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Campus News A Fond Farewell for President George Cooper MFA Students Gather in New York City for Winter Residency UNESCO Recognition for Isaac Newton Manuscripts in Israel: A King’s Connection A Retiring Wisdom: Pat Dixon Celebrating Dean Hatt’s Ordination Humanities for Young People — HYP Journalism: The Next Generation
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LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
JONNA BREWER
WE HAVE A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO. Eighty pages of it! We are thrilled that Tidings will once again come to you twice a year. This issue can’t cover all the highlights from the quad, or the memories and milestones accumulated individually over the past three years. It can, however, unleash the spirit of the place again. Whether you have been away from King’s for one year or many, you are bound to find something on these pages that brings it all back for you. Because we don’t often see this many alumni notes together, it also strikes me that we are a group with a diverse set of accomplishments to marvel over. For most of us,
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no matter where we have landed career wise, we acknowledge the extraordinary foundation we received at King’s. And regardless of your generation, many of the friends you have today were likely your fellow students at King’s. The biggest challenge for King’s (and many other universities) today is enrolment. So I call upon you, because there is something that King’s and its alumni can do for each other that doesn’t cost a dime. Let’s be sure to tell everyone that King’s is a unique community that offers a rigorous and supportive academic environment. Let’s keep proving that we, its graduates, land on
our feet with our arts, science, and social science degrees and that a journalism degree does actually take you places. Let’s give the gift of word of mouth. Let’s help more young people to discover King’s rich beauty. And above all, let’s keep celebrating each other’s accomplishments.
Jonna Brewer (BJH ’87) President of the Alumni Association
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
WILLIAM LAHEY
AFTER A THREE YEAR ABSENCE, King’s is delighted to be returning Tidings to your mailbox. This issue accompanies a special ‘look-back’ edition, featuring the 225th anniversary celebrations at King’s. Our hope is that together these two issues pull you through time and vicariously deliver you to the quad. They cover a small sampling of past highlights at King’s but their larger purpose is to bring you up to date with each other. As a newcomer to King’s, I have deepened my understanding of what makes King’s special by attending FYP lectures, teaching in journalism and immersing myself in College life in all its rich dimensions. I am proud to be a member of our wonderful
faculty and to have the responsibility to be an advocate for our exceptional students. My understanding of King’s has also been enriched by the many alumni I have had the chance to meet and get to know. You are an impressive group. The breadth of your career choices, the nature of your verve, and the intelligent way you approach your lives with adventure and purpose is palpable and inspiring. As I enter the second half of my first year, I have begun to meet more of you in person and I am looking forward to many more visits with you as the school year winds down and my travel schedule becomes more accommodating. Getting to know our students, alumni, faculty and staff — and to know King’s as
they see it — is one of my top goals for the year. I have also come to believe that finding ways to bring our alumni and students together will be one of the highlights of being your president. I am deeply appreciative of the warm welcome you have afforded me and I look forward to the work we will do and the fun we will have. As the first King’s president to tweet, I’d be happy to have you along for the ride @billlaheykings.
William Lahey President and Vice-Chancellor
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A FOND FAREWELL FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE COOPER JUNE 30, 2016 MARKED THE final day of Dr. George Cooper’s term as President and Vice-Chancellor of King’s. He presided over a period of remarkable change. Over his four-year term, the Pit theatre was renovated, the President’s Lodge reopened, North Pole Bay residence and the HMCS King’s Wardroom were redesigned and refurbished (with some renovations to the latter still underway). King’s pioneered new graduate programs in Journalism, and new governance structures for the University were put in place — to name just a few accomplishments. At a farewell ceremony on June 23, friends and family, alongside students, alumni, faculty and staff paid tribute to the
work of our 24th president. In recognition of Dr. Cooper’s commitment to excellence in education, King’s Chancellor, the Honourable Kevin Lynch, announced the establishment of the Dr. George T. Cooper Scholarship. Its inaugural awarding will be in September 2017. Dr. Cooper’s wife, Tia, was commended for her tireless effort as chair of the 225th Anniversary Celebrations in 2014, and for her role in the restoration and management of the President’s Lodge, which was reopened after extensive renovations and has once again become a fixture in the communal life of the college. Finally, Nova Scotian artist Alan Bateman unveiled his portrait of Dr. Cooper,
which now hangs in Prince Hall alongside other former presidents of King’s. An ardent supporter of the Chapel and its choir, Dr. Cooper is pictured seated in the pews, sporting his King’s tie. In his farewell remarks, Dr. Cooper dubbed himself ‘the accidental president’, expressing gratitude for the opportunity to know the inner workings of a college community and to champion the kind of liberal arts education offered at King’s.
George Cooper with (back row, left to right) his daughter in law, Chère Chapman (BScH ’94), son, J. Gordon Cooper (BAH ’94) and Tia Cooper. Grandchildren in the front row (left to right), Nate & Jess; Will & Julian
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MFA STUDENTS GATHER IN NEW YORK CITY FOR WINTER RESIDENCY CLOSE TO 40 STUDENTS in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program gathered in New York on January 8, 2017 to kick off the program’s annual week-long winter publishing residency. In addition to attending lectures and seminars, students got to meet and talk with more than two dozen of the biggest names in literary New York, including legendary writer and editor Lewis Lapham (DCL ’12), New Yorker writer and author Adam Gopnik, and writer Gillian McCain (BA ’87, DCL ’16). Students got an editor’s eye view of the New York publishing scene in sessions with top editors like George Gibson of Grove Atlantic Press, Brenda Copeland of St. Martin’s
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Press, Will Murphy of Random House and Amy Gash of Algonquin Books. Among the week’s many highlights: a literary soiree at the Canadian Consulate in New York featuring readings by Emily Schultz, Gillian McCain and Sylvia Hamilton, King’s Rogers Chair in Journalism and poet. The week wrapped up on Friday with “pitch day,” an opportunity for students to practice-pitch their book projects to senior New York editors and agents and get one-on-one feedback. Although the program only graduated its second class in May 2016, eight of our students already have signed book deals, and more announcements are expected soon.
The first books will be on the shelves this spring. Stacey May Fowles’s (MFA ’15) Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me will be published by McClelland & Stewart in April, while Fernwood will release Just Jen by Jennifer Powley (BJ ’01, MFA ’15) a memoir of her life with multiple sclerosis, in May. In September, Run, Hide Repeat, a coming of age memoir by Pauline Dakin (MFA ’15), who is now teaching in King’s School of Journalism, will be published in Canada and the United States by Penguin, and Nimbus will release Jason Murray’s (MFA ’16) A Distorted Revolution: How Eric’s trip Changed Music, Moncton and Me.
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UNESCO RECOGNITION FOR ISAAC NEWTON MANUSCRIPTS IN ISRAEL: A KING’S CONNECTION IN 1936 THE NINTH EARL of Portsmouth, a descendant of Isaac Newton’s niece, sold his collection of Newton papers at Sotheby’s auction house in London. The bulk of the papers consisted of theological, prophetic, historical, alchemical and Royal Mint manuscripts. Although he was not at the sale himself, Abraham Yahuda, born in Jerusalem to an Iraqi Jewish family, bought heavily afterwards. His was particularly interested in the prophetic and alchemical papers. His chief competitor was the economist John Maynard Keynes. On his deathbed in 1951, Yahuda left his Newton collection to the newly-formed state of Israel. This is how they came to be archived at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Now digitised, it was announced in February 2016 that the Newton theological and alchemical papers in Israel have been recognised by UNESCO and inscribed in their Memory of the World Register, along with Israel’s earlier inscribed Yad Vashem Testimony Collection, Rothschild Miscellany and Aleppo Codex. Although known mostly for his science, Newton’s theological and alchemical papers have significantly expanded our understanding of the great man, showing his thought to have brought the sciences together with the humanities. Since 2002, the Newton Project Canada, operating under the auspices of the History of Science and Technology Programme at King’s College, has transcribed roughly a quarter of the two million words in the Yahuda collection for online publication. HOST’s Stephen Snobelen is Director of the Newton Project Canada as well as a Board member and one of the founders of the Newton Project in the UK. The Newton Project Canada’s transcription team that has contributed to this international scholarly project is drawn mainly from King’s students and graduates. The Newton Project Canada: www.isaacnewton.ca The Newton Project: www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk
Courtesy of The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Bibliographic reference: Ms. Yah. Var. 1/ Newton Papers 7.1
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A RETIRING WISDOM: PAT DIXON by Dr. Neil Robertson WHEN PAT DIXON WAS approached to find out if she wished an event to recognize her retirement after 32 years of being Secretary to the Foundation Year Programme and to the King’s Residence this was her response: “Growing up in a large Cape Breton family allowed me the privilege of knowing that little in life is accomplished alone, and, what is, usually comes at great cost. What I have brought to and/or gained from my years at King’s is the direct result of a group effort – made possible by the individuals who stood beside me or who had lead the way. I am a ‘background’ person — my success measured in the success of those I support. My FYP directors/Deans, past and present, have been quick to recognize that any displays of public acknowledgement for me must occur without my being present. The knowledge that the thought is there is more than sufficient.” Such beautiful words of service and grace, so true to Pat’s essence, and, after all that she had given to the College, the only proper thing to do was to ignore them. And so on Friday September 16, after careful planning and the utmost secrecy, Pat Dixon, was utterly surprised as the elevator “accidentally” opened on the second floor of the NAB, and she was greeted and cheered by many of her friends, colleagues, and
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ghosts from the past, gathered to honour her years of service to FYP and the King’s Residence. Pat told us after the event: “I was so surprised and touched. Although I had repeatedly asked that I be permitted to depart with no fanfare, this event was truly beautiful.” “What I have brought to and/or gained from my years at King’s is the direct result of a group effort — made possible by the individuals who stood beside me or who had lead the way. “ Fundamental to that beauty was a painting of King’s (especially commissioned for Pat’s retirement) by Jane Reagh (Bruce-Robertson), herself formerly a Dean of Residence who worked for many years with Pat. In this wondrous painting I think we can find a true commentary on Pat and on King’s as we see the College and, all about, presences, both real and imagined, who have peopled her time here. And yet, above all this, the sky of a new dawn, of a future… For three quarters of its existence, Pat has held FYP together. While in her time the Programme more than doubled in size, in both its student and faculty numbers, by her extraordinary dedication and commitment to FYP, Pat was the stable centre in all this flourishing.
Pat never regarded our students as numbers. From their first contact with King’s, whether through FYP or through residence, she saw them as individuals, whom she advised, supported and looked out for. She took care of them and they deeply cared for her in return. And it wasn’t only the students she kept an eye on: each Director or Associate Director or Dean of Residence can speak to her care and her life- (or, at least, career-) saving capacity to gently counsel or wryly question. She has been the constant, the memory of the Foundation Year, the voice of experience who has supported and sustained all involved in FYP and Residence. Above all, she was the gracious guardian of the Foundation Year Programme, ensuring that its not-always-organized faculty and its not-always-self-reliant students were able year after year to enter into a common engagement of thought and wonder... “…and prepared to leap up to the stars” (Dante, Purgatorio). LEFT: Detail from commissioned painting by Jane Reagh (BA ’83) “Goodbye Pat” oil on board. RIGHT: Photos courtesy of
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CELEBRATING DEAN HATT’S ORDINATION By Colin Nicolle (BJH ’10, BA ’13)) ON THE OCTOBER 28, 2015, the Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude, the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Halifax was filled with the friends, family, and now fellow clergy of our Dean of Students, Nicholas Hatt (BAH ’03), to celebrate his ordination to the Diaconate. The Right Reverend Ronald Cutler, Bishop of NS & PEI, presided at the ordination and Eucharist, and the sermon was given by The Rev’d Dr. Gary Thorne (DD ’04), King’s College Chaplain. The choir was a special treat that evening, being a combined effort by the choirs of St. George’s Round Church under the direction of Garth MacPhee, and the King’s College Chapel Choir under the direction of Paul Halley. As a further piece of good news, it was announced in early December that as of January 1, The Rev’d Nicholas Hatt is appointed as the 1/4 time Rector of the Parish of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia. This position will allow him to both serve his new parish and continue as Dean of Students at King’s. In Dean Hatt’s remarks, listed in the program, he extended thanks to the community at the King’s College Chapel and broadly to the college and to the many who have supported him in his calling to Holy Orders.
LEFT: The Rev’d Nicholas Hatt (BAH ’03) surrounded by the sanctuary party, after the ordination: (left to right) Clifford Lee (BA ’10, Don of Middle Bay); Caleigh Davis (BA ’11); Bishop Ron Cutler (DD ’12); Nicholas Hatt; Jordan Draper (BA ’10); Colin Nicolle (BA, BJH ’10); Duncan Neish (BA ’05); Will Barton (BAH ’13).
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Stephen was presented to The Rev’d Nicholas Hatt on the occasion of his ordination by the King’s College Chapel community and St George’s Church, Halifax. The icon was written by Symeon van Donkelaar using pigments he produced from minerals found in Londonderry, Nova Scotia (www.vandonkelaar.ca). PHOTO CREDIT: Sam
Landry (class of ’19)
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HUMANITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — HYP IN THE SUMMER OF 2016, Dr Sarah Clift and Dr Laura Penny (BAH ’96) launched the not-for-profit summer institute Humanities for Young People (HYP) at the University of King’s College. Supported by other King’s/ Dalhousie professors and external guests, HYP offers Canadian secondary students between the ages of 14 and 16 the opportunity to engage in immersive study of the Humanities and to develop the skills they need to think critically, express their ideas clearly, and to exercise civic responsibility. The theme of HYP’s inaugural year was “Community,” and the students were called upon to think critically about how we form communities, what it means to share values, and what it means to belong. They read and reflected on issues as diverse as gender in Shakespeare, clashes of ethical norms in Sophocles, and Canadian multiculturalism.
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HYP 2016 culminated in a closing symposium: The Humanities in our Communities moderated by Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke. Participants came from across the country, representing 7 of Canada’s provinces and territories, and their only complaint — HYP wasn’t long enough. Building on the momentum of the pilot, Drs. Clift and Penny have selected an ambitious and timely theme for HYP 2017: The Challenges of Reconciliation. As Justice Senator Murray Sinclair noted when speaking to Canadians during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “education holds the key to reconciliation.” Universities have a crucial role to play in recognizing, reinforcing and fulling their obligation to move the country further down the path toward reconciliation. HYP 2017’s curriculum will contribute to these developments by inviting young people
to our campuses at King’s/Dalhousie to consider the challenges and the opportunities of Canada’s process of reconciliation. As was the case with HYP 2016 — where no student was prevented from participating on financial grounds — we are committed to facilitating the participation of all talented and civically-minded students, regardless of whatever financial barriers they may otherwise face. Therefore, the only criteria we have for potential students is that they have an excellent academic record and are actively involved in their communities. In particular, given that our theme for 2017 is reconciliation within the Canadian context, we are particularly committed to facilitating the participation of indigenous students from across the country. It is our hope that HYP 2017 will not only be about the process of reconciliation in the abstract, but that it will
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also offer students the opportunity to participate actively in that very process. To that end, we are working to establish a long-term bursary fund for economically-challenged students, so that merit and civic engagement can be our only criteria. This commitment to a two-tiered system of financial support (partial bursaries and full scholarships) is one which we hope to establish in the long-term plan for the program. This goal will require the generous support of private donors and philanthropic institutions. TOO OFTEN, HUMANITIES research is understood to be an indulgence with little to no practical value: as such, it is often maligned at the extremes of a spectrum ranging from superficial or trite to rarified and elitist. This is in stark contrast to earlier life-times — that of George Grant in Canada,
that of John Dewey in the US — during which it was taken for granted that academic philosophy, including philosophical discussions of literature and art, was part of public discourse. Times having changed, public discourse is now almost entirely divorced from humanities research, and now invests almost exclusively in the application of hard sciences. It is our goal to counter these negative assessments and outcomes, and to show that there is great practical and public value to research and study in the liberal arts. For instance, they are relevant to Community Services policy-makers as they attempt to find ways of assessing elusive measures like “human dignity” or “quality of life;” they are also relevant to cultural-policy debates involving a whole variety of issues including multiculturalism, justice and equality, cultural relativism, reconciliation,
difference and collective identity, liberalism and freedom of expression, etc. Finally, the ability to imagine lives lived by people who are different from oneself — those who have differing ethno-cultural values, those who live with disability, those who grapple with disadvantage, those who experience systemic racism or other forms of exclusion — is, we would argue, an ability that has inherent benefits to a community. But it is an ability that must be learned, cultivated, and valued. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN more about HYP, or you know a student who would like to attend, please visit http://hyp.ukings.ca/ If you would like to make a gift in support of HYP, please visit https://community.ukings.ca/ or call Adriane Abbott, Director of Advancement 902-422-1271 x 129.
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JOURNALISM: THE NEXT GENERATION JENNIFER GOSNELL (BJ ’15) interviewed Wayne Gretzky about sports related injuries for the CBC. Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis (BJ ’15) interviewed young Inuks about the old practice of Government issued identification tags for Inuit for an article for Vice. Haydn Watters (BJH ’15) blogged live as part of the CBC’s federal election night coverage. “I watched CBC’s election night religiously growing up and it was such a thrill being in the newsroom, contributing to the team,” says Haydn. These are just three of the recent BJ and BJH grads who are part of Journalism: The Next Generation. Sarah Lawrynuik (BJ ’14) is another. “I am currently one of three associate producers that puts together the CBC Calgary radio morning show, the Eyeopener.” It is, she says, a dream job. “Connecting with the deepest motivations and fears of another human being is so intimate and cool, I can’t believe more people don’t want to do this job.” They do. But a wonky economy and a changing media landscape have taken a big bite out of traditional media jobs. As
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Jennifer Gosnell says, “I know from others’ experiences that there are so many qualified and talented candidates and just not enough positions.” Jennifer is working with CBC’s The National, News Network and local Toronto TV news programs as an editorial assistant, helping to among other things, write and edit scripts. Getting work as a journalist these days takes a fair bit of gumption but a little luck can go a long way. It also helps though to have that peculiar lust for the speed and intensity of a newsroom and for story telling that journalists share. Stephanie Brown (BJ ’15) is working with CBC’s News Network. “I got my job after completing my internship with CBC News Network, working with the team. During my six-week internship I fell in love with the energy at the breaking news desk, the incredibly fast-paced nature of the job, and most of all the people who made up the team. When my internship was coming to an end I spoke to everyone I could about staying on afterwards, and I’m very grateful it was possible.”
And she found herself helping to cover some of the biggest stories of the year. “A little while after I was hired on, the reporter and cameraman were tragically shot and killed live on air in Virginia. And most recently, the devastating Paris attacks. It can be really challenging to be immersed in these stories, especially when they are heart-wrenching, but everyone comes together as a team to get it done.” Like Stephanie, Felicia Latour (BJ ’15) found her job in Toronto. She used her King’s contacts to get work right away doing research for CBC’s election coverage. Then, as she says, she “bugged enough people around the newsroom to get some casual yet steady work as an associate producer.” Felicia is also working at News Network finding guests, “chasing” is the term they use, for the network’s morning news program. “My favourite chase came the day that Saudi Arabia announced it was cutting diplomatic ties with Iran. I suggested that News Network interview the Canadian ambassador in Saudi Arabia, but because of the time difference it wasn’t looking likely. But I saw an opportunity! Although my shift techni-
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cally ends at midnight, I placed a call to the embassy in Riyadh at the very end of my shift, when they would have been opening at 8:00 a.m. their time. And... success! We landed the ambassador and had him on the show that following morning. “ Haydn Watters and Sima Zerehi (2014) began the process of finding work well before they left King’s. Both applied for and were awarded Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarships. For four months after graduating they each worked in a variety of CBC departments and locations. The scholarship doesn’t guarantee work when it ends. But both are now happily employed. “My primary work is with CBCNews.ca’s Trending and Social team,” says Haydn. “I help manage news’ social media accounts, write stories about topics that are trending, live blog for special events like the election and awards shows and work on special online projects and initiatives. I’m also working on a radio doc on airport chaplains as part of CBC Radio’s Doc Project initiative.” And Sima, after finishing her Donaldson placements found work as a senior staff writer at CBC.ca, then as a producer with
CBC Radio. That led to a ten week stint with CBC in Iqaluit reporting for radio, TV and online. And now she is a staff reporter for CBC Nunavut. As that she gets to say something few of us can. “It means looking forward to going to work every day. “ While Sima and Haydn and the others enjoy the jobs they have found, Paula Sanderson (BJH ’13) has found success through a different path. “I don’t work full time. I work freelance. Every weekend is different for me. Every day is different. I have been lucky to have constant work.” Currently Paula is a freelance producer for CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup and working with AMI Accessible Media on a program Called Blind Sighted. She’s an assistant to the host, Kelly MacDonald who is visually impaired. Each episode he tries his hand at something he’s never done — from indoor rock climbing to pinball. Paula has taken a page out of Kelly MacDonald’s book. “You have to be flexible because you get different skills from different jobs. If I was just a journalist I don’t think I’d know about
all these elements like how to make a television show. I think all these pieces will come together one day when I land on my dream job.” And this next generation of journalists all have their own versions of that “dream job”. For Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis it would be working with others on a documentary project abroad or “doing one myself, in South America”. Haydn Watters wants to travel Canada, finding and telling stories from all the provinces and territories. Felicia Latour dreams about hosting a radio show for CBC. But Felicia also has some advice for people just starting out in these sometimes angst producing uncertain times. “Become comfortable with uncertainty. It’s one of the greatest gifts not to know your fate, where you’ll be living, what you’ll be doing, because it means opportunity ahead of you. Celebrate it!”
