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Doug Brown '71 Doug Brown ('71) began his working career at Trent by mistake. A good mistake, that is. While managing the Commoner as a Trent student and living in its manager's residence, Doug got a phone call intended for a previous tenant. Help was needed to chop ice at Trent's hydroelectric station behind Blackburn Hall. Although not specifically offering work to him, Doug responded affirmatively anyway, and went on to spend the next eight years working at the Power House. Since his Trent graduation, he's earned diplomas from Sir Sandford Fleming College as an industrial mechanic, electrician, gas fitter and refrigeration operator. As an employee of the Physical Resources department's mechanical maintenance area, he now spends his time maintaining the electrical and plumbing equipment in the five residential college kitchens. Describing Trent as "a wonderful place to work," Doug recalls that Trent instilled in him an interest in ideas and issues which developed into the role he now has a chief steward of OPSEU. Like many Trent alumni, he notes that a liberal arts and science education -- Doug's major was economics -- provides powers of critical thinking, problem solving, analysing situations. Skills that Doug says he uses daily on his job at Trent. Champlain College was home to Doug during his first year and half of his second. He recalls fellow students and rugby players included now-journalists Dunnery Best and John Barber. In addition to rugby at Trent, Doug participated in another traditional Trent activity and fenced for two years. Doug, who sports a distinctively long beard and enjoys the quiet charms of life in the nearby hamlet of Indian River, has spent spare time volunteering with an arts venture. He's recently been involved in the epic theatrical productions of Indian River neighbour Murray Schafer. Doug was involved in creating some of the percussion instruments for Schafer's Patria Series, of which Princess of the Stars was the prologue show in the fall of 1996. The epilogue will be And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon, which takes place over eight days. Doug expresses optimism about the next years at Trent. "(President) Bonnie Patterson has, in my view, a clear vision of where she wants the university to go, which will be good for Trent." | |
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