on page 11. (Photo: Michael Creagen)

Faculty supports student protest For the first time, King’s faculty endorsed a Canadian Federation of Students’ campaign to fight education cuts. Faculty agreed Jan. 11 to declare Feb. 2, 2000, the Access 2000 protest date, a “penalty-free” day during which students would not be punished for failing to attend class or submit assignments. (Photo: Robin Perelle)

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Breakdance group keeps gym ‘hip-hopping’ King’s Breakdancing Society attracts an average of 20 people to its evening events. Photo: Nicolas Carrier

By Nicolas Carrier At 7 p.m. on a Sunday, 30 people, most of them students, file into the gymnasium’s dance studio. Some are wearing baggy clothing typical to the rave scene, some wear track suits and white gloves, others Tshirts and jeans, all of them sneakers. They cluster into groups on the hardwood floor. One of the students plugs a portable stereo into an outlet while a few others take gym mats from a corner and place them on the floor to form a square on one side of the room. Loud hip-hop music fills the air and, suddenly, a number of the people in the room turn themselves upside down and start to spin. Last year, this sort of display was unheard of at King’s, but since midSeptember 1999, it has been a weekly event: a meeting of the King’s Breakdancing Society, or KBS. “We were at a party at a friend’s house when it happened,” says Japji Marcock-Pal, about the night she and fellow King’s student Yann Desrosier-Hickey decided to found the society. Marcock-Pal is a student of capoeira and Desrosier-Hickey a former student of tae kwon do. “We had been talking about martial arts and teaching each other some kicks and punches.”

Then, she says, the stereo began playing hip-hop. “I wanted to break so we moved some stuff out of the way I started teaching Yann how to do the sixstep,” says Marcock-Pal. They ended up breakdancing for hours, after which fellow King’s student John Lamey suggested they form a society. Marcock-Pal and DesrosierHickey got together on the steps of the King’s library to write a constitution the following Monday, the last day to apply to become a society with the King’s Student Union (KSU). “We pretty much just copied the constitution for the film society, since neither of us knew how to do it,” says Marcock-Pal. “And that worked out fine.” Marcock-Pal adds they were refused funding, since they handed in their application after the KSU’s budget was completed, but that they had no trouble booking the studio. They were up and running the following Sunday. Word of mouth The two say recruiting was the easiest part. “It all got around by word of mouth,” says Marcock-Pal. Desrosier-Hickey adds: “We haven’t even put up posters yet. There was Tidings

just so much ground-level excitement.” Marcock-Pal says the turnout is sometimes as few as 12 or 15 people, though usually more than 20, with at least 10 of that number being regulars who have attended since the beginning. Behind Desrosier-Hickey and Marcock-Pal, two young men are demonstrating tumbling techniques to one another on the mats. In the middle of the room, another young man is miming the movements of a robot. To the right, two people are engaged in what appears to be a cross between a fistfight and a complicated dance. The studio reverberates for two hours with the sound of sneakers slamming against hardwood at great speeds and people hollering with approval. At 8:30 p.m., 20 of the breakers form a circle on the right, taking up half the floor, while local DJ, NSCAD student and KBS regular Christy “Kinder” Wade sets a video camera on a tripod. One after the other, the breakers take their turn in the middle of the circle, doing semi-improvised dance routines to the sound of their colleagues’ cheers. Two weeks ago, Wade founded a sister society for KBS at the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design (NSCAD). “I just wanted another time and place to break,” says Wade. Spring 2000

‘Where you win just by showing up’ Canadian military doctor Captain Paul Charlebois helped staff a weekly clinic for local residents near the Canadian peacekeeping base in northern Bosnia. In a region scarred by civil war, he found a little kindness goes a long way. By Tim Currie Last winter, a Canadian military medic on patrol outside the Canadian base camp in northern Bosnia came across a family of five in which the mother, grandmother and one of the children had taken ill. The medic summoned military doctor Captain Paul Charlebois (BSc ’91) to offer assistance. Charlebois had grown accustomed to the region’s grinding poverty but what he found at the homestead shocked him. The family was living in a shabby tent, without water, light, or heat. Behind the tent was the bombed-out shell of their house, a stark remnant of Bosnia’s brutal civil war which ended four years year. He gave them what he could – over-the-counter medicines, common and cheap in Canadian drug stores, but out of reach for many in the area. It would help them through their current illness, but would do nothing to stop it from recurring. The medical contingent’s primary role in Bosnia is support for Canada’s peacekeepers. They can’t provide humanitarian relief, but they try to help the local population in small ways. In the absence of a local doctor, they staffed a weekly clinic in a small community 15 km from the Canadian encampment at Velika Kladusa in the north of the Bosnian federation. It wasn’t a field hospital, but simply a walk-in centre for the predominantly rural residents. The family in the tent wasn’t typical, but the majority was only slightly Spring 2000

better off. The clinic saw a parade of patients suffering from stomach diseases and parasitic infections caused by dreadful living conditions where much of society’s infrastructure has been destroyed and not replaced. Poor water quality and a weak diet were the main culprits. “You come in and they say, ‘doctor, it hurts here, here and here,’ says Charlebois of a typical visit. “Well, maybe that’s because you sleep on the floor, in a cold, drafty house,” he would diagnose to himself. “Your stomach is upset because you eat poor quality food and you do heavy labour in the fields all day.” Some in the community came to view the Canadian doctors as minor miracle workers, with their wealth of medicine. Charlebois didn’t welcome the attitude, but he was sympathetic to it. The country has no socialized medicine. Hospital visits are out of the reach for many. Most don’t even have money to buy a bottle of painkillers. Free programs and services at some hospitals exist, but the population is still distrustful of the authorities who turned against each other 10 years ago and made their current lives so difficult. “They look around and their country has been destroyed. They know Canada is well off and they figure all ills must be curable in Canada and this good doctor will treat us. So, even if you give them a bottle of Tylenol, it does great things for them. Sometimes is just makes them feel better to see me walk in with my stethoscope and to be told ‘This is Tidings

