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DeanFall is one of my favourite times of year to be on campus: the excitement and promise of a new academic year, the hallways alive with activity, and the trees resplendent in our U of A green and gold.

As I write this message the celebrations for Reunion Weekend 2007 have just come to a close. The weekend always presents a wonderful opportunity to meet our alumni and learn more about them, and I am constantly inspired and humbled by the people I have the good fortune to meet in my role as Dean. During one of my talks over the weekend I commented that the audience members represented a collective experience of 5,000 years in the education profes-sion. Inspiring indeed!

Another recent highlight was traveling to the University of Ghana to join 18 of our under-graduate students who were spending their summer taking a pilot course focused on global citizenship education. The course was taught by our Associate Dean (International) Dr. George Richardson. University of Ghana co-instructor Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, ‘84 MEd, who is also an Ashanti chief, was instrumental in opening doors that saw our students placed in a rural vil-lage school, and a Liberian refugee camp, and I am deeply grateful for his help in making the program a success. In this edition of the Orange you will learn more about the program and our students’ experiences.

This summer also marked the launch of our Education Generations project which has received a remarkable response to date. The purpose of this initiative is to identify, acknowledge and celebrate Education families, specifically families with two or more members who have gradu-ated from the Faculty of Education at the U of A. A plaque bearing the names of those families who choose to participate will be unveiled for the U of A’s centenary in September of 2008, and will be updated on an annual basis. More information is available on page 22 of this issue.

On that note, Reunion 2008 promises to be a celebration that you do not want to miss as we commemorate the University of Alberta’s 100th birthday. You’ll be hearing more in the upcom-ing months but please save September 18-21 on your calendar. We would love to have you join us.

I hope that you continue to find the Orange an interesting and inspiring resource, and that you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed preparing it for you. Please know that we wel-come your feedback and ideas. Drop us a line at [email protected]

Please stay in touch and come back and see us when you can.

Fern Snart, ’79 PhD Dean



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ON THE COVER: A Lamoureux Legacy at the U of A

Phil, ’56 BEd, ’64 MEd, and Lena, ’52 Dip(Ed), ’56 BEd, Lamoureux talk about the legacy they have created and their motivation behind it.

10 The Heart of a LionMichael Skuba, ’45 BEd, ’55 MEd, ’65 PhD, has spent a lifetime helping others.

FEATURES6 The World’s TeachersJohn and Jean Henderson, ’52 BEd, ‘53 BPE, share their experiences teaching around the world.

14 Helping Teachers Engage with DiversityThe Faculty’s Diversity Institute aims to foster a deeper understanding of diversity among pre-service teachers.

DEPARTMENTS4 Welcome new Faculty

13 Reunion Weekend 2007

18 Alumni Recognition Awards

19 Class Notes

22 Generations Wall Project Update

8 Bob Hedley’s Happy Accidents

Bob Hedley, ’60 BEd, talks about his amazing journey from small town Alberta to the Philadelphia Theatre Company.

8 Teaching Global Citizenship

A pilot course on global citizenship offered this past summer in Ghana has met with great success.

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WelcomeNew FacultyMarilyn Abbott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, completing her PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Cognition. Prior to this appointment, she was employed as a psycho-metrician at Alberta Learning and as a high school teacher in the public school system. Her primary area of research focuses on how second language read-ing strategies interact with first language and cultural background to affect test performance.

Catherine Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education. Before joining the department, she was on faculty at Grant MacEwan College, primarily teaching technology tools for teachers and computer science laboratories for engineers. Her core research investigates the mediating influ-ences of information and communication technologies and new media in the classroom using hermeneutic phenomenology.

David Chorney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, the Department from which he received his MEd and PhD. He has previously worked in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina and most recently in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. His scholarship

is in the area of physical education curriculum and instruction with additional interests and research projects focusing on curriculum theorizing, technology in physical education, culture and ethnicity in today’s physical educa-

tion classroom as well as the topic of high school completion for Canadian students.

Ying Cui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology. She received her PhD in Measurement, Evaluation and Cognition from the University of Alberta, and a MS and a BS in Statistics from China. Her doc-toral research investi-gates how cognitive models along with statistical modeling techniques can be used to provide di-agnostic information about students’ cognitive strengths and weaknesses. Her research topics include: educational measurement and evalua-tion; cognitive diagnostic assessment; research design and applied statistical methods.

Dwayne Donald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education. Soon to complete his PhD, his research focuses on curriculum studies and the curricular challenges posed to the field by Indigenous wisdom traditions and perspec-tives. He has a particular interest in notions of Aboriginal citizenship that are based on relationships to the land and significant places. Dwayne has also been a co-ordinator, researcher, and workshop facilitator for the Diversity Institute since 2004.

Claudia Eppert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education. After receiving a PhD from OISE/University of

Toronto, she became an assistant professor of English education and curriculum theory at Louisiana State University. She taught graduate and under-graduate courses there for eight years before returning to Canada

to join the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on pedagogical issues pertaining to the complexities of witnessing social suffering through literature, media, and the arts.

Florence Glanfield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education. She was ‘born and bred’ in Northeastern Alberta and the University of Alberta has always been her “Academic Homeplace.” Florence’s research inter-ests lie in mathematics teacher education, in mathematics teacher iden-tity formation, and in giving voice to marginal-ized groups (particularly Aboriginal students and elementary teachers) in mathematics education.

Markku Jahnukainen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and joins the U of A from the University of Helsinki, Finland where he was an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education. His current research interest is in comparative special educa-tion. Markku is interested in the history and the current state and change of the special educa-tion system in different countries. With interna-tional colleagues from Australia, the United States and Finland, he rather be analyzing the background of the expansion of the special education services known to happen in many of the western countries after the 1990’s.

Elizabeth (Beth) Lange is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Her research focuses on trans-formative adult learning: theory and practice, pedagogy and social change, sustainability education, socio-environmental responsibility and work, and partici-patory action research. Beth has assisted various immigrant and refugee-serving agencies in developing culturally-appropriate transformative learn-ing processes through action research, par-ticularly related to the provision of public legal education and bi-cultural parenting education within their ethno-cultural communities.


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Paul Newton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Prior to moving to Edmonton, he was a principal in a K-12 school in Star City, Saskatchewan. Most of his teaching career was as a band teacher in Saskatoon and area, but he has also worked as an adminis-trator at the University of Saskatchewan. His doctoral work focused on knowl-edge management in educational governance. Paul’s research interests are staff development, organizational theory, principalship, leadership, and school improvement.

Carla Peck is an Assistant Professor of social studies education in the Department of Elementary Education. Her research interests focus on students’ understandings of demo-cratic concepts in general, and their un-derstandings of ethnic diversity in particular. The main focus of Carla’s current research is on the relationship between students’ ethnic identities and their understandings of historical significance in Canadian history. Before moving west, Carla taught grades 1 - 8 in rural New Brunswick.

Patti Pente is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary Education. She completed her honours degree in fine art and English literature, and her BEd at the University of Western Ontario. She is a practicing artist interested in social and aesthetic influences of “the screen” and “the land” in our lives. After teaching and creating art in Canada and Japan for many years, focusing on visual arts, English, and ESL, Patti returned to the University of British Columbia to undertake her MA and PhD, where she inquired into issues of teacher identity, nationalism and landscape art. Patti continues to investigate these themes within the variety of creative methods afforded through arts-based research.