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LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT EASTERN PARIS by Elsa Freyssenet (bj ’93)
TODAY, I SAW A MESSAGE written on a wall in Paris, near one of the restaurants where dozens of people were shot: “Fear damages your health and that of your family.” I smiled for the first time in four days. Speaking about terrorism the same way the Health Ministry would talk about packs of cigarettes… I approve. When tragedy occurs, humour is a good weapon. What more to say four days after the attacks of Friday, November 13th, 2015 which killed 130 people in Paris and wounded about 350 others? I will not tell you the story again — you probably know everything. I will neither write an article in accordance with standard — there has been enough. I would rather share with you tears, friendship, hope and absolutely subjective thoughts. First of all, I want to thank my former schoolmates from King’s Journalism School who worried about me. Their messages warmed my heart and comforted me during this terrible weekend. When the first one arrived on my phone on Saturday, I was anxiously sending texts (sms) to make sure my cousins, my friends, my neighbours, relations and colleagues were safe. That took me the all day: I live in a friendly neighbourhood. I live in Eastern Paris, near the rue de Charonne where one of the killings took place at the restaurant La Belle Equipe. I owe my safety to a heavy sleep after an exhausting week, otherwise I could have been in the streets that Friday night (I love Paris by night on a café terrace with friends!). I never heard the overwhelming sounds of police sirens. Some friends of mine
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were at the concert hall le Bataclan: they survived but the niece of a barman I know did not. She was 17 years old and it took six days to the police to identify her, six days of desperate waiting for her family. My son’s best friend lives just across the street from la Belle Equipe (he and his family are still shocked by what they saw). And other friends ran in the streets around the shooting looking for a shelter (they all found one because lots of Parisians opened their door to unknown people that night). That is the reason I love my neighbourhood: I feel at home in every one of its streets. To sum up the spirit of this place, I would say: lots of bars and lots of schools. It has been said that terrorists who targeted a stadium, a concert hall and cafés wanted to hurt the party spirit. It is probably true, but it is not only that. By choosing the Xth and XIth district of Paris, and not les Champs élysées or the Latin Quarter, they targeted neighbourhoods where Muslims, Jews, Christians and people who do not believe in God, have lived together for decades. The victims came from 19 different countries and it is not only because tourists like to have some fun in this parts of Paris. Since the end of XIXth century, those districts have received — and still do — foreigners fleeing wars, tyranny and poverty. Jews escaping Eastern Europe pogroms, Spanish anarchists, Vietnamese anti-communists and Greek democrats fleeing dictatorship in their countries, Tamil and Chechen seeking freedom, Portuguese, Algerians, Turks and Malians searching for a better life. For 150 years, those districts have known very strong political activity (mostly left
wing) and every Parisian protest (you know there are a lot each year) go across them from Place de la République to Place de la Nation. During the second world war, the Xth district was the headquarters of the first resistant group of immigrants (all killed by the Nazis); in 1962, a protest against French colonization in Algeria ended in blood at Charonne subway station in the XIth district; the office of the satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” used to lie there... until the killing of last January. And until the November 13th attack, a demonstration to support refugees coming from Syria and Iraq was scheduled (it has been canceled). Liberty, openness, and irreverence is a way of life here. Don’t get me wrong: this neighbourhood is not a museum of French revolutionary history, nor a reserve for lost causes. Like all over Paris, the increase in housing price transformed the population and warehouses were replaced by condominiums. Famous actors and writers came in, as well as publishers, professors, journalists and bank employees. But unlike other quarters, here they melded with former residents and still welcome newcomers. Here, we find penthouses for bobos and social housing, sometimes in the same building. Here, the biggest shelter for homeless women is less than a mile away from the private apartment of our Prime Minster (his wife is a musician). Here, an art gallery can be close to a low cost grocery store and an antique garage nearby an organic food shop. Here, halal meat shops and kosher stores are close. Here, our kids go to the same schools. And almost everybody thinks it’s normal. And we
like it. Don’t get me wrong again: this neighbourhood is not perfect. The are tensions and fights sometimes. But we go through. As a philosopher of my neighbourhood wrote, it is “a space where the differences do not automatically mean exclusion.” On Sunday, two days after the attacks, my husband, my five year old son and I went, like many other families, to have a drink outside. A woman called us “irresponsible.”
I do not think so. What strikes me in these days is that none of the people I have spoken with, none of the victims and parents of victims I have heard on TV or read on newspapers asked for a revenge. “I won’t give you my hate,” wrote the widower of a victim. Everybody is traumatized. Some want to continue like always, others are scared. But none wanted a crusade or required a French “patriot act.” Our President chooses that way.
And that also makes me sad. That is why, among all the slogans, images and drawings created by people all over the world about the Paris attacks, I would share with you my favorite and would be pleased to welcome you to Eastern Paris one day. @ElsaFreyssenet
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DR. SAUL GREEN MEMORIAL LECTURE 2015
DR. DAVID GOLDBLOOM: CREATIVITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS By Cheryl Bell
WHEN DR. DAVID GOLDBLOOM stepped up to the podium in Alumni Hall on 29 October 2015 to deliver the Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture, “Creativity and Mental Illness”, it was, in part at least, with the intention of exploring the connection between creativity and mental illness. Is there truth in the stereotype of the tormented genius, feverishly writing or painting in a lonely garret? It is a topic that has long intrigued philosophers, writers, and scientists. And it has also piqued the interest of Goldbloom himself, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, a senior medical advisor at Toronto’s Centre for Mental Addiction and Health, and a practising psychiatrist. The starting point for his interest, he explains at an interview the day after the lecture, is “simple curiosity” combined with his own interest in the creative arts as a pianist and one who has tried his hand at acting. Over the course of his clinical career, he has also treated a number of creative people. “I think for me as a clinician, it’s the same sort of curiosity when you see one person who is struggling with a particular issue and thinking how it relates to the larger body of knowledge about that,” says Goldbloom. “Whether it is for understanding some of the
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biology or some of the psychology and the cultural determinants of someone’s health, you often turn to the literature for a bigger experience. And that’s probably what led me to do the reading I did that informed my thinking about the linkage.” But there was another, larger, objective behind the lecture. “One of the reasons I do a lot of public speaking about various topics on mental illness, is not so much for what I have to impart ... but rather for the ripple effect of triggering conversations. Because, as I indicted last night, with this most closeted of topics, it is easier to talk about a relative with cancer or HIV than it is one with mental illness. I hope that in some small effort at advocacy, these public talks do trigger those kinds of conversations, because I think when people talk about this more openly and plainly, it defangs and detoxifies what is otherwise a terrible secret.”
THE LINK BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS: DOES IT EXIST? It turns out that the answer is not a straightforward yes or no. For a start, creativity — what Ibsen called the “spark of the divine fire” — is hard to pin down. Described as the
“capacity to see something new that others cannot”, creativity needs to be original, it needs to be useful in the broadest sense (to “produce awe”, for example, would count), and there needs to be a product. Intelligence, imagination, drive, incentive, and solitude are also seen a necessary components of the creative process. Some artists, such as playwright Neil Simon, Mozart, and the composer and lyricist Richard Rodgers, talked about their creative process as being the result of a different mental state. As Simon describes it, “I slip into a state that is apart from reality … I don’t write consciously — it is as if the muse sits on my shoulder.” Mozart could hold entire compositions in his head before committing them to paper. In a survey of the literature surrounding the topic, Goldbloom referred to three “landmark studies” from the 1980s that revealed higher rates of mental illness among artists. In particular, Dr. Nancy Andreasen’s examination into whether there was a higher than usual occurrence of mental illness among writers or their family members, arrived at the conclusion that 80% had a form of mood disturbance at some point, compared with 30% of a control group.
IF IT EXISTS, IS IT A GOOD THING? If there is a linkage between creativity and mental illness, does being moody help the creative process?, asks Goldbloom. Referring to the many writers who cannot write while affected by episodes of mental illness and the positive impact that the use of lithium has had on the productivity of some writers affected by bipolar disorder, the answer is a fairly unambiguous ‘no’. “There is a common misconception that to be creative, one must suffer,” says Goldbloom. But in reality, “illness is a burden, not a facilitator,” he says. Even so, many fear that treating their mental illness will extinguish the creative spark.
PRESERVING THE CREATIVE SPARK “Lots of people are afraid of treatment,” says Goldbloom. “This relates to Frankensteinian notions that going to a head doctor means you are going to come out modified in some horrible way. But you have to address people’s fears, that in the most fundamental way, treatment may change them. What I try to convince people of is that treatment is not as transformative as it is restorative, and that illness, particularly moderate to severe illness, has the capacity to derail people and inhibit
them from fulfilling their own potential.” Between the stigma of mental illness, misconceptions, and people’s fears of what treatment might do to them, there are clearly barriers to the study of this topic. Then there is the science. The challenge of arriving at an “operational definition” of creativity will continue to make it difficult to analyse this topic in any kind of scientific, replicable way. “It’s very hard in the absence of consensus measures to do repeat experiments,” says Goldbloom. “There are measures that have been developed in the psychology of creativity, but I don’t know if we’ve actually cracked the nut, so to speak.” As science continues to evolve, brain imaging techniques will enable researchers to look ever more specifically at the regions of the brain that are activated during someone’s creative processes. It’s something Goldbloom has mixed feelings about. “Part of me feels there’s something wonderfully ineffable, unknowable about the creative process that doesn’t want to see it chopped up and broken down, but nevertheless that’s what we have to do.”
FURTHER READING Dr. David Goldbloom How Can I Help? A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist (published February 2016) Kay Redfield Jamison An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament William Styron Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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ALEX FOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LECTURE 2015
LOSS, GRIEF, AND WRITING: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIRIAM TOEWS
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MARCH 7:00 P M Alumni Hall University of King’s College 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax
by Madi Haslam
In March, author Miriam Toews (BJ ’91, DCL ’10) delivered the 2016 Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture entitled If We Are Not Immortal: A Short Talk on Love, Death, and the Writing Life. The following is an excerpt from our conversation about mental illness, grief, and the craft of fiction.
Your writing blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction. Is there a relation between this ambiguity of genre and the obscurity of memory? When we try to remember someone we have lost, do you feel it is possible to truly capture them in their intricacy? I do write very autobiographically and I feel memory is such a fluid watery thing. The freedom of fiction is something that I love. If I’m writing fiction, then I can change things around chronologically or even the details I might remember I can embellish or elaborate on. It’s always a combination for me of so-called fact, which I guess you could think of as my memory of things, and the freedom. I think that by writing about the people
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If We Are Not Immortal: A short talk on love, death and the writing life. ALEX FOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LECTURE
who we’ve lost or the things that we’ve lost, whether it’s something more esoteric like youth or our notion of home or whatever it is, through fiction we’re able to recreate those lives and those worlds. We can not just recreate but also improve upon them in some way that makes sense. It’s my go-to mode of writing. I can’t really imagine that I’ll ever write something that’s not in some shape or form based on my own memory. When you say “in some way that makes sense”, do you think fiction provides a means for making irrational events logical? Fiction is good for all sorts of things. Fiction illuminates. Fiction draws us closer to the
hard stuff. We can’t look away and there’s no benefit to looking away. If we can confront as much as we fear, as we’re ignorant of or reluctant to think about, we’ll be happier and we’ll be more content. To have these vague, undefined fears — for instance, mental illness or the spectre of suicide — these are horrible things for the people suffering from them and the people around them but it doesn’t do anybody any good to suppress those thoughts. That is a function of my writing and writing in general: to take that stuff, drag it into the light, make sense of it in some way, and create a conversation. In that conversation, we can hopefully be moved to think, to rethink things, and to be less afraid of the various things that are haunting us.
How do you think grieving a death differs from other experiences of loss? Grief is such a mysterious, kind of beautiful, and profoundly difficult process. It comes in waves. There’s something so rich about grieving — so profound about what we learn about ourselves and what’s meaningful to ourselves. The idea of losing somebody and thinking we’re never going to see that person again is a startling, stunning, really disconcerting and definitely very sad thing. Grief is how we deal with that, and go about our lives, always with the loss that we take with us. As I get older and lose more people, I feel there’s no such thing as closure. We bring those people with us. I have a character who says, and my mother said this, that the dead are just as present to her as the living. She communicates with them and gets advice from them and I find myself doing the same thing. It’s not necessarily always incredibly painful. Grief is shocking in the possibility to learn about ourselves and life and joy and appreciation and gratitude. Hopefully, it makes us stronger and better.
Do you feel writing about suicide is a way of continuing a relationship with the lost other? Do your novels represent a response to suicide which goes beyond emotions of anger or betrayal, and gestures of accusation? It’s always an interesting way that we try and respect and pay homage to our former selves — to respect the pain we’ve experienced, the loss, whatever it is, but not to stay there, not to dwell in it. It’s always all that forward momentum. From having lost people, from the horror and the memory of losing them and the violent way in which they died and the profound sadness they were experienc-
ing ... for a person to commit suicide that’s their way out of the pain. I try to respect that. I don’t think it’s inevitable. I think there’s often help for some people, but if we do have people we’ve lost to suicide there is something necessary in respecting it and understanding it in order to go on and live with that decision. Otherwise the anger, the bitterness, the guilt can consume us. I feel I need to accept their choices. What is it about that human need and ability, in resilience, to keep moving forward with a degree of optimism or some type of hope? It’s almost the most important aspect of how to be human — how to keep going.
The loss of a loved one brings with it a loss of self — a disorientation. How can writing help orient ourselves in the midst of mourning? I don’t know how I would process the stuff in my life — not just the tragic but the beautiful, the mysterious, the joyful, the comic — without imposing narrative on it. That’s what I do, that’s what I have to do to make sense of life; take it, externalize it and shape it into something I think is coherent and then move on. How do you approach writing death and mourning when it is, at the same time, an utterly particular and universal experience? I usually have a character and a quite specific set of circumstances, a tone of voice and a pacing. It’s like circling around my own demons, the things that haunt me, the things that I’m obsessed with. With every book, I’m trying to get closer to that — to the truth. The truth is somehow represented by characters, by narrative, by the details of the story. I try not to think of it as how I will write a universal story but about my own circumstances and feelings to create a narrative. The hope is that specificity will take on a more universal significance.
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KING’S & THE IVY LEAGUES by Alison Hugill (bah ’09)
THERE’S SOMETHING admittedly unsavoury about comparing institutions of higher education: a bit like scrambling to find similarities (or differences) between two countries. As a Canadian expat living abroad, I have long begun to cringe at the banality of these conversations and altogether given up on trying to identify the minute differences between Canada and the U.S. The idea of the “Ivy League” — and I say idea because it’s acquired almost a mythical status — is propped up to set a kind of gold-standard for what a university should be. The truth is that the admittance of an international intellectual elite to Ivy League universities has served to perpetuate a system that relies heavily on manufactured prestige. The luxury of having access to a liberal arts education, of the kind offered at King’s, is a privilege I think we can all acknowledge. The historical relationship of King’s to the Ivy League is deeply rooted in a narrative of colonialism and white-privilege. In 1978, former King’s President Dr. John Godfrey launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to claim back the land and endowment that “rightfully” belonged to King’s College. The story goes as follows: King’s College was founded as an Anglican university in New York City in 1754 by Royal Charter of King
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George II. After the American Revolution in 1776 forced the suspension of instruction, the Rev Charles Inglis left New York City and founded King’s College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789. In 1802, with declining enrolment and financial support for the New York university, King George III transferred the charter from New York to Nova Scotia and the name of King’s College in New York was changed to Columbia University. President Godfrey threatened to stage a sit-in in then-President William McGill’s office to assert his claim, based on the fact that Columbia had betrayed its Anglican lineage. The campaign was regarded as more of a media stunt, North American land claim battles between former British institutions proving a gross historical irony by any account. This dramatic telling of the political relationship between King’s and Columbia, steeped in colonial and religious concerns and extending well into our living memory, is not uncommon in the history of Ivy League institutions. But this need not entirely cloud us to the more critical legacy that the college actively produces today. Having contacted several King’s alumni about how their undergraduate education prepared them for further studies at Ivy League institutions, a common thread was
their emphasis on the importance of critical thought. King’s is a rare kind of institution in many respects. The thing that struck me the most about my first year of studies was how different it was from the formulaic, standardized education I had been used to up until then. Most students entering Foundation Year Programme (FYP) were adept at anticipating requirements and excelling in high school, but were unprepared for the openness of thought encouraged at King’s. It took at least a year to unlearn a lot of the pedagogical tools we’d been taught to value, and to build up our own analytical methods. Rather than students of philosophy, we were treated as philosophers in our own right.
“KING’S — MORE THAN anywhere else I know — promotes intellectual curiosity, nurtures a love of ideas, and is committed to the development of critical thinking. From what I can see, most post-secondary institutions, even liberal arts ones, are increasingly becoming “pre-career” environments in which these elements of learning are secondary concerns. King’s nurtured in me a desire to read, think, and write expansively and rigorously equipped me with the tools needed to do those things in a competitive intellectual place like Harvard. In my capacity
as a graduate student, I have also had to do quite a bit of teaching as a “Teaching Fellow” (Harvard speak for “TA”). I have sought to model myself after several of my FYP tutors who found the right balance between guiding students towards rigorous readings of difficult texts while also allowing space for creative and passionate thinking.” — Stephanie Dick (BAH ’07), PhD History of Science, Harvard University Today Stephanie is a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows. She will be joining the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2017
“I’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER one of the things my first professor, Ron Haflidson, said to us as we began stressing about our first exams. We were terrified; he was trying to tell us to stop being so negative. This whole year, this whole university experience — it was a privilege, he said. And it was something we should relish and have fun with. ‘If this doesn’t make you happy, if it doesn’t make you a better person, then what’s the point?’ It’s a statement I continue to think about in all my endeavours. King’s
made me a better human being, and because of that I think it also makes me better at all the things I do. I think one of the things that makes King’s such a fantastic place to learn — maybe even better than any Ivy — is its nature as a public institution. It is rooted in, and beholden to, the public good. That’s what drives programs like Halifax Humanities. It’s part of what gives so many King’s alumni the drive to do things like co-ordinate book drops for women in prisons or become volunteer doulas or work with kids in the North End. There’s something really special about knowing that your libraries, your lectures, and your chapel aren’t just there for you, but are a part of a city’s fabric — making Halifax a better, more insightful, more inquisitive place. It sets the tone for your future: ‘Here’s your university, working in this community — okay, what are you going to do to keep that going?’ I definitely credit King’s for giving me the critical thinking skills I’m going to always need, no matter what I end up doing.”
“THERE WERE A NUMBER of ways that King’s prepared me for Harvard. First, there’s a sense of history and tradition at King’s that you don’t find elsewhere in Nova Scotia. Walking into the quad is a bit like walking back in time, and it makes you feel as though you’re contributing to something much bigger than yourself. Harvard has the same vibe. Another piece was about dealing with classmates. At King’s, the spirit of collaboration always trumped competition. We knew each other’s passions and had each other’s backs. Harvard students are wildly diverse, but at the end of the day they’re all different shades of Type A, which can make for a hyper-competitive environment. The people who really got the most out of their experience were those who treated classmates as colleagues instead of competitors, because it grows your network of amazing people. King’s was exactly the same.”
— Katie Toth (BAH ’13), M.S. in Journalism, Columbia University
Today, Graham leads branding and storytelling for Steve and Kate’s, a network of summer camps and after-school programs that helps children learn to be fearlessly creative through coding, baking, animation, music and dance.
Today Katie is a staff reporter and editor at WSHU Public Radio in Connecticut, a regional affiliate of National Public Radio.
— Graham North (BJ ’08), Master of Educational Technology, Harvard University
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JAMES SURRETTE by Kathleen Higgins (ba ’12)
WHEN I ASK JAMES “Jamie” Surrette (BSc ’96) how he went from attending a small liberal arts school in Halifax to running Canada’s only remaining independent battery manufacturer in Springhill, Nova Scotia, he doesn’t hold back with his honest answer. “Great question” he laughs, “Nepotism!” Surrette is the grandson of John James Surrette, who relocated his Surrette Battery Company Ltd. manufacturing facility from Salem, Massachusett to the small northern industry town in 1959. But to assume that Surrette simply moved into his grandfather’s office and rested upon his laurels would be a mistake. Since taking on the role of president in 2003, Surrette has led the company in developing innovative technologies to meet the needs of a quickly changing market. Growing up in Springhill, Surrette had never really thought about attending King’s. The athletic young man had imagined he would follow in the footsteps of many family and friends and study at Saint Francis Xavi-
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er or Acadia. A call from the men’s basketball coach at King’s, however, along with a visit to campus in 1991 changed his course. Surrette went on to complete a bachelor of science degree. He is just as blunt and honest when speaking about his time at King’s. “I added another year to my biology degree to finish a psychology major as well. AKA: I didn’t know what to do, and thought it was a good idea to improve, if possible, on the first year’s BSc marks,” he says. This effort to improve his science grades clearly paid off; the last 10 years have seen a change in direction for the small but vital manufacturer, which is investing in and developing renewable energy technology. While his science background in particular helped prepare Surrette for the changing demands of an increasingly globalized and environmentally aware business climate, he credits his time spent within the King’s community with expanding his understanding of the world itself. “Growing up in a small, rural, Nova Scotian mining town, King’s was an extremely different world,” he says, “It
allowed me to observe a broader section of society, political views, religions, beliefs and interests. It was a wonderful opportunity to be surrounded by wildly intelligent people and witness how they work and think.” Despite challenges both local (high taxes and an aging workforce) and global (competing with large-scale manufacturers around the world), Surrette is confident that his company will remain a force to be reckoned with. “Since 2003, we have more than doubled revenue in a hugely difficult economy for Canadian manufacturers,” he says. With only a little over 50 employees (many of them second-generation plant workers), the size of Surrette Battery Company can work as an advantage, allowing for minimal waste and maximum ability to adapt quickly. Again, Surrette credits King’s for helping him develop such a dedicated and specialized workforce: “I would like to believe I learned to be comfortable in the presence of those who are significantly more intelligent than I am, which has helped in building a great team here.”
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ROBERT MUGGAH by Afton Aikens (bjh ’10)
WHEN ROBERT MUGGAH (FYP ’93) and an arms dealer traveled to New York City to meet with Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon and the team behind Google Ideas, he realized it was the most surreal trip he’d ever taken. As the research director for the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute — a think tank focused on global drug policy, citizen security and international cooperation — with two decades of experience in diplomacy all over the world, Muggah has experienced a lot in his expansive and impressive career that could be considered surreal. And it all started with King’s. The summer after FYP, Muggah met a group of West Africans who invited him to Africa to help set up environmental programs. The experience turned into a lifelong commitment and led Muggah to study international relations and development at Dalhousie, which would eventually lead to Washington, Geneva and the United Nations. “Africa was the spark,” he says. “And it helped that I received a thick grounding in everything from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Heidegger.”