your doctor.’ Sometimes being there Captain Paul Charlebois with the is what counts. It’s where you win wheelchair-bound just by just showing up.” former soldier he In the early fall, the Canadians helped. learned of a man in his 20s, paralyzed from the legs down in combat and Photo: confined to a wheelchair. His father Courtesy Canadian Armed Forces and his brother had been killed. His mother and his family were barely getting by. He had been a soldier for a defeated faction in the AUSTRIA war, so he HUNGARY was receivSLOVENIA VELIKA ing no comKLADUSA pensation for his miliBOSNIAN FEDERATION tary service. His family ITALY brought him to the clinic in a horse and buggy. The young man needed a new pneumatic cushion for his wheelchair. His old one had worn out and without a new one he could look forward to ongoing sores and compression ulcers. He had no hope of finding one in Bosnia and couldn’t possibly have afforded one if he did. With an overseas phone call, the Canadians were able to get an Continued on next page 9

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Imagine if the Irving family decided it didn’t like

what the government of New Brunswick was doing and raised its own army.” Captain Paul Charlebois Canadian Armed Forces doctor Continued from previous page

(Below) : Captain Paul Charlebois: “We do make a difference.” (Right): a Bosnian town still scarred by the civil war. Photo: Courtesy Canadian Armed Forces

American supplier to donate and send a new cushion within two weeks. “When we went to deliver the cushion, his mother was crying and his sister was crying,” recalls Charlebois. “Generosity like that gets them because they don’t have anything. Bosnia is full of this type of story. But the people go on. They have no choice.” The Canadian peacekeepers are stationed about 60 km From Bihac, a major centre which saw heavy fighting during the war. They patrol farm communities, intervene in conflicts when necessary, and generally work with local authorities and international aid organizations to police the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord, which marked an uneasy end to the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war. Charlebois’ role is medical assistance to the peacekeepers, as part of Canada’s National Support Element, a service and supply contingent. The Canadians are stationed near Velika Kladusa, a town with a population of 50,000 before war, now near 20,000. Charlebois says a key to understanding the plight of Bosnia is to realize that 10 years ago it was a productive Eastern European nation with a moderate standard of living. But warring factions of Bosnian Croats (Roman Catholics), Bosnian Serbs (Eastern Orthodox Catholics) and Muslim Bosniacs destroyed most of the infrastructure and sent the largely rural society into a nosedive. The result is a low standard of living in the north, even by Bosnia’s weak standard. Economic development struggles under the weight of tension and mistrust, five years after the Dayton Peace Accord. “Bosnia is not a happy place,” says Charlebois. The communities in the Canadians’ area are stark and rudimentary. Charlebois says housing

ranges from what Canadians would consider a normal, to bare cinder block houses with windows, doors and a wood stove. Nearly every building is pockmarked with bullet holes. The residents remain unconvinced the hostilities are truly over. “Why put money into something that may get destroyed again?” asks Charlebois rhetorically. “They are more apt to put money into their cars or things they can carry.” The armed conflicts in the north were marked, not by ethnic cleansing, but by political divisions among Muslim factions. Business and political leaders took sides and raised their own armies. With the collapse of Tito’s Communist Yugoslav federation in the 1980s, the various ethnic communities turned on themselves, struggling for control of scarce resources. “Imagine if the Irving family decided it didn’t like what the government of New Brunswick was doing and raised its own army,” says Charlebois. “You would have New Brunswicker fighting New Brunswicker.” Charlebois is philosphical about the root problems of the area — problems, he says, many Canadians have trouble understanding. “The concept of living together in peace and harmony isn’t as widespread as a lot of North Americans think it is and, in many parts of the world, nationalism and the want to have a country for your own means excluding others. Human rights, Tidings

egalitarianism, the concept of discrimination — these are western ideas. Canadians ask ‘How can people do that (participate in ethnic cleansing)?’ Well, it becomes very easy when you believe someone is not equal. But to us, it seems they border on true evil.” It was clear to Charlebois that many in the area had been permanently scarred by the fighting. “In trying to get some information (from his patients), they would break down: ‘I’m trying to support three children, my husband was killed in the war and my oldest son is missing.’ Eventually it would just flow out. Others were just so stoic about it. But I would learn afterward, that she’s looking after a family of 10 on the salary she’s earning here at the (Canadian) base because her husband was killed and a lot of the males in her family are gone. If she looks fatigued and tired all the time, that’s why.” In spite of the conditions, Charlebois says the community is optimistic about its future. “It’s surprising, You would think they would be hopeless, but I don’t think they are. The Bosnians are still a very proud people even though their country lies in ruins.” He knows the community values the Canadians’ presence as a stabilizing force in the area. “We make a difference just by being there. The (ethnic) groups tell us that if we weren’t there, they would still be fighting.” T Spring 2000

Capital Campaign update WATCH THIS SPACE!

P CO HAS E M JAN PLET 1 . 2 ION 00 1

Construction workers finished excavating the foundation for our new building last fall and the site stayed that way until activity began again in earnest in May. The first photo, taken in January, shows the erection of a concrete retaining wall since our last photo in June 1999. The wall is the west foundation of our new building. It was needed before winter to shore up the driveway to Dalhousie’s relocated maintenance shed (top right), which was moved from the construction site a year ago. The second photo, taken in early June 2000, shows the concrete foundation taking shape. The wood form for the elevator shaft is clearly visible in black. Behind it is a concrete semi-circle, the footprint of the main lecture hall. Seats will face the (far) southwest corner. The new building is being built directly behind North Pole Bay. Keep watching for more photos as construction progresses. JANUARY 2000

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Photos: Michael Creagen

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Campaign Facts The Building on a Strong Foundation capital campaign has raised close to $4.5 million, reaching 67 per cent of the campaign’s overall goal of $6.7 million. The goals are as follows: FUND GOALS:

* Library Goal: $150,000 * Scholarships Goal: $350,000 * Journalism Goal: $500,000 * Building Goal: $5,700,000 DIVISION GOALS:

* King’s Community Goal: $200,000 * Alumni Goal: $800,000 * Special Friends Goal: Atlantic Canada: $750,000 Central Canada: $750,000 * Corporations Goal: Atlantic Canada: $800,000 Central Canada: $1,300,000 * Foundations Total: $1,000,000 Although the campaign is not even close to completion, a number of areas have already surpassed their goals. These areas include scholarships and bursaries, having reached 156.5 per cent of their goal; the King’s community, having reached 111.3 per cent of their goal; and foundations and the library both within 10 per cent of reaching their goal. The overall goal for the alumni is $800,000. The main lecture hall of the new building would be the naming opportunity for the alumni. The stretch goal for the alumni is $1,000,000 and if that is reached, the alumni will be able to name the new building. As part of the Alumni Appeal for the Capital Campaign, phoning is set to begin soon. King’s students will be phoning alumni around the world asking them to participate in the Building on a Strong Foundation campaign by making a financial contribution to the university. Organizers are expecting this years campaign phoning to be a big success. “This is an exciting time for King’s and we’re looking forward to the support of our alumni,” says Cynthia Pilichos, Alumni Co-Chair of the Building on a Strong Foundation Campaign Cabinet. “Their role will be crucial in the months leading up to the opening of the new building.” The tender for the building was recently awarded to the lowest bidder, Cardinal Construction Ltd., a Maritime company. They are already on site and will have the building completed by Jan. 1, 2001. “We’re very excited about the news of the beginning of construction and thankful for the wonderful support that’s allowed us to get this far,” says Ms. Pilichos. 11

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future past FOR THE

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ne of Canada’s hottest think tanks began where many a FYP tutorial has left off — pondering questions of history and belonging. Only three years old, the Toronto-based Dominion Institute is the brainchild of two alumni who turned their dismay at Canadians’ ignorance of their past into a headline-grabbing lobby group for greater awareness of Canadian history. “It must have been the summer of ’96 when we thought up the idea,” explains Erik Penz, 29, (BAH ’95), who along with Rudyard Griffiths, 29, (King’s 1989-90) started the institute. “It was not unlike evenings at the Wardroom at King’s. We just started talking about the role of Canadian history and civic identity,” says Penz, who is now a Toronto lawyer and chair of the board for the institute. “We sat down and drew together a funding proposal and sent it off to a private funding organization.” The catalyst for creating the institute was the 1995 referendum in Quebec. The near separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada had the two history buffs asking

each other how the country could have come so close to breaking apart after over 125 years of unity. The answer they came up with was simple: Canadians don’t have a strong enough appreciation of their country’s rich past. Griffiths says Canadians don’t revisit some moments in history for fear of upsetting the precarious state of national unity. “Our history was perceived as a threat or danger to national unity because of some difficult and painful events contained within it. Whether it was the Red River Rebellion, or the Plains of Abraham, or the rebellions of 1837 in Lower Canada. All of those antagonistic moments in Canada were seen as undermining the fragile unity that our political leaders and elites perceived existed in Canada since the Quiet Revolution,” says Griffiths, who graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge (M.Phil ’96) and is now executive director of the institute. “But that idea betrays the historical record. And it becomes difficult for our generation, as younger Canadians, to have a meeting of minds with not only our French-

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The majority of Canadians between the ages 18-24 thought Neil Armstrong was the first Canadian into space.” Canadian counterparts but with every region of the country.” After the referendum Griffiths and Penz realized they had to promote history to strengthen the argument for a more unified Canada. “Part of making an historical argument for unity is educating Canadians,” Griffiths says. It was a timely coincidence that Griffiths, Penz and a few others in their mid-20s came up with the idea for the institute. “We’d all had an idea that we would do something like this at some point in our lives. It just wasn’t clear when,” Penz says. “I had this idea about starting up this thing called the Dominion Heritage Society. It was going to try and get

(Opposite page, left to right): Rudyard Griffiths, former King’s president John Godfrey, Erik Penz Photo: Arne Glassbourg

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pictures of the Fathers of Confederation at Charlottetown in every Grade 5 classroom across the country. But I didn’t see doing that until I was in my 50s or 60s,” he says. After receiving a generous, and somewhat unexpected, grant of $150,000 in 1997 from the Donner Canadian Foundation, the two alumni and a few others began the task forming the institute. One of the first phone calls they made for advice was to John Godfrey, MP (Don Valley West), and former president of King’s (197787). “He was a busy member of Parliament up in Ottawa,” Penz says. “We just told him we were a couple of King’s men who were doing this history thing. He had us up to his office, then came to Toronto for lunch, and put us in touch with all sorts of people.” Some of those people make up the impressive list of the institute’s patrons and advisors which is proudly displayed on the organiza14

tion’s letterhead. The list includes: Rt. Hon. John Turner, Hon. H.N.R. Jackman, Jack Granstein, O.C., Sandra Gotlieb, Mel Hurtig, O.C. and many others. After a series of brainstorming sessions, the institute began the business of promoting Canadian history. They created three mandates for the institute: researching what Canadians know about their history; providing Internet tools to help educators promote history; and reforming curriculums in education policy. “Working in the area of culture, it’s always hard to quantify public memory or people’s appreciation of their history,” Griffiths says. “Part of the reason we spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on public polling research was to provide us with a baseline for determining Canadians’ knowledge of their history. In five or 10 years we’ll be able to track the output of the high-school system and the impact of groups like ours.” One of the first surveys the institute commissioned confirmed their suspicions about Canadians’ grasp on national history and citizenship. A 1997 poll conducted by Angus Reid found 45 per cent failed a mock citizenship exam similar to that taken by would-be citizens. The same poll found two thirds of Canadians could not correctly identify the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as the section of the constitution which protects everyone’s Tidings

