THE UNIVERSITY OF KING’S COLLEGE ALUMNI MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2007

SUCCESS!KING’S ALUMNI WEIGH IN ON

THE MEANING OF THE WORD

PLUS: Politics Behind the Scenes and

Alumni Profiles of ET Canada’s

Kim D’Eon and Google’s Don Harrison

* * * * SPECIAL PULL-OUT SECTION: 2007 STEWARDSHIP REPORT * * * *

TIDINGSSummer 2007

EDITOR

Jonathan Bruhm (BJ ’04)

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Sherri Aikenhead (BJH ’85)Tim Currie (BJ ’92)Greg Guy (BJH ’87)

Kyle Shaw (BSc ’91, BJ ’92)Kara Holm

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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

Letters from the Alumni Association President & Editor 1

Letter to the Editor & Award Winners 2

Classic King’s Photos 3

Degrees of Influence

Five Recent Grads Discuss What They've Done With Their Degrees 4

Alumni Profile: Kim D’Eon

From Halifax to Hollywood North 6

Music I’m Listening To Dr. Christopher Elson 7

Behind the Scenes in Canadian Politics

The Various Roles Played by King's Alumni 8

News Briefs 9 Cover Stories

The Road to Success & What Is Success? 10

2007 Honorary Degrees 16

2006/2007 Stewardship Report

A Special Pull-Out Section 17

The King's Seminar & Trust in Science Series 21

Photo Gallery 22

The King’s College Chapel A Grammy Winner Finds His Way to Halifax 24

The Ambrae Dialogue at King’s 25

Campus Life—Quad Hockey & Recap: Series on Popular Aesthetics 26

A Postcard from Spain A Word from a King’s Grad Working Abroad 27

Alumni Profile: Don Harrison He's Feeling Lucky 28

Books I’m Reading Neil Hooper 29

Hudson Award Recipient Named 29

FYP Texts Column “London Bridge is Falling Down... ” 30 King’s Alumni Association 2007 —2008 Executive Report 32

Branch Briefs 33

Alumnotes, In Memoriam & Lost Sheep 34

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

You have had a busy year. Since our last General Meet-ing in September 2006, there have been around 12 alumni events across the globe and that is just the formal gather-ings we know about. Word on the street from the alumni who are organizing in cities across Canada and locations around

the world is that you are really enjoying the opportunity to reconnect with one another. You have also supported the College in a variety of ways. Your involvement in recruiting has helped King’s to build a strong pool of prospective students for the coming year. Your support of the Annual Fund has contributed over $120,000 to the College, mostly for scholarships and bursaries, but also for other purposes including campus renewal. You have greeted traveling students in your homes and hosted alumni in your

city. You have talked to people about what you can do with a liberal arts degree. You have supported one another through the difficult and happy experiences that make up life. This issue of Tidings is about success. We will hear many of you muse about the meaning of success in your own lives. In the Alumni Association context, I have to evaluate this past year as a tremendous success. It has been full of ideas, achievements and good fellowship. I hope you are finding success in your own life and that you can look back and find that King’s and your fellow alumni have provided support and inspiration along the way.

Steven K. Wilson (BA’87)PresidentUniversity of King’s College Alumni Association

My Fellow Alumni:

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

It’s the million dollar question. Do you really need a million dollars to answer it? Some think so, although financial riches are not a driving consid-eration for many of our alumni. Others find that the answer is raising a family to preserve a legacy or to carry on a blood-line; another common belief

is that ‘success’ can be achieved simply by reaching the finish line in one piece; and then, there’s knowing yourself and what makes you happy. There really is no wrong answer—‘success’ is in the eye of the beholder, and its meaning can easily change throughout the course of your life. Within the pages of this issue of Tidings (our biggest ever!), you will find a wide variety of opinions on the nature of ‘suc-cess.’ You will be introduced (or, re-introduced) to a handful of alumni who have found ‘success’ by working for business, media and political powerhouses, along with others who have taken

different paths—going out on a limb to secure the perfect job, finding happiness in what they have, and some who are doing well but are still looking for something more. I still can’t tell you what ‘success’ means to me. However, after a quarter of a century’s worth of schooling, a series of jobs that just weren’t right, a trip that (literally) took me across the globe, and a series of chance meetings with a slew of newfound friends, I feel that I’m a few steps closer to finding it. Please let us know where you are on the highway to ‘suc-cess’—we welcome your comments!

Happy reading,

Jonathan Bruhm, BJ ‘04jonathan.bruhm@ukings.ns.ca

What is Success?

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35 Years Of FYP

In Dante’s 35th year, he had a vision that

changed the world.

In 2007-2008, the Foundation Year

Programme at King’s will mark its 35th

anniversary.

Stay tuned to www.ukings.ca for de-

tails about a series of special lectures to

commemorate this milestone, and look

for a feature story in the next issue of

Tidings.

Alumni Annual Dinner

The King’s Alumni Association gratefully

acknowledges the corporate sponsorship

of TD Meloche Monnex for the Alumni

Annual Dinner.

For photos from the event, please

visit www.ukings.ca or look in the next

issue of Tidings.

IN THE NEXT ISSUE

Corrections

In our Winter 2006/2007 issue, we stated that the late George Bain (DCL ’86) was the first Director of the School of Journal-ism. He was actually the second—David

Oancia was the director when the school was founded in 1978.

We also listed Vancouver Branch member Kathy Wood’s graduation year as 1994. Kathy completed her BAH in 1991.

Letter to the Editor

I lived in Alex Hall in 1976, 2-East, for the second half of my FYP first year and loved it. Think that co-ed is a fine idea. That being said, and having read the article, the cover photo is a bit misleading. The article states that only the basement rooms alternate male/female, but the photo is definitely first floor from the size of the windows and the view beyond. A rather confusing message!

—Moira (MacDonald) Conway (BA ’78)

Good eye! The narrow hallways and lack of natural light hindered our photo shoot in

the basement, so we took it in front of Orion Keresztesi’s 1-West room instead, alongside

1-East’s Denise Gow. The shot was intended to depict that, despite the change, the male

and female residents of Alex Hall are getting along just fine. —Ed.

Students were invited to apply for these awards in March and the winners were selected based on merit by a committee comprised of faculty, staff and alumni.

The Michael Elliott Memorial Awards are presented to returning students in good academic standing, who, as Michael did, display integrity of character, a spir-ited concern for the lives of others and have made an all-around contribution to university life. This year’s recipients are Michael DaSilva and Marnie Chown.

The Beaver Club Award is presented to a returning King’s student who, like members of the Beaver Club, has achieved above average academic standing and has made a significant contribution to extra-curricular activities which enhances the

quality of life at King’s. This year’s recipi-ent is Yolana Wassersug.

The Sandra MacLeod Memorial

Awards are presented to students in any year of his or her degree with a good scholastic record, who by the fullest use of her or his qualities of character and mind makes a contribution to the University of King’s College. One award is given on an annual basis while the other is renewable up to three years. This year’s recipients are Carol Ross (renewable) and Coren

Pulleyblank.

The New Brunswick Award is pre-sented to a student from New Brunswick in good academic standing and who has contributed to university life. Preference will be given to students entering second

year. This year’s recipient is Katherine

Lewis.

The Michael Saunders Award is pre-sented to a returning student from New Brunswick with a satisfactory academic standing, who shows financial need and who has made a positive commitment and contribution to University of King’s Col-lege life. If there are a number of quali-fied applicants, preference may be given to a student entering Holy Orders of the Anglican Church of Canada. This year’s recipient is Katherine Lewis.

The John F. Godfrey Journalism Book

Award is presented to a journalism student who has made a significant contribution to the King’s School of Journalism. This year’s recipient is Gillian Cormier.

AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2007 Alumni Awards!

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YOU’VE IDENTIFIED YOURSELVES…

…CAN YOU IDENTIFY THESE ALUMNI?

King’s Co-Eds, 1946

Left to right:Back Row: Anne (Thexton) Esslinger (’49),

Margaret (Morgan) MacDonald (DSW ’55),

Mary Lou (MacLeod) Clarke (’49), Vera

Hackenley (Dean of Women), Frances Beth

Tilley (BA ’50), Muriel Smyth (BSc ’49), Hope

(Bridgeford) Simmons (BA ’48)

Middle Row: Anne (Harrington) Disher (BA

’50), Joan (McCurdy) Clayton (BA ’50, DCL

’04), Mary (Burchill) Kelley (BA ’50), Elizabeth

Laurie Brown (’46), Anne (McCurdy) Porter

(’47), Connie (DeMille) Corkum (BA ’47)

Front Row: Carolyn Marshall (BA ’48), Barbara

(Smith) Fergusson (BA ’48), Aleah (Palmer)

Lomas Anderson (BA ’48), Alberta (Bryant)

Boswall (BSc ’48), Margaret (Hatt) Armstrong

(BA ’50)

Thanks to Peggy Armstrong (BA ’50), Alberta

Boswall (BSc ’48), Anne Disher (BA ’50) Barbara

Fergusson (BA ’48), Aleah Lomas Anderson (BA

’48), Gordon Read (BA ’50), Hope Simmons (BA

’48) and Constance (Conrad) Wenaus (’46) for their assistance.

If you know who these alumni are,

please contact us at alumni@ukcalumni.com.

Thanks to David Morris (’57–’64) for submitting this photo.

Do you have photographs from your time at King’s that you would like us to have? Please send them to the Advancement Office at King’s, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2A1. We’ll appreciate your contribution.

Flip to page 36 for some of our “Lost Sheep” from this era.

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AMY BLANDING (BAH ’06)

One of the most important things that Amy Blanding learned while earning her degree at King’s was not only to think outside the box, but that there actually is no box. “The nature of a King’s education is so unique, you can’t help but come away with a different perspective on everything,” she says. Over the next year, she will be looking at the world from myriad perspectives. Since graduating last spring, Blanding has been involved in a youth leadership, non-profit organization called the Pole To Pole Leadership Institute (www.poletopole-leadership.com). Its goal is to empower youth to confront critical issues such as climate change and poverty. While one of the teams will travel by human-power from the South Pole to the North Pole, proving the potential of team-work, Blanding is just as excited to be part of an education team that will travel throughout Europe and North America, teaching students how to get involved in world issues. “Youth can do anything,” she says. “They just need the aware-ness, the education that provides them with leadership skills and the attitude that they can do anything.” As for advice to the Class of 2007, she says: “Don’t take what we have been given for granted.”

EMILY CLAYDON (BSCH ’06)

The biggest difference between undergraduate and medical school for Emily Claydon has been the sheer volume of informa-tion to cover. While she’s enjoying her new course load, she has

been very busy over the past year as a first-year medical student at the University of Western Ontario. Still, she says her degree from King’s prepared her for the challenges she’s faced. “Doing a Combined Honours in Arts and Science was really useful,” she says. “It gave me a lot of background in things like writing, analysis and communicating with people.” As much as she enjoyed her first year of medicine, Clay-don says she often thinks back to her time at King’s, where she played on the soccer team and was involved in the Intramural program. She also participated in the King’s Theatrical Society, the Early Modern Studies Programme Society, and she ran a Science Buddies Mentorship Program, where first-year students were paired with senior students for guidance. Claydon first came to King’s for the Foundation Year Pro-gramme, and says she’s glad to have made that choice. “It just sounded so interesting,” she recalls. “It was really good for me because it was a fantastic way to do Science and Arts.” Claydon’s advice to Class of 2007 is to find out what you’re really interested in and pursue it, “because a King’s degree will help you with anything.”

ELLING LIEN (BJ ’06)

Elling Lien is living the dream. After graduating from the One-Year Bachelor of Journalism Programme at King’s last year, he went on to start up his own arts and entertainment newspaper in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Taking inspiration from Kyle Shaw (BSc ’91, BJ ’92) and

DEGREES OF INFLUENCE

Four Graduates from 2006 Explain What They’re Doing With

Their Degrees and Offer Suggestions to the Class of 2007

by Robyn Young (BJ ’07)

Amy Blanding Emily Claydon Elling Lien

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Christine Oreskovich (BA ’95) of The Coast, Lien and his girlfriend, Bryhanna Greenough, invested their time and money into The Scope. A year later, the paper is produced on a bi-weekly basis and has a circulation of about 7,000 across Newfound-land. After her father passed away, Greenough had some extra money available. She and Lien toyed with the idea of travelling

or buying a home, but they wanted to do something special and Greenough suggested starting a newspaper. “It seemed like a really nice thing to do for the city that I really love and people love so much already, just to help them enjoy it even more,” says Lien, who grew up in the nearby town of Portugal Cove. When asked about his secret to success, he says: “It’s no secret, really. We had an opportunity and we found enough peo-ple with the right skills to make it a reality. A lot of life is luck: people you know and falling into the right circumstances.” In terms of advice for the Class of 2007, Lien says: “The power is in you—you can be anything you want.”

MARY-PAT SCHLOSSER (BSCH ’06)

When Mary-Pat Schlosser didn’t get into medical school after graduating from King’s, she was quite disappointed. Now, a year later, she realizes that everything happens for a reason. Since graduating with a combined Arts and Science degree in Immunology and Microbiology, Schlosser has been working as a lab technician at Dalhousie University, researching Kaposi Sarcoma, a virus associated with AIDS that causes cancerous lesions. She says she wouldn’t trade her experiences this year for anything. “I’ve really valued this time off before going to school be-cause it makes me reassess what I want to be doing,” she says, acknowledging a whole new set of challenges. “You don’t have the guilt of not doing your homework or not doing reading – it’s

getting to work on time and working productively.” Working for a year made her realize she’s ready to dive back into school again. She credits her King’s background with teach-ing her how to read and think critically. Although she focused on science after completing the Foundation Year Programme, she says the combination of arts and sciences helped keep the left side of her brain alive. She also took advantage of the intimacy of the King’s com-munity and became involved in a variety of campus activities, such as directing and acting in several shows for the KTS, help-ing to organize the school’s first Fringe Festival, and she was the president of the Good Humour Society. “Don’t tell my profs, but you forget stuff [you learned],” she says. “You don’t forget the people or the fun experiences you had.” Schlosser will soon find out whether or not she has been accepted to medical school for the 2007/2008 academic year. In the meantime, she’ll be packing her bags to prepare for a two-month stint in Morogoro, Tanzania, where she’ll work with Youth Challenge International on AIDS-related education and relief work. Schlosser’s advice to the Class of 2007 is to remember that things will work out in the end, try to stay optimistic, and finally: “Don’t cheat yourself.” ∂

“A LOT OF LIFE IS LUCK: PEOPLE YOU

KNOW AND FALLING INTO THE RIGHT

CIRCUMSTANCES.”

Elling Lien

Colin Burn (BAH)

Colin has completed the fi rst year of his

joint MBA/Law degree at McGill Universi-

ty—a bilingual program, combining MBA,

BCL and LLB.

Mary Coll-Black (BScH)

Mary is currently enrolled in the School

of Medicine at McMaster University and

is hoping to spend part of the summer

on a clinical placement in Kenya.

Joanna Grossman (BAH)

Joanna has completed the second year

of law school at McGill. She’ll be spend-

ing her summer as an associate with

Torys LLP in Toronto and Milbank, Tweed,

Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York.

Shannon Hines (BJH)

Shannon recently completed her MA in

International Journalism with Distinction

from Cardiff University. She is now living

in Halifax.

Chris Shepherd (BJ)

Chris is now the Sports Editor with

the Prince George Free Press in British

Columbia. He was also a fi nalist for the

Community Service Award at the 2007

BC and Yukon Community Newspaper

Association Awards.

Where Are They Now?In the Summer 2006 issue of Tidings, we profiled five graduates

from 2005. Here’s what they’re doing now:

Mary-Pat Schlosser

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WILLINGNESS TO TAKE risks, combined with a little luck and a lot of personality,

are the keys to success for Kim D’Eon

(BJH ’98). An important piece of advice also helped her to make the tough decision to leap into the forefront of the fast-paced world of entertainment journalism. “There’s a really smart woman who told me, ‘If you haven’t done it already, you should definitely try,’” says the Halifax native. With that in mind, she accepted another high-profile challenge as Senior Entertainment Reporter on Global Televi-sion’s Entertainment Tonight Canada —a position that she’s held since the show first aired in September 2005. As a student at King’s, D’Eon knew that broadcast journalism was her calling, but she says she couldn’t have imagined being where she is now. “I’m really lucky,” she says. “When I’m going out to a big party or an event or a fashion show, or talking to a musician or an actor that I’ve loved, I just kind of sit back and go, ‘yeah, I can’t believe I get paid for this!’” Her first big break came shortly af-ter graduating from King’s, when she was

“thrilled, thrilled, thrilled” to land a job as a researcher at CBC Television’s youth-consumer show, Street Cents. “Out of all of the jobs I had applied for, [it] was more up my alley than any of them,” she says. “They called me back as soon as they received my package—that’s what I mean when I say I’m lucky.” While she became one of the program’s hosts a year later, she says her work on the show helped her to realize that there are many different kinds of journalism, and that she “wasn’t really built to be a news reporter.” “I do like being creative,” she says. “I don’t think I’d be satisfied just going in and reading the news everyday.” After leaving Street Cents, D’Eon moved to Toronto and continued to work for several other CBC programs, includ-ing Marketplace and The Hour. During a labour dispute at the network, a friend encouraged her to apply for a position with a new entertainment program. Though she wasn’t entirely sure it was the right move, she decided to contact the executive producer of ET Canada, and was offered the job a few days later. Unlike reporters who feel more com-fortable developing serious, on-air perso-nas that differ from their more relaxed off-camera selves, D’Eon prefers to let her own personality show in her work and takes pride in the compliments that she often receives for her ability to make people feel comfortable and at ease during interviews. “It’s so easy for me to just be myself,” she says. “I’ve been so lucky that all of my

jobs so far have nurtured that. I laugh a lot in my interviews, and people know that it’s not fake because I actually enjoy talking to them.” D’Eon says she still uses the skills that she developed during her time at the King’s School of Journalism—from how to ask a great open-ended question to how to write as clearly and concisely as possible. Now, she not only conducts interviews, but also writes her own stories and chooses all of the clips and shots that she wants used in her pieces. “It’s nice to put together a story from start to finish, then sit back and watch it and be, like, ‘I did the whole thing—it’s my project and I did it.’” Even with her current success, D’Eon hasn’t forgotten that broadcast journalism is a tough industry, with short contracts and plenty of competition. She says she’s met many people who want her job, and that they are a great reminder of how for-tunate she is to have a position that she really enjoys. Although she’s hesitant to guess what she’ll be doing in five years, D’Eon thinks that if she’s presented with an opportu-nity to try something new, the advice that led her to ET Canada may be put to use again. “I don’t think at this point, I’d say no to anything,” she says. “I think if some-one called from LA or New York, which is always a possibility, I’d be scared and nervous and unsure of myself, but I don’t see how I could say no to a different, new opportunity.” ∂

Kim D’Eon

From Halifax to Hollywood North

by Caley Baker (BJ ’07)

“I laugh a lot in my interviews, and people

know that it’s not fake because I actually enjoy

talking to them.”