Marie-Claire Shanahan is an Assistant Professor of science education in the Department of Elementary Education. She obtained a MA from OISE/University of Toronto and, from Queen’s University, a BEd in Physics and Math education and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering. Marie-Claire has worked as an elementary and secondary science, math, and core studies teacher in urban, rural, and Aboriginal com-munities. Her research focuses on the affective aspects of science learning and specifically on identity development and the judgements students make about themselves and others based on their understanding of what it means to do science.

Lynette Shultz is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Global Education Network in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. While the common focus of all her teaching and research is education and social justice, particular areas of work include international perspec-tives on educational policy, the role of civil society organiza-tions in educational policy processes and program provision, organizing for change, children’s rights and participation, children and work, and community-school partnerships.

Gladys Sterenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary Education. Prior to joining the University of Alberta, Gladys was an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Building on her work with Aboriginal and Bhutanese teachers of mathematics, she is currently investi-gating alternative ways of knowing mathematics. Her interest is in cultural and historical stories of mathematics, focusing on how relationships among Aboriginal teachers, non-Aboriginal teacher educators, and Traditional and Western mathematics can be better understood.

Greg Thomas is an Associate Professor with the Department of Secondary Education. Greg’s research interests span the areas of metacognition, learning environments, instrument/survey development and socio-cultural perspectives and influences on peda-gogy and curriculum as they relate to science education. His research spans elementary and secondary school-ing and, having been a teacher for 10 years prior to moving into the tertiary sector, he is particularly interested in working with teachers and students in naturalistic settings to improve teaching and learning.

Jessica Van Vliet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, after having completed a PhD here in 2006. Prior to her doctorate, Jessica completed her MA at the University of Victoria and a BA at the University of British Columbia. The focus of Jessica’s research has been on emotional resilience in response to shame, trauma, and damage to social identity. In her dissertation, she explored how adults recover from significant shame experiences, with an emphasis on processes of self-reparation. She is also interested in studying how individuals experience and recover from identity theft.

Bonnie Watt-Malcolm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, in the Career and Technology Studies (CTS) area with a specialization in trades and technol-ogy. Bonnie’s research program focuses on school-to-work transi-tions with an emphasis on youth apprenticeship initiatives and career and technology studies teacher education, curricula, and pedagogy. Her research topics include: social and training policy in Canada and skilled trade training and education as initiated and directed by govern-ments, labour, industry, and/or secondary and post-secondary institutions.

John and Jean Henderson, ’52 BEd, ‘53 BPE, always realized wherever they were in the world—and they’ve lived and worked in more places than most—that you can’t always do much to help people, but you do what you can. “We accepted where we were and we accepted the poverty.”

“And everywhere we worked, we worked directly with the local people,” says Jean, 81, who now lives with her husband in Montreal after a lifetime of teaching and service in the

Kong, Fred was born in Nigeria, and the other two, Derin and Sherry, were born in Canada. Before they left Africa, the young couple adventurously drove across the conti-nent, from west to east, without a road map.

“The people in every African village must have thought we were government officials when we entered with white flags—they were actually diapers—flying out the win-dows. We were always welcomed but a year later the Congo erupted in mass killings.”

“We drove into the Kenyan game parks from Tanganyika at dusk—a no-no because that’s when most large animals are active and wary—to the surprise of the people at the safari centre.”

When the couple returned to Canada before ushering in the 1960s, they taught briefly in Fort Garry, Manitoba. But John was

soon transferred to Northern Telecom in Montreal. Jean went to work as a teacher in the St. Bruno area at the Richelieu Valley Regional High School.

The next three decades were the stuff of normalcy: raising a family of four children, spending time at the cottage, traveling during the summers. Jean worked on her master’s part time. As her retirement date neared in 1987, Jean began focusing on teaching English as a second language courses. “We thought it would be a good idea. Why not? We still had lots of energy,” explains Jean, a diminutive woman who has maintained a remarkably healthy mind and body throughout her life. (Jean says her cast-iron stomach prevented her from getting sick overseas.)

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“We enjoyed sharing

our skills and learning

about how other

people live. Race,

color, religion—

it didn’t matter.

People are people.”

developing world. Jean, a graduate of the University of Alberta’s education program in 1952 and the physical education program in 1953, never regretted a moment.

They loved teaching the world’s children, and the world’s children loved having them as teachers—even if it was only for a brief time.

In Nigeria, where they worked for about a year, they would lie awake in the blackest of nights and listen to the drums. Jean was the principal of a day school; it was there that John taught the future president of the country, Olusegun Obasanjo. In India, they watched the full moon rise over the Taj Mahal. In Hong Kong, they taught Chinese students in a local school. “We enjoyed every minute even though I never was comfortable with chopsticks at lunchtime.”

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Carley Bowman with local students

A pilot course taught over the summer has Faculty of Education undergraduate students talking about global citizenship and ways they can bring a global perspective into the classroom as teachers.

Eighteen U of A education students took the six-credit course in Ghana over the summer, taught by Faculty of Education Associate Dean George Richardson, ’73 BA, ’76 Dip(Ed), ’77 MA, ’98 PhD, and alumnus Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, ’84 MEd.

Richardson witnessed first-hand the profound effect this experience had on the students.

“Ten days in, they gave me their journals and most of the writing they were doing dealt with the expe-riences they were having and the adjustments they had to make to new situations,” he said. “Two weeks later, their entries showed a richer understanding of where they were and how they’d use this experience.”

As a teacher, that was the moment Richardson saw the effectiveness of the course.

“This was much deeper thinking. It was a wonderful evolution to see. Those entries were the markers or touchstones of the

Teaching

course – the students were quite candid and seeing that growth, at that point, you say to yourself, ‘This is working.’”

The students initially stayed in dorms at the University of Ghana, and worked outward from there, volunteering with NGOs and visiting schools across the country.

“It was great to be able to take a University of Alberta course at the University of Ghana,” said Carley Bowman, who is in her last

year of studies in the Faculty of Education. “Opportunities like this don’t come up often – I never dreamed I’d be at the University of Ghana.”

“In some of these schools, what you see is what you get,” added Bowman. “The

students might have a notebook, but there are no textbooks, no posters on the walls.”

“It takes you out of your comfort zone,” said Krysta Engler, a fourth-year education student. “One of the best experiences was visiting the different schools.”

Some of the U of A students found them-selves doing improvised teaching at the schools they visited. The U of A students

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also provided training to teachers at a school in a Liberian refugee camp, and visited Ansu-Kyeremeh’s village.

Ansu-Kyeremeh, who earned his master’s degree at the U of A, is also chief of Apemanim, a village of about 300 in the Ashanti region of Ghana. “His role in the course was vital,” says Richardson, “because Kwasi was able to introduce our students to a world that is totally different.”

Richardson was clearly pleased with the effect the pilot course had on the U of A students.

“It will have a profound impact on who they are as teachers,” he said.

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“The students might

have a notebook,

but there are no

textbooks, no posters

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was shocking and quite wonderful,” he remembers. Before long, he was a fixture in the department. “Because I had all these other mechanical skills, I got used around the department to build things, and to assist. So even if I wasn’t involved in a particular

Bob Hedley’s

him into considering university. “He persuaded me that there was more to life than repairing hydraulics.”