basic rights and freedoms. “Some of the more amusing, but disturbing, statistics we found were the majority of Canadians between the ages 18-24 thought Neil Armstrong, not Marc Garneau, was the first Canadian into space. One third of that same age group was unaware of the century in which Confederation occurred,” Griffiths says. “And almost half of the respondents thought D-Day marked the bombing of Pearl Harbour, not the invasion of Normandy,” he adds. After finding areas in which Canadians needed improvement, the institute turned to the task of educating the country. It launched a three-month series of articles written by prominent Canadians, ranging from Ovide Mercredi and Peter C. Newman to Charlotte Gray. The authors wrote about topics such as Canadian heroes and the present state of the Canada’s founding ideals. The articles were published in 1999 in the National Post and on one of their Web sites. Web site caters to educators The Internet has allowed the institute to make an impact in the classrooms of the country. It has so far launched three fully bilingual teacher-driven Web sites. Another Web site enables teachers to bring veterans into their classrooms to be interviewed by students. The students then post stories about the veterans to the Web site. Another of the institute’s Web sites allows school children to choose the 10 most important people in Canadian history. Between 3,000 and 4,000 users each week visit the Web sites. “We use these Web sites to reach out to educators on the front lines with resources that encourage a national, pan-Canadian perspecSpring 2000

tive on the country’s history,” Griffiths says. He says the teaching tools on the Web sites are generic so they can be used in most teaching environments throughout Canada. “There is an incredible regional variation in curriculum. So part of our mandate is to try to give educators lesson plans that get their students to think outside of the boundaries of their provinces, and to start thinking about a national history.” Curriculum reform a challenge The institute’s final mandate of curriculum reform is its greatest challenge. Since education falls within provincial jurisdiction, Griffiths says it’s difficult to promote a single goal across provincial education departments. The institute has made strides in this area by advising the Council of Ministers of Education, but Griffiths says they still have a lot of work to do. “We’re in the process of trying to create partnerships with educational groups in other provinces. We think it’s important for groups in other parts of the country to come together to push curriculum reform on a national level,” Griffiths says. But working from central Canada makes it difficult for the institute to reach out to the rest of Canada. “If the Dominion Institute from Toronto comes to Halifax and tells people in Nova Scotia how to teach history, we’re not going to be very successful,” Griffiths says. But Penz and Griffiths are encouraged by new interest in promoting history. Penz points to the creation Historica, a multi-million dollar history foundation, and also to the federal government’s comSpring 2000

mitment to build a new $58 million war museum in Ottawa as examples. Griffiths says the new interest in history can be attributed to a number of factors. “The millennium is colouring this to a degree. We close one century and open another — it’s a natural point to look back and reflect,” he says. “And our veterans are dwindling with every passing year. Each Remembrance Day, the celebrations become more poignant. The passing of that generation is eliciting an interest from younger Canadians in what they did and their contributions to this country.” Griffiths says. “I do think history is hot. But these are economically good times where we feel we can afford the luxury of engaging in issues like history. We need to understand history as part of an ongoing conversation about citizenship and Canadian identity,” he says. As for the future of the Institute, Penz and Griffiths are not looking back.

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Half of the respondents thought D-Day marked the bombing of Pearl Harbour.” “I guess when we started we didn’t know where it was going.” Penz says. “It’s still only three years old and I think we’re all hoping we have a long run at it. But it’s a small charitable organization and being in the not-for-profit sector puts you in a precarious position.” Starting July 1st, 2000 the Dominion Institute is sponsoring another series of articles appearing for 12 weeks in the Globe and Mail. They’ll be written by authors including John Ralston Saul, Timothy Findley and Margaret Atwood, and based on fictional accounts of the pioneer days in Canada. T

Visit the Dominion Institute Web pages: grantswar.com — Stories of Canadian veterans ourheroes.ca — A list of 20 Canadian heroes greatquestions.com — A chat-based education program

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E-mail news digest keeps grad in Fiji up-to-date Former digest editor is one of 400 subscribers worldwide By Catherine Roberts In her office in the capital city of Suva, Fiji, Jennifer Robinson (BJH ’98) reads about the latest Maritime snowstorm in NovaNewsNet Digest, a daily e-mail summary of Nova Scotia news. The digest keeps Robinson up-to-date on local weather and news from Nova Scotia as well as Canadian and world news. “I can look out my window and see palm trees, and I can hear the sound of myna birds cawing,” Robinson says by e-mail. “And, I can chuckle, turn up the fan when it’s above 30C here and snowing back home.” Robinson says one of the first things she does in the morning is hook up her Toshiba laptop to the office network at the South Pacific Forum Secretariat so that she can read the digest. She says her computer is her key to the outside world. “Since the Internet connection in Fiji is so slow, it takes a long time to look up news sites from Canada,” says Robinson. “And of course it’s impossible to buy Canadian newspapers or magazines here.” A media relations assistant for the Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development (C-SPOD) program, Robinson says she’s responsible for creating more awareness of C-SPOD throughout the Pacific and Canada. C-SPOD funds conservation projects

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hard it was to get up at 6 a.m. and write those short stories.” Jennifer Robinson

such as one aimed at protecting endangered sea turtles. Robinson says she also writes magazine articles and does basic PR work such as press releases. While on assignment in Samoa Robinson says she watched men unloading their tuna boats. She then wrote an article for the Chronicle-Herald on how a Nova Scotia fisherman helped develop the tuna fishery there. Robinson is based in Fiji for one year and should finish in October. As a former digest editor herself, Robinson says she appreciates what journalism students at King’s go through to produce NovaNewsNet Digest each day. “I can still remember how hard it was to get up at 6 a.m. and trudge up to the j-school to read the papers and write those short stories,” says Robinson.

her feel connected to home, even though the news isn’t always happy. “For instance,” says Robinson, “I found out about a police officer I had worked with in Enfield who had died before anyone back home told me, which was quite sad.” Robinson says she used to wonder about the people who commented on the digest via e-mail. “Now,” says Robinson, “halfway around the world I finally do understand.”