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What I’m listening to depends a lot upon

where and how I’m listening.

In my car, I have a two disc redux of

a vastly more comprehensive box-set

of Stax recordings—fundamental R&B.

Attending live performances regularly is

central to my sense of happiness—this

week was Amelia Chester and Amelia

Curran at Ginger’s with Angus Johnston.

On my reactivated turntable, “True Lives

of The Young Pioneers” by forgotten ‘80s

Queen St. scenester Johnny MacLeod—a

CanRock heritage moment! My CD player

holds The Tokyo Concert, by pianist Brad

Mehldau; it opens with a profound and

heart-wrenching re-reading of the Nick

Drake song, “Things Beyond the Sun.”

But I really want to talk about my

iPod and how it conditions ways and

meanings of listening. It makes concrete

and audible certain principles borrowed

from modern poetics: rapprochement,

juxtaposition and generalized metonymy.

Much about iPod is dubious, from

the ‘i’ to the ‘Pod,’ but something I love

about it is the Shuffl e function. The

shorter pieces—pop to chamber to

jazz to world—which I put on the iPod

fall together according to some secret

sorting mechanism (the unconscious of

the machine?) building up associational

resonances, sounding out dissonant

inter-generic harmonies, conjuring up au-

tobiographical images of circumstance.

Here is a random cut into 9.2 days

worth of music on the iPod. These eight

notes briefl y describe eight of the fi rst

pieces from a single Shuffl e. This must be

what I’m listening to…

“You’re My Favorite Waste of Time,” pops

up fi rst. A small masterpiece from the

little-known Marshall Crenshaw whose

sensibility blends rockabilly, early Mo-

town and The Beatles. He consistently

orchestrates perfect three minute mo-

ments of rhythmic exuberance, melodic

inventiveness and witty, provocative

verbal hooks, many of them almost as

good as this title.

“Kneeling Down” by the Tord Gustavsen

trio is a yearning piece of ‘Nordic-Carib-

bean-Gospel-Blues’ (as they describe

their own music). Scandinavian jazz in

the ECM vein, driven by the exquisitely

nuanced textures and elaborately de-

fi ned lines of the leader, pianist Gus-

tavsen. The kneeling makes sense in the

fi nal few cadences.

“Thalassa” by Alain Lefèvre appears in

the shuffl e. Lefèvre is a romantic pianist

for today, notable for leading the re-

discovery and reevaluation of the work

of tragic French-Canadian boy-genius,

André Mathieu. “Thalassa,” very much

in the style of the Russians, is one of his

own short pieces, composed on tour, in-

spired by place. His two albums “Carnet

de Notes” and “Fidèles insomnies” are

full of muted passion and melancholy

refl ection.

“Intimate Letters, part 2” from Janacek’s

String Quartet, performed by the Julliard

String Quartet is next. Janacek’s string

quartets have become regular references

in my listening, along with other work by

this Czech composer. This section sets

out a range of diffi cult-to-identify moods

against a ground of intertwined agita-

tion. One needs agile ears to follow these

complex evolutions.

“Likambo” by Kékélé from the album

Rumba Congo fi nds its way into the

unpatterned pattern. World Music has

gradually found an increasing place in

my musical preferences since some early,

decisive experiences, most memorably

hearing Youssou N’Dour at the Rebecca

Cohn in 1988 or so. This track cannot help

but evoke memories of a beautiful night

at the Atlantic Jazz Festival in 2004,

hundreds dancing under the big tent at

the corner of Queen and Spring Garden.

“La Bonne Etoile” is a brilliant piece of

rock arranging and a lovely mouthful

of French prosody. Matthieu Chedid is

Franco-Egyptian poet Andrée Chedid’s

grandson and his self-creation, ‘M.,’ is a

French pop culture persona owing some-

thing to The Cure, something to French

crooners like Aznavour, something to

surrealism and something to Guignol,

etc. A singular blend and a delightful

one. So, why is French pop so hard to

stomach in the anglosphere? This sound

of soaring strings, dry funky guitar and

retro-dreamy Fender Rhodes piano just

has to translate. Or does it?

“Lonely Song” by Ron Hynes. I don’t

have a lot of folk in my collection but

there are a couple of albums by Ron

Hynes there. Anyone who saw him per-

form “Bone Dry” at the ECMA ceremony

this year can have no doubt that he is

a writer and performer who is entirely

present in what he sings. A national

poet, whatever that might mean today.

“When your world is fi lled with wondrous

things/But life’s been just one lonely

song…” he sings with a hard-earned

confi dence.

“Eight Lines” by Steve Reich comes

strangely in, just about as different from

Ron as it is possible to be. Minimal-

ism has a limited but special place in

my listening habits, there are moments

when the patiently unfolding dramas of

repetition and differentiation seem like

the only music. On an autobiographical

note, I once performed Reich’s “Clapping

Music” at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory

in Moscow. Improbable but true.

Dr. Elson was a founding editor of The

Paris New Music Review, now an online

review of new music, dance and art at,

www.paristransatlantic.com. His reviews

of Canadian Jazz CDs are regularly found

in JazzEast Rising magazine.

MUSIC I ’M LISTENING TO

Dr. Christopher Elson, Vice-President of the University of King’s College

Dr. Christopher Elson (BAH ’86)

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BEHIND THE SCENES IN

CANADIAN POLITICS

The Various Roles Played by King's Alumni

by Jessica McDiarmid (BJH ’07)

F SOMEONE HAD TOLD John MacDonell (BA ’88) in January 2006 that he’d be in a flak jacket stepping off a C-130 Hercules aircraft in Kandahar four months later, he would

have called them crazy. The next month, however, the partner at Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales law firm in Halifax received a call that drastically changed his plans. Freshly minted Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay asked MacDonell to take a leave of absence from his job and become the minister’s chief of staff in Ottawa. By April, MacDonell was in Afghanistan with his new boss and Maritime musicians George Canyon and Lennie Gallant. Since then, he’s voyaged to Brazil, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East. When he’s not travelling, MacDonell oversees MacKay’s eight offices and advises staff. He coordinates briefings for the minis-ter, fields media interview requests and ensures that MacKay is prepared for questions from parliamentary committees, among many other tasks. “I sometimes joke with Peter that I don’t actually do any-thing, I just get other people to do things,” he laughs. The Canadian political scene is peppered with the familiar faces of King’s grads, such as Nova Scotia’s New Democratic Party leader Darrell Dexter (BA ’79, BJ ‘83) and former pre-miers John Hamm (BSc ’58) and Russell MacLellan (BA ’62,

DCL ’03). But there are plenty of others who play pivotal roles behind the scenes, shaping the direction of politicians and their parties. MacDonell began his political career blowing up balloons for the Progressive Conservative campaign in Antigonish in 1981. Since then, he’s served in a number of positions and has worked with MacKay on various campaigns and committees. But

he never planned on working as a political staffer, and credits his success to being in the right place at the right time. “We happened to win an election,” he says. “[MacKay] hap-pened to be appointed minister, he happened to be looking for a chief of staff, I happened to have law partners who were generous enough to let me take a leave of absence to do this, so it’s a confluence of really lucky circumstances for me.” Down the street from Parliament Hill at the federal Liberal party headquarters, Jamie Carroll (BA ’00) was recently ap-pointed national director of the party. He had served as deputy director on Stephane Dion’s leadership campaign, and helped to set up the Opposition Leader’s office before taking on the position at party headquarters. Like MacDonell, Carroll says there’s never a dull day. He runs the day-to-day administration of the Liberal Party, prepares for a potential election and acts as an advisor to Dion.

“It’s not like The West Wing as much as some of us wish it was,” he says. “But, it’s also not like the filth-filled cesspool that some of our colleagues in the media like to paint it as, either. I’m surrounded on a daily basis by people who genuinely want to make Canada a better place, and that’s on all sides of the aisle.”

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While people in geographical areas often dwell on their differences from the rest of the country, Carroll says he’s fasci-nated by the similarities. “The more people you meet, the more you find the com-monalities between them,” says Carroll, whose work with Dion took him to five continents in less than a year. “At its most basic, that’s what anything in politics is about—it’s about people.” Further left on the spectrum, Ron Sherrard (BJH ’85) man-ages communications for Dexter’s New Democratic Party. Like Carroll and MacDonell, he laughs when asked what a typical day is like. Depends on the day, he says. He’s been with the party for close to 10 years, following a long career as a journal-ist with CBC. As acting communications manager and outreach manager, he moni-tors media coverage, prepares the caucus for Question Period, writes speeches and press releases and updates special interest groups. “For the most part, the goal is to try to stay in the news,” he says. Sherrard says he was surprised how well his journalistic skills translated to public relations work—something he’d never planned to do. “You take opportunities when they come up,” he says. “I always thought I’d stay in journalism, and in some ways, I still am. Sometimes, I think the only difference between me and some reporters is that my biases are out on the table.” Upon his graduation from King’s seven years ago, Carroll says he wasn’t planning for a career in politics either. But he was interested and went to ex-premier MacLellan for advice. “He said ‘pick one thing you’re good at and go do it,’” re-calls Carroll. “I tried this and ended up being fairly good at it,

so I’ve stuck around for a while. But it’s not something you can do forever.” MacDonell agrees that politics are about knowing your strengths. He loves his job, but would never consider running for office. “Politics is about knowing what your skills are and knowing what you’re best at,” he says. “I’m much better at working for politicians than being one.” Sherrard says the NDP best matches his own political lean-

ings, but he does the job more for the people he works with. Though politics often seem natural to the public, a huge amount of teamwork goes into it. “Politics is such a team sport,” he says. “Because of the way there are people who speak for a party, you don’t really get the sense of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. It’s more complicated than it looks.” ∂

Some big things have happened on

campus since the last issue of Tidings ar-

rived at your door. For more information

on any of the following, please visit our

King’s News Page at http://www.ukings.

ca/kings 3672.html

MARCH 6

The Halifax Branch of the King’s Alumni

Association was offi cially formed. Mark

DeWolf (BAH ‘68) will serve as President

and is joined on the executive by Mary

Barker (BA ‘67), Eric Bednarski (BA

‘99), Rae Brown (BA ‘99), Peter Dawson

(BAH ‘85) and Kathleen Soares (BA ‘74).

For more on this, please fl ip to page 33.

MARCH 8

The King’s Board of Governors unanimous-

ly and enthusiastically approved the rec-

ommendation of the Presidential Search

Committee that President and Vice-Chan-

cellor Dr. William Barker be renewed for a

second term, ending July 2012.

MARCH 8

Acclaimed Canadian author Dr. Alistair

MacLeod (DCL ‘00) became the 29th

Honorary member of the Haliburton

Club, the literary society at King’s and

the longest-standing collegial literary

society in North America.

MARCH 22

King’s received the news that it was cho-

sen to administer a $2.1 million Strategic

Knowledge Cluster Grant from the Social

Sciences and Humanities Research Coun-

cil of Canada. The project relates to the

study of the history and philosophy of

science, a burgeoning fi eld of academic

research that links humanities, social sci-

ences and sciences.

MARCH 30

The 7th Annual Athletic Awards Banquet

recognized some of our fi nest student

athletes. 4th year Science students

Alexandra Akers (soccer) and Mike

Smith (badminton, soccer, volleyball)

each earned fi ve distinctions, including

Female and Male Athlete of the Year,

respectively. Katie Gleason-Mercier (soc-

cer) also joined Andrew Battison, Sean

Farmer and Kyle Murphy of the ACAA

champion volleyball team as Academic

All-Canadians.

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Based on her belief that life is a journey, defi ned

largely by the people that you meet along the way,

Arwen Kidd turned her series of ‘success’ interviews

with King’s alumni into a travel narrative.

I stare at the empty bag open on my bed. For the past two hours, I’ve been trying to figure out what I could possibly pack to help me on my journey. Where exactly am I going? ‘Success’ is a place that most people seem to want to go. Like a city of bright lights, or a nation of mouth-watering tastes, its draw is obvious. Whether we view it as a distinct destination or an overall satisfaction with our choices along the way, it’s the type of thing we all mark down on ‘to do’ lists. So, following in the footsteps of so many before me, I’m looking for ‘success’—I just need to figure out how to get there. “The road is circuitous, at best,” Matt Aronson (BAH ’01)

warns me. After graduating from King’s, he attended McGill law school and is now studying to pass the bar. He says that achieving ‘success’ is comparable to hiking. “Looking at the map, you think the straight line is the best way to go,” he says. “But that’s because you don’t know how to read the map. Sometimes the ‘straight line’ is the worst possible way to go—you miss scenery, or there are obstacles, or you miss the shortcuts along the way.” Aronson has wanted to practice law for a long time. But rather than going straight for it, he took some time to gain life experience. Instead of looking at maps, Aronson advises me to listen to gut feelings and intuitions—he says this is how the universe and its ‘random chaos’ gives directions. Even failure, he assures me, is just its way of letting you know you need to self-correct your course.

I take Aronson’s advice and start off without a map, try-ing to hear my gut. As the road leads on, I pass signposts for ‘starvation’ and ‘failure’ (both fears Aronson warned me about) and exit ramps directing me to ‘quit now’ or ‘procrastinate.’ For some reason, no matter how far I go or which direction I take, they’re always there, just off the side of the road. Nevertheless, I keep a positive attitude, because I’ve been told there are a couple of tricks to this journey: luck and net-working. This insight came from Angela Hill (BJH ’97). She says that a number of her jobs since graduation, including stints at TV Guide magazine and freelance writing, have come largely from knowing the right people, at least as far as getting her foot in the door. She’s also had some luck along the way. “[Once,] I saw an ad in the paper and got an interview from it,” she says. “I know, nobody’s supposed to get jobs from the newspaper. But that’s what happened.” For almost seven years now, Hill has worked various proof-reading, management, and marketing jobs at Harlequin (yes, the romance books). She says that ever since she got her ‘start,’ she’s been incredibly picky, never taking a job for a job’s sake, and has been happy as a result. “Doing something I really enjoy and making enough money so that I’m not starving,” she says. “Those are my keys to suc-cess. And not piling on more debt every month.” Hill says that even though it was sometimes hard to live between paycheques, particularly as a freelancer, it was always worth it. “I was young,” she says. “I was single. I didn’t have any kids. So, I had to pay to go to the dentist. But I liked the job—and I think I’d regret it if I hadn’t done these things. I’ve moved from a full-time job with benefits to two month [jobs] with no benefits, no security. I’ve worked two years on a week-to-week contract, renewable every Thursday—I was prepared to give it all up for the job I wanted.” Hill says that people question her about some of her choices, but she doesn’t care. “I think a lot of people think that I’ve ‘sold out,’” she says. “One, I’m in marketing, not journalism. And two, I work for a well-known publishing house. But I don’t think I have. Selling out yourself is going against what you believe in. I didn’t do that.” As I finally pass the gates to ‘success,’ I take a moment to think about Hill’s words. The problem is, now that I’ve managed to find ‘success,’ I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to do. I look around, searching for some sign, and hear a public service announcement: “Success is the right people doing the right thing.” That’s nice, I think, but what is this ‘right’ thing? To find out, I go to the source of the words—David Jones (BA ’68, HF ’98). For the past eight years, Jones has been working on a book about achieving results without conflict. He says there’s a lot of energy wasted on conflict and competition, often resulting in

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the quest for ‘success’ overshadowing the far more important achievement of ‘excellence.’ Even very successful people, he adds, sometimes make the mistake of constantly moving ahead rather than trying to better manage what they have. “I’ve worked for a couple of millionaires in my life,” he says. “I was curious as to what it takes to be a millionaire, so one day I asked one of them—who was in the process of buying up yet another apartment—‘Why don’t you just take a break?’ ‘Because there’s always another deal to be done,’ he said.” That really got to Jones, who warns people to be wary of letting their jobs take control of them. Over the years, he has accumulated experience in the areas of social work, city manage-ment and knowledge management. He says the value of work, including its span and impact, should always be taken into ac-count. “The more significant the issues, the more significant the price,” he explains, adding that things should be considered accordingly. For example, when he first became interested in urban issues, he remembers looking around and asking himself: “Why are the litter containers on the streets always overflow-ing?” To him, considering why these things don’t work allows you to make them work. The problem is that people often just don’t know what they’re capable of. “Regret,” he says, “means to me the frequency that people don’t realize what their powers and opportunities are.” This statement makes me wonder whether I have under-valued myself. As I sit down to contemplate my worth (and try to decide what ‘success’ is worth to me), I start to think about the prices that other people pay to get here.