And so Hedley ended up in his first university drama class and was instantly hooked: “It

Happy Accidents

Fern Snart and Bob Hedley at Reunion Weekend 2007

For over four decades, Robert Hedley, ’60 BEd, has been spreading his passion for the theatre to students, playwrights and actors. He has directed plays on major New York stages, and nurtured some of America’s foremost playwrit-ing talents. Last year, the Philadelphia theatre community honoured him with the Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award.

It’s been an astonishing journey so far, a series of happy accidents that consistently seemed to steer him in the right direction. Hedley traces his career back to the day he enrolled at the U of A’s Faculty of Education, and hesitantly chose drama as his fine arts option.

“It was just the luck of the draw,” he laughs, on the phone from his office at Philadelphia’s Temple University. “I didn’t want to take any-thing my parents or sister were good at, so I picked drama.”

Like many legends, Hedley came from almost poetically humble beginnings. His parents, who had lost their homestead in the Depression, eked out an existence in a north-east Alberta small town. His father worked as a hired hand, while his mother taught piano lessons—going from house to house because the family couldn’t afford a piano. “We were the Joads from Grapes of Wrath, but without the truck,” jokes Hedley.

Later, the family moved into Edmonton, and the young Bob had his first brush with the theatre. “The old Bissell Church had a very nice gymnasium, and I loved to play basketball. I would be at the church, and end up getting involved in all the rest of the stuff, including drama.” Bissell even gave him some early directing experience. “I directed a biblical drama entitled Barabbas, with our minister in a bathrobe playing the lead.”

Fresh out of high school, Hedley landed a job as an aircraft mechanic. “I would go from one air force base to another, doing various modifi-cations for the aircraft,” he says. “That seemed, at the time, like a great career for a young guy. I made very good money.” His life shifted gears, however, when his brother-in-law talked

production, I would have built things for it, and I would have watched it.”

That sense of involvement enthralled Hedley, and helped to shape and define his choice of career. “If you go into the theatre you have an instant community,” he says. “There’s a home for you. You never have to be by yourself. You’re always going to have friends. It really is a family.”

The U of A also provided Hedley with “a direct pipeline to the Banff School of Fine Arts.” While at Banff on a playwriting scholarship, he studied with such international figures as re-nowned British theatre director Ben Iden Payne who was then the head of the theatre program at the University of Texas in Austin.

Fresh out of school, Hedley found himself bouncing around North America in pursuit of his dreams. “At one point, I had eight different residences in seven years,” he smiles. “I lived on macaroni and cheese.”

After a brief teaching job in Victoria, Hedley chose the University of Texas for his post-grad-uate studies where he re-connected with Iden Payne. In Texas, Hedley began to work with original writers, an experience that altered his own aspira-tions. “When I was the playwright, I always felt that I liked to direct the plays better than write them. So I shifted over to that. In Texas, the whole business of directing new work, and being with writers, became far more important than anything else.”

Hedley followed his newfound passion to Villanova, in Philadelphia, where the drama department had a Rockefeller grant to bring in a number of playwrights. “The program was already committed to promoting new work,” Hedley says. “So I got to work with really good people. One thing led to another and, through playwrights who wanted me to direct their work, I directed in New York.”

Hedley thrived in New York, but found the scene both exhilarating and sobering. “You went into a circumstance where absolutely ev-erybody was talented. Everybody. You couldn’t out-talent anybody.”

“From there, because I had made all these contacts with playwrights, somebody sug-gested that the best workshop in the country was the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. They

recommended me for the head of the work-shop, and it just so happened that there was an opening at that time, and I got hired there. I spent the next decade with very, very good writers.”

Hedley eventually gravitated back to Philadelphia, where he lives to this day. In 1974 he co-founded The Philadelphia Theatre Company, which quickly carved out a reputa-tion for finding and developing new talent. “We originally named it ‘The Philadelphia Company’ because that would be its identity,” Hedley recalls. “We left out ‘theatre’ because we wanted to become as familiar as the gas company. That never happened.”

A few years ago, after a lifetime of lending support to others, Hedley suddenly found himself on the receiving end. A heart attack put him in the hospital for 70 days. “They told my wife [Harriet Power] that I was dy-ing.” Cards poured in from well-wishers, says Hedley, “including one lovely card to Harriet lamenting my death.”

More than the cards, however, Hedley remembers the constant stream of bedside visitors—his community, in the fullest sense of the word. “My wife organized people to be in

my room for all of those days. A lot of the time I was unconscious. I’d wake up, and there would be

somebody there, talking to me.”

Not long after his illness, Hedley was back in the saddle. He continues to teach theatre in Philadelphia, at Temple University. “No, I’m not retired,” he laughs, “nor do I intend to be.”

And he still cherishes memories from the U of A, the place that first cemented his love of the theatre. “Gordon Peacock was an absolutely great director,” marvels Hedley. “I remember seeing a play called Point of Departure, and a few others that he did, that were so tremendous. They were imaginative in ways that I found totally astonishing at the time.

“There’s no question that Alberta gave me a career.”

Scott Rollans is an Edmonton-based freelance writer and editor with a special interest in education.

“There’s no question that

Alberta gave me a career.”

They hit the road. First stop: Czechoslovakia. Working at a teachers’ college, they had a front row seat to the events of the Velvet Revolution, a non-violent revolution in the former east-bloc country that saw the overthrow of the socialist government there. Then it was on to Rawalpindi, a city on the Potwar Plateau near Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. There, they taught Afghan refugees, in what was an educational experiment to determine whether it was better to teach English there first before the Ismaili people immigrated to Canada. The Afghanis were wonderful people, recalls Jean, and many of them they taught eventually immigrated to Alberta and British Columbia.

A few years later, the couple read an article about the work being done by the Canadian-Palestinian Education Exchange. It sounded intriguing, so, once again, they packed their bags, agreeing to teach English to Palestinians in refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. “The kinds of living conditions we encountered didn’t bother us,” says Jean, adding that her husband sometimes had to fix the creaky electrical system by tending to the fuses down the alley.

“We always lived modestly,” she says. “We like people and people liked us. We enjoyed sharing our skills and learning about how other people live. They’re great! Race, color, religion—it didn’t matter. People are people.”

Today, finally more sedentary, the couple recently celebrated their 50th wedding an-niversary. Jean says she’d recommend their experiences to other couples. “It might be a little more difficult today with stricter borders.” Not surprisingly, they’ve passed the travel bug on to their children. Doug, for ex-ample, works for the Red Cross, and recently returned from a year in the Maldives on a Red Cross project. Fred recently helped build a school in Nicaragua. And Derin is now working in Luang Prabang as an environmen-tal advisor to the government of Laos.

Michael Robb is the manager of Campaign Communications for the U of A.

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In Palawan City in the Philippines over 70% of the population is hearing impaired due to the side effects of taking the anti-malarial drug, quinine. Hearing impairment is a terrible de-bilitation for anyone, but in places like Palawan the situation is compounded by the lack of access to hearing specialists and affordable hearing aids. Due to Lions Club members like Dr. Michael Skuba,’45 BEd, ’55 MEd, ’65 PhD, who for almost two decades has volunteered his time supplying hearing aids and assessment equipment to countries that need them, there is hope that many of the adults and children in these countries will eventually be able to enjoy the ability to hear.