Digest began five years ago The journalism department’s director, Stephen Kimber started the NovaNewsNet Web site and its e-mail digest component five years ago. Now, more than 450 e-mail subscribers from around the world receive the digest. Robinson says she dreads when the service stops in April and the students go on summer leave. The journalism students produce the digest by 10 a.m. local time each weekday, excluding holidays, during the school term. One of the things Robinson says she will miss is how the digest helps Tidings

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Academic, priestly roles appeal to Friesen New chaplain likes wearing ‘2 hats’ By Catherine Roberts

Dr. Paul Friesen: “Making traditional worship available to as many students as possible.” Photo: Catherine Roberts

Wearing “two hats” under one roof appeals to Dr. Paul Friesen, the newly appointed Anglican chaplain at King’s College Chapel. He says a career move to King’s interested him because it combined an academic and a priestly role. “In fact,” says Friesen, who arrived from Toronto with his wife and daughter in August, “I have been doing that for a number of years, but with two very different jobs, and this brought the two together.” In Toronto, he served as an associate priest in a parish church while teaching undergraduate history classes at Tyndale College. This year, Friesen isn’t teaching any courses at King’s, but says he hopes to in September. One of his first initiatives at King’s was to send out letters of introduction that allowed him to give students a glimpse of his personal life and achievements. Friesen holds a PhD in the study of Christian socialism in 19th century England. He was ordained shortly after obtaining his

doctorate. Educated in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England, he specialized in modern European history. But he says he can also discuss fluently the interplay between religious, intellectual and social history that takes humanity throughout the Christian era. He’s busy introducing himself to the congregation and to the students, because he says, “there are many faith groups here, and then there are people who don’t believe at all.” He is also carrying on the traditional worship here at King’s. Friesen says it’s his role “to make that tradition available to as many students as possible, regardless of their state of belief or unbelief.” A healthy regard for the opinions of others, he says, helps him stay open-minded. Eclectic taste in books Friesen is an avid reader. The six tall, narrow bookshelves in his office stand testament to his eclectic tastes — from The Druids to The Essays of Francis Bacon, to the Passions of the Renaissance to Voyager from Xanadu. But he says it’s the Christian and Jewish scriptures that feed his soul. Friesen is quick to point out that he likes to be a lively participant in all intellectual debates, Tidings

with a particular focus on those related to religion. Journalism student James Evans works closely with Friesen as the chapel’s sacristan. He says the best thing about Friesen is his experience in student ministry. “It’s his willingness to realize what the student mindset is,” says Evans. “He really takes students where they are in their spiritual journey and helps them along.” Evans says although the service hasn’t really changed, it’s Friesen’s style of preaching that’s making a difference for most students. Spiritual discussions It’s not uncommon for Friesen to invite guest speakers and students to his home, where they can discuss spiritual issues in a relaxed atmosphere, says Evans. Last fall, Friesen started a study group in which students delve into parts of the Christian canon. He also does one-on-one consultations. Friesen says he wants students to drop in on him to chat about a variety of issues: the relationship between academic study and faith, spiritual life and personal issues, to name a few. Evans adds that it’s a good thing that Friesen is reaching out. “I think the old model of building a church and expecting everyone just to fill the pews on Sunday is gone,” says Evans. “I think campus ministry really is cutting edge because it’s taking it into the community.” Friesen is available at King’s year round through his office in Alexandra Hall across from the chapel. Still, “[he’s] more likely to meet and counsel students at a pub rather than in a formal office,” says Evans. “’Cause they’re not in church.” Spring 2000

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Wark works off anger in column, Web page By Jennifer Cleary “My instant psychometer has just taken a symbolic picture of your inner child,” King’s journalism professor Bruce Wark’s Web site reads, with a picture underneath of a cartoon child with spiky vampire teeth. “Yes,” it says, “I’m afraid you’re pretty ugly.” He warns if you are wandering around his Web site you will have to learn to face horrible truths. The Web page posts some of the articles Wark writes for the Halifax weekly, The Coast. He has written for it since 1995, expressing his leftwing satirical outlook toward mainstream media in a regular column called Media Rare. His unconventional articles take sarcastic stabs at politicians, reporters and the hypocrisy of the media. It makes him angry they don’t live up to things they say they do, he says, such as presenting all sides of the truth. His commentary, he says, is a way to work out his anger. Self-proclaimed neurotic “Rather than throwing a brick through a window —which I sometimes feel like doing,” he says, surprisingly serious, “or smashing my car through some building, I write.” The self-proclaimed neurotic journalist has been working in the media for about 30 years, 19 of them at CBC Radio. He sees it as time he spent never sticking out his neck and never saying what he thought. CBC told him nobody cared. Since insulting CBC in The Spring 2000

Coast, he says, he hasn’t been invited back to speak on its morning show, which, he says, he used to do frequently. “They’re mad at me because I criticized them,” he explains. “They’ve got such thin skin. So I get pleasure out of that.” Wark now teaches media history and ethics in the journalism school. From all his experience, he says, he has earned the right to mouth off. He uses The Coast as an opportunity to voice his ideas about technology, the tobacco industry and the media’s tendency toward self-congratulation. “I see the way the world works,” he says, “and how the better off people in society, like myself, look after themselves so well and pretend to be concerned with the poor, but they really aren’t.” “A breath of fresh air” Stephanie Domet, The Coast editor, says Wark isn’t a bitter journalist. She calls him a breath of fresh air. “I wouldn’t say he is an angry man,” she says. “Anger is just one note, a one-dimensional response, I would never describe Wark as being like that; he’s brilliant.” What Wark wants most of all from his readers is a laugh, he says. “I use sex,” he says, “to get people to read the column, even though I don’t know anything about sex.” For example, to get reader’s attention in one of his articles about the culture of the car, entitled Machine Sex, he wrote: “I was too busy jerking off (mentally),” as a persuasive Tidings

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better-off people in society, like myself, look after themselves so well and pretend to be concerned with the poor, but they really aren’t.”