Duncan McCue (BA ’92), for example, is very clear about what he is and isn’t willing to give. Since leaving King’s, he has gone on to study law at UBC and now films documentary programs for CBC. “I’m not willing to concede too much,” he says. “Whether it’s from my employer or otherwise, if it means I’m not happy, it’s not worth it.” McCue took a year off to be at home when each of his children were born, “to be successful as a dad.” However, he realizes that these decisions have consequences. “This, predictably, has put limitations on my career,” he says. “For instance, I work a four-day week. This impacts my salary, but it also means I have a more enjoyable family life.” Now, at 35, McCue says he’s reached an interesting period in his life. “In my career, I’m a TV reporter that files items for The

National at CBC,” he explains. “And, in my life, I have a wife,

“SELLING OUT YOURSELF IS GOING AGAINST WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN. I DIDN’T DO THAT.”

– Angela Hill

two kids and a house. Those are goals I had as well. So, I’m at a curious point, because I’ve reached my old goals, but I haven’t yet decided what my new goals will be. It’s not a mid-life crisis, but I’m trying to figure things out; to re-jig my goals. It’s a weird place.” I suddenly realize that ‘success’ is a weird place. Now that I’ve arrived, where am I supposed to go? I remember one of McCue’s last statements:“They say hindsight is 20/20, right?” Yes, I think, a time machine to ‘hindsight’ would be perfect right about now. Instead, I’m tossed a ball. “General rule,” says Gordon Cooper (BAH ’94), “the ball’s in your court. Don’t wait for somebody to serve up your next greatest opportunity on a silver platter, because it doesn’t work that way. You’ve gotta make it happen yourself.” Cooper has lived in a dozen homes over the past 12 years. From teaching in Japan to an IMBA program at York, to bouncing around between London, Tokyo, Vietnam and now Singapore, he and wife Chere (Chapman, BSc ‘94) have spent a lot of time packing and unpacking boxes. But he says that he wouldn’t change one bit of it. Not even the ‘wild rides,’ such as his time in London with a start-up company working in e-commerce space. “When it became clear that venture funding had dried up, I completed my first experience on the front lines of a tech start-up by watching the liquidators carry out the last tables and chairs,” he says. “Like many others [with] the company, I had worked for many months without salary up until that point, warding off creditors in a bid to keep the lights on.” He says that although the job only lasted a year, the learn-ing experience was invaluable. The other type of invaluable he mentions are the moments you won’t give up—for him, those with his family. “I guess every new parent says it, but that’s because it’s true,” he admits. “Kids grow up too fast. Saturday mornings are sacred family time for us. The weekend ritual begins with three year-old Will saying, ‘let’s go for kaya toast!’—his call for us to head down to the local Singaporean coffee house, where they serve local coffees and teas with a special coconut jam toast, dipped into boiled eggs.” So, like the sappy TV credit card ads say, I guess there are things that are priceless. Is ‘success’ priceless? I suppose it just depends what you view it to be. According to Cooper, who is currently VISA’s Country Manager for Singapore and Brunei, it all comes down to passion. “You’ve gotta love what you do,” he says. “Nothing brings out mediocrity like indifference. So, do the things that put a fire in your belly and skip the rest.” ∂

Arwen will be taking an important road trip of her own in August

—as the winner of the King’s School of Journalism’s David Cado-

gan Travel Bursary, she will travel to Western Africa to make a

television documentary about the youth in Sierra Leone.

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Two weeks before completing his undergraduate

degree, we gave Michael Landry the diffi cult task

of contemplating the meaning of the word ‘success.’

He caught up with a handful of alumni to help him

answer this important question.

When Muhammed Ali stood tall against heavy-hitting cham-pion George Foreman in 1974, he knew that he would win. But just because Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Century” had a clear vision of what he wanted, that didn’t mean it was easy. Whether a boxer or an investment banker, ‘success’ requires hard work, sacrifices, and risks. Peter Jelley (BAH ’94) can think of a lot of other invest-ment bankers at the National Bank Financial Group that would make for a better interview—they’re the ones that show up early in expensive cars wearing fancy monogrammed shirts. “The profession I’m in does reward long hours,” he says. “The people who are good are particularly obsessive about it, but I don’t think I’ve allowed myself to be enamored in it.” Since graduating from the London School of Economics in 1995 and Harvard in 1998, his idea of ‘success’ has evolved: it has become more elusive. Ten years ago, he believed that ‘success’ was just as easy as crossing goals off a list. “It’s not that easy,” he says. “Your goals are always changing and you should change to balance tangible goals with personal priorities in a way to satisfy both. That’s the way I see success now.” Mike Nichol (BComm Dal ’70) says that beyond rolling with the punches, you have to hustle in order to be a ‘success.’

That means making connections, looking out for what’s best for people and, most importantly, not being afraid. “You want to know why there were so many heroes at the Alamo?” he asks. “It’s because there wasn’t a back door.” Today, Nichol is an investment advisor with a major Ca-nadian firm, and says that he found his passion by identifying a niche market in the world of finance. When he was vying for his first job, he admits that he didn’t stand a chance on paper. He wasn’t tougher or stronger than the competition, but he did have one advantage: he was passionate. “When I started, I was told I wasn’t any good all the time,” he says. “But I wanted to do this, and eventually it worked. And, I don’t mind saying it worked well.” He says there are three steps to ‘success’ after finding your passion. The first step isn’t just about doing things right, but rather doing the right things. The second is treating everyone as though they’re wearing a sign that says ‘I am important.’ Finally, he says, always remember to save your money. None of these steps are easy, but he says that anything worthwhile isn’t supposed to be easy, citing an old Buddhist prophecy: “Once you accept that it’s going to be hard, it’s going to be easy. Once you get the idea that everything’s easy, things are going to be hard.”

There’s a certain danger that comes with the idea of ‘suc-cess’: the danger of contentment. It’s usually celebrities who get saddled with this fault, when their commercial achievements cause them to stop pushing themselves. But this can happen just as easily to anyone. That’s why when Alan Hall (BAH ’99) thinks of ‘success,’ he doesn’t think of wealth, happiness, fame, or contentment. Instead, the FYP tutor at King’s thinks of Jordan, a student in his tutorial last year, who was never afraid to ask a question.

“[Success] implies a sort of mastery, but I’ve come to think mastery as the enemy,” says Hall. “For that reason, I think of Jordan, because he’s so far from that delusion.” When it comes to ‘success,’ Hall is ambivalent—but he wasn’t always this way. When he graduated from King’s, he set out to succeed on his own terms. He thought that ‘success’ was just ahead of him and assumed that he would arrive at it. Years later, he has a family and a job he likes. He could be called a ‘success’—but he doesn’t think so. He doesn’t get enough sleep, read enough or spend nearly as much time with his son as he would like.

SUCCESS IS WHEN YOU LOOK BACK OVER WHAT YOU’VE DONE AND SAY ‘WOW. THAT’S MORE

THAN I COULD HAVE EXPECTED TO DO.’

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“The fact that I have to balance is kind of tragic,” he says. “I don’t get to do what I want and I have to do something else.” To him, it seems as though the only thing more difficult than searching for ‘success’ is fending off contentment once you’ve succeeded. Although it’s frustrating, he continues to resist con-tentment by never conceding his ‘success.’ But it isn’t easy. “I do, of course, fret endlessly about success,” he says. “It’s not like I’m a Buddhist monk. I want to be good at things and want people to notice me. I’m full of that weakness.”

French writer Marcel Proust spent the last three years of his life holed up writing in his cork-lined room. There, he completed one of the greatest books ever written, In Search of Lost Time, or, Remembrance of Things Past. His posthumous ‘success’ calls into question the relationship of ‘success’ to the individual. Perhaps it is more than personal satisfaction and fulfillment. Dr. Daniel Brandes (FYP ’90), an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at King’s, isn’t sure whether dedicating your life to one goal is better than balancing your life. “I would like to say balance,” he says. “But I’d have to ask Proust if it was worth it.” Siding more with Proust, Dr. Brandes says to be a ‘success-ful’ human is to take into account the happiness of others, and not just material happiness. Although he admits wanting ‘suc-cess’ for his own personal feeling of accomplishment, he says this doesn’t do justice to the term. That’s why he’s dedicated his life to answering and coming to terms with philosophical questions. “Very often, when people follow through with something to the end, it may not immediately affect people. But it can, in time.” Bill Bryant Sr. (BA ’67) says the greatest impact anyone can have is on their children. His two sons top his list of ac-complishments—the eldest is studying Nuclear Engineering and Economics, and the youngest is heading off to university in the fall. “My success is measured, as far as I’m concerned, by my family,” he says. “It’s part of my legacy, which is my top prior-ity.” Personal ‘success,’ he says, boils down to enjoying the trip and not waiting for the goal. “Success is when you look back over what you’ve done and say: ‘Wow, that’s more than I could have expected to do,’” he says. During his career, Bryant spent a decade as a reporter—he’s been in helicopters and hydrofoils, and he’s written about both the filthy rich and the dirt poor. But he feels that some of his greatest accomplishments came during his 20 years as the Press Secretary and Federal Projects Officer of U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI). He helped to pass laws that will, like his family’s

legacy, outlast his memory.

Proust or plebian ‘success’ is a delicate balance between per-sonal satisfaction and what you can do to make a difference. That’s why it’s so elusive. It seems that ‘success’ means different things to different people—there’s no single definition. But for most of us, it always seems just a little bit further. Taking that next step is what makes us ‘successful.’ Whether you’re in the halls of power, making oodles of money, or just painting your bathroom, you can be ‘successful’ as long as you keep going. ‘Success’ just seems to be what you make of it, and it seems that alumni of the University King’s College can find it just about anywhere. ∂

In May 2007, Michael made a pilgrimage to Bosnia and returned

to Halifax in time to graduate and to start his new job as Listings

Editor with The Coast.

Thoughts on ‘success’ from other King’s alumni:

“A lot of times, I think back and wonder ‘if only,’ but that doesn’t mean I’m not happy. This is where I am and I have to figure out what makes me content. It’s almost like the [Alcoholics Anonymous] model: live your life one day at a time.” —Catherine Elgie Novis’ (BAH ’93), Director of Family Min-istry at St. Thomas’ Anglican Church (St. Catharines, ON), wife and mother of three

“Too often, we overestimate what we can do in one year and underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years. Your first step today won’t make or break getting where you want to go. The key is not to think about each step.” —Alastair Jarvis (BAH ’99), Producer, HB Studios

“A lot of people go through life not doing much, but are happy. I don’t think you can be a success without being happy.” —Marli MacNeil (BJH ’82), Chief Executive Officer of Bionova

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King’s alumnus The Reverend Doctor

Robert Darwin Crouse (BA ’51, MTH

’57) received an honorary Doctor of Divin-ity. An internationally-recognized medi-eval scholar who has contributed greatly to the development of modern King’s, he was one of the early contributors to the development of the Foundation Year Programme, which has spawned the de-velopment of a series of interdisciplinary program offerings at the University. He has been the Visiting Professor of Patristics at The Pontifical Patristics Institute, the Augustinianum in Rome, Italy—the first non-Catholic to do so, and has been ac-tive with the Anglican Church throughout his life. He is currently a member of the Primate’s Theological Commission and plays the organ in the Parishes of Petite Riviere and New Dublin, near his home in Crousetown. The University is pleased to recognize Dr. Crouse, who connects us back to our historic ties with the Anglican community that provided the solid founda-tion from which King’s has evolved.

Fellow King’s alumnus Vice-Admiral

Glenn V. Davidson (BA ’73) received an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws. He has served as the Canadian Military Repre-sentative to the Military Committee at NATO Headquarters in Brussels since 2004. His military career began in 1970 when he enrolled in the Naval Reserve at HMCS Scotian. He joined the Regular Force in 1974 after graduating from King’s, and specialized in navigation and air con-trol and quickly moved through the ranks.

In 1984, he attended the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College in Toronto. Since that time, he has received several more promotions and served in posts mili-tary, diplomatic and political in nature. As a distinguished alumnus, Vice-Admiral Davidson carries on the King’s tradition of service and leadership, representing values that have sustained King’s throughout its history.

Professor Natalie Zemon Davis re-ceived an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws in recognition of her important work as a social historian. Her research and teach-ing has helped change the way in which historical research in the early modern period is conducted. Her archival research taps into unconventional sources that pro-vide us with a window into the life experi-ence of people of a time. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she was educated at Smith College, Radcliffe College and the University of Michigan. She is professor emeritus of history at Princeton and is cur-rently adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. She has published widely and is known for her insightful and accessible style. King’s is delighted to honour Dr. Davis as a fellow academic with an inter-est in the early modern period that works in an interdisciplinary manner, reflecting the intellectual life of the College.

Author, activist and film-maker Ms. Nao-

mi Klein received an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws. She was ranked 11th in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the

world’s top public intellectuals compiled by Prospect Magazine, in conjunction with Foreign Policy Magazine. During her un-dergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, she began writing—she has served as the editor of THIS Magazine, as a columnist with the Toronto Star, and she continues to contribute to publications such as The Globe and Mail, The Guard-

ian, and The Nation. She has published several important books, including No

Logo (2000), a rallying cry for the anti-Globalization movement, and Fences and

Windows (2002), a collection of articles and speeches. Her next book, The Shock

Doctrine is scheduled for release in 2007. The engagement with the broader world Ms. Klein demonstrates is reflective of a long-standing value held by King’s stu-dents.

Ms. Margo Pullen Sly was made an Hon-orary Fellow of the College. She retired from King’s in 2006 after serving as as-sistant to four Presidents over a 20-year period. During this period, she provided an important point of continuity as the College went through some dramatic changes. For many visitors and friends of the College, Ms. Pullen Sly was the face of King’s. She served King’s with grace and style, and helped King’s move into the future while maintaining a strong respect for its historic past. A Nova Scotia native raised in a naval family, she has two adult children, one of whom graduated from King’s in 1999.

2007 HONORARY DEGREES

above, from left to right: Honorary Degree recipients The Reverend Doctor Robert Darwin Crouse (BA ’51, MTH ’57), Vice-Admiral Glenn V. Davidson (BA ’73), Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, Naomi Klein, Margo Pullen Sly.

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STEWARDSHIP REPORT

2006–2007 Fiscal Year

Let me start by saying a big “thank you” to each and every one of you who supported King’s in 2006-2007. This year, you made commitments of just over $600,000 to King’s—$396,000 is already at work enriching the student experience and providing the people who will benefit most with the opportunity to participate in our extraordinary community now and in the future. You have supported our Annual Fund, made special gifts and included King’s as part of your legacy. Our long-time sup-porters are the foundation on which King’s has been built and remain vital to King’s future. We would like to enthusiastically welcome our newest supporters.

I know the people who support King’s have some connec-tion to the College. You are alumni, parents and friends—and, in some cases, students. The people really make King’s. Thank you so much for participating in the continued success of King’s.

Kara HolmAdvancement Director

NOTE: This report covers donations made between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007.

Dear Friends:

2006-07 Annual Fund $ 120,569.75

2005-06 Annual Fund $ 8,241.72

Capital Campaign $ 18,250.00

Major Gifts (pledged) $ 240,275.00

Major Gifts (received) $ 27,728.00

Estates/Bequests $ 95,154.67

Other Sources $ 120,464.66

TOTAL DONATIONS $ 602,985.83

When you support King’s, you are invest-

ing in the university that has set the

standard for interdisciplinary humanities

education in Canada. You are supporting

a unique environment that enables the

students to participate fully in the aca-

demic, administrative and social life of

the community. This experience is like no

other and is only possible through your

generosity. Thank you for helping

us to stay small and intimate.

Top Three Areas you have supported:

Scholarships and Bursaries $173,335.00

Library $10,340.00

Unrestricted $51,255.00

(Funds received in 2006/2007—

not including pledged money)

Other areas that have received support:

• Academic programmes

• Athletics

• Speakers Series

• Building

• Food Services

• Student activities

Some interesting things your donations

have funded:

• A panini machine for the students to

use in Prince Hall

• New CDs for the Foundation Year Pro-

gramme—music is played each morning

as students arrive in Alumni Hall to set

the tone for the classes.

• An essay prize for students in the Early

Modern Studies Programme—a gift

certifi cate to the King’s Bookstore—was

awarded to James Legge (BAH ’07)

• A bursary for students in the History of

Science and Technology Programme

SUMMARY

King's 2006/2007 Donations

WORKING TOGETHER TO REMEMBER FRIENDS

In 2006, Megan MacAlpine (BJH ’98) contacted the Advance-

ment Offi ce to fi nd out about establishing an award in memory

of her friend Shirley Miles (BAH ’98) who passed away in

1999. Megan is now fundraising to build the Shirley Miles

Award Fund, which will be an endowed bursary fund. More

than $2,200 has already been collected from 43 alumni and

friends—who participated in a PEI event.