It all started for Dr. Skuba in 1989 when an audiologist from Chile came to Edmonton to see how the Alberta government was funding hearing assessments and specifically hearing aid subsidies. During the Chilean audiologist’s visit he was advised by the Chief Audiologist at the Glenrose clinic to go see Dr. Skuba, who was the hearing and speech chairman of the Lions Club district 37B at the time. Dr. Skuba recalls, “As soon as I heard that the Chilean government was only providing this audiolo-gist with enough funding to provide five or six patients a month hearing aids, and he needed over five times that amount, I knew the Lions Club would be eager to help.”

In an effort to provide hearing aids to those who needed them, Michael made connections with audiology clinics in Edmonton to allow the Lions Club to place hearing aid collection boxes in their waiting rooms so patients could donate their used hearing aids. Dr. Skuba also contacted hearing aid manufacturers through-out Canada to see if they could provide older model hearing aids to the program.

“In the first year or so the boxes didn’t collect very many hearing aids, if any, and we only received a couple dozen or so outmoded hear-ing aids from manufacturers,” Skuba admits. “Things improved though, and in 1991 we received about 25 or 30 from a single clinic

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in Edmonton, and by 1992 we shipped about 100 to the Philippines, who we were also help-ing at this point.”

Dr. Skuba realized early on that in order for this program to truly be successful he needed to get more Lions Club Districts involved, so he advised the District Governor’s Cabinet, which encompasses 65 clubs throughout Alberta, of the problem. “Of course they readily agreed to help and suggested the already well known Lions Club eyeglass boxes include hearing aids as well,” says Skuba.

In 1997 Dr. Hugh Thom, a medical missionary from Palawan City, sent a letter to the District Governor of the Lions Club explaining the widespread hearing impairment problem in Palawan, and asked for his assistance. Dr. Skuba immediately began work-ing to provide hearing aids for the people of Palawan, and was deeply touched when he received a letter from Dr. Thom which included the pictures of the initial patients who had received hearing aids. Skuba recalls a story from one man, “I was told that his neighbours now complain that they don’t know what’s going on in his house because his family doesn’t have to shout at him anymore.”

Unfortunately, a parallel effect of early onset hearing impairment is delayed speech devel-opment. Skuba explains, “Children normally acquire the ability to speak at around the age of two, but because of their hearing impair-ment many Palawan children never attain the ability to speak so they can be readily under-stood.” This created the need for extensive speech therapy for a large contingent of the children. “Unfortunately, conventional sign language is ineffective because it is English based and, since the national language is Tagalog, Palawan children aren’t able to

use it to communicate with their family and neighbours.”

Two speech therapists from England volun-teered to go to Palawan to teach speech thera-py to teachers, and in 2000 a school of speech therapy opened and was named in honour of Lions Club District 37B. A video of the school opening was sent to Michael which he used in presentations to other Lions Club districts in order to increase interest and involvement. Several other clubs and districts joined in, and in March 2003 another speech therapy school was named after an Alberta Lions Club District. “In total there are currently three speech ther-

apy schools named in tribute to Alberta Lions Club districts,” says Skuba.

At the time of Michael Skuba’s retirement in 2007 from the Lions Club, almost 1500 hearing aids had been distributed to patients in four differ-

ent countries (Philippines, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, and Belarus). Dr. Skuba’s influence in Palawan is evident by the signs located all over the city advertising free hearing screening and evaluations which pay tribute to him and the Lions Club.”

Dr. Skuba has two mementos that are very dear to him. One is an album full of pictures of hundreds of patients from Palawan, each hold-ing signs saying, “Thank you Lions Club; You have given me hope; God bless you all”; and the second is a modest harp shaped trophy from the children of Palawan that says, “You are our hero.”

In May 2007, Michael was inducted into the Lions Club Hall of Fame for his outstanding con-tributions to the club and the community.

Sean Mowat, ’95 BEd, is the Faculty of Education’s Development Officer.

By SEAN MOWAT

“In total there are

currently three speech

therapy schools named

in tribute to Alberta

Lions Club districts.”

Saluting Teaching Excellence

In May 2007, Alberta Education celebrated its annual Excellence in Teaching Awards, honouring teachers from across the province for their outstanding creativity and innovative teaching in Alberta schools. This year the following University of Alberta Faculty of Education graduates were recognized:

Anita T Y Armstrong, ’87 BEd, ’05 MEd, from Parkview School in Edmonton

Jon P Carstensen-Sinha, ’94 BSc, ’97 BEd, from M.E. LaZerte High School in Edmonton

Jennifer de Stefanis-Dimas, ’92 BEd, from St. Clement Catholic Elementary/Junior High School in Edmonton

Dennis J P Dunlop, ’87 BEd, from Bashaw School in Bashaw

Sarah J Fedoration, ’99 BEd (Campus St.-Jean), from École St. Stanislaus School in Edmonton

Janet L Hamilton, ’76 BEd, ’94 Dip(Ed), from LaPerle Elementary School in Edmonton

Chris Kuly, ’80 BEd, from St. Martin de Porres School in Red Deer

Douglas Senuik, ’75 BEd, from Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton

Rachelle M St. Onge, ’76 BEd, from Leo Nickerson Elementary School in St. Albert

Donald W Steenwinkel, ’91 BEd, from Leduc Composite High School in Leduc

Thomas Yonge, ’04 BPE, ’04 BEd, from L’Academie Vimy Ridge Academy in Edmonton

The following University of Alberta Education graduates were recipients of Alberta Education’s 2007 SMARTer Kids Innovative Use of Technology Award:

Peter MacKay, ’90 BEd, from Jasper Place High School in Edmonton

Pierre Veilleux, ’01 MEd, from Varsity Acres School in Calgary


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Reunion Weekend 2007

This year the Faculty of Education hosted two events as a part of Reunion Weekend 2007: a lunch on Friday at the Faculty Club for all graduates of 1957 or prior; and the Dean’s Brunch in the fourth floor lounge in Education North on Saturday morning. At both events, alumni had the chance to hear from the Dean of Education, Dr. Fern Snart, about some of the faculty’s current initiatives as well as future plans. Stephen Leppard, ’86 BEd, ’92 MEd, ’03 EdD, the Education representative on Alumni Council, gave an update on the upcoming celebrations for the University’s centenary in 2008.

Both events were wonderful successes thanks to the work of many people: the alumni who attended, the class organizers who volunteered to help coordinate their specific graduation classes and the staff and faculty who came out to meet and chat with alumni.

Thank you to everyone and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at Reunion 2008 from September 18th to September 21st!

50th Anniversary Lunch

Dean’s Brunch


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Engage with DiversityBy GORDON MCINTOSH

body. A remarkable change has occurred in the years since they graduated. As I walked through the Ainlay corridors it seemed that about half the students were from visible minority families – south Asian and Chinese primarily. Sprinkled amongst them were students whose roots seem to be from the Middle East and Africa, the Caribbean and South America.

Add to this experience the joys of visits to Inner City High School and Amiskwaciy Academy where we see students from Edmonton’s large Aboriginal community which not too many years ago was all but invisible.

replace that concept with a deep understand-ing of diversity that can’t help but lead to a true appreciation of the richness of human dif-ference.” How does the Faculty help students to achieve this deep understanding? The Dean continued, “International experience for our students is one way. The Diversity Institute – and what might grow from it – is another.”

When I think of diversity, a recent experience at Harry Ainlay Composite High in Edmonton comes to mind. Two of my children were Ainlay graduates a generation ago when the school served a largely Euro-Canadian student

Later this term, notices will appear on bulletin boards throughout the Education Centre invit-ing students to participate in a Winter Term learning opportunity – the Diversity Institute. Curious students may ask themselves: What is a Diversity Institute? For that matter, what is diversity and why should I be interested in it?