tool to tempt people to read on. While he admits such tactics are one of his weaknesses, he says he still doesn’t get much response, which he says makes him go to even greater lengths to induce reader response. “I think I try too hard to be entertaining,” he explains. “I try too hard to bribe people into reading my column.” But Domet maintains that Wark does get feedback, and that he is definitely thought provoking. “They either love him or hate him.” But for her, Wark is one of her favourite people to talk to. “He thinks like nobody else,” she says. (Wark’s Web page can be found at: www.accesswave.ca/~bwark/ 19

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The 1999 Atlantic Journalism Awards were held Saturday, May 6, 2000 at the Halifax Sheraton. Pictured (left to right): Karin Reid-LeBlanc, Alex Mason, Peter Walsh, Steve Sutherland, Kelly Ryan. Photo: Kerry Delorey

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Atlantic Journalism Awards King’s alumni again formed a high percentage of finalists recognized at the 19th annual Atlantic Journalism Awards. The gold and silver medal winners were: Lois Legge (BJ ’84) and Steve Maich (BJ ’98), as part of a team of reporters from the Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, for “Who’s Killing Who?”: A 10-part investigation of murder in Nova Scotia over the past decade. (Gold award for Enterprise Reporting – Print). Steve Maich also took home the silver for the Jim MacNeill New Journalist Award. Dean Lisk (BJ ’00), a graduating student from the King’s School of Journalism (Winner of the Imperial Oil Prize For Excellence) Alex Mason (BJH ’93), of CBC Radio, Halifax, for “A Warrior’s Honour”: A story of high adventure, murder and it would seem, revenge in a life-and-death portrait of Anna Mae Pictou Acquash. (Gold award for Enterprise Reporting – Radio) Deborah Nobes (BJH ’92), of the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, Fredericton, for “Dangerous Love”: An examination of confused love ending in the stabbing death of a young mother by her abu20

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sive boyfriend. (Silver award for Enterprise Reporting – Print) Karin Reid-LeBlanc (BJH ’93) as part of a team of reporters at CBC Radio-Fredericton, for “2010: The Maritimes in the Millennium”: A major, three-hour package looking at the future of the Maritime provinces. (Gold award for Feature – Radio) Kelly Ryan (BJ ’84), of CBC Radio Halifax, for “The Lobster Wars”: A report of the highly emotional events in Burnt Church, N.B. (Gold award for Spot News – Radio) Catherine Vardy (BJ ’00), a graduating King’s student and reporter for the Times & Transcript, Moncton (Winner of the Jim MacNeill New Journalist Award) Peter Walsh (BJ ’94), of CBC-TV Newfoundland and Labrador, for “Ponzi Scheme Busted”: An investigation of the bilking, of millions of dollars, from innocent victims in an illegal money scheme. (Gold award for Continuing Coverage – Television)

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Frank Caswell (DipJ ’48) has compiled a collection of his writings and drawings, entitled Wildlife Rhymes. He is now retired after a career in social work and spends most of his time painting, carving and photographing the wilds of Nova Scotia. The Honourable John Leitch (HMCS King’s) was appointed officer to the Order of Canada on Jan. 11, 2000.

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Malcolm Bradshaw (’57) is one of six Yarmouth district scouters involved in the publishing of a 150-page history, 75 Years Scouting – Yarmouth District. Innis M. Christie (BAH ’58) is a labour and management arbitrator and chair of the N.S Workers Compensation Board. He is also teaching at Dalhousie law school. Gail (MacDonald) Crawford (BA ’55) had her first book published by Dundurn Press. A Fine Line is the history of crafts and designers in Ontario from 1930 until the present. Mel Deacon (’55) was recently made an honorary life member of the London, Ontario Chamber of Commerce for 36 years of active service. David Millar (BA ’56) is an online tutor teaching and rewriting a course on research using traditional and online sources at Athabasca University. Fred Nicholson (’52-’57) was recently named St. Stephen, New Brunswick’s most prominent citizen for 1999. John Phillips (’51-’52) retired on Dec. 31, 1999 as Professor of Zoology and former department head at the University of British Columbia. John is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Zoology, serving also on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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David S. Precious (’63) is the head of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. He recently received the Dr. Albert Antonini Memorial award from the

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West Coast alumni gather in Surrey, B.C. in December. (Left to right): Doug Oram (BA ’65), Frank Winters (BA ’64), Fitzroy Richards (BA ’62), George Abbott (BA ’64), Dave Jones (BA ’64). Since all will be retired this year, discussion centred on “supplementing fixed incomes, yet avoiding contraband activities.” Canadian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Mary Barker (BA ’67, Hon. Fellow, ’97) was recently awarded a Canadian Public Relations Society Gemstone Award for her work on Canada’s first “Leave A Legacy Program”. David G. Jones (BA ’68, Hon. Fellow ’99) was recently appointed academic advisor to Royal Roads University for their new Master’s of Knowledge Management program. He is a senior manager with the Canadian federal government and is a specialist in Knowledge and Information Management.

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George Burden (’72-’74) was married to Krista Lynne Bailey April 9, 1999. George has also been busy writing on everything from influenza to his experience flying a F-18 fighter jet. He has traveled to over thirty countries on four continents to write about his experiences in various journals, newspapers and for radio and television. Laurie K. Lacey’s (BA ’73, HC ’75) book Medicine Walk – Reconnecting to Mother Earth, published by Nimbus Publishing, is due out in June, 2000.