There is a strong history of memorial awards at King’s. Many

scholarships, bursaries and prizes available to our students

were established through the industry of their friends and fam-

ily members. Recently, the George Earles Memorial Scholar-

ship was established by George’s friends from the class of

1986 following his untimely death in 2003. That fund now has a

value of over $12,000 and is endowed to ensure that George’s

memory lives on at King’s and supports students. A bursary for

a student in the School of Journalism is offered each year in

memory of Denise Ouellette (BJH ‘99), thanks to the generos-

ity of her friends and family.

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Thanks to you, $86,409.75 has been

added to the un-named scholarships and

bursary budget. This is a great help to

the King’s efforts to recruit and retain

the best students.

Alumni Participation Rate remains

around 10% (based on the alumni for

whom we have accurate contact infor-

mation), and we received gifts from

nearly 500 alumni. This is below our

goal, but we are grateful for each and

every gift we have received.

The total raised by the Annual Fund

has increased because the average gift

size grew to $183 from $168. This gener-

osity is wonderful. We would also like to

acknowledge the many gifts of $10, $20,

$50 received in this account. We know

you stretched to make that commit-

ment to King’s and our students, and it

is appreciated. The more small gifts we

receive, the more we are able to raise for

King’s—it all adds up.

1932 50%

1937 50%

1938 50%

1941 50%

1942 100%

1946 67%

1947 33%

1948 59%

1949 33%

1950 28%

1951 53%

1952 24%

1953 58%

1954 75%

1955 55%

1956 29%

1957 67%

1958 40%

1959 22%

1960 40%

1961 24%

1962 24%

1963 35%

1964 24%

1965 39%

1966 18%

1967 19%

1968 22%

1969 22%

1970 26%

1971 14%

1972 9%

1973 19%

1974 19%

1975 15%

1976 20%

1977 15%

1978 18%

1979 10%

1980 13%

1981 9%

1982 14%

1983 13%

1984 6%

1985 19%

1986 23%

1987 11%

1988 13%

1989 4%

1990 10%

1991 11%

1992 8%

1993 13%

1994 10%

1995 9%

1996 7%

1997 11%

1998 3%

1999 4%

2000 5%

2001 4%

2002 5%

2003 6%

2004 4%

2005 3%

2006 1%

Residents 5%

Participation by Class

Support Among Alumni by Province/Country

Province/Territory Participation Rate Amount Donated Average Gift

Nova Scotia 10% $ 26,525.00 $ 116.00

Newfoundland and Labrador 9.3% $ 420.00 $ 35.00

Prince Edward Island 13% $ 1,590.00 $ 114.00

New Brunswick 8% $ 5,525.00 $ 134.00

Quebec 13% $ 2,085.00 $ 130.00

Ontario 8% $ 22,976.00 $ 211.00

Manitoba 10% $ 640.00 $ 160.00

Alberta 7% $ 2,135.00 $ 194.00

British Columbia 12% $ 3,250.00 $ 163.00

Nunavut 50% $ 100.00 $ 50.00

Northwest Territories 17% $ 125.00 $ 62.50

Yukon 0% 0 0

USA 12% $ 8,766.00 $ 313.06

Thanks also to our alumni in Egypt, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and Australia who

supported the Annual Fund!

• Board of Governors Support 100%

Average Gift $366.86

• Alumni Executive (National) Support 100%

Average Gift $163.09

ANNUAL FUND

With your support the Annual Fund has grown again.

2006/2007 total to March 31, 2007 $120,570.00

2005/2006 total to March 31, 2006 $95,381.00

2004/2005 total to March 31, 2005 $61,696.00

Lightening the Load

In 2006, Tudor (Caldwell) Robins (BJ ‘96) contacted the Ad-

vancement Offi ce. Now a mother of two and freelance journalist,

Tudor and her family wanted to do something for King’s and its

students. With her parents, Gregor and Beth Caldwell, Tudor

has founded the Caldwell-Robins bursary. This is a needs-based

award that will be given to a returning Journalism student at

King’s. Providing fi nancial support to students is a University

priority as well. Tuition is high and many students fi nd the cost

diffi cult to support. Our thanks to Tudor and her family for rec-

ognizing and supporting this need.

An Early Start

Guy Quenneville (BJH ’07) popped into the offi ce one day in

the fall—he wanted to make a gift to King’s. Guy, who has been

an active student on campus, indicated that it was his family

tradition to make a gift to your university in the fi nal year of

study. Not many students in their fi nal year think to make a gift

to King’s. Guy’s gift was directed to bursaries to help students

meet the many fi nancial demands of their education.

A Legacy

Although Ms. Margaret Burns Martin had never been a student

at King’s, she did remember and value her family’s association

with the College. Her father, J. Burns Martin, was a professor

of English and librarian at King’s. Following Ms. Martin’s death

in December of 2006, King’s was notifi ed that Ms. Martin had

left a legacy to King’s in her will. We only regret that we did not

know of her intentions sooner, so that we could have thanked

her and celebrated her generosity during her lifetime. As the

College community continues to grow and welcome people

from across Canada and around the world, we never forget

the people who helped build King’s in the early years and are

grateful that they have not forgotten us.

WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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Martin Adelaar

Alex & Monica Affl eck

George & Audrey (Smyth)

Akerley

David & Heather Allen

Donna (Richardson) Allen

Frances (Gomery) Allen

Robert Allison

Estate of Susanna Almon*

John Alward

Esther Amiro

Rita Anderson

Sandra & David Anderson

Melissa Andrew

Dennis Andrews

Carol (Chase) Anningson

Robert Antle

Barry Arbus

Chris Archibald

David & Robin Archibald

Gillian Archibald

Margaret (Hatt) Armstrong

Peter Armstrong

D. Feversham Arnold

Charlyne Arsenault

Kenneth Askew

Craig & Debra Atkinson

Nathalie Atkinson

Atlantic Landscape

Gardeners

Atlantic Publishers

Marketing Association

Bob Attenborough

Jeffrey Baggs

Jane Bailey

Peter Baltzer

Lachlan Barber

Diane Barker

Mary Barker & Ron Gilkie

William Barker & Elizabeth

Church

Margaret Barnard

Philip & Heather Barnes

Keith Barrett

Joshua Bates

William & Cynthia Battison

T. Fred Baxter

Stephanie Belmer

Paul Bent

Oscar Bird

Gerry Bishop

William Bishop

Val Biskupski

Lisa Blackburn

Anne Blakeney

Mary Blanchard

Robert & Linda Blanchard

Leonard & Lynn Bloom

BMO Financial Group

Laura Boast

Alberta Boswall

Joyce Boudreau

Margaret (Fairweather)

Bourne

James & Marion (Ware)

Boyer

Freena Bradley

Malcolm Bradshaw

Jamie Briggs

Lauren Brodie

Stephen Brooke

The Brookfi eld Foundation

Christine Brophy

Derek & Margaret (Burstall)

Brown

Maggie Brown

Rebecca Brown

Brian Brownlee

Daniel Brownlow

Lawrence & Jane (Reagh)

Bruce-Robertson

Jonathan Bruhm

Peter & Patricia Bryson

Mordy Bubis & Nina Stipich

Basil Buckland

Ronald Buckley

Cyril Bugden

Cindy Buim

Elaine Burke

Debra Burleson

Colin Burn

Brian Burnell

Evelyn Burnett

Susan Burroughs

Kathryn R. Burton

David Butorac

Cadogan Foundation Inc.

George & Sandra (Jones)

Caines

Robin Calder

Gregor & Beth Caldwell

Anne Cameron

Driffi eld Cameron

Gordon Cameron

Sheila Cameron

Judith Campbell

Canadian Imperial Bank of

Commerce

James Carfra

Nancy Margaret Carr

Helen (Pullen) Cathcart

Patricia Chalmers

Alfred & Elizabeth Chanadi

Angela Chang

Donald & Jean (Kryszek)

Chard

Paul Charlebois

Gillian Charlton Fullilove

Carolyn (Tanner) Chenhall

Kathleen (Gosnell) Chidley

Steve Chipman

Dukhee Chon

Clare Christie

Fred Christie

The Chronicle Herald

Donald Clancy

Ginny (Lewis) Clark

Dolda Clarke

Elsie Clarke

Lorne & Mary Lou

(MacLeod) Clarke

Joan Clayton

Clearwater Fine Foods Inc.

Hope Clement

Sarah Clift

Scott Clish

James & Charlotte

(Graven) Cochran

Wayne Cochrane

Susan Coen

Peter Coffi n

Robert & Elizabeth

(Parsons) Colavecchia

David Coleman

Jean Coléno

Jennifer Collins

John Conn

Borden Conrad

Allan Conrod

John Cook

Jean Cooley

George & Tia Cooper

Jeremy Copeland

Harry Sinclair Corbin

John Cordes

Joanne Corkum

Kathleen Cox

Jack & Joan Craig

Robert Craig

David Creese

Richard & Marilyn Cregan

Susan (Tuck) Crossley

Hugh Crosthwait

Thomas Crowther

Jeanne Cruikshank

Thomas & Jane Curran

Brian & Lindsay

Cuthbertson

Laurel Darnell

Ruth Davenport

Graham & Susan Davies

Gwendolyn Davies

Cynthia Davis

Douglas Davis

Wendy Davis

Joan Dawson

Peter & Taunya (Padley)

Dawson

Robert Dawson

Daniel de Munnik & Tasya

Tymczyszyn

Ian Deakin

Kenneth Dekker

Lisa Dennis

Ramsay Derry & Trisha

Jackson

Douglas Deruchie

Janice Desmond

John Desrosier

Jeanne Desveaux

Mary (Coffi ll) Deveau

Kenneth Dewar

J. Mark & Rachel

(Swetnam) DeWolf

Mark DeWolf

Darrell Dexter & Kelly

Wilson

Frances Dibblee

Andrew Dick

Carol (Coles) Dicks

Ian Dickson

Ian Digby

Sarah Dingle

Diocesan Synod of Nova

Scotia

Anne C. Disher

Susan Dodd

Michael Dunn

Kristen Dunsford

Robert Dunsmore

Corinne Earle

Gordon Earle

Lynda Mavis Earle

Ken Easterbrook

Jonathan & Beth (Tuck)

Eayrs

Maureen Eberts

Roger & Lynn Edmonds

Edmonds Landscape and

Construction Services

Ltd.

Elizabeth Edwards

C. William Eliot

C. Russell Elliott

Peter Ellis

Christopher Elson

Edward & Karen English

Eyton Family

John Farmer

Jeff Farquhar

Alexander Farrell

Monica Farrell

Olivia Faulds

Daniel & Brenda Fay

Mark Feldbauer

Ricky-Allan Fenske

Fergus & Barbara (Smith)

Fergusson

Peter Fillmore

Leah Fitzgerald

Mark Fleming & Rachel

Renton

Christopher Flerlage

Phillip Fleury

Ian Folkins

Daniel Ford

Robert Ford

Gisele (LeBlanc) Forsey

Jacob Fortier

Kelly (Goodyear) Foss

John Fowke

Lillian (Taylor) Fowler

R. Luke Franklin

Jean Fraser

J. Roderick Fraser

Rowland Frazee

Paul Friedland

Marion Fry

Richard Gallagher

Karen (Berberich) Gallant

Alan Gandy

Sharon (Flemming) Ganong

Jim & Sally Garner

J. Fraser Gartside

Brigid Garvey

Laura (Auchincloss)

Gatensby

Michael Gaudet &

Faye Pound

Lloyd Gesner

Jack Gibbons & Mary

Lovett

Kevin Gibson

Marie Gibson

Ed Gigg

Joan Gilroy

Victoria Goldring

Peter & Sheila Gorman

Kevin Gormely & Mary

Abbott

Bruce Gorrie

John Gorrill

William Graham

Harry Grant

Roselle Green

Bev Greenlaw & Sylvia

Hamilton

Anne Gregory

Laura Griffi ths

Emanuella Grinberg

Catherine Gross

Nancy Guptill

Barb Gutstein

Gregory Guy

Neal Guyer

Douglas Hadley

Mike Hadley

Elizabeth Haigh

G. Brenton Haliburton

Donald & Shirley Hambrick

Heather & Oli Hamilton

Geraldine Hamm

John & Genesta Hamm

Bruce Hancock

Wayne Hankey

Elizabeth Hanton

Rashida Haq

Jim Harbell & Pat McQuaid

Anthony Harding

Andrew & Anne (Dorey)

Hare

George & Mary Hare

Frank Harrington

Frederick Harris

Mary Beth Harris

Peter Harris

Walter Harris

Harrison McCain

Foundation

Bernard Hart

David S. Hart

Mike Hasiuk

Faith Hatcher

G.Keith Hatfi eld

John Hatfi eld

Nicholas Hatt

Michael Hawkins

Marnie Hay

E.Kitchener Hayman

C.William Hayward

Pearl Hazen

Mark & Shirley (Wall)

Hazen

Ross Hebb

Ian Henderson

Mary (Rettie) Henderson

Paul & Penelope Henry

Wendy Hepburn

William & Anne Hepburn

Oliver Herbst

H. Douglas Hergett

Peter Herrndorf & Eva

Czigler

Richard Heystee

Bernard Hibbitts

John Hibbitts

Angela Hill

Diana Himmelman

Michael Hoare

John Hobday

Barbara Hodkin

Lois Hoegg

Kara Holm

Larry & Joan (Sellick)

Holman

Janice Holmes

Megan Holsapple

Neil Hooper

Elizabeth Horlock

James Houston

John & Heather Houston

E. Ian Howard

Richard Howard

Bruce Howe

Robert Howe

Scott Howe

Michaela Huard

Sarah Hubbard

Estate of M. Ruth Hudson*

Ian & Catherine Hugill

Jean Humphreys

Holly Hunter

Norman & Laura Hunter

Lois (MacKinley) Hurst

Diane & Paul Hurwitz

Robert Hyslop

Jim & Nancy (Hyndman)

Ibbott

Heather (Martin) Inglis

Robert Inglis

Eric Ingraham

David Ingram

James Irvine

Pam Irvine

Linda Irving

David W. Jackson

Robert Jackson

Leslie Jaeger

Meghan Jamieson

Linda Javorksi

Philip Jefferson

Peter Jelley

David Jerome

Dean Jobb

Alison Johnson

Paula Johnson

David & Ena Gwen Jones

Nicholas Jones

Genevieve Keen

Danford & Mary (Burchill)

Kelley

Edward Kelly

Mary Kennedy

Kim Kierans

Andrew Killawee

Darlene Killen

Burns & Sarah (Teed)

Kimball

Stephen Kimber

Barry & Mary Ellen King

John Kinley

W. J. Tory & Margaret (von

Maltzahn) Kirby

Mary Beth Knight

Stephen Knowles

Jeff & Sarah Koopus

Frances (Kuret) Krusekopf

Robert & Carolyn Kunz

Eric Kushner

Marguerite & Peter

Kussmaul

Jeannette Laba

Susan Ladner

Andrew Laing

Peter J. Landry

Mary (Hunt) Lane

Jack & Ferne Langer

Patricia Langmaid

Peter Lannan

Peter & Mia Lanyon

Robert & Lois LaRoche

Caleb Lawrence

Sean Lawrence

Amanda Le Rougetel

Ann Leamon

Patsy LeBlanc

Susan LeBlanc

Claire LeBlanc-Spence

Thomas Ledwell

John & Nancy Leefe

Sandi Leibovici

Derek Lemire &

Susan Ayles

George Lemmon

Dave Leslie

Laurelle LeVert

Crystal Levy-Bueno

Susan Lewin

Catherine Lipa

Raymond Litkenhaus

F. Daniel Logan

Aleah Lomas Anderson

Ruth Loomer

Bill & Stella Lord

Lezlie Lowe

Stephen Lownie

Joan Luiken

Iain Ronald Luke

Hilkka Luus

Mary Lynk

Joan MacAlpine-Stiles

Alexander MacDonald

Lesa MacDonald

Ronald MacDonald

Ronald MacDonald

Kevin MacDonell

Elaine MacInnis

Ken MacInnis

David MacKay

Eric MacKay

Ian & Helen (Grant)

MacKenzie

John MacKenzie

Mark MacKenzie

Norman MacKenzie

Gregory MacKinnon

Lina MacKinnon

W.Roy MacLaren

George MacLean

Neil & Jean (Bird) MacLean

George MacLennan

Rod MacLennan

Catherine MacLeod

Jennifer (Bassett) MacLeod

Lorne MacLeod

Michael & Cynthia

(Edwards) MacMillan

Christina MacNaughton

Heather MacQuarrie

Donald Maillet

Jennifer Smiley Mallory

Adrienne Malloy

Peggy Mann

Robert Mann

Estate of F.C. Manning*

Ronald Marks

Rowland Marshall

William Marshall

Anne Martell

Mary Martin

Rene & Carmen Martin

Keith Mason

Robi Matthews*

Barbara (Neish) McArthur

Andrea (Ross) McAuliffe

G.Wallace McCain

Gillian McCain

Kim McCallum

John McCamus

Duncan Scott McCann

Murray & Norma

McColeman

Frances (Smith) McConnell

Jeff & Grace McCourt

Duncan McCue

Francis Wooby and

Katherine McDonald

Natalie McDonald

Anne (Wainwright)

McGaughey

Graham M. McGillivray

Geoff McIver

Celeste McKay

Iris McKay

Monique McKay

David McKinnon

Ian McKinnon

Andrew McLaren

Cal McMillan

Janet McMillan Dempsey

Christopher McNeely

Barb McNeil

Judith McPhee

Stuart McPhee

Todd Meaker

Will & Sheryl Meens

RECOGNITION

A special thank you to the College

and Alumni Association’s volunteer leadership!