Muggah, who also has an MPhil from Sussex University and a PhD from Oxford University, is a globally recognized specialist in security and development. In addition to his role at the Igarapé Institute, he is the research director of the SecDev Foundation in Ottawa and advises the World Bank. He has found that academia and fieldwork complement each other well. “Working with warlords, militia and soldiers in Darfur or diplomats and negotiators in New York, you need to weave together the links between theory and practice,” he says. Technology is a critical link for the Igarapé Institute and SecDev to connect with new audiences and further the debate on some of society’s most pressing issues — including gun violence, which is an area Muggah has been focused on for the past two decades. He helped set up the Small Arms Survey, an NGO that started in Switzerland and now has reach in 150 countries. “We were literally a few guys and a dog, thinking, how do we capture the entirety
Security researcher Robert Muggah gives a TED talk in Rio de Janiero, “fragile cities” how to protect fast-growing cities from failing. PHOTO: James Duncan Davidson
of the world’s information on firearms and ammunition?” Muggah recalls, “It was an extraordinary journey.” More than 10 years and hundreds of research studies later, Muggah co-founded the Igarapé Institute in 2011 with his partner, Ilona Szabo de Carvalho. The think-tank also serves as the secretariat for the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which includes individuals like Richard Branson and Kofi Annan. In 2013, the Igarapé Institute launched its award-winning Mapping Arms Data (MAD) data visualization, designed with Google and others. MAD provides global data on gun imports and exports over the last 20 years. It uses open source software and has had five million hits from over 150 countries. The Igarapé Institute is expanding its technological portfolio with new projects, including specially designed Android apps for police smartphones that capture audio and video. “It’s a delicate issue, because we’re talking about balancing the requirements of public safety against individual privacy, but it’s a debate that needs to be had,” Muggah says. He credits FYP for building his own intellectual and ethical foundation for debate and critical reflection, which has informed much of his work. “What I loved most was this idea of spending a year reading, maybe 70 or more books, and you would then go and defend your ideas orally — and also written — on a routine basis. It opened up a whole side of inquiry that we’re often not able to engage with in our North American education system,” he says. “We are in the midst of an extraordinary moment of change, geopolitically, environmentally, technologically. We need to be aware of history to make the wise decisions of the future.” TIDINGS | SPRING 2017 23
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AMBER MACARTHUR by Kathleen Higgins (ba ’12)
IN OUR HYPER PLUGGED-IN world, it’s almost impossible to imagine a time when we weren’t in constant connection, glued to our smart phones and expressing our every thought through social media. Even more
ing high school in Ottawa. Catching the journalism bug early, she was eager to follow in the footsteps of her grandfathers, who had both worked in radio broadcasting in the Maritimes. After completing an English
After completing an English degree in 1998, the natural next move was to attend the bachelor of journalism program at King’s. “It was positively the best year of my life.” dissonant is the idea that such vast leaps and bounds have been made in the technology we so rely on in just a few short years. Amber MacArthur (BA ’98, BJ ’99), currently one of Canada’s foremost technology and new media personalities, exemplifies this rapid change herself. Who would think that a young woman, first educated in a oneroom schoolhouse in the tiny Prince Edward Island town of Dunstaffnage, would go on to found numerous technology start-ups and be described by Canadian Business as Canada’s “top social media expert”? A writer from childhood, MacArthur jumped at the chance to write for her town newspaper’s student page while attend-
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degree in 1998, the natural next move was to attend the bachelor of journalism program at King’s. “It was positively the best year of my life,” MacArthur recalls. The journalism program’s early focus on digital media was a boon for MacArthur. She insists that it helped her “get ahead of the curve. Thanks to small class sizes and practical instructors, I can’t imagine a better foundation for what I do today.” So what does she do today? Shortly after graduation, MacArthur, who says that she loves change, figured out that San Francisco was the epicentre of big movements in the technology realm. She packed up her car and headed west, where she jokes that she
“started to earn her geek cred” by spending four years working for start-ups like Razorfish and HigherMarkets. Upon her return to Canada, MacArthur helped Microsoft Canada develop Microsoft Home Magazine, a “female-friendly” lifestyle portal. This work nurtured her desire to encourage women to get involved in the tech world. “Women, men, and children should all know how to find their way around what’s happening with technology today,” she says, “I just hope that I can help to make this world exciting and easy-to-understand for them.” A stint on G4TechTV’s Call for Help led to a job on Toronto’s CityTV, which saw MacArthur become Canada’s first new media reporter in 2006. The following year, MacArthur co-founded the digital marketing agency Konnect Digital Engagement with her brother, Jeff. In 2010, she returned to her writing roots and published the Globe and Mail’s best-seller, Power Friending: Demystifying Social Media to Grow Your Business. It was her effort to “share what I knew about the social media world with others.” Just days after submitting the proposal for her book, she gave birth to son Connor, with her partner in life and work, photojournalist Chris Dick. Always one with an eye on upcoming trends, MacArthur swears: “My tech coach today is clearly my five-year-old son. This next generation is one to watch.”
STEWARDSHIP REPORT 2015/16
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DONOR REPORT April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Following the T.R. Meighen Foundation’s lead gift to Lodge renovations in 2014/15, many additional champions came to this project in this fiscal year, including the Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Foundation whose generous capstone gift completed the work. While recognizing our many donors, the following pages of this report visually celebrate the transformational change that the Lodge’s benefactors made possible. President George Cooper and Tia Cooper, themselves major contributors to the Lodge, reorganized their lives so that they could spend the last year of their tenure “in residence”. During this time, the Lodge resumed its place as a main venue for celebration, with 78 college events hosted in the Lodge. Indeed, many generous gifts were given this year in honour of George Cooper‘s tenure as our 24th president, including the establishment of a scholarship in his name, initiated by our Chancellor, the Honourable Kevin Lynch. Additionally, your contributions in support of all aspects of college life, from direct support to programs, scholarships, library acquisitions, athletic gear, chapel retreats, choral concerts, etc., arrived through additional special gifts and the Annual Giving Fund. Although the university was founded in 1789, its alumni association was not formed until 1846, when alumni support was required to compensate for the British Crown’s withdrawal of their yearly gift of 1000 pounds. One hundred seventy years later, not much has changed. King’s continues to thrive thanks to the mobilization and generosity of its alumni, parents and friends.
TOTAL FUNDS RAISED Bequests Annual Fund Gifts In-Kind
$38,085 $250,806 $463,169 $3,980
TOTAL $756,040
Thank you.
Adriane Abbott Director of Advancement
YOUR GIFTS DIRECTED Unrestricted
$103,470
ibraries & Academic L Programmes $13,407 Athletics Chapel Chapel Chior Student Support Student Life Campus Renewal Other
$1,541 $52,868 $80,099 $205,873 $9,436 $279,559 $9,787
TOTAL $756,040
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DONOR ROLL To those whose names appear on the following pages, we acknowledge your support with gratitude.
CHANCELLOR’S CIRCLE ($10,000 and over) Bell Media The John & Judy Bragg Family Foundation Joan Clayton ∂ George & Tia Cooper ∂ The Peter & Shelagh Godsoe Family Foundation Julie Green Roselle Green ∂ Harrison McCain Foundation ∂ Kevin Lynch Rod & Robin MacLennan Susan & John Rose UKC Alumni Association ∂ Wilson Fuel Company Limited ∂
GOVERNOR’S CIRCLE ($5,000 to $9,999) Acadia Broadcasting Limited William Barker & Elizabeth Church ∂ Thomas Eisenhauer Kathleen Jaeger ∂ Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans Peter Jelley ∂ Knowledge First Foundation Donald Stevenson ∂
INGLIS CIRCLE ($2,000 to $4,999) anonymous (1) Adriane Abbott ∂ David & Robin Archibald ∂ Richard Buggeln Patricia Chalmers ∂ Hope Clement ∂ Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada Thomas Curran ∂ Bea Doucet Elizabeth Edwards ∂ Christopher Elson ∂ Kevin & Carolyn Gibson ∂ Dale Godsoe ∂ Alan Hall Ronald Huebert ∂ Susan Hunter ∂ *Abe Leventhal John MacLeod Rowland Marshall ∂
Gillian McCain Newcap Radio Neil & Patricia Robertson ∂ Sarah E. Stevenson ∂ University of King’s College Day Students’ Society ∂
PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($1,000 to $1,999) anonymous (2) Alan & Elizabeth Abbott Nathalie Atkinson ∂ Mary Barker & Ron Gilkie ∂ Katrina Beach The Hornbeck Family ∂ Alberta Boswall ∂ Gordon Cameron Paul Charlebois ∂ Peter Conrod Robert Dawson Edmonds Landscape & Construction Services Ltd. Elizabeth & Fred Fountain ∂ Arthur Frank & Catherine Foote Paul Friedland John & Genesta Hamm John & Brenda Hartley William & Anne Hepburn ∂ Stephanie Hodgkins & George Sumner Larry Holman ∂ Kim Kierans ∂ Karen Knop & Ralph Glass Jeff & Sue Laufer Laurelle LeVert ∂ Cameron Little John MacKay Mark MacKenzie Kenzie MacKinnon Jennifer (Bassett) MacLeod Patrick McGrath Michael & Kelly Meighen Lois Miller & Iain Macdonald ∂ Jan Nicholls & Paul Sobanski Nova Scotia Power Inc. ∂ Beverly (Zannotti) Postl ∂ Elizabeth (Strong) Reagh Pierre Alvarez & Jessie Sloan Clyde Snobelen St. John’s Anglican Church Detlev Steffen Ronald Stevenson ∂ Ian Stewart
Kate Sutherland & Evan Renaerts Matthew Vanderkwaak Suzanne Wheeler Romeo ∂ David K. Wilson ∂ Wycliffe Collegeanonymous (17) Janet & Kenneth Adams Eric Aldous ∂ Bob Allison Terri Lynn Almeda ∂ Melissa Andrew Dennis Andrews ∂ Mark Andrews Stephen Andrews Curtis Archibald & Amy Mallory Marcia & Stephen Aronson Atlantic Funeral Home Margot Aucoin Shari Austin & Denis Chamberland Jane Baldwin Paul Baldwin Jennifer Balfour ∂ Peter Baltzer Roberta Barker ∂ Keith Barrett ∂ Dennis Bates Carol Baum & Robert Walsh T. Frederick Baxter Donald Beanlands Leslie (Donald) Behnia ∂ Jennifer Bell David Ben-Arie Rachael Bethune Peggy & Peter Bethune ∂ Andrew Black ∂ Michael Blackwood Hugh Jones & Ms. Bruce Blakemore Anne Blakeney Myra Bloom Victor Bomers Stephen Bowman Daniel Brandes & Dawn Tracey Brandes ∂ Jonna Brewer Lauren Brodie Rebecca (Moore) Brown ∂ Brian Brownlee Jonathan Bruhm ∂ Terra (Duncan) Bruhm ∂ Fredrik Bruun Sandra Bryant Mordy Bubis & Nina Stipich
Catherine & Matthew Bumpus George Burchill & Nancy (Ellis) Burchill Colin Burn Aaron Burnett Evelyn Burnett Steven Burns & Janet Ross George & Sandra (Jones) Caines ∂ Robin Calder ∂ Christine Campbell Nancy Campbell Judy & Mark Caplan John Carling Diane & Paul Hurwitz ∂ Chère Chapman & Gord Cooper Carolyn (Tanner) Chenhall ∂ C. LouAnn Chiasson Greg & Karen Chiykowski Clare Christie ∂ Fred Christie ∂ Donald Clancy ∂ Ginny (Lewis) Clark Sarah Clift Burdette Coates-Storey Charlotte (Graven) Cochran ∂ Wayne Cochrane Robert & Elizabeth (Parsons) Colavecchia Marilyn & Blair Colquhoun Walter Cook Thomas Coonan Gail & Richard Cooper Jen Cooper Stephen & Karen Cooper John Cordes W. Michael S. Covert Richard & Marilyn (McNutt) Cregan ∂ Hugh Crosthwait Veronica R. Curran Custom Lock & Security Ltd. Brian & Lindsay Cuthbertson ∂ Ronald Cutler Audrey Danaher & Richard Heystee Sally Danto Glenn & Petra Davidson Gwendolyn Davies Susan Davies ∂ Wendy Davis ∂ Joan Dawson ∂ Ann (Creighton) Day Paul Cassel & Diane de Camps Meschino TIDINGS | SPRING 2017 27
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Daniel de Munnik & Tasya Tymczyszyn ∂ Alexandre De Saint-Sardos Kenneth Dekker Fraser Dewis & Marilyn (Lingley) Dewis J. Mark & Rachel (Swetnam) DeWolf Andrew Dick Blair Dixon Susan Dodd ∂ Bethany Draper Jennifer Duchesne Stephanie Duchon Robert Dunsmore ∂ Margaret Eady Corinne Earle ∂ Lynda Mavis Earle Diocesan Synod of Fredericton C. Russell Elliott ∂ Nancy Elliott & Richard Dyke Howard Epstein Lynne Erickson Eyton Family Monica Farrell ∂ Alyssa & Matthew Feir ∂ Jim Feir Wilson Fitt & Thelma Costello Jim Fitzpatrick Brian Flemming David Fletcher Phillip Fleury ∂ Ian Folkins ∂ Ilze Folkins Robert Ford ∂ Gisele (LeBlanc) Forsey Brenda & Robert Franklin ∂ Marion Fry ∂ Gillian Fullilove Jim & Sally Garner Dorota Glowacka ∂ Jan Goddard & Gordon Howe Jeannette Goguen & Martin Scheiber Amy Goldlist Victoria Goldring John Gorrill ∂ Andrew Graham Kirk Graham & Thalia McRae Howard Green Joanna Grossman Maureen Gurney & Kenneth Goessaert Gregory Guy Brenton Haliburton ∂ Nick Halley Catherine & David Hamilton ∂
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Bev Greenlaw & Sylvia Hamilton Geraldine Hamm ∂ Andrew Han Anthony Harding Carla & Steve Harle ∂ Nicholas Hatt E.Kitchener Hayman ∂ C. William Hayward ∂ David Hazen Douglas Hazen ∂ Harold Hazen Mark & Shirley (Wall) Hazen ∂ Penny & Ken Headrick Alan Hebb Sophie Henderson-Kiss Paul & Penelope Henry David Herbert Jesse Hiltz & Stephany Tlalka John Hobday Barbara Hodkin Kara Holm ∂ Neil Hooper ∂ Dennis & Doris House Caroline (Bennet) Hubbard Robert Hyslop ∂ Erin Iles Intact Foundation Deborah & Warren Jestin Ian Johnson Paula Johnson ∂ David & Ena Gwen Jones Janet Kawchuk Doreen Kays Danford & Mary (Burchill) Kelley Glen & Glenda (Cummings) Kent ∂ Stephen Kimber ∂ Katherine King Douglas Kirkaldy ∂ Stephen Knowles ∂ Martina Kolbe Temmo Korisheli Phil Kretzmar & Kaarina Baker Frances (Kuret) Krusekopf ∂ Andrew Laing ∂ Patricia Langmaid Robert & Lois LaRoche Caleb Lawrence ∂ Amanda Le Rougetel ∂ Dennice & Stephen Leahey Ann Leamon Thomas & Barbara (Aikman) LeBrun Thomas Ledwell John & Nancy Leefe ∂
George Lemmon ∂ Jeanne & Ian Leslie T.C. Leung Ruth Loomer ∂ Bill & Stella Lord Jolanta Lorenc Richard Sean Lorway Iain R.M. Luke ∂ Gregory Lypny ∂ David & Margaret (Currie) MacDonald Kevin MacDonell Ken & Mary MacInnis ∂ David Mackay ∂ John MacKenzie ∂ Norman MacKenzie ∂ Lisa Mackey Lina (McLean) MacKinnon ∂ George MacLean ∂ Jill MacLean John MacLean Russell MacLellan ∂ Rowena MacLeod Michael & Cynthia (Edwards) MacMillan Marli MacNeil ∂ Adrienne Malloy James Mann ∂ Robert Mann Ann Margaret Manuel Mary Martin ∂ Heather May ∂ Allen McAvoy & Jennifer Laurette ∂ Mary Grace (MacDonald) McCaffrey Ann McCain Evans Kim McCallum ∂ Alexandra McCann Molly McCarron Paul & Lucy McDonald Astri Prugger & John McGaughey McInnes Cooper ∂ Molly McKay David McKinnon & Kathryn (Havercroft) McKinnon Cal McMillan ∂ Stuart McPhee Barbara Mendel & Bob Paquin Kaitlin Merwin Elizabeth Miles ∂ Beverley Millar ∂ Andrew Miller Carol Miller Gary Miller ∂ Kathy & Dick Miller
Nicole Miller Joyce (Blanford) Millman Catherine (Rhymes) Misener Doug Mitchell Janet Mitchell Roderick Mitchell Ronald & Susan Mitton Stuart Moore Dr. & Mrs. Michael Moran Andrew Morrison & Jennifer Morawiecki ∂ David Morris Kathryn Morris Brendan Morrison Joan Morrison Penny Moxon Stephen Murray Diane Murray Barker ∂ Peter Nathanson ∂ Ardis Nelson ∂ Richard Oland Anne O’Neil ∂ Kyle Shaw & Christine Oreskovich Fran Ornstein ∂ Jessica & William Osborne Robyn Osgood & Christopher Ashwood Sandra Oxner John Page
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Charlotte (MacLean) Peach ∂ LeRoy Peach ∂ Gary Pekeles & Jane McDonald ∂ Andrew Pepper Elizabeth (Baert) & Arthur Peters Robert Petite George Phills Diane Pickard & Russell Bamford C.B. (Chuck) Piercey ∂ Cynthia (Smith) Pilichos ∂ Ann Pituley ∂ Rob Platts & Rachel Syme Naomi Pleizier Elizabeth Murray & Gary Powell ∂ Helen Powell ∂ Morton Prager ∂ Margo Pullen Sly ∂ James Purchase *Gordon Pyke ∂ Christina Quelch Irene Randall ∂ Janice Raymond Carol Reardon F. Alan Reesor Adele Reinhartz & Barry Walfish ∂
Peter Rekai Ryan Rempel & Joanne Epp Dr. Peter Rendek Iris (Martell) Richards Patrick Rivest Edward Rix Tudor (Caldwell) Robins ∂ David Robinson Anna Ruth (Harris) Rogers ∂ Henry & Phoebe Roper ∂ Bala Jaison & Marc Rosen ∂ Michael Rudderham ∂ Elizabeth Ryan ∂ Helen Anne Ryding Stanley & Anne Salsman Christine Saunders B. Lynn Sawyer Daniel Sax Dr. Matthias Scheffler Inc. Barbara Scott Karen Servage & John McGugan Brian Sherwell ∂ Bill Sigsworth & Catherine Richard Carrie & Peter Simon Lynda Singer Katharine Sircom William Skinner ∂ Ann Smith
Barbara Smith ∂ Ben Smith ∂ L. Douglas & Ruth Smith Stephen Snobelen ∂ Peter & Elizabeth (Bayne) Sodero ∂ Susan & David Speigel Thomas Stinson ∂ Kevin & Janice Stockall Mary Stone John Swain ∂ David Swick ∂ Lisa Taggart ∂ Elizabeth & Simon Taylor R. Brian & Sheila Taylor Kelley Teahen ∂ D. Lionel Teed ∂ Jerome Teitel ∂ Geraldine Thomas Donald & Mary (Archibald) Thompson ∂ Paul Thomson Chelsea Thorne ∂ Sarah Thornton Shirley Tillotson ∂ Robyn Tingley Kelly Toughill ∂ Keith Townley ∂ Nicholas Townley Colin Trethewey
Fred Vallance-Jones ∂ T. Lorraine Vassalo Saras Vedam & Jeff Miller Thomas & Nora (Arnold) Vincent ∂ Nancy (Clark) Violi Benjamin von Bredow Anne von Maltzahn Jannette Vusich Isabel Wainwright Mordecai Walfish ∂ Richard Walsh ∂ Karolyn Waterson & Carl Boyd William Wells ∂ Alvin Westgate & Cathy Ramey-Westgate Christopher J. White Peter & Irene Wilkinson William Williams ∂ Lindsay (Cameron) Wilson Jan Winton James Wood Stuart Wood Peter Nasmith & Wendee Wood Peter & Maida Woodwark Hugh Wright Judy Wright Des Writer
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CUPOLA CLUB (up to $99) anonymous (2) Sarah Abman John Adams Joan Aitken ∂ Krista Armstrong Kenneth Askew Kathleen Bain Alyson Barnett-Cowan Virginia Barton & Bruce Creba Richard Bartram Joshua Bates Cheryl Bell ∂ Elliott Bent Gilbert Berringer ∂ Rebecca Best Joy Blenman Geoff Boehmer Weldon Boone Timothy Borlase
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Mike Bowman Myrna Brown & Nathan Gilbert Lawrence & Jane (Reagh) Bruce-Robertson Ronald Buckley Matt Buckman Brian & Tina Maria Burns Jackson Byrne Katrina Byrne Elspeth Cadman Rachael Cadman Anne Cameron ∂ Driffield Cameron Fiona Campbell Davis Carr Lyssa Clack Dolda Clarke ∂ Michael Cobden Janet Cochran John Cook ∂
Brian Cormier Robert Craig ∂ John Creelman Tim Currie & Christina Harnett ∂ Cliodna Cussen Nevin Cussen Arthur Cuzner Michael Da Silva Pauline Dakin Guenevere Danson Douglas Davis ∂ Alexander Desiré-Tesar Carol (Coles) Dicks ∂ Jordan Draper *Sarah Dubé Michael Dunn Sandra Dwyer Gordon Earle ∂ Jennifer Elvidge
Williams English & Jennifer Adams ∂ Alexander & Stacey (MacDonald) Forbes Edward Gesner Carol Anne Gillis Joan Gilroy ∂ Jacob Glover Carol Gold Stephanie Gough Terrance Graham Brenda Gray Emanuella Grinberg Halifax Typographical Union Muriel Halley ∂ Vivien Hannon Elizabeth Hanton ∂ Susan Harris Sarah-Jane Hasenauer-Kinsley
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Keith Hatfield H. Douglas Hergett ∂ Nancy Herve Mary Hills Michael Hoare ∂ Marilyn Holm Annemieke Holthuis Robert Howe Chloe Hung James Hunter Kieran Innocenzi Debbie James ∂ Randall & Rachael (Earle) Jewers Michael Kaczorowski Simon Kaplan Gladys (Nickerson) Keddy Judy Kennedy D. Ross Kerr
W. J. Tory & Margaret (von Maltzahn) Kirby Mary Beth Knight Simon Kow ∂ Diane Kuipers David Kumagai Adrian Lee Clifford Lee Richard Levangie David Lewis Catherine Lipa May Lui Casey Lynch Christina Macdonald ∂ Helen MacDonnell-Miller Eric MacKay ∂ Richard MacLachlan Linda MacLean Stephen & Julianne (Doucet) MacLean
Rory MacLellan Patricia Martinson M. Garth Maxwell ∂ Barbara (Neish) McArthur Warren McDougald Graham McGillivray Iris McKay Caitlin McKeever Natalie McLeod & Nikolas Capobianco Beth McNeil Larry Meikle William Mercer Robert Meyer Gary & Bethany Miles ∂ Adrian Molder Hilary Molyneux Elizabeth Montgomery Angus Morgan Holly (Aitken) Mueller
G. Warren Murley Emma L. Norton David Olie Andrew O’Neill ∂ Spencer Osberg Cheryl O’Shea Shannon Parker Harold Pheeney Brian Pitcairn ∂ Mark & Carolyn Power Jennifer Powley Catherine Read Gabrielle Rekai Natalie Rekai Mark Rendell Amy Rizner Tracey Rogers Emma Romano Gillian (Bidwell) Rose ∂ Luana (Rowlings) Royal ∂
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Melvyn Sacks Mary (Marwood) Sargeant ∂ Jennifer Seamone Shelley Shea ∂ James Shields Patricia Simpson & Kim Read Paul Simpson Carol & Alasdair Sinclair Andrew Sowerby Lori Stahlbrand Heather (Christian) Stevenson Erin Stewart-Reid Emma Sutro Dylan Tate-Howarth Edward Thompson Randy & Deborah Townsend Hendrik Veltmeyer Valerie Vuillemot Charles Wainwright Angela Walker Gary Ward & Janice Walsh Ward Terrance Wasson ∂ John Weeren ∂ Ariel Weiner Zachary Wells Janani (Gopalakrishnan) Whitfield Daniel J. Whitten Tara Wigglesworth-Hines Gavin Will Amichai Wise The Rev. Dr. Kenneth J. Wissler Mark Woodland Shelley Zucchi LEGACY Estate of Mary Beth Harris Estate of F.C. Manning ∂ Estate of Henry Drake Petersen IN MEMORY OF Margaret Barnard Billy Cleveland Jane Curran Paul Everest Peggy Heller Brian Hutchins Ossie Knop Daina Kulnys Flora MacDonald Dr. Burns Martin David Miller Nicola Moore Mary Pheeney Janice Smith Robert Tuck Joey Walker Leslie Ann (Cutler) Walsh Jae Won Yang 32
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IN HONOUR OF Sinclair Bean Colin Burn Jackson Byrne & Rebecca Best Tia Cooper Jacob Danto-Clancy Kevin Gibson Dorota Glowacka Roselle Green Henry Howe Mary & Dan Kelley Gabrielle Rekai Brenna Sobanski SPONSORSHIPS CBC Atlantic Canmar Services Ltd. Clearwater Fine Foods Inc. Coastal Restoration & Masonry Ltd. Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell Architects Limited Eastlink Floors Plus Foyston, Gordon & Payne Inc. Grant Thornton LLP Grinner’s Food Systems Limited Gryphon Investment Counsel HarperCollins Publishers MacGregor Brown Plumbing & Heating Limited Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline McInnes Cooper Penguin Random House Canada RBC Royal Bank Rector Colavecchia Roche Chartered Accounts Royal Environmental Inc. Schooner General Contracting Limited Scotia Cleaning Services Scotiabank ScotiaMcLeod Dean & Carnegy Group Sodexo Canada Ltd. TC Transcontinental Printing TD Insurance Meloche Monnex UKC Alumni Association Wilson Fuel Company Limited
∂ represents 10 + years