When I asked these questions of Fern Snart, Dean of the Faculty of Education, this was her reply: “I feel that we have to completely erase the word tolerance and its connotations from our vocabularies when we are talking about human differences. It is essential that we

Helping Teachers

Standing (back row) (l-r): Xiaodong Yang, Young-Suk Hong, Joe Wu, Ahmad Sabetghadam, Dwayne Donald, Oliver Kamau Front row (l-r): Sarah Flynn, Ingrid Johnston, Terry Carson, Annaleah King, George Richardson, Kris Wells

The statistics support these observations:

Edmonton’s first generation immigrant •population: approaching 150,000

Aboriginal population of Edmonton: ap-•proaching 50,000

Alberta is Canada’s fourth largest immi-•grant-receiving province

Canada receives more than a quarter-•million immigrants each year

Most of us are very proud of our multicultural society. Heritage Days is perhaps our most popular summer festival. Multiculturalism seems to be working here. But research by Robert Putnam, a highly regarded political sci-entist from Harvard University, suggests that we should not be complacent about our apparent success at making multiculturalism work.

Putnam recently published the report of his five-year study of ethnically diverse communi-ties in the United States. He discovered “to his surprise and shock” that in the most ethnically diverse communities there is a loss of “con-nectivity” and “reciprocity” among community members. They tend to be less trusting of their neighbors, the media, and government. They are less engaged in the wider community.

Researchers in the Faculty of Education have a head start in addressing Putnam’s concerns as a result of the leadership they have shown in establishing the Diversity Institute.

Heading into its fourth year, the Diversity Institute is an elective, non-credit program offered to senior undergraduate students who are nearing completion of their pre-service professional studies. Eighty-three students participated in the 2007 Institute.

Although only three years old, the Institute has already won an Award of Distinction from the provincial ministry of Advanced Education and Technology given to “outstanding initiatives that develop the international and intercultural competencies of their participating students” (Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, 2006).

The Institute is closely associated with a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council- sponsored action research project. The Principal Investigator for the grant is George Richardson, ’73 BA, ’76 Dip(Ed), ’77 MA, ’98 PhD, an associate professor in Secondary Education and Associate Dean of the Faculty with responsibil-ity for international initiatives. Terry Carson, ’68 BA, ’74 MEd, ’84 PhD, professor of Secondary Education, and Ingrid Johnston, ’92 MEd, ’96 PhD, associate professor of

Secondary Education and Associate Dean of the Faculty for research and graduate studies, are the co-investigators.

Action research has led to important changes in the orientation of the Diversity Institute. Initially, the Institute focused on content about diversity – for example, issues related to Aboriginal people, sexual identity, and faith, to take just three examples of the kinds of diversity that teachers face in schools. The early research revealed a proliferation of diversities. “What about…?” questions such as “What about socio-economic diversity?” and “What about first language diversity?” reveal the com-plexity of the diversity question.

Dwayne Donald, a newly appointed assistant professor in Secondary Education, played a key part in proposing a change in orientation for the 2007 Diversity Institute. As a graduate student Dwayne had been a planner and facili-tator for the early Institutes. He had also been

part of the action research process that has helped the Institute team assess their work and re-think their direction.

Drawing on his knowledge of Indigenous wisdom traditions, Dwayne saw a possible way out of the dilemma faced by the project team. They were faced by a complex pedagogical problem – how to help these future teachers deal with the multiplicity of diversities they will face in the classroom. Perhaps the Indigenous “trickster stories” might suggest a direction for them to follow, Dwayne thought.

Dwayne says, “Trickster often tries to craft surety out of uncertainty. Trickster tries to trick others in various ways to acquire basic needs, like food, drink, shelter, companionship and so on. In these endeavours, Trickster usually tries to selfishly secure these basic needs for him/her alone. And (s)he repeatedly fails. One of the many lessons that come from these stories

“I feel that we have to completely erase the word tolerance and its connotations from our vocabularies when we

are talking about human differences.”

is that any attempt to secure surety out of ambiguity or uncertainty will also fail. Insistence on surety kills the possibility that ideas can go on in organic ways and be revisited, re-framed and revised. This insight has implications for curriculum scholars who insist on surety through scientific-like approaches to curriculum development.”

The Institute team had noted that the aspiring teachers who have opted into the Institutes have some interesting shared qualities. Well over 90% of these students have been white, monolingual English-speaking students raised in families professing a Christian religious tradition. These students supported Canada’s multiculturalism policies but did not see that they, personally, bring anything to the multicultural fabric of the country. Students seemed to see that other people—the newly arrived immigrant families or the Aboriginal people—have a culture but they don’t! The early designs of the Institute, by focusing on information about Canada’s various diversities, may inadvertently have fostered or reinforced these views.

Reflections on these findings, together with Dwayne’s trickster metaphor, sparked a change in the orientation of the Institute: from a “curriculum approach” to a “pedagogical ap-proach”; from curricular content about diversity to learning strategies that foster understanding of teacher identity: how can we help aspiring teachers relate to the diversity that they will find in their classrooms?

In the early workshop designs, the formation of teacher identity had been neglected. The Institute planners now see that aspiring teachers need to become aware of the identity they are forging for themselves as future teachers. Said another way, the aspiring teacher needs to be-come aware of the personal identity—we might also say culture—they bring to the multicultural mix they will be engaging. This brings us to the exciting point the team has pinpointed: each teacher creates a classroom culture based on who he or she is.

The Institute is re-focusing itself so as to offer ex-periences to students that help each individual teacher-in-the-making come to a more sensitive awareness of self in the diversity of teaching situations in changing schools. Alongside this personal inquiry into teacher identity, the Diversity Institute is committed to a framework of concern for social justice, human rights, and democratic citizenship.

Gordon McIntosh is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education and Associate Editor of the Orange.


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at the U of Alegacy LamoureuxA

By MICHAEL ROBB

Growing up near St. Michael, a small hamlet in Lamont County, Lena Lamoureux (nee Kachur), ’52 Dip(Ed), ’56 BEd, dreamt of one day be-coming a home economics teacher. When the time came to enroll in Grade 12—which the St. Michael School didn’t offer—Lena pleaded with her father to allow her to board in Lamont where she could finish high school. At the end of September, the harvest work done, her father, reluctantly, let her attend. When Lena finished Grade 12, her dreams had not diminished. In fact, they still burned brighter than ever before.

Once again, the daughter had to press her father: “Please let me attend the University of Alberta.” Her father, recognizing he wouldn’t be able to keep his daughter happily on the farm, said, yes, and Lena, the shy farm girl from rural Alberta, found herself in the big city. The County expressed its faith in Lena by awarding her a bursary, and Lena found a place to stay in Edmonton with a family who had formerly been grain elevator operators in

Lamont County. Thus began some of the best years of Lena’s life.

Lena loved the University, she loved studying and she loved the people she met. One of those people was Phillip Lamoureux, ’56 BEd, ’64 MEd, a young man who had grown up near Gibbons, Alberta. In 1956, after earning their Bachelor of Education degrees, Phil and Lena were married.