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RECOGNITION

Michael & Kelly Meighen

Theodore Meighen

Andrea Meyer

Robert & Murielle Meyer

Elizabeth & Freeman Miles

Gary & Bethany Miles

Peggy Miles

B.J. Millar

F.David Millar

Beverly Miller

Claude Miller

Lois Miller

Joyce (Blanford) Millman

Robert Mills & Kelly

Laurence

Judith Minard

Joan Evans Miskelly

Blair Mitchell

Helen-Louise Mitchell

Jone Mitchell

Roderick Mitchell

Adriana & Arnold Molder

Terry Monaghan

Lisa Monk

Melinda Montgomery

Betty Moore

David Morris

James Morris

Estate of Robert Morris*

Andrew Morrison &

Jennifer Morawiecki

David Morrison

Joan Morrison

Lara Morrison

Nick Mount

Susan Moxley

Holly (Aitken) Mueller

Robert Murphy

David & Margaret (Harris)

Myles

Hilroy Nathanson

Peter Nathanson

Nancy Neil

Donald Neish

Jane Neish

Deryl & Carol Ann Newson

Jonathan D. Newton

Rodger & Melissa

(Gillespie) Noel

Elizabeth Noonan

Meribeth Noonan

Mike Noonan &

Melanie Cole

Terry Norman

Nova Scotia Power Inc.

Harold Nutter

Peter O’Brien

Commodore Bruce S. Oland

Frances Ornstein

Cheryl O’Shea

Deborah Osmond

Elizabeth Page

Reg & Jane Paintin

Hugh Parker

Alexis Paton

Jeannette Pauptit

Charlotte (MacLean) Peach

LeRoy Peach

Anja Pearre

Gary Pekeles and Jane

MacDonald

Barbara Perry-Marshall

Arthur & Elizabeth (Baert)

Peters

Drake Petersen

Shirley Petley-Jones

Ann Phillips

Heather Phillips

John Phillips

George Phills

Irene Phinney

Diane Pickard & Russell

Bamford

Charles Piercey

Cynthia (Smith) Pilichos

Judy Pinaud

Rachel Pink

Brian Pitcairn

Ann Pituley

Frances Plaunt

Beverly (Zannotti) Postl

Colleen (MacCallum)

Poulain

Gary Powell

Helen Powell

Peter Power

Robert Power

Morton Prager

Norah (Symonds) Prentice

John Primrose

David & Sharon Pringle

Progressive Conservative

Association of Nova

Scotia

Margo Pullen Sly

Gordon Pyke

Guy Quenneville

Irene Randall

Gordon Read

Charles Reagh

Elizabeth Strong Reagh

Kim & Mary Jane Rector

Tracey Reeves

Adrian & Pauline Reid

Kevin Reinhardt

Dr. Peter Rendek

Iris (Martell) Richards

Blair Riddle

James Riley

Nancy (Brimicombe) Ring

Lloyd Ripley

Rosemary Rippon

Tim Rissesco

Estate of Elizabeth Stewart

Ritchie*

Patrick Rivest

Edward Rix

Amy Rizner

Neil & Patricia Robertson

Ron & Sheila Robertson

Tudor (Caldwell) Robins

David Robinson

Ted & Isabelle Robinson

Marilyn (Lee) Rockwell

Doris Roe

Anna Ruth (Harris) Rogers

Rogers Communications Inc.

Suzanne Romeo

Henry Roper

Gillian Rose

Bala Jaison & Marc Rosen

James Ross

Julie Ross

Henri Rothschild

Jonathan & Emily

(Hunter) Rowe

Luana (Rowlings) Royal

Royal LePage Atlantic -

NS Halifax

Michael Rudderham

Celia Russell

Elizabeth Ryan

Christine Ryan Jyoti

Melvyn Sacks

Stanley & Anne Salsman

Mary (Marwood) Sargeant

Sadie Sassine

Judy Savoy

Barry Sawyer

Daniel Sax

Nicholas Scheib

Douglas Scott

John Scott

Myra (Crowe) Scott

Jill Sears

Peter Sears

David Secord

Carrie Sederiak

Kyle Shaw & Christine

Oreskovich

Shelley Shea

Bill Shead

Barry W. Shears

George Sheppard

John Sherren

Brian Sherwell

Clifford Shirley

Stephen Shupe

Franklin Sim

Douglas Simpson

Paul Simpson

Scott Simpson

William Skinner

Antonia Sly Nichols & Cluny

Nichols

Ben Smith

Gerald Smith

Joy H. Smith

Douglas & Ruth Smith

Terrance Smith

M.Muriel Smyth

Janet Snow

Dwight Muschenheim &

Marlene Snyder

Kathleen Soares

Peter & Elizabeth (Bayne)

Sodero

G.Hamilton Southam

Andrew Sowerby

Peter Stanley

Colin Starnes

Janice & Michael Stein

Arthur Steinberg

Erin Steuter

Heather (Christian)

Stevenson

Ronald Stevenson

Sarah Stevenson

Janet Stewart

Thomas Stinson

Kevin Stockall

Mary Stokes

John Stone

Mary Stone

Stranger Theatre

Geoffrey Strople & Margaret

Dechman

Dorian Stuber

James Surrette

Steven Sutherland & Holly

Conners

Will Sutherland

John Swain

Crystal Taber

Elaine Taylor

John Taylor

Kelley Teahen

D.Lionel Teed

George Teed

Jerome Teitel

The Pepsi Bottling Group

Cory & My Linh Thomas

Martell Thompson

Allan Thomson

Gary Thorne

Roy Thorpe

Harry Thurlow

Shirley Tillotson

Robyn Tingley

Nicholas Townley

Donald & Gloria (Teed)

Trivett

Catherine Tuck

Nicholas Twyman

Estate of Marguerite

Vernon*

Pauline Verstraten

Ive Viksne

Thomas & Nora

(Dauphinee) Vincent

Nancy Violi

Charles Wainwright

Isabel Wainwright

Philip Walker

Lorn Curry & Joanne Wall

Karen Walsh & David Roffey

Kim Wanless & Trevor Bishop

Anne Weaver

John Weeren

Marie Weeren

William Wells

Victoria Welstead Lilleyman

Jack Wenaus

Dorothy Westerman

Alvin Westgate & Cathy

Ramey-Westgate

John Westin

Chris White

Emily White

Jana Wieder

J. Christopher Wilcox

William Williams

Roy Willwerth

David K. Wilson

Margaret Wilson

Blair Wilson

Steven Wilson

Frank Winters

J.Robert Winters

Ian & Christina Wissler

James Wood

Kathryn Wood

Stuart Wood

Brenda Woods

Donald Woodside

Meredith Woodwark

Peter & Maida Woodwark

Patricia Wren

Larry & Penny Wright

Des Writer

Charles Wurtzburg

Lewis Wynne-Jones

Elizabeth Yeo

Laura Young

Mario & Susan Zambonin

Zhimei Zhang

and those donors who wish

to remain anonymous

*deceased

in memory of

George Bain

J. Ewart Blanchard

David Casgrain

F. Robert Cunningham

Lucy Cuthbertson

Susan Williams Dexter

George Earles

John Michael William

Curphey Forrestall

J. Henry Fraser

Desota Gilmore, Jr.

Eddie Goodman

John Hankey

Pamela Herod

Sheila Jones

Dorothy Keilty

Shirley Miles

Andrew Pitcairn

James Sharp Hinds

Harry Smith

Albert Snow

Kenneth Thomson

in recognition of

John Hamm

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In September 2006, the University of

King’s College announced that former

President and Foundation Year Pro-

gramme Director Dr. Colin Starnes would

lead a four-month, not-for-credit seminar

course—a pilot project that’s part of a

much bigger vision for the University.

The King’s Seminar: The Ancient World

began in January 2007 with a total of 33

students participating in Halifax, Toronto

and over the Internet.

Based upon the content and tuto-

rial structure of the Foundation Year

Programme, the course was aimed

toward adults with an interest in ancient

cultures. Participants were provided with

access to ten online lectures and nine in-

person tutorials featuring Dr. Starnes and

other King’s faculty and friends—experts

in some of The Ancient World’s primary

texts, key events, customs, art, and archi-

tecture.

Many of the participants were parents

of current and former King’s students

who had been envious of the ‘FYP Expe-

rience.’ Through The King’s Seminar, they

were able to read and discuss the great

books with the professors and other

curious-minded individuals.

Plans for future installments of The

King’s Seminar are currently being dis-

cussed. In the fall we plan to re-offer The

Ancient World in Halifax, Toronto and

Ottawa and in the winter, we will launch

a course on the Medieval World in the

same three cities. If you, your parents or

your friends would be interested in tak-

ing part, please contact Jonathan Bruhm

in the Advancement Offi ce at jonathan.

bruhm@ukings.ns.ca. Space is limited.

SUCCESS OF THE KING'S SEMINAR LEADS TO NEW OFFERINGS IN 07–08

Throughout the 2006-2007 academic

year, the University of King’s College and

the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public

Affairs (CCEPA) hosted the fi ve-part

Trust In Science Lecture Series, exploring

the implications of how Canadians trust

in science. We all place a great amount

of trust in science and scientifi c intuitions

to tell us about ourselves or our place in

the world on a daily basis, be it through

the foods we eat or the technologies we

use. But what are we really trusting, and

why do we put so much faith in this insti-

tution called ‘science’? This series sought

to answer these questions.

The opening lecture was, from a His-

tory of Science and Technology student’s

perspective, the most exciting part of the

series. Dr. Steven Shapin from Harvard

University, an oft-discussed historian of

science in the third year core class, came

to set the scene. From the Renaissance

through to the 19th century, Dr. Shapin

told the story of the emergence of ‘sci-

ence’ and its institutions from its prede-

cessor, natural philosophy. This lecture

was followed by his Harvard colleague,

Dr. David Scadden, who turned the idea

of trusting science onto itself, internal-

izing the question in the institution itself.

The third instalment in the series fea-

tured Dr. Janice Graham from Dalhousie

University, who explored the trust we as

consumers place in the government, ask-

ing the question of who we trust to pass

knowledge down to us.

The fourth event was a panel discus-

sion which brought the previous themes

head-to-head. Dalhousie’s Dr. Ford Doo-

little and Dr. Francoise Baylis, Dr. Siddika

Mithani from Health Canada, and Aled

Edwards from the University of Toronto

discussed the trust we can and should

place in science from both publicly and

privately funded institutions, exploring

the business/science relationship. Finally,

Harvard’s Dr. Sheila Jasanoff concluded

the series by outlining the role we, as in-

dividuals in a society, play in determining

the general trust in science as opposed

to being merely ignorant consumers.

Each lecture brought to light many

questions and issues that affect everyone,

but few are concerned with, on a daily

basis. What, then, should be taken away

from this series? I believe that we should

not be so distrustful as to immediately

assume we are being lied to, calling all

science into question. Rather, we should

become aware of the sources of our sci-

entifi c knowledge in order to promote a

public understanding of what should and

should not be trusted in science.

RECAP: THE TRUST IN SCIENCE SERIES

by Amy Teitel (4th year Classics & HOST)

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It’s been a great winter and spring for Alumni Events at King’s

and beyond—from the Christmas parties in Halifax, Toronto,

Vancouver and London (UK), the fi ve-city Faculty Lecture Tour,

the Annual Dinner, the ’80s Reunion and, of course, the found-

ing of the new Halifax Branch of the Alumni Association!

The summer season is about to get underway and we have

several exciting events on the horizon, including Life After

King’s in Toronto (June 13), the Mid-’90s Reunion (June 30–July

1), the 14th Annual Alumni Golf Tournament (August 16). Stay

tuned to www.ukings.ca and www.ukcalumni.com for more

details about these and other upcoming events at King’s, and

read Branch Briefs on page 33.

PHOTO GALLERY

Top right: The Rev. Canon Russell Elliott (BA ’37, BDiv ’52, DD ’79) and The Rev. Canon Walter Harris (BA ’38, LTh ’57, DD ’83) in the Senior Common Room (February 3, 2007). Middle left: Terry Smith (BA ‘70), Steve Wilson (BA ‘87), Will English (BAH ‘07) and Elizabeth Ryan (BA ‘69) at the Alumni Christmas Party at King’s (December 7, 2006). Middle right: Merrin Sandilands (BA ‘97), Meredith Woodwark (BAH ‘97), Barb Stegemann (BA ‘91, BJ ‘99), Thomas Edelson (BJ ‘02), Kathy Wood (BAH ‘91) at the Alumni Christmas Party in Vancouver (December 6, 2006). Bottom left: John Stiles (BA ‘89) speaks at the founding of the Haliburton Lon-don (April 16, 2007). Bottom middle right: The fi rst heavy snowfall of the season hits the Quad (December 4, 2006). Bottom lower right: Dr. Alistair MacLeod (DCL ‘00) and Colin Webster (BAH ‘05) during a meeting of the Haliburton Club (March 8, 2007).

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Top left: Eisha Basit (BJ ‘07) and Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada (February 12, 2007). Top right: Chairman of the King’s Board of Governors George Cooper, QC and Mira Chatt (‘98) in Jerusalem (December 2006). Middle left: Victoria O’Neill (KSU FVP), Elizabeth Ryan (BA ‘69), Daniel de Munnik (BScH ‘02) and Bob Mann (BA ‘01) and at Formal Meal (March 7, 2007). Middle right: Brad Roach, Luke Acker, Ian Gray (BA ‘05), Jared Strand, Ryan Lam and Meaghan Robertson prepare for the annual Godfrey Cup road race (March 28, 2007). Bottom left: Rae Brown (BA ‘99), Kathleen Soares (BA ‘74), Mark DeWolf (BAH ‘68), Peter Dawson (BAH ‘85) and Eric Bednarski (BA ‘99) at the founding of the Halifax Branch of the King’s Alumni Association (March 6, 2007). Bottom right: King’s Vice President Dr. Christopher Elson (BA ‘86) (top right) visits King’s alumni in St. John’s, including (clockwise from Elson) Dr. Penny Moody-Corbett (BSc ‘71), Kelly (Goodyear) Foss (BJH ‘98), Beth Ryan (BJ ‘83), Kelly Davis (BJH ‘94), Vanessa Colman-Sadd (BJ ‘99) and Andrew Nussey (BA ‘04) (April 27, 2007).

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OUR-TIME Grammy-winning composer, con-ductor and performer

Paul Halley once had to admit that he had never heard of the University of King’s College. In the late 1970s, Halley was working as music director at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. He was asked by Canon Edward N. West, a Subdean of the church and a legend in the Anglican community, whether he knew of King’s. “He said I must know of it because I’m Canadian,” remem-bers Halley. “I said I didn’t. He replied, ‘Well, my dear, it is the finest University in the world.’” This was Halley’s introduction to King’s, and now, more than 30 years later, he will call it home—He has been appointed as the new Music Director of the King’s College Chapel. In July 2007, the recipient of four Best New Age Album Grammy Awards for his work as a principal member, featured writer and performer with The Paul Winter Consort, will take over the position from Dr. Walter Kemp, who retires this year after a 16-year involvement with the Chapel’s music program.

Father Gary Thorne, the Chaplain of King’s and Dalhousie, was concerned when Kemp announced his retirement, as he

didn’t know how the Chapel would replace him. “The music program has revolved around Dr. Kemp,” says Thorne. “It has always been coherent with the Col-lege and the type of excellence it tries to embody.” In this situation, timing was everything. Two other institu-

tions in Halifax—St. George’s Round Church and the Atlantic School of Theology—were looking for music directors, and both contacted Thorne in May 2006. “All of us were on the search for someone exceptional,” he says. “We had a common mind, and we decided to pool our interests together to attract a top rate musician.” Dr. Kemp says he has the utmost confidence in his succes-sor. “I’m leaving the Chapel with the knowledge that a very fine church musician, who understands King’s, will take my place,” he says. “The tradition I have helped develop can now go on, with some innovations.” Halley’s first order of business will be to build up the King’s Chapel Choir into a world-class ensemble. With concerts, tours and recordings, he hopes to develop the reputation of the choir to attract talented students from around the world. “If Oxford and Cambridge each have half a dozen of these fine choirs, Halifax deserves at least one!” he says. Thorne and Kemp point out that Halley’s familiarity with King’s and Halifax will be essential to his work. Halley has lived and studied in Ottawa and currently resides in Connecticut, but his family has spent most of their summers on Nova Scotia’s South Shore for the past 25 years. As well, his two daughters, Samantha (BAH ’04) and Vanessa (FYP ’99), also attended King’s.

“I’VE STUCK MY HEAD IN THE DOOR OF A FEW

UNIVERSITIES ON AND OFF IN MY CAREER

AND I’VE NEVER RECEIVED THE SAME

IMPRESSION ANYWHERE ELSE.”