of consecutive giving ∂ represents 5 + years
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DONOR ROLL BY DECADE 1937 C. Russell Elliott 1938 Robert Dunsmore 1942 Iris (Martell) Richards 1944 John Carling 1947 Edward Thompson 1948 Anne Blakeney Alberta Boswall Anne Cameron Danford Kelley Brian Sherwell David K. Wilson 1949 Nancy (Ellis) Burchill George Burchill 1950 Joan Clayton Mary (Burchill) Kelley 1951 anonymous (1) Hope Clement Gillian (Bidwell) Rose 1952 Donald Clancy Arthur Cuzner E.Kitchener Hayman Anna Ruth (Harris) Rogers William Skinner 1953 Donald Beanlands Carol (Coles) Dicks Corinne Earle Marion Fry Ruth Loomer Barbara (Neish) McArthur Joan Morrison 1954 Keith Barrett Walter Cook
Robert Ford John Gorrill Alan Hebb David MacDonald 1955 anonymous (1) John Cook Margaret (Currie) MacDonald 1956 Gilbert Berringer Ann (Creighton) Day Harold Hazen George Phills Ann Pituley 1957 Dolda Clarke Caroline (Bennet) Hubbard John MacKenzie C.B. (Chuck) Piercey *Gordon Pyke Elizabeth (Strong) Reagh Mary (Marwood) Sargeant Ben Smith Isabel Wainwright 1958 anonymous (1) Joan Aitken George Caines Fred Christie Joan Gilroy John Hamm C. William Hayward Michael Rudderham 1959 Janet Cochran Norman MacKenzie G. Warren Murley LeRoy Peach Elizabeth (Baert) Peters Donald Thompson 1960 Sandra (Jones) Caines Arthur Peters Mary (Archibald) Thompson 1961 Sandra Oxner Richard Walsh
1962 John Cordes Marilyn (Lingley) Dewis Geraldine Hamm Caleb Lawrence Thomas LeBrun Russell MacLellan Donald Stevenson Nancy (Clark) Violi
1967 Mary Barker Clare Christie John Creelman Hugh Crosthwait Douglas Hazen Glenda (Cummings) Kent Carol Miller Charlotte (MacLean) Peach
1963 anonymous (1) T. Frederick Baxter Charlotte (Graven) Cochran Gwendolyn Davies Fraser Dewis Gordon Earle Edward Gesner Doreen Kays Stephen Knowles Barbara (Aikman) LeBrun David Morris James Purchase Melvyn Sacks Elizabeth (Bayne) Sodero D. Lionel Teed Nora (Arnold) Vincent
1968 anonymous (1) Ginny (Lewis) Clark J. Mark DeWolf Brenton Haliburton Keith Hatfield David Jones Ena Gwen Jones Cynthia (Smith) Pilichos Beverly (Zannotti) Postl
1964 Burdette Coates-Storey Blair Dixon H. Douglas Hergett T.C. Leung Barbara Smith William Wells Judy Wright 1965 Roselle Green Michael Hoare Nancy Leefe Cal McMillan Lois Miller Thomas Vincent William Williams 1966 Margaret (Burstall) Brown Ronald Buckley Carolyn (Tanner) Chenhall Glen Kent John Leefe Eric MacKay James Mann M. Garth Maxwell
1969 Robin Calder Wayne Cochrane Marilyn (McNutt) Cregan Richard Cregan Larry Holman Robert Hyslop Lina (McLean) MacKinnon Stuart McPhee Janet Mitchell John Page Robert Petite Helen Powell Elizabeth Ryan Lynda Singer 1970 Elizabeth (Parsons) Colavecchia Robert Colavecchia David Mackay Heather (Christian) Stevenson 1971 Ken MacInnis John MacKay Irene Randall Sheila Taylor The Rev. Dr. Kenneth J. Wissler 1972 anonymous (1) Rachel (Swetnam) DeWolf Robert Howe Ian Johnson Gladys (Nickerson) Keddy TIDINGS | SPRING 2017 33
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Linda MacLean Mary Grace (MacDonald) McCaffrey 1973 Timothy Borlase Glenn Davidson Phillip Fleury Roderick Mitchell Brian Pitcairn Cathy Ramey-Westgate R. Brian Taylor Charles Wainwright Alvin Westgate 1974 Wilson Fitt Susan Harris Kim McCallum John Swain
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1975 Luana (Rowlings) Royal
1979 Andrew Graham
1976 anonymous (1) W. J. Tory Kirby Adrienne Malloy
1980 Leslie (Donald) Behnia Patricia Chalmers David Hazen Richard Sean Lorway Barbara Scott Shelley Shea T. Lorraine Vassalo
1977 Peter Baltzer Wendy Davis Margaret (von Maltzahn) Kirby 1978 Robert Craig Gisele (LeBlanc) Forsey Jennifer (Bassett) MacLeod John MacLeod Patrick Rivest
1981 Weldon Boone Thomas Curran Elizabeth Hanton Catherine (Rhymes) Misener
1982 Robert Dawson Stacey (MacDonald) Forbes Annemieke Holthuis Rachael (Earle) Jewers Kim Kierans Marli MacNeil 1983 Kathleen Bain Jane (Reagh) Bruce-Robertson Thomas Eisenhauer Alexander Forbes Terrance Graham Ann Leamon Carol Reardon 1984 Richard Dyke Randall Jewers
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Temmo Korisheli Kevin Stockall 1985 Lawrence Bruce-Robertson Mark Hazen Shirley (Wall) Hazen Iain R.M. Luke Mark MacKenzie Stephen Murray David Olie Neil Robertson Kelley Teahen John Weeren 1986 anonymous (1) Brian Cormier Nancy Elliott Christopher Elson
Ian Folkins Andrew Laing Helen MacDonnell-Miller Joyce (Blanford) Millman Peter Nathanson Cheryl O’Shea Angela Walker
1987 anonymous (1) Mark Andrews Jonna Brewer Christine Campbell C. LouAnn Chiasson Susan Dodd Victoria Goldring Gregory Guy Julianne (Doucet) MacLean Stephen MacLean
Gillian McCain Stuart Moore Katharine Sircom James Wood 1988 Terri Lynn Almeda Jennifer Balfour Michael Dunn Amanda Le Rougetel Terrance Wasson
George MacLean Rowena MacLeod Dr. Peter Rendek Jennifer Seamone Paul Thomson
1989 Laurelle LeVert Gavin Will
1991 Jennifer Bell Rebecca (Moore) Brown Paul Charlebois Lyssa Clack Kevin MacDonell Edward Rix Kyle Shaw Colin Trethewey
1990 Daniel Brandes Carol Anne Gillis Richard Levangie
1992 Tim Currie Kenneth Dekker Kevin Gibson
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Andrew Han Tracey Rogers 1993 Andrew Dick Paul Friedland Molly McCarron Kathryn Morris Holly (Aitken) Mueller Amy Rizner Christine Saunders Suzanne Wheeler Romeo Stuart Wood 1994 Chère Chapman Gord Cooper Peter Jelley Frances (Kuret) Krusekopf Cynthia (Edwards) MacMillan Michael MacMillan Jennifer Morawiecki Sarah E. Stevenson Lisa Taggart Christopher J. White 1995 Carolyn Gibson D. Ross Kerr Andrew Morrison Christine Oreskovich Christina Quelch 1996 Eric Aldous Nathalie Atkinson Roberta Barker Christina Harnett Tudor (Caldwell) Robins 1997 anonymous (1) Melissa Andrew Lynda Mavis Earle Gillian Fullilove Mary Beth Knight Robyn Tingley 1998 David Ben-Arie Fredrik Bruun Thalia McRae Andrew O’Neill
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1999 Gordon Cameron Kirk Graham Alan Hall Zachary Wells Lindsay (Cameron) Wilson 2000 Alexandre De Saint-Sardos Kathryn (Havercroft) McKinnon Amichai Wise 2001 Lauren Brodie Jen Cooper Jennifer Laurette Catherine Lipa Robert Mann Jennifer Powley Paul Simpson Sarah Thornton Valerie Vuillemot 2002 Joshua Bates Daniel de Munnik Thomas Ledwell Allen McAvoy David McKinnon Des Writer 2003 Amy Goldlist Nicholas Hatt John MacLean Spencer Osberg Andrew Sowerby 2004 Jonathan Bruhm Emanuella Grinberg David Herbert Caitlin McKeever Erin Stewart-Reid 2005 Colin Burn Joanna Grossman Katherine King Daniel Sax Chelsea Thorne Nicholas Townley Dawn Tracey Brandes Tasya Tymczyszyn
2006 Sarah Abman Jane Baldwin Elliott Bent Terra (Duncan) Bruhm Jennifer Elvidge Brendan Morrison Janani (Gopalakrishnan) Whitfield 2007 Myra Bloom Cliodna Cussen Williams English Graham McGillivray Mordecai Walfish 2008 Jennifer Adams Aaron Burnett Guenevere Danson Jesse Hiltz Jolanta Lorenc Adrian Molder 2009 Michael Blackwood Victor Bomers Michael Da Silva Alyssa Feir Christina Macdonald Stephany Tlalka 2010 John Adams Krista Armstrong Jordan Draper Clifford Lee Rory MacLellan 2011 *Sarah Dubé Matthew Feir David Kumagai Adrian Lee David Lewis Kaitlin Merwin B. Lynn Sawyer 2012 Richard Bartram Mike Bowman Davis Carr Veronica R. Curran
Alexander Desiré-Tesar Bethany Draper Chloe Hung Casey Lynch Andrew Miller Elizabeth Montgomery Emma L. Norton Mark Rendell 2013 anonymous (2) Rebecca Best Rachael Bethune Joy Blenman Jackson Byrne Rachael Cadman Nevin Cussen Stephanie Duchon Jacob Glover Kieran Innocenzi Simon Kaplan Warren McDougald Beth McNeil Angus Morgan Gabrielle Rekai Emma Romano 2014 Geoff Boehmer Matt Buckman Sophie Henderson-Kiss Hilary Molyneux James Shields Dylan Tate-Howarth 2015 anonymous (1) Fiona Campbell Pauline Dakin Stephanie Gough James Hunter Molly McKay Larry Meikle Ariel Weiner 2016 Sarah-Jane Hasenauer-Kinsley Hendrik Veltmeyer *deceased
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“There are those who say the liberal arts are dead. If this is true, well then we at King’s have had the remarkable experience of spotting a ghost. Ghosts have the unique ability to haunt; sometimes their voices can be heard louder than those of the living. As we live our lives, the figures we encountered at King’s will continue to speak to us. We leave this place now, but I have no doubt that all its voices and hauntings will continue to shape and guide us.” — E xcerpt from the Valedictory Address by Jake Norris To read the full address visit ukings.ca/alumni/events/encaenia/2016
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CONVOCATION ADDRESS by Dr. Victor Chu Excerpt of speech delivered May 19, 2016 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ... , we are living in an ever more complex world. For you who graduate today, in the immediate following years, you will see a world with growing fragility in the financial markets, in a world where the international institutions created after World War Two have been unable to meet the challenges and the needs of the 21st century. In a world where the politics, particularly international politics and local politics, have been paralyzed and polarized. This is not to mention the challenge of infectious disease, the internet of things and
also technological singularity which means that one day before too long, the fusion of robotic technology and artificial intelligence and stem cell research will probably override the total standard of human intelligence. If we can work hard, work smart, to make sure that robots are there to help us, not become one of us, and thereafter ruling us, we could make a very different society. Probably during your active career, because most futurists think that technological singularity will begin to arrive by 2040. So, we have a real challenge ahead of us. Today, I want to offer you three suggestions as we embark on this journey of ever more competitiveness. Today society is global, competition is one click away, and the challenges of youth unemployment, refugee crises around you will make your journey a lot more challenging than when I came to the job market. So, being good is
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not good enough, you have to be better than good. But how do you do that, you know, when you reach a level which you have: you have a degree at a wonderful university, you’re smart, you’re intelligent, you’re hardworking? How can you be better than good? Now, that depends on our own individual packaging and differentiation. I would start with the wonderful advantage you have here in Canada. Canada is part of the Atlantic, as well as it is part of the Pacific, which gives you a wonderful matrix to start with, also you are born with multilingual skills and being based in Halifax and having your education at King’s, you are instilled with a certain culture and a set of values which are age proven. So, Canada, Atlantic, Pacific, use of one’s languages will be all that you already have as part of a unique packaging that is with you today. Then I would suggest, three ‘E’s, the first ‘E’ is engagement, many of you are already involved in youth net, many of you are already involved in some community service. I would urge you to do more. Whether it’s local, national or international, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is to be engaged, to do good is good business. Employers look for graduates who
are dynamic, who are passionate about their work, intelligent, but who are concerned and responsible about their local, national and international communities. So whatever it is, get engaged, don’t just be a good graduate, you have to be more than that. The second ‘E’ that I would suggest is “enlightenment”. Most, if not all of you will be engaged in global business. You will be facing different cultures, different levels of social and economic developments. The same word in Canada, even when spoken in English, could mean something different in another part of the world. So, being enlightened is that we are willing to hear your counterpart speak without necessarily your own agenda. Being enlightened means that you are able to say ‘there are ten ways to ride to Rome’ and I have to choose the best that is most appropriate for me. There is no one set of rules to do things, actually indeed there is more than one way of saying the same thing, sometimes without thinking we probably use the less advantageous formula. So, enlightened being fair minded, being open would be something that would differentiate you from other peers. And thirdly, and probably more impor-
tantly is Ethics. Ethics is something you understand through your education at King’s. But, in the world of greed, in the world where the gap between the ‘have’ and ‘havenots’ has been a lot more problematic today and will continue to be a challenge. Having the values instilled in you, at home by your parents, instilled in you at King’s: uphold these values, uphold the responsibility to your family to your society, and also to your country. These are things that when you are busy, we forget. I probably belong to the ‘old school’, but we feel that values, going back to basics, ethics where there is family, professional, personal: these are something which are really the most precious asset and indeed advantage as you set out in your career. So, I hope the three ‘E’s will resonate with many of you. Let’s work hard to make this world a more peaceful one. Let’s work hard to make this world a more harmonious one. Let’s work hard to make this world a more sustainable one. Distinguished members of the 2016 graduating class, live everyday with hope, with faith, with kindness. I wish you well in your life journey ahead. Thank you very much.
At King’s 227th Encaenia, Victor Chu, Michel Deguy, and Gillian McCain each received their Doctor of Civil Laws, honoris causa. Read their citations at: ukings.ca/alumni/events/ encaenia/2016-encaenia/ honorary-doctorate-citations/
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GOLF 2015 & 16 “It is an honor to be awarded the Alumni Entrance Award. It’s an amazing thing, when those who have gone before us work to make certain that our road is far easier than theirs. With this award I’m one step closer to achieving my goal. Thank you!” — Ashley itai Kuwodza “I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity as it will no doubt significantly enhance my time spent at King’s in that it will allow me to dedicate more energy, passion and time to my studies and less time worrying about finances. I am honoured”. — Antonia Paquin
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“Receiving the Alumni Entrance Award creates inspiration, driving me toward believing in myself and my abilities instead of allowing any sense of self doubt.” — Benjamin Albright “The generous scholarship provided by the Alumni will help improve my experience at King’s not only in that it will alleviate the cost of all the fantastic looking books to be read throughout FYP but also that it makes it that much easier to fund my own way through King’s!” — Nicholas Paquin
“As a first year student, looking at what comes ahead can be very intimidating. New social life, new location, and especially the commitment to paying into tuition fees. Receiving the Alumni Award is like getting a pat on the back from King’s, saying “You can do this!”, and I’m truly grateful for that reassurance. I hope all the other recipients have felt this support, and wish them, and all the other new students a good first year.” — Sarah Zolkivski
“I am so proud to have been chosen as a recipient of an Alumni Award at King’s, it makes me feel like I am being welcomed into my new community! I am so honoured to receive the award and, of course, the financial assistance is a tremendous help.” — Emily Donovan
Thank you to all our alumni, sponsors, and friends who joined us for our annual day of sunshine and laughter on the golf course. Over these two years, 2015 & 16, you raised $40,000 in entrance scholarships for students who, with your help, made the choice to come to King’s. That’s a great gift to grow out of so much fun.
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AN INFORMAL CHAT WITH PRESIDENT BILL LAHEY
IT’S MID-SUMMER, a sultry day, the kind of day meant for relaxing in the shade on the quad. There’s still a month and a bit before the halls start to fill up at King’s with new and returning students. But Bill Lahey isn’t relaxing and he isn’t waiting. “I’ve already bought many of the books for the Foundation Year Program,” he says with a grin. “I plan to do the reading and attend as many of the lectures as I can. And eat in Prince Hall.” As King’s freshly minted President and Vice-Chancellor, Bill Lahey is immersing himself in the work and the community of King’s. If he were writing a book about his five year term he says: “Chapter One would be called Listening. I have no hesitation in saying that at all. When you join a community that is as distinct as the King’s community is you have to become knowledgeable. And the best way to do that is by listening.” He has a lot of people he wants to hear from. The King’s community includes of course faculty and the administration. But it is much more. For him, the community actually stretches through time. “The university includes the past, those who benefitted from the educational experience, the people who are currently students, and those who will benefit from it in the future. It is a public institution. It belongs to society at large but it certainly belongs in a very real and direct way to the alumni. You have to remember that the alumni built the university. That is certainly something that I want to communicate to our students of to-
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day. Get from King’s what you need to move forward in your life. But take advantage of the opportunity to shape King’s throughout your life. King’s is the university of today because of the contributions of the alumni.” President Lahey understands the world of academe. He did his undergrad at Mount Alison in Sackville, New Brunswick, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and he earned his Master of Laws from the University of Toronto. After clerking for Mr. Justice La Forest of the Supreme Court of Canada he worked as a lawyer in Halifax but returned to university life to practice his passion, teaching, at the Schulich School of Law. But there were a few twists and turns along the way. He held positions in the Nova Scotia departments of Justice, Health, and Human Resources. He was also Deputy Minister of the Department of Environment and Labour for three years. And because free time seems to be anathema to him, Bill has also served on a variety of boards, some as Chair, and continues to do so. “I’ve done a lot of different things in my professional career,” he says with more than a touch of understatement. But his current role at King’s comes with a new set of challenges. “Other positions I have had came with a whole lot more authority than you have as a university president. You can think you are leading with authority, but that’s not how universities work. And with good reason. A university’s success depends on its success in its academic mission and overwhelmingly,
that depends on the work of the faculty and the growth and development of the students, supported by the staff. So the key responsibility of the president and his or her team is to support that, to make sure that the oxygen needed for that success is provided … This place doesn’t need re-invention.” That is why the President believes listening is so important — listening, seeking counsel, looking for the commonalities. Then he tries to find consensus through persuasion, convincing others that the priorities and objectives are the right ones for the university. This is Chapter Two. He calls it Acting. “I have to move into an acting mode very soon,” he says. But even then, Bill favours a leadership style that isn’t the guy at the front of the parade commanding all the attention, but rather “standing behind, creating opportunities for others rather than seizing opportunities for yourself.” It will come as no surprise then that when Bill plays hockey (“badly,” he admits), he is no Sydney Crosby. No flashing dekes for replay highlights. He plays stay-at-home defense. “It is kind of my personality,” he says. Along with his duties of running the university, the King’s President has a social responsibility. The newly refurbished President’s Lodge is not just a home for him and his wife Kathryn, their three children and their Labradoodle, Casey. It is a gathering place. And like all other aspects of his new
job, Bill is ready to dive into the deep end. “We are really looking forward to welcoming students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the community into the Lodge,” he says with considerable enthusiasm. He knows that many of the twenty-four past
Presidents of King’s have opened the door like that. But when he is reminded of how one President, John Godfrey in the 1970s served up martinis, vicious martinis on Friday nights, President Lahey smiles. “I like the sound of that and we will do
our best to live up to that great tradition, even though it is more likely to be beer and pizza with us,” he says. Regardless of the beverage, this is Chapter Three. He calls it Having Fun!
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WELCOMING PRESIDENT LAHEY On October 13, 2016, surrounded by family, friends, colleagues, and guests, the Officers of Convocation installed King’s 25th President and Vice-Chancellor.
Excerpt from President Lahey’s Installation Address: “…WITH ALL MY HEART I want to thank my wife, Kathryn, and our children Elizabeth, Joseph and Claire. They cheerfully agreed (mostly) to exchange their very happy lives on Lynwood Drive for an uncertain life inside a college. The experience has been wonderful — we feel that we have been welcomed home. Our dog, Casey, has already forged strong friendships with many people, including Greta Hamilton, who carried the mace today. Casey has friends all over campus. Not long ago I encountered our master of ceremonies, Dr. Thomas Curran, while walking Casey in the Quad. As we chatted, a steady stream of students walked over. They were polite to us, but it was obvious the real purpose was to have a few moments with Casey. When we parted, Dr. Curran left me with some thoughts that might be paraphrased as follows: “keep doing what you are doing but, for heaven’s sake, don’t let anything happen to that dog”. Living here in the College, right next to the chapel and down the hallway from the senior common room, has revealed the critical importance, both symbolic and practical, of the President and his family living in the college, along with the Dean of Students and others. Since my arrival, I have spent time with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and board members, formally and informally. A highlight has been meeting and getting to know our extraordinary students — in the Quad, at sporting and social events, in Foundation Year Programme lectures and in Prince Hall.