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Andrew Calkins (BA ’88) is engaged to be married this spring. He spent three years in the Peace Corps. in the Central African Republic teaching biology. Upon his return, Andrew complet-

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ed his MA in Landscape Architecture and now works in Oakland, California as a landscape architect. He can be reached at andele@cal.berkely.edu Frederick Cogswell (DCL ’85) published his new book Folds just before his 80th birthday. Rev. Patrick Curran (BA ’80) has been appointed Chaplain to the Anglican Chaplaincy of Christ Church, Vienna, Austria in the Diocese in Europe and will be inducted on June 3. The Vienna Chaplaincy also has responsibility for Klagenfurt, Austria and Llubljana, Slovenia. Taunya (Padley) Dawson (BAH ’85) and her husband Peter Dawson (BAH ’85) are happy to announce the birth of Catriona Ellen Jean on Jan. 28, 2000. Taunya is the curator of the Admiral Digby Museum in Digby, N.S. and Peter is the Exercise Development Coordinator for the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Cornwallis, N.S. Peter can be reached at pdawson@ppc.cdnpeacekeeping.ns.ca Leslie A. Fyfe (BA ’85) is engaged to marry Martin Golding in Dartmouth this spring. She is working as the manager of Odyssey Travel in Ottawa. Greg Guy (BJH ’87) was recently nominated for the “Media Person” award at the East Coast Music Awards in February. Sue Farrell Holler’s (BJH ’84) latest picture book, “To the Pool with Mama,” was published in January by Annick Press of Toronto. Written in a child’s voice and inspired by one of her real-life “adventures” with her youngest son, the story describes a pre-schooler’s visit to a Grande Prairie swimming pool. Haynes Hubbard (BA ’87) and his wife Susan (White) (BA ’90, BJ ’91) were joined by Reverend Mark Andrews (BA ’87) and the Reverend Janet Read (BA ’90) as godparents, for the baptism of Gabriella Hubbard in June 1999. Gabriella is a little sister for Sebastien, 2. Susan is in her second year of a seven-year midwifery program at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Sheila Cameron (BSc ’86) hosted a dinner party for Moncton alumni in October. (Left to right from back): Brian Cormier (BJH ’86), Stuart H. Moore (BA ’87), Jonna Brewer (BA ’87), Sheila Cameron, Julianne MacLean (BA ’87), Stephen MacLean (BSc ’87)

AlumNotes Amanda Le Rougetel (BJH ’88) was recently promoted to Director, Corporate & Marketing Communications for Ceridian Canada in Winnipeg. She’s been in Winnipeg for more than 10 years and is putting down roots with her partner Val Paape, a yoga instructor. Amanda can be reached at lerouge@total.net Patrick Mackenzie (BA ’87) and Rowena MacKeen (BA ’87) are happy to announce the birth of their son, Malcom Luc MacKeen Mackenzie, on March 16, 2000. Owen Parkhouse (BA ’89, Hons. Cert. ’90) and his wife Elizabeth (MacDonald) (BA ’90) are happy to announce the arrival of their daughter, Bethany Carol Grace on Feb. 28, 2000. Sherry D. (MacKeigan) Ramsey (BA ’84) has a short story appearing in the new anthology The Day The Men Went To Town, from Breton Books. The book is being carried by Chapters stores across Canada. Myles Robertson (BA ’83) and his wife Karen are pleased to announce the birth of Spencer Joseph on July 3, 1999. Myles is a senior manager of planning at the TD Bank in Toronto. Carolyn (Blunden) Sisley (BA ’83) has been appointed Manager of Business Systems for

Algonquin College, Physical Resources Dept. in Ottawa. Carolyn lives in Ottawa with her husband David, and children Alex, 11, and Gillian, 7. She can be reached at sisleyc@algonquincollege.com John D. Stiles (BA ’89) recently started a film production company in Toronto called Insolent Boy Entertainment Inc. He is also completing a rock documentary, called “The smalls...er whatever.” The documentary travels across Canada and Europe with legendary Alberta rock cowboys, the smalls. Ron Stevenson (DCnL ’87), a retired justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, was recently named chancellor to the Anglican General Synod in Toronto. Ron has been a member of the New Brunswick diocesan Synod for more than 35 years. Karen Stewart (BA ’88) recently moved back to the Northeastern United States from the south and is working as the manager of nutrition services at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Maine. Karen can be reached at kstewart@fehn.org Brad Sweet (BA ’85) recently completed his MA in History at the Université de Laval in Quebec City.

Angela Yazbek (BA ’87, BJ ’88) and her husband Mark Kelley are happy to announce the birth of their second child, Isaac Scott Kelley, on Sept. 12, 1999.

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Chere Chapman (BScH ’94) is engaged to marry Gord Cooper (BAH ’94) this summer. Chere was recently in Calcutta working with Mother Theresa’s Missionaries of Charity. She and Gord plan to move to London, England so Chere can continue her studies. Chere can be reached at chapman@hotmil.com Robert S. Cowan (BA ’92) joined law firm Merrick Holm as a member of both their business and financial services, and media broadcast and entertainment groups. Lisa Dennis (BJH ’94) began work with the P.E.I. Department of Education as a Communications Officer in December 1999. She is engaged to marry Jamie Cottingham in

In Memoriam

Robert Dawson remembered for love of printing Robert MacGregor Dawson’s job was professor of English literature, but his passion was its representation on paper. Dawson’s legacy is a large room in the basement of Dalhousie’s Killam Library where he pieced together one of the most extensive collections of antique printing presses in Canada. He taught bibliography and letterpress printing to generations of students in what would become known as the Dawson Print Shop. There, between 1972 and 1978, he and fellow Dalhousie professor Fred Matthews met one evening a week to build a replica 17th-century wooden press from Belgium’s Plantin-Moretus museum. Dawson passed away in Halifax on March 25, 2000. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1927. He taught English for five years at the University of Manitoba before moving to Halifax in 1960, where he taught English at King’s and Dalhousie until 1992. King’s assistant librarian Patricia Chalmers (BAH ’80) took printing courses from Dawson in the 1980s. She remem22

Robert Dawson chats with folklorist Helen Creighton at a meeting of the Haliburton Society in 1969. Photo: WamboldtWaterfield Photography, courtesy King’s College Archives.

bers him as an active faculty member in King’s student societies and an eager tutor to inquisitive students. “He had terrific enthusiasm,” says Chalmers. “If you were interested in these things, he was interested in you.” He founded his print shop in 1971 and enjoyed demonstrating how the earliest books were printed. “He would show how type was set in the time of Shakespeare — in fact, how type could be set wrong,” says Chalmers. “He was fascinated by physical explanations of textual problems.” An avid winemaker and gardener, Dawson retired from teaching in 1992 to battle Parkinson’s disease. (An article on the Dawson Print Shop appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of Tidings) Tidings