Paul Halley

THE KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL

A Grammy Winner Finds His Way To Halifax

by Sarah Lilleyman (BJH ’07)

F

Paul Halley

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“There’s a level of collegiality that was stunning to me,” he says. “I’ve stuck my head in the door of a few universities on and off in my career and I’ve never received the same impression anywhere else.” Outgoing Chapel Choir President Myra Bloom (BAH ’07)

says the school is losing a venerable institution in Dr. Kemp, but adds that the school will benefit from a new perspective. “I’m sure Paul Halley will take things in a new direction which will be really interesting to see,” Bloom says. “I hope he’ll be able to combine his own musical sensibilities with our traditions.” King’s President Dr. William Barker, too, is enthusiastic about Halley’s vision. “He is academic in his approach, so he won’t be uncomfort-able here,” says Dr. Barker. “The Chapel is a place where energy can be generated, where there is a connection to action in the

community. I hope he can help us get that energy focused, as a way of getting people out there.” One of Halley’s long-term goals is to establish a School of Sacred Music in Halifax, an institution he believes is sorely needed in North America. “I would love to see a program coming out of the partner-ship between King’s and the Atlantic School of Theology that would train the next generation of church musicians,” he says. “Perhaps we’ll find traces of Mediterranean water in Halifax Harbour, or hear the strains of a Cape Breton fiddle behind a Qawwali singer.” He adds that such things are possible at King’s and in Halifax because of the ‘thoughtfulness’ that these communities generate. “Father Thorne speaks of the King’s Chapel as a place ‘where the head and heart come together.’ Whatever kind of impact I end up making, that is a place where I would like to be.” ∂

The patrons at the King’s College Chapel

seem bright and happy, considering it’s

approaching 1:30 am on Easter Saturday.

All eyes and ears are focused on the

Chapel Choir, as Dr. Walter Kemp con-

ducts them in his hymn “Queen of Bliss”

for the last time.

Father Gary Thorne speaks a few

words to the congregation about the

retirement of Dr. Kemp, a beloved fi gure

at King’s who has left a rich legacy.

“‘Queen of Bliss’ has become a staple

at Chapel services,” says Thorne. “I

notice many of the congregation are

able to sing along to this beautiful hymn,

which is quite an accomplishment.”

Thorne praises Kemp’s philosophical

approach to music, claiming: “His vision

was consistent with the College and the

type of excellence it embodies. We will

be sorry to see him go.”

But after 16 years of service as Music

Director of the Chapel, Kemp is taking

some time for himself.

Kemp founded the Aquinas Choir at

the Chapel in 1991, and his attachment

to it encouraged him to stay on for two

more years after he retired as professor

of music at King’s.

“It was good for me to de-escalate

and not drop everything at once,” he

says. “It helped for me to stay on during

the transition between Father Friesen

and Father Thorne, to offer some sup-

port.”

Kemp says that this year seemed

a good time to retire. He was worried

about leaving last year, as it was diffi cult

to fi nd an ideal candidate to take his

place at the time. Now he plans to relax

and work on writing and composing.

Even though it was a good time to go,

Kemp says there’s one aspect of his work

he’s sad to leave behind:

“I’ll certainly miss the students the

most,” he says. “They keep me young.”

King’s College Chapel Bids Farewell to Dr. Kemp

Dr. Walter Kemp

On February 21–22, 2007 the University

of King’s College and Armbrae Acad-

emy co-hosted the inaugural Armbrae

Dialogue at King’s—a social justice sym-

posium for local high school students

encompassing the theme of the nature

and role of consequence in human af-

fairs. The mandate of the session was to

engage upper level high school students

and to provide them with the opportuni-

ty to informatively participate with peers

and guests in thoughtful, animated and

purposeful discussion. Featured speakers

included acclaimed Canadian children’s

advocate Peter Dalglish, Tom Walsh from

the Coady International Institute at St.

Francis Xavier University and Sudanese

refugee Jacob Deng. For more informa-

tion on The Armbrae Dialogue at King’s,

please visit www.armbrae.ns.ca. Thanks

to John Stone (BAH ’65) for all of his

hard work

RECAP: THE ARMBRAE DIALOGUE AT KING'S

Jacob Deng

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CAMPUS LIFE—QUAD HOCKEY

During the evening of Thursday, February 15, 2007, a hand-

ful of FYP students took a study break and used plastic trash

buckets from their residence rooms to carry warm water from

the basement of Alex Hall to the patch of grass in front of the

residence. A couple of hours later, they completed their fl ood

of the lawn and put up warning signs to protect people (and

the smoothness of the ice), and let it freeze overnight. The next

day, after the second FYP midterm, they laced up their skates

and hit the ice!

Thanks to Dave Jerome for the details and to John Packman for

the photos.

Following a successful 2005-2006

schedule, which featured academic spins

on The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter,

The University of King’s College present-

ed the second season of the Series on

Popular Aesthetics (formerly known as

the Pop Culture Series) throughout the

past academic year.

Lecturers from King’s, Dalhousie and

Ryerson University appeared at four

events, and spoke on topics ranging from

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and

Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose to

Dracula and Peter Pan.

For more information on the Series on

Popular Aesthetics, including podcast in-

terviews with Dr. Jure Gantar and series

coordinator Dr. Thomas Curran, please

visit the King’s Events Page at www.uk-

ings.ca/kings 3900.html

RECAP: SERIES ON POPULAR AESTHETICS

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FTER GRADUATING from King’s last Spring, my girlfriend (Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, BAH ’06) and I were given an opportunity to live and work for a year

in Sevilla, Spain. Until moving to Sevilla, I had always held a mild distaste for pigs. Like many Canucks, I enjoyed a Satur-day morning back-bacon on a bun – beyond that, I was rather indifferent toward the animal and its culinary treats. I soon discovered that this lukewarm attitude is impossible in Spain’s southern province of Andalucía. Here, the pig is king. Treated with respect and displayed hanging from the ceilings in bars and cafés, it is cherished and feasted upon as a staple of every meal. Every part of the pig is consumed and savoured, from its loin to its intestines, snout, ears and all other parts that we would consider unmentionable. The linguistic nuances tell the tale. Like Inuktitut’s numerous variations on the English word “snow,” what we would consider merely “ham” or “pork” encompasses a vast menu of different items in Spanish. The species here aren’t the pink little tots that I was used to either. They are massive grey beasts, more reminiscent of beached whales than the soft-spoken Piglet I cuddled up to in my Winnie-the-Pooh youth. Aracena, a town outside of Sevilla, is home to the Ham Museum. The director of the museum guided us through all the proper ways one cuts, cures, preserves, slices, and savours a pig. The term “guided” doesn’t capture the passion with which he led the tour. It was a serenade. He danced us through what he refers to as the “gastronomic ecosystem” that is Andalucía: the finest pigs feed on a diet solely of acorns—acorns which fall from Cork Oaks, the bark of which corks the wine from the neighbouring vines, and only with that wine can one properly

savour the ham. And so, I should not have been surprised when I was brought my staff Christmas gift one day at work. A grinning colleague of mine trudged into the office and plunked down on my keyboard what—to a North American city boy like me—was nothing more than a severed leg with a bow on it. He smiled proudly. “You like ham?” he asked. “Uhhhhh,” was the only response I mustered. The walk home that day was one of the more bizarre experi-ences of my life. I felt sheepish carrying over my shoulder what seemed like evidence that I had been involved in a massacre of sorts. And yet everyone I passed smiled affectionately at me as though I was a lucky little boy with a bag full of candy. I felt a primitive, primordial sensation when greeting Vic-toria that evening. “I got dinner,” I exclaimed, walking through the door, chin held high, feeling for the first time in my life like a hunter-gatherer. We shared a chuckle, affectionately giggling at the charming old-world traditions of southern Spain, and feeling sorry for vegetarian travellers.

Brendan Morrison and Victoria Mohr-Blakeney live in Sevilla,

Spain. Brendan works at the Confederation of Andalusian Busi-

nesses on a work grant from the Canadian Department of Foreign

Affairs and International Trade, while Victoria teaches English

and dances Flamenco. In the fall, they will each be returning to

academic life to pursue Master’s degrees. Victoria will be studying

Hispanic Literature at the University of Toronto and Brendan will

pursue a MSc Philsophy and Public Policy at the London School

of Economics. In the meantime, they’re enjoying the music and

orange trees while struggling to dissect their ham.

POSTCARD FROM SPAIN

A Word from a King’s Grad Working Abroad

by Brendan Morrison (BAH ’06)

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Morrison and friends with their prized pig

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MASSIVE TYRANNOSAURUS Rex greets Don Harrison (BAH

‘95) every day at work. The replica, which sits in his building’s main atrium, was a gift from Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to thank em-ployees for their hard work during the company’s initial public offering. While the dinosaur might look out of place in most engineering firms, Page and Brin run a company like no other. From 7:00 am to 10:00 pm, 35 year-old Harrison and his colleagues can eat at one of several Google cafés run by top chefs, compliments of the company. Exercise balls sit in every office and employees ride scooters between buildings on the Google campus in California’s Silicon Valley. Harrison says that the perks are all about recognizing and rewarding phe-nomenally hard-working employees. “Providing dinner makes it easier for me to stay here and work a few more hours,” he says. “There’s no expectation of staying late, but it’s a young, vibrant place that has a very good work ethic. People tend to work here late, mainly because they’re excited about what they do.” Six years ago, Google provided its employees with pianos, in-house mas-seuses and roller-hockey tournaments in the parking lot. As the company ex-panded, it lost some of this constructive playfulness, but Harrison says that it has managed to maintain what makes it such a great place to work: great people. “Most of the people I work closely with are smart bright people that I enjoy working with,” he says. “That makes work fun, in and of itself.” Harrison grew up in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and began his post-secondary aca-

demic career at King’s, attracted by the Foundation Year Programme. “I loved [King’s],” he says. “My only re-gret is that I didn’t do the Foundation Year Programme now as opposed to back then, when my priorities weren’t so much school. I was 18—I played on the rugby team and spent a lot of time in The Wardroom.” Despite these ‘distractions,’ the ideas Harrison encountered at King’s propelled him into a political science and philosophy degree at Dalhousie. After graduating in 1995, he started law school at the Univer-sity of Toronto. Originally interested in constitutional law, he had the opportunity to work on some mergers and acquisitions during a summer placement, which made him realize that he liked working on large, complicated deals. The focus of his studies then shifted to corporate law. After completing his law degree, Har-rison started articling for Davies Ward & Beck in Toronto. But by the end of the 1990s, he was ready for an adventure—a friend from law school convinced him to head down to the Silicon Valley, where the Internet bubble was bursting. Harrison took the chance with his girl-friend, now wife, Yvonne Valiquette, who is also a lawyer. The two found jobs, and he started working for Wilson Sonsini Go-odrich & Rosati, one of the leading firms representing technology companies. Soon after settling in, however, the stock market crashed and the bubble shattered. “It wasn’t an easy time,” says Harrison. “I had a lot of friends who were laid off.” Fortunately, he had already been intro-duced to Google, a new client who would keep him busy during these slow times. They were already well known as Internet search technology developers at the time,

but they weren’t making much money. The company’s prospects quickly changed, however, when they realized they could match text-based ads with their search results. With that discovery, Google in-vented a whole new market of relevant, useful advertising that’s now worth more than $20 billion. While he was still with his firm, Har-rison became enamoured with Google—both its mission to organize the world’s information, and its culture, and he did what he could to work more closely with the company. “I would make sure that if there was a new Google assignment that came in that I was involved,” he says. “Everyone I worked with, almost without exception, was a com-bination of bright and friendly. Eager to problem-solve and to embrace new ways to do things. It wasn’t bureaucratic—it was very free-flowing and fun.” By late 2003, Google started gearing up to go public and Harrison spent the next year devoted to that process, work-ing 80- to 100-hour weeks. As the initial public offering geared down, he started re-evaluating his goal to be a senior associ-ate at his firm. In September 2004, his first child was born and he needed a lifestyle more conducive to raising children. And so, Harrison joined the Google team in 2005 as its Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions counsel. He now helps to buy new start-ups, such as Youtube, and advises the company about its disclosure obligations as a public entity. He also says that his work and family life are more balanced and he’s flourishing in what he calls Google’s “70 – 20 – 10 culture”: the company’s engineers are encouraged to spend 70 per cent of their time on core

Don Harrison

He’s Feeling Luckyby Roszan Holmen (BJ ’07)

“People tend to work here late, mainly because

they’re excited about what they do.”

ALUMNI PROFILE

ADon Harrison and daughter Kieran

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search and advertising projects, 20 per cent of their time is spent on related projects, such as Gmail, Picassa and Google Maps. Their remaining time is devoted to their private passions. “Our engineers are happy because they get to explore projects on their own,” he says. “At the same time, they’re minding

the shop.” Harrison admits that as a lawyer, it’s a little harder to follow the 70 – 20 - 10 rule, but he can take time to work on Google’s philanthropic foundations. “The one thing that coming to Google has made me realize is how important that cultural element is—to enjoy what you’re

doing,” he says. “Work can be fun if you surround yourself with people that are commonly motivated.” As for advice for King’s students, Har-rison says: “critically examine where it is you are working and ask yourself if it is worth changing. [If so,] don’t be afraid to take chances.” ∂

Trying to live one of my dreams, I recent-

ly bought a set of golf clubs and started

to read about the game—starting with

Golf Fundamentals by Denise St. Pierre.

In it, she quotes American sports writer

Grantland Rice, who said: “Golf is 20

per cent mechanics and technique. The

other 80 per cent is philosophy, humor,

tragedy, romance, melodrama, compan-

ionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and

conversation.” I’m more worried about

the 20 per cent!

According to St. Pierre, golf originated

in Scotland and was played by shep-

herds who passed their time hitting rocks

around fi elds with sticks. Apparently, King

James II of Scotland banned the game

in 1457 because “people were spending

too much time playing the game and not

enough time working on their archery

skills.” The modern version could also be

blamed for similar procrastination!

Most of my life has been spent play-

ing contact sports, so the refi ned skills

of golf certainly are a break from my

usual pursuits. Still, I think I can do this.

The old coach in me insists that I should

know what I’m doing fi rst, so I continue

to read and realize that everything, from

knowing your clubs and which ones to

use for which shots along with the me-

chanics and techniques of each shot, are

quite daunting. Nonetheless, my ultimate

goals are to have fun and to be able to

go to a golf course to enjoy the fresh air

and hit the ball reasonably straight.

One of the things I am enjoying the

most is the lighter side of golf and the

stories that have come out of the game.

One of its most colorful and controversial

characters is John Daly—his book with

Glen Wagoner, My Life In & Out of the

Rough, gives an account of his turbulent

life mixed in with hilarious anecdotes. De-

spite his well-documented problems and

antics, he comments on what playing the

game means to him, stating: “...being on

the golf course, inside those ropes at a

tournament, clearing my head and focus-

ing on one thing and one thing only—the

shot I want to hit—that’s about the only

time and place I feel at peace from all the

stuff that’s rained down on my head for

the last 20 years.” I hope that I’m able to

get even ten percent of the enjoyment

out of the game that he speaks about.

Speaking of golf, the 14th Annual Alumni

Golf Tournament will be held on Thurs-

day, August 16 at the Ken-Wo Golf and

Country Club in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Visit http://www.ukings.ca/kings 3438

9606.html or call (902) 422-1271 ext. 128

for details.

BOOKS I’M READING

Neil Hooper, Director of Athletics

Neil Hooper

At the Alumni Annual Dinner on May 12,

2007, The University of King’s College

Alumni Association named Mr. Rowland

C. Frazee, CC (DCL ’75) as the recipient

of the 2007 Judge J. Elliott Hudson Dis-

tinguished Alumnus/a Award. Dalhou-

sie student Laura Frazee accepted the

award on behalf of her grandfather.

The Judge J. Elliott Hudson Distin-

guished Alumnus/a Award was created

in 1994 by the Alumni Association to

recognize a King’s alumnus/a who, like

Judge Hudson (BA ’24), has made in-

valuable contributions to his or her com-

munity or profession through charitable

or volunteer work.

Mr. Frazee fi rst attended the Universi-

ty of King’s College in 1938 and returned

to his studies a decade later, after serving

in WWII. A Companion of the Order of

Canada, Mr. Frazee went on to become

the Chairman of the Royal Bank of

Canada. He served on the King’s Board of

Governors from 1968-1970 and is a mem-

ber of the Beaver Club, whose members

founded and continue to support the

school’s annual Beaver Club Award.