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I am blessed to enjoy the collegiality of so many intelligent, motivated and creative people who are dedicated to the transformational power that a King’s education offers. It benefits the student and our society. It leads to knowledge and character that is the foundation of a society that is free and democratic — and more just and prosperous. I am coming to understand the distinct and wonderfully quirky community that is King’s College, a university that somehow also manages to be a college. Or, are we a college while also being a university? It doesn’t matter — because it works. In that special King’s way, we are happy to entertain two contradictory ideas, confident we can defer reconciliation indefinitely. Or,
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we can leave the matter to be resolved into a higher truth through the dialectal process. Our campus is undergoing renewal, which will continue. The renovation of North Pole Bay is complete. The Lodge, the Pit theatre, and now the famous Wardroom have all been freshly renovated — thanks to our generous alumni and friends. Each has been remodeled in a very King’s way that makes our campus feel both new and unchanged. So here I am, educated in, and deeply fond of, the Oxbridge tradition, fortunate enough to be the president of a jewel of a college in the same tradition. I am irrevocably and fully FOR King’s. I am, as they say, all in.
I know that although I may be expected to make change happen, I am in the process of being changed, for the better, by King’s. This is the impact King’s has on everyone. I know this community faces challenges and that it’s my role, as the first among equals, to ensure we thrive in meeting those challenges while remaining true to our vision. I intend to carry out that mission with your full participation. As President, I’m both open to and ready for anything.” To read the full address visit : ukings.ca/people/william-lahey
At President Lahey’s installation ceremony, King’s conferred two honorary degrees. Dr. Patrick Graham, an award winning freelance journalist who has helped Canadians understand, among other events, the war and turmoil in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Dr. Tracey Lindberg, author and award winning professor of indigenous law, who is a leading thinker in the theory of indigenous law and an advocate for indigenous women, each received a Doctorate of Civil Laws (honoris causa). To read their citations and watch their speeches visit: Ukings.ca/25th-Installation
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FYP TEXTS
“NOT A STATISTICAL, BUT AN INDIVIDUAL LIFE” by Dr. Thomas Curran
THE 7TH CIRCLE OF DANTE’S Inferno is a showcase for the taxonomy of violence, but its positioning seems, at first glance, to be counter-intuitive. The attempt to offer a systematic account of Dante’s cartography of the Underworld is complicated when one tries to explain why the violent extinguishing of human lives should be regarded as a less heinous crime than, for instance, usury, flattery, theft, or alchemy. Dante is no less concerned with exact gradations of violence and grievous bodily harm than our own Canadian system of criminal justice. For instance, we (and our North American courts) are aware that a tragic loss of life may be the result of negligence, depraved indifference, manslaughter, as well as falling under the umbrella category of “murder”. The victim can hardly be expected to attend to questions of whether the end of life occurs because of calculation or circumstance; but from the perspective of the human soul (which is Dante’s fundamental concern) things can look very differently. For instance, the fatal consequences of road rage might fall more effectively, in Dante’s scheme, under the particulars of the Inferno’s 5th circle, the home of the irate and the wrathful; but the fatal form of revenge, which we know as “a dish best served cold”, can only have its ultimate home in the frozen lake of Cocytus, where revenge is not only cold and calculating, but in the deep freeze of an immobilized will. Before proceeding further, it is just as well to remind ourselves that Dante’s Comedy is not, in fact, a description of the
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afterlife, but an allegory concerning the ethical consequences both of our actions and of our omissions (the latter, so often the result of cowardice) in this life. To understand this is to acknowledge that Dante is not in a position to assign citizenship in Hell, Purgatory or Heaven, nor is his assertion of individual shortcomings authoritative — those judgements, as Dante makes clear, belong to God alone. The names associated with any particular station in the afterlife are used solely for the purposes of example and illustration, and, following this principle strictly, Dante allows himself to populate various levels and circles, in all divisions of the afterlife, with fantastical originals and eccentrics, both mythological and Biblical. Having said that, it is instructive to see whom Dante associates with the infernal river Phlegethon, which we should simply refer to as the river of hot-blooded violence. The presence of centaurs in this particular circle of Hell provides a profound clue as to Dante’s interpretation of the state of soul being specified. The centaur, identified as a human chest, neck and head mounted upon the body of a horse, reminds the reader of mounted warriors (cf. the Robert Durling translation for Oxford) present in any cavalry; but, then, the unhappy hybrid character of the centaur also suggests the bestiality of violence. With that introduction, we can now actually look at the names for Dante’s miserable citizens of this 7th circle. The most obvious name to grab the reader’s attention is that of Alexander (presumably Alexander the Great,
who in Dante’s world has a well-established blood-thirsty reputation). The attribution here is not certain, but is supported by his companionship with Attila the Hun who, in Dante’s history, is credited — amongst other barbarities — with having destroyed Florence, which could certainly — then and now — only be assessed as an unforgivable crime. These two world dominating figures are supported by various ancient and modern tyrants. It might be worth referring the reader specifically to Ezzelino III, the lord of Treviso (north of Venice), who was apparently called “a son of the devil because of his [notorious] cruelty” (Durling). This 7th circle is also the home of various pirates and highwaymen who, by their “depraved indifference” to human life, make journeying either by land or sea fundamentally a matter of “taking your life in your hands”. Dante identifies the term tyrants with “those who attempt to twist the laws not to the common good, but their own”; therefore, in my reading, this river “hot” with the blood (both of those who slay, and those who are slain) must really be understood as the home of those with a “depraved indifference” towards human life. For the tyrannical nature, single individuals simply become impediments on the way to some grander vision (i.e., the corpses left lying on the road to victory are nothing more than “collateral damage”); equally, for the pirates, whom Cicero identifies as the common “enemy of all”, their victims are supposedly to be reassured in the knowledge that there is “nothing personal” at work here, it’s all about business.
The actual structure of Dante’s Inferno is dictated by the consequences of individual shortcomings and sins in terms of their effect on the survival of the community. Obviously this depraved indifference is thus a more sustained attack on the community than road rage (which really has no principle, and is, by Dante, identified, in its essence, as resulting from a lack of discipline and self-control). In the same way, when individual victims can be informed that their elimination is strictly a “rational” business strategy, and should not in any way be regarded as “personal”, the sacred bonds of community are being loosened entirely and solely for individual advantage. But for Dante, this 7th circle does not yet represent that final incapacity of soul, which we shall encounter in the frozen depths of Hell, where, if we may speak this way, everything is both the result of cold-blooded calcula-
tion and seeks a revenge which is extremely “personal”. Sometimes doubt is expressed as to the value of these antique forms of literature, with respect to contemporary realities. As it happens, 2016 witnessed both the centennials of the battles of Verdun and of the Somme; during these sustained battles, we are informed, over two million German, French and British soldiers were either killed, maimed or missing in action. Given the extremely limited geographical and military advances that these massive campaigns achieved, it is difficult to avoid the language of “depraved indifference to human life”, since the best one can say is that the sacrifice of every soldier from the trenches on either side of the front was an unhappy byproduct of the military strategies employed. The dead, the wounded and the missing in the 10-month battle of Verdun (reckoned at a to-
tal of 750,000 French and German soldiers) is roughly equivalent to twice the population of the whole of Nova Scotia’s HRM! Another horrific (and incomprehensible) “statistic” is that on the first day (alone) of the battle of the Somme (July 1st, 1916), 20,000 British soldiers lost their lives. With these incomprehensibly vast numbers of individual deaths, it is my profound belief that Dante’s ethical analysis of the human condition has not yet been exhausted by those who teach and learn in our King’s Foundation Year Programme. NB: During the anniversary year of the Battles of Verdun and of the Somme, please be assured that the names of all those King’s soldiers who fell abroad during the First World War were remembered, as they are every year, at our Remembrance Day Service.
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LET’S TALK By Andrew Laing BA (Hon) ‘86
A LONG-RUNNING JOKE in our family is that my kids can go to any university they like, as long as it’s King’s. For my two daughters, ages 12 and 15, it’s not a point of contention: they know my stories (well, at least some of them), have met my friends and have heard about the Foundation Year programme. They’re excited to go. They’re going to King’s not out of my own misplaced nostalgia, but because of what it offers, and how it increasingly stands
apart from other universities. Since I left King’s in the mid-1980s, I’ve been involved with dozens of Canadian universities, either as a graduate student, board member, lecturer and/or consultant on measuring and evaluating university communications activities. Over this time, I’ve come to learn an uncomfortable truth: while the cost of an undergrad education has gone up, the quality has gone down. In many cases, classes are the size of most high schools. More digital
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resources are used as a substitute for face-toface learning. Many course and programme designs have become either too professional-oriented, or have gone in the opposite direction and seem increasingly divorced from the reality of the subjects they purport to study. That’s an overly-bleak picture, but no one who has been involved in universities over the last 30 years can deny the trend. What King’s offers is different. Its approach to a “foundation” is even more unique and valuable. By foundation, I’m not simply referring to the four-credit gallop through the principal ideas of Western thought. Although if you choose a liberal arts education, I think there is no better way to start. It also offers what I’ve come to appreciate as the intangibles of the King’s foundational approach. From day one, students are put into a single academic community — just large enough so that everyone can know each other. As the weeks go by, the common lectures, exams, papers, and other trials knits the
community together. And around it is built a social community. And the programme is taught by experienced professors, with students working in small tutorials, through a structured and integrated curricula. I challenge my friends to name a university in Canada that offers a student that experience in eight months. After first year, students can further their interests in King’s courses, or take other programs at Dalhousie. And after King’s, they can go on to a career choice — you name it — King’s alumni excel. Whatever they choose, they’ll be ahead as a person with a quality liberal arts education — and they’ll be more likely to succeed as a result. It’s a gift-horse offer. Little wonder why King’s has the reputation across Canada as the place where professors send their kids. This is the argument I tell my kids. In fact, it’s also the argument I tell, unreservedly and unabashedly, to my friends, many of whom also have kids about to go to university. And that’s why I am writing this. The
university needs more alumni to talk about it. Most alumni think that what the university wants from them is money (which is not altogether untrue), but what the university really needs is us, as alumni, to make the case for King’s to anyone approaching university age. The vast majority of the students who come to King’s learn about it through word of mouth. King’s is small and does not (as we know) have the name recognition of a McGill or Queen’s, nor the budgets to make it so. For King’s, word of mouth is all-important. King’s is small, and it costs a lot to be small. And because it is small as few as 10 students can make a big difference to its bottom line. All North American universities with liberal arts programs are facing an enrolment challenge, as people turn to professional degrees that offer (the promise of ) more immediate employability. To be the kind of university King’s is, to offer the type of rewarding future it does, King’s needs to continue to attract the very
best students looking for a liberal arts education in Canada. And we, its alumni, have an important role to play. Chances are you’re already invested in the King’s community if you’re reading Tidings. I now ask you to talk about King’s to anyone who will listen, and particularly to families now going through the decision of choosing a university. They may not know much about King’s. They may have never heard about it. But you know King’s, and you know what it can offer. You did not regret your choice, and neither will they. Let’s get talking. Let’s spread the word — an education as good as this deserves our active support. Through his company, Cormex Research, Andrew Laing has pioneered media measurement and analysis in Canada. View his profile at www.ItTakesCourage.ca PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT: Kateryna Laing, Andrew Laing (BAH ’86), Kara Laing
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DR. SAUL GREEN MEMORIAL LECTURE 2016
‘RACE,’ MENTAL HEALTH, AND THE BODY POLITIC: COMMENTS ON SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRICALIZATION OF THESE INTERLOCKING CONCERNS Dr. George Elliott Clarke, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, delivered the 2016 Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture.This lecture series is in memory of Dr. Saul Green, one of the founding members of the Shaar Shalom Synagogue. Clarke examined his subject by analyzing Shylock, Aaron, and Othello. Clarke suggests that experiencing racialized oppression manifests itself in a character’s personality and action. He uses the term “honorary white” to describe minorities in positions of power in predominantly Caucasian societies. For example, Othello’s military conquests allow him to become a person of authority in the Venetian Republic. However, he continues to experience alienation and moments of self-questioning. This factors in to Othello’s demise because he places too much trust in Iago, a character of lower rank who happens to be white. Maggie O’Riordan Ross and Haleigh Atwood are fourth year students at the University of King’s College. GEC: “Iago is the one of lowest rank. He’s only an ensign. What’s an ensign? An ensign is the dude who carries the flag around! That’s real low level, because if you’re carrying the flag around then everybody’s shooting arrows at you! ... And as we know, one of the big jealousies that develops, that we’re introduced to at the very beginning of the play, is the fact that Cassio has become a Lieutenant, and Iago has not. The fact that he has not been promoted is the very first thing that he has against Othello, and that he has against Cassio.” HA: “And you have to ask yourself why Othello is listening to the flag bearer. Could that have something to do with what you were saying about being an honorary white in that society, and feeling paranoia because of this disconnect?” 54
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GEC: “Absolutely. As we know, Iago says to Othello, ‘you just don’t know our Venetian women. This is what they’re like.’ As soon as he accepts being directed by Iago, as soon as he demotes himself and gives Iago command over himself, then it’s just a matter of time before the deadly plot can be fulfilled. “And it’s also because he buys into the misogyny. It’s interesting, you can track it in the play. Iago is the one who’s spouting all the misogynistic comments. And then about halfway through act three, Othello starts to too. He begins to accept this reasoning. When he decides he’s going to murder Desdemona, he says ‘I’ve got to kill her before she betrays other men.’ This is a devastating comment for him to make, and it’s obviously misogynistic. He’s not looking at her as his wife who’s possibly betrayed him, but rather as emblematic, symptomatic of all women, who cannot be trusted. In other words, he’s totally bought into Iago’s world view.”
MOR: “If these plays have such problematic portrayals of women, people of colour, or are just anti-Semitic, how do you think they can remain relevant? Because they are still being produced even today. Can they be staged in ways that overcome these problems?” HA: “How do our interpretations of the plays change as we continue to deal with race and misogyny?” GEC: “The way that these plays can remain relevant is if the directors and actors are honest about the full power of the rolls. For instance, when Shylock is talking about Antonio spitting on him or kicking him, I think that should be shown. Whether that’s a flashback or a photograph, or what have you, to flesh out why it may be possible for Shylock to say ‘I’d like to stick a knife in you!’ It is related to their habit of treating Jews as second class people.”
MOR: “Shylock is motivated by more than just the interest, or the money.” GEC: “Absolutely. That’s the oppression that Shylock is speaking back to. I’m saying show what’s there. It’s there, as an explanation. People are saying that Iago has no motive. Yes there is. The fact that he hasn’t been promoted, and thinks that Othello has had his way with many women. He’s got motives. So why would critics say he’s just evil. Even Aaron has reasons for his behaviour. “I think it’s possible to read between the lines, and say that most people who commit evil acts, have motivations for them, which deserve to be sounded and understood and repudiated and rebuked, if that is what is required. But I think an honest accounting of the plays needs to look solidly at the question of motive. And look at the evidence of the play, and tangential evidence of setting, biography, because that also communicates a lot about how they have arrived where they are in their lives. Shylock is full of grievance. In fact he has managed to prosper in spite of the implicit tyranny of Venetian society. The state then has to organize itself against his legal challenge in order to oppress him
further, steal his wealth, and force his conversion. “So what does all that add up to? I guess I can say that Shakespeare is always interested in questions of power and legitimacy, number one, and in more plays than we realize, he has characters of colour, or potentially of colour. Their presence helps him configure questions of legitimacy and belonging. ... It suggests for the most part that Othello goes mad enough that he has his epileptic fits — his seizures. Shylock seems to be mad, according to others, seems to be crazy in his insistence on seeking justice under the terms of the Venetian state. Cold blooded, psychopathic. And of course Aaron, who’s essentially textbook psychopath. On the other hand, all three of these characters can be understood to be trying to exercise a degree of power, feeling thwarted, disparaged, humiliated, and therefore turn to stratagems.” These “stratagems” often get the minority characters into trouble in the first place, and make them feel the need to explain their actions. While summarizing the key themes of his lecture, Clarke compared Aaron and Shylock’s rhetoric in their speeches of self-defence, in which they made attempts
to justify their past and current beliefs. For example, when Aaron from Titus Andronicus sees his newborn child, he defends him by asking, “Is black so base a hue?” (4.2.71). In the Merchant of Venice, Shylock delivers a powerful defense of his people, saying “Hath not a Jew eyes?” (3.1.53). Clarke suggests that these speeches serve to humanize characters who are otherwise portrayed in a problematic light. GEC: “In these plays the characters of Shylock and Aaron … are given the same kind of speech of self-defence and justification, which is a racial, religious, and ethnic defence. It has to be a deliberate habit or practice on the part of Shakespeare to offer this. It is important because it helps these characters to provide more rounded accounts of themselves in terms of their motivations. At the same time, for generations and centuries to come folks can still quote Shylock and Aaron depending on what kind of defence they feel they need to offer against someone else or some other group’s objections against them. They’re powerful speeches and interesting that they’re structured so similarly.”
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ALEX FOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LECTURE
THIS WRITER’S LIFE: EMBRACING THE VOICES by Clare Sully-Stendahl, second year student at the University of King’s College
Each year, King’s students get the opportunity to invite a speaker to campus to deliver the annual Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture. The lecture was established in 2011 by Fred and Elizabeth Fountain and their daughter Katharine to honour their son and brother, Alex, a member of the King’s community who died in 2009. This year, the sixth annual Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture was delivered by acclaimed Canadian author Joseph Boyden.
WHILE THE FORMAL TITLE of the lecture was “This Writer’s Life: Embracing the Voices,” Boyden began by giving it a more specific name. “Tonight I’m going to give you a talk in three acts,” he said, introducing his lecture. “And I titled this talk: it’s called ‘an evening of sharing secrets in a room with hundreds of strangers.’ I’m going to share three secrets with you this evening, three stories about my own life and my own journey thus far as a writer.” In just over an hour, Boyden did exactly that. In his three acts, each one centred on a particular story, Boyden discussed his writing process, shared his personal experience with mental illness, and ended by considering how his storytelling has helped both himself and others. Although Boyden distinguished the three acts by playing the harmonica and the jaw harp between each one — “I’m not just a writer, I’m also a very mediocre harmonica player,” he remarked — the acts were also bound together by one
thread in particular. Storytelling was the unifying force guiding and structuring the lecture, not only as the focus of the discussion but also as the medium through which Boyden delivered his ideas. In Act One, entitled “Scared Shitless,” Boyden revealed his first secret of the evening. “When I sit down to do anything,” he said, “even just writing a long email to a friend, but especially, especially when I sit down to write a novel — I am so scared. I don’t know what I’m doing. And I tell myself, and I hear all the voices saying: ‘you don’t know what you’re doing.’” It’s when he pushes away those “naysayers” that he says he’s able to listen to the voices that matter – the voices of the characters that he writes. It was while writing his first novel, Three Day Road, that Boyden first had the experience of being spoken to by a character. Sitting in a café, about to give up on the book, he says that suddenly he “started hearing a woman — not a real woman — but it might
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as well have been a real old woman.” He opened up his notebook and began recording the story that she had to tell him. This voice became the medicine woman Niska, who Boyden says was the first character of his “who just demanded that her story be told.” If Act One was about the story of his characters, Act Two, called “Walk to Morning,” was about the story of Boyden himself. Boyden shared a story he rarely tells in public, that of his suicide attempt at age 16. He included little exposition in this act. Instead, he read aloud a short story he had written about that night. Storytelling thus became the medium through which he was able to reach out and share what he calls “the most intimate mistake of [his] life” with us, a room full of strangers. “I tell this story,” Boyden said, “in the hope of reaching someone out there, even one person who is suffering the pain I speak of.” This image of storytelling as Boyden’s means of reaching out to others became the theme of Act Three, and tied together the two stories of the first two acts: the story of his characters and the story of himself. “My final secret to share with you tonight,” said Boyden, “is that I still struggle at times.” He continued that “Three times, the darkness came back to me… but I made it through, and I know that I’ll always make it through, because pushing away those voices that tell me ‘I can’t’ has always been the thing that’s
saved me.” In pushing away the defeatist voices and embracing the voices of his characters, Boyden is able to find himself and find his stories. Returning to his discussion of mental illness, Boyden remarked that he believes that the best way to help someone struggling is to “Encourage that person to do the thing that takes them outside of themselves, to reach out and help another person — there’s great medicine in that.” For Boyden, storytelling is the medium through which he can reach out to others. By opening himself to hearing the voices of his characters, he is able to share their stories with a broader audience. Indeed, it is with a peculiarly direct quality that Boyden’s work strikes his readers. Much of his work is written in the first person, and he tells the intensely personal stories of his characters with a unique immediacy and intimacy. Just as his characters demand that Boyden tell their stories, Boyden’s stories demand that the reader listen. Wenjack, his most recent publication, tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, an Ojibwe boy who in 1966 ran away from his Ontario residential school and froze to death trying to find his way home. “Gimik-wenden-ina? Do you remember? I remember, me” says the voice of Chanie in the opening lines of the novella. The immediacy of his voice addresses the reader with a directness perhaps possible only through the medium of a story. It is through storytelling that we are able to access realities foreign to our own; it is in stories that we are able to pause and listen to the voices demanding to be heard. Boyden began and ended his evening of three stories by sharing an Anishinaabe saying that he says “means a lot to me, that guides my worldview, that guides how I go about my daily life, and the choices that I make. In English: Everybody matters, everybody counts.” By writing stories to bridge the voices of his characters with the individual realities of his readers, Boyden is reminding us to remember that everybody matters, and that everybody counts. “It’s a simple way that I go through my life,” he said, “but it’s working for me.” We may have been a room filled with strangers, but Boyden was speaking his stories to each and every one of us; and just as storytelling had united his three acts into one unified lecture, his stories had created a bridge between us, himself, and his characters.
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LIVES LIVED
COLIN MACLEAN
ON THE INSIDE COVER of the programme handed out to the hundreds who attended Colin MacLean’s Celebration of Life service in Halifax on February 25, 2017 was a quote from T.S. Eliot’s poem Four Quartets. It begins: “We shall not cease from exploration”. Colin MacLean was an explorer. He explored places and he explored ideas. He explored potential in others and he explored his own life to the fullest. His close friend Thomas Rhymes (BAH ’87) spoke eloquently at the service about the depth and reach of Colin’s exploration. Colin, he said “was soup to nuts. He was pickles to popcorn … Equally comfortable and equally interested in conversation with the premier and the mechanic. Equally engaged with the politicians and the clerk stocking the sales rack at Margolians in Truro. He did that genuinely and absolutely, utterly without pretension. He truly did.” Another close friend, David Estok (BScH ’87) echoed those words. “Colin was a man who showed us all a compelling example of what it is to be a man … how to be cultured without pretension and how to achieve what is important without ever compromising honesty and integrity.”