Lena taught briefly but children soon followed. “I was devastated when I had to quit,” she says bluntly. Their first child, Anne Marie, ’81 BScN, was born a year after the wedding, followed soon after by six siblings: Gerald, ’81 BCom; Michael, ’82 BSc; Stephen, ’82 BA, ’84 BCom, ’94 MEd; Darryl, ’86 BSc; Neil, ’86 BSc, ’96 MBA; and Monique, ’88 BA. After brief stints in St. Paul and Grande Prairie, the family returned to Edmonton.

Phil made a good salary teaching, eventually fulfilling roles as a teacher, superintendent of schools and a high school inspector. He

returned to the University to complete his MEd in 1964. “I always enjoyed going to school,” says Phil who eventually moved the whole family briefly to Oregon where he earned a PhD at the University of Oregon in 1971. A job awaited his return to Alberta.

Lena was busy putting her home economics to work in her busy family, occasionally substitute teaching, and Phil eventually assumed a leader-ship role with the Province’s Department of Education. During the foment of the 1960s, in the wake of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Phil, director of language services, found himself on the front-lines of the debates about second language instruction and the place of French in Alberta’s schools for which he was a tireless advocate. (The Province recognized that important work recently by awarding its Centennial Medal to Phil for his pioneering educational initiatives.)

At one meeting, he recalls, the Province’s cur-riculum committee members challenged him every step of the way. But the support of his

provincial colleagues and the tenacity of his arguments eventually won over his critics. Phil, even today, finds it somewhat ironic that the two university professors who sat on the committee were among his harshest critics, arguing that the advent of second language instruction would compromise the teaching of mathematics and sciences.

Meantime, the Lamoureux children all fol-lowed their parents to the U of A’s doorsteps, eventually all earn-ing undergraduate degrees and starting fulfilling careers. Lena returned to substitute teaching after raising the children, and attended her alma mater to study art history and take art classes. Phil retired in 1987 and continued to offer his services as Francophone school boards took shape around the province.

“The University has meant so much to us,” says Lena, “and every one of us has ben-efited, so we just decided to do something to thank the University. I loved studying and just being in that milieu. Every time I’m on campus my spirits rise. I have such pleasant

memories of the place,” she explains, recall-ing how enjoyable it was to live and study on campus with her sister, with whom she shared a residence.

The Lamoureux family has established The Lamoureux Award in Special Education, awarded to a student with a minimum GPA of 3.0 entering the third or fourth year of un-dergraduate study in the Faculty of Education with a minor in special education. Their

donation will be matched over time through the Access to the Future Fund, al-lowing the award to be offered to two students annually. Phil and Lena, their seven children

and their children’s six spouses have 27 university degrees, including 18 from the University of Alberta. Phil and Lena also have 15 grandchildren, the oldest of whom will soon graduate from the U of A.

The U of A is proud to acknowledge the achievements and contributions of the Lamoureux family to education in Alberta.

Front Row (l-r): Monique, Lena, Phil, Anne Marie (Ongaro) Back Row (l-r): Neil, Stephen, Michael, Darryl, Gerald

“Every time I’m on

campus my spirits rise…

I have such pleasant

memories of the place.”

How the Lamoureux Gift Works

Phil and Lena Lamoureux chose to fund their endowment by making a gift of publicly traded securities. One of the significant benefits of making this type of gift is the elimination of any tax payable on the capital gain for this type of donation. Other benefits to donating marketable securities include:

Donors receive a charitable receipt for •the fair market value of the securities that can be used to further reduce tax payable.

Any receipt amount not claimed in the •year of the donation may be carried forward to be used during the next five years.

Securities are easy to transfer, in either •certificate or electronic format, from the donor to the University.

Donors can direct the net proceeds of •the donation to fund their preferred University activity (unrestricted use, stu-dent awards, research, capital projects, etc.).

The simplest way to make gifts of publicly traded securities to the University of Alberta is to have the shares electronically transferred from your account to the University’s ac-count. The receipted amount will be calcu-lated based upon the average of the high and low stock prices on the date delivery of the stock is confirmed by the University’s custodial agents. The University will immedi-ately sell the stocks and then direct the net proceeds to fund the activity chosen.

Donors who are considering a gift of securi-ties should consult with their financial advi-sors to determine the best course of action.

For more information on making a gift of publicly traded securities, or any other type of legacy or estate gift, please contact the University of Alberta Gift Planning Office at 780.492.0332.


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Alumni Horizon AwardRecognizing the outstanding achievements of University of Alberta alumni early in their careers

Diane H. Conrad, ’01 MEd, ’04 PhD, is one of Canada’s most promising up-and-coming research stars. She received the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2006 Aurora Prize for her exciting and innovative research, which uses the transform-ing power of drama to educate incarcerated, high-risk youths. A drama education professor in the University of Alberta Department of Secondary Education, she has an incredible teaching background. She served as a volunteer teacher for the World University Service of Canada in Lesotho, located in Southern Africa, and in Rae-Edzo and Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories.

Alumni Award of ExcellenceRecognizing specific, outstanding accomplishments of University of Alberta graduates

Robert Hedley, ’60 BEd, is a leading figure in the world of theatre. Recognized as a most notable play developer, director, and educa-tor, he has directed productions throughout the United States, mentored internationally known playwrights, and was the founding artistic director of the Philadelphia [Theatre] Company. In the past 40 years, he has served as chair of the theatre departments at Villanova, Iowa, and Temple University and was the director of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. In 2006 he received the Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his long-standing contributions to the Philadelphia theatre community.

Recognition Awards2007 Alumni

Alumni Honour AwardRecognizing the significant contributions made over a number of years by University of Alberta alumni in their local communities and beyond

June M. S. Anonson, ’84 Bsc(Nu), ’93 MEd, ’02 PhD, is the assistant dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan. Recognized for her leadership in the nursing profession, she has received many honours from nursing associations in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and she, along with her colleagues, is the re-cipient of a four-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research Award to research health care in Saskatchewan’s isolated north.

Anne Brailsford, ’72 BEd, ’81 MEd, ’85 PhD, has had a tre-mendous impact on literacy in Canada. She is the architect of Edmonton Public School’s Balanced Literacy Program, designed for elementary school students to increase their read-ing and writing achievement. This program is currently used in more than 120 Edmonton schools, and its success has reached far beyond Alberta’s borders. Retired from her teaching career that spanned three decades, she now works as a language arts consultant.

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Ronald R. Jeffels, ’42 BA, ’47 BEd, writes, “After graduation from U of A, I received an MA from Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. I have also received an LL.D and a D. Lit. I was a professor at the University of British Columbia and went on to become Dean of Student Affairs at University of Victoria. I was President of both Okanagan University College and the Open Learning Institute of British Columbia. I have written over 100 articles that have been published in Canada, the United States and Britain. I retired in 1985 and am living in Vancouver.”

Helen (Liss) Smart, ’49 Dip(Ed), has recently published a book. The Intrepid Fox is the story of the author’s father, a Polish immigrant who carved a successful farm out of the raw wilderness that was northern Alberta in the early days of the last century.

Geraldine R. Grant, ’53 BEd, began her teaching career with the Long Beach Unified School District and after five years began work-ing in the Research Office of LBUSD. In the mid-sixties, Geraldine became the Assistant Director of Research. Geraldine’s work had her working for districts throughout California as an evaluator of specially funded projects. In 1982, Gerry had the honour of being selected to work at Caltech as an evaluator for the development of the Mechanical Universe series adaptation for television, and is particularly proud of the latest most broadly used adaptation, the Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics. Gerry fondly remembers and cherishes the time she spent working on this project; especially visiting classrooms and presenting workshops nationally and internationally.