FRAZEE NAMED HUDSON AWARD RECIPIENT

Steven Stone and Laura Frazee

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HE FOUNDATION YEAR Pro-gramme began in September 1972, exactly 50 years after T.S. Eliot’s

first publication of his epic poem The

Waste Land. However, the poem itself did not land in our FYP reading list until the Spring of 1978; it has now had 30 con-secutive lectures devoted to its interpreta-tion, by at least 12 different lecturers. I do believe that this poem of 433 numbered lines has earned its place in “the modern canon,” and I note, by the way, that we can expect the poem to continue being read at least until it reaches its centenary year. At a decisive moment in the recent movie “Children of Men,” Michael Caine chants the concluding line of Eliot’s poem: “Shantih shantih shantih.” Since the action is apparently occurring in the year 2027, we may fully expect FYP lecturers to continue their interpretation of this masterpiece for at least another 20 years! What can we say about The Waste

Land’s obvious staying power? It is not just that Eliot’s tour de force is “the longest poem in the English langwidge” as his ruth-less editor, Ezra Pound (to whom it is dedi-cated), declared: Pound cut the published poem down to half its manuscript length. Nor shall we accept at face value Eliot’s famous later assertion that the work was little more than an “insignificant grouse against life,” which took hold of him in the form of “rhythmical grumbling.” The secret of the poem’s afterlife must be the way in which it actually succeeded in tak-ing hold of the Zeitgeist, the way in which it spoke to, and for, a generation of those still shell-shocked by the Great War of 1914-1918. Eliot’s countrymen, from both sides of the Atlantic, were the brutalized witnesses to that no-man’s land between the trenches, a muddy, inhospitable, barren patch of ground, littered with abandoned munitions, military gear, and leftover bits of the human sacrifices who were sent “over the top” to be mown down by the machine guns firing from the opposing trenches. Another remarkable way in which Eliot’s verses are aligned to the age is in the “family resemblance” to the contem-

porary visual arts, particularly the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques: these, even before the First World War, were pioneers of both the artistic move-ment called Cubism and the visual tech-nique we know as collage. In Cubism, a painting is able to present the viewer with a variety of perspectives simultaneously, and so manages to convey the artifice of “shifting viewpoints” [see The Dictionary

of Art, 1996, Vol. 8] within the restrictions of a two-dimensional surface. In “collage” (derived from the French word meaning “to stick” or “to glue” [see ibid, Vol. 7]), this same avant-garde duo created a new way of representing the world by gluing bits and pieces, shards and potsherds, onto a painted canvas. It would be difficult to find a better way of representing The Waste

Land to a first-time reader than as a literary work that both revels in “shifting” per-spectives, and one that appears to pick up fragments of conversation and snatches of tunes right off the street and then proceeds to stick them into the literary “scrapbook” that we have come to know as Eliot’s The

Waste Land. Eliot has here managed to turn highbrow bric-à-brac into one of the su-preme achievements of English literature. Incidentally, Eliot has also given us reason to believe that the themes of his poem are not all that far removed from Stravinsky’s infamous ballet of 1913, The Rite of Spring, which Eliot himself celebrated as “Ulysses with illustrations.” But what really endears The Waste

Land to an academic audience is Eliot’s ad-dition in the first monograph publication of the extensive appended notes, which reveal some, but certainly not all, of the erudite literary allusions. These poetic footnotes belong in some peculiar way to the thrill we acquire in reading the poem. Others have pointed out that these notes are surely the most arch, esoteric, “selective and evasive” [Harriet Davidson], and in my opinion, also the most downright misleading annotations that have ever been made part of a liter-ary work. (Eliot seems to target the same “gullible” readers as Jonathan Swift before him.) Again, later in life, Eliot apologized

for sending so many readers “on a wild goose chase after Tarot cards and the Holy Grail.” Personally, I must confess, I have no regrets: I have enjoyed this “quest” more than anything else in FYP. But it is an interesting question, why these notes are so ambiguous: why they conceal so much more than they reveal? An explanation that is “prêt-à-porter” offers itself in Eliot’s later conversion to English Christianity, for one can come to read these notes as a true masterpiece of “Anglican reserve”, suggesting a devotional attitude in Eliot, which does not regard our deepest spiritual concerns as suitable fodder either for agony columns or Real-ity TV. The issues that The Waste Land

raises are, in a sense, intensely personal and private, and therefore they are only, in the notes, to be addressed by way of circumlocution, which is to say, the notes obliquely talk “all around the issue.” Now I am going to say the same thing, but this time in much more high-falutin language. Here I appeal to Eliot’s great German contemporary, the philosopher, Martin Heidegger; they are almost exact contemporaries. From Heidegger’s phi-losophy we learn that every revealing is also a concealing, and that, in a way, the allusions that are neglected are more inter-esting than the ones that are explored. The whole effect, like that of the poem itself, is rather fragmentary. While some allusions are explored in exceptional detail, others are passed over in complete silence. A revealing which becomes a concealing is the masterstroke that makes these notes one of endless fascination. I have to restrict myself to one sim-ple, but incredibly potent example. Eliot concludes a description of the “Unreal City,” with a portrayal of the living dead, aka big city commuters, who pour across London Bridge (which we are reminded later is “falling down”); when they make their way down “King William Street,” as Eliot himself did, they pass the church of Saint Mary Woolnoth, whose chimes an-nounce the hours “with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.” To this line 68

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of the poem, Eliot appends the following masterpiece of legerdemain: “A phenom-enon which I have often noticed.” This deception is the theme of Chris-topher Priest’s novel The Prestige, also recently turned into a film. As the diary of Priest’s magician explains, the major moment in any conjuring trick is the misdirection of the audience; while the illusionist is directing your gaze in one direction, the real action is taking place elsewhere on the stage. Having been dis-tracted, you are made to search “in the wrong direction.” Eliot’s note to line 68 suggests that he is once again reporting a sound he has recorded in passing, and glued into the scrapbook that is his poem. Nothing unusual there, we are supposed to think. And my interpretation of this stanza in terms of zombie-like commuters is fully warranted by the attributed quotation to Dante’s Inferno at line 63, and the wholly unattributed reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula at line 381, which is also “lifted” directly from the novel. But now let’s put all this “audience misdirection” aside: an attentive reader

may catch another shape emerging here from the shadows. Think of the Mediter-ranean world, and more specifically of the Levant and the sacred places of the Holy Land. Here the days are more uniform than they are in our more northern latitudes, nothing like our seasonal extremes, and so traditionally the day was divided into twelve day-light hours. Consequently, the 3rd hour would be our 9am, the 6th hour our Noonday, and so on. If one has this Biblical information rattling around in one’s head —and that is exactly how Eliot’s allusions all work: they are scraps of information of things we vaguely remember—then our hy-pothetical attentive reader will recall that Christ was crucified at the sixth hour, and at the ninth hour “yielded up the ghost.” This is why I admire this poem so much: in the midst of the scene of the most profane human activity, there is inserted a reference to the greatest spiritual reality… but it is only for those who can see past this literary genius’ masterpiece of misdirection, that is to say, for those able to feel their way past the notes and into the heart of Eliot’s monumental The Waste Land. ∂

BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867) is a definite cartographer of The Waste Land: in 1930, T.S. Eliot acknowledged his use of Baude-laire’s guidebook to “the sordid life of a great metropolis.” Indeed, Baudelaire’s Les

Fleurs du Mal is given two explicit nods in Eliot’s notes to the poem, but it never hurts to look further afield. So I report in pass-ing that Baudelaire’s poem, “Le Vampire,” perfectly anticipates Eliot’s own concerns with “the undead” London commuters. More importantly, in Baudelaire’s “The Taste for Nothingness,” we are informed that Spring, formerly “adorable,” has lost its pleasing fragrance! This is almost a literal anticipation of Eliot’s opening lines in The Waste Land. In the conclusion of the 1861 edition, Baudelaire informs Death, our Captain, that “this country bores us” and that it’s time to set sail. This is not only pertinent for the epigram that serves as a preface to Eliot’s poem, but indeed is a theme in all its sections from “The Burial of the Dead” onwards. Perhaps of even greater interest is Baudelaire’s reputation as “the painter of modern life.” In an essay of that title (1863), Baudelaire emphasizes “le transit-

oire, le fugitif, le contingent,” and defines modernity as “the passing, fleeting beauty of present-day life.” From suggestions such as these, perhaps, one of our former FYP lecturers on The Waste Land (Stephen Brooke) summarized Baudelaire’s defi-nition of modernity as “the experience of life lived in fragments.”

JAMES JOYCE is the other literary giant, whose influence upon Eliot in the composition of The Waste Land is explic-itly acknowledged. After the Paris publica-tion of Joyce’s notorious Ulysses in 1922 (the very same year as the first publication of Eliot’s poem), Eliot gave this account of Joyce’s “mythic method”: Joyce’s novel, we are told in 1923, had manipulated “a continuous parallel between contempo-raneity and antiquity.” By this means, the author had a way of “controlling, of order-ing, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.” Remember how Joyce himself calls the tale of “brave” Ulysses, “the most beautiful, all-embracing theme” in the whole history of our literature, and makes that hero’s

epic “Odyssey” the governing narrative technique of his own sprawling novel. Eliot has exploited Joyce’s archetype in two ways: first, by choosing the epic quest for the Holy Grail as his shaping narrative. The poem makes the quest for the redemp-tive power of that sacred vessel the stabiliz-ing backbone of Eliot’s bleak vision of urban alienation and decay: the river Thames has become a repository of stinking, floating rub-bish, and London Bridge is “falling down.” But secondly, Eliot is equally a master with Joyce in collapsing the monumental with the ordinary, the heroic with the banal, the sublime with the ridiculous (even with the vulgar and lewd); the novelist brings the epic journey of Odysseus to the urban meander-ings of Dublin’s Leopold Bloom. Eliot, for his part, makes the quest for Christ’s healing chalice, the sacred relic in the keeping of the Fisher King, the constitutive ground for his enervating daily commute to his London office. This is almost enough to make us believe that Eliot’s morning passage “down King William Street” has as its journey’s goal a sacred encounter, in the basement vault of Lloyd’s Bank, with the legendary Fisher King.

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As many of you know, the Alumni As-

sociation has been undergoing a renewal.

Since the last issue of Tidings we have

been talking about:

• Governance and the role of branches in

our structure.

• Building profi le for the awards offered

by the Alumni Association for students

and alumni.

• How to most effectively enable connec-

tions between alumni for social, mentor-

ing and other purposes.

• Increasing our leadership in the nomina-

tion of candidates to receive Honorary

Degrees from the College.

• Participation in College governance

through our four offi cial seats on the

Board of Governors.

• Involvement in University committees

such as the Honorary Degrees Commit-

tee, Property Grounds and Safety and

the Presidential Search Committee.

In terms of action: we have revisited

our committee structure. Another ex-

tremely signifi cant milestone was reached

when the membership in Halifax opted for

form a local branch this March, effectively

making the offi cial function of your As-

sociation Executive is more international

and strategic. The Branches are naturally

taking a more local focus. Branches orga-

nize social events and speakers inde-

pendently and in conjunction with the

Advancement Offi ce at King’s.

New ideas and approaches are always

welcome. No doubt about it, Canada’s

oldest Alumni Association is bigger, more

diverse and more international. If you would

like to contr bute to the Association at the

Executive or local level, please contact Alum-

ni Offi cer Rachel Pink at rachel.pink@ukings.

ns.ca and she will direct you appropriately.

UNIVERSITY OF KING’S COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 2007-2008

Your Executive at Work

Branch Leaders

Interested in starting up a branch in your area? We’d love to hear from you—please contact Alumni Offi cer Rachel Pink

at rachel.pink@ukings.ns.ca. You can also sign up for our e-newsletter by e-mailing us at alumni@ukcalumni.com.

FORMAL BRANCH LEADERS

Halifax Mark DeWolf (BAH ’68) mark@jmdewolf.com

Montréal Amanda Margison (BJH ’01) kingsalumnimontreal@yahoo.ca

Toronto Daniel Logan (BAH ’88) dlogan@osler.com

Europe Chris MacNeil (BA ’94) chris@ebooster.co.uk

REGIONAL CONTACTS

Fredericton Kathryn Collet (BSc ’87) kathryn.collet@gnb.ca

Ottawa Wendy Hepburn (BA ’05) hepburn.wendy@tbs-sct.gc.ca

Vancouver Kathy Wood (BAH ’94) kathywood@shaw.ca

Boston Mark Fleming (BAH ’94) fl eming@post.harvard.edu

New York Emanuella Grinberg (BJH ’04) e grinberg@hotmail.com

Australia Johanna MacMinn (BA ’89) jomacminn@optusnet.com.au

President Steven Wilson (BA ’87) 2006–2008

Vice-President David Jones (BA ’68) 2006–2008

Treasurer Andy Hare (BA ’70)

Past President Doug Hadley (BA ’92) 2006–2008

Secretary Harry Thurlow (BA ’95) 2005–2007

Board of Governor Representative Daniel Logan (BA ’88) 2005–2007

Board of Governor Representative John Stone (BAH ’65) 2005–2007

Board of Governor Representative Daniel de Munnik (BScH ’02) 2006–2008

Committee Member Lara Morrison (BAH ’95) 2005–2007

Committee Member Elizabeth Ryan (BA ’69) 2005–2007

Committee Member Kyle Shaw (BSc ’91, BJ ’92) 2005–2007

Committee Member Des Writer (BJ ’02) 2006–2008

Committee Member Gregory Guy (BJH ’87) 2006–2008

Committee Member Sarah Hubbard (BA ‘86, BJ ’91) 2006–2008

Committee Member Robert Mann (BA ’01) 2006–2008

University President (Ex-Offi cio) William Barker

Advancement Director (Ex-Offi cio) Kara Holm

Alumni Offi cer (Ex-Offi cio) Rachel Pink

Student Union President (Ex-Offi cio) Coren Pulleyblank

Executive Members

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HALIFAX

The Halifax Branch of the King’s Alumni Association was formally established on March 6, 2007. The Home Branch (or, “The Homies”) held a convivial meeting in The Wardroom, with local musician Al Tuck (BA ‘88) providing musical ac-companiment. In late March, the branch invited lo-cal alumni to attend a King’s Theatrical Society performance of Who’s Afraid of

Virginia Woolf?, a production that wowed everyone who was lucky enough to see it. A social gathering in the recently re-furbished Manning Room in Alex Hall rounded off the evening, and was made even more enjoyable by the occasional King’s students drifting into the crowd —perhaps attracted by the wine and cheese that was on offer. Upcoming Home Branch events in-clude a social mixer in June and the an-nual Golf Tournament on August 16. As the purpose of establishing a Halifax branch was to better serve of alumni living in the Halifax area, “The Homies” will be work-ing hard to arrange events and provide services that strengthen existing ties to the University—and to solidify ties with more recent graduates.

OTTAWA

King’s Alumni in Ottawa will be partici-pating in a pub night on June 7 at Pier 21 in the Byward Market, in conjunction with other Ottawa Branches of Atlantic Universities. Halifax band Clam Chowder will take the stage at 9:00 pm. The Ottawa gang is in the midst of identifying enthusiastic alumni who are interested in welcoming new King’s stu-dents and visiting with other King’s grads. In the year to come, they have plans to host a pub night, a BBQ off of the Rideau River, and end of summer BBQ for new students and recent grads, and several other activities. If you would like to help out, please contact Wendy Hepburn

(BA ’05) at Hepburn.wendy@tbs-sct.gc.ca or David Jones (BA ’68, HF ’98) at commadore@sympatico.ca.

TORONTO

In February, King’s professor Dr. Gordon

McOuat visited the Toronto Branch dur-ing the 2007 Faculty Lecture Series. The turnout was very good with approximately 100 people on hand, and the lecture was extremely well received. The next event in Toronto will be held on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 as the second annual “Life After King’s” initiative will run from 6:00 pm onwards at the University of Toronto’s Hart House. King’s alumni will discuss what they studied at King’s, how they started their respective careers and the lessons learned at King’s which influenced them. Alumni, current students, prospective students and their parents are all welcome to attend the event—please RSVP to ra-chel.pink@ukings.ns.ca if you would like to attend. Many more ideas are planned for the summer, including a send off for new students. Stay tuned to your King’s Alumni e-Newsletters for more details.

CALGARY

King’s Alumni in Calgary held their first meeting in April 2007 to organize a first branch event. Nick Twyman (BA ’87), Dorothy Wong (BAH ’02) and Lew

Turnquist (BSc ’90) were present and several other interested parties will take part in future meetings. The first event will be held at Nick’s house during the Calgary Stampede on July 7, 2007, and it is being billed as an East-meets-West Reef and Beef party. Two bands have been lined up—Sweet Potato, for Stampede tunes, and Fraid Knot, a local Maritime band. They are hoping that this event will kick start the local association and lay a foundation for future events. They are currently looking for spon-sorships to help cover some of the food and beverages, and Dorothy is working on organizing a Calgary alumni list. Please contact them at dkwong@ukcalumni.com if you would like to help.

VANCOUVER

The Vancouver Branch hosted a couple of gatherings over the winter, as a hand-ful of King’s alumni met for a Christmas gathering in December, and King’s profes-sor Dr. Elizabeth Edwards delivered a

lecture entitled “Seneca on the Gift” for alumni and prospective students as part of the 2007 Faculty Lecture Series in mid-February. The Branch is sad to say goodbye to one of its most active members, Barb

Stegemann (BA ’91, BJ ’99), but the new Halifax branch will benefit from her move back East. A big thank you to Barb for all her hard work on the West Coast and her ongoing encouragement and support of all King’s events!

NEW YORK

Hoping to build on the success of its last event, there will be another get-to-gether for King’s alumni and friends in New York in the summer. Please contact Emanuella Grinberg (BJH ’04) at e_grinberg@hotmail.com.

EUROPE

Following another successful Christmas party, the European Chapter has hit the ground running in 2007, as John Stiles

(BA ’89) and Alison Carruthers (BA

’92) have joined the Executive team. King’s Alumni attended a Canadian Media Night in London on March 14, and at the Network Canada Literary Night on April 16, John brought some of his published works to life. We also announced, through Alison’s eloquent introduction, the founding of the European chapter of the Haliburton Club—potential members and/or volun-teers should contact Chris MacNeil (BA

’94) at chris@ebooster.co.uk for more in-formation. As well, Canada Day in London happens in Trafalgar Square on June 29.