Colin was born in Halifax in 1965. And while he left the city at various times, he always came back. Halifax was home. He earned his BA (’86) from the University of King’s College and a BEd and LLB from Dalhousie. But Colin chose not to practice law. Instead, he accepted the job of setting up an experimental alternative school in Bridgewater. From there, with his wife Marilla, who is also a King’s grad (BSc ’88), he moved to the remote village of Taloyoak in Nunavut. It is a place accessible only by air and the annual supply sealift. There, Colin introduced high school courses — the first for the most northerly community on the Canadian mainland. After two years in the Arctic, Colin and Marilla returned to Halifax. Colin joined the central administration of the newly formed Nova Scotia Community College. This was in 1996 and Colin was instrumental in developments in the College’s thirteen campuses. If there was something new to be tried, some idea to be explored, Colin would be there. It wasn’t long before he became Vice President under Ray Ivany. Colin took a deep interest in the design of NSCC’s Dartmouth Waterfront Campus, overlooking the harbor. It
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was a place where the students’ needs were the focus. There was more to do for Colin. Much more. He crossed the harbor and took on the role of President and CEO of the Waterfront Development Corporation. In Halifax and Dartmouth, Lunenburg and Bedford, Colin as the man in charge and backed by a strong Board and supported by good staff, turned empty lots and empty buildings into thriving places for people. Colin never waivered from his sense of duty to his community outside his work. He joined the King’s Board of Governors, giving back to his alma mater in that role and as Chair of the King’s Campus Planning Committee. He was also, before he became ill, Vice Chair of the Board of the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia. But even during that time, as noted by ISANS, he continued to be “the epitome of enthusiasm and the life force that he always was”. Nor did he waiver from exploring the joys of family life and travel. His two children, Mollie and Lewis and his wife Marilla were his greatest pleasure. He coached sports and cooked. He skied in the winter, summer was for the beaches of PEI. As William Lahey, King’s President and Vice-Chancellor says, “Colin was a natural at family life and friendship. He wore all his fine qualities and many accomplishments lightly, whether as a superb pick-up hockey player, builder of a new community college, or creator of a revitalized waterfront for the city he loved … he epitomized the approach to life that King’s and the Schulich School of Law inspire in their students.” Colin MacLean never ceased from exploring the possibilities of the life and opportunities that unfolded before him.
LIVES LIVED
IN MEMORIAM Jack Adelaar (BA ’66) October 22, 2014
Daniel Harlow (1949) October 29, 2014
Frances Allen (1961) August 25, 2015
Jacqueline Harmer (Friend of the College) March 2, 2014
Margaret (Campbell) Barnard (BA ’42) March 20, 2016 Avard Bishop (BA ’75) July 18, 2014 Malcolm Bradshaw (1957) October 2, 2015 Margaret Bourne (BA ’32) April 23, 2014 Moira Brady (BA ’06) September 20, 2016 Earle Brown (Friend of the College) January 1, 2014 Daniel Brownlow (Friend of the College) July 24, 2013 Abigail Bryant (Student) May 8, 2014 Cyril W. Bugden (BA ’49) November 4, 2016 Jane Burchill (1953) May 23, 2014
Mary Pheeney (BAH ’59) January 14, 2015
Aidan Harrington (Student) November 4, 2016
Frederick Pope (Friend of the College) January 16, 2015
Walter Harris (BA ’38, LTh ’40, DD ’83) August 20, 2014
Adrian B. Potter, Father Innocent (BA ’71) November 9, 2016
James Hayes (DD ’67) August 2, 2016
David Precious (1963) February 3, 2015
Sean Hellinger (1953) August 22, 2013
Gordon E. Pyke (BA ’57) August 6, 2016
Mary I. (Rettie) Henderson (1953) September 28, 2016
Leveson Roberts (BSc ’52) December 9, 2014
Laura Hody (1983) February 9, 2016
Patrick Roscoe (1985) June 27, 2013
Elizabeth Horlock (Friend of the College) December 18, 2015
Roy Rowsell (Friend of the College) July 2, 2013
Brian Hutchins (BA ’72) January 4, 2016
Douglas Roy (Friend of the College) February 2, 2015
John Burns (1966) December 3, 2016
David James-Wilson (BA ’88) January 18, 2015
Andrew G. Butler (BA ’89) April 6, 2016
Emmerson Keen (1956) July 13, 2014
Frederick Campbell (BSc ’64) February 11, 2015
Dora Kemp (BAH ’88) October 3, 2014
Richard Cassidy (BSc ’65) June 19, 2013
George W. Parker (BSL ’53, BDiv ’59, HF ’86) December 11, 2016
John Kinley (BA ’48) May 1, 2014
W. Barry Sawyer (BA ’71) June 25, 2014 Clifford Shirley (1962, HF ’94) April 12, 2015 Charles Martell Skinner (1938) September 15, 2015
Elsie Clarke (BA ’53) May 2, 2015
Abe Leventhal (Friend of the College) March 21, 2016
Lorne Clarke (Friend of the College) May 21, 2016
Mary Lynk (BSc ’66) March 15, 2015
Carol Smiley (BA ’75) February 6, 2014
Ian MacKenzie (BA ’41) January 29, 2014
Arthur Snow (LTh ’50) August 27, 2013
Maxine Cochran (Friend of the College) July 8, 2014
Colin MacLean (BA ’86) February 21, 2017
Joyce (Hart) Sorensen (BA ’47) January 31, 2014
R. Lorraine (Williams) Coleman (BA ’50) May 23, 2016
Alistair MacLeod (DCL ’00) April 20, 2014
Allan Conrod (HF ’87) June 12, 2016
Anne Martell (BA ’69) June 14, 2016
Jack R. Craig (DCL ’89) October 11, 2016
John Martin (DCL ’82) February 23, 2015
John F. Crocker (BSc ’62, DCL ‘90) October 26, 2016
Keith Mason (Lth ’51) September 17, 2015
Cynthia Fuller Davis (Friend of the College) November 2, 2015
Alison MacNeil (BAH ’93) January 24, 2014
T.W. Scott McDougall (1996) January 8, 2014
Scott Slipp (BA ’85) May 24, 2015
John Starnes (Friend of the College) December 23, 2014 Rodney Stokoe (Friend of the College) April 6, 2014 Margie (Tapley) Tingley (1965) November 9, 2013
Terence McGillion (BA ’87) January 13, 2014
Robert Tuck (BA ’48, DD ’93) November 16, 2015
Susan (Marsh) Deruelle (BA ’89) January 25, 2014
Stewart McInnes (Friend of the College) October 3, 2015
Elizabeth M. Varma (BAH ’07) May 20, 2016
Peter Doig (Friend of the College) August 17, 2014
Jeffrey Misener (2006) April 9, 2016
Philip Harry G. Walker (1940) August 29, 2014
Edward Donovaro (BA ’69) July 26, 2015 C. Hanson Dowell (1953) December 18, 2014 Sarah Dubé (BAH ’11) November 28, 2016
Kim Moar (BJH ’90) February 13, 2017 Peter Moir (1963) January 8, 2013 Nicola Moore (BA ’95) April 8, 2016
Paul Everest (BJ ’06) June 28, 2015
Walter Newton (Friend of the College) August 27, 2013
John Farley (Friend of the College) November 10, 2015
Allan R. O’Brien (1954) February 24, 2016
Louise L. Ghiz (BA ’69) September 23, 2016
Ruth Oland (Friend of the College) May 23, 2016
Constance Glube (Friend of the College) February 15, 2016
Elizabeth (Robertson) Page (DipJ ’53) April 7, 2016
Anne West (DCnL ’99) November 25, 2015 Carol (Davis) Whatley (1956) June 16, 2015 Robert Whyte (1951) October 30, 2014 Randolph Wood (LTh ’59) November 30, 2013 Donald Woodside (BSc ’48) July 19, 2013 Matthew Wuest (BJ ’04) March 19, 2015
David W. P. Gruchy (1954) May 22, 2016
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Katie May (BJH ’09) won the Greg Clark Award for early career journalists and is the winner — for the second year in a row — of the 2013 Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists in the under 25,000 circulation category. The Greg Clark Award gives working journalists the opportunity to spend a week
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gathering information and gaining insight about a specific issue or beat. Katie visited a birthing centre in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, to see how its particular approach could help First Nation women in remote northern Manitoba. “Delivering quality health care — and in many cases, receiving it — is no small task
in Canada’s remote, northern communities,” says Katie, “places where birth rates and infant mortality rates are often much higher than the national average. I’m grateful for the chance to explore what that means for expectant mothers trying to access pre- and neonatal care and for birthing centre staff trying to provide it. I hope that this experience will help me become a better journalist by more fully understanding health needs far beyond the country’s urban centres.” “Katie May’s proposal fits perfectly with the objectives of the Greg Clark Award,” says broadcast journalist Tom Clark, chair of the jury and Greg Clark’s great-nephew. “Her project is intended to shed light in an area that typically receives little of it. What she will discover on this journey will have implications for all. It’s putting resources to work in the interest of good journalism.” The Goff Penny Awards honour work published in daily newspapers by young Canadian journalists between the ages of 20 and 25. Katie submitted a portfolio of work that she produced while working as a crime reporter and photographer at The Lethbridge Herald, prior to joining the Winnipeg Free Press, where she currently works as a digital copy editor. Included were an investigation into illegal suites in the Lethbridge area, an interview with the parents of a young man who was shot and killed by a local police officer, a story on the difficulties temporary foreign workers face when brought to Canada under a federal government program, and a special report on high school bullying. To be considered for the award, worth $1,500, Katie was required to submit four editorial articles published during 2013.
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50s Gail (MacDonald) Crawford (BA ’55, Dip J ’55) and her husband Gerry Crawford visited friends in the Maritime provinces in July 2015. Gail obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Diploma in Journalism from Dal/ King’s in 1955. Later, from the University of Toronto she received her Master of Arts in History. She is the author of A Fine Line (1998) and Studio Ceramics in Canada (2005), the history of crafts and ceramics in Canada. (Both books are in the King’s library). Gail’s third book Hearts of Oak — a Gaelic Legacy, published in 2015 by Boulardie Island Press, describes one family’s immigration from Scotland to New Scotland. William Marshall (BA ’56) a lifelong Newfoundlander, received an honorary degree from Memorial University for his career in law and government. George Caines (BA ’58) was inducted into the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame in June 2016.
60s David Morrison’s (BA ’64, LTH ’65) memoir entitled, Witness, Reflections for Family and Friends was published by Strathmor Publications. James MacPherson (BAH ’66) has worked for many years within a number of government agencies. He is now working with post-graduate studies at a church university and travelled three days on foot and by dugout canoe to reach Simbai, a remote area of PNG. “It is in many ways great fun here,” he writes. “But you have to know how to make yourself a guest of the villagers, rather than just a self-invited visitor.”
In 2014 Clare Christie (BA ’67) and her English cousin Carol Wills, published My dear Alice: War Letters 1937 – 1950. My dear Alice is built around letters written from England during the Second World War to thank Alice Christie for sending parcels to relatives in England. They present vivid depictions of life on the Home Front. When wartime shortages began, Alice sent packages to various relatives during the Blitz and beyond, a common practice of many Maritime families. The letters offer observations on policy, the progress of the war and on living conditions. The Preface is a description of Amherst, Nova Scotia, as it was during the time Alice sent her parcels. By this time she was the mother of Fred (BSc ’58) and Innis (BA ’58), and later Garth (BSc ’61) and Clare, who all became Kingsmen. Bob Flecknell (BSc ’67) sends greetings to King’s friends and classmates: “I attended King’s 1960, 61 then 64 to 67 and have been here in the Philippines for eight years through many natural tragedies of typhoons and earthquakes, etc. and exciting times! Any UKC alumni here in Philippines? Was director of personnel for Acadia University 26 years (retired). Catch up time now, I guess!” Bob can be contacted at flecknell1@yahoo.com. Robert Hyslop (BA ’69) retired as Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Newfoundland in 2012. He continues to sit on a panel of part time judges and has since relocated to Moncton.
70s Andrew Hare (BA ’70) was the recipient of the 2014 Ross L. Towler CA of the Year Award, presented to him by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nova Scotia (ICANS). This award is presented annually to a CA who embodies the spirit of community volunteerism. In October 2016, Judith McPhee QC, (BA ’72) was appointed to the position of Nova Scotia Police Complaints Commissioner.
was established in 1941 to formally recognize people who have made outstanding contributions to the profession of architecture. Dr George Manuel Burden (1974) succeeded as the 31st Baron of Seybeggis, Stirlingshire, Scotland. “From the 15th century the Lairds of Feddal were members of the Burden family until the estate was sold in the 19th century and the family out-migrated,” writes George. George recently donated the Seabegs Collection of ancient Roman coinage to the Dalhousie Classics Department. The collection includes 182 bronze, silver and gold coins of the ancient Roman Empire with portraits of most of the emperors from Julius Caesar to the early Byzantine Empire. The collection complements the Seabegs Collection of Ancient Greek Coinage which was donated to the University of King’s College by Dr. Burden several years ago. The Hon Justice Peter Bryson (BAH ’77, DCnL ’10) was appointed the chair of the Rhodes Trust selection committee of the Maritime provinces. Jack Keough (BA ’79) was a recipient of a British Columbia Community Achievement Award. This award recognizes and celebrates the spirit, imagination, dedication and contribution of British Columbians to their communities. Kimberly Matheson (BA ’79) has retired from teaching for the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board. Presently she has a small record label, Ruby Throated Records: www.rubythroatedrecords,com. She has released her second collection of original songs, Just As I Am, in March 2014. It is available through iTunes and cdbaby.com. Asa Brosius (BA ’05) played pedal steel on the CD.
80s Cindy Morris (BSc ’81) is now the Medical Director of the Complete Care Clinic in Hamilton, Bermuda. The Complete Care Clinic uses an approach that integrates allopathic, complementary and traditional methods of treatment and care.
The Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) named Carol Rogers (BA ’72) a college fellow. The RAIC College of Fellows
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Cut from the Cloth of Fogo is Stewart Payne’s (DD ’81) memoir, tracing his humble beginnings on Fogo Island in the 1930s and his journey to becoming one of the most respected Anglican clergymen in Newfoundland and Labrador. With modesty and humour, Stewart describes his early upbringing on Fogo Island, his first trip to the big city to enter Memorial College, his teaching years at Indian Islands and Fogo, and the ministerial calling that put him on the path to a long and rewarding life of humanitarian work. Since 1999, Robert Kozak (BJ ’82) has been working and living in Lima, Peru, with his wife and three children. He first worked for Dow Jones Newswires, which later merged with The Wall Street Journal. Roberts says that he has the “sort-of-impressive title” of bureau chief, Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. John Paul Westin (BAH ’82) was awarded the degree of Doctor of Ministry at the 2014 spring convocation of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Sociologist Scott Kenney (BA ’84) addresses the contemporary significance of Freemasons in his new book, Brought to Light: Contemporary Freemasonry, Meaning and Society. Kenney, a professor at Memorial University and freemason himself, delves into how an ancient society remains relevant in the present age, and demystifies some of the practices that run contrary to how the society is depicted in the media. Brett Loney (BJ ’84) published a biography called Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story. It is a compelling account of how Canada’s shameful treatment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II impacted one man: the rebellious Dr. Harry Nikaido. Turning his back on material things, Doc practiced medicine in Bow Island, Alberta, living a bohemian lifestyle and
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charging no more for his services than what he absolutely needed to survive. He paid little or no income tax over his 24-year career to get back at the Canadian Government, whom he never forgave for the forcible resettlement of his family and 22,000 other Japanese-Canadians from British Columbia during World War II. The book is available at FriesenPress. com. At the inaugural WomenActive Trendsetter Awards in April, freelance sports journalist Hugh (Monty) Mosher (BJ ’84) was the recipient of the 2016 Media Trendsetter Award. The awards celebrate those who change attitudes, programs, and systems to enrich the lives of all women and girls as participants and leaders in sport and recreation in Nova Scotia.
Mark Feldbauer (BJH ’86) and Josée Monette were married on January 18, 2014 in Barbados. Mark and Josée live in Ottawa. In August 2016, Mary Campbell (BJH ’87) went live with the Cape Breton Spectator, a weekly news site reporting from and about Cape Breton. Louanne Chiasson (BA ’87) has been appointed to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court family division. Prior to her appointment, she was a partner with the Dartmouth law firm Weldon McInnis, where she specialized in family law. Rachel Haliburton (BAH ’87) has published a book called Autonomy and the Situated Self: A Challenge to Bioethics. Rachel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Sudbury.
Sherri Aikenhead (BJH ’85) was recognized by the Canadian Progress Club Halifax Cornwallis at their signature fundraising event with a Progress Women of Excellence award for her commitment to excellence in communications and public affairs. James Eaton (’82-85) has been teaching electro-mechanical engineering-robotics at Algonquin College in Ottawa since September 2012. James can be contacted at eatonj@algonquincollege.com. In April 2014 Shirley Hazen (BAH ’85) accepted the position of Director of Economic Planning and Evaluation at the Nova Scotia Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism. The Very Rev. Dr. Iain Luke (BAH ’85) is the new principal at The College of Emmanuel & St. Chad in Saskatoon. Heather MacIvor (BAH ’85) decided to change careers after almost two decades as a political scientist. She graduated with a JD from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in June 2014. In 2014-2015 she Clerked at the Divisional Court in Toronto, and in 2015-2016 she is articling at the Constitutional Law Branch of Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General. Patricia Towler, (BA ’85) was recently appointed President & CEO of CPA Nova Scotia, the body governing professional accountants in Nova Scotia.
Stories of Adversity, Heroism and Healing
The Price We Pay Janice Landry
Journalist and author Janice Landry (BJH ’87) has released her third book, The Price We Pay, featuring gripping accounts from Canada’s first-responders, police officers, firefighters and military personnel.
Peter Classen (BAH ’88) has joined the Boards of the Anthony Quinn Foundation and Age of Discovery Foundation to help further their educational programs. Dave Douglas (BSc ’88, BA ’90) former UKC varsity soccer player and head coach was named to the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Hall of Fame in the coach category. Trevor Greene (BJH ’88, DCL ’09) has co-written a book, There is No Planet B: Promise and Peril on our Warming World, with Mike Velemirovich. The introduction was written by Dr David Suzuki.
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Amanda Le Rougetel (BJ ’88) completed her Certificate in Adult Education through Red River College in Winnipeg, where she teaches technical communication into diploma and trades programs. She is embracing technology tools in her teaching and will be using both wikis and blogs in her courses this fall. “After all,” she says, “chalk was the technology when I was a student, but these days the tools of the classroom include smart phones and other devices. I have to keep up with my learners!” Stephen Maher (BA ’88) has been awarded the twenty third Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Christopher Eyton (BA ’89) wrote and published his first children’s story book, The Balloon Is Doomed. It tells the story of a young boy and his dislike of balloons and how he learns to overcome it. Chris resides in Caledon and Toronto. Roger Thompson (BA ’89, HC ’91) has become the first foreign civics professor at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. He teaches the philosophy of President John F Kennedy. He writes that in 2014 he “received a letter and gift from Ambassador Caroline Kennedy to thank him for teaching her father’s wisdom to Korean students.” Roger also teaches an ethics of Star Trek class and is that country’s first Star Trek professor. He is working on his third book on the U.S. Navy.
90s Lisa Blackburn, (BJH ’90) is the newly elected Halifax city councillor representing Middle/Upper Sackville — Beaver Bank — Lucasville. Scott Andrew Christensen (BA ’90) has just published his debut collection of poems, the boundaries of return (Red Hand Books, www rhbks. com). After King’s, Scott graduated with an MFA in English and Writing from Southampton College, Long
Island University. He has taught abroad since 1997 in Southeast Asia, the United States, and the Middle East. He currently lives in Saudi Arabia with his wife, Yeliz, and their two daughters, Sasha and Sara. “Like his esteemed, canonical ancestors, Gerald Manley Hopkins and Elizabeth Bishop, Christensen crafts lines and images that shadow Philosophy without overshadowing the domestic and the earthy,” says George Elliott Clarke. Brian Macdonald (’90) was re-elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Fredericton West-Hanwell. Dr. George MacLean (BAH ’90) began his five-year term as vice-president academic at University of New Brunswick Fredericton on July 1, 2016. Dr. MacLean has been at UNB Fredericton for two years, serving as dean of arts. Prior to that he was the associate dean of the University of Manitoba’s faculty of graduate studies, and served there as the head of the department of political studies for five years. Jonathan Romalo (BJ ’90) is working as a freelance I.T. consultant in Calgary and raising twin two-year-olds. Lorraine Stevenson (BJ ’90) returned home after graduation and worked for five years as a reporter and photographer for community newspapers in Manitoba’s Interlake. In 1995 she was hired as a fulltime agricultural reporter with the Manitoba Co-operator (MC), a province-wide farm policy and production newspaper. In 2002 she joined a team to launch a new farm newspaper, the Farmers’ Independent Weekly (FIW). In 2007 FIW merged with the MC and since then she has worked as a full-time reporter for the MC, a division of Glacier FarmMedia. She lives with her husband, who she met while trying to sell him a subscription, in Carman, Manitoba. Janet Cameron (BA ’91) was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award for her young adult novel, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World, published by Hachette Ireland.
Susan (Marshall), (BJ ’91) and Chris Flanagan, (BJ ’91) live in St. John’s with their five children. Chris is Director of Communications and Marketing for Research and Development Corporation (RDC) and Susan is the owner of 48 Degrees Media Consultants. She is also a freelance writer and columnist for The Telegram, St. John’s daily newspaper. Cassandra Hallett DaSilva (BAH ’91) has been appointed the first female secretary general of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. Miriam Toews (BJ ’91, DCL ’10) won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction prize for All My Puny Sorrows. The novel details the story of a writer dealing with her suicidal sister, which she hopes will spark conversation about topics such as mental health and illness, the psychiatric care profession, suicide and assisted suicide. In November 2016, Miriam was awarded a $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship. Fresh from her win for Best Documentary, with her film Perfume War at the Atlantic Film Festival, Barb Stegemann (BA ’91, BJ ’99) was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New Brunswick. Barbara is a social entrepreneur whose perfume startup The 7 Virtues sources essential oils for countries embattled by war. In 2010, she became the first woman from Atlantic Canada to score a deal on CBC’s Dragon’s Den. Associate produced by Jordi Valdés, (1991), The State of Arizona was nominated for an Emmy Award in the 36th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards category of Outstanding Investigative Journalism-Long-Form. The State of Arizona (a PBS documentary) captures the explosive emotions and complex realities behind Arizona’s headline-grabbing struggle with illegal immigration. Following Arizona’s controversial Senate Bill 1070, dubbed the “show me your papers” law, the film tells the stories of Arizonans on all sides of this divisive issue from ground zero of the nation’s immigration debate.
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Tara Erskine, QC (BA ’92), received her Queen’s Counsel Commission in May. The QC designation is awarded annually by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on the recommendation of the Nova Scotia Minister of Justice and recognizes demonstrated professional integrity, good character and outstanding contributions to the practice of law. Tara is a labour, employment and human rights lawyer at McInnes Cooper. She lives with her husband and 4 children in Halifax. Gregory MacIsaac (BAH ’92) and his wife Robyn Bragg are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Eleanor Margaret MacIsaac. Gregory teaches in the Bachelor of Humanities program at Carleton Univerity. Duncan McCue (BA ’92) recently became host of Cross Country Checkup, CBC’s long-running national call-in show.