W. Alan Bell, ’53 BA, ’55 BEd, ’67 MEd, pictured with his wife, Alice, ’63 BEd, was installed as the District Deputy Grand Master for the Lakeland District of the Grand Lodge (Masons) of Alberta in June. Alan, one of 15 district deputy grand masters in Alberta, will hold the office for one year; lodges under his jurisdiction are in northeast Alberta, includ-ing Edmonton.

Carole (Ross) Devine, ’55 BEd, writes, “I just love living in Nanaimo, B.C! The flowers are in bloom all year round! I am in good health and would love to hear from other U of A graduates!”

Albert Karvonen, ’60 BEd, ’64 Dip(Ed), ’66 MEd, of Boyle, AB, received an honorary degree from Athabasca University in June in recognition of his films on wildlife conservation.

Ron Hopp, ’62 BEd, received the 2007 Law Society/Canadian Bar Association Distinguished Service Award for Pro Bono Legal Service. Professor Hopp’s most notable pro bono contri-bution has been his long-time role as advisor to Student Legal Services. SLS offers free legal assis-tance to those who otherwise could not afford it.

Harlan C. Hulleman, ’62 BEd, writes, “After arriving from the Netherlands in my late teens, my first career was psychiatric nursing which enabled me to put myself through University, obtaining my BEd in 1962. I was a teacher of French and a teacher-librarian at Lacombe Composite High School. I retired in 1992, but worked part-time in the mental health field and volunteered in brain injury organizations. As of June 1, 2007, I am totally retired!”

Maxine (Reunions) Hancock, ’64 BEd, ’88 MA, ’92 PhD, and Campbell Hancock, ’65 BEd, recently moved to Nova Scotia where they will live on an acreage on North Mountain at the northeast end of the Annapolis Valley. Cam intends to develop a “Grandpa Farm” and Maxine will write. Maxine notes that they will be closer to their daughter Camille Hancock Friesen, ’92 MD, and her family in Halifax and their daughter Heather Hancock, ’93 MSc, and family in Chicago. “We will still be deeply connected to the West, since I will continue on faculty at Regent College with thesis supervision and some teaching duties and, of course, we have our sons and their fami-lies in Alberta to keep us closely connected!”

Sidney Rodnunsky, ’66 BEd, recently moved from Nunavut, where he was a school principal for six years, to Haiphong, Vietnam, to be the director of an international school. His wife, Teresita, will teach elementary school. “The children are thrilled—fresh fruit!”

Irene (Grzyb) Knopp, ’69 BEd, retired in 2003 after teaching at Thorsby Elementary School since 1969. “I continue to work as a substitute teacher for the Black Gold Regional

Schools. As well, my husband and I and our son operate Thorsby Tire Shop, celebrating 40 years in business on August 1, 2007.” Irene also notes that since 1986, she and her family returned to their farm roots and conduct a small family farm business.

Ken Shields, ’69 BEd, ’84 MEd, retired from the Alberta Government over seven years ago, and since then Ken and his wife Georgina have enjoyed international travel and various volunteer work. In 2006, Ken was awarded a “Prix d’honneur” from Campus Saint-Jean for his exceptional contributions.

Keith Tronc, ’69 PhD, of Brisbane, Australia, became assistant director of the Mt. Gravatt College of Advanced Education and subsequently associate professor and dean of field studies at Griffith University. Then, in 1990, he changed careers and became a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland, where he has specialized in criminal law and educational law. He also serves as a consultant in educational administration and has produced over 100 expert reports for courts all over Australia deciding school litigation. Since 1976, he has published 42 books on education, educational administration, education and the law, and a variety of purely legal issues such as ad-vocacy, search warrants and justices of the peace. In 2006, the Australian Council of Educational Leaders presented him with the Headley Beare Award for educational writing.

Beth Young, ’69 BA, ’76 Dip(Ed), ’84 MEd, ’89 PhD Hailed as a pioneer in the field of educational administration and equity, Dr. Beth Young is a recipient of the 2007 Canadian Association for the Studies of Women in Education (CASWE) Achievement Award for her contributions in teaching, scholarship and

sustained service to community and society. In the words of her colleagues, Young “blazed new trails at a time and in a space where such challenges were unwelcome.” Her award-winning research focuses on

educators’ careers, including career development, equity issues, and women in administration and leadership. Her career contributions to scholarship in Canada are said to have redefined the field of educational administration. Says Young, ”We’ve come a long way, but we’re not finished yet.”


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undertook training in the fitness area and plans to set up a small personal training business.

Barry Squire, ’78 BEd, and his wife Jean are currently enjoying retirement in Armidale, New South Wales after 33 years in teacher educa-tion at ACAE and UNE. Their time is divided between enjoying their family which includes 10 grandchildren, and riding a tandem bicycle in Bike for Bibles fundraisers.

Gwyneth (Astley) Gulbraa, ’79 BEd, is living with her husband and son 3 km south of Irma, AB on a farm where she loves being with her cats and horses. She is teaching all the Junior High and Senior High ELA at Irma School.

John Smyth, ’79 PhD, and Peter McInerney have recently published Teachers in the Middle: Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling. Smyth is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Ballarat in Australia.

Linda Moore, ’80 BEd, is teaching Grade 4 in Watson Lake, Yukon.

David C. Bird, ’82 PhD, retired last June as principal of McKenzie Elementary in Victoria, BC, “after many wonderful years and children!” After celebrating the wedding of their youngest son in July, David and his wife, Yvette, traveled to Jakarta for a two-year university teaching assignment.

Long-time University of Alberta’s men’s hockey coach, Rob Daum, ’82 BPE, ’84 BEd, has signed a one-year contract to serve as an assistant coach with the Edmonton Oilers. Daum was head coach of the Golden Bears from the 1995-96 season until 2004-05. He then coached for two seasons with the Houston Aeros in the American Hockey League.

Joanne McNeal, ’82 MEd, of Edmonton, who completed her PhD in education cur-riculum and instruction at UBC 10 years ago, writes, “I’m still working on a book based on my Arctic research on women artists in the western Arctic.”

Karen Drozd, ’84 BEd, of Honolulu, is currently teaching performing arts and multi-cultural education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Institute for Teacher Education. She is involved in a Pacific Resources in Education and Learning and National Endowment for the Arts project called “Voices United,” through which she is researching, collecting and compiling songs for children from Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia to be presented at the Festival for the Pacific Arts in July 2008 in American Samoa.

Connie (Polushin) Jensen, ’88 BEd, ’89 Dip(Ed), ’91 MEd, of Buck Lake, AB, retired after 40 years of teaching and administration at Bluffton School in the Wolf Creek School Division. “I’m looking forward to time traveling, writing, gardening and especially time with my family and friends.”

Dianna Kroetch, ’88 BEd, recipient of the 2007 Nadene M. Thomas Graduate Research Bursary, is enrolled in the Masters of Educational Studies degree, leadership and school improve-ment program, at the University of Alberta. Her research will focus on how teacher leadership, collaboration and online communities provide sustainable support to improve teachers’ working conditions in geographically large, rural areas. Dianna teaches French as a second language and junior high mathematics at Daysland School, in Daysland. As the school district’s lead FSL teacher, Kroetch represents rural FSL at Alberta Education working groups and has developed and delivered a PD course for rural teachers in preparation for the new second language initia-tive implementation.