AUSTRALIA

Johanna MacMinn (BA ’89) made an attempt to host a gathering for King’s Alumni in Sydney on February 1, 2007. The venue of choice was a beautiful old pub that would make any Maritimer a little homesick. Unfortunately, she only had a handful of e-mail address of King’s alumni who might be living in Australia, and turnout was low—just her, actually! If there are other King’s alumni and friends living in or visiting Australia, please con-tact Johanna at jomacminn@optusnet.com.au—she’d love to hear from you!

BRANCH BRIEFS

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THE ’50S

Anne (Hill) Hart (BA ’56) was awarded an honorary D.Lit from Memorial Univer-sity in October 2006 for her contributions to Newfoundland Studies.

THE ’60S

The Rev. Canon Jim Irvine (BA ’69,

BST ’71) has recently begun serving part-time at St Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fredericton. He can be found online at www.msgr.ca

THE ’70S

The Rev. Canon G. Richmond Bridge

(Chaplain ’77-’98) has retired from Saint Paul’s Church, New Smyrna Beach, Flori-da, and from full-time ministry. In “semi-retirement,” he is the Founder and Rector of the Church of Our Lady of the Angels.

Brian Pitcairn (BA ’73) is working with the Alberta government to promote dia-logue and meaningful contact between the provincial resource industry and First Na-tions community in Alberta.

Emmitt Kelly (BComm ’79) was recent-ly elected president of the Building Own-ers and Managers Association (BOMA) Atlantic for a two-year term and sits on the Board of BOMA Canada. Emmitt is the Manager of Accommodations for the Province of Nova Scotia, a Class B member of the Canadian Olympic Committee and a member of King’s Property, Grounds and Safety Committee.

Julie Morris (BA ’77) retired in March 2007 after 28 years in archives and records management with the Province of Nova Scotia. She will be continuing to work as a consultant and as an archives and records management specialist.

THE ’80S

Larry Burke (’81) and his company, Burke & Burke Designs, were featured twice recently in New York’s Retail Ad World

Magazine, making them the first Atlantic Canadian ad firm to be recognized by the magazine in its 70-year history.

Wendy Coomber (BJ ’85) is the editor of the Ashcroft Journal. She lives in Cache Creek, BC with her partner of 20 years and their four cats.

Annemieke Holthuis (’82), her husband, David and their four girls (ranging in age from 3-11) have moved from Ottawa to Vic-toria, BC for a few years while David is on a secondment with the provincial Minis-try of the Attorney General. Annemieke continues to work for the Department of Justice in its Criminal Law Policy Section on projects, including law reform work with the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform.

Thomas Kilgour (BA ’80) earned his B.Ed from Dalhousie after his time at King’s, followed by teaching stints in Nova Scotia and Ontario. After completing his M.Ed at St.FX and M.Sc. in the Governance of Education at the University of Oxford, he moved on to Headmaster and Director-ships at private schools in the Middle East and Switzerland.

The Rev. Dr. Iain Luke (BA ’85) and his wife Victoria are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, Catherine, on July 1, 2006—a sister for Elizabeth, born in 2003. Iain has been appointed as dean of the Anglican diocese of Athabasca, and rector of the Cathedral Church of St James in Peace River, Alberta.

Major Stephen Murray (BA ’85, HC

’87) has been the Deputy Commanding Officer of the Canadian Provincial Re-construction Team (PRT) in Kandahar, Afghanistan since August 2006.

John Scott (FYP ’86) has completed a documentary about a book of poetry, titled Scouts are Cancelled (Insomniac Press, 2002) The film features poems and performances of poems about the Annapolis Valley by John Stiles (BA

‘89), with whom John played soccer on the King’s team. Fellow King’s alumnus Charles Austin (BAH ’93) provided the film’s score.

Brian Seaman (BJ ’84) has been living in Calgary since October of 2000 and has been employed as a research associate at the University of Calgary’s Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre. He is currently writing a book addressing topical legal and ethical issues attendant to genetic research. He would like to hear from anyone with a professional interest in these areas—please contact him at bseaman@ucalgary.ca.

THE ’90S

John Beale (BA ’90) performs in an an-nual one-man show in Peggy’s Cove from July 1–August 31 called The Peggy Show (thepeggyshow.net). He is also a film and television actor, and recently appeared as a Viking in a film called Outlander.

Genevieve Bedard (BSc ’96) was mar-ried to Andrew Dunkley in 2004, and the couple is pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Olivia Dunkley, on March 7, 2006.

Josette Byrne-Specht (BJ ’96) was mar-ried to Jeff Specht in 2002, and the couple have two children—Malia Haley, born June 22, 2004 and Jonas Francis, born September 15, 2006. Fellow alumni can reach her at jobyrnespecht@yahoo.ca. She’s especially looking to get in touch with Mike MacIn-

nis (BJ ’96).

Lyssa (McKee) Clack (BA ’91) is work-ing in the Human Resources field as a Classification & Labour Relations Advisor for Health Canada. She lives in Halifax with her husband, Murray, and daughters, Amanda and Jessica. Fellow alumni can contact Lyssa at clack@hfx.eastlink.ca.

Kirk Graham (BA ’99) is currently en-gaged to be married to Thalia McRae

(’98). Kirk and Thalia first met and began dating while attending King’s in Septem-ber of 1997.

Christopher Graves (FYP ’93) is work-ing as the University Records Manage-ment Coordinator at the University of Guelph. Fellow alumni can reach him at cgnet@gravesnet.com.

Troy Jollymore (BAH ’93) was recently selected as the winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s 2006 Robert E. Lee and Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award for his debut book of poems Tom Thomson in

Purgatory. Troy is currently a professor at the California State University at Chico.

Heather (Carmichael) Kearney (BJH

’92) and her husband Sandy are pleased to announce the birth of their third son, Nicholas Alexander, on October 12, 2006. Nicholas is the youngest brother of MacK-enzie, 4, and Ben, 18 months. Heather is currently on maternity leave from teach-ing at Breton Education Centre in New

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Waterford, Cape Breton. Fellow alumni can contact Heather at heather.sandy@ns.sympatico.ca

Kelly (Gooding) Kearns (BA ’90) was married to Jason Kearns on May 5th, 2005. The following December, their daughter Avery was born 10 weeks early, weighing only 1.27kg—smaller than a bag of sugar. All three are faring well and living in the Yukon Territory.

Andrea (Ross) McAuliffe (BJH ’97) is pleased to announce the birth of her daughter, Madeline, on May 16, 2006.

Alexandra MacFarlane (BA ’99) is cur-rently engaged to be married to Robert

Dudley (BA ’00). They are living in Nel-son, BC, where they own a house.

Christian Macfarlane (FYP ’96) was married to Katharine Sidenius on February 28th, 2007 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Chris MacNeil (BA ’94) is the President of Network Canada, the hub of social and business networking for Canadians in Lon-don, England. In March, he ran the first ever Canadian Media Networking Night in London—promoted by King’s journalism alumni around the world. Chris can be con-tacted at cmacneil@networkcanada.org.

Eshun Mott (BAH ’96) had her book, Whining & Dining—Mealtime survival

for picky eaters and the families who love

them published in April 2007 by Random House.

Catherine (Hunter) O’Toole (’92) is currently the Acting Director of Finance for the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Heather (Norman) Opseth (BJH ’96) and husband Lyle are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Ethan Cur-tis, on September 28, 2006. Heather is enjoying her maternity leave spending time with her two boys and taking a break from her work in communication consult-ing. Old friends can contact Heather at hopseth@telus.net.

Capt. Mark Peebles (BJ ’98) recently returned from a tour of duty with the Multinational Brigade HQ in Afghanistan. He was posted as a Public Affairs Officer with the 1st Canadian Mechanized Bri-gade Group. He and wife Kimberly were married in 2004, and they have two sons —Thomas, born June 25, 2005 and Luke, born October 6, 2006.

Colin Pye (BJH ’97) is an associate with Boddy Ryerson LLP in Brantford, Ontario, practicing in civil litigation and family law.

Jessica Radke (FYP ’93) and husband Geoffrey are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Iris Lor-raine, on December 5, 2006 in Amman, Jordan. Fellow alumni can contact Jessica at jessicaradke@gmail.com.

Chantal (LaRocque) Richard (BJH

’98), husband Chris and daughter Dylann are happy to introduce the birth of the newest addition to their family—Ryan Richard was born on October 29, 2006 in Brampton, Ontario. Chantal is taking a year off from her position as Director of Communications for Truestar Health in Toronto. Fellow alumni can contact Chan-tal at chantalmrichard@sympatico.ca.

Timothy Rissesco (BA ’93) and Gen-evieve Harvey are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, Neil Patrick Rissesco, on February 1, 2007. Neil and his older brother Owen (born December 2004) and their parents live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and they can be reached at timothyrissesco@ns.sympatico.ca.

Suzanne (Wheeler) Romeo (BA ’93) and her husband David are pleased to an-nounce the birth of their second child, Mi-chael Anthony, on March 6, 2007. Michael is a little brother to Peter Joseph, now 2. The Romeo family is living in Quincy, Massachusetts.

David Salter (BJ ’95) recently became the Director of Communications for New-foundland’s Department of Transportation. He and his wife, Lynn, are expecting their second child in August.

Mark Sampson (BJH ’97) will be pub-lishing his first novel, Off Book, with Hali-fax’s Norwood Publishing in October 2007. Mark recently moved home to Canada after several years abroad and currently lives and writes in Guelph, Ontario. He would love to hear from alumni at samp-son_mark@hotmail.com.

Monica Schael (BJH ’97) and Brett Is-enor are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Gabriel Royce Isenor, on August 29, 2006. Fellow alumni can reach her at monicaschael@yahoo.ca.

Cynthia Snell Smith (BAH ’97) was mar-ried to Tim Smith on August 28, 2004 and is

working as a Communications Consultant with Hunt Communication in Toronto, a boutique consulting firm specializing in Spoken Communications.

Barbara Ann (Robbins) Stegemann

(BA ’91, BJ ’99) has returned to Halifax after seven years in British Columbia and is now working as the new communica-tions manager for Trade Centre Limited in Halifax. She has earned five national mar-keting awards for her tourism marketing campaigns from the Economic Developers Association of Canada.

Christopher White (BAH ’94, BJ ’96) and wife Janine are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Jane Victoria, on March 15 in Toronto. Their other daughter, Kathleen, now almost 2 1/2, loves being a big sister.

THE ’00S

Owen Averill (BAH ’04) is currently completing his first year at the University of Ottawa Medical School. He lives in Ot-tawa with fellow King’s alumna Heidi La-

ing (BAH ’04). Fellow alumni can reach him at owenaverill@hotmail.com.

Lachlan Barber (BAH ’04) graduated with a Masters in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia in 2006, and is considering pursuing a Ph.D in the same field. He is currently working as a Community Researcher at the Atlantic Me-tropolis Centre in Halifax, and is teaching part-time in the Department of Geography at Saint Mary’s University.

Michael Fenrick (BA ’03) will be Law Clerk to The Honourable Mr. Justice Mar-shall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada from September 2008—September 2009. Michael has completed his second year of Law School at Dalhousie and is a summer student at Paliare Roland Bar-risters in Toronto.

Andrea Fox (BAH ’01) worked with the UN in Europe following her graduation from King’s before returning to Montreal, where she worked in the pharmaceutical in-dustry for four years. In 2006, she completed her MSc in Health Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and is currently the Global Manager of Sales Excellence at GSK Biologicals in Brussels, Belgium.

Jennifer Fox (BJH ’01) has joined Key Porter Books in Toronto as Publicist. She

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was previously the Marketing Coordina-tor for James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers.

David Harrison (BJH ’04) and Janet

(Dyson) Harrison (BJH ’04) were mar-ried November 25, 2006 in Hackett’s Cove, Nova Scotia. David is a Sports writer at Chalk Gaming and Janet is a freelance writ-er. They are currently residing in Upper Tantallon. Fellow alumni can reach them at janetsdyson@yahoo.ca.

Adam Horodnyk (’05) just returned to Canada following a year of working for the National Rifle Association of America as a policy advisor and militia leader in training.

Jordy Koffman (BSc ’01) obtained a Mas-ters in Philosophy at Dalhousie University, and is currently writing his Ph.D disserta-tion on Platonism in 17th Century England at Queen’s University. He and his wife, Rae

(Brager) Koffman (BSc ’01), live in To-ronto, where she is a resident in Pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children.

Donna Lee (BJ ’03) moved to Yellow-knife in March 2007 to take on a job as the CBC’s northern online journalist. She covers news from the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon for www.cbc.ca/north. Donna was previously based in Winnipeg, where she worked at CBC Radio and the Winnipeg Free Press. Fellow alumni can reach her at donna.lee@ukcalumni.com.

Sarah MacLean (BA ’03) completed her Masters in Library and Information Sci-ence at Dalhousie in 2005 and became the Children’s Librarian at Pickering Public Li-brary in Pickering, Ontario in May 2006.

Edward Mishaud (BJ ’02) is enrolled at the London School of Economics, and is in the midst of obtaining his Masters in Political Science and Communications. Prior to this, he worked as a Communica-tions Officer for the United Nations in Bonn, Germany.

Sara Nics (BJH ’02) accompanied a group of ten high school students from Rumford, Maine as they traveled to New Orleans to

build houses as part of the Habitat for Hu-manity program. She covered the trip for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, where she works as News producer. For more details, visit http://mpbn.net/newor-leans/index.html

Katie (Woodside) Puxley (BAH ’03) and Dave Puxley (BAH ’02) were mar-ried on March 3, 2007 in the King’s College Chapel by Gary Thorne (DD ’04). Katie is doing her Masters in Library Science at Dalhousie and is a teaching assistant in the HOST programme at King’s, where Dave is also a FYP tutor.

Michael Smiley (BA ’01) is an English and Geography teacher at Charles P. Al-len High School in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and he taught previously at Lockview High School in Fall River. He’s also a lo-cal historian with the Sackville Heritage Society and the Fultz Corner Restoration Society. Fellow alumni can reach him at smileymi@staff.ednet.ns.ca.

Devin Stevens (BJH ‘06) of the Courier

Weekend (St. Stephen, NB) was the recipi-ent of the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspa-pers Association Trophy for Best Feature Series at the Canadian Community News-papers Association’s 2007 Better Newspa-pers Competition. Jon Riley (BJ ’05) of The Digby Courier also placed second in the category of Best Feature Photo.

Sarah Thornton (BAH ’01) is getting married this summer. Fellow alumni can reach her at sarah.thornton@greenwoodcollege.com.

Colin (’02) and Christine (Nichol)

Walker (BSc ’03) are pleased to announce the birth of their son Robert on May 4, 2006. Fellow alumni can contact them at misschrissie@hotmail.com.

Ben Welsh (BJ ’04) coached the King’s Men’s Volleyball team to a perfect 14-0 record during the regular season, then on to their first ACAA Championship since the 2001-2002 season. Ben was also named ACAA Coach of the Year.

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Notes to alumni@ukcalumni.com!

IN MEMORIAM

Muriel Christiansen, former secretary of the Alexandra Society, passed away on January 12, 2007 in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Dr. J. Henry Fraser (’46) passed away on March 22, 2006.

Catherine (Hiltz) LeMoine (BA ’41) passed away on December 25, 2006 in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Anne Delores Maltby-Boudreau (BJH

’81) passed away on February 3, 2007 in Pondville, Nova Scotia.

Roberta Matthews passed away on April 19, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Dr. Ransom Myers passed away on March 27, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Rev. C. Blaine Smith (BA ’52) passed away on February 19, 2007 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Jean (Macdonald) Morse (MSW ’67) passed away on April 14, 2007 in Yellow-knife, North West Territories.

LOST SHEEP

We’ve lost touch with some of our

alumni, which means that they may not

be up-to-date on the latest King’s alumni

news and events.

Here’s a look at some of the gradu-

ates from the mid-‘40s and ‘50s with

whom we’ve lost contact. If you have any

information regarding these, or any of

the “Lost Sheep” listed on http://ukca-

lumni.com/lostsheep.php, please send us

an e-mail at alumni@ukcalumni.com

John Bate (‘55)

Ronald Henley (‘55)

William Hill (BA ‘55)

Margaret (Morgan) MacDonald

(DSW ‘55)

Arthur Thorburn (‘55)

Roy Wollaston (BA ‘55)

Harry Wrathall (‘55)

Richard Ferguson (‘54)

Gordon Tidman (‘54)

Richard Boyce (BA ‘53)

Ann Marshall-Levine (BA ‘53)

June (Conway) Beeby (‘52)

Jacqueline (Leinster Denham) Dale

(BSc ‘52)

Donald MacDonald (‘52)

Eleanor (Bailey) McCarthy (BA ‘52)

James Nesbitt (‘52)

Leveson Roberts (BSc ‘52)

John Holmes (‘51)

Jane (Kennedy) Pruyn (‘51)

Earl Smith (‘51)

Gordon Trivett (‘51)

Frances Beth Tilley (BA ’50)

George Tracy (BA ‘50)

Barbara (Thorne) Corning (‘49)

Frances (Twohig) Hansen (‘49)

Judith (MacKeen) Moreira (‘49)

Harry Ross (‘49)

Jack Wilcox (‘49)

George Yates (‘49)

James Henderson (‘48)

Angus MacKillop (‘48)

Ann (Duffy) Campbell (BA ‘47)

Constance (DeMille) Corkum

(BA ‘47)

Cecil Moore (‘47)

William Wilson (STh ‘47)

Elizabeth Laurie Brown (’46)

Charlotte Page (BA ‘46)

Marjorie (Archibald) Wilson (‘46)

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