Edward Rix (BAH ’92), Dean of Men ‘95-’97 and his wife Sierra welcomed Peter James into the world, a brother to Gwyneth, Henry, Benjamin, Jane and Margaret. Peter’s godparents include Finley Mullally (BAH ’92), Dean of Men ’93-’95, ’97-’98. Father Rix continues as Priest-in-Charge of All Saints’, Wynnewood in the Western Suburbs of Philadelphia, where he has ministered since 1998. Gabriel Edell (BA ’93) has opened the new Whole Foods Market in Albany, New York, as the store team leader. Gabriel lives with his wife Sarah and their children, Hyacinth (9) and Levon (2) in Saratoga Springs, New York. Gabriel can be contacted at gabriel. edell@gmail.com.
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Poet, playwright, and professor Natalie Meisner (’91-92) has published numerous plays and works of fiction. Her first work of non-fiction, Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family (Fernwood Publishing), is a light-hearted and true account of how she and her wife decided to look for “Mr Right” rather than opt for an anonymous donor when they decided they wanted to have babies. Natalie’s book became a play, Speed Dating for Sperm Donors and ran at Neptune Theatre in Halifax in September 2016. Previously, the play premiered at Calgary’s Lunchbox Theatre in a production directed by fellow King’s grad Pamela Halstead (BA ’88)
Toronto Star reporter-photographer Jim Rankin (BJ ’92) was one of the Harry Jerome Award winners, presented by the Black Business and Professional Association. Jim received his award in the public advocacy category for his specialized work in investigative, database, and features journalism for a series on race, policing and crime in Toronto. The series won a Michener Award.
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Shelley Harrison (1993) has opened two businesses in Chelsea, Quebec, Vraie Nature Yoga + Énergie (www.vraienatureyoga.ca), and the True Nature Healing (www.truenaturehealing.ca). After pursing further education in Energy Medicine at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Shelley has been in private practice since 1999. Many thanks to the King’s Theatre Society for inspiration, drama, and friendships remembered. Catherine Novis (BAH ’93) has embarked on a two-year post-graduate diploma in nursing at the University of West London. Stephanie Nolen (BJH ’93, DCL ’09) is the recipient of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for her reporting work in India as a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail. Stuart Wood (BAH ’93) and Christine welcomed Emma Janet Angela Wood on September 8th, 2015, weighing in at 7 pounds 10 ounces. Big sisters Cailey and Abigail are thrilled. Jason Brannen (BA ’94) recently became Deputy Regional Director and Senior Counsel at the Ontario Regional Office of Justice Canada in Toronto. Jason has been with Justice Canada since 2000, and has held a number of positions in Halifax, Ottawa and Toronto.
Trevor J Adams (BJH ’98) was a finalist in the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) annual Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. This award recognizes an editor’s outstanding contribution to a work published in Canada in English or French in 2013. Trevor was nominated for his work on Halifax Magazine. According to the EAC: “Adams is an editor with a passion for his city and its stories, and his energy shines through in his work. He is described by one judge as ‘a natural leader and mentor with a smart, strategic approach to the magazine,’ so it’s obvious why Halifax Magazine’s contributors say they do their best work under his guidance. The judges were impressed by his support for new writers and his dedication to growing and developing the publishing industry in Nova Scotia.”
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LYSE DOUCET HONOURED FOR SERVICES TO JOURNALISM by Katie Ingram (BJ ’11) The BBC’s Lyse Doucet (DCL ’03) has spent the last 30 years telling stories about people and places from all over the world. Doucet started her career in the early 1980s as a freelancer for the BBC and eventually became one of its foreign correspondents. Based in London since 1999, she is now the BBC’s chief international correspondent, reporting on events like the war in Iraq, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the recent Pakistan/Israel conflict in Gaza. In June, Doucet received the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to journalism. Katie Ingram (BJ ’11) spoke to her about this honour, her career, and her advice to young journalists. Q: What does it mean to you to receive the OBE? A: It is a great honour, but I had to think carefully about whether to accept it. I am from New Brunswick with both Acadian and Irish ancestry and OBE stands for Officer of the British Empire. Its meaning is, of course, different now and, in the end, on advice from family and friends, I
decided that saying yes was the right thing to do. The response I received from people around the world was as touching as the OBE itself. Q: What was your first job and your first big break? A: When I graduated from university I wanted to be a foreign correspondent and didn’t want to wait years in Canada to become one. I went to West Africa on a volunteer placement with Canadian Crossroads International and then stayed on. I turned up when the BBC was establishing its first West Africa office and even though I had the wrong accent and no experience, it was the classic ‘right place right time.’ Q: What general advice would you give journalists starting out today? A: [You should] take risks, but only calculated well-researched ones. Play to your strengths, your languages and your connections. Only go to places to tell stories you are interested in, always remember you are
not the story, [and] listen and be faithful to other people’s stories. Q: What advice would you give journalists or journalism students looking to work in foreign countries? A: Learn languages, never assume you know the story, never lose a sense of humour, show respect at all times and listen to everyone. Q: What combination of old and new skills do you feel journalists need to have in this social media-driven world? A: Social media is a big asset and a global conversation, but the story and storyteller still matter, so social media complements and strengthens traditional media. It does not replace it. Q: If someone were to ask you to define journalism, what would your definition be? A: Your journalism is defined by the questions you ask; never stop asking.
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Lia Daborn (BAH ’94) was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE). Lia currently works as the executive director for the New Brunswick Dental Society in Fredericton NB.
Sarah Fulford (BAH ’96) was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. She serves on the Humber Journalism Advisory Board and has been editor-in-chief at Toronto Life since 2008.
Lisa (Dennis) Taggart (BJH ’94) and Craig Taggart are happy to announce the safe arrival of their daughter, Nicole Violet, on October 2, 2014. They live in Stratford, PE. To contact Lisa and Craig: esprit-709@eastlink.ca
Natasha Pashak (1996) has completed a BFA (Drawing) at the Alberta College of Art and Design and an MA (Art History) at Concordia in Montreal. Natasha lives in Calgary with her partner and 3 year old son, Isaac.
King’s welcomed Jennifer Adams (BA ’95) back to the quad as the University Librarian. Nevin French (BA ’95) moved back to Ottawa for a position as Deputy Director, Canada-EU Commercial Relations at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. He is also dedicating his time to skiing and getting back into “running shape.” Dan Rubinstein (BJ ’95) has written his first book, Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act, published in April 2015. The humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind. Nathalie Atkinson (BAH ’96) is a columnist for The Globe and Mail, where she writes across Style, Film and Arts. Find her on Twitter @NathAt.
Tudor Robins (BJ ’96) has published her second Young Adult novel, Appaloosa Summer, with the support of a City of Ottawa Emerging Artist Grant. Tudor’s first novel, Objects in Mirror, was named to the 2013 Canadian Children Book Centre’s ‘Best Books for Kids and Teens’ list. www.tudorrobins.ca. Mark Sampson (BJH ’97) published Sad Peninsula in 2014, a fictional novel set in South Korea that explores the seedy underbelly of the expatriate ESL teaching community in Seoul as well as the history of Korea’s “comfort women” from the Second World War. Monica Schael-Isenor (BJH ’97) moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with her husband, Brett Isenor, and their three sons, Gabriel, Samuel, and Nicolas.
Jen Laurette (BA ’01) and Allen McAvoy (BJ ’02) are happy to announce they were married on 29 December 2014 in Palm Springs, California. Fellow King’s alum Lesley-Anne Steeleworthy (BJ ’02) and her husband Michael Steeleworthy were on hand to help the couple celebrate. Jen and Allen now live in Kingston, Ontario, where they both work for Queen’s University. Anyone wishing to contact the happy couple can do so at McAvoyLaurette@gmail.com.
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Heather Smith (BA ’97) and Blair Jollimore are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Richard Robert Douglas Jollimore-Smith. Steve Smith (BJ ’97) has won a silver medal in the History category of the 2015 New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Programs competition. His documentary entitled, “To Heal a Sick Nation”, chronicles the revolutionary politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was developed for CBC’s Ideas and has been aired on public radio stations in the United States as well. Robyn Tingley (BJ ’97) and her husband Brent McGovern welcomed two beautiful twin girls into the world on June 13, 2014. Mary Grace and Olivia Ann-Marie were born one minute apart in Orange County California.
In 2015, Meredith Woodwark, (BAH ’97) graduated with a PhD in Business Administration (Organizational Behaviour) from Western University in London, ON. Meredith’s dissertation was entitled, “Working Harder, Working Smarter, or Doing Both?” and focused on goal setting for highly complex tasks. She is now an Assistant Professor at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. Meredith lives with her husband in Stratford, ON. In 2008, Jacob Bjerre, (BA ’98) and Pernille Bjerre-Nielsen welcomed their son Vitus in 2010 followed by his sister Mynthe In 2014. In 2011 Jacob published the textbook, Holocaust intended for high-schools. In 2015 he published the book, Udsigt til forfølgelse. Det danske udenrigsministeriums viden om de europæiske jødeforfølgelser 1938-1945 / With a View to Persecution. The Danish Foreign Ministry’s Knowledge of the Persecution of the European Jews 1938-1945, published by University Press of Southern Denmark. Jacob is presently working on
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his PhD dissertation with the working title, Excluding the Jews. German Aryanization Attempts in Denmark 1937-1943. It is a joint project between the Danish National Archives and Copenhagen Business School. In September 2015 Deborah Irvine Anderson (BJH ’98) started as the Director of Audience Development at Civilized, a digital media start-up that aims to elevate cannabis culture. She can be reached at deborah@civilized.life Karen Paré (BA ’98) currently lives in Toronto with her husband, Paul Barkin, and their two sons, Levi (age 5) and Nate (age 1). Juliet Williams (BJ ’98), an award-winning reporter for The Associated Press, has been named administrative correspondent in Sacramento, where she will oversee California state government and politics coverage for AP’s largest statehouse bureau. Zachary Wells (BAH ’99) released his third poetry collection, Sum. Nimbly slipping between personae, masks, and moods, the prosody driven poems of Sum weigh the volatility and mutability of the self against the forces of habit, instinct and urge. With homages to Hopkins, Graves, Wislawa Szymborska, Paul Muldoon, and more, and in allusion-dappled, playfully sprung stanzas, this third book both wears its influences openly and spins a sound texture all its own, in a collection far greater than its parts.
Rebecca Fitzgerald (’98-00) has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies at Saint Mary’s University and a Master of Education in Adult Education and Community Development (with a specialization in Comparative, International and Development Education) at the University of Toronto. Rebecca currently works as the Manager of International Mobility at Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and has developed and launched a new Certificate Program in Global Citizenship, helping students to develop, recognize and articulate their intercultural skills and global understanding. Matt Goerzen (BJ ’00) won an Editors and Publishers Award in the category of Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a Website for a piece entitled “Breaking Faith.” Matt is the editor for the Brandon Sun. An avid traveler, he is also the owner of an online magazine entitled The Foreigner-Japan. He is also the father of twins. After three years of teaching American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Laura MacDonald (BJH ’00) took up a lectureship in musical theatre in 2013 at the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth in England. She says that she “literally dove into life in Portsmouth, completing the Portsmouth Triathlon, which included a swim in the English Channel”. Laura can be contacted at lemily@hotmail.com.
Since 2001 Robin Perelle (BJ ’00) has been the managing editor in Vancouver of Daily Xtra, Canada’s gay and lesbian online news source. The Rev Christopher Snook (BAH ’00) returned to Halifax to take up his new role as rector of Saint George’s Round Church. Christopher was a parishioner at Saint George’s while a student and FYP teaching fellow at King’s. He has served in parishes in Saskatchewan and Ohio. Leanne Wierzba (’99-00) completed a BFA at the California College of Arts in San Francisco and an MA in History of Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since 2011, Leanne has been working as an exhibition curator, first at the London College of Fashion’s Fashion Space Gallery and now at the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is also a Research Fellow with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Kate Cayley (BAH ’01) was the winner of the 2015 Trillium Book Award. Her first collection of short stories, entitled How You Were Born, published by Pedlar Press, is described as “a collection of stories that investigate the bizarre, the tragi-comic and the unbelievable elements that run through human lives”.
00s Wilson Bell (BAH ’00) was awarded a two-year (2015-2017) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (IDG) valued at over $40,000 for his new project, “44 Lenin Avenue: Siberia’s 20th century history as told through its most remarkable building.” Keith Bonnell (BJH ’00) has been named Editor in Chief of the Ottawa Sun. Keith has worked for The Canadian Press, the Halifax Daily News, the Calgary Herald and The Globe and Mail.
Holly Andruchuk (BA ’05) and Simon Elliott (BA ’05) welcomed the arrival of Thomas William Elliott in September 2013. Simon writes that they “are enjoying this phase in their adventure that started at King’s College”.
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Toronto Star reporter Marco Chown Oved (BAH ’05) was the recipient of a $25,000 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship. “I just returned from the travelling for the fellowship,” he wrote. “I spent two months in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Peru, visiting these CIDA (now DFATD) — NGO — mining company partnership development projects. “If I had to say one thing about the trip it’s that it really shows the value of on-the-ground journalism. By going to these places, speaking to the NGOs, the mines and the people who live there, I was struck by the disconnect with what’s being said and written at home. “Foreign aid is a difficult subject because everyone likes to know it’s there, but no one is particularly interested in how it’s being spent. So trying to write a compelling story about mining and aid is really about telling the story from the point of view of the locals: e.g.: ‘I live here, the mine came and this is how my life changed.’”
Marco (centre) with his cameraman, a local community leader and a couple of artisanal miners in Essakane, Burkina Faso.
In what proved to be a busy 2013, Jennifer Fox (BJH ’01) married Ilan Muskrat, obtained her Accredited in Public Relations designation from the Canadian Public Relations Society, and joined the Toronto health practice of Edelman Public Relations. Jeff Green (BJ ’01) and his wife Amanda welcomed their son Harrison Alton on June 11, 2014, a younger brother to their daughter Vivienne, born in October of 2011. Thomas Ledwell (BAH ’01, BJ ’02) and his wife Isabelle Ouellet-Morin welcomed their daughter Sophie Genevieve Ledwell-Morin into the world on March 5, 2014 in Montreal. They spent their parental leave with a getaway to Italy and traveling through eastern Canada introducing Sophie to her many relatives, especially in Quebec and Prince Edward Island.
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Andrea Miller (BJ ’02) is the editor of Buddha’s Daughters: Teaching from Women Who are Shaping Buddhism in the West, an anthology that Shambhala Publications released in April 2014. Andrea is the deputy editor of the Shambhala Sun magazine. Her first anthology, Right Here With You: Bringing Mindful Awareness Into Our Relationships, was published in 2011.
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Hysterically funny, painful in its revelations, and philosophically compelling throughout, Giving Up is the deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of a modern couple’s apartment. Blurring the line between what happened and what might have happened, the novel gives voice to the anguish of a generation who grew up with great expectations, and are now settling into a comfortable compromise – failure, with perks. James is determined to accomplish something great, what he describes as his ‘life’s work’, while Mary is worried about their problems starting a family, and is scared that their future might not turn out as she’d planned. In the span of a few hours on an ordinary night in an unnamed city, two small events will have enormous consequences on James’ and Mary’s lives, and on the very possibility of them being together.
Ananda (Duquette) Peters (BJ ’01) and her husband Joe welcomed their sixth child, Reeve Samuel Peters. The couple owns a roofing company and spends their time between Nebraska and Arizona, homeschooling their children. Few first novels in recent memory are as consistently charming, smart, entertaining and incisive as Giving Up. Somehow Mike Steeves has written a pageturner about stray cats and trips to the bank, and a story that treads through the stuff of everyday life with such precision to cast each detail, every gesture and object and silence, with great meaning. —Pasha Malla, author of The Withdrawal Method and People Park
Mike Steeves is a brilliant, singular voice in Can Lit: funny and fresh and fast! Giving Up burns and glows with the intensity of a blue flame and all the pathos and obsessiveness and truth and absurdity of modern coupledom. —Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness
Mike Steeves’ Giving Up is like a Facebook-era version of Paula Fox’s 1970s New York classic Desperate Characters: a lucid micro-portrait of an apartment-bound couple facing childlessness, marital landlock and a malevolent feline presence. But its pulse is faster, warmer, more irregular. It’s a chamber piece for two voices sharing disappointingly overhyped takeout, a woozily funny yet deeply decent view of adult love. It broke the shit out of my heart. Read it with someone you adore who you fear half the time can’t stand the sight of you. —Carl Wilson, author of Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
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Joshua Bates (BAH ’02) was named an Action Canada Fellow. Action Canada is a socio-economic development leadership program. Bates is the only Nova Scotian selected to the panel of 17, who will prepare
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a report and policy recommendations to be presented in Ottawa next year. On January 18, 2016, Joshua and Sara Strickland welcomed their first child, Ira David Bates into their family.
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Dr. Su Lin Lewis (BAH ’01), a lecturer of Modern History at the University of Bristol, has published her first book entitled, Cities in Motion: Urban and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940.
Tim Maly (’01) and Emily Horne (BAH ’03) who first collaborated as King’s students have written a book called The Inspection House about panopticons. In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labour saving device for those in authority. Today the available tools of scrutiny, supervision and discipline are far more capable and insidious. The Inspection House is a tour through several sites — from Guantanamo Bay to Occupy Oakland camp and the authors’ own mobile devices — providing a stark, vivid portrait of our contemporary surveillance state and its opponents.
At times funny, at other times sad, and more often a mixture of the two, Giving Up a debut Giving Up novel by Montreal author Michael Steeves Mike Steeves (BA ’02) is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of a modern couple’s apartment. Told in the voices of two protagonists — James and Mary — who reveal the nature of their problems (creative, marital, procreational) in painstaking detail. a novel
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KAREN MCCOLL: WINNER OF THE 2014 GORDON SINCLAIR ROVING REPORTER BURSARY THIS SUMMER KAREN MCCOLL (BJ ’14) is embarking on what — for most people — would be the adventure of a lifetime: a seven week canoe trip up the MacKenzie River from Fort Simpson to Tuktoyaktuk through 10 remote communities. For this intrepid freelance journalist, however, it’s all part of the career she has chosen. “You won’t find me on the couch watching TV,” she writes in her blog. “I like to seize the day and write about it.” Karen is the winner of the 2014 Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary, which is worth $15,000 and is awarded to an early career journalist to fund a major research and reporting trip. The purpose of Karen’s trip is to document the impact of oil, gas, and construction development on remote communities. Major infrastructure projects are taking place in
the area to support the MacKenzie Valley gas project. “We could be on the verge of seeing largescale and irreversible changes in the region and I think it’s important to capture the voice of the people who will be most affected by these developments,” says Karen. “I have a deep respect for First Nations culture and I hope to give a voice to people who don’t always get to be heard in the mainstream media.” She will document their stories about their land, culture, concerns, and needs. The bursary was created in 1984 in memory of Gordon Sinclair, who reported from around the world for the Toronto Star in the 1930s. The aim behind the bursary is to encourage a young journalist to get off the beaten track and spend a considerable period away on a reporting assignment. “One of the reasons the board members of the
foundation liked my proposal,” says Karen, “was because it was something they could picture Gordon Sinclair doing.” Karen is aiming to have her work published with either the Toronto Star or CBC on her return, two places where Gordon Sinclair spent much of his career. “Karen is a real go-getter,” says King’s journalism professor Doug Kirkaldy, who taught Karen as a student. “She came to us after spending a fair bit of time in the North and has turned her experience there into winning this prize. She’s hard working, keen, reliable and dependable. A good person to have in the room.” Karen and her trip partner, Daniel Campbell (BJ ’13) were connected thanks to Kate McKenna (BJ’ 13) and Randi Beers (BJ ’13).
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Lesley-Anne (Noseworthy) Steeleworthy (BJ ’02) and Mike Steeleworthy welcomed Henry William Grant into the world on July 3, 2015 as the first person ever born with the last name Steeleworthy. Lesley-Anne has been working with Extreme Group in Halifax since 2011.
Eloisa Mayer, (BJH ’03) is the Owner & General Manager of a Boutique Hotel & Yoga Retreat called Casa Lucia Boutique Hotel & Yoga in Nicaragua.
Ann Whytewood-Sitzberger (BSc ’04) has been teaching in England for the past seven years. She and her husband, Paul welcomed their son, George Henry Sitzberger.
Business consultant Eleanor Beaton (BJ ’03) will serve as an international advisor for the Women’s Leadership program at the Yale School of Management. The program seeks to help companies develop qualified women for top managerial positions. Writer Devon Code (BAH ’03) has published his debut novel, Involuntary Bliss, available now from BookThug. Situated in modern-day Montréal during a weekend in late August, Involuntary Bliss follows two young men who come together in an attempt to restore their friendship. Code’s novel investigates themes of mortality, idealism, and transgressive art from the perspective of young adults. In 2007, Devon published In A Mist, a collection of short stories. In 2010, he was awarded the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. Laura deCarufel (BJH ’03) celebrated the birth of her first child, Charlie, as well as three years in her job as the executive editor of ELLE Canada magazine Paula Gale, (BJ ’03) is an associate producer with CBC News in St. John’s. The Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada by Carolyn Harris (’02-03) published by Dundurn Press complements the Magna Carta Canada touring exhibition, which visited Ottawa, Winnipeg, Toronto and Edmonton in 2015. Carolyn completed a PhD in history at Queen’s University in 2012 and currently teaches at the School of Continuing Studies University of Toronto.
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Kathryn Mann (’03-04) obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2014, and is a visiting assistant professor in math at UC Berkeley.
Rev Dr. Gary Thorne (DD ’04) received an honorary Doctor of Divinity in May at Wycliffe College in Toronto.
Dan Misener (BA ’03) hosted a CBC Radio program called Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids. “I travelled across the country, visiting 10 cities, including Halifax, to encourage Canadians to share their embarrassing teenage poetry, journal entries, letters from camp, etc. We’ve put the best stuff on the radio,” he writes. You can listen to podcasts at http://www.grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids.com/. Dawn in Damascus, a work of nonfiction from writer Spencer Osberg (BJ ’03, MFA ’15) made the longlist for the prestigious CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. Osberg, a Halifax native, has been a writer and reporter in the Middle East since 2005, reporting for Al Jazeera, France 24, and the CBC among other outlets. He is also the editor of Beirut-based Executive Magazine.
Shelley Brown (BJ ’05) works in the library at McConnell Library in Sydney and volunteers with the ALS Society of Nova Scotia. James Bryson (BAH ’05) is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer at McGill University, where he hosted a conference on the English philosopher, Roger Scruton, funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant. A book based on the conference will appear with Bloomsbury, titled Thinking the Sacred with Roger Scruton, edited by Dr. Bryson. The conference was covered by the CBC Radio Program ‘Ideas with Paul Kennedy’, airing as an episode called ‘Scrutinizing Roger Scruton’, now available for download as a podcast. Dr. Bryson and his wife Kristi Bryson (née Assaly BAH ’09) welcomed a son into their family, Matthew Benjamin (BAH ’35).
Sam Austin (BAH ’04) is the newly elected Halifax city councillor representing the Dartmouth Centre district.