Tine Steen-Dekker, ’88 BEd, taught throughout Alberta for several years and then lived for two years in Ladysmith, BC. During that time she published a small book of stories, poems, and literary sketches entitled Lines on the 49th Parallel. Now back in Edmonton, she has retired from teaching and is working part-time at the Memorial Society of Edmonton and District.

Melvyn Wade, ’88 BEd, of Acme, AB, teaches junior high career and technology studies and physical education at Dr. Elliott School in Linden, and his wife, Pam, teaches high school French and English in Acme. They have a five-year-old son, Jackson, and twin four-year-old daughters, Gabrielle and Edan. “Cheers to all our friends from Augustana and U of A.”

Kerri (Avery) Burnett, ’89 BEd, has de-signed two of the nine collector coins produced by the Royal Canadian Mint in recognition of the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010. Her charging moose design will be on a $75 colorized gold coin.

Brent Kisilevich, ’89 BEd, a teacher-librarian with the Vernon School District and Teresa (Berg) Kisilevich, ’89 BEd, a college instruc-tor, are thrilled to announce they have built their family through adoption. Ali (12), Jace (4) and Jordyn (3) joined their family in September 2006.

Carmen Berg, ’91 BEd, was married in November 1997. Carmen and her husband, Randall, welcomed Noah Patrick Aleczandr, a brother for their daughter Chanel on May 31, 2006. “I would love to hear from other graduates!”

Ovid K. Wong, ’71 Dip(Ed), recently published his 100th book which he says “is a reflection of my years of teaching and school administration.” Ovid, who retired from public kindergarten to grade 12 education, is now the Dean of Adult Education with Triton Community College in Illinois.

Terrance Chapelsky, ’75 BEd, recently received the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta’s Distinguished Service Award.

Hal Kluczny, ’75 BEd, ’84 MEd, ’98 EdD, retired in 2004 from Wetaskiwin Regional Public schools after 12 years as superintendent, eight years as deputy superintendent, and 13 years in various roles as teacher and administrator. He also served on CASS provincial executive, becom-ing president in 2001-2002. Since 2004, Dr. Kluczny has been employed by Alberta Education as a Senior Education Manager for Zone 2/3 Field Services. He retired in September.

Katherine Campbell, ’76 BEd, writes, “In September 1976 I traveled overland to Sydney, and in March 1977 I took a teaching position in Melbourne. Since 2000, I have been concentrat-ing on my children’s books and my ‘farm dream.’ I would love U of A visitors!”

Freda Jackson, ’76 BEd, has published her first novel, Searching for Billie: A Novel. It transports readers to late-19th-century western Canada to encounter all kinds of people and adventures in northern Alberta.

Glen Magneson, ’76 BEd, coaches a girls basketball team in Foremost, AB, and the team recently won the provincial basketball champion-ships for the eighth time.

David M. Mannes, ’76 BEd, ’82 MEd, has recently published a book, Nahanni. This adven-ture novel revolves around legends and mysteri-ous murders that took place in the Nahanni wilderness in the early part of the 20th century.

Garry Kissel, ’77 BEd, of Glendon, AB, retired in June as principal of Glendon School after 30 years in education.

John H. Doi, ’78 MEd, has retired after 37 years in education having worked in school jurisdictions in Ontario, the NWT, BC and most recently Alberta. John held positions as a teacher, counselor, vice-principal, principal, deputy and associate superintendent and superintendent. He and his wife, Joanne, now reside in Calgary.

Susan (Bowman) Kilmister, ’78 BEd, ’85 Dip(Ed), and her husband have returned to New Zealand after living in Melbourne for nine years. They’ve built a new house on a lovely five-acre property north of Auckland. Susan recently

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Michael Tryon, ’94 Dip(Ed), ’06 BEd, is currently a substitute teacher in Edmonton. He and his wife, Joyce, have two kids, Nicole and Nicholas. Michael spends his free time reading, running, refereeing soccer and traveling as much as possible.

Shane Gauthier, ’98 BEd, ’04 MEd, of Edmonton, has been working for Alberta Children’s Services and recently was promoted to manager of consultation in the Department of International, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Relations. Shane’s children’s book, Patches the Beaver, Welcome to Harmony Woods, is the first in a Patches the Beaver series he plans to produce. Shane recently took his book to the Beijing International Book Fair and is planning to develop it into an interactive game and a cartoon for television.

Michelle (Sheli) Squire, ’00 BEd, writes, “I’ve finally moved back to North America after 4.5 years of teaching English as a foreign language in Korea and Taiwan. I’m living with my partner and looking for a job with Baltimore City Schools.”

Robert Melenchuk, ’05 BEd, writes, “After teaching full time for two years, I have come to the sad realization that Education will never be part of the “Alberta Advantage.” This summer I will be taking a regular blue collar job work-ing in the oilfield where I will make twice the money and will most likely not be returning to the classroom.”

Lindsay McAlpine, ’07 BEd, ’07 BPE, was awarded the 2006-2007 Kathlene Yetman Memorial Trophy, given annually to the Female Academic All-Canadian of the Year at the U of A. The award is in honour of Kathlene Yetman, a former Pandas swimmer and CIS Academic All-Canadian who died in a traffic accident in 1996. Lindsay is a five time Academic All Canadian.

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Dean Hosts Education’s Academic All CanadiansIn recognition of their stellar performance both athletically and academically, the Faculty of Education has given a $1,000 award to each of the Faculty of Education’s 2006-07 Academic All Canadians. Dean Snart personally handed out the award at an early morning reception on November 1 and congratulated the student athletes on their outstanding achievements.

We are very proud of all seven of our Academic All Canadians who had to maintain a minimum 3.2 GPA while honouring their rigorous team commitments:

Alison Brooks-Starks (swimming), Annelise Cottrell (track and field), Shaun Jeske (football), Kaye London (ice hockey), Lindsay McAlpine (ice hockey), Trisha McNeill (ice hockey), Jill White (track and field)

Education Generations ProjectSince the announcement of the Education Generations Project in the last edition of the Orange, the response has been spectacular. To-date there are over 100 Education families who will be represented on the Education Generations Wall that will be unveiled on Friday, September 19, 2008 as a part of the University of Alberta’s Centenary Homecoming Weekend.

The purpose of the generations project is to recognize the many families with multiple Education graduates, ranging from grandpar-ents, parents, spouses, siblings or children. We invite all Education families to participate, at no cost.

If two or more members or generations of your family are Education graduates and you would like to have your family recognized on the Education Generations Wall, please fill out the form on the following page or email your family information to: [email protected]. Please include all of the informa-tion indicated on the form.

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Please include details of family members’ names, graduation details, their relationship to you, and their email address or phone number.

Questions?Please contact the Office of External Relations at 780.492.4742, or send a message to [email protected]

E-mail, fax or post this information to [email protected]: 780.492.0155 4-107 Education North Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5

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It’s not easy being a student today.

Students in the Faculty of Education juggle family, work and other responsibilities outside the classroom.

Without scholarships and bursaries to support them, many of our students would never realize their dreams.

By supporting scholarships and bursaries you are investing in our students and helping them become the teachers they dream to be.

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Endowment: Generally refers to donations made to the University on the under-standing that the capital or principal amount of the donation (the “contribution”) will be invested in perpetuity with the investment earnings used to advance speci-fied educational purposes of the University. The original capital remains intact.

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