Colin S. Bergh (BA ’54), Ottawa, passed away on March 29, 2000. Rev. Leonard Eugene Boyle (DD ’91), Rome, passed away Oct. 25, 1999. Father Boyle lived in Toronto for 25 years teaching students how to read the scripts of the Middle Ages. He then accepted a job to organize the Vatican Library and at the request of the pope, brought the library’s collection into the 21st century. Father Boyle retired to San Clemente, and spent the rest of his years studying. The Venerable Arthur E.L. Caulfeild (DD ’70), Saint John, passed away on Jan. 5, 2000. He was made deacon in 1929 and ordained priest in 1930. He served in parishes in the Diocese of Ottawa from 1929-1957 and then moved to Saint John to be Rector of Trinity Church, where he served until his retirement in 1973. Geoff Clare (BA ’77 ), Halifax, passed away March 27, 2000. He worked for a number of union and international organizations including OXFAMCanada, United Rubber Workers, Nova Scotia Nurses Union, International Centre for Ocean Development, CUSO, and the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association. His strong commitment to social justice kept him active in politics and community development. Rev. William Rigby Martell (BA ’38), Kentville, passed away on Feb. 13, 2000. Father Martell attended and taught at King’s College. After completing his studies, he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and spent time working overseas. Father Martell was ordained in 1948 and continued serving a number of parishes until his retirement in 1983. Kevin James Preyde (’97-’98), Bedford, passed away on Jan. 4, 2000.

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AlumNotes the fall of 2000 in Charlottetown where they both now reside. Lisa can be reached at ldennis@auracom.com Ian Digby (BA ’93) and his wife Susan and happy to announce the birth of their son Alec John Watson Digby, on Dec. 4 1999. Allison Elliot (BA ’97) married Giancarlo Godoy on July 31, 1999 in a ceremony in Saskatoon, Sask. She is currently living in Nepean, Ontario. Peter Giddens (BScH ’94) is an intellectual property barrister at the Toronto office of Lang Michener. Stuart Greer (BA ’97) is apprenticing in stage management at Neptune Theatre in Halifax. Megan Holsapple (BJH ’99) is working as an associate producer for the noon show at CBC Radio Inuvik. Alastair Jarvis (BAH ’99) spent last summer touring North America as an actor and produces with Montreal’s Repercussion theatre. He plans to graduate from the Canadian Film Centre’s New Media Design Program in June. Bethany LaMorre (’93-’95) recently became a consultant for Meridia Recruitment Services in Halifax. Michael Melski (BA ’91) had two plays published in December by UCCB Press. Jennifer Morawiecki (BAH ’94) received her D.Phil from the University of Sussex in January 2000. She is administrator for the Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre at University

College, Dublin. Peter Pachal (BJ ’99) is living in New York City and working as the assistant managing editor of Stereo Review’s Sound & Vision, a consumer electronics magazine. Peter can be reached at ppachal@hotmail.com Karen Pare (BA ’98) is living in Halifax, working as an investment analyst with Telefilm Canada. Erik Penz (BAH ’95) is working as an intellectual property barrister at the Toronto office of Lang Michener. Andrea Pilichos (BA ’93, AMC ’94) and Stephen Graham were married on Aug. 14, 1999 and are moving from Halifax to Florida in August 2000 so Steve can begin his PhD. Jennifer Robinson (BJH ’98) is working as a field journalist in Suva, Fiji with the Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development Program, traveling to Samoa and other islands in the South Pacific as part of her job. She can be reached at JenniferR@forumsec.org.fj Nicholas Taylor (’91-’92) and his wife Annalisa are happy to announce the early arrival of their first child, Nicola Emily Taylor on Jan. 14, 2000. Nicholas can be reached at ntylor@tiffany.com Colin Trethewey (BA ’91) is engaged to marry Cyndi Edwards in July, 2000. They met four years ago at The New RO, a CHUM-TV station in Ottawa, where both are news anchors and reporters. Ian Wissler (BA ’94, Hons. Cert. ’95) was appointed rector of the parish of All Saints by the Sea,

Canso, N.S., in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Sharon Wynn (BAH ’93) and her husband Peter Dauphinee are happy to announce the arrival of their daughter, Anais Somerset Dauphinee, born on Sept. 12, 1999. Sharon was called to the bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada on Feb. 25, 2000 and has joined Weir & Foulds as an associate practising securities law.

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Larisa Hausmanis (BA ’00) was awarded one of the 2000 Governor’s Awards from Dalhousie University. The award is given for exceptional contributions or leadership in extra-curricular activities. The Honourable Peter McCreath, P.C., a member of the King’s College Board of Governors and its Atlantic Canada Cabinet for the capital campaign, was recently named the Honorary Consul for the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Nova Scotia. Danielle Stone (BJH ’00) was chosen as this year’s recipient of the Joan Donaldson Newsworld Scholarship. She will be working for Newsworld this summer on a four month internship.

YOU REMEMBERED! Last issue’s photo proved to be pretty easy — apparently an unmarked print from the 1955 Record slipped into our pile of undocumented photos. A number of grads immediately recognized members of the 1955 Choral and Dramatic Society pictured on the first staircase landing leading to the Haliburton Room. Thanks to Margaret MacDonald (BA ’55), #6 in the photo; Ann Pituley (BA ’57); John Phillips (BA ’54), #4 in the photo; Mel Deacon (BA ’55); Ken Abbott (BA ’66); Walter Cook (’54); Harold Hazen (BA ’58), Gail Crawford (BA ’55), #5 in the photo; David Rendell (’56); Earle Ripley (BSc ’53)

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George Phills (BA ’56) Joan (Caines) Anthony (BAH ’56) Bob Davis (BA ’56) John Phillips (BA ’54) Gail (MacDonald) Crawford (BA ’55) Margaret (Currie) MacDonald (BA ’55) Max Clattenburg (BA ’56, LTh ’58)

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