Matt Fegan (BJH ’05) was named to the Hall of Fame as a student-athlete. This is the first time that a student-athlete has ever been named to the CCAA Hall of Fame.
Owen Averill (BAH ’04) and Heidi Laing (BAH ’04) welcomed their second child, Arthur Shillingford on January 25th, 2015. Their daughter, Casey Jean was born in 2011. Owen practices family medicine in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Adam Hardiman (BAH ’05) is currently residing in Fort McMurray, Alberta and is a strategic advisor with the Wood Buffalo Recovery Task Force, the team responsible for leading recovery activities in Fort McMurray following the devastating wildfires in May, 2016.”
Diane Henry (BJH ’04) is co-host of the morning show at Country KHJ 103.5FM in Oromocto, NB.
Wanda Praamsma’s (BJH ’05) first book works at ‘peeling away the I’s’ to explore concepts of self and family in flux. A long poem, or verse-novel that transcends geographic boundaries and time periods, a thin line between weaves together Praamsma’s own and her family’s lives — including
Kristen Lipscombe (BJ ’04) is the sports reporter at Metro Halifax. “Feel free to send story ideas my way,” she says, “or any enthusiastic students looking for sports media advice, as I am always happy to help!” Kristen can be reached at kristen.lipscombe@ metronews.ca.
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her poet-grandfather and sculptor-uncle — into a spirited and humorous portrait of a Dutch Canadian family. Frances Anne (Black) Strauss (BAH ’05) writes that the Pit is where she started her whole career in the theatre as a “proud member of the KTS”. And what a career! After King’s, she obtained an MFA in theatre management at Yale Drama School and then worked as director of programs at Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York from 2009 to 2014. She also works as an independent producer in New York, where she has produced three full off-Broadway productions and co-produced on Broadway show. Frances is now dedicated to her company, Frances Black Projects, which produce new comedy, commedia dell arte, and clown. Frances married Matt Strauss in December 2013.
Elliott Bent (BA ’06) is the US Communications Officer for the Institute for Sustainable Communities, an international nonprofit focused on helping cities, communities and Asian factories become more resilient and sustainable. Terra-Lee Bruhm (BJH ’06, MFA ’15), King’s Assistant Registrar, Academic and Enrolment Services was awarded the 2016 AARAO Leadership and Service Award. This award is presented annually to a member of the Atlantic Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers (AARAO) who has “demonstrated significant leadership in the post-secondary environment throughout their career. This person has been thoroughly engaged in supporting AARAO’s efforts to develop our members and advocate for post-secondary education in Atlantic Canada”. Nadine LaRoche (BJH ’06) who has been working at Halifax ad agency Trampoline since her departure from the Advancement Office at King’s over five years ago, was promoted to account director.
At the Music & Industry Awards in November 2015, Trevor Murphy (BJH ’06) picked up three Music Nova Scotia Awards: Industry Professional of the Year, Publicist of the Year (for Pigeon Row Public Relations), and Radio Program of the Year (for Halifax Is Burning). Rachel Mendleson (BJ ’06) won the Tracey Tyler Award, presented by Innocence Canada for her investigative the methodology of the Motherisk crime lab, which helped spark a review that ultimately shut the lab down. Barbara Richardson-Bryson (BAH ’06) has been teaching Music at the Performing Arts specialist school Forest Hill School for Boys in London, U.K. for the past five years. In 2014 she was appointed Head of the Music Department. Sam Stewart (BScH ’06) graduated from Dalhousie University with a PhD in interdisciplinary studies (computer science and medicine) on May 21, 2014. The focus of Sam’s studies was on improving online communication in medical communities. In 2013 he won the Steven Huesing Award as the top graduate student in health informatics in Canada. Sam coached badminton at King’s and in 2012 was named the ACAA Top Badminton Coach. He has accepted a position as a post-doctoral fellow in medical informatics at Dalhousie University and is also employed as a data scientist in the Department of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Sam lives in Saskatoon with his wife, Dr Maia von Maltzahn. Mark Ulett (BScH ’06) has completed a PhD in Biology and Society at Arizona State University and is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Director of First-Year Writing at the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Mark has taught a course on the Science and Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes and will also be teaching at Duke Kunshan University. Paul Brothers (BJ ’07) is the co-host of the Morning News on Global Halifax. For nearly three years, Paul was the Halifax host of Going Coastal on MuchMusic where he interviewed hundreds of bands from all genres. From there he went to Toronto and worked as a sportscaster on theScore, interviewing sports legends such as Steve Yzerman, Jerry Rice, and Roberto Alomar, and had the privilege of covering his favourite
teams, the Miami Dolphins and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Paul is excited to be back home sharing stories Haligonians need to know to start their day. Stephanie Dick (BAH ’07) graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of Science. She is now a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows. Stephanie has published a paper on the history of computing in the top-ranked history of science journal Isis. In fall 2017, Stephanie will join the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Sarah Lilleyman (BJH ’07) has joined the Winnipeg Free Press as an Associate Editor after eight years working with The Globe and Mail in Toronto. Sarah started with The Globe and Mail directly after graduating in May 2007, and served in a number of roles including Assistant Arts Editor, and most recently, Toronto Editor. With the Free Press, she will be in charge of operations and engagement.
Graham McGillivray (BSc ’07) and Nicole Delaney were married on June 28th, 2014 in Halifax. Currently living in Edmonton, Graham practices law and Nicole is completing a residency in pathology. David Paterson (BAH ’07) became an Intern Architect for the city of Vancouver. Christopher Rice (BAH ’07) received an SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship. Rice’s doctoral project at McGill University considers the work of Herman Melville, and his engagement with early-modern writings by figures such as Milton, Leibniz, Bayle and Kant on the problem of evil. Mordecai Walfish (BAH ’07) is vice president for programs at Repair the World, a New York City-based nonprofit that mobilizes volunteers around the country to improve their communities.
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Jennifer Wilson (BJH ’07) joined the Toronto Star as senior editor of social media. She was previously the manager of social media properties for Rogers Communications. Georgia Carley (BAH ’08) completed her PhD in History at Queen’s University. Her dissertation was titled, “’The Manner of Conferring and Treating with Them’: The Board of Trade, the 1730 Anglo-Cherokee Treaty and the Confluence of Global British Treaty Practices.” She continues to teach First Nations history at Queen’s University. Angelina Chapin (BA ’08) has joined the New York Huffington Post blog team. Jade Fraser (’08) has returned to Dalhousie University to begin her juris doctor at the Schulich School of Law. David Huebert (BAH ’08) won the 2016 CBC Short Story grand prize. Enigma was chosen from five finalists and more than 1800 entries. Huebert received $6000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and his short story was published in the May edition of Air Canada’s enRoute magazine. He also received a 10-day writing residency at The Banff Centre. Dana Kayes (BAH ’08) and Robert Richard (BAH ’06) are delighted to welcome their daughter, Evangeline Gail Richard Kayes, born on January 23, 2015.
Ashley MacInnis (2008) recently finished a Canadian media tour with Catriona Le May Doan as part of a direct-to-consumer awareness campaign for her company’s product, innoviCares. InnoviCares is a free card that helps Canadians save money on select prescription medications at their local pharmacy. History of Science and Technology graduate Dr. Benjamin Mitchell (BAH ’08) successfully defended his thesis at York University. His dissertation, “Dancing in Chains: A History of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Physiological Relativism”, is up for a Yorkwide award. Joe & Mary’s Kid is a sci-fi short film written and directed by Daniel Rosen (BAH ’08). Joe and Mary weren’t blessed with children and even attempts for an adoption are not working out. To make his wife happy, Joe takes matter into his own hands and builds a robot to raise as their son. This cleverly funny and emotional short film takes on a common family problem in a humorous way, showing the struggle of a family without children. Ruth Spencer (BA ’08) is the Managing Editor of The Guardian US News and Media in New York City.
The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: The Hurt, The Hope, and The Healing, the new release by Wanda Taylor (BJ ’08), recounts the stories of survivors of the Nova Scotia orphanage, now the subject of a public inquiry into abuses against residents by staff members. Wanda’s first book, Birchtown and the Black Loyalists, is a youth-oriented account of how the first Black Loyalists came to settle in Nova Scotia. The book was listed in the top 15 of “the best Black History Month books for youth”, by Parent Today Magazine and was selected for the spring 2015 edition of Best Books for Kids & Teens, a curated guide published by the Childrens’ Book Centre of Toronto.
Michael Beall (BScH ’09) and Carol Malko (BAH ’08), were married on September 27th, 2014 in Ottawa. Katelyn Bourgoin (BA ’09), is the Founder and CEO, of Vendeve, a skills marketplace company that connects entrepreneurial women with their ideal clients. Like a springboard for business growth, Vendeve blends psychographics and predictive analytics to yield more valuable transactions. Kathleen Callahan (BJH ’09) received the Commissioner’s Media Award for exemplary coverage of the New Hampshire economy. Kathleen is assistant editor of the New Hampshire Business Review. Liz Fraser (BAH ’09) and Stu Campana (BA ’09) were married on September 6, 2014 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia. They reside in the Ottawa area, where Liz practices as a registered midwife. Stu works as an independent environmental consultant.
EMSP alumna Chloe Hung (BAH ’12) is attending New York University, studying for an MFA in dramatic writing program at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Chris Gibson (BAH ’09) and Kate MacKeigan (BA ’09) were married in Halifax in May 2015.
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Julia Grummit (BAH ’09) is working towards a PhD at Princeton University on 19th and early 20th century cultural landscapes of North America. After graduating from King’s with the university medal in Canadian Studies, Julia obtained an MA in History from Trent University. For a whole year, Hugo Kitching (BAH ’09) spent almost every day in the field following (or trying to follow) two moose calves and their mothers in the Rockies. The result of this work is a film, Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater, which premiered on the CBC’s The Nature of Things in October. The film is available online on The Nature of Things website. Since Alex Mifflin (BAH ’09) graduated from International Development and Environmental Studies, he’s been anything but dry. Along with his brother, Tyler Mifflin, Alex co-created and co-stars in the award-winning TV series, The Water Brothers, exploring water issues worldwide. Through the show, Alex and Tyler are gaining recognition among Canada’s top advocates and influencers for water preservation. Elisabeth Stones (BAH ’09) is the new administrative assistant for the Foundation Year Programme and Residence, taking over from Pat Dixon who retired earlier this year. Heather Wadsworth (BAH ’09) and Matthew Leibl (BJ ’08) have turned a chance encounter at Alexandra Hall and a first date at the Split Crow Pub into happily ever after. Heather, a law student at the University of Manitoba, and Matthew, a host and producer for TSN Radio in Winnipeg, were married on August 17, 2014 in Winnipeg.
Adam Miller (BJ ’10) is working with Global News in Toronto as their web coordinator/ online breaking news reporter.
Trevor Morse (BAH ’11) has recently begun a position with the Halifax-based community non-profit reachAbility Association.
Mick Côté (BJH ’11, MJ ’12) is the web deputy editor and newsroom champion for online at The Gazette in Montreal. “I’m very excited for the new tasks ahead and look forward to improving content strategies and working alongside amazing journalists,” writes Mick.
Tom Saunders (BAH ’11) graduated in May from Dalhousie with a joint degree in law and public administration (a JD & MPA).
Samantha Durnford (BJH ’11) is now client success manager at ScribbleLive in Toronto. Michael Fraiman (BJH ’11) has published a book entitled, A Long Way Back Stories of Travelling Home. There are two ways to reach Canada from East Asia: a short way back, and a long way. This is the story of one couple who took the long way home — four months of trains and buses stitched together by one-way flights and scenic detours.
Daniel Boos (BAH ’12) continues to receive acclaim for his short film Bound. Since showing at the Atlantic Film Festival in the fall, it received a nomination for Best Short Film at the Screen Nova Scotia Awards, and participated in this year’s edition of CBC’s Short Film Faceoff. Aaron Higgins-Brake (BAH ’12) has received a four-year $20,000 fellowship to study at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship is among the most elite awards for Canadians studying internationally. Magdalena Jennings (BA ’12) took up residence in Luçon, France, where she is working as an English language assistant at two secondary schools in the area.
Journalist Corbett Hancey (BJ ’11) received the Gordon Sinclair Foundation Roving Reporter Bursary for 2016. The award, valued at $15,000, supports a major research and reporting trip by an early career Canadian journalist who has graduated from a Canadian university journalism program within the past five years. Hancey will travel to Lebanon to report on the influx of Syrian war refugees to the country, and the role Canada plays in the global refugee crisis.
10s John Adams (BAH ’10) graduated from the University of Ottawa (MBA ’14) and is currently working at ROSS Intelligence as Director of Sales in the San Francisco Bay Area. Laura MacKenzie (BJH ’10) completed her Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults in June 2013. Since April of last year, she and Vincenzo Ravina (BJH ’10) have lived in Gwangju, South Korea, where they are both English teachers at public elementary schools. Visit www.VincenzoRavina.com for pictures, blog posts, and contact information.
April Rand (BSc ’11) is working as an Occupational Therapist in Vegreville, Alberta, in the Team Lead role for Adult Allied Health. Playwright Hannah Rittner (BAH ’11) debuted her new play The Unbelievers at the SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto. The Unbelievers recounts the 2014 Yazidi massacre by ISIS through the eyes of Sanaa, a Yazidi woman and Oril, a conflict journalist. Rittner is off to Stratford as one of eight playwrights chosen from across the country for the prestigious Playwrights Retreat. She will be working on a four-act play about Sarah Bernhardt.
Katie Ingram (BJ ’11) has had her first short story, ‘The Middle’, published (for e-readers) by Fierce Ink Press. The story deals with high school friendships and the struggles many teens experience with maintaining their position on their school’s social caste system.
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Lindsey Morey (BJ ’12) is working as a multimedia reporter for the Wetaskiwin Times in Alberta. “I prefer small-town reporting,” she writes, “since you can make more of a connection with the residents and you’re able to follow the stories more closely that people care about.” Jordan Parker (BJH ’12, MJ ’14) is working for The Advance, a rural Saskatchewan weekly newspaper. Sara Samson (BJ ’12) won an Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Award for the Best Emerging Writer-Silver for her article, “Living the Dream,” which was written for Avenue magazine, where she worked as an intern and editorial assistant. Sara lives in Calgary and currently works as an editorial assistant for up!, Westjet’s inflight magazine. Meryn Winters, (BA ’12) is studying for an MA in Museum and Artefact Studies at Durham University in England.
Lauren Bryant-Monk (BAH ’13) studied voice and Italian at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Opera Studies in Italy during June. In August she took part in the Halifax Summer Opera Festival and premiered a new solo opera by Dalhousie graduate Sophie Dupis as part of Vocalypse Production’s Opera from Scratch program. Laura Hubbard (BJH ’13) married Dan Cooper on 7 June 2014 and the couple has moved to Hamilton, Ontario. Laura can be contacted at mrslauracooper@gmail.com. Peter L’Esperance (BA ’13) and Melissa Pike (BAH ’12), students at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law, have launched a new initiative called the Carbon Consultancy with the goal to secure funding for renewable energy projects within the Dalhousie University community. Partners will fund projects by making contributions reflecting their own emissions generated by everyday activities, such as classroom or office use, air transportation, ground transportation, and employee travel.
Colin McPhail (BJ ’13) is sports editor at Brunswick News Inc. in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Laura Vingoe-Cram (BAH ’13) has been named Halifax-based 2b Theatre’s Emerging Artist-in-Residence for 2016-17. As the Artist-in-Residence, she will observe and participate in rehearsal processes and receive mentorship on her own projects. Working as a United Nations Development Program Innovation Ambassador, Cameron Mitchell (BA ’14) has helped produce an app that will fight traffic congestion in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mitchell and his team wanted to address residents’ concerns about the reliability of public transit, so they bolstered Bangladesh’s GoTransit app with GPS locators and real-time data. Contemporary studies graduate William Tilleczek (BAH ’14) is pursuing a doctorate degree in Government at Harvard University At Harvard he will study political theory, which he describes as “that sub-discipline strangely nestled amongst several more empirical neighbours” and specifically he’ll address the work of Michel Foucault and other critical theorists he first encountered at King’s. Classics grad Yonah Sienna (BA ’13) has been accepted into the ASL-English interpreter program at George Brown College in Toronto where he will study to become an interpreter. Carlie Connolly (BJH ’14) is working as a reporter with the Peninsula News Review (PNR) in Sidney, BC after a previous position at the Cypress Courier Newspaper in Medicine Hat, Alberta where she worked as a community news reporter.
Danielle Noble (BJH ’12) was one of just a handful of recipients of a Doc Accelerator Scholarship aimed at helping emerging documentary makers accelerate their careers. Danielle says that she is grateful to Sylvia Hamilton and all that she taught her in the advanced documentary workshop at King’s.
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Jessica Howard (MJ ’14) won the 2014 Atlantic Journalism Award Atlantic Lottery Achievement Prize for journalism excellence. The prize was presented to her at Government House on April 22, 2014. For her MJ entrepreneurial project, Jessica developed an online multi-media information services that is attracting interest from investors in Atlantic Canada. Jessica teaches “Reporting, Writing and Editing for Print/ Online” in the King’s School of Journalism.
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Ian Kenny (BAH ’14) has won two prestigious scholarships to pursue his Master of Arts in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Marine Affairs graduate Laurie Starr (BScH ’14) has completed an internship at Masyarakat dan Perikanan Indonesia (MDPI), an independent foundation focused on achieving responsible and sustainable fisheries. Through consultations with fishermen, processing, supply and market, she made recommendations about how to improve the sustainability standards in tuna fisheries in Indonesia. Tyler LeBlanc (BJ ’14) is working as a writer for the website at Modern Farmer Magazine in Hudson, New York, straight out of his BJ-required month-long internship there. “My managing editor offered me a job at the end of week three,” he writes. “I really lucked out. Coming down here (and taking the J-school program at King’s) was the best decision I’ve ever made. I have a real writing job, and am jumping headfirst into a career as a writer! I couldn’t be happier.” Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (BAH ’15) has won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Bard College’s Graduate Center in New York City. The Manhattan-based institution offers programs in decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Leah Morris (BAH ’15) was selected for the competitive Canadian International Youth Internship Programme in December 2015. She works in the field of HIV and AIDS with the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities coalition in Kingston, Jamaica. In March, Morris assisted in organizing the Latin American and Caribbean Risk Management Forum in Panama City to discuss future funding in the region from The Global Fund. During her internship, Morris was published in The Huffington Post for her work on mobile devices as a tool for advocacy.
Professor Ken McGoogan teaches creative nonfiction through the University of Toronto to students in the King’s MJ programme and proudly wore his King’s sweatshirt during an expedition cruise through the Northwest Passage and the west coast of Greenland. Ken was a special lecturer aboard the Adventure Canada ship (plus he sings a mean version of Stan Rogers’ “Northwest Passage”). Photo credit: John Nowlan (Dip J ’72)
Janice McDonald (MFA ’16) has continued to make an impact on the world of business as she works on her book Hashtag Niceland: For Business, It Pays to Care. At the Emerge Media Awards, Melanie Hattie (BJ ’16) won first place, for her story, “The Fight for PTSD service dogs” in the category of Audio Storytelling. Established in 2015, the awards honour the work of student journalists across Canada. On April 14, in conjunction with the Atlantic Journalism awards, Grace Kennedy (BJH ’16), who won the Governor-General’s Silver Medal for journalistic excellence at Encaenia, was awarded the Province of Nova Scotia Scholarship and Julia Manoukian (BJ ’15, MJ ’16) was presented with the Atlantic Lottery Achievement Award.
Retired King’s professor, Dennis House has written a novel called The Orphans. The Orphans tells the story of the lives of the members of the Eisnor family. Simon, a priest, Wade, his father and a retired philosophy professor, Cindy, Simon’s mother and owner of a wool shop are spiritual orphans. They feel alienated in the culture of their contemporary world and struggle to bridge the divide between the older and newer ways. Caroline, Simon’s wife, by the circumstance of marriage, is trapped in a life with people whom she believes belong in the 18th century or before. The author of the novel attempts to stay out of the way and let the characters go about their business in the hope that they will entertain the reader and present something of the comedy of human life.
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SIX KING’S GRADUATES COMPLETE MASTER IN CLASSICS DEGREES AT DALHOUSIE SIX SCHOLARS WHO BEGAN their university careers with the Foundation Year Programme have successfully brought their master theses in Dalhousie’s Classics department to completion, five of them under the supervision of King’s alumni and faculty members. Alexander G. Edward (BAH ’14), on “Aristotle’s Concept of Analogy and its Function in the Metaphysics”, supervised by Dr. Eli Diamond (BAH ‘99); Daniel Heide (BAH ’14) on “Εγώ τό Αλφα καί τό Ωμεγα, ή άρχή καί τό τέλος: Aristotelian Teleology and Christian Eschatology in Origen’s De Principiis (An Eriugenian Reading of Origen)”, supervised by Dr. Wayne Hankey (BAH ’65); Marybeth Osowski (BAH ’14) on “Fashioning Identity: Clothing and the Image of the Syrian in the Roman Empire”; Aaron Shenkman (BAH ’14) on “Multus Homo Es: Desire, Conquest, and Identity in Catullus’ Carmina”, supervised by Dr. Peter O’Brien (BAH ’90); Kevin Walker (BAH ’14) on “In der erde als in dem himel: The God-Creature Relation in Meister Eckhart”, supervised by Dr. Hankey Tamara Watson (BAH ’15) on “ροπή βίου μοι: The Passive Route To Apotheosis In Sophocles’ Oedipus At Colonus”, supervised by Dr. Diamond.
We’ve missed sharing your news in Tidings and we are thrilled to be publishing the magazine once again. Although we have tried to update the alumni news we are sharing, it can’t help but be a bit out of date. It has been three years. We know that many of you will have changed jobs, started businesses, moved, married, welcomed babies, joined organizations, written more books - and we’d love to hear from you again. We like sharing your news with your peers, and our current and future students also like to know what you are doing. So please stay in touch. Kathy Miller in alumni relations would love to hear your news: kathy.miller@ukings.ca We will publish your updates in the next issue. …And there will be a next issue - this year!
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KING’S ALUMNI TAKE HOME GOLD AT DIGITAL PUBLISHING AWARDS AT THE JUNE 2016 Digital Publishing Awards in Toronto, King’s alumni were represented across the board, including two award-winning teams featuring multiple alumni. The gold medal for Best Editorial Package was awarded to Missing & Murdered: Unsolved cases of Indigenous Women and Girls written by Duncan McCue (BA ’92) and copy-edited by Donna Lee (BJ ’03) with research and contributions from Martha Troian (MJ ’13). MacLean’s the Thrill podcast, co-hosted by Emma Teitel (BA ’11) and Adrian Lee (BJH ’11), won gold for Best Podcast Series. Matthew McClearn (BJH ’98) won gold for Best Multimedia Storytelling in a Single Feature, Erin Boudreau (BJH ’01) contributed to a gold medal for Best Online-Only Short Feature and Stacey M Fowles (MFA ’15) also won silver in the category of Best Blog or Online-Only Column
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