Mariam Abeid, B.A.Sc. ’18, a single parent of three children, earned a degree in early childhood education and teaching at the University of Guelph-Humber before completing an MA in child study and education at the University of Toronto. From a young age, Abeid dreamt of getting a good education, but that dream proved nearly impossible to fulfill in her home country of Kenya, where the education of girls was not a societal priority. She faced seemingly insurmountable barriers to education even after marrying a Canadian man and settling in this country. When her husband died suddenly about 10 years ago, Abeid was left destitute and was separated from her children by family members. At one point, she lived in a shelter for women. But she met people who recognized the injustice of her situation, as well as her exceptional way with children, her strong work ethic and her drive for excellence. A lawyer helped her win back her children and her home, and a teacher encouraged her to start post-secondary studies.
2020s
Tony D’Amato Stortz, BA ’20, used funding from his COVID-19related Canada Emergency Relief Benefit to build raised garden beds for his neighbours in Guelph and KitchenerWaterloo, Ont., enabling them to grow their own food during the pandemic.
As a Fullerton post-doctoral researcher at California State University, physics grad Philippe Landry, PhD ’17, helped detect an extraordinary cosmic event this past summer. Gravitational wave detectors in the U.S. and Italy received an unusual wave signal from the merger of a black hole with a smaller object. The signal arrived from a previously unknown cosmic system about 800 million light years from Earth. Landry was part of the research team and co-author of a paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Passages
PHOTO CREDIT: PHOTO: (ABEID) NICK TK FOR IWANYSHYN HERIOUS DIPSO
ALUMNI 1930s Margaret Taylor, DHE ’39, March 1, 2020 Mary (Molly) Smith, DHE ’39, April 16, 2020 Wallace (Wally) Jennings, Dip. ’37, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’40, May 10, 2020 1940s David (Dave) Thompson, DVM ’42, June 17, 2020 Charles (Murray) Riach, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’49, Aug. 27, 2018 Marion Spillette, DHE ’49, March 19, 2020 1950s Ellen Donald, DHE ’50, April 5, 2020 William (Bill) Bourchier, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’51, May 19, 2020 Kenneth (Ken) Phipps, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’51, June 13, 2020 Harvey Just, DVM ’51, May 1, 2020 Barbara Mason, B.H.Sc. ’53, May 27, 2020 John Lindley, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’53, March 20, 2020 porticomagazine.ca
Wilmer (Will) Collett, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’53, March 22, 2020 Ernest Edward (Ted) Wiffen, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’54, July 9, 2020 Janet (Jan) Buckley, DHE ’54, April 17, 2020 Colin Campbell, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’55, July 5, 2020 Torgny Fredrickson, DVM ’55, April 17, 2020 Judith (Judy) Hall, DHE ’57, March 29, 2020 Donald (Don) MacDonald, DVM ’57, April 24, 2020 Virginia (Jeanne) Ikeda-Douglas, DVM ’57, May 9, 2020 Ronald Fletcher, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’58, Jan. 24, 2020 George (Stuart) O’Neil, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’58, June 9, 2020 Michael (Mike) Rogers, Dip. ’58, April 27, 2020 Peter (Pete) Biliski, DVM ’58, Dec. 2, 2019 Roderick (Rod) Davies, DVM ’58, Feb. 21, 2020
Jane McNicol, B.H.Sc. ’59, June 15, 2020 Robert (Bob) Webster, DVM ’59, April 22, 2020 Joseph (Joe) Leach, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’54, M.Sc. ’66, Sept. 28, 2019 Robert (Bob) Mason, BSA ’57, MSA ’62, July 14, 2020 1960s John Ogilvie, MSA ’60, March 20, 2020 Elizabeth (Betty) Rogers, B.H.Sc. ’61, |Feb. 25, 2019 Beverley (Bev) Slater, B.H.Sc. ’61, Oct. 21, 2019 Robert (Bob) Hinton, DVM ’61, March 26, 2020 Marguerite (Marg) Percival, B.H.Sc. ’62, Dec. 31, 2019 Shirley Ann Holmes, B.H.Sc. ’62, April 3, 2020 Thomas (Tom) Nunn, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’63, Nov. 2, 2019 Henry Pauls, B.Sc. (Agr.) ’63, May 16, 2020 Karen Eadie, B.H.Sc. ’64, May 14, 2019 Fall 2020 PORTICO | 35
